Lebanon-Israel and Pre-millenialists

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Bene Diction

Lord, we have sinned against you: Lord, have mercy.
Response: Lord, have mercy.
Lord, show us your mercy and love.
Response: And grant us your salvation.

“I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over soon and I can finally be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

“I too am soooo excited!!”

“I will just have time to get my hair and nails done”

Sound the shofar!…Yeshua is stepping onto the battlefield.” 

From Rapture Ready, a pre-millenial online forum. Comments to the loss and human tragedy escalating in the Middle East. Most of this has been pulled. They do Tim LaHaye et al proud, don’t they? More at Bartholomew’s Notes on Relgion

Pre-millenial: The belief that Christ returns visibly and bodily at the beginning of the thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. He will rule the nations from Jerusalem. God will resume salvation work for Israel as a nation immediately after the departure or “rapture” of the true church.

We bow before God as a people of faith, asking for forgiveness for our silent complicity with sin in our broken world. We have too often pursued our own narrow interests, brushing aside the needs and anguish of many others throughout the earth. 

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
Response: Amen

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Have courage for the great sorrows, And patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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3 Responses to Lebanon-Israel and Pre-millenialists

  1. joseph says:
    July 15, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    This sort of thing has always been troubling to me. I occassionally get some forwarded “prophetic messages” from well meaning folk who rejoice not over the “peace of Jerusalem”, but its opposite.

    I have even heard the term “drive-by shofar” used in earnest in the Middle East by Christians visiting the Holy Land just to pray for such “final battles”.

    Yes, prayer of confession is in order.

  2. Bene D says:
    July 15, 2006 at 3:08 pm

    You get those to?!;^)

    I find my response is one of grief, sorrow and anger.
    Dread also. Anyone one of us can fall into deception, I can’t lie to myself and pretend it couldn’t happen.

  3. Gina R Johnson says:
    July 17, 2006 at 6:56 am

    (sigh). Yeah, I was there in my beliefs a long time ago. Now, I’m question-mode about this aspect. It’s difficult to talk to anyone about it, because that rapture thing is so deeply ingrained in the evangelical community. Frankly, I’m shaken and a little on edge about what’s happening in the M.E. I blogged about it this past Friday (july 14,2006).