I cannot argue about this. You have your beliefs and I have mine. Time will tell who is right or who is wrong and then it won't matter. God isn't going to shut me out of heaven if I am wrong, nor will he shut you out if you are wrong.

My sadness is in the fact that two Christians with born again belief in the same God can't come to an agreement even if the agreement is that we won't argue about our individual interpretations of the Bible.

Many blessings to you, Don.

Now concerning ?the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either ?by a spirit or a spoken word, or ?a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 ?Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness? is revealed, ?the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, ?proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he...