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Netanyahu will Try to Rebuild the Jewish Temple

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Arutz Sheva
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Published: 05/26/09, 9:29 PM
Raad Salah: Netanyahu will Try to Rebuild the Jewish Temple

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Sheikh Raad Salah, leader of the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, believes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will try to rebuild the Jewish Temple.

Speaking at a conference organized by website Islam Online in Doha, Qatar, Salah stated his belief that Netanyahu may try to build the Jewish Temple – which the Islamic preacher called “the false temple†– during his current term after allegedly failing to do so in his first term as Prime Minister in the late 1990s.

“I ask that those with the power to make the political decision hear me,†Salah exhorted his audience. “Netanyahu is about to build the false Temple, and when the Jews build the Temple they will do so upon the ruins of the Al-Aqsa [Mosque].â€Â

Immediate danger
The danger to Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque is “tangible and immediate,†Salah said, echoing similar dramatic statements he has made over the years. “I warn, I ask for aid and I call out,†he said. “We should expect deadly surprises that could hurt Jerusalem in general and Al Aqsa in particular,†he said. “We live in years that will determine if Jerusalem survives and in Al Aqsa will remain standing,†he added.

Salah said that in an effort to prepare world opinion for the realization of its goals in Jerusalem, Israel sends tourists to the Al Aqsa mosque and tells them that it was built upon the ruins of the Jewish Temple.

The solution to “the threat against Jerusalem,†according to Salah, is a complete mobilization of the Arab world, including the religious imams, who need to act and “recruit the masses.†He asked Muslim scholars to pronounce edicts that will force “the Muslim nation and its leaders to confront their duty towards the problem of Jerusalem and Al Aqsa.â€Â

“A thousand politicians can talk without changing a thing,†Salah said. ‘One religious sage can do what the politicians cannot carry out."

The Jewish Temple was first built by King Solomon (Shlomo) about 3,000 years ago. It served as the spiritual center of the Hebrew nation and as a place of national pilgrimage and sacrifice. Serviced by the priestly class (Kohanim) and Levites, the Temple contained the Seven-Branched Menorah and housed the golden Holy Ark within a room known as the Holy of Holies.

Coming soon: the Third Temple
The First Temple was razed by Babylonian conquerors, rebuilt by Jews by permission of a Persian emperor, defiled by Greeks and then re-consecrated by the Hasmoneans, and burnt down again by Romans.

Jewish religion commands the Jews to rebuild the Temple as part of a Divine plan for the salvation of the Jewish people and the entire world, but Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is not considered observant, never has associated himself with efforts by Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
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"Rob DeLuca prophesies about Benjamin Netanyahu on 8th of June, 2008, about Netanyahu being a "deliverer of his people", at a time when he wasn't running for any leadership position. Netanyahu has now become prime minister of Israel on 30th of March, 2009. Watch as the prophetic word spoken over 6 months before hand comes to pass in this hour. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an9Iepge9K4
 
IF a third Temple is built (and I doubt that one will be), it will not be pleasing to God and it will not be indwelt by God. The Temple that was destroyed in A. D. 70 was a type of the heavenly temple. There is no need for a Third. God's destruction of Herod's temple put an end to the physical temple era and the national Jewish era.

Matthew24:34
 
Matthew24:34 said:
IF a third Temple is built (and I doubt that one will be), it will not be pleasing to God and it will not be indwelt by God. The Temple that was destroyed in A. D. 70 was a type of the heavenly temple. There is no need for a Third. God's destruction of Herod's temple put an end to the physical temple era and the national Jewish era.

Matthew24:34

The Body of Christ is the third temple and it is not being built by human hands. God has been building it since the time of Jesus.

Eph 2:19 So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Eph 2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
Eph 2:22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

it gives a whole new perspective to this scripture:

2Th 2:4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now we request you brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering to Him, that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
 
Matthew24:34 said:
IF a third Temple is built (and I doubt that one will be), it will not be pleasing to God and it will not be indwelt by God. The Temple that was destroyed in A. D. 70 was a type of the heavenly temple. There is no need for a Third. God's destruction of Herod's temple put an end to the physical temple era and the national Jewish era.

