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As more baby-boomer Christians approach the end of their lives, the assurance of a resurrection from the dead will be an increasing source of comfort. Now it is time to revisit Paul's counsel to the Thessalonian Church to discover the true object of God's comfort.
Paul's acute knowledge of the End was based on three key sections of scripture. These verses reveal a hypothetical framework which is put to the test by examining Paul's Epistles concerning the end of time. Paul's chronology reveals the last enemy to be overcome is death. Learn how Paul employed his knowledge of Daniel Chapter 12 to comfort the Thessalonians. Find great comfort for today in God's promised resurrection of the dead.
Anyone interested in end-times prophecy will be rewarded by this little book.
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Why is it important to burst the pre-trib bubble? Someone asked me why it is so important to let people know that we're going to go through the tribulation - am I just trying to upset my brothers and sisters in Christ?
There are several important reasons. First: Jesus calls us to pray always that we be accounted as worthy to avoid the tribulation. I think He was suggesting that we pray that it wouldn't happen during our lifetime. But He is also calling for a personal accountability that goes beyond the idea that everyone is home free with a pretrib rapture regardless of personal sin.
Second: Revelation commands those who are living in Babylon to come out. I believe that it is a command to leave a wicked country (read my book, "Come out of her, my people". Pretribbers won't obey that command because they don't believe it applies to them.
Third: Pretribbers won't recognize the false prophet - they will be deceived because they won't think he will make his move during their lives - just what the devil wants.
So I'm not the "troubler of Israel", they are.
Mon, 14 May 2012 04:59:00 +0000 New Release: The Last Enemy of Christ - The Video Enjoy this amazing video explaining how the Apostle Paul derived his chronology of Christ's return. In Paul's two letters to the Thessalonians he shares the precise timing of end-times events. In this video C W Steinle identifies the scriptures which support Paul's understanding and corrects some of the errors within popular eschatology.
Beginning in Christ is a foundational resource for the new believer; and for those desiring to return to the “first works” in order to rekindle their love toward God. This book is an interdenominational reference which will compliment the basic teachings of most Christian faiths. The goal of this work is to educate, strengthen, and encourage the new believer in Christ using key Bible verses.
This new believer's guide provides easy access to essential Christian truths which are needful for living a fruitful Christian life. Beginning in Christ is a foundational resource for the new believer; and for those desiring to return to the “first works” in order to rekindle their love toward God. The fourteen chapters can easily be separated into fourteen lesson plans as a basis for Christian discipleship.
Beginning in Christ is divided into three categories: Understanding Salvation, Assurance of Salvation, and Following Christ. Understanding Salvation begins with a record of God’s historical work among mankind, and then turns to address the problem of sin. Christian salvation can be understood in simple terms: -Mankind needed to be rescued from sin and death. -God sent His Son to save us. -Jesus’ cross was the sufficient offering for our atonement. -Those who call on Jesus’ name are delivered from sin and death.
When children receive an extravagant gift they sometimes wonder if it can really be theirs to keep. In much the same way, Christians can soon began to doubt whether God’s costly gift of eternal life was really meant for them. Especially when time only reveals how truly undeserving of grace they always were. Assurance of Salvation contains key Bible verses which will assure and reassure the new believer of God’s great love and His plan for a victorious Christian life.
The last section on Following Christ is an introduction to basic Christian discipleship. The disciplines of prayer, Bible reading, and godly living are briefly discussed and encouraged. Biblical instruction on water baptism and corporate worship is also provided. These essential disciplines will help the new believer build upon the firm foundation of Christ resulting in a life of joy and good fruit.
Upon This Rock I Will Build My Church When Jesus asked the disciples who He was Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". Jesus went on to say, "Upon this rock I will build my church". Did Jesus mean to indicate that His church would be built upon Peter and affiliation to Peter - through apostolic succession. Or, did Jesus mean to indicate that His church would be built on the foundational truth that Jesus is the Christ - the Son of the living God?
The difference between these two rocks is stark. The correct answer could make the difference between salvation or damnation. What is more - from the second century forward there began to be a difference between what the Bible teaches and what was being taught by the mega church leaders (the bishops).
