...Life is only the Beginning When we think of the end times there are all kinds of examples that flood our minds. These examples come from things we may have read, heard or been taught. The Bible is our key piece to use for understanding because it gives us so many different ideas of what we will see in the end times. When thinking about the different ideas of the end times two of them pop out at me. The rapture and how future events can be looked forward to by Christians. What is the rapture all about anyway? Will when you get right down to it means to be caught up. How as a Christian does that help us understand what rapture even means? For a true meaning of the word rapture we have to dig a little deeper in God’s word to find out the answer. As we take time to learn about the rapture we then will have a much better understanding. Being caught up or being taken up to heaven is what we can define the word rapture as. If the rapture would happen today then Jesus has retuned and we as Christians are being raised up in spirit to the heavens. That is exciting to even think about the opportunity to be whisked away right where we stand. It reads in 1st Thessalonians 4:14 that since we believed that Christ was raise from the dead then when Christ comes back he will raise us up. One of the things that we have to do is be ready for that day because it could happen without a moment’s notice. God did not give us the time or the date because if we knew then we would use that information...
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...------------------------------------------------- Prophecy in the Last Days Study by: Elder Abraham Juma ------------------------------------------------- True Prophet vs. False Prophet A prophet is anyone who bears the message of God and conveys it to others. The messages of God can never contradict one another. The Spirit that inspired the writers of the Bible inspires every true prophet, and brings to clear view the thoughts of God revealed in the Bible instead of contradicting it. Those who contradict the Bible are under the inspiration of another spirit. We call them false prophets. God’s thoughts in the Bible are complete and clear, without any contradictions. Though the thoughts of God were written in human language by human beings, they show a clear purpose of God’s love. Sometimes they appear to contradict, but if read ‘precept upon precept’ and ‘line upon line’, ‘hare a little and there a little’ all apparent contradiction is dissolved, and a perfect harmony seen. God’s word is perfect. Those who teach principles contradicting the Bible are not better than the Bible; they are actually being inspired by Satan. God cannot contradict His word; see the story of the prophet in 1Kings 13:1-28. God communicates through the Bible. If He must send a prophet, the prophet cannot contradict the Bible. Again I say, if he contradicts the Bible, he is a false prophet. God has not sent Him. Christ has a message to the world, and He puts His Spirit in a person who communicates...
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...Examine the main religious and secular eschatological and apocalyptic teachings. (45) Introduction: * Eschatology literally means ‘the study of the end things’ and it is a part of the theology or philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world and the ultimate destiny of humanity. * Apocalypse means ‘lifting of the veil’ and apocalyptic teaching focuses on revealing or ‘unveiling future events’. Paragraph 1: * In Christianity, eschatological teaching focuses on teaching humans about the values of living a good moral life whilst on earth and the rewards that humans will reap in heaven as a result. * Matthew 25 contains 3 parables of eschatological literature: 1. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish bridesmaids (1-13) – the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded, while the five who are not prepared are disowned. The parable has a clear eschatological theme: be prepared for the Day of Judgment 2. The Parable of the Talents (14-30) - the overall theme is end-time events, warning, and parables. "The direct cautions and warnings must be for the disciples (his audience)—warnings to be watchful and to be ready for Christ’s coming". 3. The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (21-46) - The common futurist explanation of the discourse is that it tells of the Last Judgment, and the division of all the world'speople into the blessed, on the Right Hand of God, who are welcomed by the Father to inherit the Kingdom and eternal...
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... Reg. no. bcs01103153 ¬ Bilawal Jehangir Reg. no. bcs01103071 ¬ Muhammed Arslan Akram Reg. no. bcs01103181 ¬ Muhammed Iqbal Reg. no. bcs01103100 ¬ Syed Ali Farhan Tirmzi Reg. no. bcs01103093 2 3 ABSTRACT It is an undeniable truth that each and every thing which has come in to existence will come to an end. There is a spring after an autumn and autumn have to face spring after it. The three Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity & Judaism) are agreed on the same fact that one day the earth will meet to its end. Even many non-Abrahamic religions and scientists are agreed on the same truth. In this assignment, We will discuss different views on the topic. 4 |Contents | | |...
