By Gerlinda


Those that believe in Dispensations need to understand that the church DID NOT begin on the Day of Pentecost.

Joe Ortiz, in his book "The End Times Passover" gives the evidence that says:

(if only they would take the time to examine God's words more closely. When Jesus told Peter that upon this rock I will build my church (Matthew 16:18), Christ was telling Peter that on the Day of Pentecost His already existing ecclesia would receive the edifying, strengthening or emboldening power from the Holy Spirit, in order for His already existing ecclesia to have the strength it never had before. (see Luke 24:49, Joel 2:28, Ephesians 1:13.)

In Matthew 16:18, the word build used by Jesus in this verse is the Greek verb oikodemeo, which means to strengthen, edify, embolden. If Jesus wanted to tell Peter He was going to create something new on the Day of Pentecost, Jesus would have used the more appropriate word for creating something new, which is the Greek verb kitzo, to create!

Jesus was not saying He would be creating a new religion (the so-called Christian Church) but, rather, He was telling Peter that through Himself (The Rock) He would strengthen His already existing assembly (ecclesia), this small remnant group (Luke 12:32) of faith believing Israel. How does someone strengthen something that supposedly doesn't exist? If God's eccelsia didn't already exist before the outpouring of Holy Spirit induced power, what was the Holy Spirit giving strength to?

Taken from page 12-13 of The End Time Passover by Joe Ortiz

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You see, brothers and sisters, there was a Called Out eccelsia when God called out Abraham from the Land of Ur. Abraham did as God told him based on "FAITH".

So, it is a grave mistake to consider ourselves as the beginning of God's Calling out.

But, you will probably say, "We are saved by Grace and there was no Grace at the time of Abraham." Really now?
Who was it that spoke to Abraham and led the Children of Israel those 40 years in the Wilderness before God finally allowed them to enter The Promised Land?

Are you saying that Abraham, the prophets of old and those that followed in Faith are not saved? Heaven forbid that such a verdict be put upon them.

Do you think there has been a blinding in part upon the New Testament Church to make them think they are above the original Children of Faith Called Out by God?

"Many are called but Few are Chosen". [ Matthew 22:14] Makes a whole lot more sense now, doesn't it?

Don't you, the End Time Generations get it? There is no Dispensation or separation from the original Israel. The ecclesia is One Body made up of the natural Olive Branch and the grafted in Wild Olive Branch (Israel & Gentile) and there-fore, this nonsense of the Gentile Church needing to be taken out 7 long years while God deals with those Jews who have not yet called out to Him is just that....pure nonsense. It does not come from the Word of God. It comes from the mouth of men who want to separate the Body of Christ. It is the same ole plot...Divide and Conquer.

Ecclesia/Church, you are here to run the race until, either the Lord God calls you home in death or He has His Angels gather you up because you are the Elect from the Four Winds of the earth and put you in the Sheepfold of His Care until the Seventh Trumpet blows and The Dead in Christ rise first and then they which remain shall be changed to meet Him in the Air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I Thess. 4:16-18. That is the Resurrection. That is the Rapture. They happen almost at the same time. That is what the Word of God says and it does not tell tales.

Joe Ortiz does a wonderful job of letting God's Word speak for itself. Perhaps, it would be wise for the rest of us to do the same.



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