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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
After Mao’s death in 1976, there was somewhat of a liberalizing movement in the Chinese Communist Party. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), who had been “purged” during the Cultural Revolution, re-emerged as a leader of the moderate pragmatists. In his book, Jesus in Beijing, David Aikman, former Beijing bureau chief, Time Magazine, writes, “It was already clear in the 1980s that Christians were beginning to show up, though almost never identified as such, within the Chinese Communist Party.” Aikman notes, “From the grassroots of the peasantry to high within China’s establishment, the country was being seeded with believing Christians” (p. 9). Since 2013, President Xi Jinping has returned China to the hardline Marxism of Mao. His father was a moderate, but he certainly is not.A Look In the Past — A Hope for the Future
In the Shandong revival, God used many men and women, Chinese and foreign, as instruments of revival. Dr. C.L. Culpepper, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Fort Worth, Texas, and his wife, Ola, were appointed Southern Baptist missionaries to China in the 1920s. Ola had developed serious eye problems which caused her great pain. On the mission field the Culpeppers met Marie Monsen, a Norwegian evangelical Lutheran. Monsen asked the Culpeppers, “Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit? Have you prayed for the healing of your wife?”
In his book, The Shantung Revival (available online, gospeltruth.net/shantung.htm) Dr. Culpepper says he was not ready for Monsen’s questions. The next morning about 20 people were gathered in the Culpepper home for a prayer meeting. “We felt an electric excitement,” writes Culpepper, “a feeling that God was preparing us for something we had never known before. After praying for several hours we all seemed in a complete spirit of communion.”
They prayed for Ola’s eyesight and had many other petitions. God was evidently present. Two Chinese men who were cooks for the missionary residences were also present. Something wonderful was happening. It was common knowledge that these men had some issue, some grudge, and were never seen together, but during the prayer meeting they both accepted Christ and embraced. There was such joy in the group that they had forgotten all about Ola. What about Ola? She was so excited. Her vision had returned in that eye, and the pain was gone. Culpepper writes, the problem “never returned. We had never known such spiritual joy. The events surrounding those days in Chefoo were the prelude to the great Shantung Revival” (p. 6).
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
The Chinese Communist Party has a long-standing and brutal disrespect for Christianity. In December of 1950, in the city of Qingdao, in Shandong Province, a church was visited by government officials who demanded the use of the church building for a communist conference a few days before Christmas. Pastor David Wang had no choice, but gave three conditions: no politically-themed portraits or posters, no flags displayed in the church building, and absolutely no smoking on the premises.The conference had barely begun when the conditions were violated. A portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung was hung behind the pulpit with flags on either side, while several people in the audience were smoking. A blue haze hung in the air. Pastor Wang, who had a gentle and non-confrontational life-style, asked his family to join him for prayer in the pastor’s study. Then he walked down the aisle of the crowded church, removed the portrait of Mao as well as the flags, and calmly walked out. He and his family quickly fled to Hong Kong. (Hattaway, Shandong: The Revival Province, p. 175).
In the 1950s, Communism became more controlling and demanding. The government ordered multitudes of Christians to register and to promise to abide by its rules. Some pastors sought to train their congregations how to handle an interrogation by Party officials. One elderly farmer told his pastor he would respond to the interrogators as the Holy Spirit led him.
The interrogator asked the man, “What has Christianity done for you?” “It made me a better person,” the farmer answered. The official looked at the assembled villagers and asked, “Is that true?” “Yes,” the villagers replied. “His farm used to be the dirtiest and worst in the village, but now it is the best.”
When the farmer was pressed to explain how these changes had occurred, the farmer spoke with conviction and authority. “I was a drunkard and an opium smoker. Nothing could rid me of these two vices, and my farm had been brought to ruin.” The man raised his voice and said, “I accepted Jesus as my Savior, and He changed me. He enabled me to break with both opium and drink” (Hattaway, Shandong, p. 175).
