Mel Miller
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Again I say we in the Body of Christ are not involved in "prophecy", so I can't see where we really need to worry about this, if we are in the Body of Christ, and if so we will be raptured. If not, we won't.
We are to be in the "Body of Christ church", not the "kingdom church". The "kingdom was at hand" that prophecy spoke to and it looked to be imminent as Jesus spoke. Had Israel accepted Messiah, the Great Tribulation would have come, and all Gentiles justified by faith would be proselytes to the Jewish "kingdom church". That did not happen. What did happen was never prophesied, and that was Damascus Road, which equals the coming of the Body of Christ for those justified through faith, neither foretold, just as the rapture was unknown.
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You write as if God's plan depended on whether Israel accepted or rejected Jesus! The phrase "Kingdom was near" does not depend on that
assumption; but on God's plan to establish His Church even though the
Jews rejected Christ.
That Kingdom will still be "near" for the Jews as of the Day Christ appears. Luke 21:31. The term "near" relates to God's perception of time; not to ours. Your "hang-up" theory of the Church not being "in prophecy" is an argument without scripture. Jesus distinguished between the Elect
whom He will "raise up on the last day ... (and gather together above so that angels may gather us all to Himself" via the Resurrection and Rapture; Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31; 2 Thess.2:1; I Thess.4:13-17) ...
and those who "mourn and beg to escape".
But that does not remove the Elect (all believers) from prophecy as you
claim! The Church did not begin after the Damascus Road experiece as you claim!! It was only the correction to false Jewish doctrine that was Paul's gospel; for he did not change the Gospel; but simply corrected the false concepts of Judaizers!!!
It is difficult to realize that the "days of vengeance and wrath" upon Israel for rejecting Christ does NOT include the "DAY of vengeance and wrath" upon those who reject the Gospel to the very last Day and Hour! Luke (and Paul later) alone reveals that Jesus had the salvation of Israel in mind on the Day He is revealed!! Matthew and Mark emphasize the deliverance of the Elect as He "gathers us together above and the angels complete the process unto Jesus at the Synagogue above". 2 Thess.2:1.
Your conclusion that "what did happen was never prophesied" is total
fabrication IMO! Paul, in Eph.2:12-22, argues that it was God's Plan!! Paul is not describing present day Israel becoming one with Gentiles; but present day Gentiles being ONE with the O.T. Commonwealth of Israel!!!
Mel Miller www.lastday.net :saint:
ituttut,
Quote:
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Again I say we in the Body of Christ are not involved in "prophecy", so I can't see where we really need to worry about this, if we are in the Body of Christ, and if so we will be raptured. If not, we won't.
We are to be in the "Body of Christ church", not the "kingdom church". The "kingdom was at hand" that prophecy spoke to and it looked to be imminent as Jesus spoke. Had Israel accepted Messiah, the Great Tribulation would have come, and all Gentiles justified by faith would be proselytes to the Jewish "kingdom church". That did not happen. What did happen was never prophesied, and that was Damascus Road, which equals the coming of the Body of Christ for those justified through faith, neither foretold, just as the rapture was unknown.
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You write as if God's plan depended on whether Israel accepted or rejected Jesus! The phrase "Kingdom was near" does not depend on that
assumption; but on God's plan to establish His Church even though the
Jews rejected Christ.
That Kingdom will still be "near" for the Jews as of the Day Christ appears. Luke 21:31. The term "near" relates to God's perception of time; not to ours. Your "hang-up" theory of the Church not being "in prophecy" is an argument without scripture. Jesus distinguished between the Elect
whom He will "raise up on the last day ... (and gather together above so that angels may gather us all to Himself" via the Resurrection and Rapture; Mark 13:27; Matt.24:31; 2 Thess.2:1; I Thess.4:13-17) ...
and those who "mourn and beg to escape".
But that does not remove the Elect (all believers) from prophecy as you
claim! The Church did not begin after the Damascus Road experiece as you claim!! It was only the correction to false Jewish doctrine that was Paul's gospel; for he did not change the Gospel; but simply corrected the false concepts of Judaizers!!!
It is difficult to realize that the "days of vengeance and wrath" upon Israel for rejecting Christ does NOT include the "DAY of vengeance and wrath" upon those who reject the Gospel to the very last Day and Hour! Luke (and Paul later) alone reveals that Jesus had the salvation of Israel in mind on the Day He is revealed!! Matthew and Mark emphasize the deliverance of the Elect as He "gathers us together above and the angels complete the process unto Jesus at the Synagogue above". 2 Thess.2:1.
Your conclusion that "what did happen was never prophesied" is total
fabrication IMO! Paul, in Eph.2:12-22, argues that it was God's Plan!! Paul is not describing present day Israel becoming one with Gentiles; but present day Gentiles being ONE with the O.T. Commonwealth of Israel!!!
Mel Miller www.lastday.net :saint: