LUKE 17:26\n And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.\n\nMALACHI 4:5,6\n 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:\n 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.\n \nMATTHEW 17:11\n And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.\n \nREVELATION 10:7\n But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.\n\nAMOS 3:7\n Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.\n \nYou may also post your answers here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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It's hard to say. Many times when you take things like that out of context, they can lose a lot of their meaning. However, it seems to me that he was saying that he would send prophets to us to help show us the way.
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I would say no. The Bible says that "no one knows the day of the Lord's coming." I believe that it's just wasting time to try to "calculate" things like that. I just try to make sure that I am living for the Lord with my whole heart so that I am ready whenever He comes back!
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The Bible reads to not even worry about tomorrow. The Lord said when you pray, pray in this manner      Our Father who is in Heaven hallowed be Your Name   Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven   Give us this day our daily bread   And forgive us of our trespasses as we forgive our trespassers   And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil   For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever!!!!!
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I believe as you do, rapture prior to 7 year tribulation\n\nWhy - here is one of several places in the bible that says so....\nI won't list all, to much space taken \n\n1 Thessalonians 4\n16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.
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Miraculous Birth. In the year 3 B.C.E., during the assigned time of service of the division of Abijah, it became Zechariah’s turn to enjoy the rare privilege of offering incense in the sanctuary. As he stood before the altar of incense, the angel Gabriel appeared with the announcement that he would have a son, who was to be called John. This son would be a lifetime Nazirite, as Samson had been. He was to be great before Jehovah, to go before Him “to get ready for Jehovah a prepared people.” John’s birth would be by a miracle of God, since Zechariah and Elizabeth were both of advanced age.\n\nJohn spent the early years of his life in the hill country of Judea, where his parents lived. He “went on growing and getting strong in spirit, and he continued in the deserts until the day of showing himself openly to Israel.”  According to Luke, John began his ministry in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. John would have been then about 30 years old. \n\nJohn began his preaching in the Wilderness of Judea, saying: “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” He wore clothing of camel hair and a leather girdle around his loins, similar to the dress of the prophet Elijah. John’s food consisted of insect locusts and wild honey.  He was a teacher and was, accordingly, called “Rabbi” by his disciples.\n\nJohn preached baptism for forgiveness of sins for those repenting, confining his baptism to Jews and proselytes to the Jews’ religion.  John taught those coming to him that they should share things and not commit extortion, that they should be satisfied with their provisions and harass no one.  He also taught his baptized followers how to pray to God.\n\nJohn performed no miracles, as had Elijah, yet he came with the spirit and power of Elijah. He performed a powerful work in ‘turning the hearts of fathers to children and the disobedient ones to the practical wisdom of righteous ones.’ He fulfilled the purpose for which he had been sent, “to get ready for Jehovah a prepared people.\n\nIn the autumn of 29 C.E., Jesus came to John to be baptized.  God had promised John a sign so that he could identify the Son of God.  When Jesus was baptized, the sign was fulfilled: John saw God’s spirit coming down upon Jesus and heard God’s own voice declaring Jesus to be His Son.\n\nClosing Days of His Ministry\nJohn was forcibly taken out of the field. He was thrown into prison by Herod Antipas because John had reproved Antipas for his adulterous marriage to Herodias, whom he had taken away from his brother Philip.\n\n Herodias carried out her grudge against John. During Herod’s birthday celebration the daughter of Herodias delighted Herod with her dancing, upon which Herod swore to her that he would give her whatever she asked. Influenced by her mother, she asked for the head of John. Herod, out of regard for his oath and for those present, granted her request. John was beheaded in prison and his head was delivered on a platter to the girl, who brought it to her mother. John’s disciples later came and removed John’s body and buried him, reporting the matter to Jesus.\n\nJohn’s baptism continued until Pentecost day, 33 C.E., when the holy spirit was poured out. From that time on, baptism “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit” was preached.  Those who thereafter were baptized in John’s baptism had to be rebaptized in the name of the Lord Jesus in order to become receivers of holy spirit.
