Then in verse thirteen, Paul claims that if we as a Christian continue to live according to the appetites and passions of our dead body we will die.

Since our body is already spiritually dead, what does Paul mean by saying we will die if we live according to the desires of our physical body?

Paul says, also in verse thirteen, that if we choose instead to put to death the deeds of our body by the Spirit of God, we will live. Since our inward nature already is alive, what does Paul mean by saying we will live?

I think the answer is found in verse eleven. If we choose to live by the Spirit of God we will build up our inner life. Then, in the Day of the Lord, the Spirit that is in us will make alive our body, thus rescuing us from the body of death.

But if we choose to live according to the desires of our dead body, we will lose our inward life. In this case there will be no Spirit in us to make alive our mortal body. Thus we have destroyed our own resurrection.

What a tremendous issue! We are saying if the believer does not live according to the Spirit of God his body will not be made alive at the return of Jesus Christ. We are saying multitudes of American Christians will not be changed into immortality at the coming of the Lord. Therefore they cannot be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

What will happen to them? I do not know. I do know as soon as the victorious saints, the witnesses of all ages, are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, the wrath of God will fall on the wicked of the earth, particularly on hypocritical Christians. Jude tells us this. Maybe this is when some will be saved by fire.

I realize full well what I am declaring. I understand how different this is from current thinking. I am blowing the trumpet in Zion. I am saying our grace-rapture-Heaven teaching has left multitudes of believers unprepared for the return of Jesus Christ.

By no stretch of the imagination are most of the churchgoers in America living in the Spirit of God. They are living in the flesh, many of them. And according to the Book of Romans they are not prepared to be rescued from the body of death.

Verse fourteen says as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Not children of God, sons of God. What are the sons of God led to do? They are led to put to death the works of their dead body in preparation for the redemption of their body, as discussed in verses eleven and twenty-three of Romans, Chapter Eight.

One of the major doctrines of the Evangelical churches of America is the pre-tribulation rapture of the saints. Some, however, place the rapture at the middle of the tribulation while yet others insist on the end of the tribulation.

You know what? It doesn't matter when the catching up takes place because it has nothing to do with the great tribulation or the Antichrist. It is the concept of the rapture itself that is destructive.

To be continued.