| Author | Message | ||
| Animal Registered user Username: Animal Post Number: 883 Registered: 7-2008  |
I have been free from Adventism 3 years this coming May...Praise His name !!! As a SDA, it was always taught and preached to me that the return of Christ was very soon. And i believed that for the 30 yrs I was an SDA. Yet scripture says a thousand days is like a year to the Lord. Question...... Since leaving Adventism...do you believe Christ is coming soon, possibly in your lifetime? Or has your viewpoint changed? Just curious here. This is not a trick question..lol ...Animal...the Curious One. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 9058 Registered: 3-2004  |
I know He is coming, but have no idea when. Now that I am His I do not worry about being "good" and "sin free". I just live one day at a time with Jesus Christ and leave the rest to God. Diana L | ||
| Ric_b Registered user Username: Ric_b Post Number: 770 Registered: 7-2004  |
I do believe He is coming soon. But I know His soon and my soon are not the same. And like Diana said, it isn't something that worries me either way. I never did like newspaper headline eschatology... | ||
| Free2dance Registered user Username: Free2dance Post Number: 285 Registered: 2-2010 |
"I never did like newspaper headline eschatology..." well put! I am excited about that fact that it seems that according to prophesy, nothing more needs to be fulfilled before His return, other than the fullness of the gentiles... In my lifetime or not, I can't wait! | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 1663 Registered: 3-2009 |
It seems to me that the urgency of SDA for Jesus to come is due to their belief of annihilation. If you die and Jesus lasts 1000's of years before he comes, those would be years that you won't exist. And even though they say that you won't know, that it will be like the flinching of an eye, still I think that that hiatus terrifies SDAs. How much more comfortable it is to believe the Bible that when I die, I'll be immediately with Christ. Given, not in body and I won't be complete, but my thinking, feeling, enjoying part will be with Jesus, so if he comes in a year or a 1000 doesn't make much difference. Hec | ||
| Michaelmiller Registered user Username: Michaelmiller Post Number: 292 Registered: 7-2010  |
I never really though that the SDA urgency had anything to do with annihilationism. For me it seemed that if the judgment began in 1844, then there was extra pressure because it could finish at any moment. As for today... I'm not concerned with when Jesus returns, be it before the end of this message or thousands of years from now. My role is still the same... be a witness to others as though He is coming at any time. Michael | ||
| Mkfound Registered user Username: Mkfound Post Number: 43 Registered: 1-2011 |
If anything changed, it was my fear of the second coming. You know, 'will I be ready'? So it was something that I looked at with some dread. Adventists, and probably especially my family were emphatic on taking any bad event, and proclaiming that Jesus was coming soon. So this would just increase my fear of the second coming, and whip me into a frenzy. The 'immanency' was what scared me. Now, I am excited for Jesus to come. | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 795 Registered: 8-2008 |
I don't know when He is coming back or if I will be on the earth when He does (instead of departed and in His presence). I say the sooner the better, and I pray almost every day that it will be soon. | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1750 Registered: 7-2007 |
I think it will be soon, because Ezekiel 36 through 39 says that God would bring Israel back into the land and this happened in 1948. (This isn't one of those conditional promises like SDAs like to say either. See Ezekiel 36:20-24). Dianne | ||
| Alison1 Registered user Username: Alison1 Post Number: 60 Registered: 10-2010 |
That was one thing that I never stopped in believing -- The Second Coming of Jesus. I look around in the news and it is apparent that we are in the last days. As far as the rapture of the church, there are so many different views that I don't even want to start a thread on that discussion. I'll leave that one alone for now. But I do have a very strong faith in Jesus Christ and so look forward to the day when He comes again to receive His people. | ||
| Rossbondreturns Registered user Username: Rossbondreturns Post Number: 107 Registered: 10-2009  |
Simply, yes, very soon. I think His soon and our soon are going to merge sooner than we think. | ||
| Joyfulheart Registered user Username: Joyfulheart Post Number: 826 Registered: 10-2006 |
Me, too. | ||
| Karethamiller Registered user Username: Karethamiller Post Number: 185 Registered: 8-2010  |
I feel so much more at peace now when I think about the return of Jesus. My future is secure, no matter when He comes, or if I die before His return. This feeling of peace regarding the end of time is such a foreign emotion...I have to stop and smile sometimes.  | ||
| Cortney Registered user Username: Cortney Post Number: 274 Registered: 8-2006 |
Karetha- i wish there was a "like" button for your post! I feel more peace about the second coming, as a born-again believer, too. No more worry about being deemed worthy or righteous enough to pass the test. | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 783 Registered: 5-2009 |
Yes, no more fear or terror at the thought of Jesus coming to get us! Wonderful! | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12393 Registered: 12-2003  |
Sometimes I ponder this text and think what it actually means to me now:
It's just amazing to me; Jesus broke the power of death—and when we trust Him, that power is broken even before we die. It seems that before we are born again, our existential anxiety is justified because we ARE dead. When He gives us eternal life, we no longer fear death because we know we will not die. It's something that's deeper than merely conscious. It's a deep knowing. Our now-living spirits actually experience their release from the curse of death. We are free, and we are alive! Colleen | ||
| Free2dance Registered user Username: Free2dance Post Number: 311 Registered: 2-2010 |
"Our now-living spirits actually experience their release from the curse of death. We are free, and we are alive!" Praise God! Although, I wish that this was as emotionally real to me, every single day, as it was the weeks following being born again. This deep "knowing" that I am alive seems to come and go with the tides of life for me. There are moments, like I experienced today, where I feel a bit disconnected from Gods beautiful reality. Sometimes it is only by faith that I "know" I have been brought to life and I will never truly die. Other times there is NO mistaking it. I suppose that is simply my needing to learn how to daily and deeply "enter into" that reality as I walk with Him (although by faith I know I am kept within it by the power of the Holy Spirit). Does that make sense? | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 9083 Registered: 3-2004 |
Free2dance wrote this, "There are moments, like I experienced today, where I feel a bit disconnected from Gods beautiful reality. Sometimes it is only by faith that I "know" I have been brought to life and I will never truly die." Yes, I go through moments like that also. I just have to hang onto Jesus. Diana L | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1779 Registered: 7-2007 |
Free2dance and Flyinglady; I read a newsletter from David Wilkerson awhile back that talked about "dry spells." I guess God uses them to teach us things. Sometimes they can go on for quite awhile. When I was an SDA, I never noticed "dry spells" because I never expected to actually experience God's real presence. I didn't know that anyone did. I thought that God's presence was simply something that one was supposed to take by faith. I had no idea that a Christian can ACTUALLY experience God's presence!!! |
