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To: af_vet_1981; Luircin
It is the churches visible that are the Kingdom of Heaven, that are wheart and tares, that are bad fish and good fish, in whose brances the ravens roost and pick the seeds of the sown gospel that no others may benefit of that seed, monstrous freaks that have multitudes of energy-sucking leaves, but no fruit.

Jesus' Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, is not of this world, to us invisible, but not to God, or the angels (bad or good), the friends of the Bride, and the regenerated saints alone who have passed into Glory and the presence of the Prince; the panegyric festive assembly which is the church gathering in heaven whose Head is the First-begotten from the Dead, and whose members are written in the Lamb's Book of Life: That is the invisible church of saved souls only, not of others who may even be hoping for it, but not throughly and wholly committed to the Messiah by faith alone, through God's grace alone, made accepted in The Beloved. No "church" on earth is of that class, although it may have constituents who are the possession of The Lord.

300 posted on 06/05/2018 6:31:40 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

The holy apostles wrote to visible named churches that were part of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church that the Messiah built upon them with the Messiah Himself as the chief cornerstone. Those churches had candlesticks in heaven. Those churches had the holy apostles.


307 posted on 06/05/2018 5:28:28 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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