Light Clothing?

During this past Sunday Evening Story-Time with the Cunning Royal Jester (August 29, 2010) .... as I have heard him preach before .... he said, "Adam and Eve were naked .... They had a covering of light."

Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches the first man and woman were covered with light before their sin?

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If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.

Instead, trust the word of GOD.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

The only covering of light I found in the Bible .... was for the Lord, not Adam and Eve:

Psa 104:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Light clothing for Adam and Eve? I've heard the Cunning Royal Jester teach it, but I've never seen it in the scriptures. Maybe he is thinking of the emperor's new clothes instead?

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The Door of Water Baptism?

I have heard the Cunning Royal Jester, as well as his Jokers (one, in particular, this past Wednesday night), preach that water baptism is the door in John 10.

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches water baptism is the door?

If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

John 10:1-11 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold,
but climbeth up some other way,
the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers:
but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door:
by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

I did not read any mention of water baptism being the door in that passage.
Did you?

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2 Great Installments?

During a recent Sunday Evening Story-Time in 1 Thess 4:16, the ‘teaching elder’ of Illinois made a lengthy issue of the 2nd coming of Christ. He said, ‘When we talk about the 2nd coming, it has several installments to it. There is an interval between His coming in 1 Thess 4 and Rev 19. That’s different. The expression “the coming of the Lord” tells you there’s a series of events involved .... So the word “coming” implies a series .... the 2nd coming of Christ -- Just the terminology we use means we’re thinking about a period of time -- There’s some installments involved in it. 2 great installments.’

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches 2 great installments at the 2nd coming of Christ?

If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

The ‘teaching elder’ is now trying to classify ‘the rapture’ as part of the 2nd coming. So, now, according to him ....
the rapture is the 2nd coming’s 1st great installment ....
and
the 2nd coming is the 2nd coming’s 2nd great installment?!
He keeps getting more absurd!

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

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Before Church / After Church?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ teach that the church BEFORE Paul ....
was a different church .... than the church AFTER Paul.

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches that?

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If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

Gal 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: (also 1 Cor 15:9)

Gal 1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

Look like, by his own testimony and GOD’s inspired word ....
Paul preached the ‘one faith’ (Eph 4:5) that he persecuted in times past.

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The Beginning and the Ending of the Dispensation of Grace?

The Cunning Royal Jester teaches that "the way the dispensation of grace began is the way it will end". He just makes up stuff and people believe it because he said it, and they let him get by with it.


Could anyone show me the VERSE that says where the dispensation of grace began .... and that it will end the same way?


If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

I see that Jesus is the beginning and the end:

Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done.
I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

I can’t find a VERSE that talks about
the beginning of the dispensation of grace,
nor about the end of it ....
nor that it began the same way it will end.

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Dividing From Paul, Then Dividing Paul?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ preach that, FIRST, you have to divide Paul FROM the rest of the Bible, because they believe that Paul’s epistles are distinct and different from all the other Biblical writers. But that’s not dividing far enough for ‘mid-Acts-ers’! They divide even further .... and teach that AFTER you have divided Paul FROM everyone else .... then you must divide Paul. By that, they mean that you have to divide ‘early’ Paul .... from ‘late’ Paul. They do this because they see Paul’s early epistles contain ‘practices’ (that-they-assign) in (what-they-call) ‘Israel’s prophecy program’ .... and that Paul’s later epistles are for (who-they-classify as) ‘the church, the body of Christ’ (which-they-think does NOT include ANY saints who were ‘in Christ’ BEFORE Paul).

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches .... first, to divide all the other scriptures away FROM Paul .... and then, to divide Paul from Paul?

And they wonder why anyone would label them ‘hyper’ dividers?!

If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable
for doctrine,
for reproof,
for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:

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Quarantined in Heaven?

‘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?

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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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Extended Blowing of the Last Trumpet?

I just heard a ‘mid-Acts’ preacher say tonight that the seventh trump will blow for the ENTIRE 3-1/2 YEARS of the last half of Daniel’s 70th week.

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.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

In his futile attempt to deny that ‘the last trump’ of 1 Cor 15:52 is the same as the last of seven trumpets to blow in Rev 10:7, he used the old argument I’ve heard from the ‘teaching elder’ many times before, who preaches that the trumps can’t be the same because 1 Cor 15:52 blows in an instant, and Rev 10:7 blows over an extended period of time.

However, when the verses are examined, notice that it is our ‘change’ that will occur in a moment --- not the trump sound. Our physical bodies will ‘change’ into glorified bodies in a split-second .... when the last trump sounds:

1 Cor 15:51-52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

We will not all be dead then. Some saints will have survived and escaped the world-wide massive killing:

Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

While it is true that the phrase "in the days of" specifically describes 3-1/2 years in another passage in Rev 11:3-6 (which the preacher did not even mention), during the prophecy of the 2 witnesses .... that does not mean that "in the days of" MUST ALWAYS BE 3-1/2 years time span .... as can be seen by all the other 83 times the phrase is written in the scripture.

If the ‘mid-Acts’ method of handling the phrase "in the days of" was applied to another verse, it would mean that Jesus was not born on ‘a single day’ .... but over a period of YEARS when Herod was king:

Matt 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

The preacher threw caution to the wind to say that the 7th angel is going to blow his trump for a whole 3-1/2 years.

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Only 20% Vision?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ only see about 20/100 (Paul’s 13 epistles/66 books of the Bible). They say since 1 Cor 9:16,17, tells that a dispensation of the gospel is committed to Paul, and Eph 3:2 tells that Paul was given the dispensation of the grace of God .... therefore, they are "looking only to what Paul writes in Romans to Philemon .... PERIOD!"

Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches anyone to only look to Paul?

If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ have no visual acuity (acuteness or clearness of vision, dependent on the sharpness of the focus and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain)! They need a ‘optimistic’ prescription for some rose-colored glasses to read 20/20 and enjoy the whole Bible instead of just a fraction of it:

2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof,
for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:

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The END of the Dispensation of Grace?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ teach that, when the resurrection of ONLY ‘PART’ of the dead (just the ‘portion’ of saints that have believed through PAUL’s writings) takes place .... it will be the ‘event’ that ENDS the dispensation of grace.

I have heard ‘mid-Acts-ers’ say that the END of the dispensation of grace will occur at (what-they-call) the rapture, and that Israel’s ‘prophecy program’ will go back into effect as God’s ruling principle, with requirements of keeping the Mosiac law, Levitical priesthood, animal sacrifices, Jewish circumcision (even for Gentiles to be accepted), tongues, and water baptism. Did PAUL teach that?

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.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

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A New Church, the Body of Christ?

‘Mid-Acts-er’ teach that, with the salvation of the apostle Paul, God started a ‘new, different’ church called the body of Christ.

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.

Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?

P.S. The general answer of ‘mid-Acts-ers’ is not acceptable .... that "Paul said, In me first," because that verse says nothing at all about a church called ‘the body of Christ’, starting at his salvation:

1 Tim 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

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