Hello World:
Even though Camping's prediction date of May 21, has passed, I will continue to title the remaining posts in this series May 21, 2011 after the fact. I still have a ways to go on this Rapture topic, because I want to go into some doctrine details from Camping that is related.
Last time I talked about that the term or the concept of the Rapture actually is NOT even referenced in greek, hebrew or latin in the scripture from St. Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 36, and even surrounding scriptures. However, the term or concept of the Rapture is mentioned in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4: Verses 13-17.
Both of my study Bibles, which by the way, I would have to consider to be two of the best types of Bibles in the world, both agree that everything Jesus says in those verses of St. Matthew 24, and where He mentions repeatedly the coming of the Son of Man refers to His Second Coming, or Advent down to the earth ground with judgements, or as I previously explained His Third Coming to the earth, which is different or seperate from the Rapture where He meets believers in the air or sky and takes them with Him back to the City or Planet of Heaven.
Now I discussed this a few years ago, based upon what Jesus actually said about not knowing the day or hour of the end of the age of man and end of the devils influence and rule, shows that someone still can know some specifics about the time of the end of those things mentioned in St. Matthew, by the year, the month, and possibly the week. Because Jesus did not say otherwise.
Jesus did not explain or show the difference between the Rapture event and His Second Coming, and how they are two different and seperate events, with Him doing different things in each of those major events. Another thing, the disciples who asked Him the questions about the END, did not ask enough questions. I think they did not know or have the presence of mind to ask about multiple events that would happen in the end times.
They had not received the SPIRIT baptism yet, and their worldview and their view of what God will do was limited at that time. There were two Raptures that had already taken place before their time, and they may not have even been aware of that. I am going to show some of this by trying to squeeze in here a number of scriptures from the book of Acts, and trying not to make this post too long.
The following scriptures show an account or witness that Jesus had indeed risen from the dead, and was seen and visited by His disciples.
Scripture Reference Acts Chapter 1: Verse 1; "The former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach."
Verse 2; "Until the day in which he was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:"
Verse 3; "To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."
Verse 4; "And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me."
Verse 5; "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
Verse 6; "When they therefore were come together, they asked Him, saying Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel."
Verse 7; "And he said unto them, it is not for you to know the times or seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."
Verse 8; "But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
Verse 9; "And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight."
I would like to further elaborate some things about those above scriptures in the next post of this series.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
May 21, 2011-Fifth Portion
Hello World:
The Rapture did not take place this past Saturday of May 21st, as predicted by Harold Camping, McCann and the Familyradio group. Now at the end of the last post I talked about an experience or some experiences I had with the Lord literally visiting me. I was leading to a very important point or let me say several important points in this topic, that I want to bring out in this post.
Harold Camping would have been more credible, I believe, if he would have had an experience where God literally visited him and gave him that information on the Rapture. However, that did not happen. Remember, I pointed out previously that Camping using math and the Bible to calculate a Rapture date is not unique. I believe because of the controversy over scripture interpretation, that it is important for a issue like the Rapture, that a person if they were to correctly predict it or prophesy about it, they would definitely need some sort of extraordinary revelation directly of or from God.
I keep hearing people saying we can not know the time, and they give scriptures, and those people who say we can not know the time are just as wrong as Harold Camping. A person can know the time of the Rapture, if they seek and ask God about it, and God decides to reveal that information to them. Maybe not or most likely not everybody will know, because most people are not interested or do not want to know. God can choose a select few to whom He will give the information, and how much of that information He wants to get out.
The scripture from St. Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 36; "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.", DOES NOT REFER TO THE RAPTURE. That verse and all surrounding verses refers to Jesus' SECOND ADVENT and the END OF DAYS for Satan and mankind's world system, which is for judgement, upon evil people on the earth, which I talked about in the War and Passion series.
The Second Advent is different from the Rapture, in that in the Rapture Jesus is only coming and meeting His people in the clouds in the sky, and then going back to Heaven for a certain time period; whereas, the Second Advent is Jesus' return to the earth when He literally steps foot back on the ground to establish His kingdom.
The Second Advent is called the "Second" because it is Jesus' second time arriving on the earth, or stepping on the earth ground. It is considered an arrival, but technically it could be called His Third Advent to the planet earth, with the Rapture being the second, even though He does not touch down to stay in the Rapture. I believe I have learned of some further information concerning the Second Advent, but will not share that at this time.
In Chapter 24, of the book of St. Matthew, Jesus refers the end of days to being like during the time of Noah, when God's judgement came upon man by a flood of water. This is how it can be seen that He is talking about the Judgement of the end of days of man, when He returns to see who should be spared Judgement. Too many people debate against that like it clearly says not knowing the Rapture; however, there is no greek, latin or hebrew translation in the scripture, from St. Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 36 in my Bible, that references being Raptured or caught up, like from 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4.