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The first one is the most popular verse in the bible; \n\nJohn.3:16\n"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"\n\nMatthew.26:2, \n"You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.\n\nMatthew.26:28\nJesus speaking; "For this is My blood of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins."\n\nLuke.24:7,46-47\n"saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.'\n\n"Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,\nand that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."\n\nI think this should be sufficient and if you need more, just mail me.
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There are many different opinions about what constitutes "signs of His coming" and if we are living in the "last days".\n\nBut Jesus said repeatedly, " Watch and pray, for you know not the day or the hour."  That is the position every believer should assume - we should live each day in an  attitude of prayer, of love, of diligence, of faith, of forgiveness - because today might be the day!!! Forget about reading today's newspaper headlines and trying to match them up with verses from  Revelation or Matthew 24 or Daniel.... That is foolishness and leads one into much error. \n\nHe is coming!!!\n\nAnd we will be changed in the "twinkling of an eye!"
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The Scripture you are referring to is Matthew 24:14 were it says:\n\nAnd this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.\n\nJesus is not speaking about their time period, he is speaking about the future, the end of the world, as some like to say, I prefer the end of the System of Things.\n\nOpen your Bible and read from Matthew 24:3-14, these are things that would be happening on the Earth that we could see to show us we are living at the end.\n\nThe disciples asked Jesus this ???\n\nModern Translation of Bible\nWhile he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”\n\nKing James Bible\nMatthew 24:3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?\n\n‘This good news of the kingdom preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness’ (Matt. 24:14)\n\nThis Kingdom that Jesus is speaking about is a Heavenly Government, look what Daniel said:\nDaniel 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.\n\n\nThe message that would be preached is that God’s Kingdom in the hands of Jesus Christ has begun to rule in the heavens, that soon it will put an end to the entire wicked system of things, that under its rule mankind will be brought to perfection and earth will become a paradise. \n\nPsalms 37 is a good Book to read:\n\n9 For evildoers themselves will be cut off,\nBut those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth\n\n10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;\nAnd you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.\n\n11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace\n\n22 For those being blessed by him will themselves possess the earth,\nBut those upon whom evil is called by him will be cut off.\n\n29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will reside forever upon it.\n\nGOD put Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Even though they became disobedient and died, God has made it possible for their children, including us today, to live forever in Paradise. The Bible promises: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will [live] forever upon it.”—Psalm 37:29.\n\nParadise will not be like the world we live in now. God never wanted the earth to be filled with trouble and sorrow, pain and suffering. In the future, God will make the earth a paradise. What will Paradise be like? Let us see what the Bible says:\n\nGood people. Paradise will be the home of God’s friends. They will do good things for one another. They will live according to the righteous ways of God.—Proverbs 2:21.\n\nPlenty of food. In Paradise, there will be no hunger. The Bible says: “There will come to be plenty of grain [or, food] on the earth.”—Psalm 72:16.\n\nFine houses and enjoyable work. On the Paradise earth, every family will have a home of its own. Everyone will do work that brings true happiness.—Isaiah 65:21-23.\n\nPeace worldwide. No longer will people fight and die in war. God’s Word says: “[God] is making wars to cease.”—Psalm 46:8, 9.\n\nGood health. The Bible promises: “No resident [of Paradise] will say: ‘I am sick.’” (Isaiah 33:24) Also, no one will be lame or blind or deaf or unable to talk.—Isaiah 35:5, 6.\n\nAn end to pain, sorrow, and death. God’s Word says: “Death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain
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Act 2:16  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; \nAct 2:17  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:\n\nJeol said this in OT speaking of the last days. This was about the day of Pentecost which did happen. \nWe can't be in a time after the last days, therefore we are in the last days\n\nI believe the last days started on the day Jesus died \nAct 1:9  And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.\nNothing proves the last days started on the day of Pentacost but was foretold it would happen during those days which were not long after Jesus died \nActs refers to those times
