Why we are on double overtime ... the rapture

[Lewis HB]

I have been waiting for Jesus to come for fifty years. Back then,
no one knew how long a generation was going to be. Or even when the
final generation was going to start.
The world war one generation thought the Jews return to Israel
about 1880 began the final generation. After that failed, some thought
the 1898 Zionist meeting in Geneva meant the second coming would be in
1940, and many fundamental Bible people thought Hitler was the AC !!!
It wasn't until recently we discovered that Ezekiel 4:4-6 and Leviticus 26:27/28 put
the beginning of the final generation as 1948; 2520 Jewish years after Babylon. But even then we had no
idea how long that generation would be.
Remembering the book "88 reasons for 1988" ... but 40 years came and went.
Then 70 years and then 80 years((2nd coming in 2028))((psalm 90:10; Matthew 24)) have come and
gone because we believe in a pre trib rapture > So, we are five
years into double overtime already!!!
We do know that ""it's close"" but that's all we can know for sure.
So we stay faithful.
I'm likely near the end of my life. I'm already 78, & I hope Jesus
comes soon. If not, I know in whom I have believed, and look forward
to that glorious meeting in the heavens.
Maranatha, Lewis

 

[Armchair Apologist]

I have been waiting for Jesus to come for fifty years. Back then,
no one knew how long a generation was going to be. Or even when the
final generation was going to start.
The world war one generation thought the Jews return to Israel
about 1880 began the final generation. After that failed, some thought
the 1898 Zionist meeting in Geneva meant the second coming would be in
1940, and many fundamental Bible people thought Hitler was the AC !!!
It wasn't until recently we discovered that Ezekiel 4:4-6 and Leviticus 26:27/28 put
the beginning of the final generation as 1948; 2520 Jewish years after Babylon. But even then we had no
idea how long that generation would be.
Remembering the book "88 reasons for 1988" ... but 40 years came and went.
Then 70 years and then 80 years((2nd coming in 2028))((psalm 90:10; Matthew 24)) have come and
gone because we believe in a pre trib rapture > So, we are five
years into double overtime already!!!
We do know that ""it's close"" but that's all we can know for sure.
So we stay faithful.
I'm likely near the end of my life. I'm already 78, & I hope Jesus
comes soon. If not, I know in whom I have believed, and look forward
to that glorious meeting in the heavens.
Maranatha, Lewis

News flash, they have been predicting the apocalypse and second coming ever since Jesus's ascension into heaven!

Christ is coming soon! This goes without saying but time is relative and also pretty much a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of eternity.

I am still premillennial in my thinking and see the end-time scenario only becoming more and more clear as the years pass by. We are to live as if Jesus's appearing is imminent (which it is) but are to "Occupy till he comes" and to faithfully "Run the race that is set before us" and to walk worthy of the vocation wherein we are called.

 

[Salty]

News flash, they have been predicting the apocalypse and second coming ever since Jesus's ascension into heaven!

Like who? Was it really that many?

 

[Salty]

My favorite is 11 Sep - 88 - as I personally interviewed EW on the radio about 1 month sooner.
Then I met him personally about 3 weeks later, at his last public appearance (In Syracuse, NY)
Really nice - but really messed up on his theology.

He had mentioned he had not been going to church - as he stayed home to study his Bible for this book he wrote.
I brought that up in SS this week - and one individual mentioned that this is one reason why how important it is to fellowship in a church!

 

[Ben1445]

Like who? Was it really that many?

I counted 199 listed. I’ll say it is close to that but I don’t trust my scroll counting and I am not going to do it again.
But those are just the ones recorded on that Wikipedia page.

 

[Armchair Apologist]

Like who? Was it really that many?

This list actually goes back quite far but I would add to it the actual Apostles seeing they were obviously expecting Christ to take the throne and reign as Messiah in Jerusalem (Acts 1:6). I'm betting they were thinking that Christ would be back in a few days to set everything up!

The early church also expected Christ's imminent return as they sold all their possessions and goods with many speculating that this brought poverty to the church in Jerusalem of which Paul was taking a collection to alleviate.

I scanned through the list, I'm sure there were a few that were left out but effectively proves my point.

 

[Armchair Apologist]

My favorite is 11 Sep - 88 - as I personally interviewed EW on the radio about 1 month sooner.
Then I met him personally about 3 weeks later, at his last public appearance (In Syracuse, NY)
Really nice - but really messed up on his theology.

He had mentioned he had not been going to church - as he stayed home to study his Bible for this book he wrote.
I brought that up in SS this week - and one individual mentioned that this is one reason why how important it is to fellowship in a church!

I remember Whisnant's "88 reasons why the rapture will happen in 1988." This was the big culminaton of many other predictions based upon a 40 year generation from the rebirth of Israel.

I also recall the Mayan prediction of 2012 and then I personally revised this to 2021 thinking perhaps the Mayans were dyslexic or something. I guess I was wrong...

 

[Mike B]

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Jesus said that no one is going to know, save the Father. That said, why waste time worrying
about it. It's certainly not some mathematical calculation.

From our perspective, that means "He'll get here when He gets here".

In the meantime, we just need to keep doing our job in being faithful to the Word and
sharing the gospel.

 

[Salty]

This list actually goes back quite far but I would add to it the actual Apostles seeing they were obviously expecting Christ to take the throne and reign as Messiah in Jerusalem (Acts 1:6). I'm betting they were thinking that Christ would be back in a few days to set everything up!

But they never prophesied a specific day!

 

[timf]

1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Paul was likely one of the ones expecting Christ's return soon. It is never more than one lifetime away.