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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 29
I CORINTHIANS 15:24-54 - PART 2
Remember from the Old Testament economy we had the firstfruits - the sampling - that's Christ and those who came out of the graves after He came out in Matthew Chapter 27. Then we have the main harvest, which is the Church resurrection and includes the Rapture. I Corinthians 15:23
Remember, all the Old Testament promises and programs never considered the out-calling of the Church. It was never in there because God had kept it secret. So all the Old Testament prophecies spoke of the coming of Christ to be their King, and they would have to go through the Tribulation and then they could have the King and the Kingdom. You can find that in Psalm Chapter 2, Joel Chapter 2, and Zechariah Chapter 14. God then brings forth the Apostle Paul and this is what we have been looking at for the past three lessons, and it's the calling out the Body of Christ primarily from the Gentiles. And since it has nothing to do with the Old Testament program or Tribulation, which is also tied to the Old Testament and primarily for the Jew, then we maintain that the Body of Christ is insulated from God's dealings with Israel either before or after the Cross, and so consequently this is why I teach the Rapture. The Body of Christ has to be off the scene before God can pick up dealing with Israel again. Always remember, if we could just take the Church out, which is in parentheses, then we can place the Tribulation back with the Old Testament economy of the Second Coming of the Messiah, the Tribulation, the King, and the Kingdom. Turn to Chapter 11 verse 25 (that I always I maintain will be the triggering mechanism for Christ coming for the Church). When the last person is saved, and the Body is complete then Christ will come for the Church.
Romans 11:25
"...that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,..."
Now define the word `ignorant.' I consider myself ignorant regarding electricity. Because I've never been taught about it. Romans 11:25
Well, what's Paul talking about? When Israel rejected the Messiah, why did they reject Him? Ignorance! Israel could have known Who Jesus was because it was in the Old Testament. Every last person in these 50 states should know that we are in the end times, that we are approaching the very coming of Christ, and the Tribulation, the appearance of the Anti-christ and world government, but do they? Paul is admonishing the believers at Rome, "Don't be ignorant of this fact that God has literally dropped a spiritual blindness on the Nation of Israel." Romans 11:7
Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; (What were they seeking? The King and the earthly Kingdom! How ignorant? Now coming back to verse 25, Paul says, "That we Gentiles are to understand that this spiritual blindness has fallen on the Nation of Israel, and it will remain on their spiritual eyes"
The Body of Christ, the Church. So when the Body of Christ is full then God will take us out of the way and He will start dealing again with the Nation of Israel. Now verse 7:
"Alas! Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 24:21? Now reading the verse again:
Jeremiah 30:7
Israel is the primary one that God is dealing with. In all of God's dealing with the human race, Israel is at the center of it all. Deuteronomy 32:8
Everything God has done with the human race on this planet revolves around that little Nation of Israel. Now the same way then with the Tribulation, it's going to be primarily God pouring out His wrath on Christ-rejecting Jews. The Old Testament and Tribulation saints will be relatively few in number compared to the number in the Body of Christ. I Corinthians 15:51,52
If we're not going to die and have a resurrection body then we've got to have a new body. Don't ever limit God. Philippians 3:20-21
Now for a moment let's come back to I Corinthians Chapter 15. And so we will be raised incorruptible, and changed into a glorious body like His resurrected body. Now verse 53:
I Corinthians 15:53,54
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Who gave himself for us,..." Now in Thessalonians 4, beginning with verse 13, and again Paul uses that word "ignorant."
I Thessalonians 4:13,14
Even for believers. brethren, concerning them which are asleep, (died in Christ) that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." even so them also which sleep (or have died) in Jesus will God bring with him."
The God that is coming for the saints is Jesus. Jesus is the God Who is coming with the saints. Now verse 15:
I Thessalonians 4:15,16
that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord (that is for the Body of Christ, the Church) shall not prevent (or go ahead of ) them which are asleep.
Now in verse 17 the two words "caught up" are the two words that comprise the word "Rapture." Then Paul says"

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