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ARE THEY WRONG ABOUT THE RAPTURE TOO?  THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING, MANY ARE HOPING IT WILL TAKE PLACE ANY DAY NOW.

That’s not a healthy attitude. Sadly, it comes via more circular reasoning from a flawed equation. Besides, they should be more interested in growing up than in going up. I have always been more concerned with development than I am with deliverance. The concept of a future rapture? It’s still two plus two equals five. Even so, a rapture of deliverance did occur in conjunction with a part of our progression of the resurrection and just prior to the aforementioned siege of Jerusalem. But the futurist rapture theory? It has led many astray and blurred the focus of our production, if you will.

HOW DO YOU MEAN?

While we’re concentrating on building a company of performers with family resemblance who change their culture for the better, what are they doing?  They’re intent on getting as many in the fold as possible, using scare tactics if need be, before everyone in the fold is magically whisked away, leaving the other poor suckers to face would-be disaster.  It’s a mess.  They have completely written off a culture that we are intent on transforming.  Where’s the faith in that?⁹⁴  They are majoring in negativity and fear and don’t even know it.  They are merely following their natural impulses – the negative ones they still had at audition.⁹⁵  Some have good intentions, but in their sideshow they have a GREAT BIG DEVIL and an itty-bitty god.  What a shame.  They call it “hope.”  People wonder why things seem to be getting worse and worse without fully grasping the impact of their very own words.  They are unable to see that their negative words have the potential, if left unchecked, to edge the culture near the abyss of self-fulfilling prophecy.⁹⁶

A PROGRESSION OF THE RESURRECTION – JUST WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

We phased it in step by step, starting with my son and then quite a few others.  We had directed the people toward it for hundreds of years.

94 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him . . .” (Hebrews 11:6a).  “So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:8).  “ . . . that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God” (1 Corinthians 2:5).

95 “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:6).

96 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue . . .” (Proverbs 23:7).  “I believed, therefore I spoke, ‘I am greatly afflicted’” (Psalm 116:10).  “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).   “. . . out of the abundance (or poverty) of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34b).