A Century of Struggle
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, churches were being planted in China, souls saved and, in addition, hospitals and schools that were church-based were being built. The early years of the 20th century saw revival break out in Shandong Province, located on the Yellow Sea, across from the Korean Peninsula. It was a dramatic outpouring of God’s Spirit, exceeding every other revival in modern times. But in the late 1930s, the Japanese invasion of China brought great suffering. Japanese soldiers raped and pillaged China (“The Rape of Nanking”). Imperial soldiers tried to convince the Chinese Christians that the Godhead consisted of Father, Son, the Holy Spirit — AND the Japanese emperor. Refusal to accept this theological monstrosity brought torture and death.
Then came the Communist Revolution, the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek, his flight to what is now Taiwan, and the rise of Mao. The Japanese invasion and Communism forced the church to go “underground.” These were difficult years, but God was not done with China. Eric Liddell, the Scottish Olympian, had his story told in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. Liddell was born in China of missionary parents and returned to his birthplace despite warnings of imminent danger. Shandong, China’s “Revival Province,” was being overrun by Japanese troops and in a state of chaos. Liddell ministered the Gospel and spent much of his energies helping the wounded, the sick, and the dying. In 1943, Liddell was imprisoned with more than 2,000 other foreigners, including 327 children. He died in 1945 doing what God had called him to do—share the love of Christ in a loveless, hate-filled environment.
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
My guy was nice to me...and he respected me...and, I was nice to him...and, he respected me...Funny how that works....
Where is Kate Middleton
The last time you directed a comment at me, you done so in kindness even ended it throwing a compliment my way, and now
what else to say... I'm hurt 
As for why should I care, I'm a caring kind
Anyways who are you anyways, Camilla and Charles love child
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Ah, just this little 6min vid then here, as I say good luck and good night to you all who hate Trump. I wish you a happy recovery. Remember you are all always welcome over to the right side.To the side of hope where sun is shining and love is spreading.
Welcome.
RE: Rico is not a crime
Knowingly co-ordinating with others who did break the law is a crime, specifically, it's a crime of conspiracy, so prosecutors would have to prove that.For example, you can't observe a professional hit and declare the spouse, or business partner ordered it without evidence that they did. You have to prove that active conspiracy to murder.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Flowers In the SandLarry Spargimino...February 15, 2022
I am in the process of writing a book on the subject of revival in the last days. I believe that God is changing the world and His people for an end-time harvest. On the front cover we intend to put a photo I took hiking at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Western Colorado several years ago. It’s a picture of a beautiful flower growing out of a sand dune. It portrays what is happening today in places hostile to the Gospel. The beauty and persevering vitality of the Gospel brings revival in hostile settings.
After making my first trip to Pakistan in 2009 and interviewing Joel Rosenberg in that same year on his book, Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus Are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World, I came to realize that people are receiving new life in Christ all over the world.
Will Technology Destroy the Gospel In China?
The present government in China is hostile to all religions. Facial recognition technology and an invasive social credit system are onerous, and technology is making it impossible to evade, or so it would seem. Yet the underground church in China is sending out more missionaries to countries in the “10-40 window”—those countries from China westward, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the other Islamic " nations”—than any other nation. And this is being done in a country where “the walls have ears and the trees have eyes.”
The Chinese State Administration of Religious Affairs recently announced new restrictive measures that will go into effect March 1, 2022. Christian ministries must “not incite subversion or oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership.” This is a mandate that virtually condemns anything and everything in the Bible. How is it possible that the illegal underground church is not only surviving but actually thriving in such a hostile situation?
In his book, China and End-Time Prophecy: How God Is Using the Red Dragon to Fulfill His Ultimate Purposes, Eugene Bach (a pseudonym) writes:
“Pastor Enoch (a pseudonym) … with four other leaders … runs an underground house church of more than four million believers … … is completely off the grid. He doesn’t have email, a website, a Facebook or Twitter account, a private office, or a secretary, and yet he disciples hundreds of leaders every day, hosts daily illegal church services with thousands of believers all over China, and sends out an average of ten new missionaries per month to the most unreached areas of the world” (p. 7).
