tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post4597177910854455355..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The Religious Right: John Hagee, Stephen Harper, Benjamin Netanyahu and Jimmy CarterEmily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-81865480401177055462010-08-08T06:46:29.512-04:002010-08-08T06:46:29.512-04:00Thank you for the informationThank you for the informationEmily Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-72311647597936034242010-08-08T00:16:11.591-04:002010-08-08T00:16:11.591-04:00Hal Lindsey's Pretrib Rapture "Proof"...Hal Lindsey's Pretrib Rapture "Proof"<br /><br /> Is Hal Lindsey's proof for a pretrib rapture "100 proof" - that is, 100 percent Biblical?<br /> In "The Late Great Planet Earth" (p. 143) Lindsey gives his "chief reason" for pretrib: "If the Rapture took place at the same time as the second coming, there would be no mortals left who would be believers" - that is, no believers still alive who could enter the millennium and repopulate the earth.<br /> We don't know if Lindsey's amnesia is voluntary or involuntary, or if he need amnesia rehab, but earlier (p. 54), while focusing on chapters 12 through 14 of Zechariah, Lindsey sees "a remnant of Jews in Jerusalem" who are mortals who will become believing mortals at the second coming and then become repopulating mortals!<br /> During the same discussion of Zech. 12-14 Lindsey overlooks some of the final verses in Zech. 14. They reveal that some of the tribulation survivors "of all the nations which came against Jerusalem" will refuse to go there "to worship the King, the Lord of hosts." Here's what will happen to those "heathen" rebels: "upon them shall be no rain."<br /> So the facts about the repopulating mortals, in unbelieving as well as believing ranks, cancel out Lindsey's "chief reason" for opposing a joint rapture/second coming - the ONLY rapture view to be found in official theology books and organized churches prior to 1830!<br /> (See historian Dave MacPherson's "The Rapture Plot," the most accurate and most highly endorsed book on pretrib rapture history - available at online stores like Armageddon Books etc. Also Google "Scholars Weigh My Research" and "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty.")<br /> Although Hal Lindsey claims that his "Late Great" didn't set a date for Christ's return, many of his followers - including copycats Bill Maupin ("1981") and Edgar Whisenant ("1988") - did view Lindsey as a date-setter, and his later book "The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon" (the sort of title that date-setters and their ga-ga groupies love) became another fizzle - unless we're still living in the 1980s!<br /> In Old Testament days false prophets were stoned to death. Now they're just stoned!lounormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291326710881301549noreply@blogger.com