Jesus was saying no man knows the Day or the Hour of those things at the end of days; He DID NOT SAY DAY OR HOUR OF THE RAPTURE. He DID NOT MENTION OTHER TIMEFRAMES. HE ALSO DID NOT SAY BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT ASK GOD, THE FATHER TO FIND OUT. HE ALSO DID NOT, (emphasis)"DID NOT" SAY THAT WE SHOULD REMAIN PURPOSELY IGNORANT. This is not the end here, as I have more to post on the May 21 topic, and discuss further things about Harold Camping.
The Rapture did not take place this past Saturday of May 21st, as predicted by Harold Camping, McCann and the Familyradio group. Now at the end of the last post I talked about an experience or some experiences I had with the Lord literally visiting me. I was leading to a very important point or let me say several important points in this topic, that I want to bring out in this post.
Harold Camping would have been more credible, I believe, if he would have had an experience where God literally visited him and gave him that information on the Rapture. However, that did not happen. Remember, I pointed out previously that Camping using math and the Bible to calculate a Rapture date is not unique. I believe because of the controversy over scripture interpretation, that it is important for a issue like the Rapture, that a person if they were to correctly predict it or prophesy about it, they would definitely need some sort of extraordinary revelation directly of or from God.
I keep hearing people saying we can not know the time, and they give scriptures, and those people who say we can not know the time are just as wrong as Harold Camping. A person can know the time of the Rapture, if they seek and ask God about it, and God decides to reveal that information to them. Maybe not or most likely not everybody will know, because most people are not interested or do not want to know. God can choose a select few to whom He will give the information, and how much of that information He wants to get out.
The scripture from St. Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 36; "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.", DOES NOT REFER TO THE RAPTURE. That verse and all surrounding verses refers to Jesus' SECOND ADVENT and the END OF DAYS for Satan and mankind's world system, which is for judgement, upon evil people on the earth, which I talked about in the War and Passion series.
The Second Advent is different from the Rapture, in that in the Rapture Jesus is only coming and meeting His people in the clouds in the sky, and then going back to Heaven for a certain time period; whereas, the Second Advent is Jesus' return to the earth when He literally steps foot back on the ground to establish His kingdom.
The Second Advent is called the "Second" because it is Jesus' second time arriving on the earth, or stepping on the earth ground. It is considered an arrival, but technically it could be called His Third Advent to the planet earth, with the Rapture being the second, even though He does not touch down to stay in the Rapture. I believe I have learned of some further information concerning the Second Advent, but will not share that at this time.
In Chapter 24, of the book of St. Matthew, Jesus refers the end of days to being like during the time of Noah, when God's judgement came upon man by a flood of water. This is how it can be seen that He is talking about the Judgement of the end of days of man, when He returns to see who should be spared Judgement. Too many people debate against that like it clearly says not knowing the Rapture; however, there is no greek, latin or hebrew translation in the scripture, from St. Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 36 in my Bible, that references being Raptured or caught up, like from 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4.
Jesus was saying no man knows the Day or the Hour of those things at the end of days; He DID NOT SAY DAY OR HOUR OF THE RAPTURE. He DID NOT MENTION OTHER TIMEFRAMES. HE ALSO DID NOT SAY BELIEVERS SHOULD NOT ASK GOD, THE FATHER TO FIND OUT. HE ALSO DID NOT, (emphasis)"DID NOT" SAY THAT WE SHOULD REMAIN PURPOSELY IGNORANT. This is not the end here, as I have more to post on the May 21 topic, and discuss further things about Harold Camping.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
May 21, 2011-Fourth Portion
Hello World:
This is May 17th, 4 days before the "supposed" big day. Is the day of reckoning upon us, or will it just be, in a very bad and embarrassing way, upon Harold Camping, Chris McCann and the FamilyRadio.com crowd.
I want to mention that if the Rapture takes place, that will stop me from blogging. My blog should still be up and accessible to read, which is what I would want, but the updates or new postings will quickly cease. Actually here is what I am going to do, and readers will not notice this, but usually I have posts that are pre-scheduled to publish on a certain date. However, in this case with this topic on Camping's prediction, what I am going to do is put any prepared posts for the future in draft position, not to publish.
