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To ignore that part of scripture that you have mis interpreted and
chose to ignore any other possibility is like putting your head in the sand.

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Imbrog -  Isn't that the guy that wrote "The Late Great Planet Earth?".

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As a matter of fact, Christ says in the very first chapter of His Revelation:

18   [red][b]I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.[/red]

19   [red]Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;[/red][/b]

He commands John to write down everything, and He does it for the simple reason that He wants His church to hear and understand what He is saying the these churches, and what is to come in the end of time.

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The Lord wants us to be watching for His return:

Eric The(FaithfullyWatching)Hun[>]:)]

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Amen!!!

Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.

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Doesn't matter...

 We are all going to burn in hell for having black rifles.....

MournSword

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Covenant vs Dispensational Theology at a glance
[url]http://biblefacts.org/history/dchart.html[/url]

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Covenant vs Dispensational Theology at a glance
[url]http://biblefacts.org/history/dchart.html[/url]

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I can't imagine a better bunch of people to search with than this group at AR15.com.

...Most people, regardless of denomination or church affiliation, are unfamiliar with the term "dispensationalism." Yet it is the common source for those groups who believe in the Rapture, the seven year Tribulation and the literal thousand year reign of Christ. Dispensational assumptions permeate much of American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism and have shaped conservative American Protestant views of "church" and "organized Christianity" to an enormous degree. Dispensational methods of Scriptural interpretation have also greatly influenced conservative Protestantism over the past century, leaving an indelible mark on literally millions of American Protestants.

Most people who hold dispensational beliefs aren't not familiar with the history of those premises, assuming they are based in the Bible and have ancient roots. But dispensationalism is actually a rather recent arrival, having been around less than 200 years. The acknowledged father of dispensationalism is John Nelson Darby, an Irish lawyer who left his successful practice to become an Anglican priest. Born in 1800, Darby was a contemporary of John Henry Newman, the famous leader of the Oxford Movement in the 1830s who would later become Catholic and eventually a cardinal. While Newman's studies of Scripture and history led him to the Catholic Church, Darby's studies of Scripture, coupled with a disenchantment with mainstream Christian churches, led him to develop the idea of a "true" church and the apostasy of the established churches - especially the Catholic Church. He believed this true church was spiritual in character and should have no involvement in earthly affairs. He wrote that "that the church is properly heavenly, in its calling and relationship with Christ, forming no part of the course of events of the earth, which makes the rapture so simple and clear . . . Our [Christians'] calling is on high. Events are on earth." [1]

In 1827 Darby left the Anglican priesthood and by 1831 was among the leaders of the Plymouth Brethren, a "non-denominational" movement which denounced mainline Christianity. He began to teach that the true church would need to be removed from the earth in order to make way for the completion of God's dealings with the Jews. He named this secret removal of the church the Rapture. This belief was something completely new in Christianity. No previous Christian, Catholic and Protestant alike, had ever proposed or taught about such an event.

Darby, in keeping with the millennarianism so popular in Britian at that time, created a timeline which broke history into "dispensations," either six or seven in number. These indicated various ages in which God dealt with humans in distinct ways...

Anticipation of the Rapture and the beginning of the end grew in the 1940s and 50s. And the upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s presented a great opportunity for someone with a skill for popular writing and a background in the dispensationalist focus on "end times." That someone was Hal Lindsey, a former Dallas Theological Seminary student. Beginning in the early 1970s Lindsey published a series of books, including The Late Great Planet Earth, Satan is Alive and Well and There's a New World Coming. These books contained his version of soon to occur apocalyptic events as seen through the lens of a popularized dispensationalism. Although some dispensationalists were not entirely supportive of Lindsey, his books would prove to be among the biggest selling books of the decade (selling some 35 million copies) and among the most influential as well.

Lindsey used a canny mix of paranoia, current events, selective use of Scripture and a sci-fi style to convey his vision of impending doom. Lindsey claimed that many Biblical prophecies were being fulfilled right before our eyes: the restoration of Israel as a nation, the "apostasy" of mainline churches, the complete collapse of morality and the frightening realities of the Cold War. He interpreted the destructive visions of The Book of Revelation as scenes of nuclear war. Unlike dispensationalists of the past, Lindsey did not locate the Whore of Babylon in the Catholic Church; it was instead a global network of New Age religions consolidated under the AntiChrist.

Lindsey stayed true to the Darbyite view of "church" and emphasized the non-denominational character of "real" Christianity. He claimed that the word church referred to a "group of people that is called together for some special purpose . . . Sometimes it refers to all true believers in Jesus Christ. It doesn't make any difference what religious 'brand' they're under as long as they're in a living union with Christ through a personal faith in Him as their Saviour." [9] Any understanding of the Church as the family of God, with a visible presence and structure, is ignored or rejected, replaced with the individualistic and subjective stance so common in Fundamentalism.

The 1970s and 80s witnessed a huge proliferation of books, tapes and assorted media presenting elaborate explanations of current events in light of Biblical prophecy. Intricate and convoluted arguments were used to locate the true AntiChrist and diagram the involved military actions leading up to Armageddon. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the arrival of rapidly changing global politics, people like Lindsey had to revise their futuristic blueprints. The changes brought on by a computerized world linked through internet technology have become their focus for calculating possible end-time events. Lindsay continues to put out books and has a regular television program which focuses on the Y2K bug as the most likely trigger for his "end times" scenarios. His paranoid and sloppy style has been copied by numerous writers and speakers, such as Pat Robertson, each claiming to have the key insight into the final days of the world.

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[b]Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge[/b]

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His paranoid and sloppy style has been copied by numerous writers and speakers, such as Pat Robertson, each claiming to have the key insight into the final days of the world.

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garandman,
Considering all the other prophecies that are throughout the Bible, excluding Revelation,
Do you think we are in the last days ?