When someone asks that you to show them in The Bible that Jesus ever claimed to be God well here's one reference right here, and there are many others. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath (already) appeared to all men. Verse 13 says it all, but let's start at verse 11. This verse shows that the Rapture is a reality, and it will happen before the horrors of the Tribulation comes. Now verse 58, and he begins this verse with the word "Therefore," Now Paul is winding this letter down. "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Death and sin are almost synonymous.) Then verse 57: I Corinthians 15:57 Remember God has said that they are not going to disappear. Well you take them off the scene and God's Word would fall apart, and we know God's not going to let that happen. Now I pay all respect to Israel's Covenant position, as the favorite nation of God. ![]() For example, that Jews and Gentiles would be brought into the Body of Christ on equal ground. Not to the Church or the Rapture of the Church! Now there were all kinds of mysteries revealed to Paul, and they were unknown to the rest of Scripture. Matthew 24:1-3 Matthew 24 is Tribulation ground. When Christ will come and stand in that day on the Mount of Olives. It was only a secret revealed by, and to the Apostle Paul. ![]() Now there are many other references to the Second Coming, but I'm going to use this passage as the prime example of how everything that the Old Testament, and Jesus and the Four Gospel accounts refer to in Christ's coming is never this Rapture of the Church, this meeting in the air. They were dispersed into every nation on earth.īut about 30 years before this dispersion took place, about 40 AD, the Apostle Paul was called by God, and he now is going to be progenitor of this Gospel of Grace and the calling out of the Gentile Body of Christ. When this dispersion took place about 70 AD the Jews lost the Temple, and the city of Jerusalem, and their homeland. Now for salvation all must believe the Gospel that was given Paul by the crucified, risen Lord, the Gospel we find in I Corinthians 15:1-4. Paul tells us now there is no difference between Jew and Gentiles. Remember God had intended for the Nation of Israel to evangelize the world, but when he sent them into dispersion, in the last chapter of Acts He put them into a place of spiritual blindness. Now God's going to turn to the rest of the world by putting the Nation of Israel into a dispersion, and not using the Jew with the exception of this one man, the Apostle Paul who was a Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees of the tribe of Benjamin. ![]() ![]() He came only to the Nation of Israel ( Matthew 15:24) as their Messiah, and their King, and we've been teaching that over and over. Everything was based on what God said, "I Will, I Will, I Will," That was prophecy! So Christ came in fulfillment of that Covenant. The Old Testament was based on the prophetic word. God just did not reveal it, not even a hint of the Church age, and what we call the Rapture in any of the prophecies, or His earthly ministry. "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God." Now let's look at verse 25: Romans 16:25 Deuteronomy 29:29 Before we look at I Corinthians let's look for a moment at Romans Chapter 16. So turn again to Chapter 15, and we're going to take a look at this revelation of a secret which was part of that whole revealed body of truth which Paul refers to as the mystery. Well hopefully we'll finish I Corinthians in this lesson, I'm certainly going to try. LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 30 I CORINTHIANS 15:35-16:24 - PART 2
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