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lilitalienboi16:

--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on November 03, 2013, 01:27:01 PM ---Alex, from where do you get that the moon is symbolic of God's elect?

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You're right dave. I could not substantiate this claim. My apologies. I was mistaken!

Kat:
Hi zvezda,

I certainly have thought of those days after Noah went into the ark before the flood came. Does Noah represents Jesus Christ and Noah and his family the few? And God Himself determined when the door of the Ark would be shut by his own hand.

Gen 7:16  So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

There are some interesting Scriptures that seem to parallel the Door being shut. 

Luke 13:25  When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, "Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you, "I do not know you, where you are from,'

Could there be a spiritual wedding that takes place in the short interval from the Door being shut and the flood that is imminent? 

Mat 25:10  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with Him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Dave in Tenn:
Luk 13:23 Now someone said to Him, "Lord, are few being saved?Now He said to them, "
Luk 13:24 Be struggling to be entering through the cramped door, for I am saying to you, many will be seeking to enter and will not be strong enough."
Luk 13:25 From which time the householder should be roused and latch the door, and you should be beginning to stand outside and to be knocking at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' and answering, he will be declaring to you, 'I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you?'"
Luk 13:26 Then should you be beginning to say, 'We ate and drank in your sight, and in our squares you teach!'"
Luk 13:27 He also will be declaring: 'I am saying to you, I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you? Withdraw from me, all workers of injustice!'"
Luk 13:28 There will be lamentation and gnashing of teeth, whenever you should be seeing Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, yet you cast outside."
Luk 13:29 And they will be arriving from east and west and from north and south and will be made to recline in the kingdom of God.
Luk 13:30 And lo! they are last who will be first, and they are first who will be last."

zvezda:
Mat 24: 39  and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Hi Kat, it seems to me, they probably were confused about something since they didn't know what's going on until the flood came, they obviously didn't even try to knock or ask to open the door. So I don't think there's a spiritual wedding from the door being shut and the flood that is imminent. But you brought up a good point about the door being shut, I guess we need to study more and wait for God granting us the understanding.

Kat:


--- Quote from: zvezda on November 03, 2013, 06:23:57 PM ---Mat 24: 39  and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Hi Kat, it seems to me, they probably were confused about something since they didn't know what's going on until the flood came, they obviously didn't even try to knock or ask to open the door. So I don't think there's a spiritual wedding from the door being shut and the flood that is imminent. But you brought up a good point about the door being shut, I guess we need to study more and wait for God granting us the understanding.
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Of course the world will be confused and not know what is happening when Christ is returning and what do you think the people of the world will think when they see the "sign of the Son of man will appear"... they will "mourn" at what they believe is happening.

Mat 24:30  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
v. 31  And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The ark represents Jesus Christ ("God saved Noah and his family from the raging waves of the sea in an ark. When we come to understanding spiritual things, we will clearly see that the ark represents Christ" http://bible-truths.com/lake12.html) and Noah's family "the few" (1Peter 3:20) represents the elect. When the elect have enter into the Ark-Christ-Kingdom, is when the door will be shut, "when once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door" (Luke 13:25).

When does this spiritual "wedding" of the elect take place? Well as soon as "the Lord our God... becomes King" and begins His reign and He raises the elect into His kingdom to meet Him in the air... when the bride meets the Bridegroom is the wedding - the marriage of the Lamb.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
v. 17  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

Rev 19:6 And I heard as a voice of a great multitude, and as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of mighty thunderings, saying—Hallelujah! Because the Lord, our God, the Almighty, hath become King.
v. 7 Let us rejoice and exult, and give glory unto Him, because the marriage of the Lamb, is come, and, His wife, hath made herself ready;
v. 8 and it hath been given unto her, that she should be arrayed in fine linen, bright, pure, for, the fine linen, is, the righteous acts of the saints.
v. 9 And he saith unto me—Write! Happy, they who, unto the marriage supper of the Lamb, have been bidden! And he saith unto me—These words, are, true words of God. (Rotherham)

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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