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...The seven seals (Revelation 6:1-17,8:1-5), seven trumpets (Revelation 8:6-13;11:15-19), and seven bowls/vials (Revelation 16:1-21) are three succeeding series of end-times judgments from God. The judgments get progressively worse and more devastating as the end times progress. The seven seals, trumpets, and bowls are connected to one another. The seventh seal introduces the seven trumpets (Revelation 8:1-5), and the seventh trumpet introduces the seven bowls (Revelation 11:15-19,15:1-8). The first four of the seven seals are known as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. The first seal introduces the Antichrist (Revelation 6:1-2). The second seal causes great warfare (Revelation 6:3-4). The third of the seven seals causes famine (Revelation 6:5-6). The fourth seal brings about plague, further famine, and further warfare (Revelation 6:7-8). The fifth seal tells us of those who will be martyred for their faith in Christ during the end times (Revelation 6:9-11). God hears their cries for justice and will deliver it in His timing—in the form of the sixth seal, along with the trumpet and bowl judgments. When the sixth of the seven seals is broken, a devastating earthquake occurs, causing massive upheaval and terrible devastation—along with unusual astronomical phenomena (Revelation 6:12-14). Those who survive are right to cry out, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who...
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...The terrors of the wars 3 In the House of Representatives which met in December, 1855, the anti-Nebraska men were divided among themselves, and the Know-Nothings held the balance of power. No candidate for the speakership, however, was able to command a majority, and finally, after it had been agreed that a plurality would be sufficient, the contest closed, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot, with the election of a Republican, N. P. Banks. Meanwhile in the South, the Whigs were rapidly leaving the party, pausing a moment with the Know-Nothings, only to find that their inevitable resting-place, under stress of sectional feeling, was with the Democrats. On Washington's birthday, 1856, the Know-Nothing national convention met at Philadelphia. It promptly split upon the subject of slavery, and a portion of its membership sent word offering support to another convention which was sitting at Pittsburgh, and which had been called to form a national organization for the Republican party. A third assembly held on this same day was composed of the newspaper editors of Illinois, and may be looked upon as the organization of the Republican party in that state. At the dinner following this informal convention, Lincoln, who was one of the speakers, was toasted as "the next United States Senator." Some four months afterward, in Philadelphia, the Republicans held their first national convention. Only a few years previous its members had called themselves by various names--Democrats...
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...End Time Music Now Music has always been an outlet for artists to express themselves and a way to reach the masses. Music is defined as, “An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.” It has a way of touching people from various backgrounds, ethnicities, and religions on an intensely deep emotional level. It is rare to find one who does not have a favorite song or at least a few that they know they can relate to, or that play when they are happy or sad. According to Ezekiel 28:14, before Satan’s banishment from Heaven, he was the director of music, therefore if anyone is to know anything regarding music it would be Lucifer himself. Soon after, he devised a strategy for revenge against God to use secular music as a tool to persuade those of “the world,” as Christians would call them, to follow him. His strategy was lived out through the influence of the Illuminati. Illuminati, means “Enlightenment” and their god is Lucifer, also known as, “The Light Bearer.” Their goals are to create a new world order and manipulate and influence the masses by occult practices. They are said to be, “the Top players on the International playground belonging to thirteen of the wealthiest families in the world,” this is including the Rockefeller’s and the Kennedy’s (Tapestra). Many Biblical texts in and outside of Revelation relate to Satan’s plan to conform the music industry for his work....
