Good luck in the tribulation…don’t take the mark, endure to the end, and you better keep the commandments or else…
Not sure if the 'or else' is because you believe I will be 'under the law' for some reason??? but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Actually it is you who best be keeping the commandments because if you are found to be with spot or blemish, you aren't going to 'rapture' anywhere. How many do you figure are at any given time are without spot or blemish? Since Christ appears like lightening, it doesn't give you time to repent before that 'twinkle' has come and gone. Should have been watching every second of every day. Me, I just need to make sure to endure to the end because I will know the exact day and I will not have the mark.
So what happens to all those who 'miss the flight'? NOW, they end up here for the trib anyway and worse yet is they don't know how to make sure they do not take the mark AND they don't have much time to prepare for the coming days either. Tomorrows newspapers don't do any good if tomorrow has arrived. Let's say that 'that twinkle' just took place this very second. Are you 'without sin' or are you not loving a brother as commanded? Pre trib is actually a very scary way to live life. When can any peace be found? It is like living under the law. Me, I am free for the bondage of that and prepared for what is coming.
Pre trib believers don't seem to think the whole thing through really. They seem to think that the UNDER GRACE at death is the same for Pre Trib. BUT it isn't at all. They stick to the parts that fit and whitewash over the parts that don't and fill in the holes with ambiguous verses here and there. Like debating here means anything good if you are teaching false doctrines. After all judgment starts with those who do.
So, ME, I wont be needing any luck, I have FAITH, wisdom and knowledge. I am looking to attain a better resurrection. I am looking to come in FIRST place in the race. I am striving for the prize. I want to be a vessel of gold with honor and not a vessel of wood and dishonor.
I stumbled upon this one day and it changed something in me. Up until then I hadn't ever really thought much about 'how our works do follow us'. But once I read this then I saw the different vessels, then "thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain" and it hit me. I think that is another reason I hate that OSAS doctrine of 'learn the words of God from the conclusions others have come to'. There are so many of the OSAS works salvationists making us feel bad about something good and how the 'gift' isn't to be worked for, and what gets lost is the 'not all will be the same' for all eternity. We only have right now to do the best we can to be who we will be FOR EVER. We never get to come back. We never get to do it again. This is our one and only chance. What if I die first? Do I want to show up being someone who never would have picked up the cross? Never would have made a stand? Needed to escape tribulation because of fear of taking the mark of the beast? What kind of FAITH is that anyway? So I leave you with this.
1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order 5001 Christ the firstfruits afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
CHRIST - The firstfruits - THE 7 STAR GENERAL
ALL OF US - from E 1s - O 10s
5001. tagma
Strong's Concordance
tagma: that which has been arranged in order, spec. a division, rank
Original Word: τάγμα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: tagma
Phonetic Spelling: (tag'-mah)
Definition: that which has been arranged in order, a division, rank
Usage: rank, division, an ordered series.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 5001 tágma (a neuter noun) – an ordered arrangement, reflecting God's perfect wisdom in ordering all of creation (it only occurs in 1 Cor 15:23). See 5021 (tassō).
division, class, group
From tasso; something orderly in arrangement (a troop), i.e. (figuratively) a series or succession -- order.
5021. tassó
Strong's Concordance
tassó: to draw up in order, arrange
Original Word: τάσσω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tassó
Phonetic Spelling: (tas'-so)
Definition: to draw up in order, arrange
Usage: (a) I assign, arrange, (b) I determine; mid: I appoint.
HELPS Word-studies
5021 tássō – properly, arrange (put in order); to place in a particular order, appoint; (figuratively) ordain, set in place; "station" (J. Thayer).
5021 /tássō ("place in position, post") was commonly used in ancient military language for "designating" ("appointing, commissioning") a specific status, i.e. arranging (placing) in a deliberate, fixed order.
WHO KNEW? Me, so no need to wish me 'good luck ' as LUCK WILL BE HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH IT for me.
3 1/2 years compared to ALL ETERNITY. You do the math. AND if I suffer specifically for standing up in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and not denying His Name, don't you worry one bit about me. I believe in the promises of God and a better resurrection.
I stopped reading right here. Jesus plainly says the resurrection of the Just is at the end of the world, at which time He repeatedly promised to raise the righteous "at the last day", OK?
If you don't know something, ASK - don't just start spouting antagonistic nonsense about "doctrine of man".
If you don't know something, ASK - don't just start spouting antagonistic nonsense about "doctrine of man".