That means this post here possibly could be my last updated post. Maybe or maybe not. We will see. The reason why I am doing this is to wait and see what will happen with Camping's prediction. His prediction is not false until the time for it to happen comes, and it does not happen. So, technically speaking, as of this May 17th, 2011 his prediction is not false, YET! If May 21st, passes and all of us believers in Jesus Christ are still here, meaning no one was Raptured, I will resume publishing posts in this topic talking about that. I think that is fair to everybody.
May 21st 2011 is this coming Saturday. I just want to point out, that for me, Saturday is a very good day for the Rapture to take place. Any day that Jesus returns for the Rapture will be a good day for believers, but for me, Saturday would be the ideal day for all sorts of reasons.
I mentioned that I wanted to say something else about the prophet Ezekiel. Scripture Reference Ezekiel Chapter 2: Verse 8, "But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee."
Verse 9; "And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein."
Verse 10; "And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe."
Chapter 3: Verse 1; "Morever he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel."
Verse 2; "So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll."
Verse 3; "And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then I did eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness."
In regards to those above scriptures, I can say that I can relate to what happened there to the Prophet Ezekiel. Almost nearly the same thing happened to me that happened to Ezekiel. Also the same thing happened to the Apostle John in Revelation Chapter 10: Verses 8-10.
I talked about this before back in my archive posts. This may seem strange, but God visited me on several occassions and literally put in my belly what felt like honey. The best way I can explain it is that you know when you taste or eat honey and it is sweet to the taste. Well, the way honey taste sweet is how it actually felt when God was putting something inside my belly. It felt like very sweet honey, and yes it was going inside me. That happened to me more than once.
Although similar to the Prophet Ezekiel and Apostle John, my experience(S) had slight differences. I was deep in the presence of the Lord and during one occassion I saw the brightness of His glory, but I did not see God's body or an angel. I did not see any hand or roll come through the wall, although that would have been nice too. I did hear God, but did not hear Him or anyone speaking to me telling me to eat a roll or book. God just showed up and put what He wanted to put inside me.
It felt really, really good. It never tasted or felt bitter in my mouth or belly, but again, everything was sweet, very sweet. Also, I want to point out, that even though God put that in my belly, I could feel it as if it flowed through my entire body and I felt it for many hours throughout the day.
There is a reason why I am saying all of that in relation to this post topic of May 21st, 2011. I am trying to make a very important point, but because of the length of this post here, I will have to continue in the next post after May 21st, if the Rapture still has not taken place at that time.
This is May 17th, 4 days before the "supposed" big day. Is the day of reckoning upon us, or will it just be, in a very bad and embarrassing way, upon Harold Camping, Chris McCann and the FamilyRadio.com crowd.
I want to mention that if the Rapture takes place, that will stop me from blogging. My blog should still be up and accessible to read, which is what I would want, but the updates or new postings will quickly cease. Actually here is what I am going to do, and readers will not notice this, but usually I have posts that are pre-scheduled to publish on a certain date. However, in this case with this topic on Camping's prediction, what I am going to do is put any prepared posts for the future in draft position, not to publish.
That means this post here possibly could be my last updated post. Maybe or maybe not. We will see. The reason why I am doing this is to wait and see what will happen with Camping's prediction. His prediction is not false until the time for it to happen comes, and it does not happen. So, technically speaking, as of this May 17th, 2011 his prediction is not false, YET! If May 21st, passes and all of us believers in Jesus Christ are still here, meaning no one was Raptured, I will resume publishing posts in this topic talking about that. I think that is fair to everybody.
May 21st 2011 is this coming Saturday. I just want to point out, that for me, Saturday is a very good day for the Rapture to take place. Any day that Jesus returns for the Rapture will be a good day for believers, but for me, Saturday would be the ideal day for all sorts of reasons.
I mentioned that I wanted to say something else about the prophet Ezekiel. Scripture Reference Ezekiel Chapter 2: Verse 8, "But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee."
Verse 9; "And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein."
Verse 10; "And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe."
Chapter 3: Verse 1; "Morever he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel."
Verse 2; "So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll."
Verse 3; "And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then I did eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness."
In regards to those above scriptures, I can say that I can relate to what happened there to the Prophet Ezekiel. Almost nearly the same thing happened to me that happened to Ezekiel. Also the same thing happened to the Apostle John in Revelation Chapter 10: Verses 8-10.
I talked about this before back in my archive posts. This may seem strange, but God visited me on several occassions and literally put in my belly what felt like honey. The best way I can explain it is that you know when you taste or eat honey and it is sweet to the taste. Well, the way honey taste sweet is how it actually felt when God was putting something inside my belly. It felt like very sweet honey, and yes it was going inside me. That happened to me more than once.