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...12:19-21 “And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided? So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” 1 Enoch 63:10 “So we will vanish away from before his face on account of our deeds; and all our sins are consumed by righteousness. Furthermore, at that time, you shall say, 'Our souls are satiated with the money of unrighteousness which could not save us from being cast into the oppressive Sheol.” Note: The Epistle of Barnabas (70-131 AD) is not part of biblical canon and should not be confused with the Gospel of Barnabas. It is, however, useful in comparing the teachings of the early apostolic fathers with that of Enoch. Barnabas 4:3 “The last stumbling block is at hand, concerning which the Scriptures speak, as Enoch says: 'For the Master has cut short the times and the days for this reason, that his Beloved might make haste and come into his inheritance.'” 1 Enoch 80:2 “And in the days of the sinners, the years shall be shortened, and their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields.” Ezekiel Pseudepigraphon (4Q385:3) “Let the days hasten on fast until all men will say, 'Indeed the days are hastening in order that the children of Israel may inherit.' And the Lord said to me, 'I will not refuse you Ezekiel, behold, I cut short the days and...
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...DAY OF JUDGMENT By Amr Khaled Start thinking about Judgment Day! But I don't want to be just telling stories, I want you to start imagining, with all your senses that you are there now. I'll try as hard as I can to draw a picture just as if you were really standing there. But please, forget that I am giving a lecture now, I'm not. We are just sitting together, imagining together what will happen on Resurrection Day (Judgment Day). My aim today is not to scare you. My aim is to tell you the facts about that day. How will it begin? "The Trumpet will just be sounded, when all that are in the heavens and on earth will swoon, except such as it will please Allah (to exempt). Then a second one will be sounded, when, behold, you will be standing and looking on!" "The trumpet shall be sounded, when behold! From the sepulchers (men) will rush forth to their Lord!" Today we will only speak about one topic– the standing on resurrection day waiting for judgment. After the trumpet is blown, your body parts start to join together, and your bones start to merge once more. Your brain starts thinking, your eyes open and you start to have life back again. Imagine what this great blow will do? It will bring back all the sand of earth that you were made from thousands of years ago. Imagine the greatness and power of this blow? The trumpet width is like the width of earth and skies together. Your grave cracks and opens from the mightiness of the blow. Are you visualizing this great...
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...Select DB Query Response Time (sec). Hit the Show button. Zoom into the last half portion of the graph for better granularity and to avoid start up oscillation time to stabilize. Copy and label this graph to your lab report and answer the following: 1. Which run has a better (lower) DB Query Response time? This shows the silent suppression has a lower db time. 2. In regard to your answer to part a, approximate how much faster (in seconds or milliseconds) of a response time the better scenario has. Its .22 seconds faster. 2. Expand E-mail and select Download Response Time (sec). Select Show and zoom into the last half portion of the graph for better granularity and to avoid start up oscillation time to stabilize. Copy and label this graph to your lab report and answer the following: 3. Which run has a better (lower) e-mail Download Response time? Again it’s the silent suppression that had a email response. 4. In regard to your answer to part a, approximate how much faster (in seconds or milliseconds) of a response time the better scenario has. It was .4 seconds faster. 3. Expand HTTP and s elect Page Response Time (sec). Select Show and zoom into the last half portion of the graph for better granularity and to avoid start up oscillation time to stabilize. Copy and label this graph to your lab report and answer the following: 5. Which run has a better (lower) page response time? Silent suppression had the lower time. 6. In regard to your...
