Tracy's note: first the reader's email to me and then my response. ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:15 PM Subject: Love your site! > > > I find your site very useful and really love your attitude about the TRUTH > in the KJV. While I agree with most of your doctrine, I noticed the > following text on your site > > "Many people profess to know Christ, but in works they DENY Him...as a > result, they will find themselves REJECTED on that Great & Terrible Day of > the Lord. Jesus said that those that love Him keep His commandments. His > commandments are in the Bible." > > that leads me to believe that you might have missed the fact that "the day > of the Lord" and "the day of Jesus Christ" are not the same days. "the day > of the Lord" is the second advent (after the tribulation) and "the day of > Jesus Christ" is the rapture (before the tribulation). I have wrestled with > this one myself but, salvation IS a "free gift" in this age and there will > be lots of people who have accepted the gift but have never truly taken up > their cross. If you want to see what I'm talking about read: > > http://www.sounddoctrine.com/blessed_hope.htm > > > In any case, THANKS for all of the useful information and for your AWESOME > love for Jesus Christ. You are truly a blessing to me. From: Subject: Re: Love your site! Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:11 AM Dear Friend: Greetings and thanks for writing with an encouraging word. Concerning your differentiation between the day of the Lord and the day of Jesus Christ, I assume you are a dispensationalist. I am totally anti-dispensationalism. I was under that teaching for about a year and a half and it drove me to the scriptures. I am as sure that dispensationalism is of Satan as I am of Roman Catholicism and the new Bible versions. You prove your belief of this devilish doctrine in this comment-- "... salvation IS a "free gift" in this age and there will be LOTS of people who have ACCEPTED the gift BUT HAVE NEVER TRULEY TAKEN UP THEIR CROSS." But what did Jesus' say? Luke 14:27 And WHOSOEVER DOTH NOT BEAR HIS CROSS, and come after me, CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. I pray that you will have ears to hear and come out of deception. for Jesus' sake, tracy -- http://www.jesus-is-lord.com ...I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Ezekiel 2:4, 6