This is a helpful video in understanding the gulf between the gospel to Israel under Peter and the gospel to the nations under Paul. For anyone who doesn't know it yet, these are completely different gospels with different teachings, different destinies, and different heralds.

Before I knew about the gospel of the grace of God, I was a Kingdom guy. In 1982 I was introduced to a movement that emphasized Israel, the earth, the Millennium, speaking in tongues, Overcoming, spiritual manifestations, ridiculing "the rapture," and never taking anything in the Bible literally. The Scriptures became my personal playground of "end-time spirituality," and I was encouraged to look for new ways to define everything in Scripture and to dream up "inspired" allegories that would distinguish me from other writers and commentators.

As soon as I became acquainted with the Concordant Publishing Concern in 1985, however, and learned about Paul, I grew up. It was a seven-year education out of soulishness and into true spirituality. I am grateful for my background, even more thankful to have come out of it.

A week ago, a decent guy named Mike Hoover wrote that I was completely wrong about "the rapture." As I read his lengthy comment, I saw many earmarks of a guy in the Kingdom/Overcomer movement. He was talking directly from the playbook, using lingo I was well-acquainted with. I have no condemnation of it, or of Mike. What I would really like to do is to help Mike come out of the world of Overcoming and into the world of: it's already overcome.

I hope this and the next few videos will help anyone else who thinks that the earth, Israel, speaking in tongues, saying words like, "methinks" and "bespeaks," and interpreting Scripture "creatively" is the highest form of spirituality. It isn't. There is something more. Do not despise the past, but please walk on into the future—unless, that is, you really, really want to go through the Tribulation.