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The people who insist that we must "accept Christ's free gift or go to hell for eternity," do not accept Christ's free gift themselves. In one of the greatest ironies existent in the world today, Christianity falls headlong into the snare of the cross, dooming themselves to become some of the last humans ever to enter into life. It's a good thing for Christians that there is no such thing as an eternity in hell for those who reject Christ's free gift. This messages was delivered in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 17, 2023. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1463_Christians_Spit_in_the_Face_of_Christ%27s_Free_Gift.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Our Lord warned not to store up treasure on earth because it can disintegrate or be stolen at any moment. "Store up for yourselves treasure in heaven," He said. As far as stored-up treasure in heaven goes, we are the wealthiest people on earth. But no one on earth measures wealth the way we do—or the way God does. The next time you are financially embarrassed, do what I do: stand tall and acknowledge your vast SPIRITUAL wealth. What the world has is going away quickly, but what we have is eonian in the heavens, to be paid in a lump sum in the hour of our glorification. Bonus: two comments from yesterday's video: the best and the worst. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1462_Store_Up_For_Yourselves_Treasure_in_Heaven.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

This is the era, predicted by Paul, wherein believers and feigned believers alike "will not tolerate sound teaching" (2 Timothy 4:3). The word I'm focusing on today is the word "tolerate" (Gr. anechomai), which was also translated in the Concordant Version, "bear with." SOUND teaching is teaching that has stood the test of time, thus making it feel old. Some folks can't bear with (anechomai) antiquity for long (it feels boring and stagnant to them), and thus will "heap up teachers in accord with their own desires, and will be turned aside to myths" (2 Timothy 4:3-4). Myths are new and exciting and can be crafted to suit one's tastes. Myths are malleable. But as such, they do NOT stand the test of time and thus, over time, are exposed. But by the time the myths are exposed (it may take years), they have taken hold upon the hearts of those holding them. (Myths cater to the emotions.) By this time, not even facts will dislodge a myth from those deriving comfort from them. God causes myths to be blown up by competent teachers who would be considered boring and old fashioned were it not for the fact that exposing myths during an era of myths is stressful, depressing, and at times anxiety-producing. Fortunately for the modern learner, teachers afflicted with these maladies, being already quirky, generally become funny—when they're not crying, that is. Add alcohol to the mix, and this all becomes quite entertaining. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1461_Be_Comforted_by_the_Steady_Drumbeat_of_Sound_Teaching.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