Although similar to the Prophet Ezekiel and Apostle John, my experience(S) had slight differences. I was deep in the presence of the Lord and during one occassion I saw the brightness of His glory, but I did not see God's body or an angel. I did not see any hand or roll come through the wall, although that would have been nice too. I did hear God, but did not hear Him or anyone speaking to me telling me to eat a roll or book. God just showed up and put what He wanted to put inside me.
It felt really, really good. It never tasted or felt bitter in my mouth or belly, but again, everything was sweet, very sweet. Also, I want to point out, that even though God put that in my belly, I could feel it as if it flowed through my entire body and I felt it for many hours throughout the day.
There is a reason why I am saying all of that in relation to this post topic of May 21st, 2011. I am trying to make a very important point, but because of the length of this post here, I will have to continue in the next post after May 21st, if the Rapture still has not taken place at that time.
Friday, May 13, 2011
May 21, 2011-Third Portion
Hello World:
Today I want to continue further on Camping's issue with Biblical authority mentioned last time, in relation to disagreeing with his May 21st prediction. Last time I was explaining the different manifestations of God's word. There is something else I did not mention last time, but want to mention here today, in relation to the manifestations of God's word.
The written word or the words or scriptures of the Bible is called logos. The unwritten word when God literally speaks to someone is called rhema. Rhema is God's revelation by speaking a word, that may or may not be the literal scriptures. Rhema may not be the actual scriptures, but the Bible backs it up as being truly of God, because there are plenty of examples throughout the scriptures or Bible.
Scripture Reference Genesis Chapter 15: Verse 1; "After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward."
Scripture reference: Jeremiah Chapter 49: Verse 34; "The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,"
Verse 35; "Thus saith the Lord of host; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."
Scripture Reference: Ezekiel Chapter 1: Verse 3;"The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him."
According to my Dake Bible, the phrase "The word of the Lord is found at least 239 times in the Old Testament and at least 9 times in the New Testament. Something the Lord spoke to me about is that, as in the examples of Abram, also known as Abraham, the prophet Jeremiah and priest and prophet Ezekiel, when God spoke to them and instructed them to say something or to do something, they did not have scriptures from the Bible to reference. In other words, their Biblical authority came directly or literally from God.
So, I am showing by the Bible that a CHOSEN PERSON OF GOD, not just any person, but someone specifically CHOSEN BY GOD can hear and speak rightly of God without even showing scriptures, that is what Abraham, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and other MEN OF GOD had to do. If you or a person receives a Rhema word of God, or of the Lord like Abraham, Jeremiah or Ezekiel did, in that moment YOU TOO HAVE Biblical authority.
Harold Camping group and other Christians speaks against this type of extra-biblical revelation, or revelation supposedly outside of literal worded scriptures from the Bible given by God to certain people. However, Camping's group contradicts their own anti-extra-biblical revelation view, by saying that God reveals information to His people by His Spirit. That type of revelation is exactly what happened to Abraham, exactly what happened to Jeremiah, and exactly what happened to Ezekiel in my examples above.
I have gotten into discussions or debates with certain people who are really into the scriptures word for word, who presented me with scriptures on a subject, and when I responded by using the same scriptures back, they still proceeded to ask me to show scriptures to back up what I claim the Lord showed me. They asked me that, right after I just used scriptures. They acted like I did not show any scriptures. Again, as I talked about before, they have this attitude that for every sentence that comes out of your mouth you better have a scripture for it. That is stupid, that is religious, that is unbelief toward the Spirit of God.
Again, it is okay to show scriptures, but not every time you say thus saith the Lord or open your mouth you have to. More importantly, you better make sure you are led by God. A person who is close to God, and hears from God and who speaks the word of the Lord will be AUTOMATICALLY endorsed by the Bible or the scriptures; and for those who look for verbatim scriptures or Biblical authority for "everything", if you really knew the Bible, and really knew God, you would be able to know the person speaking has Biblical authority, and speaks the word of the Lord.
A person can know the Bible and quote it backwards and forwards with memorization, but not spiritually understand it and still go to hell. Again, as I mentioned previously, a person can know the letter of the Bible, but not know God or be close to God. To some people who want a scripture for everything, I want to ask them have you ever experienced God, or had a literal encounter with God? Give me an example where you actually had a literal experience with God. I want to continue on that, and say something else about Ezekiel in the fourth portion.
Today I want to continue further on Camping's issue with Biblical authority mentioned last time, in relation to disagreeing with his May 21st prediction. Last time I was explaining the different manifestations of God's word. There is something else I did not mention last time, but want to mention here today, in relation to the manifestations of God's word.