The Christian community is deeply indebted to Bach. He is an insider who brings first-hand testimony regarding God’s work in the unregistered church. That the underground church could make such amazing advances in a hi-tech modern nation of committed Maoists should be an inspiration to Christians living in 21st century America.
There has been much suffering, and martyrdom in China, but Pastor Zhang Rongligang, probably one of the best-known house church pastors in China, said he believes that the church in China has benefited from the suffering it has experienced.
“Today, the underground house churches in China are not trying to survive. They are unified in the Back to Jerusalem vision, and churches are sending out missionaries into Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and atheist countries around the world. Our church now has missionaries serving in Pakistan, Dubai, India, and many other nations that are hostile to the Gospel. Additionally, our young people are moving into China’s cities in large numbers, but it is not for the purpose of making money. They are moving here to plant churches, to preach the gospel, to raise support for foreign missions, and to send new firebrand believers into the field. I can’t help but feel excited about the future of China and the Chinese church”(Bach, p. 166).
The Cross and the Red Flag
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Jac, I know you think you're grabbing this guy by his family jewels hereand tossing him to the bonfire but his chances of winning the election just went up.
A politically motivated unfair campaign, more dirty than the last.
This will go down in history as a shocking moment of insanity.
Misusing the justice system to the max here. And only for him, Oh yea....
He must be taken down you see, too much at stake.
Probably also means they are not a 100% sure they can take him down by stealing it again as there is no covid distance to be kept on election night this time. Less reason for vote-in too.
So this may be their last chance to stop him.
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Trump provided financial statements under oath that he had $400M cash, so the bulk of all his bond requirements readily available.If he lied about that, he may be in contempt of court.
If he has the cash, but has since filed motions that he hasn't, he may be liable for fraud (again).
He has recently claimed he neither has the cash he previously swore he had, nor could he secure the amount through any one of 30 bonding companies via four different brokers.
Judge Engoron has now extended Barbara Jones' powers as the independent monitor of the Trump Organisation in a number of different ways. This includes Trump having to inform her in detail of his applications for bonds and what he offered as surety for each application.
It should be noted that it's usual when corporations are obliged to post bonds of this order of magnitude that multiple companies are involved in a carefully structured way to spread the risk.
RE: Rico is not a crime
Is there anybody here who doubt that Joe placed his son in Burisma for a reason?
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
net worth is different from actual liquid assets on hand.i don't think there are many million and billionaires that keep such high levels of liquid assets or cash on hand.
be careful about "sources". too many have already proven to be false when it comes to trump. some get rich off of "books" about him though.
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Correction: Barbara Jones has been in place since November 2022.
Useless trivia
An Ancient frog species named after Kermit the Frog by scientistsKermit the Frog has been around since 1955 – but a new Kermit on the block was actually around much longer ago.
Scientists have uncovered a fossil of an ancient 270-million-year-old amphibian ancestor, and named it after him.
Officially called Kermitops gratus, it earned the name due to its resemblance to The Muppet Show star.
The prehistoric creatures are thought of as one of the first true amphibians, representing a key step in evolution when life went from water to land.
Rico is not a crime
WHY ARE PROSECUTORS USING RICO against Trump.RICO was originally conceived as a tool to go after mafia kingpins who kept their hands clean by parking ill-gotten gains in shell corporations and leaving the dirty work to underlings.
The law does not require prosecutors to prove that defendants directly engaged in criminal activity, just that they were part of a larger organization that did.
That means prosecutors would not necessarily have to prove Trump personally broke the law but knowingly coordinated with others who did.
Useless trivia
It’s possible to contract a respiratory condition, colloquially referred to as hot-tub lung.It’s triggered by microbes called mycobacteria, from the same family as those which cause the infection tuberculosis (TB).
