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mharrell08:
--- Quote from: JohnMichael on May 21, 2011, 10:20:00 AM ---65 degrees and no humidity, or no deal. ;D
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And i want my mansion to have a view of the ocean :D
arion:
I can't mock those folks for being so gullible even though I would like to. By the grace of God you know.....
You can imagine what Camping's fervent believers must be feeling today. No wonder why Christ said that when the Son of man comes would he find faith on the earth? A number of these people will cast off any faith whatsoever that they had and be extremely bitter and resist any attempts to reach them with the true gospel. And the corporation itself after laying low for awhile will pick up where they left off (like last time in 1994) like nothing ever happened and keep on taking people's money with no shame. If the 'leaders' over there had an ounce of integrity they would admit that they were deceived and shut down all the radio stations but of course that will never happen. And then too of course the major media will have a field day with their mocking as well. It's all by God's design of course and not a day goes by that I don't remind myself of that fact...often. These sort of things must happen but it's aggravating to watch stuff like this happen and see the gullible being sucked into the matrix as it were.
lostANDfound:
thanks for that, arion.
Dave in Tenn:
In the early 80's, I was at a revival in our baptist church. The preacher there was named Anis Shorrosh (if I'm spelling that correctly), and he taught from scripture that the world would end in 1988--forty years after the birth of the nation of Israel. When I talk to my family (who also attended this church) now, they don't even remember him preaching that. The year 1988 came and went without them so much as noticing that 'this might be the year'. I, on the other hand, was a true believer. I won't enumerate all the ways that this false prophecy has negatively affected my natural life. In my flesh, I should have hoped that SOMEBODY had stood up in that revival service and rebuked--even mocked--that prophet of Baal. I should wish that somebody had smacked me around a little and preached what little truth they knew about "the date and hour". What it might have done to improve my life I can't say.
But nowadays, I'm THANKFUL for the bitterness it caused (and contributed to) and I praise God for what role it played in the 'losing of my faith'. For me, the Gospel is not additive. This is not the next stage in my upward spiritual evolution. Everything that came before, I count as dung. I know that it wasn't all dung, but I consider it that way in relation to the real good news. I didn't get to 'here' without going through 'there'. This is true. But I also didn't get to 'here' without losing my first love and tasting the bitterness of religion and false doctrine.
So from that perspective, I can only HOPE that some will be crushed by this day. When they've been crushed enough, they will be in a better place. Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
I hope ya'll understand.
arion:
I hope ya'll understand.
Sure do. What satan means for evil God means for the ultimate good even though as we've been taught that sometimes we can't see that until quite a bit later. It's just unseemly to give into any temptation to mock those people. The world relishes in that of course but we've all been deceived. One of my first trips down the religious spectrum was Herbert Armstrong (as I know others here went down that road) and I ran the gamut of deception after deception until I discovered the 'truth' of full gospel pentacostalism only to discover later it was just another 'ism'. Deception has been symbolized as an onion with many different layers and I keep telling God I've got to be at about the core of the onion right now. ;D
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