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:: This article is very interesting... Lloyd,
However, I would like to hope that not all who are called by the title name
"Christian" are stereotyped into the factions that started these ugly rumors
you've listed in your article. As a matter of fact, anyone with any Bible
literacy or common sense does not believe this junk you've listed in your
article...
I am Christian and find nothing in your article that agrees with Bible
truths, especially the bits about rapture and something special with the
year 2000. The doomsdayers are of the so called Christian factions that
believe traditions of men and false doctrines that have been devised by
men's imaginations.
However, there is evidence to suggest that these are in fact the "last
days". It comes from the fact that the 'last generation' is the one who
would experience those things Christ spoke of when he gave the parable of
the Fig Tree to the multitude. If one does not understand the parable of
the Fig Tree, little else of the Bible will ever make sense. It has to do
with the last generation that would be established when Israel symbollically
planted, as well as demographically planted, the good and the bad fig trees
in Jerusalem; which they have done, making claim to Israel's announcement
that she is a bonafide nation on May 15th, 1948. The good fig tree
represents those who are pure in their lineage, truly 'Jews' (Hebrews) and
the bad fig tree representing those who are tainted in their lineage, and
'who call themselves 'Jews', but are not, but are of the synagogue of
Satan..." (Revelation 2:9; 3:9) The Bible declares that a "generation"
can be 40 years, 50 years, 72 years, 80 years, or 120 years. So to say that
Biblical promises are not kept, or that they were only given to Jesus'
disciples is ludicrous. Jesus did in fact speak to the "last generation".
Whether you want to believe it or not, makes me no mind... but for the
record, you are living in that last generation; the generation that has
seen Israel become a nation.
I suppose the same could be said of Christians...
those who say they are but are not...
There are plenty of them around.
They can talk the talk but few can walk the walk.
Scoff if you must at Biblical truths. THAT too, was predicted would happen
also. Count yourself among the many who scoff, and do not count yourself
among the few...
who don't. Peter said in his warning: "Knowing this first, that there
shall come in the LAST DAYS 'scoffers' [mockers], walking after their own
lusts [lies]; And saying 'Where is the promise of HIS [Jesus'] coming? For
since the fathers fell asleep [died], all things continue as they were from
the beginning of the creation...'
For this they willingly are ignorant..." 2-Peter 3:4 & 5.
eagle 1
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Subject: [CTRL] Heads Up! FLEECED AGAIN
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> Subject: Heads Up! FLEECED AGAIN
> Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 9:32 PM
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>
> Americans are already beginning to examine their Y2K stores.
> What will become of the new DC generator stored in the garage, the
> porta-potty, the water purifier and the freeze-dried beef and canned
wheat?
> A few who feared Y2K may have bought a remote cabin retreat with a garden
> plot, or left good jobs to avoid expected inter city ethnic catastrophe.
> We wish them well, they are not the first.
>
> For most, Y2K will simply be a memory and a useful dry run in
> self-preparedness. The biggest beneficiaries will be those who sold stuff
> and bad advice. The most surprised people may be retailers with a
> no-questions-asked return policy, for it is likely their parking lots and
> return lines will be very busy indeed. There may actually be a serious
Y2K
> retail backlash from reverse sales when stuff gets returned and the family
> decides to eat up the stored spam and canned stew, however reluctantly,
> reducing their shopping needs for a few months.
>
> I have seen no polls on the matter, but without a doubt many of those most
> affected were influenced by Celebrity Christians, who were most
susceptible
> to the apocalypse epidemic. The Y2K ripoff is part of a more damaging
> fleecing that has been perpetrated upon the Christians for three
> generations. It is part of the great "end times" hoax that is far more
> enduring and destructive than its adopted Y2K stepchild.
>
> The doomsday cult was hatched in the 1830's in England in the person of
> John Nelson Darby, the inventor of the British Israel movement. Before
> Darby's revelations believers in Christ's deity generally thought the "end
> time" ended when Jesus was murdered by the Pharisees and raised by God.
> (Jesus told his Disciples they were living in the last days) Jesus taught
> his followers that they lived in the times of responsibility, that come to
> be known as the church age, a period of sober discipleship when it was the
> responsibility of the Christian to carry out the "great commission"-- to
> evangelize the unsaved world. And they did.
>
> The rapture cultists, many of whom write books, have built their
> theological empires (and in some cases vast fortunes) by convincing us
that
> Jesus was speaking directly to us, not his Disciples, when he talked about
> about the last days. And what better time for an apocalypse, the
Rapturist
> reasons, than when the world is celebrating the Year 2000. God
> could hardly pick a more symbolic moment to punish the wicked and reward
> the righteous.
>
> The idea that God practices numerology, and that the Year 2000 means
> something special to Him is of course quite unchristian.* Numerology
games
> were not played by Jesus, nor practiced among the Disciples. This is more
> a part of the pagan religions of the non-bible people, including the
> Babylonians who taught it to the Pharisees of Jesus' time. Jesus and the
> Disciples denounced the scribes and Pharisees who followed the
> superstitions of these ancestors.
>
> "Last days" theology effectively ended an era of Christian growth. For
> many, the notion that Christians should be of preparing for a
"tribulation"
> has replaced the responsibility of evangelizing one's neighbors. Every
> war, famine, earthquake and evil act of man is viewed as another sign of
> that the "end times" have arrived. It has throttled the idea of
> self-sacrificing discipleship that once fired Christians to compass the
> world for Christ. In its place we have been influenced to accept a
> fatalistic view of our neighbors and leave it to God to take care of the
> unsaved after Gods people depart. For who will set a Christian example
> for those left behind in the chaos of the "tribulation"? No one! In
vivid
> contrast, Jesus' plan called the righteous to teach by witness and
example,
> thus bringing the plan of salvation to the ungodly, even unto death.
>
> Y2K appealed to the apocalyptic spirit of most Celebrity Christians who
saw
> an opportunity for God to do something really big during an impending
> mini-catastrophe. Most Celebrity Christians helped God along with his
> planning, un-bothered by Jesus' words that warn not to do so. They loved
Y2K
> because it fit the Darby pattern, and it sold rapture books as never
before.
>
> Many frauds have been perpetrated upon the American people in the 20th
> century by government. But not so with the Y2K hype which bureaucrats
> played down for their own selfish reasons. All kinds of people, including
> churchmen, are honest believers in the chaos to come and shared with their
> friends out of good will. Some few promoted Y2K opportunistically for
> personal gain and should not be allowed to forget it. Others simply went
> along with those they considered to be technical authorities, and so the
> mania became an epidemic. Y2K will soon slip into history as another
> apocalypse that did not happen, at least not for now. Not so with its
> stepfather, the much more important "end times" hoax, which will not go
away.
>
>
> The "last days" are here to stay because is a politically promoted notion.
> It has been sold to the Celebrity Christians by powerful non-Christians
who
> benefit from its application. The Celebrity Christians feed end times
theology
> on to their followers. Who are the people behind doomsday? Ask yourself,
> who benefits from it? Heads up will examine this question in
> coming issues.
>
> * Definition of Numerology; "the study of the occult significance of
> numbers". (Websters New International Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1955)
>
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