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by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:19 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: rapture
Replies: 106
Views: 32963

Re: rapture

everyone always mentions it...what is rapture? a time, event to come, a feeling? It is a false doctrine invented by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren in the early 1800's. It isn't taught in the Bible or anywhere in Christianity before this time. Hate to break it to you, but you aren't get...
by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:15 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: European Union
Replies: 68
Views: 20520

Jack Van Impe is a false prophet extraordinaire. And there is nothing in the Bible concerning the European Union. That should be obvious by now considering that this "beast" now has 25 toes with five more on the way.
by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:12 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: Does Babylon have to be a city?
Replies: 34
Views: 14023

No. It is the "great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." (Rev. 11:8). That would be Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the Beast (Rome) in 70 AD.
by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:06 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: Beast = Pope+Catholic Church?
Replies: 45
Views: 15372

The Beast was the Roman Empire headed by Nero Caesar. See http://www.reformed.org/eschaton/beast.html
by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:03 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: The seven churches as seven ages?
Replies: 19
Views: 8325

This theory became popular when the Scofield Reference Bible became a best selling novel. There is absolutely no evidence to support this. Besides, if this were true, then the "rapture", which was supposedly found in Rev. 3:10, should have taken place during the Industrial Revolution, alle...
by puritan lad
Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:55 am
Forum: End Times
Topic: Preterism
Replies: 177
Views: 49150

What about the Anti-christ, 666? We usually see Nero as having filled that slot, though I know others have suggested Titus, Vespasian, and others. The Anti-Christ is supposed to usher in peace, and he's supposed to be a blasphemous imitation of Jesus. Nero wasn't a very good man in anyone's eyes......