‘Mid-Acts-ers’ have an awful time with ‘first’ and ‘last’.
During September 5, 2010, Sunday Evening Story-Time with the IL teaching elder .... he said, ‘Firstborn .... the term is not talking about being first born, but about being the head, heir, ruler of all things.’
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?
Evidently, the Cunning Royal Jester based his assignment of the word ‘firstborn’ on this next verse (Col 1:18) .... where he made ‘firstborn’ to equal ‘head’ .... but that is NOT how the VERSE reads:
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Furthermore, try these other uses of ‘firstborn’:
Psa 135:6-8 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. (Exo 12:12)
Matt 1:24-25 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Heb 12:22-24 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem (which PAUL - by inspiration of GOD - said is "the mother of us all" in Gal 4:26), and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The Cunning Royal Jester’s assigned meaning of the word ‘firstborn’ is yet another example of ‘mid-Acts’ confusion of 2 simple words like ‘first’ and ‘last’. They don’t accept firstborn as born first, and they don’t like the last trump being the last of the 7 trumpets.
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
