Departure Ready

	Departure Ready Scripture reveals God's order therefore we believe the seven years coined as the Tribulation will begin and end in the Spring of the year and it will begin in God's Sabbath year. In God's Word - when kings went to war it was in the Spring - thus when Jesus returns to earth to do war as the King of kings - we believe it will be in the Spring. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. Romans 11:6 All who trust in their own works to Save them or to keep them Saved, cancel out the GRACE of GOD! When one Believes unto Salvation they are Eternally Saved! Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2Timothy 2:15
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May 10, 08 - 11:16 AM

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“Why did it take the laying on of hands for the Holy Spirit to come on the believers who were baptized in Acts 8:9-17?”

Our founder, Pastor C. R. Stam, answers this well in his Acts, Dispensationally Considered. As Pastor Stam points out, the believers here who had been baptized, but had not received the Spirit promised in Acts 2:38, were Samaritans, members of the ten tribes of Israel. According to prophecy these ten tribes must be reunited with the two tribes of Judah (Ezek. 37:15-19), for the Lord had promised the 12 apostles that they would reign with Him over “the twelve tribes of Israel” in the kingdom (Matt. 19:28).

But it was not enough that the ten tribes of Israel be reunited with the two tribes of Judah. The ten tribes of Israel had apostatized from the faith centuries before when they made Samaria their capital and set up their own temple at Mt. Gerizim. They must now renounce all of this and recognize Jerusalem as the seat of God’s authority. And so they did not receive the promised Spirit until two apostles from Jerusalem came and prayed for them with the laying on of hands.

Two apostles were enough, of course, since “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (Deut. 17:6; 19:15; II Cor. 13:1).

Indeed, the Lord had instructed the apostles that where “two or three” of them were gathered together in His name, they had the authority to act officially in His absence (Matt. 18:18-20). —Pastor Kurth

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