Bro. Mick Smith
- The best place to start off a new person in the message of the Body of Christ, is to illustrate that the Early Church fell away.
- For example, Why do we have so many denominations of Christianity? Because the church fell away
- 1 Thes 5 1:-12 – AD33 + 45 years is AD78
- The day of the Lord is a time frame, not a literal day but rather a 45 year period (1 hour + 1 month)
- Jesus is coming as a thief in the night but God’s people will know when the day of the Lord arrives because they will have bought the truth and not attempted to steal it.
- The 8th Head is an image of the Beast
- II Thes 2:1-9 –
- The coming of the Lord will not come, except there is a following away of the church first. This scripture is specific to the falling away of the Early Church.
- Rev 17:7-8
- He who lets, is God. The word “let” means hinder, retain or hold back.
- I John4:1-3
- Acts 20:17-32 Paul clearly describes the falling away of the Early Church. This is not a mystery and was unavoidable. The Gentile people were unlearned in the ways of God and it took time for God to educated the Gentile people in the ways of righteousness. Just like it took God 2000 years to educate and the Jewish People.
- Rev 11:1-3 Measuring the Temple of God is not measuring a literal Temple but rather measuring the People of God in respect to God’s Order.
- The church was trod under the feet of the Gentile people for 1260 years.
- The 2 Witnesses or 2 Olive Trees are the Old and New Testament
- Zech 4:1-10