A note about the rapture put in some public schools

[moonglow]

On the news today they said an older man was seen going into some public elementary schools and tapped a letter on a wall about the rapture saying all the children under a certain age would disappear at the end of this month or Oct 1. I will give you a link to the letter: http://www.hutchnews.com/images/graphics/raptureletter.pdf

The police decided to make it public as parents were very worried this was some sort of a threat...though the police don't really view it that way but someone expressing their spiritual views. This happened last Monday (though the first I heard about it was today). They said they will step up police patrols around the schools on those days.

I honestly don't know how a stranger was able to just walk in and even put a note on the school wall with security tighter now then in the past due to school shooting in the country.. I think that is more unnerving then anything else actually! The police are hoping this man calls them to explain the letter more so they know for sure its not any kind of threat. Maybe they don't understand this theory ...or just being on the safe side here...I don't know. Its all very strange though!

God bless

[BrckBrln]

I honestly don't know how a stranger was able to just walk in and even put a note on the school wall with security tighter now then in the past due to school shooting in the country.

Let me tell you about my former high school. No fences whatsoever (wait, there is a fence around the football field). One part of the school is literally a hundred feet from an apartment complex. Every entrance point into the several school buildings is unprotected, all anybody has to do is just walk up to any door and open it and you're in the school. There is only one armed cop. Anybody who wanted to get into the school could do it with no problem and I'm surprised nobody has so far. I was more scared of bomb threats since we had one every single year.

[Big T]

It's very easy to do this at night. During the day it should not be easy.

I can only imagine how some in that community will now react to Christians.

[moonglow]

Let me tell you about my former high school. No fences whatsoever (wait, there is a fence around the football field). One part of the school is literally a hundred feet from an apartment complex. Every entrance point into the several school buildings is unprotected, all anybody has to do is just walk up to any door and open it and you're in the school. There is only one armed cop. Anybody who wanted to get into the school could do it with no problem and I'm surprised nobody has so far. I was more scared of bomb threats since we had one every single year.

Yea I bet! :( They have a sign in the front doors of these schools to check in at the office when you come in...like a bomber is going to do that...:(

Anyway I guess everyone is freaking out over this and they had a big news conference over it and even included the video of that on the news story. This guy went into five elementary schools...

God bless

[Literalist-Luke]

What upsets me even more than the security breach in the school is the way this nut job is going to make the rest of us look. (Since I am most certainly not a nut job! :D [Now you quit looking at me like that! http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w40/litluke/twitch.gif ] )

[TrustingFollower]

I am moving this to ETC. Part of ETC is relevant news of the time or signs. I feel that this thread would be better suited there.

[Literalist-Luke]

I feel that this thread would be better suited there.You "feel" it? :D Is it soft and furry, or hard and smooth? :lol:

[ilovemetal]

oct 1st eh. that's amazingly random. also, that note's handwriting is grade 10 at best. i laughed. like this----->:lol:

[Mark F]

oct 1st eh. that's amazingly random. also, that note's handwriting is grade 10 at best. i laughed. like this----->:lol:

The date isn't random, it's the feast of trumpets, Yom Teruah-- the feast that no one knows the day or hour.

I agree about the handwriting, should have typed it.

[livingwaters]

Oh, what a glorious day that will be!!!Alleluia....I'm ready....Amen:pp:pp:bounce::pray::hmm:

[Saved7]

Some nut job who either has no clue that setting dates is always a no no, or he is simply new in Christ and over zealous, talking about things he knows little about, and making us all look like wack jobs.:rolleyes:

[moonglow]

A correction on one thing on this ...apparently the man didn't just go walk into the schools but taped the note on the front doors of each school....


God bless

[flybaby]

I walk in to the middle school in my town all the time and anyone else could do the same. We have no security standing at the door to prevent us. I go in there because that is where the homeschool office is.

Well, if it is October 1st, I'm ready!! Although I bought my husband a birthday gift for nothing then since his birthday isn't until after that.... :)

[Lorren]

Well, with the way the prophetic dominoes are lining up, it could be soon!

I was writing in my blog (http://brookelorren.com/blog) last night, and I felt like I had to write it that night... I was writing about the economy, and how perhaps God might be leading us into suffering, but if he does, he has a reason for it, and he thinks with long-range purposes, unlike us... we think in the short time span of are lives, or at most, our grandchildren's lives. I felt that if I put it off, I might not be around the next morning to write it.

Of course we're still here, but the day will come when we will write our final message board post, final blog message, witness for the final time. The hour is coming sooner every day!

I'm not date setting, but you never know. Although putting signs up on school doors might just make you look kooky, since we truly do not know the day or the hour, and you shouldn't say things that will make you look foolish when they do not come to pass.

[moonglow]

I truly wish he hadn't date set because when it doesn't happen and it won't...then why should anyone listen to us? They are going to see it as if we can't get this right...maybe we aren't right about this other stuff we talk about...:( It really can discredit our witness...

History shows us many have set the date of Christ return many times (or the rapture) and neither has happened...you would think people would learn not to do that! Especially when Jesus says Himself, no one knows the day or the hour...

Looking at the example the disciples gave...not one of them set a date...they focused on who Jesus was and what He did for us...the furtherest they went was in talking about the resurrection and that one day He would return but their main focus was on turning away from sin and to God and Christ..its like why can't we just follow their good example?

