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JD: We endeavor to try to give you a Biblical prospective as to how to deal with issues. We’re going to continue our theme a review of major topics in 2017 and a preview or a prospective for 2018. As I recall 2017 another issue that we’ve addressed several times was the endless speculation and the sensationalism in the area of end times prophecy, which of course is made worse by good Bible teachers sharing the platform with those who mishandle the word of God.
DJ: Well of course there were many examples that we could cite. But one of them that we focused on was the Blessed Hope Prophecy forum, which took place in October in Norman, Oklahoma. And as you noted there were a number of good solid Bible teachers there who we would say were accurate in their handling in the word of God.
JD: David James with the details behind the headline in the news
today.
We report this information because it is setting the stage
for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
Bible prophecy teachers have actually dropped the word Bible
from that phrase and are now known as simply prophecy teachers. The absence of
the Bible in their teaching is an important indication that we are living in
the time of the return to the earth of Jesus Christ. Now, I’m not talking about the
rapture I’m talking about the second coming.
Matthew 24 gives us directly from Jesus Christ himself the
most important sign for the second coming for Jesus and that would be
deception. Matthew 24:4, 5, 11, and 24 all use the word deception as the number
one sign of the second coming. II Corinthians chapter 11 says that this
deception will only increase as we get closer to the second coming of Jesus
Christ and of course the rapture will proceed by seven years that second coming.