RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 4, 2024 at 11:37 am
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'Left Behind' author says pre-rapture End Times Bible prophecies have been fulfilled: ‘Be ready’
New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins is urging Christians to be ready because, he says, the pre-rapture End Times prophecies have been fulfilled.
With war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, Jenkins believes Christians are watching and living through the prophetic timeline.
"It's clear, we're heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now,” he told CP. “The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that's happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack.
"Dr. LaHaye, who's now been gone for seven years, he believed that the bear was Russia, and the army from the East was China. And I think there's some real evidence for that. We really need to keep an eye on that.”
"Nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the Son of Man. He (Jesus) didn't know, so it's sort of folly for us to try to predict the day or the hour. But also, I think all the prophecies have been fulfilled that need to be before the rapture, so it could be today,” Jenkins added.
“In God's economy of time, Scripture says, 'A day is 1,000 years and 1,000 years is as a day to God.' So if He waits one more day, in His economy of time, in His mercy, that could be a thousand more of our years. So we would have a lot of time to get people ready. But that's the line we walk. It could be today. It could be way past our lifetimes. But we need to be ready,” he urged.
https://www.christianpost.com/books/left...ecies.html
Wow, it could be today, but it could also be in over 1000 years. Can't go wrong.
New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins is urging Christians to be ready because, he says, the pre-rapture End Times prophecies have been fulfilled.
With war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, Jenkins believes Christians are watching and living through the prophetic timeline.
"It's clear, we're heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now,” he told CP. “The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that's happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack.
"Dr. LaHaye, who's now been gone for seven years, he believed that the bear was Russia, and the army from the East was China. And I think there's some real evidence for that. We really need to keep an eye on that.”
"Nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the Son of Man. He (Jesus) didn't know, so it's sort of folly for us to try to predict the day or the hour. But also, I think all the prophecies have been fulfilled that need to be before the rapture, so it could be today,” Jenkins added.
“In God's economy of time, Scripture says, 'A day is 1,000 years and 1,000 years is as a day to God.' So if He waits one more day, in His economy of time, in His mercy, that could be a thousand more of our years. So we would have a lot of time to get people ready. But that's the line we walk. It could be today. It could be way past our lifetimes. But we need to be ready,” he urged.
https://www.christianpost.com/books/left...ecies.html
Wow, it could be today, but it could also be in over 1000 years. Can't go wrong.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
