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originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: WarriorOfLight96
What about the generation of Christians before me that enjoyed the blessings of American prosperity? Will they be resurrected so that they may suffer too? If you believe that Jesus (Yehoshuahgh) died for you sins, then your robes are clean and you will be coming with us in the Rapture, whether you are prepared or not. You dont always have to suffer to mature. One who can mature during peace is more disciplined than one who must is motivated by suffering.
That is a pretty amazing claim.
If you believe that Jesus (Yehoshuahgh) died for you sins, then your robes are clean and you will be coming with us in the Rapture, whether you are prepared or not.
originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: infolurker
I know where you're coming from, but please take these two ideas into consideration:
1)
The "no man know the day or hour" statement does not pertain to the Rapture at all, it is actually the physical return of Christ on the Day of the Lord. On that day, the Tribulation will be cut short "for the sake of the elect". For that reason, no man will know the day or hour that Jesus returns.
2)
The Feast of Trumpets is not a variable. The true biblical calendar is a 365.25 day solar calendar, starting on the Vernal Equinox and ending full circle on the Vernal Equinox. Each month has 30 days, except the 12th month that has 35-36 days. The Rabbinical Lunisolar calendar that exists today was created as a result of the Babylonian exile. It requires a 13th intercalary month every 2 to 3 years to keep the feasts in season. The term Rosh Khodesh, which is always mistranslated into New Moon simply means Head of the Month. A lunar month ranges between 29 to 30 days, but Gen 7 makes it clear that a month is 30 days, and that there are only 12 months per year.
So, Feast of Trumpets is always on September 16th or 17th depending on when the the Vernal Equinox occurs, and no man knows the day or hour of the 2nd Advent, not the Rapture.
The "little bit of leaven" that Paul was talking about was the attempts at persuading pagan converts to Christianity to accept being circumcised, as if that was the proper first step to righteousness, making concessions to the old written Mosaic Law.
My friend, I have no objection to living a good life, but a little bit of leaven ruins the whole loaf. We are all sinners and as long as we live, we will continue to sin from time to time. That is why Jesus died for us, so that we would not be bound to that debt. When you are free from the debt of sin, you can serve Christ by serving you brothers wholeheartedly. Clean the inside of the cup first, then the outside. All you need is faith in Jesus' selfless sacrifice.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and tru
In this case of Paul using a leaven analogy, he is talking about supposed Christians boasting about their immorality.
Your boasting is not good.