Pre-Trib Rapture; Scriptural or Dispensational Fiction

1Pe 1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,


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Amy said -

Amy,

Hearing it, rather than reading it, may help.

Go to the link below to hear Dr. W. A. Criswell explain the issue - it is the verbal version of the printed text I originally posted buy him. It should help you a lot - if not to accept the idea, at least it will help you understand the position.

Message title: "God's Churches and the Great Tribulation"
Audio link: http://www.wacriswell.org/Search/videotrans.cfm/sermon/1601.cfm

 

Then go here: http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=55978&page=19

To my responses #182-183

 

This topic should be continued over here:

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I am not sure this statement is the equivalent of the end times in the sense that the end has arrived or is about to. Jesus was "manifested at the end of times" I think means in the last days. I admit we are in the last days, but not that we are necessarily in the end times.

 

Last day"S" has an "S" on the end, "plural", meaning more than one day,

How long is a "day" with God???

Why is the MK referred to as the "SEVENTH DAY", how long is it???

So, if the 7th day is a 1000 years, how long do you suppose the other "SIX DAYS" will be???

If you can read a "WEEKLY SCHEDULE", you can read the "Signs of the times".

Mt 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

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I am not sure what you are saying. I agree that there will be an end to things but I don't know that we can say we are in it. Didn't Jesus say no one would know?

 

This discussion has gone over here:

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=56360&page=2


You should go there also, especially after some Moderator closes this topic.
We are waiting you you.

 

Mt 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Why would Jesus say that, then turn around and give us the "parables of the Fig Tree", when we see the leaves know the time was at the door, and "THIS GENERATION" wouldn't pass??

Only the "day and hour" is not to be known.

That is the most "misquoted", "misinterpreted" verse in the Bible.

Actually, when you understand the "Feast", you find out it really a close reference as to when the rapture will occur, rather than obscuring the "Season".

 

I think when Jesus says the "day and hour" it means the time - no one knows the time. People who set dates for Jesus coming usually use this phrase the way you do. I don't think that's what it means. Jesus elaborates on this, clearly stating no one knows:

36"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

37"For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
38"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

...44"For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.


I don't think Jesus is saying we will know the month or week but not the hour!

 

I didn't establish the "FEAST" or their correspondance to events in the NT,

But I do understand them.

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Time for this thread to close, as it well past 30 pages.