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Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Policing Pretrib

 There is usually policing of doctrine in most main churches. Stopping potentially harmful doctrines from spreading is something which goes right back to the early apostles. Yet in the case of pre-trib, Darby and Schofield evaded filtering, perhaps mainly because their peers were averse to policing beyond the boundaries of the church membership of an individual church or assembly. Perhaps that is the main error here. Paul was very widely policing doctrines about similar themes to pretrib, namely the doctrine of resurrection happening before the man of lawlessness appeared. He handed the main preachers of this to Satan. He wrote about this as an example. We have to police where it matters, even if this is beyond the church we are in. It is not a jurisdiction limitation. And some, like Paul, have apostolic power to do this. With perhaps an awareness of limits of jurisdiction in some way, but not rigid. Paul was sent as apostle to Gentiles, yet most of his epistles were primarily addressing Jews. The need is as the need dictates.