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Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming! -
12-07-2012, 12:37 AM
THIS is exciting news. I plan on studying this prophecy in detail. I welcome commentary from other Pastors, of course.
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Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming
It’s one of the most controversial parables in the Bible: the lesson of the fig tree.
Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, believed he had unlocked the secrets of this passage in Matthew 24:32-33, suggesting the generation that saw the 1948 rebirth of Israel as a nation—purportedly symbolized by the fig tree—would see the return of Jesus Christ. In what became the world’s best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s, Lindsey wrote a biblical generation is “something like 40 years” and suggested that “within 40 years or so of 1948, all these things could take place.”
But when Jesus didn’t return in 1988, Lindsey’s interpretation of the passage came under heavy criticism and for many years the church largely shied away from teaching Bible prophecy. Now, World Bible Society President F. Kenton “Doc” Beshore argues Lindsey’s interpretation of the passage was correct, but he was wrong about the length of a biblical generation.
Instead of 40 years, Beshore says a biblical generation is actually 70-80 years, basing this on Psalm 90:10: “The days of our life are 70 years; and if by reason of strength they are 80 years.” Based on this, the author of When?: When Will the Rapture Take Place? and The Millennium, the Apocalypse and Armageddon believes the Second Coming will occur sometime between 2018 and 2028, or 70 to 80 years after 1948. Taking into account the seven-year Tribulation period, Beshore expects the rapture to occur sometime between now and 2021.
“Jesus says in Matthew 24:34 that this ‘born one,’ or ‘this generation will not pass away until all these things be fulfilled,’” says Beshore, 86, who holds five doctoral degrees in theology. “He pictures Israel as a Jewish boy, born May 14, 1948, that would grow up and become an old man until He comes in glory to establish His millennial kingdom. Now, how long is this generation—this ‘born one’? The first meaning of ‘born one’ is in Psalm 90:10. If you extend that from 1948, the outside date for the millennium would be 2028. Take off seven years for the Tribulation and the outside date for the rapture would be 2021. The rapture could take place before that, but certainly by then.”
In When? Beshore explains that Jesus during the Olivet Discourse—a special briefing for His disciples about what would take place before and during the Tribulation—used the illustration of a pregnant woman to describe what the “Church Age” would be like. Christ said it would be a long period of time, and at the end there would be two birth pangs and then a birth, Beshore writes.
“We saw almost 1,900 years pass from the start of the Church Age (33 A.D.) until the first birth pang, World War I (1914),” Beshore writes. “The second birth pain came in 1939 with the Second World War, and then the birth of the nation of Israel in 1948. The Lord will return before Israel becomes an old man by age 80 in 2028, and seven years earlier to rapture the church.”
But Mark Hitchcock, pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Okla., and author of 2012, the Bible, and the End of the World and The Late Great United States, doesn’t believe the blossoming of the fig tree in Matthew 24:32 refers to Israel.
“It just says the fig tree will blossom and this generation won’t pass away until all those things are fulfilled,” Hitchcock says. “I just think He’s saying, ‘Look, when you see all these things happening in the Tribulation period ... that generation won’t pass away until all these things are fulfilled.”
But Beshore says the Bible often uses the fig tree as a symbol for Israel. In Matthew 21, Jesus cursed the fig tree after driving the money-changers out of the Temple—a prophetic foreshadow of Jerusalem’s destruction in 70 A.D, Beshore says. Later, in Matthew 24, Jesus speaks of the blossoming of the fig tree, adding “this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place”—a prophetic reference to the rebirth of Israel in 1948, Beshore says. And that “generation,” or the Jewish boy representing Israel, will live to see the Second Coming, Beshore believes.
“While the Bible says we don’t know the day or hour, it certainly says that we know the times and seasons (1 Thessalonians 5:1-10),” Beshore says. “This Jewish boy growing up demonstrates we are in the time and season of the Lord’s return.”
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Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming! -
12-07-2012, 01:16 AM
I hope I can live long enough to have God take me in the Rapture.
Please Pastor, keep us abreast of this exciting news. It is the most wonderful thing I have heard in a year!
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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Re: Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming! -
12-07-2012, 02:41 AM
I expect it will be much sooner, like sometime this evening.
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Re: Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming! -
12-09-2012, 02:04 AM
I've been sorely disappointed at least a dozen times throughout my life by End Times prophecies unfulfilled. This one, however, seems different. I trust this scholarship. It just feels right.
II Thessalonians 1:7-9
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power
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Re: Bible Scholar Predicts New Date of Christ's Second Coming! -
12-09-2012, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Jedediah
I've been sorely disappointed at least a dozen times throughout my life by End Times prophecies unfulfilled. This one, however, seems different. I trust this scholarship. It just feels right.
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I have to agree, brother. Christians have been wrong literally thousands of times predicting the coming of Jesus, but I feel like this could be different!
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