SHOCK AND AWE

This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.

Revelation 13:7 And he (The Beast) was permitted

to wage war against

the saints

and to

conquer them.

He was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. 8 All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

9 If anyone has an ear, he should listen:

10 If anyone is destined for captivity,

into captivity he goes.

If anyone is to be killed with a sword,

with a sword he will be killed.

This demands the perseverance and faith of the saints.

David…

CIRCULAR REASONING

People keep insisting that there is…
A last trump before the last trump.
A first resurrection before the first resurrection
A rapture before the tribulation.

People keep insisting that there is…
A last trump before the last trump.
A first resurrection before the first resurrection
A rapture before the tribulation.

Jesus said the dead will be raised “After the Tribulation”
He never spoke of any other.
Paul says that the dead will be raised at the Last Trump.
He never explained that it really wasn’t the Last Trump…
Like a last before the last kind of thing…
Paul says we cannot be raptured before the dead are raised.
He never mentions any exceptions.
John witnesses a resurrection after the tribulation and calls it the
“First Resurrection”…

Where are the Scriptures that tell us that
“Last doesn’t really mean last”
and
“First doesn’t really mean first”
and
“After” doesn’t really mean after”
???????????????????????????????????????????

I know God is good.
I know the Rapture happens.
I know that tribulation is bad.
That does not prove a PreTrib Rapture…

Before you decide that God has to rapture you before you get hurt… Remember Paul’s sufferings and death, Stephen, James, and more than seventy million Christian Martyrs since…

Why, if God let them suffer and die, do you think that you are so much better than they ever were, that God just has to rapture you before you get hurt?????

How big is your ego?

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…

THE TERRIBLE POWER OF DOCTRINE

There is an awful power in the doctrine you are taught…

There is an awful power in the doctrine you are taught…

A Mormon preacher can allow his people to read the Bible without fear… He knows that whatever they read, they will interpret it in such a way as to make it agree with Mormon doctrine…

If you ask students from
Baptist backgrounds,
Methodist backgrounds,
and Assemblies of God backgrounds,
to write a term paper telling you what a particular Bible passage means…
you will look at those papers
and truly believe
that they were all reading totally different stories,
from very different books…

I have done so… It is amazing!

Invariably, they will twist the Scripture and interpret it in a manner consistent with the doctrine they have been taught for so many years…

One of the most difficult things a Bible teacher has to do is to convince students to tell them what a verse or a passage actually says and not what their preacher told them that it said…

If you will ask God for help and determine in your heart to read the Bible and understand what it actually says… You will be in shock and awe for weeks or months… It is absolutely amazing to find out that the Bible does not agree with the assumptions and presuppositions of that most holy doctrine once laid on you…

I promise you… You will be surprised and amazed by what the Bible actually says…

PRAY-THINK-PRAY

David…