{"id":18469,"date":"2018-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/ecclesiology-010\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:17:06","slug":"ecclesiology-010","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/ecclesiology-010\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclesiology 010"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[111],"series_event":[484],"sermon_service_type":[473],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18469","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-revelation","series_event-ecclesiology","sermon_service_type-sunday-school","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Ecclesiology 010","sermon_date":"20180114","sermon_month":"1","sermon_year":"2018","sermon_notes":20036,"sermon_slides":20037,"sermon_mp3":20038,"sermon_id":"1141811484510","series_or_event":484,"service_type":[473],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":111,"chapter_and_verse":"1:6","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\n\nEcclesiology 10\n\n1-14-18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesson 10\n\nFather, we\u2019re grateful for today, grateful for Your grace, grateful for the fact that your grace not only saves us but keeps us and we don\u2019t look to ourselves to keep ourselves saved, we look to You.\u00a0 So we today rest on Your promises.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what personal struggles everybody within the sound of my voice is going through but I do know that You are sufficient for whatever the issue is.\u00a0 And so I just pray, Father, that we would rest in You and Your provision for us and Your grace that you\u2019ve given to us in the past and also in the present, and also in the future.\u00a0\u00a0 We thank\u00a0 You for that. I just pray that Your Word would be made clear today, and I pray for the illuminating ministry of the Spirit so that we can understand Your truth and walk better in Your ways.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll be careful to give you all the praise and the glory as You do this great work here today at Sugar Land Bible Church.\u00a0 And we ask these things in Jesus\u2019 name, and God\u2019s people said\u2026 Amen!\n\nIf you all can turn to the Book of Revelation, chapter 1 and verse 6.\u00a0 As you know we\u2019ve been kind of inching our way through the study of the doctrine of the Church, and the five dollar word for that is Ecclesiology.\u00a0 So we started off by defining what ecclesiology is and basically what the church is.\u00a0 And then we moved into the distinctions between the universal church and the local church and from there we went into seven word pictures of what the church is supposed to look like in God.\u00a0 And from there I gave you the case for the origin of the church, which we believe is in Acts 2.\u00a0 And I gave you six reasons for that.\n\nAnd what we started last time is the differences between Israel and the church, which really is a fundamental thing that you have to understand to interpret the Bible correctly.\u00a0 And a lot of people when they make a mistake in Bible interpretation a lot of the time it\u2019s simply because they\u2019re not respecting the Israel\/church distinction.\n\nSo there are, based on my count, and you can probably find more, but there are at least twenty-four differences between Israel and the church.\u00a0 And the first eight, actually the first nine we went through last time, and I\u2019m going to try to go through these a little faster than I went through them on Wednesday night so this is more of the \u201cReader\u2019s Digest Version.\u201d\u00a0 If you want to drill down on each of these the studies we did at the end of last year Wednesday night covered these.\n\nBut one of the differences has to do with timing.\u00a0 The nation of Israel, and here\u2019s some fancy Latin words, has in God a variety of what we call a quo ad quem<\/em> statements.\u00a0 And a quo <\/em>and ad quem<\/em>, those are Latin words that simply mean beginning and ending.\u00a0 So when you go through your Old Testament what you\u2019ll discover is there\u2019s a lot of numbers for the nation of Israel related to timing.\u00a0 For example, in Genesis 15:13-16 the nation of Israel is told they\u2019re going to be in Egypt for how many years?\u00a0 Four hundred years, there\u2019s a number there.\u00a0 And then they were sent away into the exile and Jeremiah, the prophet, chapter 25, verse 11, chapter 29, verse 10 says the exile is going to last for how many years?\u00a0 Seventy years, see the timing there.\n\nI didn\u2019t have you turn there but if you were to hold your place in the Book of Revelation and go back to the Book of Ezekiel.\u00a0 Ezekiel in chapter 4 makes some really interesting statements related to timing for the nation of Israel.\u00a0 Ezekiel 4:5-7, God says, \u201cFor I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. [6] When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but<\/em> on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year. [7] Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.\u201d\n\nSo it\u2019s interesting that God allowed the siege from Babylon against Judah to correspond to a past 390 years of the northern kingdom, I believe, their disobedience.\u00a0 And Ezekiel is told to lie on his side for 390 days corresponding to every year of their rebellion.\u00a0 And then when you look at this he\u2019s told to switch sides and lie on his other side, not for 390 days but for 40 days for the past disobedience of the disobedience of the southern kingdom.\u00a0 And then God says based on that past disobedience, as represented by Ezekiel laying on one side for a certain number of days and another side for a certain number of days to represent Israel\u2019s past years of rebellion.\u00a0 That\u2019s basically how long God calculated this siege in terms of days, under Nebuchadnezzar, would take place.\n\nSo that would be another example of an a quo ad quem<\/em> statement, 400 years, 70 years captivity, 430 day siege corresponding with past years of rebellion for the northern and the southern kingdom, Ezekiel told to lie on his side a day for each year of the past rebellion.\u00a0 And of course, if you\u2019ve been tracking with us on Sunday mornings in the main service you know a little something about this seventy weeks prophecy. Does that ring a bell at all?\n\nThat\u2019s a prophecy that\u2019s going to last; there\u2019s a clock that God gave to the nation of Israel in that prophecy, and we believe 483 years of the clock have elapsed; 7 years are yet to come and that\u2019s where we get our idea of a future seven year tribulation period.\u00a0 But the point is, look at the timing again; look at the numbers involved.\n\nAnd in fact, Israel\u2019s timing is so complete under God that she actually has a calendar.\u00a0 The Book of Leviticus tells Israel what seasons or what times of the year they should celebrate various feasts.\u00a0 So we have four spring feasts and three fall feasts.\u00a0 And these all fall in a specific month in a calendar.\u00a0 So you see how Israel has a calendar that\u2019s just as real as our calendar.\u00a0 They have feasts that they\u2019re supposed to celebrate on calendar months.\u00a0 They have all of these timing passages, a quo, ad quem<\/em>, type passages.\n\nAnd the interesting thing is when you go to the church and you look at the New Testament and God\u2019s revelation concerning the church is there\u2019s not a single number given anywhere.\u00a0 So the church is never told well, 430 years this is going to happen and 70 years this is going to happen, there\u2019s not a single number for the church.\u00a0 And this is one of the great discoveries of John Nelson Darby, who is probably the main most attributed to retrieving the doctrine of the pretribulational rapture from the pages of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 And when you study his ministry he was a very interesting guy.\u00a0 He was baptizing about a hundred people per week in his ministry in Ireland.\u00a0 And this is in the 1800\u2019s and he had a horseback riding accident, so this is in the 1800\u2019s where the only way you could recover from a\u2026 I think it was a broken leg, if I\u2019m not mistaken, the only way you could recover is to be immobile for a long period of time.\u00a0 So God, through that accident removed him from his ministry.\n\nAnd you say well, why would God do that?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t God understand the impact that John Nelson Darby was having.\u00a0 I think it related to the sovereignty of God because God wanted John Nelson Darby to have even a greater impact; He wanted him to have a transgenerational impact.\u00a0 So here he is, lying immobile, and what do you think he\u2019s reading?\u00a0 There\u2019s no cable television at that time.\u00a0 He\u2019s reading his Bible; he\u2019s a man of God.\u00a0 And this is what he starts to see in the Scripture, what I\u2019m trying to articulate to you right now, that Israel has all of these timing texts.\u00a0 And you get into the New Testament and you get into the epistles and you get into God\u2019s revelation to the church and there\u2019s not a single timing text given.\u00a0 There\u2019s no 400 years, 430 years, 490 years, 70 years, and this discovery\u2026 and I really would call it a retrieval, he didn\u2019t invent this idea, this is an idea that he\u2019s seeing in the Bible.\u00a0 When he starts to see that Israel has all of these clocks and the church doesn\u2019t he starts to say wait a minute, Israel and the church are different, they are entirely two different programs.\n\nAnd from there he forms the deduction that if Israel and the church are different then God is going to come back at a different time for the church than He is for Israel.\u00a0 And so because of the doctrine of the Israel\/church distinction he begins to formulate, or he begins to see the doctrine of the pre\u00adtribulational rapture.\u00a0 But you see, a lot of people misunderstand Darby and they misunderstand the pretribulational rapture; they think the pretribulational rapture is an idea that Darby set out to find in the Bible.\u00a0 And that was the furthest thing from his mind.\u00a0 What he saw is Israel has a quo ad quem <\/em>statements; the church has none of these, Israel and the church must be different.\n\nSo the next point in his reasoning process is well maybe God is coming back for the church at a different time than He\u2019s coming back for Israel.\u00a0 So he started to divide the passages related to the return of Christ up between those related to Israel and those related to the church.\u00a0 And\u00a0 you see, the doctrine of the pretribulational rapture has blessed multiple generations of Christians since the time of John Nelson Darby.\u00a0 So Darby could have just continued on in his ministry and had a great impact on his generation, but you see God had something more special for him, a transgenerational impact.\u00a0 And what was God\u2019s tool to achieve this?\u00a0 It was the horseback riding accident, because if he wasn\u2019t in a state of convalescence he would have been running around like the rest of us, just busy and he wouldn\u2019t be thinking about a quo ad quem<\/em> statements.\n\nSo that\u2019s a very different way to look at trials that come into your life.\u00a0 You know, probably when that accident happened to Darby he probably saw it as a setback.\u00a0 And all of his co-laborers saw it as a setback but really it was a blessing in disguise because that gave him the time in convalescence to study where he began to formulate doctrines that have gone through the generations with multiple blessings.\n\nAnd so that\u2019s really, to my mind, a key difference between Israel and the church.\u00a0 And you see, a lot of people today are trying to set a date for the rapture.\u00a0 Have you all noticed that they\u2019re trying to do that?\u00a0 Supposedly the rapture was supposed to take place on what? September 23rd<\/sup> of last year, in the minds of many people.\u00a0 And when people set a date for the rapture right out of the gate you can assess that they don\u2019t understand the Israel\/church distinction.\u00a0 All of the dates are related to Israel.\u00a0 All of the numbers are related to Israel.\u00a0 There\u2019s not a single number for the church.\u00a0 So if I\u2019m going to go into the Bible and try to set a date for the rapture I don\u2019t really understand the fundamental difference between Israel and the church.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand that the church is basically timeless and dateless, basically by the design of God.\u00a0 And I was raised in a church, the Episcopalian Church and there\u2019s a lot of good things I picked up there, even though I wasn\u2019t saved yet, but I believe God used that church in my youth to plant a lot of seeds.\u00a0 But I remember they had us on a Christian calendar so\u00a0 you had to celebrate Pentecost at a certain time of the year, and you had to celebrate this holiday at a certain time of the year, and this holiday at a certain time of the year, and it was a very intricate calendar.\u00a0 It almost looked like Israel\u2019s calendar it was so detailed.\u00a0 Well, the reality of the situation, and I\u2019m not against celebrating Christmas when everybody else does, we did that this year, didn\u2019t we, at this church.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mind celebrating Resurrection Sunday when everybody else does, no big deal.