FEBRUARY 2007

FEBRUARY 2007 continues with SECRET OF THE MYSTERY lessons from our Philippians series as well as other subjects in order by date, (0190) 1518 -1523 with notes and links attached below.
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THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 188. BEING VICTORIOUS AS BELIEVERS REQUIRES USING DIVINE POWER

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The secret of the mystery. Part 188. Being victorious as believers requires using divine power.

Thursday, February 1, 2007


1. The omnipotence of God the Father related to our invisible assets.
2. The omnipotence of God the Son holding the universe together.
3. The omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit providing the necessary power for the execution of the procedure plan of God.

“To become strong” = tantamount to the filling of the Holy Spirit, which is the status of being controlled by the Holy Spirit inside the PPOG or divine power taking precedence over human power.

COL 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

We shall never be victorious in this life as believers if we think that life with God, being hidden with Christ in God, means freedom from suffering, sorrow, and trial – it means divine power taking precedence over human power.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are really made of and that divine power must take precedence over human power.

We must face up to the fact that the cross has only suffering and death as its ministry, but we have divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life to meet the cross head-on.

2CO 4:11 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

When we realize that “always being delivered unto death,” means the daily crucifixion of self, then we will begin to glory in the resultant freedom.

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

This is why there are times when we are even chastened by God, not because of divine discipline, but as a part of learning how to experience divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

Paideia = tutelage, education or training; instruction, nurture, cultivation of mind and morals, instruction which aims at increasing virtue, chastisement.

Scourges – mastigoo = severe bodily punishment, used for investigating and examining a person.

Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning; you are moving toward your goals.

Gumnazo = trained and exercised naked before God.

If we are going to receive the benefit of the cross, we must go through the suffering of the cross.

He comforts us in the very crucifixion He applies, and we learn to glory in the cross that crucifies and how to operate in divine power.

PHI 3:3 – keep on worshipping in the Spirit of God and glory or boast in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh.

In the midst of finding out about our true selves, we are also made especially aware of who and what we are in Christ and the divine power made available.

While the Holy Spirit causes us suffering in the crucifixion of the self-life, He also comforts us in our growth in the new life.

Even if you fall on your face, you are still moving forward.

We are to arm ourselves with the same purpose (to go through suffering rather than living in the sin nature), because he whose human nature has suffered has obtained a ceasing from (the domination of) the sin nature.

Triumphs without difficulties are empty.
It is difficulties that make the triumph.

Our attitude becomes one of a firm stand against self and a solid stand for the cause of Christ.

The price of our spiritual birth was His death for us; the price of our spiritual growth is our death with Him.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 189. THE AGE OF NO PROPHECY

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The secret of the mystery. Part 189. The age of no prophecy.

Friday, February 2, 2007


The Age of No Prophecy and the Church-age as the Dispensation of Invisible Heroes.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit, which began the Church-age, and was prophesied by our Lord in JOH 14:20 and in Acts 1:5 just before He ascended.

The Rapture of the Church is the next prophetical event.

The Rapture is always called imminent because there is no intervening prophecy to be fulfilled.

Instead of prophecy, this is the only dispensation that functions entirely on historical trends.

The uptrends of history are always related to the function of evangelism of mankind followed by the communication of the mystery doctrine.

The Church-age runs coterminously with the times of the Gentiles, mentioned by our Lord in LUK 21:20-24.

A maximum number of mature believers in a pivot means blessing to that client nation.

a. The first cycle - LEV 26:14-17.
b. The second cycle - LEV 26:18-20.
c. The third cycle - LEV 26:21-22.
d. The fourth cycle - LEV 26:23-26.
e. The fifth cycle - LEV 26:27-38; DEU 28:49-67.

The cycles of discipline are based on the principle that Jesus Christ controls history directly, indirectly, and permissively.

“Sudden terror” = the function of terrorism as it existed in the ancient world. It is also a reference to violence, unrestrained criminality, and hostility from other nations.

The second cycle of discipline, LEV 26:18-20. The sky like iron and the earth like bronze refers to a drought. Drought means economic disaster, resulting in economic depression.

The second cycle of discipline is a depression, bad social life, no national pride, and people work hard for nothing (inflation).

In the third cycle, there is the intensification of epidemics and illnesses in the land. In the third cycle, the population is thinned out by violence. Crime gets out of control; commerce is stopped; there are natural disasters.

There will be great uncontrollable crime, military invasion and partial defeat, disease from overcrowding, a shortage of food causing starvation, and even greater natural disasters.

This type of cannibalism actually occurred between 66 and 70 A.D. among Jews under the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman army.

The Jews had ignored seventy Sabbatical years, and therefore the Southern Kingdom had seventy years under slavery.

No strength means no military establishment for freedom, and no patriotic motivation.

If the first cycle of discipline is the general population becomes cowardly, afraid of war and no motivation from patriotism or the spiritual life. If the second cycle of discipline is a depression, bad social life, no national pride, and people work hard for nothing (inflation). If the third cycle of discipline is the fact that the population is thinned out by violence, and crime gets out of control, commerce is stopped, and there are natural disasters.

And the fourth cycle of discipline is great uncontrollable crime, military invasion and partial defeat, disease from overcrowding, a shortage of food causing starvation, and even greater natural disasters.

The attack on America is because of the angelic conflict and because the god of this world, Satan, is the
promoter of all anti-Semitism and desires to wipe out Israel.

GEN 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.

Why would God use an Arab regime to discipline us because of our support of Israel?

The downtrends of history during the Church-age are related to the number of people, both believers and unbelievers, who become involved in Satan’s cosmic system.

The Rapture of the Church is the next prophetical event. The Rapture is always called imminent because there is no intervening prophecy to be fulfilled.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 190. A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION, THE LORD'S SUPPER

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The secret of the mystery. Part 190. A very special occasion, the Lord's Supper.

Sunday, February 4, 2007


When it comes to the spiritual life, ritual without reality is meaningless.

The Lord’s Supper is a commandment given by the Lord Jesus Christ to every Church-age believer to bring into remembrance His Unique Person and Finished Work on the Cross - both of which serve as the basis for fellowship with God and each other as members of the Body of Christ, LUK 22:19-20; MAT 26:26-29; MAR 14:22-24;
1CO 10:16-17; 11:23-26.

The bread speaks of the impeccable humanity of Christ, which was given as a sacrifice for the sins of the entire human race.

Impeccability is that doctrine of Christology which recognizes the fact that during the entire course of the dispensation of the hypostatic union and forever, our Lord Jesus Christ did not sin though He was tempted in His humanity and His temptations were real.

1PE 2:22 He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth;
HEB 4:15b He was tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.


ISA 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
ISA 53:5 The chastening for our well-being {fell} upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

MAR 8:15 And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees [religion and legalism] and the leaven of Herod [love for money].”

The Lord’s Supper took place during the Jewish festival of Unleavened Bread.

The Passover lamb, which spoke of Christ, was also killed during the feast of Unleavened Bread.

Our Lord was born in Bethlehem, which means “house of bread.”

There were 3 white linen pouches, one for God the Father, one for God the Son, and one for God the Holy Spirit.

The bread was taken from the middle piece, which was God the Son’s pouch, because it was God the Son who became a Man to die for the sins of the world.

The wine speaks of our Lord’s spiritual death on the cross. His spiritual death was invisible.

MAT 27:45-46 Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”

2CO 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

The Wine speaks of our Lord’s saving work on the Cross.

1) Purchased the entire human race out of the slave market of sin in which we are all born spiritually dead.
2) Satisfied the justice of God the Father which said that sin must be judged.
3) Made peace between God and man.

4) Defeated Satan in the Angelic Conflict.
5) Fulfilled the righteous requirements of the Mosaic Law.
6) It proved that God does love His creatures.

To add anything to faith in Christ dishonors our Lord and His saving work on the Cross.
We have faith plus commitment being taught.
We have faith plus water baptism.
We have faith plus making Christ Lord of all or He’s not Lord at all.

Instead of faith, some propose substitutes like inviting Christ into your heart.
Instead of faith, some propose substitutes like inviting Christ into your life.

Others add to salvation repentance from sins.

You cannot be saved by water baptism, by renouncing sin, by joining a church, by psychological gimmicks like raising your hand and walking an aisle.

When you add anything to faith in Christ for salvation that is salvation by works which is not salvation at all.

The first Passover took place April 14, 1441 B.C., EXO 12:1-14; LEV 23:5. This was the first month of the year for the Jews, Nisan, and it represented the beginning of life.

Passover was to represent Israel’s deliverance by the Lord from the slavery of Egypt, but more importantly it represented our Lord’s death on the cross and was to be a memorial of man’s redemption accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

The Passover taught the Jews by the sacrifice of an innocent lamb without spot or blemish, which portrays Christ and what He would in the future do for them.

He would purchase the entire human race out of the slave market of sin - Redemption.
He would make the payment for sins and satisfy the justice of God - Propitiation.
He would reconcile God with man, therefore, making peace between the two - Reconciliation.

The coming judgment was the fact that the first-born in every household of Egypt was about to be slain if there was not blood from the sacrificed lamb on the doorposts.

Putting blood on the doorposts was to have faith in Christ and His future work on the cross.

The unblemished lamb represented our Lord Jesus Christ’s perfect sinless humanity,
HEB 9:14; 1PE 1:18-19.

HEB 9:14 the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God,
1PE 1:18 you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled this completely when He died on the fourteenth of the Jewish month Nisan, 30 A.D.


The bitter herbs represented the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.

COL 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

The unleavened bread represents the impeccability of the humanity of Christ who gave Himself for us.

It was not to be eaten raw or boiled because it spoke of the judgment of sin in human lives, and this requires sacrifice and the fire of judgment.

1CO 5:7b For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Leaven in the word of God speaks of evil, 1CO 5:6-8; GAL 5:9.

The assembling of the people on the first and seventh day of the month was significant in that it spoke of our Lord’s resurrection from the dead on the first day of the week.

The Lord’s Supper was instituted during the Feast of Unleavened Bread when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, MAR 14:12; LUK 22:7.

We are to celebrate the Lord’s Supper continually, with accuracy, sincerity and truth, which requires the Filling of the Spirit.

A woman lights the candles because it was a woman who brought us Christ, the light of the world.
Eating the bread and drinking the cup looks back at the Person of Christ; it looks at the present and our union with Him, and it looks to the future to the Rapture.

The Lord’s Supper is totally unique to the Church-age and should be a time of reverence for the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave Himself up for us, GAL 2:20.
He accomplished the Plan of God for His life by denying Himself the independent use of His divine attributes,
PHI 2:5-11.

The worst suffering came in the last 3 hours on the Cross when He received the imputation and judgment for our sins as our Substitute, MAT 27:46;
The communion service is a reminder that we have fellowship with God and also with each other as members of the body of Christ when we bring into remembrance the Person and Work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,1CO 10:16-17.

1) Relationship with Christ.
2) Partnership: We are to work together for a common purpose to obtain common objectives for the glory of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

3) Companionship: We are to communicate with one another and have fellowship with one another sharing with one another the things (viewpoint and thinking) of Christ.
4) Stewardship: We must recognize that all we have belongs to the Lord and has been given to us as trusts from God to invest for His purposes.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 191. THE RAPTURE WILL BE THE END OF THE AGE OF NO PROPHECY

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The secret of the mystery. Part 191. The rapture will be end of the age of no prophecy.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007


The Age of No Prophecy and then the Church-age as the dispensation of invisible heroes.

a. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, which began the Church-age, and was prophesied by our Lord in JOH 14:20and ACT 1:5 just before He ascended.
b. The Rapture of the Church is the next prophetical event - always called imminent because there is no intervening prophecy to be fulfilled.

The pre-Tribulational view, and the post-Tribulational view. There is what is known as amillennial and postmillennial theology.

Amillennial and postmillennial theology believes that we are already a kingdom and that the world already belongs to us.

Their position is basically promoted through the “kingdom now theology,” which adheres to the notion that the church will usher in world peace.

