Mercifully, God has given us a message of grace to sustain us and help us survive this era and eon. But at its core, this is NOT an era or eon of grace, but an era of suffering (Romans 8:18) and an eon of wickedness (Galatians 1:4.) It is an eon of wickedness that CONTAINS a message of grace.
Clyde Pilkington, a dear friend and teacher in the body of Christ, desperately wants this eon to go on for another ten thousand years. This is due to his belief that the era spoken of by Paul in his early epistles is not the era we're living in now. Mr. Pilkington has bought into a theory that cuts Paul's letters in half, relegating the early half to a
different era than the latter half. It is not difficult to demonstrate from Scripture the unworkability of this theory.
Clyde's motivation for wanting this era to continue is that he is a comfortable, happy family man convinced that marriage and child-bearing are the highest spiritual attainment in this life. This being the case (in Clyde's theology),
why would God want to interrupt something so beautiful and holy?
This myopic vision selfishly ignores the greater problems of suffering and death that have plagued the human race since Adam. Not only that, but it ignores the TEMPORARY nature of the eon (explained by Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 7) and the groaning for deliverance (Romans 8:23)
implanted by God into every member of Christ's body. Well—every member except Clyde Pilkington, that is, and those who have grasped onto his teaching that this era is "limitless" and that we're all guaranteed to die.
If anyone has been seduced by this false teaching, I implore you to watch this presentation of MZTV and the next two presentations. I will
be proving to you the gross error of this position, and showing you the expectation that the apostle PAUL wants for the members of Christ's body. SPOILER ALERT: It is not an expectation of death.
