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    Israel, the Church, and the Rapture

    Me. And I see the rapture being mid trib, pre mark, pre wrath, and premillennial. In fact Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21 all show the sequence of the AOD/SOP event from the middle of Daniels 70th week, followed by a rapture. In Matthew 24 the son of perdition mid trib event is in verse...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Yes, believers receive a measure of the Holy Spirit in the new covenant, but are still not FILLED with the Holy Spirit at that time, there is a further infilling of the Holy Spirit, which happened on Pentecost, but thereafter newly saved believers had to have hands laid on them by a Spirit...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Exactly. They already believed and were saved - they had the Holy Spirit already, but were not filled or baptized with the Holy Spirit yet. Even after Pentecost those newly saved had the Holy Spirit, but a Spirit filled believer had to lay hands on them to be also be filled with the Holy...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    So you’ve be3n baptized into the name of Iesous, then? Guess what? God knows every language on earth, and knows Yehoshua’s name in every language, and doesn’t demand you use His Hebrew name in America.
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    What changed is he’s now in heaven. As a high caterpillar on earth he was nevertheless still lower than the lowest butterfly in heaven, but now that he’s also metamorphosed into a butterfly in heaven, he’s changed from his lower earthly status, to the higher heavenly one. As a big fish in a...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Believers are judged for rewards in heaven, and our works are metaphorically tried in the fire as gold is melted to separate the impurities, and works done without selfish motives receive recognition for them, and they earn rewards, aka crowns - those works done for wrong motives are burned up...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Except that’s exactly what the scripture says, so obviously it makes scriptural sense.
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Sorry, but Hebrews 9 calls the New Testament (covenant) the last will and testament of Jesus, and that as with all wills, it took effect at His death: Heb 9:15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    God inspired the New Testament to be written in Koine Greek - and in the Greek manuscripts, Messiah is called Iesous, His name in Greek. Not surprisingly, the apostles did not insert Hebrew into their Greek writings, thus neither Yehoshua nor Joshua are found there, but are completely absent...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    The new covenant started with the death of Jesus. The old was superseded at that time. And Acts 2 is post resurrection of Jesus. Not to mention Acts 2 is the start of the Christian church - 3,000 were added to the church in Acts 2.
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Actually, Jesus said many - not all - who are first shall be last, and Vice versa. Many who we think have earned the highest level of reward in heaven will find that most of their apparent good works are burned up as dross, and they will enter heaven with the least reward in heaven. BTW the...
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    When the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth

    The antichrist kills the two witnesses. BTW in case you missed it, the new covenant Jesus gave us is again with the HOUSE of Israel, and the HIUSE of Judah - which is why gentile believers are the wild olive branches grafted in among the natural branches, onto the Israel olive tree, in which...
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    Matthew 28:19 was said by the risen Jesus, just before His ascension. I’ll take that as the highest authority, over Peter, any day.
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    What Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 refutes the Jesus only modalism of the UPC, TYVM. Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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    The Singular Factor In Coming To God Through Christ.

    It’s a fact scripturally that both repentance and faith are salvational criteria - not just faith - and that repentance isn’t automatically included with having faith, nor is repentance what happens after conversion. And repentance includes specifically asking God to forgive our sins, and not...
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    When the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth

    Stephen made clear they rejected their own savior who came for them, and killed Him, because they resist the Holy Spirit - they blinded themselves. You can condemn Israel all you want. Paul made clear God has not cast out His people, and that all Israel alive to see Jesus return, will be...
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    Christ and his church are one!

    A Christian promotes Jesus. A churchian promotes their church.
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    Your Favourite Theodicy?

    The clear context is John is talking about the Christian life, by using the pronoun WE, not YoU. When Paul preaches how to be saved to the non Christian in Romans ten, he says IF YOU confess with your mouth the faith in your heart, you will be saved. John includes himself in the whole chapter...
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    The Sabbath is a carnal commandment

    I’ve had several SDA say to me that you go to hell if you don’t observe the sabbath day. Paul warns them they’ve therefore fallen from grace and made Jesus of no effect unto them, who seek to be justified by the law.
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    When the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth

    Keep quoting that. After you quote it a zillion times, maybe it will magically cancel out all Israel being saved when Jesus the deliverer comes out of Zion, but I doubt it.