Matthew24:34
There is some truth to what you said, but I'll go with Cornelius said,

The Body of Christ is the third temple and it is not being built by human hands. God has been building it since the time of Jesus.
Amen, Amen, Amen! It was rebuilt before the second Temple was ruined. How's that
for a prophecy fulfillment? :amen
 
micaela said:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now we request you brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering to Him, that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

Greetings, micaela: The Temple spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2 is Herod's Temple of that first-century generation!

Again, there is to be no rebuilt temple as a fulfillment of prophecy!

Matthew24:34
 
Vic C. said:
[quote="Matthew24:34":1hw9yhw0]IF a third Temple is built (and I doubt that one will be), it will not be pleasing to God and it will not be indwelt by God. The Temple that was destroyed in A. D. 70 was a type of the heavenly temple. There is no need for a Third. God's destruction of Herod's temple put an end to the physical temple era and the national Jewish era.

Matthew24:34
There is some truth to what you said, but I'll go with Cornelius said,

The Body of Christ is the third temple and it is not being built by human hands. God has been building it since the time of Jesus.
Amen, Amen, Amen! It was rebuilt before the second Temple was ruined. How's that
for a prophecy fulfillment? :amen[/quote:1hw9yhw0]

Once we see this, so many "temple prophecies " open up to us. There is an amazing revelation to be found if we read with spiritual eyes regarding the temple. :)
 
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?
 
OK, here is some Bible gymnastics for those who want to think about this: :)


We ARE the temple, but we are also IN the temple individually.

So if the Body of Christ is Christ in the temple = wheat
Then the Tares , are not part of the Body . They are false "wheat", but they too form a "body" in the temple. (The Bible says they must be there until the end times)

The Bible gives this "body" also the name of a "man", just as the true Body is also a "man" the Christ.

We are the sons of God, because we received the Seed (Christ) which is the Word.
They too are religious but have a different "father" . Joh 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them,(WHEAT) and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition;(TARE) that the scripture might be fulfilled.

So two fathers, and two "sons", two "men" .Mat 24:40 Then shall two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left: Mat 13:38 and the field is the world

So two "men" in the world.........Body of Christ and Body of anti-Christ or "Son of perdition"

2Th 2:3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

The TARES shrink back in their faith:

Heb 10:39 But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
 
micaela said:
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?

Its not so easy to explain, because you are still thinking that the temple is real and that the antichrist is one man.

You must understand that the live of a Christian means death to the self life (your ways and will) .Its a sacrificial life, that submits to the Word and places God first.

The opposite to this is SELF as God.That means , that in the church , there are those today who form a group, or BODY, and they do not believe in "death to self" so they set themselves up as God "in the temple" even today.

Its a type and shadow and it has many layers, because antichrist is also in the world system.
 
Vic C. said:
[quote="Matthew24:34":3kj3et7h]IF a third Temple is built (and I doubt that one will be), it will not be pleasing to God and it will not be indwelt by God. The Temple that was destroyed in A. D. 70 was a type of the heavenly temple. There is no need for a Third. God's destruction of Herod's temple put an end to the physical temple era and the national Jewish era.

Matthew24:34
There is some truth to what you said, but I'll go with Cornelius said,

The Body of Christ is the third temple and it is not being built by human hands. God has been building it since the time of Jesus.
Amen, Amen, Amen! It was rebuilt before the second Temple was ruined. How's that
for a prophecy fulfillment? :amen[/quote:3kj3et7h]

Vic C.--When I spoke of a third temple, I was referring to what micaela had said about a physical temple. I agree that the church is His temple! I wouldn't call it a third, however. It is not part of the others but is unique.

Matthew24:34
 
First comes the physical and then we must have the spiritual fulfillment in the New Testament era (our time)

God always starts out giving us an example in the physical, but that must then have a spiritual fulfillment. The same with the temple.

1Co 10:11 Now these things happened unto them (OLD TESTAMENT PEOPLE) by way of example; and they were written for our(NEW TESTAMENT PEOPLE) admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

C
 
Cornelius said:
micaela said:
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?

Its not so easy to explain, because you are still thinking that the temple is real and that the antichrist is one man.

You must understand that the live of a Christian means death to the self life (your ways and will) .Its a sacrificial life, that submits to the Word and places God first.

