The
theme of Paul's Acts period ministry and letters is the hope of Israel
so embedded in Israel's festive program. Passover/Unleavened Bread had
been fulfilled, Pentecost had been fulfilled and the next earthly
redemptive event was the Day of the Lord culminating in the return of
the Lord to the Earth at Trumpets. Reading 2Thess.2 pulls us right into
Israel's temple and the abomination of desolation.
The
Acts period was Pentecost in operation. Pentecost is a first fruit of
Trumpets and the Thy Kingdom Come. The blessings (like gifts, guidance
and supernatural transportation) and the curses, (like death for certain
sins and sickness leading to death in others), was the foretaste, the
first fruit of the millennial reign of Christ who will rule with a rod
of Iron. Acts 5 is a picture of Is.66 in operation, a first fruit of it.
When MA takes the millennial forecast events and doctrines of the Acts
period and tries to squeeze into it the present dispensation of the
grace of God, there are potholes and yawning gaps
of dispensational truth which cloud and obscure the truth. That the
Gentiles were included is no evidence of any change of dispensation,
Gentiles were included in the Kingdom program for blessings and indeed
for judgment upon Israel. So that when Paul quoted Is.28:11 in
1Cor.14:21 it was a reminder to Israel that they were rebellious but
that God would have his way for them according to His purposes, please
read Is.28 which follows on from 1Cor.15 Is.25. Paul through Corinthians
is following Isaiah's earthly purpose themes.
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