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From: Edgardo Meneses
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:46 AM
Subject: Article Offer: THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

First, on Romans 8:38,39. Based on that passage (and others, you were saying), you wrote that believers cannot be separated from Christ. Let me quote, including verse 35, with added emphases, "Who shall separate us from the LOVE OF CHRIST? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Notice that those things mentioned cannot separate us Christians from the love of Christ/God. That means, God will not stop loving us as His children no matter what. But it does not mean that we as individuals cannot do anything to separate ourselves from fellowship with Him. In fact, scriptures are plenty which point to Christians separating themselves from close relationship with God. And if a Christian remains in that condition up to the time of the Rapture, can we expect him to be part of the Bride of Christ? You said, "Christ Alone can make the Bride ready through His Cleansing Blood. We can prepare for the Wedding -and some will fall far short. But, Christ will do the Cleaning up."

But the cleansing is being done right now, BEFORE the Rapture takes place. The Lord Jesus is doing His Work as High Priest. When the Rapture takes place, He will assume the office of JUDGE (Rev. 1-3). At the Judgment Seat of Christ, He "will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire" (Matt. 3:12). That means the unworthy among the people of God (Christians) will be separated from the presence of the Lord, "burn[ed] up." instead of being part of the Wife of Christ.

All Christians will be raptured, including the carnal and unfaithful, I think we should be clear on that. After the Rapture the unfaithful will be cleansed alright, but at the expense of being excluded from the kingdom (see Matt. 7:21-23; 22:11-14; 24:48-51; 25:1-30, Luke 13:23-30, Romans 8:13, 1 Cor. 3:11-15; 6:9,10; 9:24 -10:12, Gal. 6:19-21; Eph. 5:3-6, Jude 5, Rev. 2:11; 3:5, etc., etc.). As Matthew 16:24-27 and John12:24-26 make clear, either the soul DIES today in this world, or it will have to die in the future during the kingdom age. And this brings me to First Corinthians 15:

First Corinthians 15:50ff does not refer to the Rapture because this passage is talking about the resurrection of ALL Christians AT THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMP.

Verse 50 is very revealing: "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Now, it is plain from many other scriptures that there will still be death during the Millennium, (see again above scripture references). Therefore, the passage must be talking about an event to happen AFTER the Millennium, when ALL those Christians who were excluded from the Kingdom will be restored by God (after their souls had died during the kingdom age). For more information on this, I have a 13-page article titled, "Warning to Christians: TEARS IN HEAVEN (Future)!!!,"posted at http://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topics/warning-to-christians-tears.

Lastly, may I refer to Revelation 3:16-18. Notice that the lukewarm among the people of God Christ "will spue . . . out" of His mouth. And the reason is because these same unfaithful Christians are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." While there is still time, today, the Lord Jesus is asking lukewarm Christians to "buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." Spiritual nakedness will not separate us from God's love, but if not arrested in time, it will mean our separation from Christ relative to His coming kingdom, for the letters of Christ to the Church in Revelation 2 &3 are related to the kingdom age.

I hope I have made myself clear regarding this matter. But what is more important is the acceptance of the clear message of the Word.

Yours for proclaiming the Word of the kingdom (Matthew 13:19,23), which is distinct from eternal salvation (salvation of the SOUL as distinguished from the salvation of the spirit),

Edgardo


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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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