End times prophecy /word of knowledge
 

I couldn't find the right place to put this thread so I'm sorry. I just want to know if any others are getting these types of prophecies.

My friend attends a different apostolic non-denominational church than I do. When I went there a few years ago, it was once prophecied as thus saith the Lord that time was short. My friend told me that Sunday another prophecy went out, "Thus saith the Lord, it's just around the corner." I do not doubt this man as a prophet because he has the closest walk with God of anyone I've ever known, and his prophecies have always been fulfilled.

Now...in my own church we've not had any prophecies but about every few weeks we get a sermon that in some way touches on Jesus' return. There seems to be an urgency in the air if that makes sense. More so in the last few months.

Is anyone else feeling this?

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depends if you believe in a pre trib rapture or a post trib rapture. i believe post trib so until i see a peace treaty in israel i won't be getting any goosebumps.

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I believe that we are very very close to the rapture.

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We are getting close to the fall of America as we once knew it. The whole world descending into darkness. The remnant Church getting very serious with God. The rapture is not yet.

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I believe post-trib but I'm not set in stone on that. The man that spoke the prophecy believes post-trib as well. I guess I'm taking this to mean that things are going to start moving fast in that direction. I'm also watching Israel.

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Ah, I'm anti-pre-post trib, personally; and would like to suggest that Christ rose, and lives, and also walked the earth in what He described as the 'last days.' See that there is a sense in which you cannot ever be any closer to Christ than you are now; and get closer to Christ. Understand I AM.

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IMO America has very little to do with end times prophecy and only Americans can't see that. Hopefully many in the church in America are saved.

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My favorite one was "Times are hard. Times are very hard. In fact times are so hard I can't barely make it myself saith the lord"

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I'll play a card from the Preterists. The Lord may promise a "coming"...but it might not be the "Second Coming". It might be that God is about to visit the community, state, or nation in question with testing and/or judgment.

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I am post trib all the way...

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Aquila....that's a good point. We should be careful not to put words in the Lord's mouth! Our human understanding is so inferior.

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Sister A, I am curious as to why you are post trib.

I was always taught pre-trib, but after reading and meditating on the various scriptures I was taught on the subject, I am leaning towards post trib. My husband and I do not agree on this subject, but one day we are going to sit down and have a study on it and I would like other people's thoughts.

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Well, you didn't ask me, and surely know my thoughts there, but let me state that I think that all that yack is just a satanic trap. What you believe can interfere with your faith, imo. How does your post-tribbitude change...anything? It might lead you to provide an explanation based on it, which will amount to a further obfuscation, yes? I have no idea whether I am pre or post, an don't particularly care to find out. My common sense tells me that all those events are going to occur completely differently than our imaginations have colored them, anyway. Hi, AYR!

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If the Lord's return is in the next 50 years, I can't see how America plays no role in God's plan for the end. We are for now the worlds largest economy, far and above all the others. We have the strongest military. The church worldwide is primarily funded by the North American church. We are the most faithful and loyal supporter of Israel. Too many prophecies concerning economics, geopolitics, religion and the church, and Israel...it's unfathomable to think America plays no role.

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For me the most convincing passage is Matthew 24. Jesus outlines the signs of the end chronologically. Notice the words "then" or "immediately after" throughout the chapter. He's walking us through one set of fulfillments after another. It is only AFTER "great tribulation" has come that the sign of the Son of Man appears, trumpets sound, the elect are gathered together (rapture). Matthew 24 is the Rosetta Stone of Biblical prophecy. IMO

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This^

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I love Jesus.
I am committed to the One God Apostolic Message.
I believe in a pretribulation rapture of the church (I think).

BUT I have been hearing these things since I was a kid in the 1970's "Soon" as interpreted by some of my fellow apostolics is vastly different from my own view.

ie. its February. Christmas is not SOON.

I believe in the "soon" return of Christ but I believe "soon" in that case is on HIS TIME and that means it could be before I finish this post, or it could be in a thousand years.

May the Sweet Clean Lord Jesus HIMSELF bless ya real good!

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I am little when prophecy are given in old english such as "thus saith. the lord"

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When its in new English do you become big?

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Your a little what? :heeheehee The "thus saith" stuff is only the prophesiers personality coming through. My concern would be their character and spirit in which they deliver. Ive had prophetic words delivered to me many, many times and ministered in about as many ways too, all of which the ministers personality came through to some degree. Im cool with that because the spirit in which it was done.

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I know that the man who delivered this prophecy uses those words to distinguish his own personal thoughts from what he knows has come from God Almighty. He could just say, "It's just around the corner," but that might be his own thoughts. We know that when he says, "Thus saith the Lord, it's just around the corner," it comes from God.

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:D

I don't really dwell on the subject of the translation of this human body. I just know that what I have read in the bible does not "fit" together with what I read.

It's all in God's time. It could be that many of us are going by the grave.

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That passage is one of the scriptures I've read that did not fit with what was being taught over the pulpit.

I used to feel guilty for "doubting" what was being taught in UPC pulpits, but I am considered to be a renegade by them anyway. :heeheehee

I search for what makes sense to me.

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I don't believe the Bible teaches a Rapture.

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The guy that believes Satan is the flesh!!! :happydance

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The guy that believes in more than one God!!! :nahnah

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Seriously, I've felt a more serious urgency, but it may be the Lord prompting me to get closer to Him because I am way too carnal far too often.

When is the call to get ready ever inappropriate?
When is the return of Christ ever not soon?

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The guy that believes Jesus' temptation was temptation of the flesh. The flesh said "jump from the temple" and that was before shows like [Donkey's Hiney] were popular. :heeheehee

What's that, flesh? Worship myself? :spit

Word used not for Christian forum.

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It's called Humanism today. It still exist.

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why not?

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1st... The word Rapture doesn't appear in the Bible anywhere.

2nd... The Aposles expected the coming of The Lord in their lifetime and I don't believe they were mistaken. Nor do I think the coming of The Lord was a Rapture that they were looking for.

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Pay very close attention to what these verses are saying -

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Take note that it is clearly saying that "that day" shall not come till some point in time AFTER the Antichrist enters the rebuilt temple and proclaims to be God.

(what is "that day" ? - it is in verse one, the day of "our gathering together unto him" - also known as the "rapture")

.......so these verses clearly prove that the "rapture can NOT possibly be pre-trib, and there are other verses that show a post-trib "rapture".

Also read:

http://kenraggio.com/KRPN-WhenWillTh...eTakePlace.htm

http://www.endtime-truth.com/articles6.html

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2 Thessalonians 1:1
2 Thessalonians
Chapter 1
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Clearly 2 Thes. Was written to the church of the Thessaionians. The temple in Jersulam was still standing when they received this letter. They understood this was to happen in that existing temple. The future temple is our Bodies. That's where Christ lives now.

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Seriously? No Way surely!!!

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One day with us can be 1,000 with God.

Our time and His is not the same.

Main thing is be ready for he may call "you" home anytime.

I do not believe in pretri personally. However, to me it is not a salvational issue unless, someone preaches pre and someone finds themselves in tribulation in confusion.

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:spit..dude, this is too hilarious...

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So Christ was not living in the Apostles then?

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Yes he was. But the temple of old that was the place of God was still standing.

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No, God was not standing in the temple of old.

1 Cor 6
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

2 Cor 6
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Paul said "We are the temple of the living God" while the OLD TEMPLE was still standing...

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Please re-read my post. I didn't say God was still in the old temple.