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Apostles directly commissioned by God work regionally to appoint Elders of a locality (2 Cor. 10.13, Tit. 1.5). The latter then approve the Elders of meeting places (1 Cor. 16.19).

Deliverance from sin, natural (good self, petty self) and supernatural through the dividing of spirit, soul and body (Heb. 4.12, 1 Thess. 5.23) to walk after the spirit by the Spirit.

First rapture is according to readiness (Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10) 'to the throne' (7.9) before the 1st trumpet (8.7), and the general resurrection is at the start of the 7th trump (1 Cor. 15.52, 1 Thess. 4.14-18, Rev. 11.15).

Signs before (Joel 2.31, Acts 2.20, Rev. 6.12) Daniel's last seven, the 3rd Temple (Gen. 28.12-22, 48.4; Rev. 11.2 RSV, 2 Thess. 2.4) and other prophetic end-time events.

Due to sin of the inhabitants of earth's earliest ages, God caused it to become desolate and waste (Gen. 1.2) then was restored summed up by the six literal days.

'We impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit' (1 Cor. 2.13 RSV).

Give your praise and worship to God! 'If we ask according to His will He hears us' (1 John 5.14). Some spirits can only be removed by 'fasting and prayer' (Mark 9.29).

God predestinates by foreknowing (Rom. 8.29) our free-choice: a conditional election, unlimited atonement (John 4.42), resistible grace, for preservation of the saints.

In 1 Cor. 15, Gal. 1 & 2, Paul said the Apostles he was with a few years after the cross gave the same eyewitness testimony of Jesus resurrected bodily (Acts 1.3).

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