776 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 4 Book 65 But God! The Body of Christ The Mysteries 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 65 BUT GOD! – (The Body of Christ –The Mysteries) - PART 4 All right, let’s continue on where we have been, on the Body of Christ, the revelation of the mysteries as they were given to the Apostle of the Gentiles, Paul. The everyday life. The home life. All right, now here in Colossians chapter 4 he’s dealing with employers and employees. Colossians 4:1-3 Gentiles?! Isaiah chapter 42 and we can start at verse 1. Isaiah 42:1 If the Gentiles were going to receive anything benevolent from God, it had to be through Israel. All right, move on down to verse 6. Isaiah 42:6 "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, (Now, we’re talking to the Nation of Israel.) That, until we get to Paul, if God had a mind for the Gentile, it was going to be after Israel had become the obedient Nation and they had the King and the Kingdom. That’s the Old Testament prophecy Isaiah 60:1 3. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings (of the Gentile world) to the brightness of thy rising." Now, drop down to verse 5. Isaiah 60:5 Now we’re going to drop down to verse 26, but to pick up the flow, and point, let’s start at verse 24. Colossians 1:24-26a for his body’s sake, which is the church: 25. 26. Even the mystery…" Most people absolutely can not separate Paul’s writings from the rest of Scripture, and when that happens you get the blender effect." Because it, alone, is associated with the mysteries revealed to Paul. I think we’ll have time to still hit the Rapture this afternoon. All right, Colossians 1. Colossians 1:26 It’s all part of the mysteries. Colossians 1:27 If in a short order God doesn’t convict him and bring him back or take him out, then, yes, I doubt if he’s ever saved." All right, now in the time we have left, let’s look at the mystery concerning the Rapture. Well, bless their hearts, let’s turn to I Corinthians chapter 15 verse 51, and lo and behold, what’s one of the first words you see? "Mystery" That’s why these theologians can’t understand the Rapture. It’s a mystery. There’s not one verse from Paul. It is all Old Testament, the four gospels, and Revelation. Absolutely, there’s no Rapture in that part of the Bible. You’ve got to come to Paul, because Paul alone had revealed these things that were kept secret. I Corinthians 15:51a "Behold, I show you a mystery;…" Paul says, "I’m showing you a mystery." God has revealed something to me that’s never been revealed before. Now, what’s this mystery? I Corinthians 15:51b Well, that’s true in general terms, but God is God and He can make an exception, and the exception is going to be the Rapture of the Body of Christ. Now read on. A body like Christ’s resurrected body – instantly! Maybe between the stirrup and the ground the Grace of God he found." But see this is how instantly God can do things. Never forget the words of the Lord Jesus in His earthly ministry. "With God nothing is impossible." Nothing! How in the world will God suddenly, instantly call every believer around the planet to meet Him in the air in a second or two? Well, it sounds impossible to us, but is it to God? No! All the believers of the Church Age. All right, and here’s the reason. I Corinthians 15:53 I Thessalonians 4:13a Paul doesn’t want us to be ignorant of yet another mystery, because that’s what it’s called in I Corinthians. I Thessalonians 4:13b "…concerning them which are asleep, (Believers who have died, our loved ones.) I Thessalonians 4:14a Paul’s Gospel! I Thessalonians 4:14b "…even so them also who have died in Jesus will God bring with him." At death what happens to the soul and spirit of the believer? Out to Glory! Into the Lord’s presence! The soul and the spirit and they’ll be reunited with that resurrected body. Every single individual’s soul and spirit with that original body that’s resurrected. If you go back to Romans chapter 8, what did that resurrection give us? "The new body, fit for all eternity." All right, now reading on, verse 15. I Thessalonians 4:15a "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,…" Where does Paul get all this? The Ascended Lord revealed all this to him. 16. For the Lord himself (The crucified, ascended Lord is going to leave heaven and--) shall descend with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump (singular) of God: (Not an angel’s trumpet like Revelation, but this is a trumpet of God.) and the dead in Christ shall rise first;" Those who are believers, the Body of Christ, and they’ve been laid wherever they are, whether they’re burned at the stake and there’s nothing left but ashes. That doesn’t make any difference to God, it’ll be resurrected, a new body reunited with their soul and spirit. At the Rapture, nothing more than perilous times shall come. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible