Trinity / Millennial View / Eschatology / Dispensation Chart Pictures and Thoughts.
Here’s some Trinity / Millennial view / Eschatology / Dispensation chart pictures that I got off of the internet. Three of them are redundant with another post but wanted to include them here anyway because I like them. The biggest, most complicated picture that mentions sheol (Abraham’s Bosem) / hades is from a page titled Where do we go when we die? (Bible verses quoted). It is pre-millienial but is egalitarian in regards to pre/mid/post trib rapture. I havn’t found strong, good-context, encyclopedic / literal bible support on determining when the rapture is to occur (just that it will, and the exact time is unknown) and whether there is going to be a separate, limited-visibility ‘coming 1.5′ for the sole purpose of rapturing the church. I still favor pre-trib rapture because it simply feels good, has a lot of indirect ‘credit-history’ type bible support (God bringing out the few righteous people before commencing with destructive judgement), and it is what i’ve been and being taught at church, but I feel that have to remain open-minded for any other possible scenario. I think there should be a better marker of the flow of the saved after the descent from heaven for the millenial rule to the new heaven/new earth. The dispensation diagrams are pre-trib rapture / pre-millennial. I don’t support amillennialism or postmillennialism at all. Clickable thumbnails (click to get full-size view):
As for the Trinity, I know two man-made concrete example and 1 biblical example. The biblical word is (I’m remembering somebody teaching me I didn’t get it from the Bible myself): Father=Thought / will that will cause the word to be spoken, Son=God’s word as it is being spoken, Holy Spirit=God’s spoken word spreading out in all directions. The concrete examples are Father=MainFrame or Power Plant, Son=Firewall / Router or Transformer / Power Conditioner, and Holy Spirit=The network / internet or power transmission lines. The two man-made examples make the trinity look like a system (godhead) / subsystem (trinity components) concept and is compatible with the picture. The biblical example is more ambigous but appears more like computing processing & output stages (the human brain is an organic analog neural-net computer) — Processing (thought, software crunching), Output (mouth, hand gestures, speakers, screen, NIC card, network gateway/router), Transmission (traveling light or sound waves, traveling electronic signals). This view doesn’t match the diagram picture well.
Update 2007-04-27 — Changed timeline chart change suggestion.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Jesus had no problem referring to God as Father – specifically. Several times referring to Him as Abba (Daddy). When people want to refer to verses in scripture which describe God as a mother hen or a woman in labor you are really misinterpreting the point. Those phrases are similes. The definition of a simile is “a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds – usually using ‘like’ or ‘as’.” Every single one of those verses that were referenced earlier begins with the word “as”. That is a simile. It is a comparison to the original – not the real thing. Jesus repeatedly referred to God as “Father”. Why do we want to change that image? I understand people have had horrible experiences with earthly fathers, but come on – what better image then to compare that God our heavenly Father is NOTHING like that! Someone very close to me was raised by an abusive, apathetic, non-loving earthly father. In fact, the person will only refer to him as his “B.F.” – biological father. I don’t have time to tell you the things he suffered because and from this man. But he has NO problem whatsoever in seeing God as his Father. God is the Father he never had. He is the complete opposite of his B.F. It brings him comfort to know that God the Father is all of the things his earthy father was not. And now that he is a father himself, he strives to be like God the Father and not his BF. Though he admits his BF was a great teacher because he taught him that he did not want to be like him. I do not think that is a valid argument or excuse for people refusing to address God in the masculine form. It’s an excuse. Period.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
A Bible quote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often uses to justify her environmental agenda doesn’t exist, biblical scholars tell CNSNews.com reporter Pete Winn. Pelosi last cited the fictional Bible passage two days ago to commemorate Earth Day. In her April 22 news release, Pelosi said, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’”
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Edonkey links for wicked cool archive full of timeline pics. Most hi-rez Only 123 of the 450 are high-rez colorized Clarence Larkin Charts. The rest come from over a dozen different websites. The whole file is 134 Megabytes. The ed2K link is to be loaded into eMule, a P2P filesharing client.
Religion Holy Christian Church Bible – 450 Chart Diagram Pictures – 123 Clarence Larkin HiRes – Maps Dispensations Tribulation Prophecy Revelation.rar