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Originally posted by concerned24
reply to post by jmdewey60
Hmmm..interesting. well the someone source could very well be not reliable. Now the voice from the sky i would have a hard time refuted because of the sensation of pure love. No as for my spiritual place. I am a believer and lover of both christ and God. I have surrenderd my soul to jesus. I am also well aware of the darkness. But what your saying is , is that Zion is of the enemy? Could you explain that further?
Originally posted by concerned24
I usually find my answers. Yet i have googled and posed this question to many and i get the i dont know reply. Can someone explain to me "children of Zion as defenders"? I know what your thinking "what the heck is she talking about and why?". Well i dont lie outside of the internet and im not going to lie now, so here goes the complete truth. Sometime last week i was sitting outside star gazing ..i always do that its how i relax. Well i heard a message from above, it asked me to come home..and it wasent referencing this plane, that i know is fact. Well it was the most loving feeling i had ever expirenced my thought was yeah, i definately want to go home..wherever that is lol..but how?
Well tonight i was told by someone that i was a child of zion, a defender. Here is the thing. Im not jewish lol. Now i need help clarifying this. Is everyone who is a believer of god and stands by him a child of zion? I lack knowledge in this. Im just searching for clarity here. So if anyone has any clue regarding this question please post a reply.
I believe the end times will be occurring in either our generation or in the next generation.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by sacgamer25
I believe the end times will be occurring in either our generation or in the next generation.
If you look at the post above, by borntowatch, you see a description of an end of an age. There is no literal end of the world. If there is anyone who did believe in that, it would be my church, which is the Seventh Day Adventist, but I doubt anyone else does. What you are left with, once you ignore the one extreme, are varying degrees of change, where the only significant one possible is the one that already happened, which was the abandonment of the literal Zion. Only demons and devils will fight for it now.
There is none (meaning, another end).
I don't know who believes what. But I surely believe that an end of an age is approaching. And that judgment will be coming with the end of that age. What exactly will happen at the end of this age is not clear by design.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by sacgamer25
There is none (meaning, another end).
I don't know who believes what. But I surely believe that an end of an age is approaching. And that judgment will be coming with the end of that age. What exactly will happen at the end of this age is not clear by design.
You either believe Jesus is Lord, or you don't.
A lot of the chronic posters on this sub-forum have admitted repeatedly that they do not accept Jesus as Lord. They are holding back and I will tell you why. His reign will be forever. That is what was predicted.
If he is reigning now, then it can't end. This ruins their end of the world scenario.
So people here are discussing back and forth with each other, Gog and Magog. We can look in the OT and there they are. But over here, in the NT, there they are, again. What's up with that?
Revelation is the Christian book that takes those OT things and says, 'Here they are, all fulfilled but in this way'. Then goes on to give a spiritual interpretation. You have a bridegroom and a bride and then it says this city is the bride and then it says the city is on earth and there is no temple and Jesus and God live in the city, then Gog and Magog show up and are destroyed.
The ones in the city are the people who accepted the gospel. Those opposed to the fact that there are spiritual people are done away with in the scene in Revelation. There is another scene, earlier describing a spiritual army and that was the gospel going out into the world. The fire is something that would be metaphorical of the end of bad deeds, where the good deeds are the wheat, while the chaff is what is worthless and is burnt up. So you have this resurrection of the evildoers that threaten the kingdom and they symbolize what is feared and that gets treated as the useless thoughts that vanish with the reassurance that God will not be overthrown.
Or something like that but the main point I am making is that Revelation is not resurrecting the boogeyman to have us scared, it shows that this looming threat always in the back of your minds finally can be done away with forever.edit on 15-1-2012 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
You either believe Jesus is Lord, or you don't.
This is where I give up on organised religion.
You just need to keep the metaphor straight, it is saying the city and it says it is the bride and the bride is those who join with Jesus.
Revelation 21”27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
I believe that Jesus is Lord and that their is way, way too much evil in this world for God to not live up to his promise. The promise that God makes is a place where there is no evil.