Antiblob schreef:QED: Ik heb echt geen zin om nu dispensationalisme te gaan bediscussiëren. Laat ik me inhouden en het hier bij laten: Wat men zo'n 200 jaar geleden in de bijbel is gaan teruglezen interesseert me niet zo veel. Zaken als een 'geheime opname', NT-brieven negeren omdat ze niet voor de heidenen zouden zijn, etc is voor het jaar 1800 onbekend. Aangezien ik het apostolisch geloof wil vasthouden, valt dispensationalisme dus af. Ik voel meer voor iets als de paleo-orthodoxie: trouw zijn aan wat is overgeleverd. Niet zelf van alles gaan verzinnen.
Dan houd ik het hierbij:
Barnabas 130 A.D.- "Take heed, lest resting at our ease, as those who are called by God, we should fall asleep in our sins, and the wicked prince, acquiring power over us, should thrust us away from the kingdom of the Lord."
(The Epistle of Barnabas, chapter IV)
There is an interesting paragraph in the Shepherd of Hermas, that shows that the early church spoke of tribulations often, for they were going through many, but they also knew of a separate tribulation, through which they believed the church would not pass.
Hermas tells us that he passed by a wild beast and met a virgin who saluted him saying, Hail O man.! He returned the greeting... Lady, hail! Then she asked, Has nothing crossed your path? Hermas replied. I was met by a beast of such a size that it could destroy peoples, but through the power of the Lord and His great mercy, I escaped from it. The virgin said, Well, did you escape from it, because you cast your care on God, and opened your heart to the Lord, believing that you can be saved by no other than His great and glorious name? You have escaped from great tribulation on account of your faith, and because you didnot doubt in the presence of such a beast. Go therefore, and tell the elect of the Lord His mighty deeds, and say to them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation that is coming. If ye prepare yourselves, and repent with all your heart, and turn to the Lord, it will be possible for you to escape it, if your heart be free and spotless in serving the Lord blamelessly."
Hermas, The Shepherd of Hermas,
Book I, fouth, ch. ii, also ch. iii)