There is what is known as post-tribulational theology which believes that the church will go through the great Tribulation, and then be raptured, and return with Jesus Christ to reign in the Millennial reign.

Pre-Tribulational Rapture theology, which is what we believe, believes that TLJC will remove His church before the great Tribulation period.

There is a time coming on this earth called “Satan’s time of desperation.”
It is also called “the day of wrath.”
“The hour of trial.”

It is a great period of wrath on this earth, both from God and from Satan, ZEP 1:14-18.

It is said to be a great time of indignation, ISA 26:20-21.
The hour of testing, REV 3:10.
Destruction, Joel 1:15.
A day of darkness, Joel 2:2.
Desolation, DAN 9:27.
Punishment, ISA 24:20-21.

Because of a theological event known as the rapture, the church, the body of Christ will not go through this period.

Since the church or Royal Family of God is the first spiritual building to be completed, it is resurrected after our Lord.

All believers should have confidence, a hope, and a guarantee with regard to the Rapture.

JOH 14:1-3; 1CO 15:51-52; 2TH 2:1; PHI 3:20-21; 1TH 4:13-18; 2CO 5:1-9; 1CO 1:8.

Because the Church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan, one has to be taken away while the other is dealt with.

Passages in the New Testament such as EPH 3:1-6; COL 1:25-27; ROM 16:25-26 all make it crystal clear that the church was a mystery and was not known in the Old Testament.

REV 3:10; ISA 34:2; 24:1,4-5,16-21 and many other passages make it very clear as well.

JER 30:7 - this period is particularly called the time of Jacob’s trouble and Jacob refers to Israel.

DAN 9:24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression,

In GEN 29:26-27, and DAN 9:24, one week is equivalent to 7 years. So, 70 times 7 equals 490. The Church has nothing to do with this prophecy since the Church did not have its existence until after the death of Christ, EPH 5:25-26, after the resurrection of Christ, ROM 4:25; COL 3:1-3, and after the ascension of Christ, EPH 1:19-20.

The Rapture removes sorrow and grief and gives hope.

It is another Jesus, 2CO 11:4.
Another spirit, 2CO 11:4.
Another Gospel, GAL 1:6.
Another doctrine, 1TI 4:1.

The Church is the Body, of which Christ is the Head, EPH 1:22; 5:23; COL 1:18;
the Bride, of which He is the Bridegroom, 1CO 11:2;
EPH 5:23, the object of His love, EPH 5:25.

The Branch of which He is the Root and Stem, JOH 15:5, the Building, of which He is the Foundation and Cornerstone, 1CO 3:9; EPH 2:19-22.

There exists between the believer and the Lord a union and a unity.
The believer is no longer separated from Him, but brought into the closest oneness with Him.

If the church is in the seventieth week or the Tribulational period, she is subjected to the wrath, judgment, and indignation which characterizes the period, and because of her oneness with Christ, He, likewise, would be subjected to that same visitation.

This is impossible, 1JO 4:17, for he cannot be brought into judgment again. Inasmuch as the church has been perfected and delivered from all judgment, ROM 8:1; JOH 5:24;
1JO 4:17, if she is subjected to judgment again the promises of God would be of none effect and the death of Christ would be ineffectual.

Who would dare to assert that the death of Christ could fail to accomplish its purpose? While the members may be experimentally imperfect and need experimental cleansing, yet the church, which is His body, has a perfect standing in Christ and could not need such cleansing.

The nature of the testing in the seventieth week, REV 3:10, is not to bring the individual to cleansing, but to reveal the degradation and need of the unregenerate heart. The nature of the church prevents such a testing.

Rev 13 makes it clear that all who are in the 70th week or the Tribulation period are brought into subjection to the beast and through him to Satan who gives the beast power.

If the church were in this period she would be subjected to Satan and Christ would either lose His place as head or because of His union with the Church, He would be also subjected to Satan’s authority.

Point 1. Definition. Rapture is used here in a technical theological sense for the resurrection of the Royal Family of God. Since the Church or Royal Family of God is the first spiritual building to be completed, it is resurrected after our Lord. Christ is resurrected, ascended, and seated at the right hand of the Father as part of the strategic victory of the angelic conflict.

