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To: Just mythoughts
>>The Creator is the same yesterday, today, and will be forever.<<

If your using that to indicate He doesn't change how he deals with people you may want to rethink. He doesn't deal with us the same as He dealt with Israel. We are not under the same laws so that changed didn't it. We no longer sacrifice on an altar so that changed didn't it.

>>In Christ there is NOT a distinction of Israel/Judah and Gentiles. All have same opportunity for salvation.<<

Romans 11:25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery-- so that you will not be wise in your own estimation-- that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

God isn't done with Israel yet. There are seven years left of the 490 years promised them in Daniel's prophecies. He promised to bring them back to their land and is currently doing just that.

>>And it is a tradition of men/women that devised up a rapture notion<<

The apostles taught the rapture. The "catching up" or the "apostasy" will happen before "the day of the Lord".

1 Corinthians 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up (harpazó) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Greek - harpazó - properly, seize by force; snatch up, suddenly and decisively [http://biblehub.com/greek/726.htm]

The word rapture comes from the Latin translation rapiemur which means "to catch up" or "take away".

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy (apostasia) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Greek - apostasia - apostasía (from 868 /aphístēmi, "leave, depart," which is derived from 575 /apó, "away from" and 2476 /histémi, "stand") – properly, departure (implying desertion); apostasy – literally, "a leaving, from a previous standing." [http://biblehub.com/greek/646.htm]

Noah was taken up out of the destruction as was Lot.

210 posted on 05/09/2015 6:12:49 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

Beautifully exposited, Brother!


211 posted on 05/09/2015 8:18:23 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: CynicalBear

I pray I get to have a ring side seat when so called- Christians explain to Jesus they were not under His law. Part of demonstrating John 3:16 ‘believe in’ requires the keeping of the Ten Commandments. Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into this city.

Deception is hip deep!


315 posted on 05/11/2015 11:37:40 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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