I'm chuckling because I agree with your first half but not the second. The rapture was a mystery, hid in God, until he revealed it unto the Apostle Paul. God started something new when he saved Paul, and his gospel is via faith alone, no works. Israel's kingdom gospel requires faith plus works and enduring to the end at Christ's second c…
I'm chuckling because I agree with your first half but not the second. The rapture was a mystery, hid in God, until he revealed it unto the Apostle Paul. God started something new when he saved Paul, and his gospel is via faith alone, no works. Israel's kingdom gospel requires faith plus works and enduring to the end at Christ's second coming. If you compare Israel's Second Coming of Christ to the catching away of the Church, the body of Christ, they are not the same. It takes studying by way of God's instructions to us, and that is to consider what Paul says and the Lord give thee understanding in all things and to study to shew ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Lord teaches his Church that there is a judgment for his body to give account of themselves unto him; it is called the judgement seat of Christ, and it happens after he comes to call his body out of this world, delivering us from the wrath to come (Israel's 7 yr. trib). The final judgement, aka, the Great White Throne Judgment happens at the end of the 1,000 yr. reign of Christ upon the earth.
God wants us to come unto the knowledge of the truth, and there is but one truth that comes from God, and we need to study God's way in order to gain it. Hope you'll consider and search the scriptures (preserved in the KJB) to see if these things be so.
I mean, I partly agree but not exactly... IMO Paul's letters are pretty clear that God ALWAYS wanted faith, but Israel just kept "not getting it" and focusing on the letter of the law instead. (EG the passage about "abraham was justified by faith"). But it was made absolutely explicit by Christ's coming, and the destruction of the temple "put the seal on the document" for terminating the old covenant.
Comment section isn't really the right place to go much deeper into the theological dispute, so I'll just note that I think passages that are actually about other things (the Final Judgement or the 1st-century Judgement of Jerusalem) are being smooshed together to mistakenly find a Rapture in them. But if I'm understanding it wrong, then may the Spirit show me the truth of it. Either way the #1 thing is to walk with the Lord.
I'm chuckling because I agree with your first half but not the second. The rapture was a mystery, hid in God, until he revealed it unto the Apostle Paul. God started something new when he saved Paul, and his gospel is via faith alone, no works. Israel's kingdom gospel requires faith plus works and enduring to the end at Christ's second coming. If you compare Israel's Second Coming of Christ to the catching away of the Church, the body of Christ, they are not the same. It takes studying by way of God's instructions to us, and that is to consider what Paul says and the Lord give thee understanding in all things and to study to shew ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Lord teaches his Church that there is a judgment for his body to give account of themselves unto him; it is called the judgement seat of Christ, and it happens after he comes to call his body out of this world, delivering us from the wrath to come (Israel's 7 yr. trib). The final judgement, aka, the Great White Throne Judgment happens at the end of the 1,000 yr. reign of Christ upon the earth.
God wants us to come unto the knowledge of the truth, and there is but one truth that comes from God, and we need to study God's way in order to gain it. Hope you'll consider and search the scriptures (preserved in the KJB) to see if these things be so.
https://graceambassadors.com/tradition/is-the-holy-ghost-confused
I mean, I partly agree but not exactly... IMO Paul's letters are pretty clear that God ALWAYS wanted faith, but Israel just kept "not getting it" and focusing on the letter of the law instead. (EG the passage about "abraham was justified by faith"). But it was made absolutely explicit by Christ's coming, and the destruction of the temple "put the seal on the document" for terminating the old covenant.
Comment section isn't really the right place to go much deeper into the theological dispute, so I'll just note that I think passages that are actually about other things (the Final Judgement or the 1st-century Judgement of Jerusalem) are being smooshed together to mistakenly find a Rapture in them. But if I'm understanding it wrong, then may the Spirit show me the truth of it. Either way the #1 thing is to walk with the Lord.