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.....people are still not heeding.
In Matthew 24: 24 Christ mentioned things which would occur prior to his second coming. False prophets and false Christs would abound. He stated that NO ONE KNOWS...NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN. know when he will return. (What is so difficult to understand about this scripture..To me it is plain and straightforward..Yet there are those who would seek to say otherwise.
When I was a teenager there was a church which had its headquarters in California, there was a branch which was established here during that time. They had predicted that Christ would return in 1975.. That year came and nothing happpened. In 1844 the Seventh Day Adventist church looked for the return of Jesus, that did not happen.
Many have speculated about Christ return for many years, some claim to be Jesus, even recently Harold Camping said that Jesus would return in July 2012.
The great deceiver has been at this business for a very long time. Even cults attract the brilliant and so called intelligent. These people believe that they are so smart that noone can deceive them.
The thing is that a deceived person does not know that they are deceived.
With the computer graphics and modern technology, we can expect to see many things that might be ascribed as miracles. There is a tendency within human nature that "seeing" is believing. There are many who get excited by miraculous happenings and I believe that even though something may seem miraculous it does not mean it is from God. The devil can perform miracles too.
“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:9,10).
Revelation 13:13-14
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
For those of us who know the bible, we cannot be too careful, VIGILANCE is the watchword. What this should teach us as believers is that reliance on miracles is not always proof of God's working.
If we only believe because we can see therein lies the danger.
In Matthew 24: 24 Christ mentioned things which would occur prior to his second coming. False prophets and false Christs would abound. He stated that NO ONE KNOWS...NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN. know when he will return. (What is so difficult to understand about this scripture..To me it is plain and straightforward..Yet there are those who would seek to say otherwise.
When I was a teenager there was a church which had its headquarters in California, there was a branch which was established here during that time. They had predicted that Christ would return in 1975.. That year came and nothing happpened. In 1844 the Seventh Day Adventist church looked for the return of Jesus, that did not happen.
Many have speculated about Christ return for many years, some claim to be Jesus, even recently Harold Camping said that Jesus would return in July 2012.
The great deceiver has been at this business for a very long time. Even cults attract the brilliant and so called intelligent. These people believe that they are so smart that noone can deceive them.
The thing is that a deceived person does not know that they are deceived.
With the computer graphics and modern technology, we can expect to see many things that might be ascribed as miracles. There is a tendency within human nature that "seeing" is believing. There are many who get excited by miraculous happenings and I believe that even though something may seem miraculous it does not mean it is from God. The devil can perform miracles too.
“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:9,10).
Revelation 13:13-14
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
For those of us who know the bible, we cannot be too careful, VIGILANCE is the watchword. What this should teach us as believers is that reliance on miracles is not always proof of God's working.
If we only believe because we can see therein lies the danger.
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