Originally posted by Great King Rat
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But if you wager that it does happen in ten years, and it does, then you will earn the moneyzzz. What am I missing here? You can win. You won't of course, but theoretically you could.
But if we bet our lives and it doesn't happen - which is going to be the case - that I won't get what I deserve.
Are you making things needlessly comp ...[text shortened]... hat, next time maybe you could instead say "I wasn't born again yesterday".
South Park, baby.
You had original said "in my lifetime", so I played on it. We can't win either way! Unless I put the money in trust for you!! Like that's gonna happen! 😉
"On a sidenote, what do you mean by subsequently "see the light" and can "endure to the end" without receiving the "mark of the beast"?"
Let's say the "rapture" happens between now and when I die.
Reveal Hidden Contentapparently I'll die first since you're younger.
If you recognize the event, and I can't guarantee you will, then you'll have the opportunity to repent, but you'll have to keep the faith through a very bad time. You may be beheaded, or worse.
After the rapture of the church and the close of the dispensation of the age of grace God will resume the prophetic time table. That could take up to 40 years. The "man of sin" is revealed. He, for the most part, will be a dictator ruling over a ten nation confederacy occupying the Middle East. He will go on a rampage until the middle of the 7 year period called the tribulation. In the middle of that period he will sit himself on the throne in the temple calling himself God. That is when he becomes the "son of perdition".
If you can stay alive for 3 1/2 more years you'll see Jesus return to earth. If you take the mark of the beast you're dead. If you live through it and enter into the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ you still have to keep the law or you will be terminated quickly.
Fun stuff isn't it?