The opposite to this is SELF as God.That means , that in the church , there are those today who form a group, or BODY, and they do not believe in "death to self" so they set themselves up as God "in the temple" even today.

Its a type and shadow and it has many layers, because antichrist is also in the world system.
And what denomination teaches this viewpoint????
 
Solo said:
Cornelius said:
micaela said:
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?

Its not so easy to explain, because you are still thinking that the temple is real and that the antichrist is one man.

You must understand that the live of a Christian means death to the self life (your ways and will) .Its a sacrificial life, that submits to the Word and places God first.

The opposite to this is SELF as God.That means , that in the church , there are those today who form a group, or BODY, and they do not believe in "death to self" so they set themselves up as God "in the temple" even today.

Its a type and shadow and it has many layers, because antichrist is also in the world system.
And what denomination teaches this viewpoint????

LOL, the Bible does, I do not represent a denomination.
Its a long study, and a short post, (as I said in the beginning its difficult to explain) does not do it justice. We have look at many scriptures together for us to understand this .

Its late here in SA, so maybe you can point out which is the issue that you differ with, so I can look at it tomorrow?

C
 
Cornelius said:
micaela said:
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?

Its not so easy to explain, because you are still thinking that the temple is real and that the antichrist is one man.

You must understand that the live of a Christian means death to the self life (your ways and will) .Its a sacrificial life, that submits to the Word and places God first.

The opposite to this is SELF as God.That means , that in the church , there are those today who form a group, or BODY, and they do not believe in "death to self" so they set themselves up as God "in the temple" even today.

Its a type and shadow and it has many layers, because antichrist is also in the world system.

Cornelius said:
Solo said:
And what denomination teaches this viewpoint????

LOL, the Bible does, I do not represent a denomination.
Its a long study, and a short post, (as I said in the beginning its difficult to explain) does not do it justice. We have look at many scriptures together for us to understand this .

Its late here in SA, so maybe you can point out which is the issue that you differ with, so I can look at it tomorrow?

C
The main issue that I have a problem with is your suggestion that the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, is not one single person incarnated by satan in the last day prior to the coming of Jesus Christ to proclaim himself as God persecuting all who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ and who keep His commandments.

Perhaps you are the only person in the autonomous body of Christ in your local area that reads the Bible, and teaches such. I am just curious what group of believers teach the doctrine that you are espousing. If it is too embarrassing, keep it a secret. :shades
 
micaela said:
so where will the anti-christ declare he is God? What does scripture mean when they say he will seat himself in the temple?

Where does it say "anti-christ?" There was someone in that first-century generation, probably during the time that the Jews were locked up in Jerusalem by the Romans, who defiled the Temple--probably by unofficially entering the holy of holies, the dwelling place of God. Or Paul could be saying that the man of sin would exalt himself as though he himself was as God is in God's Temple! The problem with the first scenario is that God had already left that Temple and the curtain blocking access to the Holy of Holies had already been removed at Christ's crucifixion. Either way, the man of sin was someone of that first-century generation as he was clearly being restrained by someone or something of that first-century generation! Paul and the Thessalonians knew who or what he was!

Matthew24:34
 
Solo said:
The main issue that I have a problem with is your suggestion that the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, is not one single person incarnated by satan in the last day prior to the coming of Jesus Christ to proclaim himself as God persecuting all who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ and who keep His commandments.

Perhaps you are the only person in the autonomous body of Christ in your local area that reads the Bible, and teaches such. I am just curious what group of believers teach the doctrine that you are espousing. If it is too embarrassing, keep it a secret. :shades

Its early morning here now and I must run, but I"LL BE BAAACK

Why do people on forums always take a "tone" with people who see things in a different perspective ? What's up Solo ? I have nothing to hide, I do not belong to a church-denomination. I have also not sucked this out of my thumb, there are many people who share this view.
I will give a link , then people can read a whole study on it, and decide for themselves.

