Why I Am A Futurist

[thephnxman]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Well yes we could all be wrong about it. And we could all be wrong about Acts 2:38. And we could be wrong about Oneness. So on and so forth.
I will stick with what Paul said:
Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come unless there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. 2 Thess 2:3

Amen: and the Church will definitely recognize "...the falling away and that man of sin...".
Not that we are looking for such, but look to the Lord.

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by mfblume

It's always good to read and hear various views.

Ok I have read both of those links. Now how about a link that explains Daniel 11:31 unto the end of the book?

[mfblume]

Daniel 11:21-45 is The life and acts of Antiochus Epiphanes

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Daniel 11:21-45 is The life and acts of Antiochus Epiphanes

Really? And where can we read how he fulfilled these things?

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Really? And where can we read how he fulfilled these things?

Check the history books. It's all there. Even the Macabbean books

[mfblume]

Check this out, MTD.

http://www.julianspriggs.com/Pages/A...Epiphanes.aspx

The books of Maccabees are not inspired, but they are in some instances VERY good histories.

[good samaritan]

Chuck Missler on you tube does some teaching on the book of Daniel that I enjoyed. I don't say that I'm in total agreement, but it is in depth. I definitely learned some things from it. He get's into some stuff about aliens and the Nephalim that is a little weird, but you have to pick the bones out sometimes. Who knows? Just because somethings sound crazy maybe he's on to something. lol.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Well yes we could all be wrong about it. And we could all be wrong about Acts 2:38. And we could be wrong about Oneness. So on and so forth.

I will stick with what Paul said:


Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come unless there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. 2 Thess 2:3

So no possible chance you are in error about who or what the man of sin is?

[Esaias]

The man of sin sits in God's temple. God's temple according to Paul is the church.

Therefore futurism's singular antichrist in rebuilt Jewish temple is not prophesied in scripture.

Next?

[Lafon]

Originally Posted by Esaias

The man of sin sits in God's temple. God's temple according to Paul is the church.

Therefore futurism's singular antichrist in rebuilt Jewish temple is not prophesied in scripture.

Next?

Do you have a scriptural passage wherein it is stated by Paul that the church is God's temple?

Malachi 3:1 prophesied that the Lord "shall suddenly come to his temple." Did God not do that when He entered that temple that is not made with hands, that is, that human body which He formed in the womb of Mary?

I've always understood Paul's statement of I Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19; and II Corinthians 6:16 was meant to imply that our human bodies, that is if we have been granted to possess the Spirit, is the "temple of God." Therefore seeing that Christ was also a man, like ourselves (Hebrews 2:14, 17), then should we not conclude that "God's temple," as Malachi wrote about, was His own body, and not a structure or building made by the hands of mortals?

When the prophesied Anti-Christ manifests himself in human flesh, will he not do so by sitting in a temple (i.e., human body) which God intended as His temple when He created mankind in the beginning? Was not the purpose which God intended in creating mankind was so that He who is invisible and incorporeal, become manifest through the physical bodies of mankind? Did God have some other purpose that He desired to achieve in His creation of man as a substantive human being than this; a temple wherein He was to be the Chief Cornerstone?