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...the occupied and humiliated Poland. Pilenz and Mahlke also represent both animals: Pilenz the cat as direct or indirectly contributes to Mahlke's destruction, and then again the love and hate relationship that he feels towards Mahlke creates in him such dependence that later turns him into the mouse. Mahlke is the mouse. An animal which is also represented by Mahlke's apple of his throat because he is eternaly humiliated even though he keeps trying to be accepted by the Nazi society all the time, making all kind of feats to pay people's attention. Mahlke is also a cat because of the feelings of dependence and of inferiority that he awakes in Pilenz. The reader is not expected to share Pilenz admiration for Mahlke', due to the way Pilenz tells Mahlke's story. One may have a feeling that, when reading Pilenz's words, Mahlke's attitude is sometimes irritable, egocentric, and so on, despite often the fact that Pilenz wants to deny those feelings which we perceive that he shows. Many times the group of friend’s joke and laugh at Mahlke, including Pilenz: “We laughed as, bluish and shivering, he crossed himself with his waterlogged fingertips, attempted to move his lips in prayer and produced a bit of Latin between chattering teeth”. They do not help him, for example, but instead laugh. (3) Pilenz is obsessed with Mahlke; we can see this throughout the book. He criticizes and flatters Mahlke, he helps and betrays him, he admires and gets on his nerves when he is with him. These...
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...Defining Characterization Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect characterization. Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is. Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.” Explanation: The author is directly telling the audience the personality of these two children. The boy is “patient” and the girl is “quiet.” Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character. There are five different methods of indirect characterization: Speech Thoughts Effect on others toward the character. What does the character say? How does the character speak? What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings? What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character? What does the character do? How does the character behave? What does the character look like? How does the character dress? Actions Looks TIP #1: TIP #2: Use the mnemonic device of STEAL to remember the five types of indirect characterization Use indirect characterization to analyze visual media: Film: Look at how the character dresses and moves. Note the facial expressions when the director moves in for a close-up shot. Drama: Pay attention to the way that the characters reveal...
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...Josh Colvin THEO 202-B06 Professor Marshall Wicks Eschatology: Is this the end? 7/7/16 Although there are several areas within theology that spark immense interest, eschatology seems to be the most intriguing. Concerning the majority of the Bible, things have already come to pass, history has already been written. However, with eschatology, this is not the case. Because so much is known about the past and so little regarding the future, eschatology is nonetheless a mystery; When will the end begin? What is to be expected once it happens? Is this the end? Such questioning and wonder surround this ominous and looming subject that I undoubtedly and inevitably had to write about it. Throughout the entirety of eschatology’s longevity, philosophical presuppositions, historical indications, biblical evidence, and theological structure consistently unravel certain aspects of this topic, yielding distorted or modified views of this intense and difficult subject. Interestingly enough, because of its unidentified occurrence, suspicion and speculation arise concerning exactly how and when the demise of the entire planet will take place. As expected with any form of speculation or interpretation, eschatology obviously has some intense critique and competition. In other words, other sciences continuously challenge the integrity of theology, specifically philosophy, and propose substantial and significant arguments. Ultimately, it seems...
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...In the story A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor is about a grandmother’s family going on vacation to Florida when a murderer is on loose. Through the story, the family ends up meeting with the murderer and identify him as Mistif. The grandmother kept talking to him about him and how he’s a good man, but in the end he ended up killing the family. I believe that the grandmother caused the death of her family because of the actions she had taken. The author used foreshadowing as a literary device to show the outcome of the family. The author also shown irony in the story when the family met the misfit and how the grandmother mis-read him. The author use foreshadowing in the beginning when they started to introduce people like the misfit and the cat. In the story the grandmother was always kept talking about a murderer on loose. Not just that, the cat played a huge role as Bailey her son, didn’t want to bring the cat. The grandmother first stated it when she...
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...The quote is most evident in when anyone is given a certain task, that person then takes on the responsibility of having to accomplish that task. For example, when a carpenter gets a customer that wants new cabinets in their kitchen. The carpenter then has to complete the requests of the customer, doesn’t matter how he gets the job done, but as long as the cabinets are completed. He could get his five workers to complete the job, or he could do it himself with his two top carpenters. The task is given first and it does not matter how or who gets the task done but as long as the cabinets are complete. In the end when the customer sees the final product they will be happy either way, which is where the “[who cares] “in the quote comes into play. The cat does its job in the household by catching the mice, it doesn’t matter what type of cat. Just like building cabinets, in the end as long as the cabinets are what the customer asked...
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