What makes you think that I don't? Here are Paul's words about that appearance:
"For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our lowly body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body...The Lord is at hand (eggus)" (Phil.3:20-21;4:5).
The Greek word
eggus means
"of times imminent and soon to come to pass" (
Thayer's Greek English Lexicon).
I believe what Paul say about this and since his words are addressed to those in the Body then I believe that the Lord's imminent appearance applies to them. So why do you accuse me of not believing what Paul said about this appearance?
Now let us look at another verse from the Hebrew epistles where the same coming of the Lord is described as being near:
"You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near" (James 5:8).
The Greek word translated "is near" at James 5:8 is
eggizo and in this verse that word means
"to be imminent" (
A Greek English Lexicon, Liddell & Scott [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940], 467).
In an article found on the "Pre-Trib Research Center" web site Dr. Renald E. Showers writes:
"In light of James' statements C. Leslie Mitton wrote, 'James clearly believed, as others of his time did, that the coming of Christ was imminent.' On the basis of James' statements we can conclude that Christ's coming was imminent in New Testament times and continues to be so today, and that this fact should make a difference in the way Christians live" [emphasis added] (Showers, The Imminent Coming of Christ).
Paul Sadler, past President of the Berean Bible Society, said the following:
"The 'secret' resurrection that will take place at the Rapture should never be confused with the 'first' resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ. Those who rightly divide the Word of truth now see that only the members of the Body of Christ will be raised at the Rapture" [emphasis mine] (Sadler, Exploring the Unsearchable Riches of Christ [Stephens Point, WI: Worzalla Publishing Co., 1993], 167).
Since there can only be one imminent appearance of the Lord Jesus and since only members of the Body of Christ are looking for that imminent appearance then it is certain that the first century Jewish believers were indeed baptized into the Body of Christ.
But you don't believe that because for some reason you think that only some of the first century Jewish believers were baptized into the Body but not all of them.
What is the difference between the believing Jews who were baptized into the Body and those who were not?