God Will Send Them a Strong Delusion That They Should Believe the Lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)

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And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thess 2:11-12). David asks this tough question: I listened to a sermon preached by Tiff Shuttlesworth on the Tribulation.  At the
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Doctrinal Emotive Behavior Therapy in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

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On Sunday morning, I had “house church” with the kids. They liked it. We gathered together, sang a Psalm; Daphne read the Scripture (Luke 12:32-34), and we started discussing it. The kids had been fighting over toys recently, so we discussed the reason why. Why do they find it so hard to share their toys?
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Six Raptures?

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Do you believe in the Rapture? I do. But not everyone does. The very idea of the Rapture is regularly denounced as nonsense by non-Dispensational Christian theologians (see here). But is the idea of the rapture Biblical? I was perusing this conservative Mennonite commentary/study guide on Revelation. I haven’t read through it yet, but I
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