Like in TB, hot-tub lung bacteria generate patches of inflammation in the lung tissue. This results in symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough and fever. The lung changes can be seen on an X-ray or CT scan of the chest, and may appear quite profound.
The hot tub acts as a perfect environment for the growth of these bacteria because the warmth of the system creates an optimum temperature for their proliferation. The bubbling of the water also acts as an aerosol – allowing the bacteria to be released into the air, where they can be inhaled.
Unlike TB, which requires long-term antibiotics and is becoming increasingly difficult to treat, hot-tub lung may be considered more of an inflammatory condition.
RE: Rico is not a crime
As for Trump and his co-defendants, they are indicted under the RICO Act, not with the RICO Act.It means that a group of people are being charged as an organised group, rather than as individuals.
Each of them will have allegedly committed different crimes, but as a group they were working with a common illegal goal.
As such, each of them will charged with all the crimes of the group.
This methodology has two important aims: firstly, the leader of the group who may order crimes can be held accountable for those crimes as if they committed them; secondly, the minor players are more likely to agree to plea and testify for the prosecution rather than suffer a harsh punishment wholly disproportionate to their crime, thus corroborating the evidence in the case.
RE: Rico is not a crime
A simple explanation might be:You can be arrested for or on suspicion of committing a crime under an Act.
The precise Act reference need not be given at time of arrest but a clear reason for the arrest must be given.
Example: Drunk driving under The Road Traffic Act.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Love Can Build A BridgeJosh Shields
June 17, 2022
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8
Naomi Judd, Paul Overstreet, and John Barlow Jarvis penned the song “Love Can Build A Bridge” that was released in 1990 and climbed to the top five on the billboard charts in mid-1991. One of the lines in the second verse of this song says, “That love and only love can join the tribes of man.”
Love has never been discussed, debated, chatted, nor tweeted more, and never has it been so far away as right now. We have stood in awe as buildings have been burned, cars overturned, riots formed, out-lash, graffiti and destruction of everything from buildings to our bodies, and all in the name of what? Not love, but greed, voracity, and self-indulgence.
There is a way to join the hearts of man. It is not in acceptance, but repentance. When we as a people lay aside our selfish, egotistical, self-seeking, self-centered, self-regarding ways that only pursue self-gratification and turn from us to Him (GOD), we will find a bridge.
We will find two outstretched arms that carry us from fear to favor, from hate to hope, from sinner to saint. This bridge, the “outstretched arms of Jesus”, spans the gap from the Law to love, from failure to forgiveness, and from reeling to rejoicing. Yes, the bridge of Calvary is the only place where the different tribes, ethnicities, cultures, and colors of humanity can bow a knee and truly find relief, release, and reprieve from wickedness.
So today, let’s join together and take a moment wherever you may be while reading this and ask God to help us to cross the bridge of love, “Calvary”, and walk from judgment to love.
Our prayer for you this week: May God grant you the knowledge, courage, and desire to come to the true understanding of love, a true walk with God.
Josh Shields
Josh Shields and his wife, Janice, founded New Life Church in Berryville, Arkansas in 2011, where he continues to be the residing pastor. He formerly served in different pastoral positions throughout the state of Arkansas and has ministered at various churches, conferences, conventions, and venues throughout the nation. He began his ministry in 1983 at the age of 16, feeling the call at a young age to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He enjoys every opportunity to share Jesus with others through his ministry by speaking, preaching, singing, and writing weekly articles/posts.
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IndoctrinationLarry Spargimino
June 20, 2022
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Tyrants know that tyranny is not generally popular. Nobody wants an elitist snob ruling over them. Hence tyrants must resort to indoctrination. People who are indoctrinated will tolerate what they would not tolerate before their minds were indoctrinated.
Are our children being indoctrinated? Is that why we are losing more and more of our constitutional freedoms and large segments of our population don’t seem to mind? Is that why China and Russia are raising soldiers who will win wars and we are raising gay pride flags that will make us look like fools?
