Library of Articles

Matthew 23:39 makes the second advent wait on one sentence Jerusalem has not yet said. Read the whole paragraph and you find what the sentence is about — their treatment of the men God sends them. They killed the prophets, they stoned Stephen, they refused the apostolic witness. The house stands desolate still.

Philip preached Christ, cast out devils, healed the lame, and baptized a city — and he could not give the Holy Ghost. Jerusalem had to send apostles. That one limit explains Acts 8, answers Acts 19, and exposes what is being claimed today.

Daniel's fast, the clean and unclean of Leviticus, the back-to-Eden vegan plan — every so-called biblical diet borrows food rules God gave to other people under other programs. Rightly divided, none of them binds the Body of Christ, to whom God gave liberty at the table with thanksgiving.

The dispensational boundary is not a single line but a corridor with two walls. The mystery and the Body of Christ began at Acts nine, with Paul; the transitional overlap of Israel's program and the mystery closed at Acts twenty-eight. Not Acts 2 and not Acts 28 — Acts is the record of the transition between the two walls.

A Facebook post claims Paul only taught believers not to be judged for keeping days — not that they should stop. This article examines the direction of Colossians 2:16, the Acts 15 council ruling, and what Paul's delight in the law actually means.

Both soul winning and witnessing are borrowed from programs that do not belong to the Body of Christ. This article examines Paul's actual commission and vocabulary for declaring the gospel of grace, and why neither term captures what he was actually doing.

Paul's gospel was a mystery kept secret since the world began, given by direct revelation of the risen Christ at Acts 9. This article shows why it could not have been preached before Paul, and why his very forgiveness as a blasphemer proves an entirely new dispensation had begun.

Not everything Paul did during the Acts period is what the Body of Christ practices today. This article identifies the transitional elements — synagogue visitation, sign gifts, water baptism, Jewish observances, the Jerusalem collection — that belonged to the overlap period and have since ceased.