The Old and New Testaments confirm that salvation comes by believing in, and calling on, the name of the Lord. Nowhere in the Bible are we told that salvation comes by affiliation to Peter. In fact, both Jesus and Paul point out that salvation is not merely by affiliation. Jesus said that God could raise up stones to be proper worshipers; and Paul said, not all that are called Israel are actually children of Israel.
The Stone that the Builders Rejected
But history does repeat itself. During the second and third centuries powerful church leaders began to assert that no one could be saved apart from "the church". This is true - but in an indirect manner. The real church is made up by those who have been saved by faith; so that, the church consists of those who are saved - those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. But this is not to say that a person cannot place saving faith in Jesus without first establishing an affiliation with Peter through his appointees.
But once the church was united with the state during the reign of Constantine, church membership (and salvation) began to be equated with citizenship. Once the importance of personal faith was diminished, the control of the church went to the city that claimed the name of Peter. Rome ruled by fear of damnation from the sixth century until the Reformation.
Thanks to the printing press, the common people began to read the Bible and soon discovered that salvation comes by faith in the Son of God - not from their connection to one of His disciples. But the Bible itself warned that a false type of Christ would come - an Antichrist - acting in the place of Christ.
The Protestant Reformers saw that the Antichrist was the false Rock - the one that had become synonymous with Roman Catholicism. When the Protestants brought this charge against Rome - the Catholics struck back by killing the Reformers as heretics. The more Rome shed the blood of the saints, the more she resembled the Antichrist. The pope actually called himself the Vicar of the Son of God - meaning Christ Himself on the earth vicariously!
That's when, in 1589, Francisco de Ribera came up with a scheme to repel the Protestants' accusations. He claimed that Revelation should be interpreted as sealed prophecy - only to become applicable at some distance future time. His theory of Futurism held that their current day pope could not be the Antichrist because the time of the end hadn't started yet. -- IT WORKED. Four hundred years later the Protestants even teach it themselves in their own seminaries! Now that the Left Behind theory has become lodged in Protestant theology (even in some statements of faith right along with the Apostles' Creed) the Protestant Church is truly between the Rock and a hard place. The church has been silenced from identifying the Antichrist because the Catholics have convinced her that the Church and the Antichrist will not exist on the earth at the same time.
But now we have a weapon even greater than the printing press to once again expose the works of the devil. Now with the Internet this great cover-up can be broadcast into every corner of the world. The true Rock was hidden for over 1,000 years before the Protestant Reformation. Don't let the evil one continue to operate in secret. The Reformers were right about salvation by faith - and they were right about the Antichrist. Now it's time for the "Protestant Information".
Pascal's Wager Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and philosopher during the seventeenth century, proposed that a reasonable person would choose to believe in God. He argued that if God did not exist, and one believed in Him anyway, the believer would still end up living an honorable life even if there were no eternal reward. Pascal's alternative point was that if God does exist, and one lived their life denying God and living out an ungodly lifestyle, they would have lived a miserable and selfish life. The conclusion is that one might as well wager that God exists and receive the immediate and eternal blessings, instead of denying God and then facing eternal condemnation if God is real indeed.
Another great wager is on the table The Book of Revelation may be interpreted as sealed prophecy - inapplicable until a future time or event; or, Revelation may be interpreted as live and active prophecy which demands continual review in order to identify possible fulfillment at any moment.
What are the risks associated with this wager? On my part - if my interpretation of Revelation anticipates the destruction of Mystery Babylon before the resurrection of the dead and the following rapture (1st Thess 4); and, if I am wrong, then some might flee from a wicked nation unnecessarily in obedience to the command, "Come out of her, My people" (Rev 18:4)
On the other hand - if people are taught to expect the resurrection of the dead and subsequent rapture prior to the plagues, persecutions and trials of Revelation; then might some of these people be stumbled if tribulations like the ones foretold in Revelation began to occur while the Church is still on the earth? Might a dozen little ones be stumbled? A thousand. Tens of Thousands? And, what is the great benefit to those who have been so taught. If a rapture came upon them completely unexpectedly ( due to a lack in instruction) how would they have been damaged by their prior ignorance of that event?
The consequences of this wager are staggering indeed. How will you respond to the instruction: "Do not seal the words of the prophecies of this book" (Rev. 22:10)
