Gord's Notebook : Sunday Sermon: God Loves Capitalism & The Rich And Hates Socialism & The Poor And Evangelical Christians : " God Will Destroy All Jews Except 144,000 Who Convert To Christianity"

Empty Suit after the Rapture when the faithful Christians are taken bodily up into the air "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed " 1 Corinthians 15:52 King James Bible.

and " And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Mathew 24:31, King James version of the Bible.

Violence caused by the Rapture as air-line pilots , train engineers, drivers of cars and trucks suddenly disappear into thin air.

Copy OF Jack Van Impe Video on the Rapture For Those Who Are Left Behind?
Van Impe also talks briefly about the Tim LaHaye /Jenkins series of Left Behind novels .

Published on Sep 23, 2012 by Gordon Coombes

Introduction to Jack Van Impe's dissertation on the theological and historical roots of the Rapture based upon the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel etc. What is interesting or bizarre is that he explains this video is for those who are the faithful who will be raptured and they want those who watch the video to leave a copy behind for relatives and friends who will not be Raptured to give them the hope that if they change their minds and hearts may have a shot at being Raptured later on or at least to be saved from an eternity in Hell .

http://www.jvim.com/ Jack Van Impe Ministries International

"Jack Leo Van Impe is a televangelist who is known for his half-hour weekly television series Jack Van Impe Presents, an eschatological commentary on the news of the week through his interpretation of the Bible. " Wikipedia

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Image of what the Raptured people would be doing

Evangelical Fundamentalist characterize Capitalism and God as two major pillars of Christianity and therefore it appears as being inseperable. Many Christians find this notion incredulous given that Jesus told the rich man to give away all his wealth if he wanted to be a follower of Jesus for as it is written " It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." Mark 10:25 ,King James Version of the Bible.

And then we have Jesus at The Temple in Jerusalem attacking the money changers whom he saw as profiting unethically off of the average Jewish attedees and would be worshippers at the Temple .

"And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves..."Mark 11:15 King James Version of the Bible.

Unfortunately given the widespread appeal and trumpeting of the materialistic theology of the Prosperiety Gospel that encourages Christians to view Christianity as merely away to increase one's wealth rather than focus on Spiritual growth and becoming a better human being a better person having compassion for others and helping others in one's community including those who are of a different faith or of no faith treating all as God's children and not merely a select few such as those who prosper materially . As it is written in Mark 8:36 "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" King James Bible.

Encouraging Christians to believe in Jesus and obey God's Law just so they can prosper get a bigger house or get an expensive car or go to Disney Land I would think given the basic Christian theology as found in the New Testament this concern or even obsession with material things especially beyond one's basic needs ie food, shelter, clothing and good health and loving friends spouse, children and family this would be deemed a form of blasphemy- so believing in Jesus going back at least to the Preachings of Norman Vincent Peale and Aimee Simple McPherson and Billie Sunday is just another "Get Rich Scheme ".

Maybe Iam way off the mark here but I had always thought Christianity was supposedly a Spiritual Religion concerned with the human soul and morality and ethics and that prayer and meditation were not merely another means or method to better one's chances of winning a mega lottery.

Dr. Kennedy: Twin Pillars of Christianity " God & Capitalism "

Uploaded by clipsilove on Aug 17, 2010

Portion of a sermon given by the late Dr. Kennedy about the plans of Hitler, Karl Marx and socialism. Hitler closed all Christian schools in Germany. Watch Dr. Kennedy at Coral Ridge Hour on TV or on the net: www.coralridge.org

In the video above the late Dr. James Kennedy of the Coral Ridge Ministries explains quoting Karl Marx that Marx's purpose was to Dethrone God and and destroy Capitalism . This partly explains why so many wealthy people are drawn to and give support to Uberconservative Evanglical Fundamentalists and these wealthy supporters can be divided into two categories firstly those that actually believe what Kennedy is selling and so support his theological stance and it makes these wealthy people feel little or no guilt for amassing great fortunes because they are in effect doing God's work they are living by the economic and theological principles of the Bible and God whereas the second group of these wealthy supporters are rather cynical opportunists who will use these naive Christians to insure their agenda is served .

So anyone who is against Capitalism or criticizes various versions of Capitalism is by definition anti-God and therefore anti-Christian -and those who are not Evangelical Christian Fundamentalist are anti-God -

Of course Dr. kennedy's version of Capitalism is that of unfettered free Market Place moopolistic Capitalism which rewards Christians relative to the depth of their beliefs so Mitt Romney being worth a couple of hundred million dollars is closer to God then someone who is poor economically or poor in their health. Good people become successful and bad people can never be successful.

