Comments on: You Got Left Behind, Bummer

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:31:08 +0000

Never seen a beettr post! ICOCBW

By: Dave Terpstra

Dave Terpstra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:31 +0000

Wait. I’m confused. Have you or have you not been raptured? Seriously. I need to know. I thought I was in on that deal.

By: Shay

Shay — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:18:05 +0000

Yeah, the Church’s job is to make the Kingdom of God visible here on earth now. It is coming. It is here. It is yet to come.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:45 +0000

Shay,

I have actually been considering quite a bit this last 6 weeks the relationship between life now and life eternal and what does a new heaven and new earth mean for our future. The one thing that seems to resound in scripture is that what we do now has eternal consequences. I am not sure what that means for the new heaven and the new earth but I have decided that I am going to make that my baseline consideration for everything environmental. What we do now matters, always. I like that lens of looking at my life.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:36:45 +0000

Great questions Jacqui, I will try to lead some dialog on those questions on Sunday. I think that we ask scripture to do things it was intended to sometimes and it gets us confused.

A Thief in the Night is the best horrible movie ever!

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:20:01 +0000

My wife repeatedly makes the point (somewhat sarcastically, I think) that this isn’t the earth we are going to have for eternity. There will be a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. This world is passing away so why try to save it? Recycling and reducing CO2 emissions is just delaying the end of this earth (see Omega Code).

By: Jacqui Hausoul

Jacqui Hausoul — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:02 +0000

I’m not sure what to believe. I saw the “Left Behind” movie from the 1970′s. That really freaked me out as a kid. I still have the theme song mostly memorized.

Life was filled with guns and wars and everyone got trampled on the floor.
I wish we’d all been ready.
Children died, the days grew cold, a piece of bread could by a bag of gold.
I wish we’d all been ready.

There’s no time to change your mind. The Son has come and you’ve been left behind.

Do we stay here for half the tribulation? Do the Christians get pulled out at the beginning? If Christ left the Holy Spirit for Christians, can we be left her without His presence?

I have been in several studies, and I’m still not sure what to believe. Daniel and Revelations and Ezekiel haven’t cleared it up for me. I guess I’m just gonna have to wait and see.