"NOT ONE STONE SHALL BE LEFT STANDING UPON ANOTHER."
As Calm began to return, searches began, house to house, more women raped in their homes, men dragged into the streets beaten, chained, some killed. Children dragged away screaming, crying, in chains, one by one, those houses were emptied. No insurgent would be left to slay another Roman Soldier in cowardice from behind. Jews trembling in fear, begging for their lives...exchanging information for another breath... "And the brother shall betray the brother, even unto death..." now, the most clever, having their hiding places revealed, suffer the fate of those before.
"Ye Which are the rooftops...Go not down into your houses."
Sure, those early Christians had a message of eternal salvation, but they had one of a very present physical salvation as well. Can any truly say "Prophecy is not worthy of consideration in our top list of priorities?" I would think not. NOW let's look at I Thessalonians Chapter 4, and 5, and then we will sum up, with a few
passages from Romans chapter 8, Joel chapter 2, Revelations Chapter 1, Amos Chapter 5, all passages concerning the Doctrine of the Day of the LORD, but first, Lets begin by looking at the MOST popular passage used to promote the mainstream “RAPTURE DOCTRINE”…
I Corinthians chapter 15
I Cor 15: 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
I Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Okay, as you read, realize all this stuff being said, these Corinthians were having to be told not to cheat their brothers,(v6) not to fornicate,(v3) then to be reminded, Paul shouldn't even have to write to them, they were ignoring God in the matter,(9) not to go around despising people, (8) to stop being loud mouths,(11) busy bodies getting to everyone else’s business,(11) and stop being lazy and not shirk their duties, (11) next he has to coddle them cause they are mourning for their dead. And he has to teach them that they too, will be with God if they accepted the truths which led to the visitation of Christ on Earth, accepted in their own level of light.
And here is the next most popular verses used to promote the Mainstream
Rapture Doctrine...not the main context of the passage is “CORRECTIVE”, addressing issues the Thessalonians needed correction on, and then issues correcting their ideas of prophetic teachings are addressed in verses 13 forward...
1 Thessalonians chapter 4 King James Version 1611
I Thess 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the
Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,
so ye would abound more and more.
I Thess 4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
I Thess 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
I Thess 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
I Thess 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
I Thess 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
I Thess 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
I Thess 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
I Thess 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
I Thess 4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
I Thess 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands,as we commanded you;
I Thess 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
I Thess 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
I Thess 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
I Thess 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
I Thess 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
I Thess 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I Thess 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Now, this passage is connected almost always to I Corinthians 15:51 and 52 in promoting the popular ideolgy of a Rapture Doctrine. And I am not arguing that such an event will occur, I am arguing the timeline, and noting that the church will go through the time of Great Tribulation
along with the world and wheat will be separated from the tares. I am not saying that it is improper to attach this passage above with that of I Corinthians 15:51 and 52, I actually think that may be well correct, WHAT I AM SAYING, IS THIS STILL DOES NOT CHANGE THE TIMING...THIS STILL DOES
NOT OCCUR UNTIL A CERTAIN EVENT NAMED SPECIFICLY AND IN NO VAGUE TERMS IN I CORINTHIANS 15:52, The event named is "AT THE LAST TRUMP." You can take your scissors and cut it out of your Bibles, you can kid yourselves, you can say it aint so till your blue in the face, but it won't change the fact that it
says what it says, and it has just been overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and now when presented, some, many...REJECT THE TRUTH ALTOGETHER. TELL ME I AM WRONG, BUT DO SO WITH THE SCRIPTURES.... TAKE ME TO I CORINTHIANS 15 and show me I am wrong, read it ALL to me, I DON"T WANT TO MISS A THING!!
My favorite Aerosmith song by the way. Read it to me a hundred times, read it fast, read it backwards, sideways, spin in a circle, maybe it will come out
different, but you know, I just don't think so, and right now, in this very moment, I don't you do either! Not one bit.
You See, there is a doctrine that says, after this rapture, which we now know without a doubt, may well Happen, but it certainly won't occur on the terms with which it has popularly been preached, so that already tells us something about those messenger don't it?
Are they wrong in this teaching, in this timeline they present yes or no?
Okay, yes.
Now ARE THEY SPEAKING THESE ERRORS IN A PROPHETIC TONE? Yes or NO? DO THEY CLAIM TO BE TEACHING FUTURE EVENTS? YES OR NO?? ARE THEY NOT THEN IN EFFECT PROPHESYING? AND if we KNOW, They are PROPHESYING FALSEHOODS... WHAT KIND OF PROPHETS DOES THAT MAKE THEM???
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