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Eschatology review online
By Ron McRay
February 2, 2002
Jesus did not know what He was talking about!
Do you believe that? I don’t, but the way most treat the Bible,
they evidently believe that Jesus lied about some things. Let us explore
that for a short time. First ---
This is the first article that I have put online. I still mail out the
hard copy each month. You should all be receiving it. If someone forwards
this online article to you and you are not receiving the mailed out
issue, and you desire to receive it, I will need your name and address,
as it is mailed each month (when funds are available) – of course, it is
free! There are no set times for these
online articles. Whenever I have time. Maybe next week, if my three day
seminar on the 8th, 9th, and 10th does not take too
long. [New Waverly, Texas, if anyone is close enough to attend.] I pray
that you will carefully think about the contents of each of the articles
and keep and open mind and an open Bible.
Look at these verses very closely:
And when YE shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that
the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee
to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart
out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For
these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are
written may be fulfilled [Luke 21:20-22].
You see the dilemma we are in? Jesus evidently lied about it, for "all
things which are (were) written were not fulfilled" – or were
they?
Of what are we afraid? Do we not only want the truth? Or, are we afraid
of what our friends and/or our preacher might say if we believe Jesus?
Was Jesus too difficult in speaking to understand? When Jesus said, "YE,"
did not the apostles know that He was speaking directly to them, about
their generation?
The parallel passages are in Mat. 24 and Mark 13. Read all three
chapters.
The apostles asked two questions: "when" and "what." WHAT was to happen
and the accompanying signs, and WHEN were "these things" to happen?
Verse 32 says, "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, till all be fulfilled."
Were all fulfilled in that generation then living, or did Jesus lie about
it? Were all things "that were written," fulfilled during that generation
or did Jesus lie about that also?
It comes down to this: We have been taught things that are exactly
opposite from what Jesus said. We have come to believe what we have been
taught. But, even though honest, the preachers and teachers that taught
us those things are mistaken, and we are mistaken for having believed
them, or Jesus lied about it. Does that mean that we might lose some of
the acquaintances that we thought were our friends? No doubt. Just read
how the "friends" of Stephen and Paul turned on them.
If we believe the Bible, then we must realize that the Bible does not
contradict itself. That means that we must make the remainder of the
Bible harmonize (not contradict) what Jesus plainly stated in Lk. 21:22
and 32. To do otherwise is to be dishonest with ourselves.
The bottom line to that is this: Do we accept what Jesus said and refuse
what men offer us, or do we scrap the whole Bible? If we cannot trust
that Jesus told us the truth here, how do we know He told us the truth
when it comes to our justification before God?
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