In Ephesians 5 and 6, Paul is instructing those saints who happen to be married, or happen to be parents, or happen to be children, or happen to be slaves, how to deport themselves. Paul is not promoting any of these stations in life, as should be evident when one realizes that advice to slaves is included in his instruction. Would anyone imagine Paul to be PROMOTING slavery as an ideal way to live? Of course not. And yet there are two teachers in the body of Christ today, namely Clyde Pilkington and Stephen Hill, who passionately insist both in articles and in books that, here in Ephesians, Paul is promoting marriage and parenting as "the advanced will of the Lord for today." Because these men specialize in patriarchy (they publish other articles and even books on this topic) and focus on family life, they want EVERYONE to be patriarchs and to focus on family life. It is not merely that marriage and parenting are noble enterprises, but that these enterprises have moved "front and center," and are actually "the focus of our era." Yes, and not only that, but "the advanced will of the Lord for today." Anyone, then, wanting to live "the advanced will of the Lord for today," and reading the writings of these men, would feel compelled to be married with children. Otherwise, they could not be very advanced. Anyone reading Paul's earlier letter of 1 Corinthians, specifically chapter 7, will realize that Paul would prefer everyone to be like him, that is, single and unencumbered. The reason is easy to understand (for most people); it is so both men and women might be "undistracted for the Lord." Paul takes pains to point out that married people must focus on each other and would therefore be unable to focus entirely on Christ. This is timeless truth. But while Paul would prefer body members to be single, he does not insist on it, for he is aware of the human need for sexual relations. Pilkington and Hill reject the entire letter of 1 Corinthians as containing any advice for us today. Why so radical of a disposition? Because in 1908 a man named Charles Welch decided that Paul's letters should be surgically dissected from themselves. Where would be the cut? At the line of Acts 28:28, when Paul was in prison. Who decided this again? Charles Welch. What authority did this man have to do such a thing? None. What happened at Acts 28:28 that was so important? Nothing to justify Paul's canon being so crudely dissected. Paul merely repeated to some representative Jews come to Rome what had been said before, that they were a stubborn people (not exactly headline news there) and that God had already gone to the nations ("to the nations WAS dispatched this salvation of God"—Acts 28:28), a common fact which had occurred thirty years before at the call of Paul on the road to Damascus. God's new attitude toward the nations was unmistakably (at least it's unmistakable to most people) provided for when our Lord died on the cross and the veil in the temple was divinely rent—thus obliterating, in probably less than one second, the Jews' monopoly on access to God. THIS was the dividing line between divine Jewish preference and divine Jewish rejection—not some dull, one-sentence history lesson uttered by Paul to a handful of Israelites. But back to Ephesians. To say that advising wives, husbands, and children how they ought to behave is commensurate with PROMOTING marriage and parenthood—and not only promoting it but insisting that these institutions are "the advanced will of the Lord for today"—one would also have to say that, since Paul is also advising slaves in this same context, then Paul must also be promoting slavery as "the advanced will of the Lord for today." But since we know that Paul would never do that, then neither is he promoting marriage and parenting as such. And yet Pilkington and Hill still insist that he is. How do these men deal, then, with slavery in this same context? Deceitfully. In their articles, they change "slavery" to "employment," wash their hands and walk away, hoping, apparently, that no one will notice the sleight-of-hand. Based on the evidence and the hiding of evidence, the body of Christ must reject this selfish, unscriptural teaching. In no way is Paul promoting marriage and parenting in Ephesians 5, no more than he is promoting slavery. Paul is merely instructing those who happen to be in these stations how to deport themselves as believers. Paul's advice in 1 Corinthians chapter seven concerning his wish for believers to remain single if they can, stands. Otherwise, Paul would be, in Ephesians, encouraging saints to BE distracted for the Lord—the very thing he warns against in Corinthians. This is impossible. ZWTF 4.19: A Defense of the Expectation of the Body of Christ, Part 1: THE PRESENT ERA: https://martinzender.com/ZWTF/ZWTF4.19.pdf MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1460_Did_You_Know_That_Slavery_Was_the_Advanced_Will_of_the_Lord_For_Today.mp3

In one of the most deceptive statements that a body of Christ teacher can make, Clyde Pilkington teaches that marriage and parenting are “the focus of our era,” and “the advanced will of our Lord for today.” Isn’t it a shame that the apostle Paul could not live the advanced will of our Lord for today? By insisting that Paul’s advice in 1 Corinthians to avoid marriage if one can in order to be undistracted for the Lord contradicts Paul’s later advice in Ephesians to marry and have children (Paul NEVER ADVISES ANYONE in Ephesians to marry and have children), Mr. Pilkington at the same time relegates the snatching away of the body of Christ to a bygone era. I’m not sure which came first: the desire to keep the saints from being snatched away from their homes and families, or the desire to make marriage and parenting (Clyde also writes a newsletter about patriarchy) the "focus or our era" and the "advanced will of our Lord for today." If one’s PERSONAL focus is marriage and parenting, then it would certainly benefit one spiritually—at least in the eyes of others—if one could convince these others that marriage and parenting are “the advanced will of our Lord for today.” I mean, who would not want to portray oneself as living the advanced will of our Lord? Again, how unfortunate for the apostle Paul and for the unmarried and childless in the body of Christ today. Clyde has meticulously fashioned an artificial Scriptural distinction between 1 Corinthians and Ephesians (between singleness and marriage) in order to glorify his personal bent (I'm not even saying he's doing this consciously) and to keep himself and his family on this earth practicing it. If patriarchy one’s thing, then fine. If one wants to live in this fantasy world of marriage and parenting being “front and center” and “the focus of our era,” and “the advanced will of the Lord for today,” then fine. But when one contorts Scripture in order build and then maintain this fantasy SO AS TO PASS IT ON TO OTHERS AS "SCRIPTURAL," well, then those of us who realize that Paul’s marriage advice never changes and that the snatching away is to be the glorious expectation of all body members of all eras—we must vehemently object and expose the construct. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Cafe - Eons: Exposing the Hell Lie in Bible Translating (June 28 - Hr 2): https://youtu.be/8VvMK251g2c?si=m-JJV0IaGjT0ySJ7 ZWTF 4.19: A Defense of the Expectation of the Body of Christ, Part 1: THE PRESENT ERA https://martinzender.com/ZWTF/ZWTF4.19.pdf Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Do married people have worries and troubles in this life, or should we relegate this statement of Paul's in 1 Corinthians 7 as belonging to a bygone era, to a time when the Corinthians were suffering persecution? (As if we are not suffering persecution today in hundreds of refined and, really, worse ways. The more we look into Paul's early marriage advice in 1 Corinthians 7, the more we realize its timelessness, and the more we notice the embarrassing interpretative gymnastics employed by the Acts 28 and the "we-all-must-die" crowd, trashing Paul's earlier advice and teachings, in turn removing the snatching away from their expectation, in turn giving them an excuse to make family life their be-all/end-all, and in turn hoping for their grandchildren to deliver stirring eulogies at their flower-effused funerals. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1458_Do_Married_People_Have_Worries_and_Afflictions_Yes_Or_Yes.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

