I bring you the words of Paul the Apostle, who under Christ, founded the Church that is His body on earth. Paul is doing the talking from across time. Then He started from ground zero and spread that message far beyond his years clear into the present day. But, just as sure as the word of God to the Jews had been lost in tradition by the time Jesus came on the scene, causing them to miss seeing in Him, their Messiah, His teaching, through Paul, to the recipients of His promises, His Church, is in grave danger of falling victim to the same fate. Yet with respect to the word about the completion of God's covenant with them, The Church has lost sight of those encouraging words, and has emerged onto todays scene to be the lukewarm church of the end time who gets His final warning to repent or suffer His wrath.
Traditions restrain the learning process.
And when our beliefs are challenged we become defensive, and that's natural. We employ prophecy and history to demonstrate God's faithfulness to His word and the manner that becomes His trademark. As you witness those same thing happening in His word through Paul about the Rapture, you will see it and find it easily understandable. In our next class, we begin our study examining Paul's teaching on the Rapture of the Church I am going to keep these teachings separate from the world news and reports concerning the Mideast, so I would like to know that I have an audience for this study. Please send me an email to let me know that you are there.