Representative Gohmert criticizes Obama's weak foreign policies and Obama's luke warm defense of Israel which he believes has emboldened the Muslim Countries into eventually forming a new "ottoman Empire" which would make the Islamic nations even more powerful and a threat to the USA and Israel.

Gohmert: Obama "Helped Jump-Start a New Ottoman Empire"

Fischer: Everything "Innocence Of Muslims" Says About Muhammad Is True

In the above video Evangelical Fischer of the American Family Association shows how intolerant and ignorant he is of Islam and other religions. So this hater of all other religions and all those who follow those religions is considered to be a True Folloer of Jesus . His Bible is one of hate and bigotry and ignorance.

Fischer in this video comments on the film "Innocence of Muslims " first saying how bad it is as a film per se which is hard to argue with since it is a terribly made film. As noted previously the worst comments which are purported to be quotes of what The Prophet Muhammad actually said in this film are obviously added in after the scenes were shot and so edited by using a different voice than that of the actor playing the part .

Then Fisher goes on to say that all of the purported facts about the prophet Muhammad in the film are true as far as he knows except for him being an orphan-that Muhammad was a fake and not a real prophet that Muhammad was a warrior who led armies and when they attacked a caravan they killed without mercy the men in charge of the caravan
that Muhammad was a pedophile and obsessed with sex-

Tim LaHaye the Religious Right activist and author of the Left Behind series of books which have sold over 100 million copies and were made into films by Kirk Cameron et al in this video supporting Mitt Romney and the Republican Party says America has always been the best friend of " the Jew "(actual quote)

and chastises President Obama for not supporting Israel more than he has. Tim LaHaye then resorts to a theological argument referencing the Bible proclaiming that America will loose its special blessing by God if America does not continue to support Israel unconditionally. Christians believe that once upon a time the Israelites were the Chosen of God but they lost this blessing when they became corrupted and then when the Messiah aka Jesus came as predicted in the Old Testament the Israelites rejected Jesus whom the Christians believed to be the Messiah and had him crucified .

LaHaye: If America Doesn't Bless Israel, "We're Going To Incur The Curse Of God"

Published on Sep 18, 2012 by RWWBlog

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lahaye-if-america-doesnt-bless-israel-w...

Tim LaHaye tries to mobilize Christian voters by claiming that secularists are the enemies of America and that if we stop defending Israel, then we will be cursed by God.

Tim Lahaye is an evangelical fundamentalist Christian who believes in the Endtimes scenario version known as pre-Millenialism with the Second Coming of Jesus The Messiah which before the second coming begina with a startling event which is reffered to as the Rapture. The Rapture is transportation of the faithful bodily into the air where they meet Jesus. This event is a miracle performed by God who "in the twinkle of an eye" transport the physical bodies of all true Christians that is people who agree with Tim LaHaye and other Pre-Millinnialists will be lifted up bodily into Heaven where they can watch the destruction of people of the earth by man made causes orchestrated not by God but by of course by the charismatic world leader or dictator referred to in the Bible most prominately in The Book of Revelation as the Anti-Christ. In the Left Behind books by Tim La Haye and Jenkins the anti-Christ goes by the name of Nicoli who is an Eastern European .

The Rapture is followed by the Tribulation though some believe it will take place after or in the middle the Tribulation . The Tribulation in any case is a time of turmoil appro. 7 years long according to some in which all hell as it were breaks out throughout the entire world with cataclysmic natural disasters and by man made disasters which those who have been "Left Behind" must endure to suffer . But not all those who are Left Behind and die while some of those Left Behind will in the meantime find God and become "Born Again Christians" who will fight against the so called Anti-Christ until Jesus returns to defeat the Anti-Christ at the last battle at Armageddon as foretold they believe by the Bible. .

Now the reason Tim LaHaye and some 40 million other American Evangelical Born Again Christians are so concerned about Israel is not because they unconditionally love and want the state of Israel and the Jewish people to survive the End-Times but rather because before the End-Times clock can be set into motion Israel must retake all of the land it possessed in ancient times which was then known as Judea followed by the re-building of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the sacrifice of a pure red heiffer at which point the End-Times clock can be set in motion. When Jesus returns all of the Jews will be destroyed and condemned to Hell except for a remnant of 144,000 Jews who convert to Christianity.

