In English grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective which denotes the degree or grade by which a thing has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another.
Good - better.
First - second.
Old - new.
First - ? # - last.
Having a ‘new’ one .... makes the ‘first’ one be classified as ‘old’:
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Having a ‘better’ covenant .... makes the ‘first’ covenant be not as good:
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Having a ‘second’ covenant .... forces the ‘previous’ covenant to be the ‘first’ covenant:
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second.
Having ‘the last trump’ .... means there had to be at least one ‘PREVIOUS’ trump, certainly a ‘first trump’.
GOD did not identify the ‘PREVIOUS’ trump or trumpets through PAUL .... but GOD DID identify them through JOHN. Sadly, ‘mid-Acts-ers’ are prejudiced against John and they won’t listen to GOD through him, or anyone else really .... lots of times, they even object to what Paul wrote.
‘The last trump’ .... means there had to be a ‘first’ trump. Since the Cunning Royal Jester will not submit to GOD’s word that shows where ‘the last trump’ is .... he simply made one of his own invention. He teaches (6-27-10) that at the 1st trump, the dead are raised, and at the 2nd (or last) trump, the alive are changed .... that there are just 2, and only 2, blasts from the same trumpet. Please show me the verse! (I know he can’t.)
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ REFUSE to accept ‘the LAST trump’ in the Revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev 1:1; 10:7; 11:15,18) because it is written by the apostle JOHN .... even though ‘the last trump’ will sound when Jesus will be revealed from heaven to punish His enemies and glorify His saints .... as written by PAUL, the apostle of the Gentiles (Rom 11:13), who the ‘mid-Acts-ers’ CLAIM to follow (but don’t):
2 Thess 1:7-10 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Good - better.
First - second.
Old - new.
First - ? # - last.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
