"APOCALYPTIC ESCHATOLOGY"
by Art Katz
I have an outline of strong-minded furthest back living events, but organize is no way that I can glue to a linear theory or chat. You thrust find that I thrust stay coming back to strong-minded themes in the interweaving of strands that make up the whole.
These are the furthest back days, and I have a view of the prestige that can be called "apocalyptic." Apocalyptic vent the "actual revealing," but it is accompanied by damage, stately, upheaval, collisions between light and shade, and the seismic activity of all things that can be shaken. It thrust be a paroxysmal time, very akin to birthing. Out of the death bad mood of the world as we have renowned it historically, organize is to be birthed the millennial age and the stately of additional countryside and the coming of God to this earth at a factor in time. But the Gentile nations, who are ruled condescending by the principalities and powers of the air, thrust not entertain to "make happen up the determination" defective a furthest back take a crack at v the coming incomparability of God.
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In a clock that has seen the prosperity gospel, name-it-and-claim-it, and all of that, this view is wholly contradictory, each in spirit and tenor, to what is without hesitation recognized in the church. To bring an apocalyptic end-time tilt thrust be each an undesirable folder and one in which our reward thrust not be excellent with men. It thrust be resisted, not solitary by church traditions, but as well by persons who have played with the negotiate of the furthest back days as a considerate of fad. Organize is a way that we can argument about the furthest back days, and make of it additional bric-a-brac, but seeing that the far-seeing truth of the furthest back days breaks through, it possibly will even be resisted by persons who have solitary definite lip service to the concept of it. It would wish a shin up of anointing to certain this tilt and a role to go on the disapprove, the tell off, the fortitude, and the misconception. You thrust be called a exaggerated and negative-just as persons who point out righteousness thrust be called legalists. You thrust have epithets directed at you, which if you are delicate and beliefs of yourself in a self-conscious spirituality, you thrust go down analogous a deck of cards. You thrust rupture at the very summit destroy.
Can you feel what considerate of tradition it thrust assert to fit and form men for that task? Being thrust God relate in decisive the role and life to wean them from any be obliged to to be approved? It requires the private work of the cantankerous in order to be persistent in that work. And yet, if it does not come, what assume have we for the church?
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"As it is a glitch unto death, no aspect of the biblical prestige thrust be used up coarse. This requires us to protect the add up to of the biblical prestige. The far-seeing danger, assume, common sense, the millennial age, eschatology, and everything that is part of the prestige is called now a evaluation. For the unplanned, it may mean the give up of the prestige in an end-time apostasy. For persons who have not been determined to re-examine their prestige in the light of the things that thrust be come across, it may mean the loss of their prestige. At the extraordinarily time, and by the very extraordinarily factors, an greatest now the gentle of the understanding of the knowledge of God is available, that frenzy us not solitary to stand in that hour, but to be fitted for the millennial glories that follow. In other words, the extraordinarily events for some thrust mean the loss of prestige, but for others, who are disposed, it thrust mean an accumulate in the splendor of prestige and in the knowledge of God. Whatever thing depends upon how we view the apocalyptic cessation of the age. Is our view based on the stately of God, and that these are the fixed furthest back living convulsions that stipulation beginning it? Drive we result it a claim to quantity in doesn't matter what is requisite to that end since we see the eternal reward? Are we jealous for a God who has been blasphemed all these ages, and rejected from the counsels of men, now coming now history, prevailing, revealing Himself, the stage in a powerful way, each in common sense and adorn, that precedes the fixed appearing of Himself in His own Reckon to incomparability and house forever?"
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In Colossians, we read that Jesus "disarmed the powers." In other words, He did not weigh down a fixed trouncing. That is used up for church. In the manner of it takes place, the whole fallen, perfect realm thrust be cast out of their peaceful, managerial places. Who thrust switch them? I commit it thrust be persons who make up that "fullness of the Gentiles" expressed of in Romans 11. We know that the rationale of this church age is to "find a recruits for His name from amid all nations" (Acts 15:14), and I commit that organize is an actual notable. And that God is preparing and straight believers for incomparability, that we shall incomparability and house with Him from the peaceful places. We are God's interchange for the fallen angels, in my aim. It does not say that in so many words. I cannot educate you particular scriptures, but I put together a sense about and a sense organize. And one of the upper limit grand clues is in 1 Corinthians 6. Paul was beside yourself to find two believers departure to a committee of the law of the world to repair a disharmony amid themselves. He alleged, "Being are you doing? Don't you know that you are departure to incomparability condescending angels and nations?" (Paraphrased). In other words, it seems that they didn't know that they were basic disposed for an eternal, managerial place.
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"It says in Scrape 21 that seeing that the Member of the aristocracy comes, He brings His reward with Him to make happen to each man according to his works. This argue is tiny tacit in the modern-day church, and that is why it is essentially fortunate with tarn church send away. But our works that thrust beget through the fire of common sense, that thrust not be completed of hay, wood and stubble, but of affluent stones, thrust earn for us an eternal greatness in the organization of God. Unending reward is a crown and a greatness relative to our place in the millennial countryside. Not everybody comes to the extraordinarily place in the extraordinarily blood relationship to the throne. Undeniable are even cast out now the outer walls shade, anywhere organize is a wailing and a gnashing of teeth. This may mean the unsaved and unregenerate, but thrust it as well span persons believers who have been come out in the open and agreed and exterior, who had no greatness in this life, whose works did not beget the fire but were hay, wood and stubble, or who had no works at all, and they were inherently flat tire at a place less than what possibly will have been theirs had they definite themselves to the purposes of God?"
Demand read the whole thing and along with get on your pose about since persons were only a few excerpts I cream of the crop to get on.
I stage set with upper limit of it, but dispute with some of it. I'm curious to get a chat departure and to read everybody else's pose.
I'll perfect by asking the extraordinarily neighborhood Mr Katz asked: "Do we have an eschatological expectation?"
