Yes sir. I am finished explaining the "Two Gospels" and "Two Churches" of the New Testament, as neither YSM or Jeff has any clue as to what the heck I am even talking about. :0)
In Christ Jesus,
Terral
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Actually I am very well versed on what you are talking about, it is just that what you are talking about is false doctrine, which is not found in the Scripture, but is an imagination of MAD doctrine.
MAD doctrine is just a rehash of the "same ole, same ole...", but with a new twist:
"God is through with what He first started and has started a new work, and only the initiated are in on it and can be a part of it". -Only in your MAD doctrine twist, you claim that God has just paused His first Church, to make a second Church, and will go back to that first way after he wraps up the new thing he started -Not!.
Your founders somehow discovered this second 'Church" with a different founding and a different gospel and a different inheritance than the so called first, millenniums after the One Church, the NT Church, was going along as God ordained, doing what He told it to do, in every century, "until He come".
The One NT Church has a Head, a High Priest, seated in heaven and glorified, as son of Man, representing all His own adopted sons who are joined to His Living Spirit by second birth.
Hebrews 12:
12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be
dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all
people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
16 lest there
be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
The Glorious Company
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling." ) begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
