This is fantastic! What a teaching! Great focus by Dr Woods. Wouldn't you agree? Consider running with captions English (auto-generate) and at 2x speed to cut time and speed comprehension. It was posted by regina as https://raptureintheairnow.com/topic/israel-olivet-discourse-matt-2337-39-24-25/ That was a great video! Very much appreciated and shared with family❤ :good: Indeed great context and understanding! TR There were always two people groups the Lord has dealt with. Jews/Gentiles, believers/non-believers, lovers of God/lovers of evil, the Bride of Christ/ wedding guests! Both Jew and Gentile alike who accepted Christ in this dispensation will be bride to the Bridegroom Christ! So when we are told at midnight a cry was made, the Bridegroom cometh. We know exactly that He is speaking of the Church! Here I believe He is speaking to both the Church as well as to Israel! After the cry was made, some time passes before He gathers His bride. So too, when Christ returns at second coming, it will not be as a Bridegroom, as that has already happened. Yet he makes it clear to Israel that the bridegroom is and was the same messiah. The cry at midnight could be when Israel recognizes they accepted the AC as messiah! Then their flight ensues. As in the parable, at the second coming, those that have not accepted Christ will again be left alone! TR For when the Church is Raptured, this dispensation ends and the last one begins! And yet both Jew and Gentile alike will have many that will have had access to the previous dispensation. And will share in last! TR Therefore that cry was for both Jew and Gentile alike! TR For in the last dispensation Christ does not come as a Bridegroom. But as the King of kings and Lord of Lords! The age of grace outlines the groom and the bride! TR Andy Woods is excellent, yeah. :good: My spirit was set a lot more at ease listening to this proposal. I don't think I ever considered the proposal before that all of Matthew 25 and all of Matthew 24 both, have nothing to do with any of the Church. Different teachers have parsed parts of chapter 24 into "pre-trib" and other parts into post-trib events. Chapter 25 for the last four years or so I have readily thought of as occurring after Jesus' return. It makes so much sense tonight that it's all in the same time frame. Decades old tensions in my thinking about end-time events are suddenly freed up with this proposal. So I'll be a Berean digging into the proposition with new eyes for a while, yet hopes found at the tail end of a verse comes to mind: "...you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." That's a small stretch of that John 8 context, but regardless, I like the freedom idea. Lord, lead me into all truth, thank you for fresh viewpoints, and keep me from error. Fair Use for Information and Discussion Purposes I hope these will be helpful to shed more light on Matt 24-25 Pastor Woods on who is taken and who is left - Matthew 24:36-41 the parable of the ten virgins - Matthew 25:1-13 Matthew 25:31 - about the coming of the Lord to set up God's kingdom on earth 