The written word or the words or scriptures of the Bible is called logos. The unwritten word when God literally speaks to someone is called rhema. Rhema is God's revelation by speaking a word, that may or may not be the literal scriptures. Rhema may not be the actual scriptures, but the Bible backs it up as being truly of God, because there are plenty of examples throughout the scriptures or Bible.
Scripture Reference Genesis Chapter 15: Verse 1; "After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward."
Scripture reference: Jeremiah Chapter 49: Verse 34; "The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,"
Verse 35; "Thus saith the Lord of host; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."
Scripture Reference: Ezekiel Chapter 1: Verse 3;"The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him."
According to my Dake Bible, the phrase "The word of the Lord is found at least 239 times in the Old Testament and at least 9 times in the New Testament. Something the Lord spoke to me about is that, as in the examples of Abram, also known as Abraham, the prophet Jeremiah and priest and prophet Ezekiel, when God spoke to them and instructed them to say something or to do something, they did not have scriptures from the Bible to reference. In other words, their Biblical authority came directly or literally from God.
So, I am showing by the Bible that a CHOSEN PERSON OF GOD, not just any person, but someone specifically CHOSEN BY GOD can hear and speak rightly of God without even showing scriptures, that is what Abraham, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and other MEN OF GOD had to do. If you or a person receives a Rhema word of God, or of the Lord like Abraham, Jeremiah or Ezekiel did, in that moment YOU TOO HAVE Biblical authority.
Harold Camping group and other Christians speaks against this type of extra-biblical revelation, or revelation supposedly outside of literal worded scriptures from the Bible given by God to certain people. However, Camping's group contradicts their own anti-extra-biblical revelation view, by saying that God reveals information to His people by His Spirit. That type of revelation is exactly what happened to Abraham, exactly what happened to Jeremiah, and exactly what happened to Ezekiel in my examples above.
I have gotten into discussions or debates with certain people who are really into the scriptures word for word, who presented me with scriptures on a subject, and when I responded by using the same scriptures back, they still proceeded to ask me to show scriptures to back up what I claim the Lord showed me. They asked me that, right after I just used scriptures. They acted like I did not show any scriptures. Again, as I talked about before, they have this attitude that for every sentence that comes out of your mouth you better have a scripture for it. That is stupid, that is religious, that is unbelief toward the Spirit of God.
Again, it is okay to show scriptures, but not every time you say thus saith the Lord or open your mouth you have to. More importantly, you better make sure you are led by God. A person who is close to God, and hears from God and who speaks the word of the Lord will be AUTOMATICALLY endorsed by the Bible or the scriptures; and for those who look for verbatim scriptures or Biblical authority for "everything", if you really knew the Bible, and really knew God, you would be able to know the person speaking has Biblical authority, and speaks the word of the Lord.
A person can know the Bible and quote it backwards and forwards with memorization, but not spiritually understand it and still go to hell. Again, as I mentioned previously, a person can know the letter of the Bible, but not know God or be close to God. To some people who want a scripture for everything, I want to ask them have you ever experienced God, or had a literal encounter with God? Give me an example where you actually had a literal experience with God. I want to continue on that, and say something else about Ezekiel in the fourth portion.
Monday, May 09, 2011
May 21, 2011-Second Portion
Hello World:
Previously I mentioned that Harold Camping is guessing the Rapture date of May 21st, and because of that he is more likely to be wrong. I also showed how you can take numbers, from various Biblically-historic events of your choosing, to try to calculate a specific time of the Rapture. Therefore, the process by which Camping got a specific date to the day is not all that unique, and almost anybody can do that.
Now, let me also say that Camping could guess right, and the Rapture actually could happen on this coming May 21st. However, based on what he said as to how he got that date, does not mean that he really knows of or from God. Again, he can still guess it right, but not know. However, again, I still believe he is guessing wrong and just really do not know.
Knowing the Bible or the scriptures well, does NOT mean that a person knows or even understands everything, and everything being the key word, that is of God or when God is about to do something. I was reading in Campings Frequently Asked Questions section, where it says "For one to object to May 21st, 2011 one must have BIBLICAL AUTHORITY to do so".
In terms of Biblical authority, I have Biblical authority. I have Biblical authority not just because I say so, but I can prove it. A major problem that some Christian believers have is that EVERY time another Christian says something, the other one wants that Christian to back it up with a specific scripture or give a scripture for nearly EVERY sentence that a Christian says. That is not right. Every time I open my mouth to say something that I feel is from God, or each time I post something from God, does not mean that I have to show scriptures EVERY time.
