Since the time of the early church the original apostolic inspired biblical truths have been changed to suite today’s false doctrines and God’s truth needs to be restored to the Body of Christ. Today’s Christian teachers have lost sight of what it takes for one to attain to the priesthood and/or first resurrection. First we need to understand that the first resurrection and the gathering unto the Lord may not be at the same time. The first resurrection is for the overcomers who will rule and reign with Christ for one thousand years. This resurrection is attained through the trial by fire and learning to “fill up the sufferings of Christ” in our life.

As our faith is tested in the fire we learn the truth about how we have built on the foundation of Christ. The purpose of the testing by fire is to give us insight into our belief. Our belief must be based solely upon the word of God that has been written on the tables of our heart by the Holy Spirit to be life. The Word states that God has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness. Jesus redeemed the world from the curse so that through Him we could live life to the fullest. To believe that God does not heal everyone is a contradiction of the truth as stated by God. Not only is this a contradiction but we also deny the sacrifice of Christ when we believe and profess such error. We are denying the fellowship in the fire that is needed to bring us to the full stature of Christ in us.
John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
In order to attain unto the first resurrection and the crown of life we must be found in Christ not having our own righteousness which is from the law but the righteousness which is from the faith of Christ.

Romans 3:21-22 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Without the trial by fire we can assume we have built with the faith of
Christ, but we will not have the proof thereof. As we grow in faith and grace we are to press into the kingdom of God. Pressing into the kingdom by faith for peace, joy and righteousness in the power of the Holy Spirit will only happen as we believe the truth revealed in the fire. It is our ability to stand firm and believe the truth in the fire that is being tested when we find ourselves in the midst of manifold trials and temptations. The Spirit of God is leading us to the fulfillment of the promises of God. No one is exempt from being tried by fire to prove their belief in the Word of God. The Word of God states that “My people perish for a lack of knowledge.” The word of God promises trials, tribulation, temptation and persecution to those who will live godly in this world.

2 Tim 3:12 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
2 Peter 2:8-9 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment
It is the mercy and goodness of God that He tests us in the fire so that we might become joint heirs with Christ. If we have built our faith with gold, silver and precious stones we stand firm in the fire and we inherit the promises. If we have built with wood hay and stubble our building is burned up in the fire, and we are saved as yet by the fire. The trial by fire reveals to us the level of growth we have attained in our faith. For example: we say we believe in healing but cannot attain it, the fire reveals exactly the level of our faith. We are attempting to receive beyond our level of faith at this time. It is not that God does not heal everyone because by His stripes we were healed. The responsibility for blessing in Christ is OUR responsibility to believe the truth and live in it. The word tells us by receiving the gift of righteousness and receiving an abundance of Grace we will reign in life.

Romans 5:17-18 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
To reign in this life would be to use our God given authority and the name of Christ and rule over all the works of the enemy, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. We cannot reign in life until we understand that grace is the power of our salvation.

Wood hay and stubble would be insisting to be blessed in our own works of righteousness, such as tithing or attempting to keep the Ten Commandments or trying to keep the feasts from the law. These self works deny righteousness by Christ. The only way we have the assurance of how we have built with the righteousness of God through the faith of Christ and that word has taken root in our heart is to take the test in the fire. Then accept responsibility for the results in the fire as the evidenced of what we really believe in our heart. Until we accept these reproofs and rebukes from the Lord we will proceed no further and we will not be found in Christ because we are denying the truth revealed. To say that God heals some and not others is to hide the truth and remain in darkness. The trials in the fire are so we will have praise honor and glory at the appearing of Christ.

The current emphasis on the so-called "pre-trib rapture" has instilled confusion and has obscured the hope and purpose of attaining to being found in Christ. This doctrine of emphasizing the gathering of the saints to escape danger has blinded the body to the real truth about pursuing the fullness of Christ now through truth in their trials. This error has proagated a deception that instills in the believer that they have already arrived at being perfected without accepting the truth proven in the fire. The first resurrection is for those who have overcome through faith in the greatest of trials and are found in Christ and these will have attained to this resurrection of the priesthood.

