Sunday Musings on 10/6/2019

Well, “here I sot,” close to supper time, a ramblin’ on as usual! Howdy to my “millions” of readers who gave up the “Farcebook” scam to join me here!

I do not want to “hit a lick” at work tomorrow. How many of us, honestly, do?

On Tuesday, 10/1/2019, it was the usual after-work monthly chiropractor adjustment. It followed my monthly deep tissue massage on Saturday, 9/28/2019. I may be making s-l-o-w progress. We’ll see.

On Saturday, 10/5/2019, what do you know? I may have forced two Internet banking accounts to talk to each other and to transfer the green stuff when I tell them to! So far, it’s a win! Also, in Russian, I left my youngest brother voicemails on his landline twice and on his cell phone once. No reply yet. I assume that his family and he were plinking and plunking along okay. (We're just over an hour's drive away, so I don't know.) Oh, how about my “Dawgs”? They beat them “thar” “Vowels” into the ground on their home field! “Dawgs,” you might want to start at full speed, even against a weak opponent, in the future. You’ve started slowly twice now. Get serious! (I have to tell my “Dawgs” a thing or two also!) Lastly, what do you know? We had a bit of thunder and some rain overnight. Is fall coming? We’ll see. Recently, we broke heat records from 1884. Papaw Ferrell was four years old then. I wonder what he did back then to cause “global climate change.” I need cool fall weather to hike!

Sunday, 10/6/2019: Since yesterday, I’ve tried to impose myself into an upcoming debate regarding Christ’s second coming. See my 10/5/2019 article. Some people have too much free time on their hands! Come soon, Lord, come soon! I took a good Epsom salt soak this morning just “for fun!” One of these days, maybe, my muscles and various muscle groups will quit their pulling and tugging and leave me alone! Otherwise, I endure, day by day! Let’s go hike a ridge! It ain’t fun, moving about like a fine-tuned race car but with a busted suspension. I suppose that I will keep doing so until I die or the Lord returns. Return, dear Lord, soon!

Hey, Mrs. Appalachian Irishman, I’m gettin’ hungry! Where are the vitals? Y’all keep turnin’ right and goin’ straight out there, ya hear?

THE COMING OF CHRIST: A DEBATE EASILY WON (published 10-5-2019)

Addendum on Resurrection Sunday, 4/5/2026: For a fuller commentary on the AD 70 doctrine (or preterist view) please see also the later article, The AD 70 Doctrine Debunked (published 5-7-2025; article #524).

Introduction

Earlier today, the Appalachian Irishman very bravely made a rare venture into his social media (“Farcebook”) account. I wasted time ignoring the reposts of posts, strange third-party reposts, advertisements, marketplace advertisements, and “friend” recommendations.

I, however, happened to see a post by a man, with whom I had attended Tennessee Bible College (fall of 1983 to spring of 1984). This article is about what I found.

The Upcoming Debate

This man will debate another man on 10/11-12/2019 regarding whether “the second and final coming of Christ took place in the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD” or “is yet [to be] future.” I was interested.

My “Intrusion” into the Debate

This article serves as my “intrusion” into the upcoming debate. Let me see. I just reread, for who knows how many times, 1 Corinthians, chapter 15.

Certainly, several other texts prove that Christ's second coming is in the future, but this chapter is sufficient. The inspired apostle Paul stated as a part of his eloquence in that chapter:

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:22-26, NIV)

Do you see how easily I won?

The second coming of Christ is future, unless anyone has seen:
– that death has been destroyed (from the above quote),
– the visible return of Christ in the clouds (see Rev. 1:7),
– the resurrection of all the dead (see 1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:16-17),
– and the “twinkling of an eye” transformation of all still alive at his return “at the last trumpet” (1 Cor. 15:52)!


By the way, aren’t people still unfortunately dying every day?

Conclusion

Let’s see. The physical remains of my parents, both sets of my grandparents, my uncle Bobby (who died in infancy), all my aunts and uncles, my mother-in-law, and many, many others remain in their graves.

I’m still standing here. I ain’t breathing hard. Furthermore, I have not been transformed “in the twinkling of an eye.” I certainly would enjoy that transformation, since my “bionic” joints (surgically reconstructed left shoulder, right knee, and right foot) are “talking to me” today!

Do you see, therefore, how easily I have won this upcoming debate with this brief intrusion? Isn't time supposed to end at Christ’s second coming? What time is it now?