RE: Rapture.. -
06-30-2005, 06:08 AM
As much as we may be trying not hurt our Catholic brothers, we must also not that the truth must be upheld at all times without compromise and conformity. It is with this in mind that I like Luther will try my best to explain a word or two as you did request TM.
Now Rapture theology has can be traced right from within the walls of Vatican where the General of the Jesuits sits. The research I have done shows that in 1580 a Jesuit by the name Francisco Ribera was ordered by his superiors to develop a new method of prophetic interpretation that would shift the protestant focus on the papacy as the Anti-Christ. You realise that this is also the time that protestant reformation was ongoing. The persecution of bible believing Christians was rampant.
As the affliction was administered to Christians they also increased in numbers. There it became apparent to the instigators of violence to change tact. What they had failed to gain by Violence they sought to gain by artifice. Ribera placed the fulfillment of revelation largely in future hence the Theology of "FUTURISM". In his theory the antichrist was some singular diabolical power that would emerge to reign during the last seven years preceding the visible return of Christ. Christians therefore need not fear the antichrist coz they will be secretly raptured to heaven before the antichrist's reign.
His work however was be catapulted into prominence 300 years later. The Spirit of reformation had overshadowed it. Francisco was not the only Jesuit working on the FUTURISM theory. Another Chilean Jesuit Manuel de Lacunza in his book The coming of Messiah in glory and majesty" promoted His theory.
In 1827 a catholic apostolic church, Church driven by speaking in tongues- actually inaudible incantations, pastor, Edward Irving found and translated The book on Futurism by De Lacunza. During one of his church sessions an utterance by one member proclaimed the theory of secret rapture. And the news spread wide, out and about.
These amazing eventualities did not stop there. One miss Margaret MacDonald a young girl in 1830 had a revelation concerning the end time, in which the doctrine of the secret rapture was reaffirmed. It is here that John Darby the founder of Plymouth Brethren Church became intrigued by the revelation and decided to pay the young girl a visit. John took her ideas and modified them and became the self proclaimed author of FUTURISM. He made several trips to America to promote his futuristic views of prophecy, which were enthusiastically received. When he died n 1874 his views lived on!
Here it the most feared revelation. In 1909 The oxford university press published the SCOFIELD REFERENCE BIBLE. A closer inspection this bible reveals that Colporteurs I. Scofield used John Darbys futuristic Ideals in his explanatory notes. His bibles sold throughout the North America esp. in the Bible belt, where unsuspecting Protestants had not idea they were promoting a Jesuit ploy.
In 1970 Hal Lindsay took some of the same theory and used them to write his bestselling BOOK THE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH. Lindsay by the way is the Guy who predicted that the great snatch(another term for rapture) would take place in 1981. When it failed he offered no apologies fro hundreds of people who he had misled.
In 1990 the duo of Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins took the same theory and used it to market their twelve part book series and feature film LEFT BEHIND. Tragically what was once a Jesuit theory is now an accepted truth by many Protestants.
This truth here is juts but a Jesuitical maneuver to get rid of the bible as stated in their oath, which am still looking. I have so far managed to get a few bits. But they will surely be helpful in understanding the prophecy. I will also show here that all the protestant churches in America are currently under the Romanism was predicted in REV 13:14. And that since that time it is now considered hate speech in America to identify papacy as the Antichrist. President Bush during his campaigns recently discovered that even associating with those who do so could spell political doom. Now that is how far Jesuitism has infected The American union with its evil cancer called Romanism. They hide behind the façade of a church calling itself the holy Roman Catholic Church.
Let those who read and earnestly study the word of God know that the time is here. And the beast is here. The antichrist is here.
TM have a pleasnt reading and anybody else who wish to be enlightened. Please let me have any material you thing could help in telling of this evil that is now hovering upon the four corners of the world.
God bless.
"The whole world, from President [George W.] Bush downwards, was engaged in trying to strike a power-sharing deal. If that power-sharing deal made Odinga number three, we'd have never accepted it." - Salim Lone
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