God interrupted the Jewish Age with the Church-age to call out and provide a Royal Family of God.

The Church-age is that period of human history when the Royal Family of God is being formed on earth, EPH 1:22-23; 2:16; 4:4-5; COL 1:18,24; 2:19.

When the Royal Family of God is completed, then the Rapture occurs, 1TH 4:16-18; 1CO 15:51-58.

During the conclusion of the Jewish Age, the bride is prepared in heaven by receiving a resurrection body exactly like that of the Lord. Then comes the Big Genuflex and acknowledgment of Christ, PHI 2:9-11,
ROM 14:11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

Then comes the Judgment Seat of Christ, when all Church-age believers are evaluated and rewarded, 2CO 5:10.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 192. THE RAPTURE WILL BE THE END OF THE AGE OF NO PROPHECY, PART 2

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The secret of the mystery. Part 192. The Rapture will be at the end of the age of no prophecy. Part 2.

Sunday, February 25, 2007


The Age of No Prophecy, the Church-age as the dispensation of invisible heroes, and then the final form of mystery doctrine.

JOB 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,

a. The baptism of the Holy Spirit that began the Church-age, prophesied by our Lord in JOH 14:20, ACT 1:5just before He ascended.
b. The Rapture of the Church, the next prophetical event. The Rapture is always called imminent because there is no intervening prophecy to be fulfilled.

The pre-tribulational view, and the post-tribulational view.

Amillennial and postmillennial theology does not believe in the rapture of the church - their position is basically promoted through the “kingdom now theology” which adheres to the notion that the church will usher in a world peace.

Amillennialism is the view that holds that the millennial reign spoken of in Revelation 20 is not a literal earthly reign but is in the process of being realized in the present Christian age with Christ reigning from heaven.

Postmillennialism is the view which holds that the millennial reign has already begun but is not a literal thousand year earthly reign but consists of the present age becoming more Christianized.

One school of post millennialism, the reconstructionists arm, teaches that we must impose the moral law of the Old Testament (interpreted by them!) on the unsaved social system.

JOH 18:36 “My kingdom is not of this world.”

Post-tribulational theology believes that the church will go through the great tribulation, and then be raptured, and return with Jesus Christ to reign in the Millennial.

Pre-tribulational rapture theology believes that Christ will remove His church before the great tribulation, and then the church will return with Christ at the Second Coming to establish the Millennial reign of Christ.

There is a time coming on this earth called - “Satan’s time of desperation” “The day of wrath” “The hour of trial”

It is a great period of wrath on this earth, both from God and from Satan, ZEP 1:14-18.

It is a time of great judgment on the earth like never before, REV 6:16-17.

It is said to be a great time of indignation, ISA 26:20-21.
The hour of testing, REV 3:10.
Destruction, JOE 1:15.
Darkness, JOE 2:2.
Desolation, DAN 9:27.
Punishment, ISA 24:20-21.

It is a time that could take place on this earth tomorrow!
This is because of the imminency of the Rapture.

If the church is to endure the persecutions of the Tribulation, as some teach, it is hopeless to proclaim the coming of the Lord as an “imminent hope.”

If Christ will come for His church before the predicted time of trouble, Christians can regard His coming as an “imminent daily expectation.”

Because of a theological event known as the rapture, the church, the body of Christ will NOT go through this period.

The rapture is used in a technical theological sense for the resurrection of the Royal Family of God.

Since the church or Royal Family of God is the first spiritual building to be completed, it is resurrected after our Lord. It is the second phase of the first resurrection following the resurrection of Christ.

TIT 2:13 - calls the rapture or the appearing of TLJC, “our blessed hope (makarios elpis) or happy guarantee.”

All believers can have confidence, hope, and a guarantee with regard to the rapture.

1CO 15:57 “Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

JOH 14:1-3; 1CO 15:51-52; 2TH 2:1; PHI 3:20-21; 1TH 4:13-18; 2CO 5:1-9; 1CO 1:8.

2TH 2:1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him,

Because the Church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan, one has to be taken away while the other is dealt with.