\u00a0 But the reality is you cannot develop an intricate church calendar for the simple reason that the church is a different spiritual organism, a different spiritual man than is Israel.\n\nAnd so that really, to my mind, is a key, KEY difference between Israel and the church.\u00a0 And had it not been for Darby seeing this in the pages of God\u2019s Word it\u2019s unlikely we would have the pre-trib rapture doctrine clarified the way we have it clarified today.\u00a0 And of course, that great time of study and investigation was precipitated by his accident on a horse, which I think God sovereignly allowed as well.\u00a0 So another big difference between Israel and the church are timing passages.\n\nAnother big difference between Israel and the church has to do with the priesthood.\u00a0 The nation of Israel had a priesthood.\u00a0 The priests came from which tribe?\u00a0 Levi, and the priests had to be a descendant of whose lineage?\u00a0 Aaron\u2019s.\u00a0 So if you want to be a priest, and by the way, the Book of Hebrews is pretty clear that nobody takes this honor on themselves, the priests were called by God, but the reality of the situation is they had to first come from Levi and number 2, they had to come from the line of Aaron.\u00a0 And this becomes a big issue in the Book of Hebrews because Jesus was born from which tribe?\u00a0 Judah.\u00a0 So the author of the Book of Hebrews, whoever he was, and everybody is trying to figure out who wrote the Book of Hebrews; I\u2019m not trying to figure out who wrote the Book of Hebrews, I respect the author\u2019s anonymity.\u00a0 I\u2019m more trying to figure out how to interpret the Book of Hebrews than who wrote it, when the author didn\u2019t want to be identified.\u00a0 But people get all lathered up about trying to figure out who wrote the Book of Hebrews and I have no idea who wrote the Book of Hebrews, although I accept it as a canonical book.\n\nBut the author of the Book of Hebrews basically makes the point that Jesus is born from the tribe\u00a0\u00a0 of Judah, not Levi, so therefore the current priesthood of Jesus at the right hand of the Father is superior to the Aaronic priesthood that the Hebrew Christians under persecution were trying to lapse back into in the first century.\n\nSo in the nation of Israel you actually have priests; there\u2019s the laity and there\u2019s priests.\u00a0 Is that true with the church?\u00a0 It\u2019s completely different with the church.\u00a0 And by the way, when you go into Exodus 28 and following you get this tremendous description of Aaron and the color of his robe and what he\u2019s to wear and what\u2019s to be put on his head and what he\u2019s to carry and right down to the pomegranates and the bells on the robe and it\u2019s just a mindboggling amount of information because Israel had a group of people within their nation that they called the priests.\n\nNow you compare that to the New Testament, God\u2019s revelation to the church, and what does it say in Revelation 1:6.\u00a0 God has \u201chas made us\u201d who would that be?\u00a0 The church, \u201cto be a kingdom, priests\u201d so in the age of the church we don\u2019t have priests because we are all priests.\u00a0\u00a0 Let me rephrase that, we don\u2019t have a class of persons that are priests because all of us are priests.\u00a0 So a lot of people come from a Roman Catholic environment where they have priests.\u00a0 The church I was raised in, Episcopalian, had priests as well.\u00a0 And to make that whole thing work you\u2019re not going to be able to find it in the pages of the epistles; you have to go back to where?\u00a0 The Old Testament and Exodus and you have to kind of selectively pull out the things that you think constitute a priest and apply it to the present generation or age.\u00a0 And any movement or church that you\u2019re that looks at a certain group of people as priests, you can automatically deduce from that that they really don\u2019t understand the Israel\/church distinction.\u00a0 Israel had priests.\u00a0 In the New Testament every single Christian, every single member of the body of Christ, every single child of God is a priest.\n\nAnd just to kind of show you how practical this works out, a lot of people will call the office with their prayer requests and they will say I want Andy, they name me specifically, I want Andy to pray for this.\u00a0 Or when we\u2019re out to lunch or dinner with a group of Christians, when everybody is sort of embarrassed when we start eating, well, we need to pray, let\u2019s have Andy pray.\u00a0 And of course I don\u2019t mind praying for any meal, I don\u2019t mind praying for any prayer requests but the attitude that people have just because I\u2019m a pastor-teacher at Sugar Land Bible Church they look at me as a priest and they think that I have some kind of special channel to God that they don\u2019t have.\u00a0 The reality of the situation is\u2026 we have different spiritual gifts but you\u2019re just as much a priest in God as I am.\n\nAnd of course, this is one of the great rallying calls of the Protestant Reformation, which was the priesthood of all believers.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not just one guy that has the Bible that interprets it for you; everybody has their own Bible, everybody has the Holy Spirit, everybody through basic Bible study methodology can learn how to interpret the Bible for themselves.\u00a0 There is a spiritual gift of teaching in the church but it\u2019s not the same thing as a priesthood where the priest is some kind of direct channel between God and man.\u00a0 That is not true today because we\u2019re all priests.\n\nSo why is it that so many of these churches, whether Roman Catholic or the church I grew up in, Episcopalian, have these fancy robes with priests and they look a lot like Aaron\u2019s robe.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s largely because they\u2019ve moved into replacement theology, they basically believe that the church has replaced Israel and that gives them, in their minds, a license to go into the Old Testament, like Exodus 28, and pull out things willy-nilly. But you can\u2019t do that if you understand the Israel\/church distinction.\n\nAnd there is no biblical authority at all for going and confessing your sins to another member of the church, who is a priest, who grants some kind of absolution for sin.\u00a0 Now the Bible does say confess your sins one to another, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about a mindset that says I\u2019ve got to go to a priest to get this absolved.\u00a0 That\u2019s old covenant stuff.\u00a0 We\u2019re under the New Covenant where we are all priests.