Raptureless: Third Edition

the wrath of God was not poured out on the cross, but it was poured out at the destruction of Jerusalem.

God has no more wrath to pour out in the future. He finished pouring out His entire wrath in the first century and is not storing wrath for our future.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom!

The glory and brightness of Jesus is on the scene, and darkness is being dispelled more and more every day.

the more the Kingdom expands on this earth and the saints mature into their calling as ambassadors of that Kingdom, the less persecution Christians should face.

Though persecution has always existed, we should not expect it, call it evidence of the radical Christian life, or believe it is the “seed bed” of Christianity.

The cross was not the punishment of sin; the cross made a way for the Father to forgive sin.

The New Testament holds no room for remnant thinking. This type of defeatist thinking, which sees only a portion of the whole Church as good, needs to be set aside with animal sacrifice and certain other Old Testament realities that are no longer valid.

No lamb sacrifice was ever punished for sin. Rather, the lamb’s death simply enacted covenantal forgiveness. The animal merely stood between the owner and God, and its shed blood brought covenantal forgiveness. Jesus, the perfect lamb, released perfect forgiveness