Post by Allyn on Oct 2, 2010 8:37:43 GMT -5
I don't know if any of you here know that I have another discussion board that has been active now for several years. I started it at a time before I became a preterist and at a time when I was near the end of my Christian Zionist position.
The name of the website has not changed even though my understanding has changed. I left the name as is out of respect for the people over there that I have grown to care for even if we have polar differences on eschatology.
I gave the name "The Way To Zion" to the site when it meant something different to me. But that name under my new understanding still has good significance.
This post is to invite any and all of you to present your biblical understanding of all things fulfilled in current topics or in a new topic of your own. Over this past couple of weeks I have been in a discussion with a good friend who is a member there. His name is Rich and I have known him through the internet since 1998. His view, like every other member there is the futurist view, but the big difference is that they have not come to the view through Scripture but, like most, through a teacher.
There is some resistence to the preterist view but not in an obnoxious way. Instead it is a resistence based on some fear that their comfort zone is being threatened. Usually a conversation on end times stuff ends with a little emotional baggage revealed. But lately I am seeing from Rich (from Michigan) and another friend, Micael (from Sweeden) take a little more interest. A co-administrator who I named 2 or 3 years ago is the hardest person to teach. She is a great lady and has a good heart for the Lord but she starts feeling threatened earlier then the other 3 or four regulars.
So back to the point. I invite you to enter the site as often as you wish. And help in this teaching process. You do not need to join but I do know that it would help better if you did - in the trust department. I started a new thread today on the Abomination of Desolation. Back in 2007 I had a thread going on the Apostasy which took off again last week. I am amazed at the difference of where I am today compared to when I first started that thread.
You will find the format very familiar - I patterned this board after that board. The web address is:
thewaytozion.proboards.com/index.cgi?
There are 17 members and 5 or 6 regulars. It is much like the atmosphere here. It is important that you all be gentle and loving as you do so well here with that. But I think some real good can be done in springing up hope in a future of the kingdom rather than the gloom and doom they all expect is in their future.
Also as a note, there is one member whose name is Gordon. Gordon is close to 80 years old and has a slide show ministry concerning Israel. The Israeli government has paid his way over to Israel several times to promote the people and the land. Gordon, who is from Austrailia, takes his ministry to is country and throughout Europe. He loves the Lord with all his heart and believes he is serving God in the way God wants ( I don't disagree with that but just wanted you to know the caliber of people we have there).
The name of the website has not changed even though my understanding has changed. I left the name as is out of respect for the people over there that I have grown to care for even if we have polar differences on eschatology.
I gave the name "The Way To Zion" to the site when it meant something different to me. But that name under my new understanding still has good significance.
This post is to invite any and all of you to present your biblical understanding of all things fulfilled in current topics or in a new topic of your own. Over this past couple of weeks I have been in a discussion with a good friend who is a member there. His name is Rich and I have known him through the internet since 1998. His view, like every other member there is the futurist view, but the big difference is that they have not come to the view through Scripture but, like most, through a teacher.
There is some resistence to the preterist view but not in an obnoxious way. Instead it is a resistence based on some fear that their comfort zone is being threatened. Usually a conversation on end times stuff ends with a little emotional baggage revealed. But lately I am seeing from Rich (from Michigan) and another friend, Micael (from Sweeden) take a little more interest. A co-administrator who I named 2 or 3 years ago is the hardest person to teach. She is a great lady and has a good heart for the Lord but she starts feeling threatened earlier then the other 3 or four regulars.
So back to the point. I invite you to enter the site as often as you wish. And help in this teaching process. You do not need to join but I do know that it would help better if you did - in the trust department. I started a new thread today on the Abomination of Desolation. Back in 2007 I had a thread going on the Apostasy which took off again last week. I am amazed at the difference of where I am today compared to when I first started that thread.
You will find the format very familiar - I patterned this board after that board. The web address is:
thewaytozion.proboards.com/index.cgi?
There are 17 members and 5 or 6 regulars. It is much like the atmosphere here. It is important that you all be gentle and loving as you do so well here with that. But I think some real good can be done in springing up hope in a future of the kingdom rather than the gloom and doom they all expect is in their future.
Also as a note, there is one member whose name is Gordon. Gordon is close to 80 years old and has a slide show ministry concerning Israel. The Israeli government has paid his way over to Israel several times to promote the people and the land. Gordon, who is from Austrailia, takes his ministry to is country and throughout Europe. He loves the Lord with all his heart and believes he is serving God in the way God wants ( I don't disagree with that but just wanted you to know the caliber of people we have there).