In this edition of MZTV, not only will you learn what "to be on fire" specifically refers to (in 1 Corinthians 7:9), but you will learn the proper translation of 1 Corinthians 7:26. Where the KJV has "the present distress," the Concordant Literal New Testament (CLNT) has, "the present necessity." Wow, what a difference. Instead of their being some first-century persecution underway causing Paul to dispense unnatural marriage advice, we discover "the present necessity" to be something far more common, simple, and timeless. You will not hear this interpretation anywhere else. As a bonus, I share with you the very moment on August 17, 1969, when the heavens convulsed and the earth followed suit—when the last shreds of innocence (albeit the liberated variety) appeared and then disappeared in the middle of a deep purple night. For those who were there, an era became bygone with the swish of chiffon and the angel-like whoosh of white leather fringe. A camera at the bottom of that hill (that rural New York farm-mound) caught the convulsion, backlit though it was, and set it to celluloid. Can you, a mere mortal, see the disappearing corona? It surrounds Rose Stone, who is completely unaware of it. Yet when she and her family step off this plywood dais, the apocalyptic dawn is officially upon us. MZTV 48: What Does God Think About Pre-Marital Sex?: https://youtu.be/AOdJeEFG2uE?si=XB0f3E_mjQtSITQv MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1457_Sex_Talk_9_What_Does_To_Be_On_Fire_Mean.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

