Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: plains!divine@uunet.uu.net (Kevin Divine) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Isaiah 13, Jer 49-51 Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 08:25:13 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Let me say a couple of things about Gene's post. 1. I have learned something in studying the Bible, that being that we cannot put God into a box, whether on a pattern traced in the Bible or some tradition of men. I mean this, that God works on His pattern, His plan. Thus we can only go by what is said on the subject itself in the Bible. 2. Who would teach the remaining masses the gospel after a pretrib rapture? In Revelation 14, If I remember correctly, it says that there are 144,000 who have their foreheads sealed with the seal of God-- meaning that they can't be touched by Antichrist--- and these go out and preach the gospel to all those who have not received the mark of the beast (Antichrist). The 144,000 are Jews, I do believe (I don't have my Bible handy right now) So I believe that a pretrib rapture is what God promises in the Bible, but let me once again say this is what _I_ believe. God works on His own plan and that plan can be any thing that God wants it to be, not what I want it to be. en agape, Kevin Robert Divine divine@plains.NoDak.edu