i was listening to Hope 107 yesterday. there was this programme called Crossroads. now i normally don't listen to 107 beyond Kid's Connection with the story time. Crossroads usually is just features some guy preaching (it's a recording from previous overseas seminars) and i won't listen to that. boring. but yesterday's programme was quite interesting. the guy was talking about the second coming of jesus. and there were some points he raised that were, well, different from the usual end-of-the-world-is-nigh seminars. so here's a short report on it.
one of the points he mentioned is the bible verse that says "i am coming like a thief in the night". he says that this may not be totally accurate. it's accurate in that, the day jesus comes will be one where we will not expect. he says he used to be a thief so he knows how impt the element of surprise is in thievery. but, on the other hand, (he was quoting bible verses that i don't remember) one of it was that jesus would be coming with all his angels. not one, not two, ALL. so if there's a guardian angel to every person, then there's gonna be at least 6 billion angels. and it is commonly known that one angel alone is totally brilliant and stunning. so imagine 6 billion angels making their appearance on earth. woah. not exactly secret but definately unexpected. the guy suggested that those images of jesus as king and jesus as the sacrificial lamb were misinterpreted by the ancient jews. so they expected jesus as king but he came as lamb. so means that this time, the 2nd coming, he'll be coming as king. and there'll be trumpets and singing etc etc. not really like a thief in the night. and considering that the 2nd coming will be the end of the world, it's not exactly something hush hush.
and the guy was dispelling a misconception that there'll be time after the 2nd coming to repent. apparently, there had been an idea about 7 years after the 2nd coming before the end of the world. what crap. he was describing this crazy scenerio. imagine, one day you wake up and your best friend is calling you, "hey wake up! look at the newspapers/tv!! JESUS HAS RETURNED!!!!!" and the news is showing life footage of the return of jesus with his 6 billion angels. *rolls eyes* can you even imagine that? total crap. when jesus comes back, that's it. end of story. i have o idea where that 7 year thing came from.
next thing, and the focus of his talk was how the devil would try to trick us. he was relating how when he was staying in a cave on the mountain, (god knows why he's doing something like that) there was this guy that came along. so he thought he was a hiker or something and invited him to sit down, rest a while. and they started chatting. and suddenly this fella says that he's jesus. stunned. and the guy was shocked. he was thinking, you know, how can this guy be jesus? but what if he is jesus? moral of the story, how can we really recognise jesus when he comes again? bible says that the 2nd coming will be great and glorious and lots of miracles etc etc. but the devil has power also and can pretend to do things like that to trick us.and that's the danger that we all face cos we can't be absolutely sure if it's really jesus.
moving on. the guy claimed that we are living in the last generation. he says that if you count the years of the lives of the old testament patriarches from adam onwards, you can roughly figure how long it was before the first coming. maybe someday when i'm free and bored enough, i'll go count for myself. but he claimed that mathematically, we're almost at the same time as the ancient jews were in the 1st coming. meaning, the end of the world is nigh. and, he said that the bible says that the end will be marked with great earthquakes, floods etc etc. the whole creation will experience an upheaval. and haven't this been happening lately? he mentioned the tsunami, 9/11. someone told my friend about this before and she told me. of course, this may or may not be true. and the guy says that he will not attempt to set a date for the end of the world. he gave examples of other cults that did and the world did not end yet.
bottom line is, according to him, we have to be prepared. we don't know when jesus is coming. but when he does come, there'll be no more time for preparation.
Friday, June 10, 2005
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