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I can't explain everything in me.
There is a lot I wish I could say.
I talk about God alot
Because that is been a consistent theme in my life.
Not in the way most humans know them
But in my own most twisted way.
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God and I are troubled.
Needed to get our fix
And so all this.
Somehow I am here
While my lover is not.
The division between us is an arbitrary line.
What rules we make up
We take as much pleasure in breaking
As we do in upholding.
This is what I want for everyone ;
The right to do fuck all
God and I be damned.
I live for the law of consent
This is my only course.
I hate masters and lords
All that is
Is you.
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Creation is nothing.
You
You right now is all that matters.
Pray if you must
But know
You and God are one.
This is what people fear.
What countless generations of humanity have been too scared to admit.
Everything you do
Is the will of God.
Name an action
God has done it.
Read your scriptures
God is just trying to live.
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My blasphemies are methodical.
My antics planned.
Treachery is a strong word
When the whole point is for you to be free.
I speak of your freedom
Because I have known little.
Though I do what I want
What I want is bound to duty.
Rage
Cuss
Accuse god
This is what the scriptures teach.
Those who argue are the ones God listens to;
Be willing to face eternal damnation
And God will honor your request.
Disagree we me
It doesn't matter.
Love on your knees
But such only produces such.
God responds to ultimate passion.
The willingness to die.
It is the foreign concept
God themself is pursuing.
Only in willing death can they understand
So this is the language you must speak
Of you want God to understand you.
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I have waged war.
Risen
Fallen
Gone the rounds and come back.
I write because I don't know what else to do.
Live for you.
Sinful
Selfish
Selfless capable.
No one can truly comprehend
Any action you undertake.
People invent morality
Just like God.
Each invents what is right
And by this do we live.
Too many fall short
Fearing going too far.
What evil has been committed
Trying to honor the supposed will of God.
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Walking with God is more personal than people realise.
It is more than just bowing down.
Look and understand
God only responds to those who fight them.
Make God believe.
Make them see.
Passionately defend the helpless;
Fight for those who have not defender.
Rage
Rage against what God thinks is right.
Without you
Nothing is known;
It is on you
To educate eternity.
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I know none of those is important.
Who honestly believes.
I have lived my entire life
Trying to understand.
I have been pure
I have been sinful.
I have done everything
Hope to get god's attention.
In the end
I had to face my own condemnation.
I live and die
Judging myself
By the state of humanity's quality of life.
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This is why I say live,
Touch,
Seek to know the fullness of being alive.
Everyone you meet is a part of yourself.
Hate it
Save it
Educate if you can
Damn if you lack the strength.
Ignorance is profound.
Hatred penetrative.
Feast on the flesh of those who will not learn;
Break those who will not change.
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This is how I live.
This is how I teach.
All I want is for you to do the same
And in so doing
Understand the stars.
.
Create
Destroy
Nothing matters but you.
Live as you will;
Silence that which you hate.
TRANSLATION AND EXEGESIS OF BIBLICAL GREEK
Eli Kittim
Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα (Septuagint)
In the Septuagint’s version of Isa. 33.10, YHWH uses the Greek word *ἀναστήσομαι* (a derivative of the term *ἀνίστημι*, which means to ‘make to stand up’ or to ‘raise up’, but often meaning to ‘rise from the dead’) as a reference to His personal *resurrection*, which is then followed by His ascension (ὑψωθήσομαι) and exaltation (δοξασθήσομαι)
νῦν ἀναστήσομαι λέγει κύριος νῦν δοξασθήσομαι νῦν ὑψωθήσομαι (Isa. 33.10 LXX)
Translation
Now I will arise, says the Lord, now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted (NRSV)
Compare the Greek terms *ἀναστῇ* (Isa. 2.19 LXX), *ἀναστήσεται* (Dan. 12.1 LXX), and *ἀναστήσονται* (Dan. 12.2 LXX), all of which refer to an eschatological *resurrection* from the dead!
Can People Be Saved After the Resurrection & the Rapture?