God bless

[Saved7]

I was writing in my blog (http://brookelorren.com/blog) last night, and I felt like I had to write it that night... I was writing about the economy, and how perhaps God might be leading us into suffering, but if he does, he has a reason for it, and he thinks with long-range purposes, unlike us... we think in the short time span of are lives, or at most, our grandchildren's lives. I felt that if I put it off, I might not be around the next morning to write it.

Of course we're still here, .

Well then I guess you just learned something...our feelings are often wrong, and we rather unprophetic.:lol:

[moonglow]

Well then I guess you just learned something...our feelings are often wrong, and we rather unprophetic.:lol:

your post reminded me...the bible uses the word 'heart' instead of feelings but it means the same thing and the bible says the heart is wicked:

Jeremiah 17:9
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,and desperately wicked.Who really knows how bad it is?

So I often wonder when people say they feel in their heart Jesus is about to return...just how trustworthy that is? :hmm:

When you think about it for instance, there are times we don't 'feel' God..even David in the bible complained to God about this.

Psalm 10

1 O Lord, why do you stand so far away?

Just to name one of many...yet our faith isn't suppose to be dependant on 'feeling' God...yet we trust our 'feelings' when it comes to Christ return...or the rapture...:hmm: People have had feelings for generations now He was about to return..but I don't think the bible says to go by our feelings...but by the signs.

God bless

[Lorren]

Well then I guess you just learned something...our feelings are often wrong, and we rather unprophetic.:lol:

Nope, didn't learn a thing. Just on my toes. I feel like that a lot. Maybe it will be this second. Maybe it will be this second... wait, maybe it will be this second ;-).

One of these days it is going to happen. I think that many of us are like little kids going "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Eventually, we do get there.

It could be today, it could be tomorrow, and perhaps if we're totally way off base in interpreting the signs in the Bible, it would be 100 years from now. But you know, it could be soon. Perhaps one day I'll be typing away at my computer and end with "are we there ye

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A day where I think about the Lord with excitement thinking... maybe he's coming today! is a good day :-)

[moonglow]

Nope, didn't learn a thing. Just on my toes. I feel like that a lot. Maybe it will be this second. Maybe it will be this second... wait, maybe it will be this second ;-).

One of these days it is going to happen. I think that many of us are like little kids going "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Eventually, we do get there.

It could be today, it could be tomorrow, and perhaps if we're totally way off base in interpreting the signs in the Bible, it would be 100 years from now. But you know, it could be soon. Perhaps one day I'll be typing away at my computer and end with "are we there ye

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A day where I think about the Lord with excitement thinking... maybe he's coming today! is a good day :-)

nothing wrong with expecting Him as long as we don't stop the work we need to do for Him. Sadly I have seen too many on the internet literally stop living...have their things packed up for those left behind' and just sit around waiting ...very anxiously! These people have stopped living, stopped witnessing and give a sense of hopelessness to their children in planning any sort of a future. We had one young man come on here a few years ago who didn't go to college and had pretty much stopped living because his dad said Jesus was returning any time. His dad had seen an office full of computers (some of the first computers invented) and thought that signaled the return of Christ. So this young man saw no reason in having a future...so didn't go to college...his faith of course was shattered as years passed and nothing happened...he was confused and upset not understanding.

Paul dealt with the same thing in his time in fact and this church had stopped living too...everyone was quitting their jobs and stopping their lives thinking Jesus was about to return any minute now.

Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament

2 Thessalonians 2

Verse 1
Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

This outlines the chapter, which regards the Second Advent, an event which the Thessalonians had mistakenly assumed to be "just at hand," some of them actually having stopped work in anticipation of it!

(skipping down a bit)

Verse 2
to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

This is Paul's denial that he ever taught that the judgment day was "at hand" in his lifetime. True, some of the Thessalonians had mistakenly understood it that way, but it was their fault by doing so, not Paul's; and in the same manner, the exegetes of our own times who are always prattling about Christ and the apostles being mistaken in their assumption that the Second Advent was soon to arrive have mistakenly read the New Testament, and it is their fault, not the fault of the New Testament. In fact, Satan may have had a strong hand in fostering the misunderstanding. Hendriksen said:

In view of 2 Thess. 3:17, the idea that someone had even sent a forged letter (a letter purporting to be from Paul) - though open to certain objections - cannot be lightly dismissed.

Shaken from your mind ...
This means "thrown off the course of sound reasoning and thinking."

It is clear enough from this verse that Paul denied having anything whatever to do with creating the false notion in the heads of the some of the Thessalonians that they might expect the coming of the Lord at once!


Verse 3
let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

There is no hint here regarding the length of the time interval between the time Paul wrote and the actual coming of Christ in the Second Advent. In the light of intervening events, we now know that centuries and millenniums of time were to elapse before the final judgment; but as regards the actual date, we are no better off than were they. The event is still scheduled for a time yet future; and, as the mystery of lawlessness was working then, so it is now; but no man can know how long it will be before the Lord comes.

I am sure you aren't doing this...stopped living, stopped having a future at all like some are doing. I am posting this for the lukers reading that might be doing this...

God bless