1TH 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,


EPH 3:1-6; COL 1:25-27; ROM 16:25-26 - all make it crystal clear that the church was a mystery and was not known in the Old Testament.

REV 3:10; ISA 34:2; 24:1,4-5,16-21 and many other passages make it very clear as well.
JER 30:7 - this period is particularly called the time of Jacob’s trouble and Jacob refers to Israel.

In DAN 9:24, God says 70 weeks are determined upon “thy” people (Jews not the church).
DAN 9:24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression,
In GEN 29:26-27, and DAN 9:24, one week is equivalent to 7 years.

The Church has nothing to do with this prophecy since the Church did not have its existence until after the death of Christ, EPH 5:25-26, after the resurrection of Christ, ROM 4:25; COL 3:1-3, and after the ascension of Christ, EPH 1:19-20.

Since the church had no part in the first 69 weeks which are related only to God’s program for Israel, then it can have no part in the 70th week which is again related to God’s program for Israel.

It is another Jesus, 2CO 11:4.
Another spirit, 2CO 11:4.
Another Gospel, GAL 1:6.
Another doctrine, 1TI 4:1.

J. Dwight Pentecost, pg 200 “Things to Come” -
“Since the church is the body, of which Christ is the head, EPH 1:22; 5:23; COL 1:18, ...
the bride, of which He is the bridegroom, 1CO 11:2; EPH 5:23, the object of His love, EPH 5:25,
- the branch of which He is the root and stem, JOH 15:5, the building, of which He is the foundation and cornerstone, 1CO 3:9; EPH 2:19-22, there exists between the believer and the Lord a union and a unity. The believer is no longer separated from Him, but brought into the closest oneness with Him.

If the church is in the seventieth week or the tribulational period, she is subjected to the wrath, judgment, and indignation which characterizes the period, and because of her oneness with Christ, He, likewise, would be subjected to that same visitation. This is impossible according to 1JO 4:17, for He cannot be brought into judgment again. Inasmuch as the church has been perfected and delivered from all judgment, ROM 8:1; JOH 5:24; 1JO 4:17, if she is subjected to judgment again the promises of God would be of none effect and the death of Christ would be ineffectual.

Who would dare to assert that the death of Christ could fail to accomplish its purpose? While the members may be experientially imperfect and need experiential cleansing, yet the church, which is His body, has a perfect standing in Christ and could not need such cleansing. The nature of the testing in the seventieth week, REV 3:10, is not to bring the individual to cleansing, but to reveal the degradation and need of the unregenerate heart. The nature of the church prevents such a testing.

Rev 13 makes it clear that all who are in the 70th week or the Tribulation period are brought into subjection to the beast and through him to Satan who gives the beast power. If the church were in this period she would be subjected to Satan and Christ would either lose His place as head or because of His union with the Church, He would be also subjected to Satan’s authority.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 193. THE RAPTURE WILL BE THE END OF THE AGE OF NO PROPHECY, PART 3

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The secret of the mystery. Part 193. The Rapture will be the end of the age of no prophecy. Part 3.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007


The Mosaic Law was never given to Gentiles, DEU 4:8; ROM 2:12-14, because Israel was the client nation.

DEU 4:8 “Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?”

ROM 2:14 For the Gentiles do not have the Law.

The Mosaic Law was never given to the church, ACT 15:5, 24; ROM 6:14; GAL 2:19.
This is the fallacy of covenant theology.

GAL 2:19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, that I might live to God.”

The church has no animal sacrifices, Saturday worship, specialized priesthood, etc.

Codex three is the exception, since it belongs to the entire world especially dealing with the military establishment.

Point 1. Definition. While “rapture” is defined as the act of being transported, or the state of being rapt or carried out of oneself, the “Rapture” is used here in a technical theological sense for the resurrection of the Royal Family of God.

Christ is resurrected, ascended, and seated at the right hand of the Father as part of the strategic victory of the angelic conflict.

God interrupted the Jewish Age with the Church-age to call out and provide a Royal Family of God.

Once the Royal Family of God is completed, the Church is resurrected as the body of Christ to become the bride of Christ.