We are told by Christian scholars that either a persecution of the saints or the supposed coming indignation forced the apostle Paul's marital advice in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, especially when he encourages believers to remain single. Clyde Pilkington takes this to the next level, insisting that the advice here is not only obsolete, but that it belongs to a different era, and that now believers are to marry at every opportunity, seize the day—family-wise—and use up the world as much as they can. What Mr. Pilkington and the Christian scholars have in common is that they both use the KJV. Mr. Pilkington's use of this error-ridden version is worse and less excusable, however, as he knows there's a better version available—the Concordant Literal New Testament. But he cherry-picks the KJV when needed to forward his "Family First" agenda. In opposition to all this, I contend to you that Paul's marital advice of 1 Corinthians is timeless, and that there was NO CHANGE WHATSOEVER between the advice given to the Corinthians and that to the Ephesians some thirty years later. This is probably part one of three. THE BEST OF MARTIN ZENDER: by Subject (Christopher Perry's Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsw1xK5-g3H7ksQ3sYJ-ByA/playlists/playlists MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1456_Is_Paul's_1_Corinthians_7_Marital_Advice_Obsolete.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Those who teach that Christ's return is probably hundreds of years away MUST divorce Paul's earlier epistles from his latter ones. Why? Because it was Paul's earlier epistles (1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians) where he revealed the secret of the snatching away of the body of Christ and that those body members alive at the return of Christ will not be put to repose. This is bad news to those who are afraid of the snatching away and who would dread being removed from their families, and so they must concoct teachings that relegate Paul's early letters to a bone-heap of the past. Two of the teachings subserving this purpose are: 1) The Acts 28 Theory, and 2) The Pre-Millennial Kingdom Theory. Clyde Pilkington embraces both of these theories, taking the further step of claiming that Paul's marriage advice of 1 Corinthians is NOT his marriage advice of Ephesians. But Clyde makes a critical mistake when teaching that Paul's advice in 1 Corinthians 7:29 ("...let those having wives be as though not having them") would cause husbands not only to lose their wives but to grieve the holy spirit of God. AS IF Paul would EVER give marital advice to husbands that would cause such destruction. Simply because Paul gives marital advice in Ephesians does NOT mean that Paul intends for marriage and family life to now be the pinnacle of a spiritual walk. And yet this is the artificial construct of those who MUST divorce the Ephesians Paul from the 1 Corinthians Paul in order to make the snatching away of the body of Christ disappear. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1455_Paul_Instructs_First-Century_Husbands_How_to_Lose_Their_Wives.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Mercifully, God has given us a message of grace to sustain us and help us survive this era and eon. But at its core, this is NOT an era or eon of grace, but an era of suffering (Romans 8:18) and an eon of wickedness (Galatians 1:4.) It is an eon of wickedness that CONTAINS a message of grace. Clyde Pilkington, a dear friend and teacher in the body of Christ, desperately wants this eon to go on for another ten thousand years. This is due to his belief that the era spoken of by Paul in his early epistles is not the era we're living in now. Mr. Pilkington has bought into a theory that cuts Paul's letters in half, relegating the early half to a different era than the latter half. It is not difficult to demonstrate from Scripture the unworkability of this theory. Clyde's motivation for wanting this era to continue is that he is a comfortable, happy family man convinced that marriage and child-bearing are the highest spiritual attainment in this life. This being the case (in Clyde's theology), why would God want to interrupt something so beautiful and holy? This myopic vision selfishly ignores the greater problems of suffering and death that have plagued the human race since Adam. Not only that, but it ignores the TEMPORARY nature of the eon (explained by Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 7) and the groaning for deliverance (Romans 8:23) implanted by God into every member of Christ's body. Well—every member except Clyde Pilkington, that is, and those who have grasped onto his teaching that this era is "limitless" and that we're all guaranteed to die. If anyone has been seduced by this false teaching, I implore you to watch this presentation of MZTV and the next two presentations. I will be proving to you the gross error of this position, and showing you the expectation that the apostle PAUL wants for the members of Christ's body. SPOILER ALERT: It is not an expectation of death. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: Christ is Greater Than Adam (June 28 - Hour 1): https://youtu.be/u8v2pcmZfRU?si=I7lSBIVBLV5RNJkk MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1454_I_Love_Clyde_Pilkington_But_This_Has_Gone_Too_Far.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Jesus told a parable about a man who set out to build a tower but failed to calculate the cost. Adverse circumstances got the best of him and he could not complete the project. His tower, therefore, sat in an abandoned shambles for years and years (forever, actually), leaving the builder to be ridiculed by all passers-by as a first class fool. This is the EXACT portrait painted by the Christian religion of God. These people are not only poor representatives of the true God but, as brainwashed sycophants, stubbornly worship their homemade "deity" as a success—in spite of His obvious and embarrassing failure. Even atheists see through this sham. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1453_Is_God_Smart_Enough_to_Finish_What_He_Started.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

1) The New Jerusalem descends to the New Earth from heaven. 2) The tabernacle in the wilderness, built by Moses, was based on a heavenly model shown him by angels on Mt. Sinai. 3) There is a worship system ("divine service") in the celestial realm just as there is on earth. Based on these Scriptural facts: Is there a city, a worship system, or even a temple of some kind AMONG THE CELESTIALS (where we are going) that exceeds by thousands or even millions of times the city, the worship system, and the temple prescribed by God here on earth? As exceedingly large and magnificent are the heavens compared to earth, would not the divine counterparts (indeed, the MODELS) of these things be so much more magnificent than anything earth could possibly accommodate? MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1452_Is_There_a_Celestial_City_Even_More_Magnificent_Than_the_New_Jerusalem.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Christianity is fatally attracted to Trump, and vice-verse. This will become an illicit marriage of church and state that the book of Revelation calls "The Beast." MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1451_End_Time_Report_The_PrMartin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/ostitutions_of_Christianity_and_Trump.mp3