\u00a0 And we are actually all sub priests under the high priest who is Jesus Christ. So understanding the priesthood was selective in the Old Testament but universal in the New Testament is another major difference between Israel and the church.\n\nAnother difference is the temple and take a look if you could back at 1 Kings 6:1, \u00a0Israel had a temple, meaning a what?\u00a0 A physical structure.\u00a0 So when they came out of Egyptian bondage and traveled to Mount Sinai God gave them first a tabernacle, because they weren\u2019t in their land, a tabernacle is like a mobile temple, they carried it with them wherever they went, they broke it down at night and they reassembled it in the morning and they followed God with that structure.\n\nAnd when the nation of Israel finally entered their land and Jerusalem, under David came under Israeli control, 2 Samuel 5, the game of God, if I could put it that way, or the strategy of God may be a better phrase, is to build a physical temple in the land of Israel.\u00a0 David couldn\u2019t build it because he was a man of war, so the privilege went to his son, Solomon.\u00a0 You recognize in the word \u201cSolomon\u201d the word \u201cshalom\u201d which means peace.\u00a0 And so Solomon was different than David, his father.\u00a0 And so to the construction of the temple and the actual building of the temple, taking the tabernacle which was temporary and putting it into a permanent fixture went to the privilege of Solomon.\u00a0 And 1 Kings 6:1 tells you exactly when Solomon built that temple. It says, \u201cNow it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel,\u201d and then it goes on and it says at the end of the verse, \u201che began to build the house of the LORD.\u201d\n\nSo you\u2019ll notice that Solomon started, it\u2019s a very important chronological marker here, he started to build the temple on the fourth year of his reign.\u00a0 And most people accept the following dates for the Solomonic reign of forty years.\u00a0 Each of Israel\u2019s first three kings reigned for forty years.\u00a0 Saul reigned forty years; David reigned forty years, Solomon reigned forty years.\u00a0 And the duration of Solomon\u2019s reign is generally accepted from 971-931 and after Solomon left the throne, as you know, the kingdom was divided between the ten northern tribes and the two southern tribes.\u00a0 So if the reign of Solomon started around 971, roughly, if he started to build the temple in the fourth year of his reign you can date the temple construction at 966 B.C.\n\nAnd then it says something else, coincidentally this was 480 years after the nation of Israel came out of the Exodus.\u00a0 So how do we date the Exodus?\u00a0 You go from 966 B.C. and you go 480 years backwards and that takes you to a date of about 1446.\u00a0 So 1446 was the date of the Exodus; 966 is the date of the temple\u2019s construction.\u00a0 The kingdom was divided after Solomon left the throne so the kingdom was basically divided about 931 B.C. and you can develop a lot of chronology from this very important verse here, 1 Kings chapter 6 and verse 1.\n\nBut what I want you to see is this thing that Solomon built was an actual building, it was a construction, and the measurements are given and actually when you study this carefully what you discover is there\u2019s four temples in Jewish history; two past, two future.\u00a0 You have Solomon\u2019s temple built in 966 B.C., you can read about that in Kings and Chronicles, and that was the temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, 586 B.C.\u00a0 Then the nation of Israel goes into the seventy year captivity, they come out of the seventy year captivity and according to the Book of Ezra, chapters 1-6, they rebuild the temple.\u00a0 And all the younger guys thought the temple was great, thumbs up, but the problem is the older guys could remember the majesty of the Solomonic temple and when they saw this puny thing come up by way of comparison a lot of them started to cry.\u00a0 And you can find reference to that in Haggai, the Book of Ezra talks about it.\n\nBut eventually, according to John 2:20, a man named Herod came into control over the land of Israel and he refurbished the temple.\u00a0 I think John 2:20 says it took 46 years for Herod to refurbish it.\u00a0 [John 2:20, \u201cThe Jews then said, \u2018It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?\u2019\u201d]\u00a0 So by the time of Christ it was a beautiful temple.\u00a0 And so it was that second temple that Jesus entered into as a twelve year old and confounded the religious leaders with His wisdom.\u00a0 It was that second temple that Satan took Jesus to and put Him on the pinnacle of it and said throw yourself from here.\n\nSo what happened to that second temple?\u00a0 Who destroyed it?\u00a0 The Romans did in A.D. 70.\u00a0 And ever since that point in time the nation of Israel has not had a physical temple.\u00a0 We know prophetically there\u2019s going to be a third temple because the antichrist has to desecrate it midway through the tribulation period.\u00a0 You know a little bit about that now as we\u2019ve gone through the Book of Daniel.\u00a0 And I believe, my current view on it is that third temple is probably going to be destroyed in the seventh bowl judgment, which talks about the greatest earthquake in human history.\u00a0 And I would assume, I mean, it\u2019s not something to be dogmatic about or start a new church over necessarily, but I assume that third temple is going to be destroyed at that time.\n\nAnd then the prophet Ezekiel, chapters 40-48, predicts a fourth temple, a millennial temple.\u00a0 The third temple is built out of nationalistic pride.\u00a0 It\u2019s a temple built in unbelief and I think that\u2019s why it\u2019s being measured in Revelation 11:1-2.\u00a0 [Revelation 11:1-2, \u201cThen there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, \u201cGet up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. [2] Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.\u201d]\n\nGod is trying to ascertain the spiritual quality of that temple.\u00a0 And that temple is destroyed, seventh bowl judgment, and its replaced by Ezekiel\u2019s temple, chapters 40-48, which is just as detailed, if not more detailed than the Solomonic temple.\u00a0 And a lot of people just get hysterical when I try to tell them that there\u2019s going to be a millennial temple functioning one day, even with animal sacrifices.\n\nThey say well how can\u00a0 you believe that?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s basic reading comprehension; if Ezekiel chapters 8-11 is a literal temple that the Shekinah glory of God departed from, and that\u2019s detailed, why would I get to Ezekiel 40-48 which is even more detail and say well, that\u2019s allegorical.\u00a0 I mean, why would Ezekiel 8-11, talking about temple one be literal but Ezekiel 40-48 talking about the millennial temple, why would all of a sudden that become allegorical?