A teaching elder opened his messge this week with a comment about 1 Thess 4:16-17, where he began, "In this passage about the rapture ...." In all fairness, he did later admit that the word ‘rapture’ was not in the Bible, but he preaches that it will take place ‘pre-tribulation’, which to him, is before the 70th week of Daniel. He calls the entire 7 years the ‘tribulation’. He also taught that ‘just as he BEGAN the dispensation of grace with an appearance of the Lord calling Paul .... so it will END.’ By his remarks, he believes the dispensation of grace STARTED in Acts 9 with the calling of Saul on the road to Damascus, and that it will STOP with the ‘rapture’ of only-those-saints-that-have-believed-the-gospel-according-to-Paul .... 7 plus years BEFORE the man of sin arrives .... with another appearance of the Lord calling Paul’s converts up to heaven.
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.
I cannot find any scripture to support ‘mid-Acts’ notions that God BEGAN the dispensation of grace in Acts 9 or that He will END it in 1 Thess 4:16-17.
2 Tim 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
The grace is found in Christ Jesus .... not ‘in PAUL’.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
