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Concerning Israel during the tribulation before the second coming.
Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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Yes, so my point is, from the perspective of the movie in our head, we are always the protagonist, thus by definition, we are always the ones who agree with the scriptures. 
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I guess missed that in James where he mentions the tribulation and the rapture?
As for the Tribulation, it was well known in the OT, part of the prophetic timetable. You probably missed his chapter 5, esp vs 7 and 8. when he warn the rich, those who refuse to surrender their wealth to join the early Jewish believers doing that in Acts 4:32.
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
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So again by definition, that would be us and not the ones who disagree with us correct?
I know what you insinuating here, it is not lost on me by the way.
You state context again, I've given the context that shows James is speaking of the same sort of justification Paul is.
Audience could perhaps present an argument, but I see no reason to restrict James to just Jews despite his greeting. What reason is there for thinking there's a different program for the jews than for gentile's? Why would James discussion of justification only apply to jews?
What do you mean "type of faith?" Are you implying that James is not speaking of saving faith? What drew you to this conclusion?
Audience could perhaps present an argument, but I see no reason to restrict James to just Jews despite his greeting. What reason is there for thinking there's a different program for the jews than for gentile's? Why would James discussion of justification only apply to jews?
What do you mean "type of faith?" Are you implying that James is not speaking of saving faith? What drew you to this conclusion?
The disagreement is essentially in whether there should exist a wall between sanctification and justification. Some, beginning with Luther, have taken the idea of justification by faith to such an extreme that they have perverted it and made it empty. They have set a wall of division between works and faith and, ironically considering Paul's primary concern was boasting, boast in their not working.
Certainly as you said in another post the bearing of apples is not what makes an apple tree an apple tree, and I believe you've got it right on the head with the thief's rebuke. Are there possibly some who as they take the last breath suddenly receive? I suppose, but such exceptions have no bearing on a conversation such as this.
Ultimately I have to question people who claim to have given their lives to Jesus who fight so hard against the idea that He expects obedience. To serve Him is a great privilege and not a cause for boasting.
Certainly as you said in another post the bearing of apples is not what makes an apple tree an apple tree, and I believe you've got it right on the head with the thief's rebuke. Are there possibly some who as they take the last breath suddenly receive? I suppose, but such exceptions have no bearing on a conversation such as this.
Ultimately I have to question people who claim to have given their lives to Jesus who fight so hard against the idea that He expects obedience. To serve Him is a great privilege and not a cause for boasting.