\n\nSo this is what you have to do in a lot of people\u2019s theology is you have to interpret part of the Bible with one approach and another part of the Bible with a different approach.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t really want to do that; I want to let the whole Bible speak consistently.\u00a0 When you do that you quickly discover there\u2019s going to be a millennial temple that the Shekinah glory of God, which entered the Solomonic temple and departed from the Solomonic temple just prior to Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s destruction of it, the Shekinah glory of God is going to enter the millennial temple. So two temples historical, two future.\u00a0 Two past, two future, and when you look at this and study it with intellectual honesty you see that these are very literal things.\n\nNow compare that to the church.\u00a0 Do we have a physical temple?\u00a0 Do we bring our tithes to the storehouse?\u00a0 That\u2019s what Malachi told everybody to do.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a physical temple.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 Corinthians 6:19 says that our body is the what \u201cof the Holy Spirit\u201d?\u00a0 The \u201ctemple of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 [1 Corinthians 6:19, \u201cOr do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?\u201d]\u00a0 You, your physical body is the temple of God.\n\nIn Old Testament times if you asked well where does God live everybody would point to the taber\u00adnacle and the temple.\u00a0 Today when you ask where God lives He lives inside of us.\u00a0 We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:19, and that is Paul\u2019s whole basis for telling the Corinthians to avoid sin, certain sins, like sexual immorality.\u00a0 Paul doesn\u2019t call their salvation into question.\u00a0 He says don\u2019t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And when you commit that sin you\u2019re dragging God into that sin.\u00a0 See that?\n\nOver in 2 Corinthians 3:16 it tells us, and the pronouns shift, the pronoun in 1 Corinthians 6:19 is singular, \u201cdo you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 In 1 Corinthians 3:16 when Paul uses the same imagery the pronoun shifts from the singular to the plural.\u00a0 [1 Corinthians 3:16, \u201cDo you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? \u201c] So what does that mean?\u00a0 It means another temple of God, where God dwells, is amongst His people corporately assembled.\n\nSo in God\u2019s program for Israel, Israel has an actual building called the temple.\u00a0 In the church age that is not true at all; our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and God has also chosen to dwell amongst His people corporately assembled.\u00a0 And maybe that was bound up in Christ\u2019s statement when He said where two or three are gathered, I\u2019m there in your midst.\u00a0 [Matthew 18:20, \u201cFor where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.\u201d]\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s a possible understanding of that.\u00a0 Anyway, that\u2019s another key difference between Israel and the church, just the issue of the temple.\n\nAnother issue relates to our resurrection.\u00a0 What is a resurrection?\u00a0 It\u2019s a reunion; a resurrection is a reunion between your body, which was separated from your immaterial part at death. When a person dies the material and the immaterial separate.\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019ll see that\u2019s what happened with Jesus, Matthew 27:50. \u00a0You\u2019ll see that\u2019s also what happened with Stephen, the first martyr of the church age, Acts 7:59.\u00a0 The King James kind of translates some of those verses as they gave up the ghost; in other words, there was a separation between material and immaterial.\u00a0 That\u2019s death.\u00a0 [Matthew 27:50, \u201cAnd Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.\u201d\u00a0 Acts 7:59, \u201cThey went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, \u2018Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!\u2019\u201d]\n\nResurrection is the opposite of death; death is a separation, resurrection would be a reunion.\u00a0 Resurrection is when your immaterial\u00a0 part comes back into your body, but your body\u2026 what has been pulled out of your body?\u00a0 The curse.\u00a0 Do you all know our bodies are under a curse?\u00a0 I mean, God says that right out of the gate in Genesis 3:19, right after the fall of man, from dust you are to dust you shall return.\u00a0 [Genesis 3:19, \u201cBy the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.\u201d]\n\nSo as Paul says the outer man is perishing.\u00a0 And if we are to die before the rapture of the church, which I hope won\u2019t happen but I can\u2019t guarantee it one way or the other, then what will happen is\u00a0 your immaterial and your material will separate.\u00a0 Now when you\u2019re resurrected it\u2019s not a separation but it is a reunion. Let me ask you a question: when are you planning on getting your resurrection body, as a member of the church?\u00a0 Well, when you go back to Daniel 12:2, pre church age revelation, you learn there\u2019s going to be two resurrections; a resurrection for the just and a resurrection for the unjust.\u00a0 [Daniel 12:2, Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.\u201d]\n\nAnd by the way, we don\u2019t believe in or teach the doctrine of soul sleep.\u00a0 If an unsaved person dies they go into Hades, which is a place of conscious torment, awaiting their final resurrection, where they will be summoned and they will stand before the Lord at the Great White Throne Judgment and as their name is not found written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, because it\u2019s been demonstrated that they never trusted Christ, they are transported from Hades, and you have a description of Hades in Luke 16:19-31, they\u2019re transported from Hades into another venue in their resurrected body called the Lake of Fire where they\u2019ll experience eternal torment in the Lake of Fire in a resurrected body, Revelation 20:11-15.\n\n[Luke 16:19, \u201cNow there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.\u00a0 [20] And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, [21] and longing to be fed with the crumbs<\/em> which were falling from the rich man\u2019s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. [22] Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham\u2019s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. [23] In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. [24] And he cried out and said, \u2018Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.