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continuation of a thesis started in "Pre-Trib, Post Wrath Position."

C.  We are the High Priest (as one with Christ) and priests (as members of the body) on the order of Melchizedek.  

Since we are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, we ought to be descended of a priestly line, yet we are not of the tribe of Levi.  On the other hand we are priests of the order of Melchizedek.  Melchizedek was a minister in Salem (which became Jerusalem) having no genealogy, as it is stated in Hebrews 7:1-3:

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This is Dimension's post in the post-trib pre-wrath position.

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This is Dimension's 2nd Post in the Post trib pre wrath position:

debate over the rapture of the church often includes, in my view, a misinterpretation of who the church is.

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Thus the mystery is the predestination of Gentiles to adoption as sons, which was not explicitly revealed to the Old Testament prophets, but was revealed to the New Testament apostles and prophets in His Spirit.

Your first post is a very good depiction of hermeneutics into the mystery, but I believe there are 10 distinct mysteries in the Bible.

1.  Mystery of the relationship between Christ and the church compared to the husband and wife.  Ephesians 5:21-33.

2.  Mystery of why blindness has happened come to Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.  Romans 11

3.  Mystery of predestination.  Romans 16:25;1 Cor 2:7;Ephesians 1:9;Ephesians 3:9

3.  Mystery of the Gentiles entering into the kingdom.  Ephesians 3:3-6; Colossians 1:26-27

4.  Mystery of Salvation.  Ephesians 6:19

5.  Mystery of Inquity.  2 Thes 2:7

6.  Mystery of Faith.  Col 2:2;Col 4:3;1 Timothy 3:9

7.  Mystery of Godliness.  1 Timothy 3:16

8.  Mystery of Seven Stars and Seven Candlesticks. Rev 1:20

9.  Mystery of Babylon.  Rev 17

10.  Mystery of Ressurrection.  1 Corinthians 15:51;Revelation 10:7;Revelation 11:11-15.

Revelation 12:14 (occurs after the 7th trumpet sounds)

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yes, but I was speaking only of point 3.  

III.  A way to explain the allusions to the Church as bride.

There is nothing which ever states that the Church is the Bride.  There are only two metaphors resembling this.  First, in II Corinthians 11:1-3 it states,

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The rest of my thesis:

IV.  The Bride

One needs to understand the Bride to understand who we are as the Church and part of the Bridegroom.  The Bride is Jerusalem.  Jerusalem is a word which encompasses the 12 tribes of Israel before the coming of Jeshua the Messiah.  Jerusalem has a mother, and the mother is Zion, the Holy Mountain of the Lord.  Zion is sometimes substituted for Jerusalem as a name, and this can result in some confusion if the bulk of the evidence is not weighed versus those incidents.  To establish that Jerusalem encompasses the tribes of Israel is given by Psalm 116:18-19

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