Do we need to eat of the tree of life?

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Do we need to eat of the tree of life?
Topic Started: Aug 13 2008, 03:16 PM (42 Views)
Robert	Aug 13 2008, 03:16 PM Post #1
Member Posts: 61 Group: Members Member #4,713 Joined: May 30, 2008	It can easily be seen in the letters to the seven Jewish assemblies in Rev. 2 and 3 that they as in Matt. 13 and 25 will be judged according to their works (he that overcomes) because they have not the indwelling Holy Spirit as believers do today. Their judgments await the coming of the Lord when He will establish the kingdom. Whereas, we in the present church have already overcome in Christ and sealed by Him until the day of our redemption (Eph. 1:13-14). Without doubt, there will be much disagreement as to the identity of the “churches” in Revelation above as to what assemblies are being addressed. However, the question can be easily settled with a simple question. Does Christ, the living God, need to eat of the tree of life that He created to live? Why then should we? Paul told the Philippians church that not only is our citizenship is in heaven, but that Christ “will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body” (Phil. 3:21). The tree of life is for those flesh and blood mortals to become immortal and live in the kingdom on earth (Rev. 2:7). The rapture was a mystery because all other teaching concerned physical flesh and blood people in an earthly kingdom. From Genesis chap. 12 forward, all is about the nation Israel on earth as an everlasting people of God, in their promised land of Canaan, and through them, the Gentile nations on earth would be redeemed and also blessed. When Paul said our citizenship is in heaven, he was not speaking to Jews to whom the kingdom was being offered, but to the church made up of believing Jews and Gentiles who will undergo the change at the rapture. But again, there is always confusion when no distinction is made between the church and the kingdom, and Paul’s gospel and that of the twelve. He said Christ would give spiritual life to our mortal bodies (Rom. 8:11), which when like His could eat, drink, be seen and touched, and have flesh and bones that will be like Him (Phil. 3:21; Lk. 24:36 43). But of those being admitted into the kingdom when established on earth, they will be given the Holy Spirit and access to the tree of life for immortality in their physical unchanged bodies (Rev. 2:7; 22:2, 14). They will then continue to produce children and replenish the earth (Isa. 9:7) that has suffered terrible decimation in the ravages of the tribulation. We certainly will not reproduce children in heaven. It is yet another example of how the translators have for two millennia deceived the Lord’s people by translating “ekklesia” to Church in the seven letters of Revelation 2 and 3. As already shown in our studies of Matt. 16:18 Christ said He would build His assembly (not church) and immediately identified it when He said He would give Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven (v. 19). To put it another way, why would Christ build His church and then give Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven? They are most certainly not the same. If anyone had keys to the church, it would have been Paul who founded it, and that without any help from Peter and the others. Furthermore, Revelation 2:9 speaks critically of those who claimed to be Jews and were not. There is no advantage of being a Jew in this dispensation? In the tribulation there will be. It is the time of Daniel’s 70th week when God is in process of reclaiming the nation Israel, the rebuilding of the household of David (Acts 15:14-17). And that, after He has finished taking out (catching out in the rapture) of the Gentiles a people for His name” (v. 14). One other point in identifying the churches in Revelation, in Rev. 1:7 it is said that John was in the Spirit “…on the Lord’s Day.” The notion that the Lord’s Day is Sunday on which Christians worship is another of the Church’s fabrications. One might ask, what is the difference between The Lord’s Day, and the Day of the Lord? Does it not say the same thing? If indeed we are speaking of the Day of the Lord in Revelation 1, then it is just more evidence that the present church has already left in the rapture and the seven letters are to Jewish churches in the tribulation rather than the present one. If the above is not accepted, then the question must be asked, what has being in the Spirit on the pagan name Sunday, got to do with what was revealed to John? However, if John was in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord, then it would have everything to do with what he was shown and told to write. If they are Jewish assemblies in the tribulation, then again, according to James we are forced to the truth that at that time, the rapture has already taken place and the kingdom gospel is again being preached according to the Lord’s words in Matt. 24:14. It is the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week. James said that after God has finished taking out of the Gentiles a people, He will then begin the rebuilding of David’s kingdom which is synonymous with the tribulation period. May the Lord bless Robert



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