my friend, I am all for dialogue, but that requires a two way street. you are very good at asking questions, not so good at answering them apparently.
I am still waiting for answers to:
1. reconciling Matthew 24 with the dispensational rapture/1,000 year reign theory.
2. using the literal historical method, tell me who is “Israel” in Romans 11:26.
if you can’t, please admit it and I will drop it. if you refuse and think I am here just to be cross examined without any opportunity to question you, homey don’t play that.
Well there are four questions you have yet to respond to in part 8. I will chalk that up to you taking the 5th.
1. You deny there is a “caught up” rapture recorded in scriptures? If you read the articles Walvoord points out pre-mils have three views of rapture timing. After the man of sin revealed but before the tribulation; mid tribulation at the 7th and last Trumpet judgments; and the third being at the end of the tribulation just before the Second Coming on earth. Since you refuse to read the posted articles I summarize the above.
I also answered #1 twice. Read Matthew 25 which is the continuation of the Olivet discourse. Reading on to Acts 1:
6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me[a] in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”(NASB)
2. It’s defined by Paul as Israel and not church. This is where your theological approach to the OT falls apart. The OT gives ample examples of a faithful remnant set aside.
The meticulous Apostle Paul continues and explains:
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”[i]
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”[j]
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.