Why are more and more American men and women no longer joining the military? Why don’t we have pride in our history and a wholesome love for our country?
Statistics reveal trends and certain trends are alarming. Eighty percent of our kids who were raised in church no longer attend church or live a consistently Christian life. The number one reason they have repeatedly given, “The church’s values are not our values.”
That’s no surprise. A good Bible-believing church has not changed its biblically based values but the public schools in America, and some so-called “Christian” schools, have.
As our society and public schools become increasingly more corrupt and anti-God those who attend anti-God schools will find they are increasingly uncomfortable with their church’s values. Parents have raised their kids on the best of diets, brought them to the best of doctors, and then turned them over to the TV and the public school.
I am not condemning all public-school teachers. There are some godly teachers who have a unique calling to work in the public school. However, they are fighting a battle they can’t possibly win. And they are deceiving parents who say, “Mrs. Jones is a good Christian woman and she teaches at the public school. It must be OK.” It’s not. Mrs. Jones does not write the curriculum and she is surrounded by a multitude of teachers who have been indoctrinated in state teachers’ colleges.
Joe Biden is a firm believer in “transgender rights” and recently condemned “conversion therapy,” yet he and his supporters think “Drag Queen Story Hours” in the local public library are harmless. Fortunately, an increasing number of parents are protesting. They don’t want their boys and girls groomed for the gay lifestyle.
Yeonmi Park, a young woman who defected from North Korea, told a Fox News reporter that she is worried freedoms are being lost in America amid what she describes as “the left-wing indoctrination in K-12 schools.”
“This is exactly the dictator’s handbook,” Park said. “It’s Hitler’s youth. Mao’s youth and Kim Il-Sung’s youth. They always go for young children because they have not lived their life long enough to have critical thinking skills. Their brains are very plastic, very malleable, and easy to absorb information and believe it and they are innocent. And big killers who want to seize power from the people, they always mobilize the youth.”
Yes, kids are young and innocent. But what excuse can adult parents give for surrendering their kids to the devil?
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
What do you mean by man “is not being a real man”???RE: Rico is not a crime
Yes, now I finally get it. Thanks.So does this mean Hunter did a good job at Burisma despite oil and gas not being his field?
RE: Rico is not a crime
RICO stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.Defendants can't be charged with an Act because an Act is a document.
You can't be arrested on a suspicion of an Act.
You can't be arrested on suspicion of a document.
You can't be investigated for an Act, or for a document.
It obviously makes no sense.
You can be arrested on suspicion of a crime.
You can be charged with a crime.
You can be investigated for a crime.
AOC was asking what impeachable crime was being investigated by the impeachment inquiry because if you have no idea what the crime might be, you have nothing to investigate.
Since the 'evidence' of an impeachable crime turned out rather embarrassingly to be some chap with Russian connections telling porkies, the impeachment inquiry has not stated any charges for the basis of an investigation. As such, they have nothing to investigate and should close the inquiry.
It's not protocol, nor reasonable to investigate just in case a crime was committed. That is the basis for a Monty Python skit, not an impeachment inquiry.
Do you understand the question AOC was asking now?
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
Oh for God's sake, get a grip would ya.I like it when men are respectful and treat me nicely.
I don't need him to always agree with me for me to like him. In fact, I enjoy a challenging topic to discuss with the exception of politics and religion.
Women stray for reasons other than you didn't agree with her on the color of the drapes.
Your perception of a woman walking all over you might be your lack of confidence in yourself to have a healthy relationship.
"A real man"??? That is about physical attributes. If he has "one" then he's a real man. It's not about his personality traits.
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
Track...reading between the lines...You mean that there are times when you don't treat them so nice?
In other words, you will change your personality according to the kind of women you're with?
RE: Serious relationship
"serious relationship"?Hmmm...you maybe in the wrong place for that
Woher kommst du?
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
sometimes you have to look at yourself and realize the type of person you have picked, not everyone is the same.RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Yes, I was just checking because Barbara Jones has been in place within the Trump Organisation as an independent monitor since November 2023, after Judge Engoron made his summary judgement of widespread, persistent fraud.Judge Engoron provided a short list of available candidates for the position, from which Trump chose Barbara Jones. She is a highly esteemed and in demand retired judge.
Judge Engoron also instructed Barbara Jones to contribute a letter towards the end of the trial regarding her position as the independent monitor. She reported that she continued to find business discrepancies.
At the conclusion of the trial, Judge Engoron withdrew his summary judgement order that the Trump Organisation be dissolved, but instead increased Barbara Jones' powers to include dissolution should she deem it necessary. That reduced Team Trump's options for appealing the trial outcome, whilst allowing that the businesses can be dissolved to meet the disgorgement order and other costs owed by Trump.
RE: How to raise $454 Million...
Any candidates proposed for the office of ""independent monitor." Isn't that what I said?What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Matt. 24:31: “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” 1 Thess. 4:16-17: “…with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”Matt. 24:36: “But [peri de] of that day and hour knoweth no man…” 1 Thess. 5:1-2: “But [peri de] of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you…”
Matt. 24:39: “And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” 1 Thess. 5:3: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them…and they shall not escape.”
There is still much unfulfilled prophecy revealed in the Bible. The Bible is indeed “profitable” in all things, including its prophetic teachings. It is God’s Divinely revealed truth about the end times. I pray that the material in this presentation may encourage the saints and be used in alarming and winning the lost, “for the time is at hand” (Rev. 1:3).
RE: Are Most Men Being Too Nice Towards Women ..
There has to be a balance in everything we do and in a relationship.Sure most women including myself love it when a man takes charge of a situation as long as it's for the right reasons.
Eg, If I meet someone and he doesn't do the little things, like walk with you, not ahead, askes for your opinion, not just push his, orders what he thinks you want without asking.
Everyone has something they are insecure about, those are things you can work on together.
Trust and respect, communication and gentle strength, if there's a physical attraction and you grow a mentality stimulating connection, why would she or you look for something else.
I love to be grabbed and kissed senseless anywhere, like he's claiming you, if you hide me from anyone you are not worth being with.
Also if a woman is manipulating her Man he must know she's not worth being with either.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
. “For God so loved the world (kosmos), that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). If there is any doubt what “world” means, verse 17 is emphatic in the use of kosmos in close succession: “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” Kosmos is powerfully used in another scripture that also shows that it cannot be limited to the Roman world of the first century: “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world” (kosmos) (1 John 2:2).Big Words in Bible Prophecy
Matthew 24:21 speaks about the horrors of the Great Tribulation. Verse 22 says, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh (sarx) be saved.” Does this mean “no flesh in Jerusalem”? I doubt it. Sarx is a big word: “Therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight”(Rom. 3:20). Does this mean that “no flesh in Jerusalem will be justified by keeping the law, but everyone else will”? First Corinthians 1:29 is similar: “That no flesh should glory in his presence.” Does this mean that no one living in Jerusalem in AD 70 should glory in God’s presence but everyone else should?
This generation”—Which One?
In Matthew 24:15-21, the Lord Jesus speaks about great trouble for Israel. Jesus speaks about great tribulation and suffering exceeding anything that has been or will ever be (vs. 21). The Lord is revealing how bad things will really get. But He doesn’t stop with that. “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (vs. 22).
Preterists believe that in AD 70 God was acting in judgment against Israel. But there is much more taught in the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24. Satan’s future attempt to completely destroy God’s ancient covenant people will fail. Luke 21:24 reads: “…and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, UNTIL the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” The Lord is revealing three things of great importance: (1) Jerusalem’s fall is of a limited duration. It is not final, nor is it complete. (2) There is a period of time when Gentiles will overrun the city and rule over the city and its population. (3) There will be a later time when this situation will be reversed.