There are different manifestations of the WORD OF GOD. There is Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God, St. John Chapter 1: Verses 1-15; and Revelation Chapter 19: Verse 13. Also, the WORD OF GOD is the scriptures themselves. Then ALSO, the WORD OF GOD CAN BE DIRECT REVELATION that is LITERALLY spoken or given of or by God to his servants. I will show scriptures on revelations of God in the third portion of this topic.
However, let me say to use scriptures is fine and you want to have consistency, however, sometimes the use of scriptures is overblown. Some Christians know the letters of the scriptures, but not the Spirit of the scriptures; or they do not know what God really means or what God's intent is for us in terms of practical living. Some Christians use the scriptures just to show off theological prowess, like a well-educated professor in some school who is spiritually dead. They do not know God, are not close to God and have not literally experienced God.
They just go through the religious motions Sunday after Sunday or week after week, having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof; Scripture Ref, 2 Timothy Chapter 3: Verse 5. That scripture, I did not plan to use, but was just given to me by God, also infers that to those who really know God or who are close to God, are to seperate from such people who are like that with a form of religion and theology but denying God's power.
I do not mean to appear to be off the subject of the May 21st Rapture prediction by Camping. There is a lot I can say about Camping's information. I have to kind of go into his information piece by piece to correct a lot in relation to that prediction. So, I will continue on the topic of May 21, and will discuss more about real Biblical authority and other related pieces in the third portion next.
Previously I mentioned that Harold Camping is guessing the Rapture date of May 21st, and because of that he is more likely to be wrong. I also showed how you can take numbers, from various Biblically-historic events of your choosing, to try to calculate a specific time of the Rapture. Therefore, the process by which Camping got a specific date to the day is not all that unique, and almost anybody can do that.
Now, let me also say that Camping could guess right, and the Rapture actually could happen on this coming May 21st. However, based on what he said as to how he got that date, does not mean that he really knows of or from God. Again, he can still guess it right, but not know. However, again, I still believe he is guessing wrong and just really do not know.
Knowing the Bible or the scriptures well, does NOT mean that a person knows or even understands everything, and everything being the key word, that is of God or when God is about to do something. I was reading in Campings Frequently Asked Questions section, where it says "For one to object to May 21st, 2011 one must have BIBLICAL AUTHORITY to do so".
In terms of Biblical authority, I have Biblical authority. I have Biblical authority not just because I say so, but I can prove it. A major problem that some Christian believers have is that EVERY time another Christian says something, the other one wants that Christian to back it up with a specific scripture or give a scripture for nearly EVERY sentence that a Christian says. That is not right. Every time I open my mouth to say something that I feel is from God, or each time I post something from God, does not mean that I have to show scriptures EVERY time.
There are different manifestations of the WORD OF GOD. There is Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God, St. John Chapter 1: Verses 1-15; and Revelation Chapter 19: Verse 13. Also, the WORD OF GOD is the scriptures themselves. Then ALSO, the WORD OF GOD CAN BE DIRECT REVELATION that is LITERALLY spoken or given of or by God to his servants. I will show scriptures on revelations of God in the third portion of this topic.
However, let me say to use scriptures is fine and you want to have consistency, however, sometimes the use of scriptures is overblown. Some Christians know the letters of the scriptures, but not the Spirit of the scriptures; or they do not know what God really means or what God's intent is for us in terms of practical living. Some Christians use the scriptures just to show off theological prowess, like a well-educated professor in some school who is spiritually dead. They do not know God, are not close to God and have not literally experienced God.
They just go through the religious motions Sunday after Sunday or week after week, having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof; Scripture Ref, 2 Timothy Chapter 3: Verse 5. That scripture, I did not plan to use, but was just given to me by God, also infers that to those who really know God or who are close to God, are to seperate from such people who are like that with a form of religion and theology but denying God's power.
I do not mean to appear to be off the subject of the May 21st Rapture prediction by Camping. There is a lot I can say about Camping's information. I have to kind of go into his information piece by piece to correct a lot in relation to that prediction. So, I will continue on the topic of May 21, and will discuss more about real Biblical authority and other related pieces in the third portion next.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
May 21, 2011
Hello World:
Going to get right into this topic on the Rapture. This is the first portion on this topic; so there will be multiple posts on this topic leading up to May 21st 2011, and possibly past that date.
First, I want to edit in here about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, who was the leader of the terrorist group or network Al Qaeda. I am editing this in, because I had this post, here now, on the new topic of the supposed Rapture for May 21 already prepared, and I have 3 more post already set on this Rapture topic. So, I was going back and forth on whether I should say anything about Bin Laden now, or wait until I do a later post in this new series or after this new series, and I was asking the Lord.
