During Sunday Evening Story-Time, on September 5, 2010, the IL teaching elder was talking about 1 Thess 4:16-17, and said, ‘The dead in Christ have an advantage over the alive because they get their glorified bodies an instant before we do.’ He mentioned this more than once. So what is his point in that? It seems like he is just filling up his story-time.
1 Thess 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The Cunning Royal Jester kept focusing on the ‘reunion with the Thessalonians’ loved ones’ as ‘the comfort factor’ .... yet he teaches that ONLY the saints that have believed through PAUL’s ministry will be in what-he-calls ‘the rapture’. Therefore, what about any of the Thessalonians’ relatives or friends who trusted Christ through some other minister, such as Apollos, Peter, or even Christ Himself? Saints alive during the time Paul wrote this epistle had certainly believed through other ministers besides him. The Cunning Royal Jester teaches that there will be NO gathering together with them. He puts them in a different program, and a different church, and a different resurrection, and a different destiny:
1 Cor 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith,
I am of Paul (that’s the ‘mid-Acts hyper-dispensationalist’ group who claim to ONLY follow Paul);
and I of Apollos (he is not really an issue for the ‘mid-Acts-ers’ today);
and I of Cephas (that’s Peter, who ‘mid-Acts-ers’ say taught a DIFFERENT gospel than Paul taught .... and therefore, they believe a person cannot be saved today through Peter’s writings);
and I of Christ (‘mid-Acts-ers’ teach that Jesus in His earthly ministry was ‘another Jesus’ and that a “right-divider” cannot follow Christ).
GOD’s word through Paul in the same epistle said that it is CARNAL to make an issue over WHICH preacher taught you the gospel. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ really need to pay attention to that:
1 Cor 3:4-5 For while one saith, I am of Paul;
and another, I am of Apollos;
are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom ye believed,
even as the Lord gave to every man?
Paul taught by inspiration of God .... that the MAN who brought you to faith in Christ did not matter. But to the ‘mid-Acts-ers’, it does. If you don’t claim to be ‘of Paul’ .... then they EXCLUDE you from being in ‘the church, the body of Christ’. They make you an OUTCAST, when the scripture says that you belonging to Christ is the issue:
1 Cor 3:21-23 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul,
or Apollos,
or Cephas,
or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
The Cunning Royal Jester leaves all those saints in the ground, that have not believed through PAUL, at his ‘rapture-resurrection’. The Thessalonian saints would have no hope of reuniting with them! The Jester and the Jokers who promote his paradigm needs to accept GOD's WORD:
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.
The Cunning Royal Jester preaches doctrines that are contrary to plain verses of scripture .... even those written by Paul.
This is David Dowell saying, “Think about it!”
