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Can We Know When? Can we know the timing of the rapture and the end of the age?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 495883:MV8xNDI2MTE2XzIzNDgzNTM1XzFGRTdFRTg4] Teachers in the past have always used these verses as proof that people will be caught off-guard by Christ’s coming. It is true that these verses are teaching that, but verses 4 and 5 instruct us that there’s more to the story: But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Here we discover that there are some people who will not be caught off-guard by Christ’s second coming. We have all been taught time and time again that Christ’s coming will be like a thief in the night, but here we have a clear statement (at least, it’s clear to us now) that it will not come as a thief for the children of light. The light of the world is Christ (John 8:12). Therefore, the children of light are the believers. They are the ones God is addressing here. Verse 6 then reminds us to watch: Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. [/quote]
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49 days to go until May 21st
This paste is from Harold Campings - The Book has been opened !
For as long as most of us can remember, we have always been taught that no one can ever know for certain when the world will end. The Bible was carefully crafted by God so that we would think that for the last 2,000 years. The church had a mandate: Go into all the world with the Gospel. It was not God’s intent for the church to concern itself with the timing of the end. It had a mission to accomplish and spending time deciphering the end of time did not fit into that mission, so God sealed that information up. However, now we have found that we can know the timing of the end, not because we are smarter than theologians of the past, but simply because it was God’s purpose to hide it from mankind until now.
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