The citizens of Israel and Jewish people living outside of Israel may believe all of this to be a load of Christian BS but they need friends to help Israel to survive so the people of Israel and Jews in the diaspora who support Israel given the precarious position Israel finds itself more often than not take the support of Israel as being sincere so they do not question the motives of these American Born-Again Evangelical Fundamentalist Christians .

Meanwhile these Evangelical Christians can't wait until all the Jews throughout the world who do not submit to Jesus are destroyed with the rest of the non-believers that is those who do not belief in Jesus and the Holy Bible.

Notes:
on premillennialism and the Tribulation and Rapture , the Anti-Christ, the second Coming ,Armageddon there is differences of interpretation about the End-Times in general
but there are also disputes about whether Jesus second Coming is at the beginning of the Millennium (pre-Millennialism)in which Jesus rules over the New Jeusalenm or City Of God for a thousand years or at the end of the Millennium post-Millenialism) during which time Christians rule the the world by instituting God's Law. Besides preand post-millenialism disputes each supposedly prophecized event is disputed concerning its timing are the faithful raptured before the Tribulation or do they too get to experience the violent chaotic time known as the Tribulation and some theologians argue the Rapture takes place sometime during the Tribulation -or they argue about the timing of the arrival Anti-Christ ,Armageddon

Dominionists and Reconstructionists are post-millenial and so are concerned with instituing God's law over the whole world and so emphasize the necessity of preaching the Gospel to all the nations followed by the instituting of God's Law that is having Christians holding Dominion over all the nations.

Others believe that the preaching of the Word of God to all the nations including every man, woman and child giving them a choice to convert to Christianity or not at that point the End-Times clock begins ticking.

see "Christian belief systems Competing theories of eschatology, end times, and millennialism" at Religious Tolerance.org

End times beliefs among Protestants:
Various Protestant denominations and para-church organizations promote one of six main systems of prophecy concerning the "end times"
Historical Premillennialism: This belief was held by a large percentage of Christians "during the first three centuries of the Christian era, and is found in the works of Papias, Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Methodius, Commodianus, and Lactanitus." 2 The Antichrist first appears on earth and the seven year Tribulation begins.

Next comes the Rapture. Christ and his Church return to earth to rule for a Millennium. The faithful will spend eternity in the New Jerusalem. It is a gigantic cubical structure, some 1,380 miles height, width and depth, which will have descended to Earth. New Jerusalem is a.k.a. Celestial city, City of God, Heavenly Jerusalem, Holy city, Shining City on a Hill, Tabernacle of God, Zion, etc. The forces of evil will have been conquered. The faithful will live during this thousand years of peace in Jerusalem, while occupying spiritual bodies. After this period, all people are judged.

Christianity became the official religion of Rome in the fourth century CE. Premillennialism was declared a heresy at the Council of Ephesus (431). Amillennialism soon became the prevailing doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church and premillennialism was suppressed.

Dispensational Premillennialism: (a.k.a. Dispensationalism) Premillennialism, declared a heresy in ancient times, was reintroduced circa 1830. Most people credit John N. Darby with its resurrection. He was a minister of the Church of Ireland, a denomination in the Anglican communion, and the founder of the Plymouth Brethren. However, author Dave MacPherson claims that British pastor Edward Irving was the actual person responsible, and that a conspiracy was organized to give Darby the credit. 14 Premillenialism received general acceptance by most Fundamentalists and other Evangelical Christians after the publishing of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909.

As in Historic Premillennialism, the Tribulation is believed to precede the second coming of Christ, and the subsequent establishment of the millennial kingdom -- a thousand-year golden age on Earth. The Final Judgment follows the millennium. But, theologians are divided over the timing of the Rapture. Many Premillennialists search world events and signs in the heavens for some indication of the Tribulation, which they anticipate will arrive at any time.

Postmillennialism: (Also known as "Christian Reconstruction", "Kingdom Now Theology" and "Dominion Theology.") This belief arose during the early 19th century CE. According to author Loraine Boettner, Postmillennialism involves "that view of last things which holds that the kingdom of God is now being extended in the world through the preaching of the gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit, that the world eventually is to be Christianized, and that the return of Christ will occur at the close of a long period of righteousness and peace, commonly called the millennium." 12

The theory is based on the perception of a gradual movement towards social perfection. They predicted that a massive religious revival, spiritual awakening and purification would occur. The entire human race is converted to Christianity, including the Jews. A millennium of peace and righteousness follows. After the millennium, Jesus returns to earth, resurrects the dead believers, and conducts the last judgment. The Rapture and Tribulation are largely ignored. This belief is being actively promoted today by the Chalcedon Foundation and other groups within the Christian Reconstruction movement.