And have tasted the powers of the world to come....indeed. So it seems Joels prophecy concerns what will happen to israel from pentecost until the 2nd coming. Thanks Randy.
Yeah, no doubt about that. He describes events and then says: "...before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."
Thank YOU, voltaire.
Yep. :up:Of course, we are also saved from the wrath to come. You post tribers, have fun. :rapture:
And have tasted the powers of the world to come....indeed. So it seems Joels prophecy concerns what will happen to israel from pentecost until the 2nd coming. Thanks Randy.
∅2L84U;2211459 said:
But, those things are not happening now.
∅2L84U;2211459 said:
But, those things are not happening now.
Well said, STP.
∅2L84U;2211459 said:
But, those things are not happening now.
:thumb:As a MidActster I just wanted to make an interesting observation in the form of a rhetorical question.
If Peter and the other apostles had believed that Christ's death and resurrection had freed them from all obligation to the Law as given by Moses, and had tried to preach a Pauline style "gospel of the uncircumscision" throught Israel, what kind of success would they have had?
The answer I believe, is that they would have had no success at all, and would have been a great detriment to God's plans. They would not have been taken seriously anywhere in Israel, even by jews who may have been sincerely seeking God, for they would have been seen as heretics, no better than heathen gentiles. And so we have the "transition period" of both sets of believers in Christ co-existing in the early stages of Christianity. The uncircumscision, having never been burdened with the law were free from it, and the circumscision, living as jews and evangelising to the jewish nation, still observing the Law, but being sanctified by their faith in Christ.
∅2L84U;2209964 said:1. Did the Holy Spirit dwell in those after Christ's resurrection (Pentecost, Stephen, and so on) as He does in the Body of Christ? If not, what is the difference.
"Take notice that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I shall see you." Heb 13:23
Is this a different Timothy, than the Timothy Paul wrote his letters to? If so, what makes you think that?