‘Mid-Acts-ers’ believe that who-they-call ‘the church, the body of Christ’ saints that have died and gone to heaven .... are in another place, somewhere in ‘the heavenlies’ .... than the dead saints of what-they-call ‘Israel’s program’ who they think are in mansions (John 14:2-3) in heavenly Jerusalem. Since ‘mid-Acts-ers’ are such excessive DIVIDERS, they assign different destinies and separate inheritances for 2 groups of believers. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ admit that the holy city will come to earth (Rev 21:2), but they feel like they have to keep ‘the church, the body of Christ’ isolated out of it, since they think they will be staying in heaven for eternity, while Israelite saints ride on down.
Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches that?
If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.
It was the ‘risen, glorified’ Lord Jesus Who told Saul on the Damascus Road, that the Gentiles would have inheritance AMONG other believers:
Acts 26:16-18 But rise, and stand upon thy feet:
for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee a minister and a witness
both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people,
and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18 To open their eyes,
and to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan unto God,
that they may receive forgiveness of sins,
and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Synonyms for ‘among’ are ‘between, in the midst of, with, mingled in, surrounded by, in connection or association with, amid, in the company of’.
Paul told the Ephesian elders basically the same thing:
Acts 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
God broke down the middle wall of partition (Eph 2:14), and made the Gentiles acceptable to SHARE WITH Israel:
Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (fit) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Peter, who ‘mid-Acts-ers’ say only ministered and wrote to Israel .... showed an eternal inheritance, stored up in heaven:
1 Peter 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
There are not sections of secluded saints .... not on earth .... not in heaven!
No quarantine here nor there!
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