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Based on the Scriptures below, I believe that the church of God (1 Cor.10:32 below - the saints of the most High, Dan.7:25 below), will face the tribulation under the beasts of Revelation chapter 13.\n\nThe "tribulation" will occur between the Sixth SEAL (Re.6:12-17) and the Seventh TRUMPET (1 Thess.4:16-17)..\n\nThe Seventh Trumpet (which many refer to as "the Rapture") will occur at the conclusion of the “tribulation”.\n\n\n1 Cor.10:32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:\n\nMatt.24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.\n\nDan. 7:21I beheld, and the same (little) horn (king) MADE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, and prevailed against them (Dan.7:25 below);  \n\nDan.7:25And he (the little horn/king - Dan.7:8, Dan.7:24) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High (Re.15:3), and think to change times and laws (Re.13:15, Dan.11:31): and they (the saints) shall be given into his hand until A TIME and TIMES and THE DIVIDING OF TIME (3 ½ years/1260 days) .\n \nDan.8:24And his (the king's - Dan.8:23, little horn's - Dan.8:9, Dan.7:24) power shall be mighty, but not by his own power (but Satan’s - Re.13:11-12): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Re.13:15), and shall prosper, and practice, and SHALL DESTROY THE MIGHTY AND THE HOLY PEOPLE (Dan.12:7 below, Col.1:22, Eph.1:4). \n\nRe.12:17And the DRAGON (Re.12:9, Re.20:2)  was wroth with the woman (the church of God - 1 Cor.10:32, Col.1:22, Col.1:24), and WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT (the rest) OF HER SEED, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. \n \nRe.13:7And it was given unto him (the beast of Re. 13:1) TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM: and (Satanic) power was given him (Re.13:2) over ALL kindreds, and tongues, and nations (Dan.7:23, Re.17:15).\n\nRe.13:15 And he (another beast coming up out of the earth, Re.13:11) had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as WOULD NOT WORSHIP the IMAGE of the beast SHOULD BE KILLED .\n \nRe.16:6For they (those who had the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped his image) have shed the blood of SAINTS and PROPHETS, and thou hast given them blood to drink (Re.16:4); for they are worthy.  (of this punishment)\n\nRe.17:6And I saw the woman (that great city Babylon - Re.17:5) drunken with the blood of the SAINTS (Dan.7:21, Re.13:7, Re.13:15, Re.11:7), and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus (Re.18:24): and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. \n\nDan.12:6-7And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the END of these wonders?\n\nAnd I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for A TIME, TIMES, AND AN HALF (3 ½ years or 1260 days); and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people (Dan.8:24, Re.11:3, Re.11:7), all these things shall be FINISHED (Re.10:7).\n\n\n\nPat  (ndbpsa ©)
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Read the book of Revelations with a concordance. There's mentions of "the dragon of the East". And there's referrences of Assyrian armies attacking Israel. All in all, it's not a pretty picture for the future of our world.
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Jesus warned: “There will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning . . . , no, nor will occur again.” (Matthew 24:21) That event will bring an end to the present unrighteous system of things. Its climax will be “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”—Armageddon. That will indeed be a calamity for all those who remain a “part of the world.”\n\nWhat kind of judgment will this be? It will be selective, removing only “those who do not [choose to] know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.” (2 Thessalonians 1:8-10) But it will not be a disaster to those who listen to God’s warning and instructions, as did Noah and his family. This event will certainly be an act of God, since he will protect his servants. That makes it different from other disasters, which take the lives of good and bad alike.\n\nWHEN Jesus taught his followers to pray for God’s Kingdom, he knew that its coming would bring an end to thousands of years of human rule independent from God. During all that time, God’s will was not being done on earth in general. (Psalm 147:19, 20) But after the establishment of the Kingdom in heaven, God’s will is to be done everywhere. The time for the awe-inspiring transition from human rule to God’s heavenly Kingdom rule is getting very near.\n\n Marking this transition will be the period of time that Jesus called the “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” (Matthew 24:21) The Bible does not say how long that time period is to be, but the calamities that are to take place during it will be worse than anything the world has ever seen. At the beginning of the great tribulation, something will happen that will be a severe shock to most people on earth: the destruction of all false religion. That will not be a shock to Jehovah’s Witnesses, for they have long anticipated this.  The great tribulation ends at Armageddon when God’s Kingdom crushes the entire Satanic system.—Daniel 2:44;
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You are asking this question from 2 Peter Chapter 3:3-4;\nKnowing this that there shall come in the last days scoffers (false teachers) walking after their own lusts, \nand saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers felled asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.\n\nWe are in the last days; People today are laughing,  joking,  and being sarcastic at the sayings, Jesus is coming again. So they will say "Where is He, when is he coming, they have heard this since the time of their old ancestors who are now asleep (dead) and nothing has changed everything still continues just as it always has from the beginning of the world.\n \nThese are foolish people that the devil has blinded; as he blinded and fool them in the days of Noah. They too laughed and mocked God not taking His word seriously.\n\nMatthew 24:36-39;\nBut of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.\n\nBut as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. (Jesus Christ).\n\nFor as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe (Noah) entered into the ark.\n\nAnd knew not until the floof came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.\n\nVerse 44 also says;\nTherefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh.\n\nJust take a look around today men and women are doing the same thing as they did before the flood; eating, drinking, partying, marrying and giving into marriage, men are marrying men, women are marrying women. Lying, cheating, backbiting, backsliding, whoremonging and so forth.  They think it's still all fun and games; but God says; Woe unto them! Behold I come and I come quickly in a day and hour that they thinketh not; and my reward is with me to pay all men according to thier deeds.
