In Pt.2 I want start right off with Rev.1-3 which has been a major controversial subject and used by so many as a church age address /Rapture precedent, and to show why I believe this is in error. Look here at Rev.1:7
Now This is unquestionably the 2nd coming referred to here. This should set the topic for the following letters to the churches and contextual content. Since we are not slated to be here for the tribulation this would not apply to us. Look at Rev.1:11
No Book written to Israel by any on the Jewish Apostles was ever written directly to Gentiles, if that is whom people assume is being addressed here. Nor to any believers as Paul refers to as "male nor female, Jew nor Greek". All Jewish epistles are written in the understanding that the Jewish nation be saved FIRST, accepting their Messiah , and THEN go into all the world and make converts.Ro.11:9-13
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Paul declares his legitimacy as the Gentiles Apostle. If Israel had not been set aside he could not go to them and the Jews equally, but would have to begin at Jerusalem and save the jews first.
Acts.1:8
Rev.1-3 is undoubtedly addressed to Jews scattered abroad and Gentiles pressing into their salvation specified by the Lord Jesus.
1 Pe. 1:1
Notice He says to the "elect", a reference to Israel as God's chosen people. Peter is fulfilling his commission by branching out from Jerusalem in his outreach.
Lu.24:47
Repentance for sins of the PAST, water baptism a Mandated testimony, and remission of PAST sins. This is the subject of Prophecy.
Is.49:6
Now look at Rev.2:26
This is consistent with Jesus commandments..are these consistent with Paul's?, in this dispensation of the grace of God?
Mat.28:19-20
Those in the tribulation will be held to the standards the Jewish apostles and their converts were. And the Old Testaments Israelites that beheld God's miracles. Healings, Blind given sight, devils cast out, Prophesying, Miraculous intervention,etc. All these things have a witness and signature of God and they will be responsible for their conduct in light of all they have witnessed and received.All those that fall away will be rejected.
More in Part 3.
Alan T