The Rapture pt.2- Rapture views & implications

Israel, God’s Timepiece

Join Pastors John Akana and Bob Fukui as they discuss Chapter topics within the book, The Time of The Signs by Barry Stagner.

Striking the balance & ventures of faith

"The way to discover how God wants to work is to venture out in faith. Step out and see what the Lord might do. But as we step out in faith, there has to be a guard against presumption. A lot of people make a serious mistake by falling back on human effort when God's hand obviously is not in it... God will do the work, but you have the opportunity to be the vessel through which God works." (pp. 123, 135)

Having begun in the Spirit & the supremacy of Love

"God wants to work, but God wants the glory for the work that He does. That's why He uses the simple things of this world in order to confound the wise. People can only look on, shake their heads, and say, 'I don't understand it, but God's anointing is there. God is sure using them.'" (p. 104) "Without love, all the gifts and powers of the Holy Spirit are meaningless and worthless." (p. 107)

The Rapture pt.2- Rapture views & implications

"I believe it is so important that we proclaim this teaching of the Rapture and keep the people watching and hoping because, without that, what hope do we have in the world today? We need to keep people focused on the truth that a better day is coming very soon. Be ready! The Lord is coming for His people, and He is going to take us to be with Him." (pp. 87-88)

The Rapture- Dispensationalism and Millennial Views

The rapture refers to that time when Jesus is going to come, without warning, and take away His church from this earth. After the rapture, the Lord will pour out His wrath upon this sinful world. (p. 69)