The Church-age is that period of human history when the Royal Family of God is being formed on earth, EPH 1:22-23; 2:16; 4:4-5; COL 1:18,24; 2:19.

When the Royal Family of God is completed, then the Rapture occurs, 1TH 4:16-18; 1CO 15:51-58.

During the conclusion of the Jewish Age, the Tribulation period, the bride is prepared in heaven by receiving a resurrection body exactly like that of the Lord.

Then comes the Big Genuflex and acknowledgment of Christ, PHI 2:9-11, ROM 14:11.
After that comes the Judgment Seat of Christ, when all Church-age believers are evaluated and rewarded, 2CO 5:10.

2CO 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Point 2. Twenty-six biblical principles that establish the position of a pre-tribulational Rapture of the church.

1. The great Tribulation is punishment for a Christ-rejecting world, and the nation of Israel, who rejected her Messiah,
REV 6:12-17.

2. The nature of the church, and the promises of Christ forbid the church from going through the great Tribulation.

COL 1:22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach -
HEB 13:5 for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”

3. There must be an interval of time between the Rapture and the Second Coming - when the Judgment Seat of Christ takes place and believers either receive rewards or lose rewards, 1CO 3:11-15, 2CO 5:10.

4. The scriptures which deal with the great tribulation have particular reference to the Jew, MAT 24:1-31; MAR 13:14; LUK 21:23-36.

DAN 11:31 “And forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.”

The Sabbath is for the Jews only, EXO 31:16.

LUK 13:6 And He {began} telling this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it, and did not find any.”

The Sabbath is used, MAT 24:20.
Jerusalem is trodden under, LUK 21:24.
Kingdom of God is near and at hand, MAT 24:14.
Church is never mentioned; Temple implied; abomination of desolation denoted.

5. The Tribulation is mentioned as a gross time of darkness, evil, and sin, where none have faith. ISA 60:2;
JER 13:16; LUK 18:8.

LUK 18:8 “I tell you that He will bring about justice for them speedily. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”

6. Satan persecutes the woman in the Tribulation (Israel). The church is not to come under condemnation.
REV 12:1-4; ROM 5:9; 8:1; 1TH 1:10; 5:9; 1CO 15:55-57; 1TH 4:13-18.

7. The Church is not of the world, JOH 17:14; PHI 3:20; 2TI 2:3-4. The church is a spiritual extension of Jesus Christ, with promises that are heavenly related, EPH 1:3; 2:6.

8. Christ is preparing a home for His body the Church, and has promised to return and to take His bride back with Him,
JOH 14:3; 1TH 4:13-17.

JOH 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, {there} you may be also.”

9. The Church has been promised deliverance from the wrath to come. ROM 5:9; 1TH 1:10; 5:9; REV 3:10.

10. The believer is told to watch or have an attitude of anticipation for the Lord’s coming. If believers are to go through the great Tribulation, they would be advised to watch for the signs of the prophecies of the coming of Jacob’s trouble, ROM 8:23;
1CO 1:7; GAL 5:5; TIT 2:11-13.

1CO 1:7 await eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ?
TIT 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus;

11. God has always protected His people in unique fashions in the face of judgment.
Enoch before the flood, 2PE 2:6-8. Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah.

12. The instructions by the apostle Paul never include any preparation or warning that the church will encounter the great Tribulation.

13. If the Church goes through the Tribulation then the Jews as well as the Gentiles of the Tribulation period would become part of the Church.

14. The church at Thessalonia would not be concerned of any disadvantage of the dead in Christ if those who were alive had to go through the great Tribulation, 1TH 1:4.

15. The message of the church is the message of the Gospel of grace, and peace which was secured at the cross by Jesus Christ, EPH 2:8-10. The message of the great Tribulation is one of God’s judgment, REV 7:4-8; 12:17; 19:10; MAT 24:14.

16. The iniquity of the anti-Christ cannot be released until the Holy Spirit, the restrainer, is removed with the Church, 2TH 2:3-7 (mystery of lawlessness).

SECRET OF THE MYSTERY DOCTRINE
MARCH 2007