>>>I’ve seen how you respond to “scholarly, substantive, critical analysis” and I have more productive things to do.<<<
Is that why you keep lurking, hoping to find an opening so you cast an aspersion or two at me? Because you have better things to do? Is that what you consider better things to do, CB?
Lovingly in Christ,
Philip
It is a natural progression of your interpretation that the rapture/resurrection of Israel has already occurred. The Gentiles would have been left behind because they were not Jews, not Israel. That fits nicely with your theory that the Catholic Church is apostate (Left Behind Gentiles could not figure it out by themselves and fell into verious errors). What you don't seem to realize is you are part of a small, recent movement (the same criticism you have a Darby and Scofield, except there is historical evidence of their view in the early Church Fathers, though it was certainly not unanimous; hence the Catholic position of not being dogmatic on what remains unknown but being dogmatic about the basics: the imminent return that has not happened yet, the special part Israel has to play and their ultimate national redemption through no merit of their own but just to show God's mercy and complete his Jewish and Gentile family.
I already posted the latest historical evidence that the Jewish believers who escaped to Pella in 70 AD returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt their Messianic Synagogue after the end of the Jewish-Roman wars because they realized that the expected return of Messiah had not occurred yet. This is congruent with the testimony of the Church Fathers and tradtion of the Catholic Church, which is why almost all Orthodox, Fundamentalist, and Evangelical Christians are still waiting for the imminent return of the LORD Jesus Christ.