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Dear covenantee, Yes, the true church has always existed and I have not said differently. You are confusing the true church with the apostate church and its nearly 2,000 different denominations/sects in this world. I believe that the first coming of Christ was in the flesh just as you believe...

Dear covenantee, Like Christ, I am long suffering with the fallen away church. I have one final comment to make: When Christ is ready to "come again" to one of His fallen way Elect, He will cause them to pray for understanding or for anything else that only the Latter Rain of the Spirit can...

Dear covenantee, The "church" is made up of faithful believers. However, since the death of Paul, the only faithful believers are the converted Elect - all the babes have been consumed by the wolves (ministers of Satan) in the apostate church and are no longer faithful. Here is the scripture...

Dear Brakelite, So that is what you think of God's Word? It is amazing that you call yourself a believer. Joe

Dear covenantee, The true church is made up of converted Elect believers. They will experience the apostate church (the nearly 2,000 different denominations/sects of Christianity) but Christ will pull them out at the time of their harvest. Like the Wise Virgins, the Elect will be given the...

Dear covenantee, The truth that is presented by Paul's conversion experience is presented over and over again in scripture. You just do not have the eyes to see it. In Rev 11, the type presented by the "two witnesses" teaches the same pathway that Paul's conversion taught. All the Elect are...

Dear covenantee, I was converted on Oct. 8th 2005 at the age of 44 after having spent most of my life in the apostate church. After my conversion, I never went back to any organized church because they are all apostate. Though there are many beliefs contained in the various apostate churches...

Dear covenantee, You said: Yes, the old covenant ended spiritually at Calvary, but its physical trappings persisted until 70 AD. That is why the physical destruction of Jerusalem was essential. You're missing that. The Old Covenant was physical & outward and was based upon the works of man...

Dear covenantee, The Old Covenant ended upon Christ's crucifixion. The Law did not end - only the Old Covenant way of approaching God ended. At that time, the temple of God changed from being the physical temple to being a spiritual temple (the believer). All the New Covenant teachings of...

Dear covenantee, The end-time prophecies are spiritual teachings of the New Covenant. The signs of the times are spiritual events that occur within an Elect believer just before and during the time that they are going through the conversion process. After they are converted, the ends of the...

Dear marks, I use that passage in Isa 28:9-12 quite often. It is a teaching on how the church became apostate shortly after Paul's death (Acts 20:29-31). Here is the passage in the KJV with my comments in blue: Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand...

Dear Ronald Nolette, Yes, they words are not there just as it is not there in 2Cor 5:20 - however, it is implied. Look at the Hebrew word for sin. It is frequently translated as "sin offering", too, even though the word offering is not in the Hebrew. Joe

Dear Johann, Thanks for making that clarification to marks. Joe

Dear marks, One more thought on Christ being made sin. Christ was a lamb without spot or blemish. He had no sin of His own but He did carry mankind's sin to the cross so that His death would purchase mankind's sin debt. Now mankind's owes our debt of death to Christ. If Christ was actually...

Dear marks, Yes, Christ carried mankind's sin in His body but that does not mean that Christ became sin. Christ became an offering for mankind's sin and that is what other scripture states. You are trying to make a doctrine out of one verse of scripture which should not be done. Remember...

Dear marks, I can agree with much of what you said until your conclusion at the end when you said: I see this that all humanity's sin was put into Jesus' body In 1Pet 2:24 when it says that Christ bore our sins, it does not mean that humanity's sin was put into Jesus' body or that Christ was...

Dear tailgator, The bear does not represent Russia. Here is what Paul says about how to understand spirit words (John 6:63): 1Cor 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things (words) with spiritual...

Dear marks, In Heb 10:6, "sacrifices" is an added word to create the phrase "sacrifices for sin". In Heb 10:8, "offering" is an added word to create "offering for sin". This is the same thing that should be done in 2Cor 5:21 to create the phrase "offering for sin". As I pointed out in...

Dear Johann, You said: To summarize, while the phrase "sin offering" appears around 37 times in the KJV, it is important to distinguish that the Greek term hamartia does not specifically translate as "sin offering." Instead, hamartia generally refers to "sin" or "to sin," and does not have a...

Dear Ronald Nolette, You said: The word sin there is "harmartia" which is never translated as sin offering. It means sin and sin only. You are wrong. Here are two other places in the KJV that translate harmartia (G266) as sin offering: Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin...