Mike,  
Thanks again for your answers.  I am going to study your material on the Law of the Offerings like you suggested. This should take a few weeks and give you a break from my emails. I’m sure you’re very busy. I’m not the most popular person at my Church right now after sharing the true origins of evil. I think I might be asked to leave because we started studying Galatians, and spiritual Israel is not appreciated much. Anyway some did listen, but then Joe 3 was brought up by the Pastor.  It seems like he was just taking a difficult chapter to cling to his idol and confuse those listening to what I had to say. Anyway can you help me with Joe 3 before I start the offerings? Thanks, M____

Hi M____,
If there is any truth to the words of Christ, and you are given the grace to remain faithful to those words, then rest assured that you will be hated of all men, especially all church men:

Mat 10:17  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Mat 10:18  And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Mat 10:20  For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [ their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

You ask about Joe 3. Here is what this chapter concerns:

Joe 3:1  For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

We are not left to guess about when God will “bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, but your minister will not believe his eyes when he sees when the scriptures say this will happen. It will happen, according to the apostle Paul, “When the fulness of the Gentiles comes in.”

Rom 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

So the Gentiles will come in at the same time, and then Israel will be brought to God. Exactly when will that be? There is no need to guess. We are told plainly when that will happen, but what church- going orthodox Christian would dare to believe what the scriptures teach so plainly?

Eze 16:53  When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Eze 16:54  That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Eze 16:55  When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

That almost sounds like even Sodom will be saved.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike         P. S. All the letters below deal with this subject, especially the one that are emboldened.
Eze 16:55  A111.0    Did Christ Reform The Law Of Moses?
Eze 16:55  A136.0    Does Man Have A Free Will?
Eze 16:55  A145.0    Tongues And The Separation Of The Sheep And The Goats
Eze 16:55  A166.0    Replacement Theology
Eze 16:55  A195.0    Preaching The Gospel ‘To The Jew First’
Eze 16:55  A544.0    Purpose of Elect
Eze 16:55  A552.2    Articles – Responses to ‘Strong Delusion’
Eze 16:55  A620.0    Strong Delusion: Will God’s ‘Strong Delusion’ Deceive You?
Eze 16:55  A775.0    What The Camp, The Court, And The Tabernacle Of Israel Foreshadow
Eze 16:55  A838.1    Preterism>