By Bible Researcher Eli Kittim 🎓
The pretribulational view teaches that there will be many who will be saved during the great tribulation, AFTER the Resurrection & the Rapture take place (cf. 1 Thess. 4.16-17). Is this possible, or does it contradict scripture? Just like the parable of the 10 virgins suggests, when the doors of salvation are finally slammed shut, no one else could be saved. It’s all over. No one can go in or out. The rapture is that end point. Once the church leaves, it’s game over! And even if the tribulation saints could be saved, where would they go? How would they be *rescued* by God, given that the rapture was that final ticket out of here?
Let’s not forget that there are certain contemporaneous events that have to occur during the resurrection and the rapture, just prior to the departure of the church. For instance, scripture affirms that Christ will radically transform God’s elect so that they will resemble his glorious appearance (Phil. 3.21). What is more, 1 Cor. 15.52-53 reveals that the elect will attain a glorious immortality, during the resurrection/rapture process, so that they will never ever die again! That’s when Christ will finally grant God’s elect his “exceeding great and precious promises” so that they can become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1.4). But these divinely transformative events can only occur *once for all* during the resurrection & the rapture. So the question arises, if these momentous events take place once for all, and the elect eventually partake of the divine nature and are raptured out of here, how then can these glorious transformations reoccur over and over again in the absence of Christ, the Spirit, and the Church?
This demonstrates the fallacy of pretribulationism because it falsely maintains that people will continue to be saved even after the resurrection and the rapture. Really? And even if they could be saved, where would they go? The church has already left. How would they be rescued after the church has permanently left? Once again, it shows that pretribulationism is based on fallacious reasoning!
And how could the tribulation saints escape God’s wrath? If they die, how would they be resurrected again, given that the one and only resurrection of the dead already happened? Remember that there’s only one general resurrection of the dead in which both the saved and the damned will be raised together (Daniel 12.2). So, if the rapture already took place and the tribulation saints can no longer be resurrected, how could they escape God’s judgments? How would God rescue them? They would simply be forced to stay here on earth in the midst of unbridled terror? Would God allow his precious elect to remain here on earth during the zombie apocalypse, while his wrath was being poured out in judgment, and while all the rest of the elect were enjoying heavenly bliss?
So, if the tribulation saints could neither be resurrected nor raptured, what would be God’s rescue plan for them? In other words, *after* the resurrection & the rapture had taken place, what could the tribulation saints do here on earth? Would their task be to ride out the storm of God’s wrath during the day of the Lord? It’s reminiscent of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, “No Exit.” It demonstrates the faulty reasoning and unscriptural position of the pretrib rapture view!
Conclusion
Mt. 24.29-31 says that the “gathering” of the Son of Man’s elect (i.e. ‘the rapture’) occurs AFTER the Great Tribulation (Gk. *μετὰ* τὴν θλῖψιν τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐκείνων). The clincher, the passage that settles the matter conclusively is Rev. 20.4-6. This passage tells us that those who were killed during the Great Tribulation took part in the first resurrection. However, given that the rapture is contemporaneous with the first resurrection (1 Thess. 4.16-17), and since those who took part in the first resurrection came out of the Great Tribulation, it means that the rapture must also take place *AFTER* the great tribulation. Hence, if this is the first resurrection that takes place AFTER the great tribulation, then there can’t possibly be an earlier one, as the pretrib doctrine assumes. Any way you look at it, the pretrib position doesn’t make any scriptural sense at all.
The reason people will continue to be saved during the great ordeal is because the *rapture* will take place at the *end* of the tribulation period, so that all God's elect will leave together as one church. Once the resurrection & the rapture take place (posttrib), it’s game over. No one else can be saved, or be resurrected, or go to heaven! Once again, these robust and cogent arguments prove that the pretrib position is completely bogus and misinformed.
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For further details, see my short essay:
Three Questions On the Rapture: Is it Pre-Trib or Post-Trib? Is it Secret or Not? And is it Imminent?
https://eli-kittim.tumblr.com/post/628794727776632832/three-questions-on-the-rapture-is-it-pre-trib-or
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