Here, in the latest edition of the "Mid-East Prophecy Update", Pastor JD Farag, among other things, talks about how that the current diminishing of America and the current rising of the nation of Israel on the world stage are **BIG** indicators of just how **very close** that we might now actually be to the Rapture of the Church and the subsequent horrific seven-year Tribulation period that follows the Rapture of the Church.
So, without further explanation, directly below is the link to the "Mid-East Prophecy Update --- October 20th, 2013" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGMx8mzBzPI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g
Steve --- ("End Times Watcher")
Come let us reason together... How I wish this was possible with J.D., unfortunately J.D. does not allow for this. He makes a claim that all those who want to reason with him just want to argue. This, unfortunately just puts him in a place that is beyond reproach. The Calvary Baptist Denomination does not allow for anyone to believe anything, but the pre-trib view. If you do you believe something different, you are not allowed to even have a position as a door greeter. I have looked for years for a pre-trib teacher to give me well grounded doctrine to support their claim, however I have always been given assumptions to support the claims rather and the Word for foundational doctrine.
ReplyDeleteIn this preach of J.D. he points out our current world events. These events clearly point to wars and rumors of wars, and as we know this signifies the beginning of sorrows. The opposite feeling the world is embracing is one of, "peace and safety." We know that In this environment of "peace and safety" our Savior will return. Nobody says peace and safety before the battle, but after the battle is over. Immediately after the tribulation of those days... you will see Jesus return... and gather His elect, Matt.24:29-31.
History repeats itself. God made life this way so we could learn from others' mistakes. The Chinese teachers who lived through the purge in China so regret afterward that they once taught the pre-trib doctrine rather than a willingness to embrace tribulation. The tribulation in China caused a great falling away. Jesus taught in the book of Mark that this would happen in the parable of the sower, " ...when tribulation and persecution came, they fell away." This is why the Devil loves the pre-trib doctrine, he has used it before for a great falling away. It is the wide path that the church today travels.
How true that no one wants to experience tribulation, but our Lord and Savior promised it, "... in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." John 16:33 We are promised several times in scripture persecution, in 2 Tim 3:12, we are told, all those who live godly lives in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution." These are the trials that refine us and purify us and make us holy. Jesus is coming for a persecuted church, one that is made righteous. This is how the bride makes herself ready.
To teach the pre-trib doctrine is seriously dangerous. The pre-trib doctrine is like a tire swing, the tire is hope, it is connected to a tree overhanging a vast chasm, each link of the chain is an assumption that is made in the doctrine to complete it. When the links snap and the mocking comes promised in 2 Peter 3, "Where is the promise of His coming?", the pre-trib believer will fall away because they are not ready for tribulation. It takes true faith to pray the prayer, "Lord cause me to escape all that is coming on the Earth" when 1000 are falling at your side and 10,000 by your right hand. If I'm wrong... Alleluia! If you are wrong...it may be too late!
We see throughout the early church that they suffered tribulation, and we can see a clear difference between tribulation, persecution and God's wrath. We are called to tribulation, but no God's wrath.