The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-12-20
BIBLE SCHOOL LESSON FOR DEC. %.
l Corinthians 1850 to 1924
(By Apostle Willis F. Jordan)


I THE RAPTURE AND THE KING
DOM OF GOD - Corinthians 15:5O-58.
l. The Rapture will immortalze all who
have part in it. Flesh and blood" will then
disappear, as such cannot inherit receive
in order to reign over it) the Kingdom of
God" = Verse Fifty.
In death, Christ's blood was shed and in His
Ascension and glorihcation His flesh was
changed III Corinthians 5:16). So our blood
will disappear and our flesh will be changed
as we are taken up to meet the Lord in the
air.
3 1t was given to Paul to make known
the mystery of the Rapture and the change
Church mystery piven to Paul (Romans
1925, 20; Ephesians 3:1-11 Colossians 1:24-29).
3. All the Church will not "seep" (de) but
every member will be changed Immortality
for spirit, soul and body will come to each
one in the change - the Rapture.
4. This change and immortalization will
happen 'in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye" by the power of God, when the Archangel
Michael mot GabrieD sounds the last
trumpet
5. Then the sainted dead shall be raised
incorruptible" and the cat that tme) living
saints shall be changed"
g. For this corruptible (the sainted dead)
must put on interruption and this mortal
(the living saints at that time) must put on
immortality" Then Verse Fifty-four will be
fulfilled.
7. Our present faith and hope : Verse
Fifty-fve
s.. Sin is the sting of death: sin produces
death and the law makes sin strong in pro-
ducing death = Verse Fifty-six
9. "Thc victory over Satan, sin, sickness,
death and every evil thing is "given to us
through our Lord Jesus Christ" = Verse Fifty
seven.
TO- Let every officer and member of the
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion
and everyone living here in Zion City faith
fully heed the exhortation and comfort in
Verse Fifty-eight.
IL TITHES AND OFFERINGS AND
SUNDRY ADMONITIONS = Chapter Six
teen
l. Let one and all in Zion Systematically
pay their tithes and make their offerings upon
the first day of the week" (Verses One to
Four. This was the apostolic custom for
Corinth as well as for all "the churches in
Galatia" that province of the Roman Empire.
2. God willing, Paul purposed to visit
Corinth after passing through Macedonia
(Nerses Five to Seven). The study of Paul's
apostolic travels in his evangelizing work is
very interesting.
Ephesus (Nerses Eight and Nine) His
many adversaries" made him all the more
determined to enter that "open door"
The Anniversaries" of the General Overseer
and those of any other true man or woman in
Zion a credit to him or them ''Woe unto
you Cor to the cause and church) when all men
speak we'll of you"
A. Paul strongly commends the Apostles
Timothy and Apollos VERSES Ten to Twelve)
Such should be highly esteemed in love for
their faith. devotion and works sake
Let all in Zion esteem, reverence, love and
pray for mot criticize and seek to under
mine) the General Overseer, the Apostles the
Elders and the faithful Deacons and Deacon
esses, especially those officers who are appoint
ed to preach and teach Compare Ephesians
4:ll-16 and Hebrews 1877 ~.
). The daily duty of everyone in Zion -
Verses Thirteen and Fourteen. May we all
fulfil it.
Verse Thirteen is indeed great Zion Watch
word
g. Paul commends "the household of Steph-
aanas," the first family to believe on Christ
in the Roman province of Achaia (Verses Fiji
teen and SiXteen).
There can be no more beautiful sight than
to see whole families Qike that of Stephanas)
believing in and loving the Lord Jesus Christ,
and all together in the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church in Zion, all faithful, attend
ing upon all the means of grace, all paying
their tithes all working, longing, praying,
watching and waiting for the Coming of Christ
Jesus Lord
7. Three men (Verses Seventeen and
to the hard-pressed Apostle Paul Such he
wishes the church to recognize. May God
raise up many such for Zion and the General
Overseer in such time this!
D. various Salutat1onS = Verses Nineteen
and Twenty-one
g. The Anathema Maran-atha of Verse
Twenty-two This means, if any man in the
professed Church love not the Lord Jesus
Christ and desires not His soon Coming, let
him be accursed when the Lord cometh
Anathema: let him be accursed Maran-atha:
the Lord cometh
Christ is Gods last test to every human
being.
10. Verse Twenty-three: The Grace, or
n 7 t..
= the Church all the days unto the end of the
Age = an apostolic benediction
II. Verse Twenty-four: A Pauline bene-
diction
The word amen" means, SO be it. And SO
be all apostolically written in the entire book
of | Corinthians