\u2019 \u00a0[25] But Abraham said, \u2018Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and like\u00adwise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. [26] And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that<\/em> none may cross over from there to us.\u2019 \u00a0[27] And he said, \u2018Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father\u2019s house\u2014[28] for I have five brothers\u2014in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.\u2019 [29] \u201cBut Abraham said, \u2018They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.\u2019 [30] But he said, \u2018No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!\u2019 \u00a0[31] But he said to him, \u2018If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.\u2019\u201d\n\n[Revelation 20:11-15, \u201cThen I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. [12] And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book<\/em> of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. [13] And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them<\/em> according to their deeds. [14] Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. [15] And if anyone\u2019s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.\u201d]\n\nSo it\u2019s very clear that everyone is getting resurrected.\u00a0 And Daniel 12:2 predicts a resurrection for the righteous and a resurrection for the unrighteousness.\u00a0 [Daniel 12:2, \u201cMany of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.\u201d]\n\nLet me give you some other verses that predict those two resurrections.\u00a0 Acts 24:15 covers it and I believe it\u2019s also covered in John 5:28-29, and this was a very common Jewish understanding, they all understood this from the prophet Daniel.\u00a0 That\u2019s why when Jesus shows up and one of the sisters he says I\u2019m going to bring Lazarus out of the grave, John 11:23-24.\n\n[Acts 24:15, \u201chaving a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 John 5:28-29, \u201cDo not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, [29] and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.\u201d John 11:23, \u201cJesus said to her, \u2018Your brother will rise again.\u2019 [24] Martha said to Him, \u2018I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.\u201d\u2019]\n\nAnd this was a very common Jewish understanding, they all understood this from the prophet Daniel, that\u2019s why when Jesus shows up and to one of the sisters He says I\u2019m going to bring Lazarus out of the grave, John 11:23-24, remember what they said to Jesus there, I think it was in Bethany?\u00a0 Oh, I know he\u2019s going to rise in the last day.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t think he was going to it right then and there, they just had a common understanding that in the last day there\u2019s going to be a resurrection unto life for the believer and a resurrection unto damnation for the unbeliever.\u00a0 [John 11:23, \u201cJesus said to her, \u2018Your brother will rise again.\u2019\u00a0 [24] Martha said to Him, \u2018I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.\u2019\u201d]\n\nAnd that\u2019s what the Book of Revelation is talking about, these two great resurrections.\u00a0 Revelation 20:4-6 says, \u201cThen I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw<\/em> the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life\u201d that\u2019s the resurrection of the righteous, \u201cand reigned with Christ for a thousand years. [5] The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Aha, revelation just added another clue; in between those two great resurrections in the end time there\u2019s going to be a thousand year duration called the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 [5b,\u201c\u2026This is the first resurrection. [6] Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.\u201d\n\nNow the Apostle Paul comes along and the Apostle Paul is giving revelation concerning the church and how does the church fit into God\u2019s program.\u00a0 And what he starts to explain is yeah, the church is going to be resurrected, just like Old Testament saints and tribulation martyrs are going to be resurrected but it\u2019s going to be resurrected at a different time because the resurrection unto life, Paul says, has three parts to it.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll see this in 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 where he calls the first phase \u201cfirstfruits.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s using a harvest imagery.\u00a0 [I Corinthians 15:20-23, \u201cBut now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. [21] For since by a man came<\/em> death, by a man also came<\/em> the resurrection of the dead. [22] For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. [23] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ\u2019s at His coming,\u201d]\n\nAnd we all know that the nation of Israel didn\u2019t just collect one harvest; they collected three.\u00a0 So firstfruits came in and that was a happy time because firstfruits comes in and it guarantees what?\u00a0 The rest of the harvest.\u00a0 And then in harvest number 2 they would go out and do the general harvest.\u00a0 And then in harvest number three they\u2019re specifically told, Leviticus 19:9-10, not to harvest everything but to leave some of for the poor.\u00a0 [Leviticus 19:9, \u201c\u2018Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. [10] Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.\u201d]\n\nSo the poor were always given dignity and respect by God; they were never given a handout.\u00a0 They were given the dignity of labor and work, just like everybody else, but God always looked out for the poor.\u00a0 So what you have in Israel is three harvests.\u00a0 And when Paul begins to talk about the resurrection for the church age believer and how it relates to Israel\u2019s resurrection he uses this harvest imagery, 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 where starts to talk about firstfruits and He also says this: \u201ceach in his own order\u201d which is the Greek word tagma<\/em>, where Paul is starting to unfold this idea that the church has a different resurrection program than Israel.\n\nSo what you have to understand is the Bible very clearly reveals two resurrections; one for the righteous, one for the unrighteousness, separated by a thousand years.\u00a0 So far so good, but Paul comes along and adds a brand new concept.\u00a0 He says the resurrection unto life for the believer has three parts to it, just like Israel\u2019s harvest cycle had three parts to it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what Paul means by tagma<\/em>, \u201ceach in his own order.