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End Time Talks 8: Is There Only One or Two Comings of Jesus—Is the Rapture and Second Coming the Same Event?

In the previous two studies, we established from the Scriptures that there are two very distinct public comings or appearances of Jesus from heaven to earth, following His death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. One of these comings is at the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) and the other is Jesus’ return from heaven to earth

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End Time Talks 07: Is There Only One or Two Comings of Jesus—Is the Rapture and Second Coming the Same Event? – Part 2

Last week, we saw that in the popular passage about the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), Paul essentially repeated the very words of Jesus regarding His return in Matthew 24:29-31. In both passages, Jesus and Paul gave the unique characteristics that will mark Jesus’ initial return to the

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End Time Talks 6: Is There Only One or Two Comings of Jesus—Is the Rapture and Second Coming the Same Event? [Part 1]

The Scriptures foretell two very distinct public comings or appearances of Jesus from heaven to earth, following His ascension into heaven. These two appearances have distinct purposes and mutually exclusive characteristics, which exclude every possibility of merging both comings into one. The first of these two appearances is at the rapture, where Jesus descend from

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The Role of Repentance in the Preaching of Salvation and Christian Living – Conclusion

If our future sins have already been forgiven by God as some say, then it makes no difference whether you repent or ask God for forgiveness when you sin since all those sins would have already been forgiven even before you commit them. However, 1 John 1:9 shows that God expects His children to confess

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The Role of Repentance in the Preaching of Salvation and Christian Living – Part 2

There are a number of nice sounding phrases that have been accepted as doctrine in some circles although these phrases contradict the Scriptures and can lead many astray. One of such phrases is “if you are saved, then all your future sins are forgiven”. The problem with this phrase is that there is no verse

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The Role of Repentance in the Preaching of Salvation and Christian Living – Part 1

“And He (Jesus) said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem” (Luke 24:46-47). In stark contrast to the exclusion of repentance in

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