2 Peter 3:2-10 KJV
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
If Harold Camping's math is right, this will be my last blog post. Tomorrow I will be raptured to heaven and this world will begin the Great Tribulation. Of course the worldly and the lost have misinterpreted Camping as saying that tomorrow will be the end of the world (in some cases they have said it will be the beginning of the end of the world) they do not understand some of the finer points of dispensational eschatology.
Camping has made the fundamental error he was guilty of many years ago and that so many others have also been guilty of, that of assigning a date for the rapture. The Word of God is so clear that no man will know the day or hour it boggles the mind that there are people who continue to set dates and there are people who continue to believe them.
What concerns me most, however, is that some who style themselves as Bible students, believers in Christ and theologians dismiss the concept of the rapture (at least the pre-tribulational rapture) as a non issue. Some have made it sound as if the doctrine of the literal return of Christ into the clouds to remove his saints is a doctrine Christianity has evolved away from. This makes sense when you realize that Reformation preachers, even reformed Baptists, are in fact Protestants. Their whole view of church history is one of evolving and progressive doctrine. Dispensationalism, they seem to claim, is a doctrinal position whose way has gone the same as witch hunts, or other superstitious beliefs that attached themselves to fanatical believers.
I am here to say that I still believe in the literal and imminent rapture of the children of God prior to the literal seven years of tribulation which will try this earth. I do not know when it will happen. I doubt that that it will be tomorrow.
But to be honest; I am in many ways hopeful it will be.
Marvin McKenzie
In the fields
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
If Harold Camping's math is right, this will be my last blog post. Tomorrow I will be raptured to heaven and this world will begin the Great Tribulation. Of course the worldly and the lost have misinterpreted Camping as saying that tomorrow will be the end of the world (in some cases they have said it will be the beginning of the end of the world) they do not understand some of the finer points of dispensational eschatology.
Camping has made the fundamental error he was guilty of many years ago and that so many others have also been guilty of, that of assigning a date for the rapture. The Word of God is so clear that no man will know the day or hour it boggles the mind that there are people who continue to set dates and there are people who continue to believe them.
What concerns me most, however, is that some who style themselves as Bible students, believers in Christ and theologians dismiss the concept of the rapture (at least the pre-tribulational rapture) as a non issue. Some have made it sound as if the doctrine of the literal return of Christ into the clouds to remove his saints is a doctrine Christianity has evolved away from. This makes sense when you realize that Reformation preachers, even reformed Baptists, are in fact Protestants. Their whole view of church history is one of evolving and progressive doctrine. Dispensationalism, they seem to claim, is a doctrinal position whose way has gone the same as witch hunts, or other superstitious beliefs that attached themselves to fanatical believers.
I am here to say that I still believe in the literal and imminent rapture of the children of God prior to the literal seven years of tribulation which will try this earth. I do not know when it will happen. I doubt that that it will be tomorrow.
But to be honest; I am in many ways hopeful it will be.
Marvin McKenzie
In the fields