So, I felt led of the Lord to briefly say something now, and get it over with. I believe the focus needs to be on this Rapture issue, whether it happens OR does NOT HAPPEN, without having any DISTRACTIONS or INTERRUPTIONS. Although, in a sense, the timing of Bin Laden being killed worked well with my posting schedule, because it happened as I was between or transitioning topic series, so I had better options.
With that said above, most people know by now, that a U.S. special forces team, consisting of Navy Seals went into Pakistan and supposedly killed Bin Laden couple of days ago. There are several conspiracies about when he actually died. However, it appears or looks like as of a couple of days ago Bin Laden is actually dead. Osama Bin Laden DESERVED TO BE KILLED. So, YES, THAT WAS A GOOD THING THAT BIN LADEN WAS KILLED.
That is one of the few good things the United States government, with its' military, has done in over 50 years of bad decisions and choices. There are some things I want to say about the preparation of that attack and the actual stealth attack itself, and Bin Laden's IGNORANCE and LACK OF SERIOUS SECURITY, but will not go into that at this time. In any event, there are personal reasons why I am glad he is dead. We, as believers in Jesus Christ, do NOT need people like him around.
Although it is a good thing that Bin Laden was killed, God is NOT thrilled or rejoicing over the United States of America. Bin Laden is or was not the only evil person walking the planet earth, and overall or in the big picture, justice still has not been served up. I will talk about justice being served in an upcoming series. That is if the Rapture has not taken place by then.
The reason why I titled this post May 21, 2011 is to name this subject after the Rapture prediction of Harold Camping of Familyradio.com and his associates that includes Chris McCann. I was able to visit the Familyradio.com website, and read their information. I also was able to hear an interview by Chris McCann on the Rapture prediction; which also includes a prediction of the end of the world on October 21, 2011.
Now, I want to state CLEARLY, that I am not making those predictions. Those predictions did NOT come from me, here or at any other place or time. I am just reporting this information, and need to clear up and refute several things about those Rapture and end of the world predictions from Camping's group.
For starters, I believe that Harold Camping will be wrong on his prediction. Although, I do not want him to be wrong. There are a lot of people who sound as if they actually want him to be wrong. I want to talk about that also later on. Looking at his information objectively, I have to say it appears very much so that he will be wrong about May 21, 2011 and October 21, 2011. I say that with caution. I have to say I found his information, although flawed in some way, to be quite interesting. Also, I have to admire the guy's passion for God at the close age of 90 years old.
Again, although I find his information interesting, I do disagree with some of it, and it is important for me to explain several mistakes that he and his group made. I believe Harold Camping is wrong about the very specific Rapture date prediction because he did calculations from Biblical history. I know God very well, and I know that a person can not calculate when God will do anything. Nobody is that good at math or with the Bible. It does not matter how long a person studied the Bible or know the Bible more than everyone else.
God or Jesus Christ is not bound to do anything on a specific day. Just because Noah's flood happened 7000 years ago, from the supposed day of May 21, 2011, based on Camping, that is if all the date measurements throughout time is correct, which I believe they are not; still does NOT mean that right at the start of the 7000 years to the day, God will get up and say okay Jesus, go get my people because today, just marked 7000 years since Noah's flood, and well, we can not wait another day; or wait until after 7001 years and 7 months; because, because, because because, or fill in any reason or reasons why.
Now God could do that if He likes, and I believe God can use time-tables, but nothing is going to happen to God if he does not. God does not get penalized or punished for not coming back on a specific day. So, it makes no sense to do math to calculate when Jesus will return, and for the end of the world, because, again, God is not forced by the numbers to do anything.
Would if someone came along and said no, we have to calculate 7000 years from when Jesus was born? Then someone else can come along, and say I have studied the Bible very well, I say we have to calculate the Rapture 7000 years from Jesus' resurrection. Or, how about 7000 years from the creation of Adam, the first man?
Or, why not 7000 years since the fall of man or when Adam fell into sin? What about the number 3? God uses the number 3 to do things too. So, there can be all sorts of calculatory predictions that people can come up with. That kind of prediction by Camping is not unique. He actually did NOT literally hear from God, and I am going to talk about that further in the second portion of this topic. He is using his human mind and he is guessing.
Want to point out that everything is not exactly bad or against Camping, and I do not want to condemn him to death on this either. I will have some scriptures to present as I continue to move this topic along. So, I will pick up on this in a few days.
Going to get right into this topic on the Rapture. This is the first portion on this topic; so there will be multiple posts on this topic leading up to May 21st 2011, and possibly past that date.
