OK, now you've got to start wondering
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The Left Behind books are fiction but are read as truth by a lot of evangelical christians. Or if not truth then a very plausible telling of how the world will end when Jesus Christ comes back to earth. Tim LaHaye is the author. He and his wife wrote a sex advise book in the 70's or 80's geared towards young married evangelical christians. It was actually scarier than the Left Behind books. Imagine a world without oral sex.
Anyway, the Left Behind series is based on a doctrine of the second coming of Christ first espoused by a guy named Nelson Darby. Then this other guy, Cyrus Scofield, made it very popular by writing a study bible that made various and sundry claims about things like the rapture, the tribulation, the Anti-Christ, the Great Tribulation, and a wonderfully apocalyptic Armageddon. Good times. A large portion of the christian evangelical community holds to this doctrine known as the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church. Most mainline Protestant denominations do not and neither does the majority of the Catholic Church.
The idea is that Christ actually makes a pre-return in which he raptures or wisks "believers" up into the sky in a secret type way. The entire world will be very surprised at the large minority of people who were here one second but disappeared the next. Then with all the "believers"
gone the anti-christ will appear and get everyone to follow him and make him the president of the world. After this he will direct all his energies towards destroying Israel. Seven years fits into all this some how. Just as the anti-christ is about to destroy all Israel Jesus will make his real second coming and destroy all the anti-christ's armies, save Israel and those who have converted and fought against the anti-christ, and set up his kingdom on earth for 1000 years, otherwise known as the Millennium. After the 1000 years of perfect peace and harmony are over people once again rebel against God and Jesus has to destroy them. Then everyone goes to heaven. The End.
The Left Behind books are fiction but are read as truth by a lot of evangelical christians. Or if not truth then a very plausible telling of how the world will end when Jesus Christ comes back to earth. Tim LaHaye is the author. He and his wife wrote a sex advise book in the 70's or 80's geared towards young married evangelical christians. It was actually scarier than the Left Behind books. Imagine a world without oral sex.
Anyway, the Left Behind series is based on a doctrine of the second coming of Christ first espoused by a guy named Nelson Darby. Then this other guy, Cyrus Scofield, made it very popular by writing a study bible that made various and sundry claims about things like the rapture, the tribulation, the Anti-Christ, the Great Tribulation, and a wonderfully apocalyptic Armageddon. Good times. A large portion of the christian evangelical community holds to this doctrine known as the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church. Most mainline Protestant denominations do not and neither does the majority of the Catholic Church.
The idea is that Christ actually makes a pre-return in which he raptures or wisks "believers" up into the sky in a secret type way. The entire world will be very surprised at the large minority of people who were here one second but disappeared the next. Then with all the "believers"
gone the anti-christ will appear and get everyone to follow him and make him the president of the world. After this he will direct all his energies towards destroying Israel. Seven years fits into all this some how. Just as the anti-christ is about to destroy all Israel Jesus will make his real second coming and destroy all the anti-christ's armies, save Israel and those who have converted and fought against the anti-christ, and set up his kingdom on earth for 1000 years, otherwise known as the Millennium. After the 1000 years of perfect peace and harmony are over people once again rebel against God and Jesus has to destroy them. Then everyone goes to heaven. The End.
I read a story somewhere attributing a NYE fireworks display in this town has been attributed to the cause.
I tried to get through one of the Left Behind books... ugly, ugly writing. The theology is pretty embarrassing as well. It was a bad telling of one of three or four versions of what most Christians believe will happen. Not worth reading, especially if you are used to Shakespeare and Dickens or Twain.
bird explaination seems plausible.
for the fish, I wondering what is upstream of the kill that might have contributed to their deaths.
for the fish, I wondering what is upstream of the kill that might have contributed to their deaths.
Those are some pretty silly examples of trying to match prophecy to something that happens in the now.
That is a massive stretch to say the one line about nine people departing is about the Challenger space shuttle.
If you want to argue about prophecy (not what this thread is about) get one that actually looks like the thing that it supposedly predicted, then argue about it.
That is a massive stretch to say the one line about nine people departing is about the Challenger space shuttle.
If you want to argue about prophecy (not what this thread is about) get one that actually looks like the thing that it supposedly predicted, then argue about it.
jastutte said:
COOL!!! So i have 7 years to run around and shoot the shit outta people!! Better start stocking up on ammo.
NICE
I wonder what the non-believers will get up to. 7 years of hell on earth - or I guess seven years of not worrying about work, bills, mortgages, and who is President (cause we cant vote) - WOW....so I should turn my RRC into a armored one, with long range tanks and side mounted rotating barrel mini-gattling guns....or maybe just Mad Max it!!!!
This could either be a case of not seeing something until you start looking for it, or a warning sign that we're about to experience a polar shift.
knewsom said:
I'm not a rocket scientist but something tells me we'd be experiencing more than a few birds dropping out of the sky if a polar shift was in the works...
brian4d said:
Depends - birds use the Earth's Magnetic field to navigate - it's quite possible that they are much more sensitive to it than we are, and furthermore, its possible that fluctuations are occurring in certain areas of that magnetic field where we do not have active monitoring technology.
Geologically speaking we are due for one. If indeed it does happen, we'll all certainly know about it.