God chose and commissioned Paul to be the apostle of the Gentiles:
Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
That is one of the basic teachings of ‘mid-Acts-ers.’ However, we will see that they are speaking out of both sides of their mouth. "My brethren, these things ought not so to be." ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ wrest the scriptures (2 Pet 3:15-16) .... even those scriptures that PAUL wrote.
1 Thess 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ do not believe that. They say that the ONLY saints that will return with Christ when He comes .... are those who were saved during the dispensation of grace, by "Paul’s" gospel. Thus, they SEPARATE the SAINTS into different groups of saints, when the Bible makes no such division (Rom 12:4-5; 1 Cor 10:17, 12:13, 20; Eph 2:16, 3:6, 4:4; Col 3:15).
Old testament prophecies said that all the LORD’s saints will judge the people:
Psa 149:4-9 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them (the saints) sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their (the saints’) mouth, and a twoedged sword in their (the saints’) hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Paul taught the same truth:
1 Cor 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you (the saints), are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
When the LORD said "all His saints" .... He meant "ALL" His saints.
• He meant it then .... through Moses:
Deut 33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
When the LORD said "all His saints" .... He meant "ALL" His saints.
• He meant it .... through Zechariah:
Zech 14:3-9 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Hey, 'mid-Acts-ers': WHICH 'all the saints' would these saints be? Are they 'all the saints' meaning 'ONLY Israel's kingdom program saints' .... or are they really ALL the saints? To 'mid-Acts-ers' 'ALL the saints' means 'PART' of the saints. They assign 'which part' of the saints, according to which 'program' they designate each 'part' of the saints to be in.)
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD (Eph 4:5), and his name one.
When the LORD said "all His saints" .... He meant "ALL" His saints.
• He meant it .... through Paul:
1 Thess 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
When the LORD comes .... He will bring 'ALL' His saints with Him.
I believe that, do you?
"We ought to obey God rather than men."
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