Right back at you.
Your argument is meaningless to the conversation. So what if is says the wicked will remain. The Bible says the times will be like Noah and Lot it doesn't say the same thing is going to happen as happened then. Think for a moment.
You are trying to make something out of absolutely nothing.
The rapture theology says the wicked will remain. The Bibles says the wicked were removed.
Again this has nothing to do with the conversation. Lot and Noah were both removed. The wicked remained until they were destroyed. Big deal. I know this is one less argument you have for preterism, but it's silly to make stuff up where it doesn't exist.
Ahhhh yes, dispensationalist has to redefine what "near" means.
Ahhhh yes, preterist have to make stuff up out of nothing. You know if you would simply understand the time issue for a Divine perspective instead of looking at it with your "human" eyes things might make a little more sense. I know again that would kill your man-made doctrine, but at least you could let Scripture speak for itself instead of you putting your spin on the matter.
And I know you'll accuse me of the same thing, but everytime one of you bring this nonsense up it just shows your lack of understanding of the Biblical timeline.
And I know that it gets your goat that people won't buy into your theology, but just because we choose to see God's definition instead of "yours" doesn't make us incorrect.
It doesn't fit with their theoloy so it must mean something different.
And this goes both ways. Because God's timetable disrupts "your" theology you continue to hold on to man-made definitions.
Your same thinking leads people down the path of millions and millions of years for creation, because day doesn't mean day. I can see J.Jump say "Day was meant in God's terms not mans."
Well we've actually had this discussion in another thread or two. God never tells us how long it took Him to create the heavens and the earth, so I can't say either.
However God gives us some guidelines as to how He sees time and folks like you conveniently ignore those because once again it blows a gaping whole into "your" theology.
What would be the point of Rev 1:3 "time is near" if near can mean anything?
No one said near means "anything." God has His own definition of what near is and it would behoove us to find that understanding. And the point of Revelation 1:3 is exactly what God intended it to be. The time is near on HIS timetable not the timetable of man.
You have rendered the Scriptures meaningless.
Well that's probably unfortunately true for you, but hardly true for me.
Near means near, not "fill in your own time frame".
Again a baseless accusation. Never once have I said that near means fill in your own time frame. Near means learn what God's timetable is and believe that. That is what I have chosen to do.
Here's my last comment to you because I'm not going to waste any more time. If you want to slumber that is on you. However I will choose to be awake and understand what is coming down the pike. But just know that the Bible has made it very clear He is coming to meet the church in the air and after that is judgment day, so you will stand to give an account for what you spread. I hope that day does not overtake you like a thief in the night, but it will as long as you continue to slumber.
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