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While
believers may vary in their views of just how the end of times
and the coming of the Lord will take place, there are certain
false doctrines within Christendom that are being presented
as biblical doctrines. They are anything but that and are dangerous
and heretical. They include: Preterism, Dominionism, Replacement
Theology and Reconstructionism.
Below are a few research ministries that write about eschatology.
Though we may not necessarily agree with all of the views they
present, we believe you will find some solid research for your
prayerful consideration and discernment.
"The
blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." Tertullian,
1st century AD
"On
a cold drizzly day in early 1998, I took a sobering tour through
the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. A picture of a Gestapo
officer brought back memories of the Nazi soldiers that guarded
our neighborhood in Norway during World War II. Young as I
was -- I was born in Oslo early in the war -- I will never
forget the piercing air raids, the thundering war planes,
our hiding place in the basement, and the sounds of exploding
bombs and fires around us. My young father was part of the
"Hjemme Fronten" (the Home Front) -- an underground army of
loyal Norwegians who would rather die than submit to Nazi
tyranny. Caught helping other brave soldiers escape into neutral
Sweden, he endured hunger, torture, and the threat of death
in three concentration camps before his release at the end
of the war. Through the years of oppression, we all learned
to treasure our freedom."
Read
more...
"The
deceived church of the end-time is not merely the product
of human errors of judgment caused by poor spiritual insight,
but it clearly also shows signs of a satanic spirit of error.
"It
is becoming more evident by the day that the kingdom of darkness
has a calculated plan to deceive and misdirect the Christian church
to the extent that members will become unfaithful to the true
Christ and give their cooperation to prepare the human-centered,
earthly kingdom of the cosmic Christ of all faiths (the Antichrist).
The image of Christ is gradually, as unnoticeable as possible,
changed to become conformable to the multireligious image of the
Antichrist."
—Read
Entire Article by Professor Johan Malan, Theology and Objectives
of the Church
Replacement
Theology
by Anonymous Author (1989)
There
is a lot of confusion going around these days about God's promises,
even among our own ranks here at (unnamed organization). I'd like
to take this opportunity to dispel a little of the confusion.
There is a powerful movement afoot called Replacement Theology
which states that the church is Israel and the promises given
to Israel were primarily for the church. This movement is incurring
the wrath of God, as it increasingly condemns the nation of Israel
as illegitimate, which is natural for folks who believe the church
has replaced Israel. Even among those who still hold to Israel
to one degree or another, there seems to be a propensity for yanking
Old Testament promises out of the Bible -- and, I might add, out
of context -- and indiscriminately applying them to modern church
situations. The tendency is to select those promises which fit
church theology (like healing, prosperity, victory) and ignore
those which do not (like punishment for rebellion, keeping of
feasts, sacrifices). To set the record straight: the church did
not yet exist when those promises were given, and they were not
given to Israel as a "type" of the church until the church should
inherit them. The Old Testament promises were given to Israel,
and they apply to Israel. Many of them ALSO apply to the church
in a general way, and many of them apply to all nations in a general
way, and many of them apply only to Israel. We have got to quit
assuming that just because some teacher of the Word says the Bible
says something is ours, that it is. We must understand the situation
and context in which the promises were given -- promises of blessing
and/or cursing, of redemption, et-cetera -- before we can understand
the promises themselves.
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here to read rest of article, Replacement Theology.