\u201d\n\nSo what, then, are the three phases of the resurrection unto life for the believer.\u00a0 Well, firstfruits would be whose resurrection?\u00a0 Christ\u2019s, just like firstfruits guarantee the rest of the harvest His resurrection guarantees everyone else\u2019s resurrection in the chain.\u00a0 I mean, I have hope that one of these days I\u2019m going to be taken out of this decaying body and put into a resurrected body because Jesus rose from the dead.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 The resurrection of Christ from the dead is the historical fact that God has given us to give us hope.\u00a0 So here we are in this fallen world in a state of decay but we say you know, it\u2019s not forever because Christ\u2019s resurrection was a historical fact, it guarantees everyone else\u2019s resurrection on the chain.\n\nAnd see, this is what\u2019s missing in so much resurrection preaching.\u00a0 Most resurrection preaching that you get today is approached from the vantage point of this is proof for Christianity.\u00a0 And I would concur, it is proof for Christianity, but God has given it for so much a greater purpose simply than to demonstrate the veracity of Christianity; you have to include in resurrection preaching a concept of hope.\u00a0 I know that I will receive a resurrected body because Jesus is the firstfruits.\u00a0 See?\n\nSo Christ is the firstfruits, and what\u2019s the next phase of the harvest.\u00a0 The general harvest!\u00a0 Now what is that?\u00a0 That\u2019s the rapture.\u00a0 The rapture is not just people being snatched off the earth; it\u2019s the time in history where every church age believer gets their resurrected body.\u00a0 So if I die before the rapture and the material and the immaterial separate where do I go exactly?\u00a0 Absent from the body is to be what?\u00a0 \u201cpresent with the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 [2 Corinthians 5:8, \u201cWe are confident, I say<\/em>, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.\u201d KJV]\n\nSo I\u2019m kind of up there waiting, Lord, let\u2019s get this rapture thing going.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good place to be, to be \u2018with the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 Paul says it\u2019s far better than being here.\u00a0 But I\u2019m up there and I want my body so let\u2019s get the show on the road here.\u00a0 So when the rapture happens I receive my body first and I start to descend with everybody else that\u2019s believed in Christ and is part of the body of Christ that over the last 2,000 years that\u2019s died.\u00a0 And then the people on the earth at the time, they are resurrected second, that\u2019s why Paul says the resurrection program begins with the\u2026 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, \u201cthe dead in Christ.\u201d\u00a0 I used to think that was the Episcopalians, \u201cthe dead in Christ,\u201d [laughter] that\u2019s the denomination I grew up in.\u00a0 But \u201cthe dead in Christ\u201d are the people that have died before the rapture in the church age and they\u2019re in a place of blessing, consciously, before the Lord. That\u2019s when they get their bodies.\n\nAnd then the people that are alive on the earth at the time, man, that\u2019s something to be jealous of, they don\u2019t even have to die.\u00a0 Paul talks about a generation that won\u2019t die.\u00a0 And so I\u2019m coming down (assuming I die before the rapture) and the people on the earth are coming up in resurrected bodies and guess what we see?\u00a0\u00a0 We see each other in the air.\u00a0 Jesus doesn\u2019t come back to the earth; we see each other in the air, we have a great big reunion.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Paul explains to the Thessalonians, he doesn\u2019t tell them regarding their deceased loved one, don\u2019t mourn or don\u2019t grieve.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what Paul says.\u00a0 He says \u201cdon\u2019t grieve as those who have no hope.\u201d\u00a0 You will see that lost loved one again at the point of the rapture.\n\nSo we, as members of the body of Christ, are going to receive our resurrected bodies at the time of the rapture.\u00a0 That\u2019s the new mystery or ingredient that Paul just included there in 1 Corinthians 15, because Paul was the man by God who was given the greatest assignment of explaining the mystery of the church and explaining how the church related to God\u2019s program with Israel.\u00a0 So there\u2019s the firstfruits, there\u2019s the general harvest, and what\u2019s the last one for the believers?\u00a0 The gleanings and that\u2019s a resurrection that we just read about in Revelation 20:4-6 where non church age saints are resurrected.\u00a0 What do you do with people like Abraham and Noah and Job and Daniel and all these people that were saved and believed in a coming Messiah, but they had their life expectancy, prior to the advent of the church, when are they going to get resurrected?\n\nAnd beyond that, there\u2019s a lot of folks that are going to get saved in the tribulation period, after the church is gone, many of whom, I would argue most of whom, not all, but most of whom will be martyred, when are those folks going to get their resurrected body?\u00a0 So you have to have a place where non church age believers, Old Testament or after the church is gone, receive their resurrected bodies in Revelation 20:4-6 tells us that they\u2019re going to receive their resurrected bodies towards the.. maybe at the or even before the millennial kingdom even starts.\n\nSo you see what\u2019s happened here is Paul has taken a concept, resurrection unto life for the believer, and he\u2019s expanded it into three parts, specifically focusing on how the church relates to the whole plan and program of God.\u00a0 Then after the gleanings a thousand years pass.\u00a0 That\u2019s a long time, isn\u2019t it.\u00a0 And then the unbelievers, the wicked, who are in that place of conscious torment, upon death are summoned out of Hades, they stand before the Lord at the Great White Throne Judgment in resurrected bodies; Jesus opens the Book, Revelation 20:12;13, \u201cthe Book,\u201d singular.\u00a0 What\u2019s in \u201cthe Book\u201d?\u00a0 It\u2019s called the Book of Life, it\u2019s a record of people who have trusted in Christ throughout the ages and He looks in the Book and He says your name is not in here.\u00a0 And then from there, Revelation 20:12 \u00a0He opens the Books.\u00a0 [Revelation 20:12, \u201cAnd I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book<\/em> of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.\u201d]\n\nSo we\u2019ve got a book and we\u2019ve got books.\u00a0 I\u2019ve explained what\u2019s in the book, what\u2019s in the books?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t say, does it.