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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (19255)	7/18/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: Turboe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Speaking of the Anti-Christ, have any of you heard of Maitreya? He has proclaimed himself Christ. Here is his organization: shareintl.org Note-- THEY ARE A UN AFFILIATE!!!!! "SHARE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE covers news, events, and comments bearing on the priorities of Maitreya, the World Teacher: an adequate supply of the right food; adequate housing and shelter for all; health care and education as a universal right; the maintenance of ecological balance in the world. The magazine is published in Holland by the SHARE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, a non-profit, non-governmental organization affiliated with the United Nations Department of Public Information." And him: shareintl.org A negative viewpoint of him (obviously) home.sprynet.com

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (19255)	7/18/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

"Emile; There are many people who do not put the Christian label on themselves that have accepted Christ and his sacrifice " It is a label but the holy name the Lord has given his New Covenant people. No true Christian rejects the Word of God on this matter. Alan Markoff has said "I am not a Christian, I am a Jew who accepts messiah." There is no basis for this new false doctrine of shame in identifying yourself with Jesus Christ and his Christian Church.. 1 Pt.4:12-19 12 Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. 13 Instead, be very glad-because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterward you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory when it is displayed to all the world. 14Be happy if you are insulted for being a Christian, for then the glorious Spirit of God will come upon you. 15 If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people's affairs. 16 But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his wonderful name! 17 For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God's own children. And if even we Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed God's Good News? Peter was not ashamed to be called a Christians, why are you ashamed Alan? Peter was a Jewish Aposlte and he called himself a Christian, but you say "I am not a Christian, I am a Jew...".

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (19255)	7/18/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 39621

Parable of the Sower:(continued) The four types of soil represent four types of hearers The first represents the one who rejects the Word entirel The second, superficial reception of the Word, is like rocky soil. Ground that has a thin layer of soil on top of a bed of rock welcomes the seed but has no depth for it to develop and the plant quickly withers when the sun shines on it The third type of soil is good but is choked by weeds. The fourth soil is the type of hearer that is receptive and produces thirty-, sixty, and a hundredfold fruit. This parable obviously is not referring to the millermia kingdom when the law of God will be written on the hearts of the people and when it will not be necessary for one to teach another because all will know the Lord (Jer 31:33-34). Likewise, this is not the postmillennial interpre tation that the world is getting better and better. The impli cation of this passage is that most of the world will reject the message and continue in unbelief, but a spiritual kingdoms including those genuinely saved in the present age, will grow. THE WEEDS AMONG THE WHEAT (MATTHEW 13:24-30, 37-43) The first parable concerned the hearing of the Word. The second parable deals with the mingled seed, repre sented by the wheat and the weeds. Here the kingdom of heaven is represented as a field in which good seed has been sown and wheat is beginning to come up. However in this case an enemy sows bad seed, and weeds come up alongside the wheat. When the servants asked, "Do you want us to go and pull them up?" (Matt. 13.28), they were told not to do so lest they pull up the wheat also. Instead, Jesus said, "Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn" (v. 30). Both truth and error will be proclaimed in the period before the fulfillment of the kingdom. Here again there is no encouragement for the postmillennial view that the wheat gradually overcomes the weeds; nor is it a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies concerning the millennial kingdom as the amillenarians hold. A further doctrinal problem arises from the postmillennial argument that this parable, indicating that the weeds are taken out first, contradicts the pretribulation rapture of the church, which would remove the church from the world before judgment falls upon the unbeliev ers. This argument is based upon a faulty assumption that the judgment at the second coming of Christ is a single event. Rather, as the Bible indicates, there will be a series of judgments in which God will deal in some cases with the righteous first and in some cases with the wicked first. This is illustrated in the final parable, where in the net the good fish are taken out first (Matt. 13:48). The real problem, however, is that this passage is not talking about the Rapture, as is presumed by posttribula tionists. Rather, it is talking about the second coming of Christ, at which time there will be no rapture. According to pretribulationists, the Rapture occurs some yeats before the second coming of Christ and is not in view in Matthew. The argument that this parable relates to the Rapture is irrelevant as there is no rapture in view. As in the case of the parable of the sower, in response to the questions of his disciples, Sesus explained the parable of the weeds in the field. He said: The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. (continued) Santiago