http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/59460-john-hagee-gives-3-biblical-reasons-we-won-t-be-around-for-the-antichrist
Start this video at 16:49 and I will take up each of his 4 points. I have not done this in a long time, but the fact that such teaching is out there pushes me to respond. Point #1 if the 24 elders represent both the "church" and the Old Testament saints 12 +12 = 24 elders. I agree, with that, God combines both bodies into one, because both are the same family, saved by the same blood of the same Savior slain from the foundation of the world. They will both be in heaven worshiping at the same time. Hagee would have us believe just after telling us this, that the church will be raptured to heaven before Daniel and His brethren, in which case John would have only seen 12 elders, not 24. Also, Hebrew prophecy goes forward and backward in time constantly. You can not read Isaiah or Ezekiel or Jeremiah like it is a straight line from start to finish. Revelation repeats the same end of time situation from 3 different "angles" and anyone who reads it can see this happening. So 4 comes before 6 is totally irrelevant.
Point #2 Jesus is our blessed hope, regardless of the circumstances of our death, since when is a martyr's death, something that dishonors God, or denies His power? Tell it to the many who have been martyred, like 11 of the 12 apostles and countless thousands down through the ages right up to right now in Syria, Libya and Iraq. This kind of lie only takes wings in a country that has too long been away from the fire of persecution and "expects" God to protect them from "all harm." Rev. 12:11 "They overcame him (the anti-Christ) by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives unto the death." Sounds to me like John Hagee and his "Peace, peace, where there is no peace." gospel do love their lives and refuse the martyr's death. He proceeds to quote a verse that speaks of the last trumpet which occurs at the end of the tribulation, and nowhere is it "called the rapture of the church" except in his mind.
Point #3 and 4 In Revelation Chapters 6-19 we see a people who "follow the Lamb wherever he goes" we see a people who witness through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, we see a people who incite the anger of the anti-Christ by protecting Jewish people, this is the "church" fulfilling and living out the high calling of being willing to be like their Savior, laying down their lives for the brethren. The Savior Himself praises them in Matthew 25, they are His sheep.
Start this video at 16:49 and I will take up each of his 4 points. I have not done this in a long time, but the fact that such teaching is out there pushes me to respond. Point #1 if the 24 elders represent both the "church" and the Old Testament saints 12 +12 = 24 elders. I agree, with that, God combines both bodies into one, because both are the same family, saved by the same blood of the same Savior slain from the foundation of the world. They will both be in heaven worshiping at the same time. Hagee would have us believe just after telling us this, that the church will be raptured to heaven before Daniel and His brethren, in which case John would have only seen 12 elders, not 24. Also, Hebrew prophecy goes forward and backward in time constantly. You can not read Isaiah or Ezekiel or Jeremiah like it is a straight line from start to finish. Revelation repeats the same end of time situation from 3 different "angles" and anyone who reads it can see this happening. So 4 comes before 6 is totally irrelevant.
Point #2 Jesus is our blessed hope, regardless of the circumstances of our death, since when is a martyr's death, something that dishonors God, or denies His power? Tell it to the many who have been martyred, like 11 of the 12 apostles and countless thousands down through the ages right up to right now in Syria, Libya and Iraq. This kind of lie only takes wings in a country that has too long been away from the fire of persecution and "expects" God to protect them from "all harm." Rev. 12:11 "They overcame him (the anti-Christ) by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives unto the death." Sounds to me like John Hagee and his "Peace, peace, where there is no peace." gospel do love their lives and refuse the martyr's death. He proceeds to quote a verse that speaks of the last trumpet which occurs at the end of the tribulation, and nowhere is it "called the rapture of the church" except in his mind.
Point #3 and 4 In Revelation Chapters 6-19 we see a people who "follow the Lamb wherever he goes" we see a people who witness through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, we see a people who incite the anger of the anti-Christ by protecting Jewish people, this is the "church" fulfilling and living out the high calling of being willing to be like their Savior, laying down their lives for the brethren. The Savior Himself praises them in Matthew 25, they are His sheep.
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