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s my best guess at it; it\u2019s a record of sins.\u00a0 And those sins are looked at to determine, not whether they\u2019re going into the Lake of Fire or not, they\u2019re already going in because they\u2019re not in the Book, the sins are there to determine the degree of torment, see that, that they will experience in the Lake of Fire, because I would expect somebody like Adolf Hitler to be punished more severely than just your average atheist who dies without Christ.\u00a0 And just as there are degrees of reward in heaven there are degrees of punishment in hell.\n\nAnd I think it\u2019s Luke 12 it talks about this, one man is going to be beaten with a few blows, one man is going to be beaten with several blows.\u00a0 So that is the horrible Great White Throne Judgment; it\u2019s one of the most disturbing scenes in the whole Bible, and that is the destiny of those who die without Christ.\u00a0 But that\u2019s the final resurrection for the unjust.\u00a0 The resurrection unto life for the believer has three parts to it.\u00a0 We get our resurrection at the point of the rapture, the nation of Israel will get their resurrection at the beginning of the millennial kingdom.\n\nSo God has Israel and the church on the same resurrection program, we\u2019re all going to get resurrected bodies, but he has different times for it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why understanding the harvest imagery that Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 and the word tagma<\/em>, each in his own order, helps unpack all of that. So that would be another major difference.\n\nNow when are you going to be judged?\u00a0 Did you know you\u2019re going to be judged as a Christian?\u00a0 You\u2019re not going to be judged in terms of heaven or hell but you are going to be judged in terms of reward.\u00a0 That\u2019s called the Bema Seat Judgment.\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s ask another question; when is the nation of Israel going to be judged?\u00a0 The only reference we have to a future judgment of the nation of Israel is in Ezekiel 20:33-38 and this is immediately after the tribulation period.\u00a0 And there are going to be surviving Gentiles on planet earth and surviving Jews on planet earth, after the horrors of the tribulation period.\u00a0 The Gentiles are going to be judged in what\u2019s called the sheep and goat judgment, Matthew 25:31-46.\u00a0 The Jews are going to be judged in what\u2019s called the wilderness judgment, and in both judgments God is trying to figure out which one of you all are believers and which ones are unbelievers.\n\nWith the Gentiles the tool that He uses to make that determination is did they help Christ\u2019s brethren, i.e. the Jews during the tribulation period, because they demonstrate their faith by a love for God\u2019s chosen people of Israel.\u00a0 So they are called sheep and they enter the kingdom in non-resurrected bodies.\u00a0 And they begin to repopulate the earth.\u00a0 And that has to happen because there has to be fallen people alongside resurrected people in the millennial kingdom, because Jesus, during that time has to rule with a what?\u00a0 A rod of iron!\u00a0 Why would you rule with a rod of iron over resurrected people that can\u2019t even sin?\u00a0 You can only rule over non-resurrected people who have sin nature with a rod of iron.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 And as that judgment is taking place there\u2019s a parallel judgment and the only place I know of that it\u2019s revealed is in Ezekiel 20:33-38 where the Jewish survivors of the tribulation period are gathered and Jesus has to determine which of you all are believers and which ones are unbelievers.\u00a0\u00a0 Unbelievers are cast off the earth into Hades; believing survivors enter the tribulation period, not in resurrected bodies but in mortal bodies.\u00a0 And the determination that Jesus uses in that judgment for the Jews is the passing under the shepherd\u2019s rod.\u00a0 So Israel\u2019s future judgment is on earth after the tribulation period, for the surviving Jewish believers.\n\nWhen are you going to be judged, as a member of the church?\u00a0 Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4:5, \u201cTherefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things hidden in darkness and disclose the motives of men\u2019s hearts, and then each man will receive his praise from God.\u201d\u00a0 This is not a judgment to determine are you going into the kingdom or not?\u00a0 Are you going to heaven or are you going to hell, because the moment you trusted in Christ that issue was resolved.\u00a0 This is a judgment to determine what?\u00a0 Rewards, degrees of rulership or authority in the coming kingdom.\n\nNow when is that judgment going to take place?\u00a0 It tells you very clearly it\u2019s going to happen when the Lord comes for the church.\u00a0 When is the Lord coming for the church?\u00a0 It starts with an R, ends in apture, at the rapture.\u00a0 So our judgment is in heaven as the events of the tribulation period are unfolding below; our judgment is not on the earth, as Israel\u2019s is, it\u2019s in heaven.\u00a0 See that.\u00a0 Paul tells us, related to the rapture that we who are \u201calive and remain will be caught up together with them,\u201d now who\u2019s the \u201cthem\u201d?\u00a0 The dead in Christ,\u00a0 \u201c\u2026them in the clouds to meet the Lord\u201d on the earth, it doesn\u2019t say that, does it, \u201cto meet the Lord in the air, so we shall forever be with the Lord.\u201d\n\nPaul, in 1 Corinthians 4:5 says expect your judgment of rewards when the Lord comes.\u00a0 When is the Lord coming to take us to the Father\u2019s house?\u00a0 He\u2019s coming to take us to the Father\u2019s house in the rapture.\u00a0 So we are experiencing the Bema Seat Judgment in heaven following the rapture while the events of the tribulation period are taking place on the earth below.\u00a0 So we are judged at a completely different time and place than Israel is judged.\u00a0 Israel is judged on the earth following the tribulation period; the church and her judgment is to determine which of you are believers and which ones aren\u2019t, the church is judged in heaven not to determine salvation but in heaven subsequent to or following the rapture.\u00a0 And so the church and Israel are judged at totally different times.\u00a0 Does that make any sense.\n\nSo I\u2019m going to stop talking because the guys in the sound booth have been praying for a break.\u00a0 And if you all want to open it up for questions we\u2019ve got a couple of minutes.\u00a0 I realize that\u2019s a lot ofinformation I just gave.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t