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of daniel, not fo daniel.\nIt could be true. If devine intervention happened to each of the authors of the Bible, it could happen again today. There needs to be some corrections anyway. I do know that the link below is awesome after 6 months.
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there will be a new heaven and a new earth and it will be perfect.\n\n\nIsaiah, chapter 65\n\n17: "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. \n\n18: But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. \n\n19: I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. \n\n20: No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. \n\n21: They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. \n\n22: They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. \n\n23: They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their children with them. \n\n24: Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear. \n\n25: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD." \n\n\n\nRevelation, chapter 21\n\n\n1: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. \n\n2: And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; \n\n3: and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; \n\n4: he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." \n\n5: And he who sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." \n\n6: And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the fountain of the water of life without payment. \n\n7: He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son. \n\n8: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death." \n\n9: Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." \n\n10: And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, \n\n11: having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. \n\n12: It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed; \n\n13: on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. \n\n14: And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. \n\n15: And he who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. \n\n16: The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its breadth; and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and breadth and height are equal. \n\n17: He also measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits b
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We are in the end of the times, and all we are waiting for now is the last person to be born again by God's Spirit through repentance and faith in Christ (trusting in him to save them as they would in a parachute they have put on to save them from the jump that is to come). \n\nOnce the last person is saved then Jesus will return and all believers will be raptured to heaven and the Tribulation period will come upon all who were left behind on earth. God's wrath will begin and the entire tribulation period will be 7 years before he returns with all the Christians from heaven and the angels to reign on earth for 1000 years. This is called the Millenial Kingdom. A\n\nt the end of the world there will be two judgments on one Judgment Day. At the Bema (reward) seat of Christ (the saved)believers will receive rewards and crowns for being obedient servants, the rest of the people who were placed in Hell until this Day or were alive up to this point will be brought before God on this Judgement Day and they will be judged by God according to the 10 commandments and see if they have broken his Law. Those who are guilty (all of those unsaved people there on Judgement Day)will be found guilty and tossed into the Lake of Fire and will be tormented and alone in darkness for all eternity. Never to escape or be saved from it.
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It is hard to say for sure exactly what this meant.  Jesus seemed to believe that there would be coming very soon a "Son of Man" in glory on the clouds of heaven.  And he seems to be some sort of cosmic judge.  Of course, it was later understood by Jesus's followers that he was speaking of himself.  \n\nSon of Man seems to have been used in Judaism to refer to the Messiah or some sort of a cosmic judge of the earth that would come in apocalyptic times.  It is used in the book of Daniel in this way.  \n\nSon of Man actually can be argued to have almost a MORE divine connotation than Son of God.  Everyone is a son or daughter of God.  And also everyone is a son or daughter of man.  But to become a true Son of God, one must make himself subservient to his fellow man, thus becoming a son of man.  \nSo when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he was making himself a son of man, a servant of man.  And in so doing, he precisely shows himself to be a true Son of God, because to become great, one makes oneself lowly.