I'm a walking contradiction. On the one hand, I want things to go well for me. On the other hand, with success and notoriety comes more responsibility, more accountability, more scrutiny, more trouble. I want to arrive somewhere, but I want to fly under the radar at the same time. I love sincere compliments (I love it when you tell me that my work has changed your life, that you watch the show faithfully with your coffee in the morning, and that this channel is a lifeline for you in a wicked eon), but on the other hand, when building-up turns to fawning, I squirm a little bit and will say something like, "Let's change the subject for awhile." Let me be the subject for five minutes (thank you very much, I need it), then on to the predicate. I think we are so used to being low, unknown, unnoticed, and under-appreciated, that when the opposite things come we get startled into reticence and reflexively draw back into our comfort zones. I have crawled out of my comfort zone many times—driving to Cleveland for five weeks in 1999 to do the live Grace Cafe radio program was one of these times, quitting the Postal Service to do this work full time was certainly another—and I'm always thankful, in the end, to have peered out from my groundhog hole. But it comes with a price, eh? Too MUCH of a good thing is always bad. At least for now. "Everything, all the time" is a lyric from the Eagles' song, "Life in the Fast Lane," and even one of the most popular musical groups of all time paints it as a bad thing. And yet, "everything, all the time' is precisely what God is going to give us when we are snatched away. As presently constituted with flesh and blood bodies, we could not handle "everything, all the time." We would literally die of pleasure. This is the practical reason why our bodies must be changed. Our new bodies will be built to accept and sustain the glory that is rightfully ours through Christ. In Philippians 3:12, Paul relates how he had to learn to both abound and be abased. I think abounding might have been the harder lesson for Paul. Maybe for us too? We tend to think, "I'm not worthy" or, 'I want neither the notoriety nor the responsibility of fame." Well, don't worry. God has built in ceilings to even the greatest pleasures on earth so that when you do get too much, you vomit it out. This will not be a problem when we rise to meet the Lord in the air. Then, our bodies will sustain and appreciate, with room to spare, supernal glory. We will not only accept but expect the worship of ancient, celestial magistrates—all due to Christ. Christ Himself will see to our change so that we, like Him, might bask in God's version of "everything, all the time." Maybe it's about time? MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1450_Are_You_Afraid_of_Success_Like_I_Am.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Does the total solar eclipse today across the breadth of the United States (the great gathering place of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel) mean anything prophetically? In relation to the similar eclipse of seven years ago—the same year as the Revelation 12 sign of September 23, 2017—I would say "yes." MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: God Does His Best While I'm At My Worst (June 11- Hour 2): https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1449_End_Time_Report_The_Solar_Eclipse_of_2024.mp3 MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1449_End_Time_Report_The_Solar_Eclipse_of_2024.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

We will be the only people in human history to cheat death, and death doesn't like it. This is when Death loses its sting, because Death is shocked at what happens and never quite gets over it. I owe Robert an apology for saying yesterday he believed that Jesus left His body in the tomb. I got it wrong and I’m sorry. Rather, Robert believes that Jesus Christ left His body of the Mount of Olives, shedding it just before ascending into heaven in sight of His disciples, leaving it to His crew to figure out what to do with it. (I am hoping they took it to a taxidermist and that it will show up someday at a flea market or garage sale.) Why did Jesus leave His body behind? Notwithstanding the fact Jesus told His disciples he was “flesh and bone,” Robert still insists that the resurrected body of Christ also contained blood. And since flesh and blood cannot enjoy an allotment in the kingdom, that body had to go. And of course Robert still believes that living members of the body of Christ will leave corpses for our loved-ones to find, notwithstanding the fact that Paul says our bodies will be transfigured. Robert has his own way of thinking, refusing to avail himself of teachers. Teachers misled him in the past, therefore no teacher can be trusted. I began this show with a formal apology to Robert, but it was distracting and took up too much time, so I deleted it and hit the ground running with the topic at hand. I'll apologize on Monday. But turning back now to happier topics that do not involve corpses (my apology to Robert and others who see corpses everywhere), let’s revisit Corinthians 15:54-54 and see when exactly Paul says Death will be swallowed up by Victory, and when exactly Death loses its sting. This study is engaging, as it intimately involves US, the living members of the body of Christ. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1448_The_Only_People_in_Human_History_to_Cheat_Death.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

