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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 30
I CORINTHIANS 15:35-16:24 - PART 2
Well hopefully we'll finish I Corinthians in this lesson, I'm certainly going to try. So turn again to Chapter 15, and we're going to take a look at this revelation of a secret which was part of that whole revealed body of truth which Paul refers to as the mystery. Before we look at I Corinthians let's look for a moment at Romans Chapter 16. Now let's look at verse 25:
Romans 16:25
Deuteronomy 29:29
"The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:..."
God just did not reveal it, not even a hint of the Church age, and what we call the Rapture in any of the prophecies, or His earthly ministry. The Old Testament was based on the prophetic word. Everything was based on what God said, "I Will, I Will, I Will," That was prophecy! So Christ came in fulfillment of that Covenant. He came only to the Nation of Israel (Matthew 15:24) as their Messiah, and their King, and we've been teaching that over and over. Now God's going to turn to the rest of the world by putting the Nation of Israel into a dispersion, and not using the Jew with the exception of this one man, the Apostle Paul who was a Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees of the tribe of Benjamin. Remember God had intended for the Nation of Israel to evangelize the world, but when he sent them into dispersion, in the last chapter of Acts He put them into a place of spiritual blindness. Paul tells us now there is no difference between Jew and Gentiles. Now for salvation all must believe the Gospel that was given Paul by the crucified, risen Lord, the Gospel we find in I Corinthians 15:1-4. When this dispersion took place about 70 AD the Jews lost the Temple, and the city of Jerusalem, and their homeland. They were dispersed into every nation on earth.
But about 30 years before this dispersion took place, about 40 AD, the Apostle Paul was called by God, and he now is going to be progenitor of this Gospel of Grace and the calling out of the Gentile Body of Christ. Now there are many other references to the Second Coming, but I'm going to use this passage as the prime example of how everything that the Old Testament, and Jesus and the Four Gospel accounts refer to in Christ's coming is never this Rapture of the Church, this meeting in the air. It was only a secret revealed by, and to the Apostle Paul.
When Christ will come and stand in that day on the Mount of Olives. Matthew 24:1-3
Matthew 24 is Tribulation ground. Technology.
Not to the Church or the Rapture of the Church! Now there were all kinds of mysteries revealed to Paul, and they were unknown to the rest of Scripture. For example, that Jews and Gentiles would be brought into the Body of Christ on equal ground. Now I pay all respect to Israel's Covenant position, as the favorite nation of God. Well you take them off the scene and God's Word would fall apart, and we know God's not going to let that happen. Remember God has said that they are not going to disappear. Now back to I Corinthians 15: 54. Now verse 54. I Corinthians 15:54-56
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Death and sin are almost synonymous.) Then verse 57:
I Corinthians 15:57
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Now verse 58, and he begins this verse with the word "Therefore," Now Paul is winding this letter down. This verse shows that the Rapture is a reality, and it will happen before the horrors of the Tribulation comes. Verse 13 says it all, but let's start at verse 11.
Titus 2:11-13
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath (already) appeared to all men. When someone asks that you to show them in The Bible that Jesus ever claimed to be God well here's one reference right here, and there are many others. The glorious appearing of the great God, the God of Creation, the God of this Book, and Who is He? Our Saviour Jesus Christ! I Corinthians 15:58
God hasn't promised that, "Just because we're believers we're going to drive cadillacs, and live in mansions." Then one day we're going to cash in on the rewards in glory, and remember that Paul is always teaching that. Now go to Chapter 16 to wind up I Corinthians. Here Paul is going to deal with something totally different from resurrection. I dare say if we could ask some of our Jewish friends whether they teach tithing today, I'd be very surprised if they would say yes. Always remember that Paul never says tithe, because that was part of the Law, but that doesn't say that God doesn't expect you to give. Let's look how Paul puts it.
I Corinthians 16:1a
Paul was always instructed to remember the poor saints at Jerusalem. Why? I Corinthians 16:1,2
Now look at verses 10-14:
I Corinthians 16:10-14
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