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The End of Days
May 27th
The End of Days
In Bible prophecy, the end of days is referred to as the period that will take place shortly before the return of Christ. Typically this time period is said to include a 7 year Tribulation which will involve the worst suffering man has ever experienced. Other religions, especially Judaism and Islam have their own beliefs concerning this time period. While it is sometimes referred to as the end of the world, this is a misnomer as the world is still believed to exist for a certain period of time following these events. The two books of the Bible which contain the most information regarding this period are Daniel and Revelation.
Because the language used in both Daniel and Revelation being heavily symbolic and metaphorical, there are countless interpretations. As a result, it is common for each denomination or sect of Christianity to have its own views on what the end of days will truly be like. Some Christians, such as the Eastern Orthodox believe that too much deliberation on these things could be dangerous; others such as the Seventh Day Adventists concentrate on these issues heavily. Most do agree however, that suffering will continue on this earth until the return of the Messiah.
Bible prophecy, especially that of the Book of Revelation, concerning the end of days is broken down into the following different camps:
* Preterist – believe that most if not all of the prophecies have already been fulfilled. * Historicist – look to scripture and fulfilled prophecies in order to find religious significance of past or current events.
* Futurist – sees most of the prophetic events of Daniel and Revelation, as literal events which will unfold in the future.
* Idealist – is sometimes referred to as the spiritual approach which sees the prophecies as allegorical and see them largely as non-literal.
The next subject, of which there is much disagreement concerning the end of days, is the millennial period spoken of in Revelation. In this passage, it states that Christ will rule the earth for 1000 years, but not everyone takes this as a literal 1000 year period. These are divided into four primary camps:
* Post-tribulation millennium – believes that the second coming will come after the tribulation and Christ will rule the worldly Kingdom for 1000 years before the final judgment.
* Pre-tribulation or dispensational millennium – states that a rapture will occur before the tribulation. The second coming of Christ with the church will occur after the tribulation, followed by the millennium.
* Post millennialism – states that both the second coming and the final judgment will occur after the millennium.
* Amillennialism – believes that the millennium is only a symbolic thousand years, not a literal one, and that this time stretches from the first coming of Jesus to his second coming.
As you can see, the study of Bible prophecy is complex and there can sometimes be some fierce disagreements between the different camps. Research is also paid to secret societies and international organizations such as the Freemasons and the Bilderberg Group which may be planning to bring the antichrist to power in our very lifetimes.
The Antichrist Identity is an international group of political researchers, analysts and media group with a predominant focus on the formation of the coming new world order and its impact on a political, economic and social level. Visit http://theantichristidentity.com to learn more.
The Need for an Uncompromising Witness Against Arminianism
May 27th
The Need for an Uncompromising Witness Against Arminianism
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The Need for an Uncompromising and Vigilant Witness Against Arminianism
By William MacLean
“Warnings from the pulpit and denunciation of the errors of Arminianism are not now heard as once they were. Even in pulpits where the truth is preached, it is to be feared that, in some cases, a faithful witness is not raised against Arminianism. The cause of this may be due in a measure to the fact that in defending the cause of truth new forms of error have to be exposed and assailed, with the result that the old enemy is left so far unmolested as if it were dead. Unfortunately this is not so; Arminianism is very much alive in the pulpit, in the theological and religious press, and in the modem evangelistic meeting . . . . . When we bear in mind the horror with which our forefathers regarded Arminianism, the modern attitude to it indicates how far the professing Church has drifted from the position of the theologians of those days.” (“The Reformed Faith” by the Rev. D. Beaton, p. 18).
Arminianism was the false gospel of John Wesley and his followers in the eighteenth century, and of D. L. Moody in the nineteenth. It is the stock-in-trade of well nigh all the popular evangelists of this century from Billy Graham downwards. The gospel halls of the Brethren, Open and Closed, are nurseries of Arminianism. The active agents of the Faith Mission and the Salvation Army, notwithstanding the moral and social results to the credit of the latter, spread the plague on every side. All the sects which have sprung up in these latter times, however divergent in their doctrines and practices — Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostalists, Mormons, Christadelphians, Cooneyites, etc., etc., have all in common, the fatal lie of free-willism. It is Satan’s sovereign drug, which causes the soul to sleep in delusion, and the end of such delusion is death. “Free will,” says Spurgeon, “has carried many souls to hell but never a soul to heaven.”
Arminianism is armed to the teeth in enmity to true and vital godliness. Where it flourishes its fruits are a superficial goody-goody form of godliness — the lamp and the light of the foolish virgins which went out in death and in despair. The Declaratory Acts of 1879, 1892 and 1921 in Scotland, and in 1901 in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand threw open the flood-gates to the deluge of Arminianism. Spiritual death and desolation followed. The fat land was turned into barrenness, and the Churches adopting these Declaratory Acts are now well on the road to Rome. The ’sovereign drug’ of Arminianism has flourished beyond the wildest dreams of priests and Jesuits. It is not by open and unabashed passing of nefarious Declaratory Acts that Satan as an angel of light now works. Subtle infiltration is his present policy and technique. What need there is for the ‘denunciation’ and the ‘horror’ the Rev. D. Beaton refers to, as the cloven-hoof of Arminianism is unmistakably seen far within the tents of the popular evangelical conventions, fellowships, and unions of our day! The Scripture Union, the Inter-Varsity Fellowship, the International Council of Christian Churches, the conventions of the Keswick fraternity etc., are all riddled with the cancer of Arminianism.
FROM: “Arminianism: Another Gospel” by William MacLean
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