This Sabbath, Edwin Pope will be speaking about “Spiritual Blindness.”
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
Rapture question
Editor’s Note: We are receiving interesting questions from new people in response to our advertisement campaigns. We recently answered one of the many questions, regarding the biblical teaching on a secret rapture. We are sharing parts of our response with you:
The bible nowhere teaches two comings of Christ – or a secret rapture to heaven. The passage alluded to by some, that He will come as a thief in the night (1 Thess. 5:1-4), describes the timing of His coming – the world will not expect His return at that time. It does not talk about the manner of His coming (visibly or secretly). Compare also Matthew 24:36-44.
The bible is very consistent in describing Christ’s Second Coming as one and the same event. When He visibly returns, He will gather His elect – not before then (Matthew 24:27-31).
Please note, too, 1 Thess. 4:16, and 2 Thess. 1:3-10. The events described will happen at the time of the last trumpet, when Christ visibly returns. At that time, the dead in Christ will be resurrected, and those alive will be changed – this does not happen before His visible return (1 Cor. 15:51-52). There can only be ONE last trumpet, and it is then – not prior to then – when Christ will gather His elect.
We read in 1 Thess. 4:17 that we will meet the returning Christ, at His coming, in the air. This is not referring to the third heaven, but to the atmosphere of our earth, which has air and clouds. We read that we will be with Christ from that time on. We read that Christ will descend on that same day to the Mount of Olives (Zech. 14:4), and we will be with Him (Zech. 14:5). The angels had told the apostles that Christ would come back in the same manner as He had left them. They were on the Mount of Olives, and He left them visibly on a cloud (Acts 1:9-11).
2 Thess. 2:1 also talks about the coming of Christ and our gathering with Him. At that time, when He comes, He will take care of the “lawless one.” (verse 8). Again, this is one and the same event – here are no two comings described.
This is not to say, however, that God will not protect His elect, on this earth, during the terrible times to come very soon. A new booklet is being prepared which will address that question more fully.
Serving God Boldly
Serving God Boldly is the title of this week’s sermon by Dave Harris.
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
This past Sabbath, from about 2-5pm, Qwest (Telecom) was experiencing outages on the line to the CEG / NetServices server. Due to these circumstances and the late nature of the crisis, we were unable to broadcast live over the Internet. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and hope that you were able to make adequate plans on such short notice.
Since then, we have posted the sermon from this past Sabbath on the web site as well as others. You may use the links below or go to the audio index for 2002 at https://www.eternalgod.org/audio/index.html.
Called To Teach 27 JULY 2002
You Shall Be Holy 20 JULY 2002
Humility: True or False? 13 JULY 2002
Calling To Be Teachers
This Sabbath, Norbert Link will be discussing that God called us in this age to be teachers, and what this means for us today and in the future.
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
Humility–True or False?
This week, Dave Harris will be speaking about, “Humility — True or False?”
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
The Work's History & Future
This Sabbath, Norbert Link will be speaking about the history and future of the Work of God.
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
Laodicean Era
Today is the Day of the Laodicean will be the title of Mr. Edwin Pope’s sermon this Sabbath. We hope that you will join us.
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June 22
Dave Harris will be speaking this Sabbath on God’s blessings.
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June 15
This Sabbath, Norbert Link will be addressing the need to grow and increase in godly knowledge, while we must at the same time forsake the wrong knowledge of this world.
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
June 18
This Sabbath, Norbert Link will be addressing the need to grow and increase in godly knowledge, while we must at the same time forsake the wrong knowledge of this world.
The services can be heard at www.cognetservices.org at the appropriate time, just click on “Connect to Live Stream”.