All transfiguration is transformation, but not all transformation is transfiguration. These are different words in the Greek, yet close in meaning. Our Lord was transformed (metamorpho in the Greek; Matthew 17:2), yet Paul says that we will be transfigured (metachematizo; Philippians 3:21). Surprisingly, a transfiguration is more radical than a transformation. Something that is transformed need not become sublimely different, yet transfiguration requires a change in the very nature of a thing. At least, this is the way I understand it at this time. Our Lord did not become something different, but was rather suddenly displayed as He truly was. We, on the other hand, become something different. If I say we are transformed, it is true—all transfigurations are transformations. Yet Paul says specifically that we are transfigured. I do not want anyone to think that I am not appreciating the difference between these two words. Our Lord was transformed and thus did not require as radical a change as we. The great revelation of this presentation is that, at the time of the Lord’s return in the air for His body, the dead and the living are changed in different ways. The dead are roused; the living are not. The dead are ROUSED with changed bodies. Our LIVING bodies must be changed. Speaking of change, if anyone here has thought that living members of the body of Christ must necessarily die before becoming immortal, you have a pleasant change of thought coming. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1447_Will_We_Be_Resurrected_or_Transformed.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

The point where God temporarily rejected Israel was certainly not Acts 28:28. That has got to be the deafest, dumbest, and blindest line that has ever been concocted. The true line is so obvious it's nothing less than a miracle that ANYONE could walk past it. A continuation here of the rebuttal of a book written by Clyde Pilkington claiming that every member of the body of Christ must die. I won't be on this topic forever but I won't be satisfied until this theory dies and stays dead. Free at no extra charge to you: A history of Charles Welch and the development of the Acts 28:28 theory. Which came first, a fear of the snatching away or the Acts 28:28 theory? I certainly have MY theory. ZWTF SPECIAL EDITION: A defense of the Expectation of the Body of Christ, Part 2: NEW TRUTH: https://martinzender.com/ZWTF/ZWTF4.21.pdf MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1446_And_Then_RIIIIIIIP!_Went_The_Temple_Veil.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/ Transcript

Here is the long-awaited verse from Philippians proving that one needn't die to be together with Christ. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1445_This_Verse_Proves_That_One_Needn't_Die_to_Be_Together_With_Christ.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

We are told over and over again by Paul to be expecting the return of Christ and the transformation of our bodies. Yet there is a teacher in the body of Christ, Clyde Pilkington, who insists that we are “wasting our time” hoping for deliverance and that, instead of expecting Christ, we ought to be expecting the hearse instead. It sounds like I’m joking, but I’m not. Clyde Pilkington, a teacher in the body of Christ, is encouraging us to expect only death, merrily insisting—without evidence, and in the face of anti-evidence—that “Christ will not return in our lifetimes.” In fact, according to Mr. Pilkington, Christ is not returning for us at all. Ever. Don’t believe me? Here’s the quote: “Christ is NOT returning in our lifetime. The hope of His coming belongs to Israel.” —Clyde Pilkington, Bible Student’s Notebook You’ve been hoping for His coming? Silly, unspiritual person—that’s for Israel. If only you were an Israelite. But sorry, you're not. In YOUR evangel, the only coming for YOU is the coroner. To your doorstep. Here’s another quote from the teacher who is expecting only the coroner and the embalmer in this life: “Don’t waste your time imagining that you will be delivered away from your divine training ground.” —Clyde Pilkington, Bible Student’s Notebook #488 So use your time wisely and pre-pay your funeral expenses. I am not saying that WE are guaranteed not to die. I'm saying what Paul is saying, that there are a handful of body of Christ members, surviving to the presence of the Lord, who will not be put to repose (1 Corinthians 15:51). We could very well be them. Every member of the body of Christ from Paul onward is supposed to think this: “We could very well be them.” This is a happy expectation BUILT IN to the evangel of the grace of God. It’s part of it. We are not so arrogant to assume that WE are the ones who will not be put to repose. We THINK we are, but no one knows for sure. We are not so selfish as to say that if it’s NOT us then we will abandon the expectation. The expectation is that SOME members of the body of Christ, at SOME time, will not have to experience death. We are celebrating THE TRUTH. We are celebrating the joyous miracle, the amazing secret disclosed by Paul that there will be a spectacular EXCEPTION to the grim work of the Grim Reaper. So screw you, Grim Reaper! Not everyone is happy about the Grim Reaper getting screwed in this life. Strange, yes? One has to wonder if maybe such teachers have some sort of kickback scheme going with the funeral directors. MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: Christ Reconciles All Creation to God (June 11 - Hr 1): https://youtu.be/lYA8RKRK3Aw?si=63-2NIoDUdhKDPc7 MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1444_We_Are_To_Be_Looking_For_Christ_Not_The_Coroner.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Why are billions of people perishing for the eon? Because they have not received a love of the truth. Only God can impart a love of the truth, but nevertheless this is what distinguishes those who have eonian life from those who don’t: the love of the truth. The main point of this episode of MZTV is to show you that God will cause both vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor to come to a PERSONAL realization of their spiritual disposition, that is, whether they have hated the truth or loved it. This is essential, for people must be convinced in their own hearts via incontrovertible evidence why they are either enjoyers of or missers of eonian life. God does this by setting traps. By means of these traps, He snares the truth-haters, tricking them into exposing THEMSELVES, while at the same time using these truth-haters as foils for the truth LOVERS, who realize who come to realize their disposition via comparison (the “contrast principle”) with their truth-hating counterparts. I know this sounds a tad complicated but this is because, um, God is a tad complicated. MZTV 1093: Watch God Set the Eternal Torment Trap: https://youtu.be/ZgQE_-ScqII?si=0pVdlhw9AuE3eomj MZ/IB Archive - WCCD Grace Café Series: A Detailed Study of "The Ages" in Scripture (June 10, Hr 2): https://youtu.be/FB4mDxN6Bec?si=nelkFqfrRlmiKmo1 MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1439_God_Prefers_Us_From_the_Beginning_to_Love_Truth.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

