I would like to thank everyone who has followed this topic and especially mabel who has given us great insight into what she has been learning. 

What a joy it is to read of the Lord`s work in the past and know that He is still doing His great work in people`s lives all over the world. Let us trust Him to complete that which He has concerning us. (Jude 24)

I am thinking of preparing notes for Israel and God`s purposes for them, next.

thankyou Maz its given a great opportunity to share what i have been learning and having feedback has been helpful. its strengthening me somewhat, as you know i have a few things going on!

 The Lord is good he is given me the tools to learn

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From the first understanding of the `catching away,` before the Day of the Lord, through to the whole Counsel of God, we read how believers stand firm with Paul rejoicing amid great trials of faith.

these truths have been submerged through the ages, and its no wonder the world has fallen into apostacy.

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Then we also see that there are corrections to be made, especially to the 12 disciples, who only had the understanding concerning their nation.

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Paul is the bridge between the Jewish nation and the Gentiles. before God commissioned Paul the world view was Jewish and nation based...if the Jews as a nation had accepted Christ as their Messiah then that would have been the completion but as we all know that wasnt to be.

God, turned to the Gentiles and used Paul as the Apostle to the Gentiles so it turned from a nation getting saved to individual's getting saved. NB; Jews can get saved but they have to come through Paul who is the Apostle to the Gentiles.

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Paul...in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand...` (2 Peter 3: 16)

Peter cannot understand some of Paul's epistles because these were revealed directly to Paul from the Lord. However Peter is in agreement with Paul and says as much in Acts 15 along with the church council.

so Paul is the real deal which is what set me off on this journey quite a while back now. before i studied Acts, Because i thought ok so why is mainstream Church Peter friendly, which got me thinking, why isnt Peter the one, after all he was one of Jesus' very own disciples. i wrestled with that for the longest time.

and then i embarked on a study of Paul's epistles and started to 'see why' it is Paul and not Peter who is our Apostle for today because he has the central teachings of what it is to be a Christian. something which is absent with Peter and that is a big deal when you are struggling to make sense of the foundation of Christianity. Paul also warns us about these days, something which is lost on mainstream church. Paul had revelations by the Lord himself and God is not a liar so that is where i am now.

its 'hard' to let go of the mainstream church, not that i was 'really into it.' i think, the messages i heard and kept were from childhood, because i went to church (under duress!) most Sunday's and was exposed to OT based preaching and wrong dispensational preaching, is it no wonder i felt contempt for church as a child...(sorry to say) and later as an adult when i got back into church i was reminded once again how austere church still is (Anglican church that is, along with being frightfully intellectually dry.) and so i tried the Pentecostal/Evangelical movement and at this time i was studying the bible in earnest so by  easter of this year i fully could 'see' the errors of these movements.