According to the fairy tale in Revelation when Jesus returns EVERYONE will be cursing him. You'll probable learn a lot of new curse words.
Tell us which Revelation passage you're referring to mate so we can examine it in context. In the gospels Jesus said "I'll be back" to rescue all his followers from the end-of-world Apocalypse, sounds good to me..
Revelation chapter 16 =https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation16&version=KJV;NKJV;NOG;CJB;OJB
So what? Jesus said he's coming to rescue his mates from all that nasty end-of-world stuff. Christians have already been issued with tickets and the transport will be on the way.. Jesus said- "At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth.." (Mark ch 13)
As it says in Matthew 15:24 (NOG) = Yeshua responded, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel.”
The whole "rapture" thing is rather odd. This mostly affects Protestants though. The Catholic Church tried to burn all of these back in the 1500's but some of them got away !!
You should note that the entire book of Revelation (and also Hebrews) are alleged by Eusebius to be frauds. Once you know this and appreciate it then it should calm your nerves about the whole Revelation thing, mate.
Jesus as the Son Of God probably knew that the Jews did not stand a chance against the Romans anyway. So resisting Rome made no sense. That's how I view all of Jesus' alleged utterances on pacifism. It may have applied to the Jews in the 1st Century A.D. But it does not apply now, anymore. I agree with Pope Urban 2nd -- wipe out the muzzies and do it now.
I would say billions, not just thousands. There are billions of galaxies. Each of them has billions upon billions of stars. The likelihood is astronomical. No pun intended.
1- Before curing her, Jesus was quite specific that Satan had crippled a woman, so why blame God when sh*t happens? 2- How is God an obstacle to peoples happiness? It's most atheists who are the unhappiest people around because they're jumpy and irritable like wagons without springs, jolted by every pebble on the road.
Yes that was Phase One of his mission, but later he went to Phase Two and said he came "for the whole world". Job well done, Christianity became the biggest game on the park..
Most modern Christians rightly regard the Rapture thing as a crock. I entertained a "christian" woman to tea a few years ago but it turned out she was a Rapturist, going on about how people will "disappear" off to heaven, leaving everybody else looking around wondering where they'd gone; boy was she soon out on her butt!
We holy men don't do "nerves" mate.. And who the heck is this Eusebius, hadn't he used to play for Benfica? WIKI- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusébio
Problem is that according to this reasoning you can interpret out anything in the bible. So instead of the biblical commandments defining your world-view your world-view is defining biblical commandments. You choose to interpret this pacifism as only applying to the Jews yet nothing in the bible says this. Only you are saying this.
Bigger problem is that most of the English Bibles are so badly translated out of the Hebrew and Greek that you cannot do what you are proposing either.
When these wacko fanatics call themselves "Christians" it really means "Protestants". They slipped through the Renaissance dragnet.
Wait a minute, it was the fanatical catholic IRA who did the bombing campaign in England, not protestants! The IRA let one off in my home city of Leicester (England) in 1990 but miraculously nobody was hurt. We lived 3 miles away and it rattled our windows and woke up our cat. What the heck had our cat done to upset the IRA?
