Indeed, Jesus Christ is risen! This is the foundational belief of all true followers of Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul poignantly argues that if Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, our faith would be futile:1 Corinthians 15:17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
While all true believers in Jesus Christ agree upon the fact of His bodily resurrection, there is debate regarding the sequence of events of His return.
I openly admit that my view point embraces a premillennial pretribulational position. Premillennial means that after Jesus Christ returns, He will establish a literal kingdom on earth the duration of which will last for 1000 years according to Revelation 20 and occurs just prior to the eternal state of heaven.
Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Aspects of the millennial kingdom are depicted in other portions of scripture including portions of the last 7 chapters of Isaiah and the last 9 chapters of Ezekiel. That is where passages describing global peace with the wolf and the lamb grazing together (Isaiah 65:25), extended longevity (Isaiah 65:20), and the millennial temple (Ezekiel 40-42).
Pretribulational implies the event of the rapture. The rapture is distinct from the second coming of Jesus Christ, involving all true believers in His Church. Saints from other periods of time outside the church age will be resurrected at a time different than the time of the rapture. The word rapture is not found in the English Bible. This concept is taken from 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
The word translated "caught up" in the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible is "raptus" from which in English the word rapture is derived.
The term pretribulational indicates the notion that the rapture will occur sometime before the Great Tribulation. Other viewpoints include a midtribulational, where the rapture occurs in the middle of the 70th week of Daniel and posttribulational, where the rapture occurs at the very end of the Great Tribulation.
One passage in scripture which I believe supports a pretribulational viewpoint is the promise given by Jesus to true believers in Revelation 3:10.
Revelation 3:10 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
I welcome input from any and all. My hope is that as iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17), any ongoing dialogue from this blog will help us all come to a knowledge of the truth and perfect us in our walk with Christ and ultimately bring Him glory and honor.
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Jesus Christ and his second wife , Marcella of Bethany, and Saint John, wrote the Book of Revelation. It was written shortly after the destruction of Solomon's temple. It identifies the return of Jesus Christ, twice in the future. The first man is born, a prince, 7 10 1153AD, the second man is a farmer, 7 10 1953AD. These Hebrew Gilgul reincarnations, come from the triangular number 153, found in 1 Kings 53 and again in John 21:11-153. There is a map that goes with the Book of Revelation, Patmos is a marker on this map. The scriptures provide dates and lat. and long. crosses.When you hit King Christian Island, then your map is correct. Our modern bible came from the followers of Saint John, the Nazorean. There is a registered Second Christ biblical code, that opens the scriptures. Rev.5:5,6,7 and Rev.22:16, are the Second Christ-King David. The Book of John and other books were written at the same time. Revelation is based on an old Celtic -Culdee Chess game, called Brandubh. King David and Jesus Christ, have several thousand ancestors, where the bible ends. ARMAGEDDON= ARM,A GOD END,105 long, 51 lat. ARM GOD DANE.The Tree of Life, found in Rev.22, was rediscovered in 1998, at Bardsey Island Monastery, Wales. Prince Madog ap Owain Gwynedd, was the man between the two Christs. The bible ends between 2000 and 2012AD, both years of the DRAGON. ARMAGEDDON DAME DRAGON. The Battle of Dame Gate 1171 AD, Dublin Dane Vikings were defeated. They and the Culdee Monks, fleed Ireland, with Prince Madog, who was a Bardsey Island Monk. They created the Mandan tribe, who carry Christ's bloodline. Christ lived most of his life in Cornwall England. The Knight Templars and the Culdee, knew that Jesus Christ was born Prince Madog, King David was born again, 7BC, Oct.9th. He became known as Jesus Christ, the Nazorean, he died in 73AD, and was buried at Corpus Christi,Cornwall England. Christianity, is the true Anti-Christ, as all the church leaders, know this ancient code. There are several warnings in Revelation, about the churches. The Letters of John, clearly state, that Anti-Christs come from churches.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Just curious. Do you have a source to reference that Jesus was ever married?
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