First a small quote:

Cleansing By Delusion


(2 Thes.2:1) Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; (2) to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; (3) let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Here we see that we are not to be deceived and that the coming of the Lord for his church will not be except the "falling away come first and the man of sin be revealed." This falling away is the tares being gathered together to be burned. Like Judas this corporate son of perdition sits in the temple of God's people, "setting himself forth as god" (verse 4) and deceives those who do not love the truth (verse 10) with his lying signs and wonders (verse 9), who will be destroyed at the coming of the Lord. Many will be beguiled by this corporate(meaning group) false Christian (verse 3) Before the coming of the Lord, God is sending a delusion (verse 11) to cleanse his church of those who do not love truth. He is gathering the tares "in bundles to burn them" in the day of the Lord. Starting in the middle of the tribulation the mark of the beast will gather the tares in bundles to burn them. They will be "gathered out of His kingdom" but not yet out of the earth: that happens in the day of the Lord.

In 70 AD the true disciples had fled to the mountains (type of rapture) as Jesus commanded but the apostates were "gathered" into the city to be destroyed by the Roman Beast. The church will be prepared to meet him but the falling away must happen first! First God will "gather out of his kingdom all that cause stumbling and they that do iniquity and shall cast them into the furnace of fire" (the day of the Lord).."Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Mt.13:41-43). First "he will sever the wicked from among the righteous" (verse 49); then he will come for his saints and destroy the wicked (2 Thes.2:8).

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=delusion


For more, you have to download a free e-book. Then search for Son of Perdition.

Download here, (the free hard copy book will be available soon and this ministry will give them away, if you email them with a request for a book, there are many free DVDs available on this site too and more free books too. Freely ye received, freely give )

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=e-book2
 
Cornelius said:
Solo said:
The main issue that I have a problem with is your suggestion that the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, is not one single person incarnated by satan in the last day prior to the coming of Jesus Christ to proclaim himself as God persecuting all who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ and who keep His commandments.

Perhaps you are the only person in the autonomous body of Christ in your local area that reads the Bible, and teaches such. I am just curious what group of believers teach the doctrine that you are espousing. If it is too embarrassing, keep it a secret. :shades

Its early morning here now and I must run, but I"LL BE BAAACK

Why do people on forums always take a "tone" with people who see things in a different perspective ? What's up Solo ? I have nothing to hide, I do not belong to a church-denomination. I have also not sucked this out of my thumb, there are many people who share this view.
I will give a link , then people can read a whole study on it, and decide for themselves.

First a small quote:

Cleansing By Delusion


(2 Thes.2:1) Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; (2) to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; (3) let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Here we see that we are not to be deceived and that the coming of the Lord for his church will not be except the "falling away come first and the man of sin be revealed." This falling away is the tares being gathered together to be burned. Like Judas this corporate son of perdition sits in the temple of God's people, "setting himself forth as god" (verse 4) and deceives those who do not love the truth (verse 10) with his lying signs and wonders (verse 9), who will be destroyed at the coming of the Lord. Many will be beguiled by this corporate(meaning group) false Christian (verse 3) Before the coming of the Lord, God is sending a delusion (verse 11) to cleanse his church of those who do not love truth. He is gathering the tares "in bundles to burn them" in the day of the Lord. Starting in the middle of the tribulation the mark of the beast will gather the tares in bundles to burn them. They will be "gathered out of His kingdom" but not yet out of the earth: that happens in the day of the Lord.

In 70 AD the true disciples had fled to the mountains (type of rapture) as Jesus commanded but the apostates were "gathered" into the city to be destroyed by the Roman Beast. The church will be prepared to meet him but the falling away must happen first! First God will "gather out of his kingdom all that cause stumbling and they that do iniquity and shall cast them into the furnace of fire" (the day of the Lord).."Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Mt.13:41-43). First "he will sever the wicked from among the righteous" (verse 49); then he will come for his saints and destroy the wicked (2 Thes.2:8).

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=delusion


For more, you have to download a free e-book. Then search for Son of Perdition.

Download here, (the free hard copy book will be available soon and this ministry will give them away, if you email them with a request for a book, there are many free DVDs available on this site too and more free books too. Freely ye received, freely give )

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=e-book2

What about the Thessalonians to whom Paul is writing? What is the audience relevance here. Paul was not telling US not to be soon shaken--He was telling THOSE Thessalonians of his day! That is the context.

What does Paul mean when He says that those very Thessalonians and by extension all saints of that time that THEY were to be given rest AT HIS APPEARING? Who was to be repaid with trouble by the Lord AT HIS APPEARING? Was it not those very Jews who were persecuting and troubling those very Thessalonians? What is the context, Cornelius? You are misapplying things to us that were not intended for us.