I have seen the contents of Clyde Pilkington's Book, "Will We Escape Death," in which he insists that all members of the body of Christ must die. This, in spite of Paul's contention in 1 Corinthians 15:51 that, "We all, indeed, shall not be put to repose." This is the most deceitful collection of "proofs" I have ever seen. Rather than proof, the reader is presented with misquoted Scripture, circular reasoning, misrepresentation of other authors, purposeful avoidance of near context, cherry-picked Bible translations, and sheer outrageous statements dependent upon the gullibility of the reader for persuasion. I could be wrong, but the only reason I can imagine for anyone adapting this absurd, Jules Verne-like teaching is if one's fear of being snatched away alive by Christ outweighs one's willingness to critically think. Indeed, a fear of leaving the earth in so sudden a fashion may be the impetus for not only the "we-must-all-surely-die" theory, but also the Acts 28 and the "pre-millennial-kingdom" nonsense. I daresay that a long life on earth ending with a hearty eulogy and weeping grandchildren may be the comfort zone of more people than we think. ZWTF SPECIAL EDITION: A Defense of the Expectation of the Body of Christ, Part 2: NEW TRUTH: https://martinzender.com/ZWTF/ZWTF4.21.pdf MP: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1443_A_Dread_Fear_of_the_Snatching_Away.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

The apostle Paul, addressing the body of Christ under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote that "We all, indeed shall not be put to repose." Yet our brother Clyde Pilkington, in a new book, claims that EVERY member of the body of Christ MUST be put to repose. What could cause a man to put his own teaching up against the apostle's inspired declarations and consider his own teaching to be superior? We investigate this phenomenon in today's MZTV. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1442_We_Shall_NOT_All_Die.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

If we are created in the image of God, why don't we have free wills? Even though we are justified, will we still somehow be punished for our sin? How can I I have a greater calling and a higher destiny than Peter? All these questions are satisfyingly answered in this edition of MZTV. Additionally, I am publicly mourning over my brother Clyde Pilkington's assertion that every member of the body of Christ must and will die. This, in direct opposition to Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 15:51, "We shall NOT all be put to repose." For me, this is a bridge too far. It's a slap to the face of inspired Scripture concerning the Body of Christ. If this and other wild assertions from the Pilkington camp were based on sound scholarship, then we'd have to consider it. But they're not. When one sees how poor the scholarship actually is (I will point this out in detail in an upcoming show), one will once again be able to rest with confidence in Paul's declarative statement. When it comes down to Paul Vs. Clyde, there IS a clear winner. MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1441_Martin_Zender_Answers_Your_Most_Pressing_Questions.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/

Why does God say in Isaiah 65:17 that the former heavens and earth “shall not be remembered”? Is God actually going to forget what He did in the past? And what about the EVENTS of the former earth? If our future bliss is based upon our former trials, how could we not remember the very things that provide for the contrastive experience? MP3: https://martinzender.com/MZTV/MZTV1440_When_Occupying_the_Glorious_Future_Could_We_Ever_Forget_Our_Ignoble_Past.mp3 Martin's homepage: https://www.martinzender.com Buy Martin's books: https://starkehartmann.com/