The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

  The way the rapture is believed & taught by a great many works, people are remove & retained at the inauguration of a literal 7 Year Tribulation, or in the middle, or at the very end.     On this model, only believers are removed & retained, after which they return on the day Christ returns to the Earth.  Let’s take a look at Matthew 13 on this subject.  24  He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,  25  but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds[c] among the wheat and went away.  26  So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.  27  And the servants[d] of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’  28  He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you ...

 

Most Christians on the Earth are accustomed to the idea that, in order to be a member of a local church, baptism is an absolute requirement. Is this true when the Bible is correctly understood, or an ecclesiastical tradition? It is our belief @ Philadelphia Apostolic Presbyterian in WSNC that this is an ecclesiastical tradition that has been passed down through the ages & that the requirement that males be circumcised in the Old Testament qualifies as case law not a rigid command that rules over Abraham & his offspring in a manner that is inelastic.  And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)l To illustrate, let’s look at 7th Day Sabbatarianism again.  7th Day Sabbath worship has never been abolished. It has been expanded, just as circumcision had never been repealed.  Rather, it has been expanded via baptism.   In fact, baptism came before circumcision according to 1 Pet. 3:21.     T...

This is how legalism operates:  Legality , when asked to render an opinion on whether or not someone should eat food sacrificed to idols, do Halloween,  celebrate  Christmas, “I pray and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to the correct conviction because I can formulate an argument for both and since I’m conflicted, I don’t participate so I don’t violate my conscious. Bible :  The text of 1 Corinthians says that you shouldn’t participate for sake of the conscience of **others.** not yourself.  Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then ...