Nearly 4,300 years ago the masses of mankind had gathered themselves in the fertile plain of Shinar to build themselves a city and make a tower reaching unto the heavens! They wanted to make a name for themselves and to avoid being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth! In the Biblical story (Genesis 11:1-9), God, seeing what they were up to, decided to go and confuse the languages in order to divide up and disperse people groups into various cultures so that mankind would not be able to progress as quickly in their development, while living in sin. Continue reading
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Corrie Ten Boom – Christian Holocaust Survivor – A Rapturous Warning
Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch Christian, was a woman who went through the Holocaust of Nazi Germany in the 1940s. Her father, family, and her were helping Jews to escape during that time and were caught by Nazi authorities and imprisoned. She survived! While there she encouraged many others by faith in God though also witnessing the death of many! In the after years of her life she spent much time to help and encourage fellow Christians, as well as to help prepare them for further trials that we, as God’s faithful, must witness along the way before we all reach the gates of Heaven! Continue reading
One Text, One Paragraph, Problems for the Rapture. Really?
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3. “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” (Emphasis added).
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The Rapture – Are Christians likely to vanish at any moment?
It is widely taught today among Christians that there is a coming “Rapture” in which sincere Christians – “the church” – are destined to simply disappear without a moment’s notice! They’ll simply be gathered up to Jesus in the twinkling of an eye and disappear! It could even happen one second from now or while you’re reading this. Is this, however, really what the Bible teaches? Continue reading