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Can a Born Again Christian go to Hell? Yes
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Millions of pretribbers believe in the “once saved always saved doctrine.” They love this doctrine just as much as the pretribulation doctrine. This is their fire insurance plan. Many deceived born again Christians think they can do what they want and still make it into heaven. Sadly thousands maybe millions of deceived pretrib Christians will [...]
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When you are in Christ, you are in Israel because Jesus’ name is Israel.
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When you are in Jesus, you are in Israel. How can this be? Read on. The word “Israel” has at least five different meanings.The first is the land which is called Israel, the ground. The land that was promised to Abraham. The second Israel is the people who are called Jews. They are the ethnic [...]
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Are the Old Testament Saints at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? Yes, their getting married.
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The pretribbers believe and teach: “After the rapture and prior to the return of Christ to the earth, the “wedding of the Lamb” will take place in heaven (Revelation 19:7-9).” (Tim LaHaye and Ed Hindson general editors, Wayne A. Brindle managing editor, The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy, article written by Ed Hindson, page 363.)However, [...]
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Is the Fig Tree: Israel?
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Another false teaching the pretribbers teach is that Israel is the fig tree in Matthew 24:32. Grant Jeffrey, a pretribbers, explains it like this: One of the last prophetic signs announcing His return was the sign of the fig tree. Six times in the Old Testament the fig tree is used as a symbol of [...]
Jul
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Different Dispensations? Yes and No
July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Pretribbers are dispensationalist. Dispensationalists believe that the church age will end when the Tribulation Period begins because God is going back to the Old Covenant to deal with Israel under the seventieth week of Daniel. Just like water and oil don’t mix, they believe that the Old and New covenants don’t mix. Therefore the purpose [...]
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The Father’s House: John 14
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In this passage, the pretribbers would have you believe that Jesus is up in heaven working on a big housing project (the Father’s house) in these last days to put all the secretly Raptured Christians into mansions. Each one of us, according to the pretribbers, will receive a huge mansion. Those who are “the dead [...]
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Is the secret Rapure imminent? No
July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
The imminency doctrine teaches that: Jesus can come at any moment in time. In this doctrine, no prophetic events have to be fulfilled before Jesus can come back. Grant R. Jeffrey, a pretribber, describes “imminent” this way: The word `imminent’ simply means that Christ could translate His Church to heaven without the necessity of the [...]
Jul
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1 Corinthians 15:50-55
July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The pretribbers teach that this passage refers to a secret Rapture, but there are five reasons why this passage is a public coming. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all [...]
Jul
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“Doctrines must be based on accumulation of all biblical passages on a topic.” (Grant R. Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral, page 86.) Out of the 318 coming references in the New Testament, the pretribbers have only three primary secret Rapture passages that they build their doctrine on. Compared to the other doctrines of the Bible, the [...]
Jul
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Sovereignty
July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are millions of pretribbers who believe in an extreme form of the sovereignty doctrine. What do I mean by extreme? There are millions of pretribbers who believe that all bad things that happen to Christians is either sent by God or is allowed by God to teach them a lesson or to give them [...]