To attain to the first resurrection was the hope and goal of the Apostles and the early church. This must become our hope and goal if it is to become a reality in our life. In order to attain to this resurrection we must be found in Christ. To be found in Christ is to have the righteousness which comes from the faith of Christ and not our own righteousness which comes from looking to and keeping the precepts of the law to be blessed. We are not under the power of the law but under the power of Grace. Grace came through Christ and to experience grace we must be found in Christ by pursuing all blessings through Christ.

As the first resurrection takes place it will subsequently destroy our last enemy, Death. The gathering should not be compared to attaining to the first resurrection because all will experience physical death to gain the first resurrection. The two witnesses and/or two prophets in Rev. 11 are not two people but the saints going out into the whole world two by two. All things are established by two witnesses in God’s order.

The two witnesses are not two individuals but the church witnessing in the power of God, in 11:10 they are called two prophets because the church witnesses in the power of Elijah and Moses. Elijah represents the power of the Spirit and Moses represents the two edged sword of the Word of God. When they have finished their testimony they are killed. These two witnesses testimony is sealed with their blood because they are part of the martyrs. . Then after three and a half days they are resurrected to life and caught up to the thrones in heaven.

Scripture indicates that the thrones are set in the heavens. The saints are already with Christ at His coming because these two witnesses in Rev. 11 are the first resurrection saints who were caught up to God. This is how the saints come with Christ at His second advent at the last trump. They are already there with Christ after having been slain by the beast of revelation 13. We see that some of the priests are alive and some are souls crying out from under the alter.

Rev 20:4-6 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Focusing on attaining the priesthood would have a more direct, positive effect on the daily choices of all believers in desiring the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings. It is in our acceptance of this fellowship of suffering that our personal relationship with Christ gains real understanding in the trials of fire. Focusing on the “rapture”, the teaching that our being caught up to the Lord in order to prevent suffering and remove us from the danger of having to face evil has presented an exceedingly harmful doctrine to the Church at large. The saints who sealed their testimony with their life and the gathering unto the Lord are not at the same time. This is why we see two distinct groups in the first resurrection. The witnesses we caught up after three and one half days and those who are alive and remain are resurrected at the advent.

Christians are not being prepared to stand in that evil day, which will come regardless of our personal belief. The present teaching is that the saints will not face any danger or an evil day. It is saddening that the chastening and rebuke of the Lord that is for our growth in Christ is so easily despised. The Body is not arming itself with the truth that suffering is an interracial part of our growth for maturity in Christ. Many lukewarm Christians will forsake Christ because of persecution and moral horrors that are about to come upon the earth and challenge their faith in Christ. Without the proving of our faith today we will lack the readiness to stand in the face of the evil that is sure to come. Whether we believe it or not the saints will face the man of sin in that hour. We must persevere even unto death to be saved.

Rev 3:10-12 10 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 "Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. 12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.

The word test also means temptation. We will be kept from yielding to the temptation of denying our faith and worshiping the beast in that hour even if it means death. First we must understand how we will be kept in that hour. In scripture we are given the strength through Christ’s power resting upon us. This power is the Spirit of Grace strengthening and keeping us in the hour of temptation. This is the reason we must count it all joy when we find ourselves is diverse trial and temptations now. Our trials teach us to endure through and allow patience to have her perfect work so we will lack nothing.
James 1:2-4 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
What brings us to the place of lacking nothing, knowledge in our trials? This is the joy of trials knowing we will come to being perfected and lacking nothing in Christ. We will be able to stand in the face of evil because we will have the knowledge and faith of Christ strengthened by grace.
Eph 1:17-19 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power
Romans 8:17-18 17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
The pre-trib rapture error in the end will prove to be one of the most destructive heresies ever to deceive today’s Christians. The results will be catastrophic for those who forsake Christ in the apostasy. The apostasy or rebellion will be weak and ignorant of truth Christians turning from God because they have not learned to love His truth through the Spirit of grace.
2 Thess 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The thing we must remember is that Paul was writing to the saints not the world when he wrote this.
Scripture states that those who receive the mark or name of the beast were deceived into worshiping him. Today’s Christians are being led down the path of destruction through error and they are blind to it.

Rev 19:20 20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

It is important for us to understand that the first resurrection is for those saints have kept the faith and not for those who are living in deception. The resurrection that will take place is for the sons and/or priests. This resurrection must be attained through having our faith tried in much trial and tribulation and sometimes at the cost of our physical life. First we must prove that we are trustworthy in order to attain too the glory that will be revealed in us. We must understand that keeping the faith is holding to the truth and not yielding to the temptation to rebel when things don’t go according to our preconceived demands. When our knowledge exalts itself against the knowledge of God we cannot stand in the test by fire.
2 Cor 10:4-6 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
It is not my goal to take hope away from today’s Christians. We must accept the truth as it is written because God does not change his mind to suite us. Scripture does give a way of escape to God’s people if they believe His truth. Scripture does state that at the time of the great tribulation some of Gods people will be taken into a spiritual wilderness for forty two months to be protected from the enemy. Is this a physical wilderness I do not believe so. I say this because Israel was protected in the midst of the plagues poured out upon Egypt. Only that it is a place prepared by God for this time period for those who have not been asked to face the enemy. There is a distinction between the women and the offspring who have attained to sons/priests who will prophesy and face the man of sin.

Rev 12:13-17 13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
We see that God has not left His people without hope in the face of danger. Just as Israel escaped Pharaohs army the women will escape Satan’s army at this time. Those who have not chosen to accept the challenge to become sons/priests are not abandoned by God but kept in a place of protection. It is the sons/priests who will face the enemy at this time and many will give their life for their testimony and bring glory to God through this. All who expect to be chosen must prepare now to give their all to be found faithful.
REV 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

It is in our manifold trials and tribulations we understand whether our faith and loyalty are genuine. Our faith is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold. Our faith is far more precious than mere gold which will perish. So when we remain strong in faith through many trials, it brings us too much praise, glory and honor on the day when Christ appears to the whole world. For us to demonstrate the faith of Christ we must rejoice in the depth of trial, tribulation and persecution. “Without faith it is impossible to please God.”
1 Peter 1:7 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Our greatest time of learning about our character is in the depth of the fiery furnace of affliction. Our Christ character is born and proven through affliction. It is in the heat of battle where decisions have to be made. We either follow the directives of the Spirit (obedience of faith unto righteousness) or we follow the dictates of our flesh (disobedience) unto unrighteousness. The one leads to life and the other begins death in our soul. To be found in Christ my righteousness comes from His faith in fulfilling all the law and my belief in that accomplishment. I can do nothing to be righteous beyond believe I am justified through Him. If I am trying to please God by tithing, keeping the Ten Commandments or keeping the feast, I am trying to become righteous by my own works. I will not be found in Christ by trying to become righteous. I must accept God’s plan for righteousness. If we cannot rejoice and praise God in the trials anticipating His deliverance we are not keeping the faith. Trials, tribulation and temptations are not saying I am unrighteous, but just the opposite.
If I believe that my lack is due to not tithing, or keeping the Ten Commandments I am departing from the faith. Lack means that I need to learn to endure in the fiery trials that bring patience to a perfect work.

The trials are my suffering with Christ as I endure through them and learn if I am being fond in the faith. They are designed to bring me to being perfected in Christ. Without this fellowship I can not apprehend that for which I am apprehended of in Christ.
Phil 3:7-12 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

The purpose of the first resurrection is for placing the victorious overcomers (sons/ priests) on the thrones because they have apprehended and shall rule and reign with Christ. These will also be the ones who worship and serve God in the new city. The nations of them saved live outside the city and the kings bring the glory and honor into the city. The Word tells us blessed and holy are the ones who take part in the first resurrection. The first resurrection again is described as follows:

Rev 20:4-6 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The sons/priests will have gone through judgment now before God and at the appearing of Christ will receive the salvation of their soul and a glorified body. The sons/priests must be tested by fire to demonstrate the genuineness of their faith and prepare them to stand in the evil day that is to come and to be able to keep the faith in the face of danger.
We are to patiently endure our trials and come to the end of our faith to receive the salvation of our soul.
1 Peter 1:6-10 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls. 10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
Without the trying of our faith the wood hay and stubble in our heart would not come to light. The goal is to build on the foundation of Christ with gold, silver and precious stones, faith. To receive the reward we must allow the fire to burn up the wood hay and stubble. The wood, hay and stubble are our strongholds that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God and are brought to light in the fire to be pulled down.