Furthermore, the temple mentioned in chapter 2 is NOT some future to us rebuilt temple. Paul does not even remotely allude to such a fancy! There will be no rebuilt temple. Paul knew of no other Temple but Herod's Temple which was still standing at the time of his writing!

Matthew24:34
 
Cornelius said:
Solo said:
The main issue that I have a problem with is your suggestion that the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, is not one single person incarnated by satan in the last day prior to the coming of Jesus Christ to proclaim himself as God persecuting all who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ and who keep His commandments.

Perhaps you are the only person in the autonomous body of Christ in your local area that reads the Bible, and teaches such. I am just curious what group of believers teach the doctrine that you are espousing. If it is too embarrassing, keep it a secret. :shades

Its early morning here now and I must run, but I"LL BE BAAACK

Why do people on forums always take a "tone" with people who see things in a different perspective ? What's up Solo ? I have nothing to hide, I do not belong to a church-denomination. I have also not sucked this out of my thumb, there are many people who share this view.
I will give a link , then people can read a whole study on it, and decide for themselves.

First a small quote:

Cleansing By Delusion


(2 Thes.2:1) Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; (2) to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; (3) let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Here we see that we are not to be deceived and that the coming of the Lord for his church will not be except the "falling away come first and the man of sin be revealed." This falling away is the tares being gathered together to be burned. Like Judas this corporate son of perdition sits in the temple of God's people, "setting himself forth as god" (verse 4) and deceives those who do not love the truth (verse 10) with his lying signs and wonders (verse 9), who will be destroyed at the coming of the Lord. Many will be beguiled by this corporate(meaning group) false Christian (verse 3) Before the coming of the Lord, God is sending a delusion (verse 11) to cleanse his church of those who do not love truth. He is gathering the tares "in bundles to burn them" in the day of the Lord. Starting in the middle of the tribulation the mark of the beast will gather the tares in bundles to burn them. They will be "gathered out of His kingdom" but not yet out of the earth: that happens in the day of the Lord.

In 70 AD the true disciples had fled to the mountains (type of rapture) as Jesus commanded but the apostates were "gathered" into the city to be destroyed by the Roman Beast. The church will be prepared to meet him but the falling away must happen first! First God will "gather out of his kingdom all that cause stumbling and they that do iniquity and shall cast them into the furnace of fire" (the day of the Lord).."Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father" (Mt.13:41-43). First "he will sever the wicked from among the righteous" (verse 49); then he will come for his saints and destroy the wicked (2 Thes.2:8).

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=delusion


For more, you have to download a free e-book. Then search for Son of Perdition.

Download here, (the free hard copy book will be available soon and this ministry will give them away, if you email them with a request for a book, there are many free DVDs available on this site too and more free books too. Freely ye received, freely give )

http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=e-book2

What about the Thessalonians to whom Paul is writing? What is the audience relevance here. Paul was not telling US not to be soon shaken--He was telling THOSE Thessalonians of his day! That is the context.

What does Paul mean when He says that those very Thessalonians and by extension all saints of that time that THEY were to be given rest AT HIS APPEARING? Who was to be repaid with trouble by the Lord AT HIS APPEARING? Was it not those very Jews who were persecuting and troubling those very Thessalonians? What is the context, Cornelius? You are misapplying things to us that were not intended for us.

Matthew24:34
 
Originally posted by Matthew24:34
What about the Thessalonians to whom Paul is writing? What is the audience relevance here. Paul was not telling US not to be soon shaken--He was telling THOSE Thessalonians of his day! That is the context.


Matthew, is that all you talk about? You sound like a broken record (and I mean broken). This goes way beyond a simple case of nearsightedness. Perhaps a seeing eye dog is in order :shades. Wow, you FP folks are seriously out there in la la parousia land. Time to come back to reality, dust off the Bible, and start from scratch methinks. Reminds me of the String Theory frenzy. Everyone and their uncle racing to jump on board - but eventually; ashamed and embarrassed; trying to back out unscathed when they realized it was nothing but empty elitist junk wrapped in a pretty package.
 
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