[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Rapture is Near-Earthquake in Virginia just now!

and if you thought it was that was hard to get into (Matthew 7:21), you've never encountered Sister Cookie in the Office.

Such good advice, Sister E.

Your reference to Sister Cookie's work in the office is so appropriate. She is the gatekeeper that has made Freehold and LBC the leading institutions in the True Christian™ movement.

Sister Cookie's specialty is spotting integrity and ferreting out people who appear to be someone they are not. No one should underestimate her ability in this regard.

[JimmiGerman]

Re: Rapture is Near-Earthquake in Virginia just now!

In Psalm 90:4, we learn that a thousand years in God's sight are like a day that has just for us. One might say the marking of time is irrelevant to God because He transcends it. The Apostle Peter reminds us not to forget that God’s perspective on time is far different from mankind’s (2 Peter 3:8). Like all things we mere men comprehend and experience, the LORD is not limited to the human constraints of time.

Those who read Scripture will note that in faith we can know the physical world is not all there is to existence (Hebrews 11:3). Because God is spirit (John 4:24), and because God is timeless, we can be confident that time was simply created by God as a limited part of His creation, a part He Himself is not beholden to, a part that serves His Will only and is completely under His control (2 Peter 3:10-12).

Why then would anyone doubt He can (and will, and has already) heard the prayers of the faithful and will (and is, and has) act according to His Divine Will?

Thanks for those Bible passages and for your very impressing arguments. Yes, I believe too that for God time is irrelevant and He transcends it in some way we can't see. He is certainly not limited to any constraints of time. Under this position it's no matter when a prayer is sent - it has been heard, the prayers of the past, the present, and the future - in a way we don't understand and not can be explained by science.