1 Cor 3:11-17 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

The first resurrection is the resurrection of the sons/ priesthood, and it must be attained through the proving of our steadfastness to faith without sin unto salvation. The sons/priests are being judged now by God so that they put to death their members so they may appear with Christ when He appears in glory. Do not be easily deceived the unrighteous will not appear in glory with Christ. The Word tells us to put away evil so that we do not partake of the wrath of God. We cannot receive Christ and live in the old sinful nature and not reap the wrath of God. If we do this we would be sons of disobedience.
Col 3:1-10 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, God
What the sons/priests experience now is to have crucified their flesh through being united to Christ’s death; burial and resurrection and through this union have separated themselves from their old sinful nature. They have nailed their flesh to the cross of Christ and have taken up their cross and follow Christ. Now they are able to stand in this newness of life by grace through faith and rejoice in the glory of God. Until the old nature has been crucified we cannot and will not rejoice in adversity. It is appointed to man to die once and after this the judgment. The sons/priests are being judged now and will pass from death to life and will attain the first resurrection.

Heb 12:4-8 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

We could not be in the presence of God with unrighteous sin without perishing from His glory. This is why the sons/ priests are raised in the first resurrection because they will overcome sin by the blood and grace through faith. In death they are purged and made white in preparation for the first resurrection.

Dan. 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

Romans 6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Because we are now alive in Christ and through the leading of His Spirit continue to maintain a crucified sinful nature we are alive in Christ. We therefore have passed from death to new life in our soul. It is only through obedience to the Spirit that we maintain this life in our soul and present our body a living sacrifice.

In the Day of Christ the Life of Christ that has been formed in our spirit, soul, and body will be revealed in our spiritual body from Christ. The glorified body will be given to us at the appearing of Christ. The revelation of Christ’s Life will be apparent in the sons of Christ who is the first born of many sons. The sons will bring about the release of creation from the bondage of corruption and help bring the saved of the earth into the glorious liberty of the Son of God.

Romans 8:19-23 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

II Corinthians 5:2 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

Our goal should be to pursue eternal life in spirit, soul, and body so that we serve God in holiness and righteousness and attain unto the first resurrection. The truth is that for the most part because of the error being taught this has not been the pursuit of Christians. The body has been pursuing unrighteous deception to attain a mansion in the spirit Paradise and escape tribulation and the proving of their faith. We are that mansion that is being prepared for the habitation of God through the purging of fire.

The word of God’s truth needs to be brought to today’s body. We cannot take on the false attitude that “we are saved” and we are just waiting for the Lord to come rescue us from impending danger. Christ is not coming to rescue us. He is coming to receive unto Himself His body and His body will be without spot or wrinkle. It is in the fiery trials that the spots and wrinkles show up to be reproved. As the Spirit leads us to greener pastures through the valley of the showdown of death we begin to see what is in our heart, His faith or our unbelief. When Christians hold onto the old covenant of law they find themselves perishing in sin and death and don’t understand why. We must pursue life in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus surrendered under grace through faith to live free of sin and death.
Romans 8:2-4 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
It is our fleshly nature that seeks to be led by a book of rules instead of by the liberating of grace through the Spirit of God. It is under grace that we find true liberty to serve God in the newness of life. As long as one looks to the law they are under the law and cannot find peace, joy and righteousness in the Spirit.

Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [The law of sin and death that dwells in our body] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Paul is not telling us to serve the law because the law is the knowledge of sin. We are not under the law but under grace. Paul is thanking God for Christ’s delivering him from the power of sin which the commandment produced in him. The power that the law holds over the one who seeks law is the knowledge of sin and that

Today’s Christian teachers have lost sight of what it takes for one to attain to the priesthood and/or first resurrection. First we need to understand that the first resurrection and the gathering unto the Lord may not be at the same time.
 

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