In Luke 21:25-26, Jesus talks about celestial and cosmic disruptions that are completely unsettling. Verses 27-28 states: “And THEN shall they SEE [it is visible, not invisible] the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And WHEN these things BEGIN to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your REDEMPTION draweth nigh.” Notice it’s “redemption” not destruction and doom.
Verses 27 and 28 remind us of the rapidity with which all of these signs occur. This explains Matthew 24:34: “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” The generation that sees the signs signaling the return of the Lord will endure through it all to see the Lord. When the signs appear, prophetic events will proceed very quickly. There is a stated nearness of the signs to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 4–5 and the Olivet Discourse
In 1 Thessalonians 4:15 the Apostle states: “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord.” “Lord” is a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. There are several Scriptures in which Paul uses the phrase found above to indicate words and thoughts spoken by Jesus (1 Cor. 7:10-11, 25; 9:14; 11:23-25). We have good reason to believe this is what happened in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11. In other words, the words and thoughts of Jesus in Matthew 24 and other parallel passages appear in 1 Thessalonians 4
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Preterism On Trial—Part IILarry Spargimino...April 25, 2022
In Part I of this series I shared some of the basic ideas about preterism, and why the view that prophecy has already been fulfilled doesn’t stand up under close scrutiny. In Part II, I want to look closely at some of the scriptures to which preterists appeal. Do they support preterism? I don’t believe so. Let the reader be the judge.
Revelation 1:7—God’s Judgment on Israel in AD 70?
“Behold, he cometh with clouds,” Revelation 1:7 says, “and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.” “Every eye” and “all kindreds” sound like a big group of people worldwide. The word “kindreds” is a translation of phule, meaning “tribes.” Preterists would say it is a reference to the twelve tribes, but in this text there is no reference to the “twelve tribes.” Rather it is “all tribes.” The same term is used in Rev. 5:9; 7:9; 11:9 and 13:7. It’s a very broad word that defies limitation to Israel, and even the ancient Roman Empire.
Preterists see the reference to “clouds” as a clincher for their case. They say it is a reference to the Divine “Cloud Rider,” a designation for God who has come in judgment upon nations in the historical past. Isaiah 19:1 reads, “Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.” Preterists argue that this happened when the Assyrian king Esarhaddon conquered Egypt in 671 BC and was God’s instrument of judgment upon Egyptian idolatry, as Rome was God’s instrument of judgment on Israel in AD 70.
Preterists have a certain creative flair for novel ideas that are not immediately apparent, but I think they have missed some essentials from the text of the Bible. In Isaiah 19, the Lord is pictured as riding ON the clouds, whereas in Revelation 1:7, the Lord comes WITH clouds. In this Scripture we see a textual parallel with Daniel 7:13: “… and, behold, one like the Son of man came WITH the clouds of heaven.” Verse 14 bristles with kingdom glory and says “his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Dare we even limit God’s dominion to the Roman world?
Matthew 24:14: Witness to Everyone in Jerusalem, and Then the End?
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world (oikumene) for a witness unto all nations (ethnos); and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24:14). Supposedly, “the end” in this verse is the end of the Jewish sacrificial system that occurred with the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70. The Gospel witness “in all the world” means “all the Roman world.”
Oikumene does have a range of meanings. Luke 2:1 tells us that “there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world (oikumene) should be taxed.” Obviously, this decree did not affect all the people on planet Earth. But oikumene is used in Acts 17:31 in the phrase God “will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.” This does not mean God will only judge the Roman world of antiquity. The same words can have different meanings, as in the phrase “let the dead bury their dead” (Luke 9:60). Context and meaning helps the reader decide.
Preterits, however, like to give a word the meaning that best suits their system rather than considering context and meaning. This is a real problem with preterism. It’s a case of the tail wagging the dog. For example, Romans 1:8 states: “I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world” (kosmos). “World,” of course, means the Roman world. However, in a different context the same word “kosmos” cannot be limited to the Roman world.
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