First, I want to edit in here about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, who was the leader of the terrorist group or network Al Qaeda. I am editing this in, because I had this post, here now, on the new topic of the supposed Rapture for May 21 already prepared, and I have 3 more post already set on this Rapture topic. So, I was going back and forth on whether I should say anything about Bin Laden now, or wait until I do a later post in this new series or after this new series, and I was asking the Lord.
So, I felt led of the Lord to briefly say something now, and get it over with. I believe the focus needs to be on this Rapture issue, whether it happens OR does NOT HAPPEN, without having any DISTRACTIONS or INTERRUPTIONS. Although, in a sense, the timing of Bin Laden being killed worked well with my posting schedule, because it happened as I was between or transitioning topic series, so I had better options.
With that said above, most people know by now, that a U.S. special forces team, consisting of Navy Seals went into Pakistan and supposedly killed Bin Laden couple of days ago. There are several conspiracies about when he actually died. However, it appears or looks like as of a couple of days ago Bin Laden is actually dead. Osama Bin Laden DESERVED TO BE KILLED. So, YES, THAT WAS A GOOD THING THAT BIN LADEN WAS KILLED.
That is one of the few good things the United States government, with its' military, has done in over 50 years of bad decisions and choices. There are some things I want to say about the preparation of that attack and the actual stealth attack itself, and Bin Laden's IGNORANCE and LACK OF SERIOUS SECURITY, but will not go into that at this time. In any event, there are personal reasons why I am glad he is dead. We, as believers in Jesus Christ, do NOT need people like him around.
Although it is a good thing that Bin Laden was killed, God is NOT thrilled or rejoicing over the United States of America. Bin Laden is or was not the only evil person walking the planet earth, and overall or in the big picture, justice still has not been served up. I will talk about justice being served in an upcoming series. That is if the Rapture has not taken place by then.
The reason why I titled this post May 21, 2011 is to name this subject after the Rapture prediction of Harold Camping of Familyradio.com and his associates that includes Chris McCann. I was able to visit the Familyradio.com website, and read their information. I also was able to hear an interview by Chris McCann on the Rapture prediction; which also includes a prediction of the end of the world on October 21, 2011.
Now, I want to state CLEARLY, that I am not making those predictions. Those predictions did NOT come from me, here or at any other place or time. I am just reporting this information, and need to clear up and refute several things about those Rapture and end of the world predictions from Camping's group.
For starters, I believe that Harold Camping will be wrong on his prediction. Although, I do not want him to be wrong. There are a lot of people who sound as if they actually want him to be wrong. I want to talk about that also later on. Looking at his information objectively, I have to say it appears very much so that he will be wrong about May 21, 2011 and October 21, 2011. I say that with caution. I have to say I found his information, although flawed in some way, to be quite interesting. Also, I have to admire the guy's passion for God at the close age of 90 years old.
Again, although I find his information interesting, I do disagree with some of it, and it is important for me to explain several mistakes that he and his group made. I believe Harold Camping is wrong about the very specific Rapture date prediction because he did calculations from Biblical history. I know God very well, and I know that a person can not calculate when God will do anything. Nobody is that good at math or with the Bible. It does not matter how long a person studied the Bible or know the Bible more than everyone else.
God or Jesus Christ is not bound to do anything on a specific day. Just because Noah's flood happened 7000 years ago, from the supposed day of May 21, 2011, based on Camping, that is if all the date measurements throughout time is correct, which I believe they are not; still does NOT mean that right at the start of the 7000 years to the day, God will get up and say okay Jesus, go get my people because today, just marked 7000 years since Noah's flood, and well, we can not wait another day; or wait until after 7001 years and 7 months; because, because, because because, or fill in any reason or reasons why.
Now God could do that if He likes, and I believe God can use time-tables, but nothing is going to happen to God if he does not. God does not get penalized or punished for not coming back on a specific day. So, it makes no sense to do math to calculate when Jesus will return, and for the end of the world, because, again, God is not forced by the numbers to do anything.
Would if someone came along and said no, we have to calculate 7000 years from when Jesus was born? Then someone else can come along, and say I have studied the Bible very well, I say we have to calculate the Rapture 7000 years from Jesus' resurrection. Or, how about 7000 years from the creation of Adam, the first man?
Or, why not 7000 years since the fall of man or when Adam fell into sin? What about the number 3? God uses the number 3 to do things too. So, there can be all sorts of calculatory predictions that people can come up with. That kind of prediction by Camping is not unique. He actually did NOT literally hear from God, and I am going to talk about that further in the second portion of this topic. He is using his human mind and he is guessing.
Want to point out that everything is not exactly bad or against Camping, and I do not want to condemn him to death on this either. I will have some scriptures to present as I continue to move this topic along. So, I will pick up on this in a few days.
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