Quote Originally Posted by allodial View Post
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "Christian". Was a term used to describe the saints (the holy ones). The Simonians and other Gnostics also borrowed the term for themselves. The pop culture "end times" concepts being foisted on many was conjured up out of Oxford University Press with the help of a Cyrus Scofield who set out with others to convince "the world" that Israel had yet to obtain the promised land (book of Joshua) which it did and keeping it was conditional. Scofield's annotated Bible is 'conveniently' missing footnotes in the book of Joshua since he and his cohorts were trying to fabricate this movement of Israel's obtaining the promised land being in the future (futurism redux). And part of the plan may have been to support non-scriptural ideas about world domination.

Some suggest "the end" or "an end" came in 70 A.D. But yet still the time or age of the gentiles may have yet to come to an end. The true saint isn't a Gentile.
You make a good point - the "religious" observer of traditions and the like "touch not, taste not, do not" is what I think Kelly is discussing. But the true church which observes the internal laws of the Kingdom are "set apart". The worldly seven heads [religions] and their ten crowns [ten families and their wealth] - confuse and obfuscate. The set apart saints know and observe and do.