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Are You Looking
Forward
to the Tribulation?
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Part I
So, I hear that there are "Christians"
getting tired of all the 'confusion' they still see going on today - maybe
by now, you have chosen to not believe anything you hear anymore?
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and the 'conspiracy theories, even though
they are making the major news media;'
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all this New World Order, chips, world
economy, world government stuff;
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and the obvious collapsing of the American
economic system?
Are you ready - even anxious - to
eliminate the 'prideful' and 'wasteful' old 'shameful' America?
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and merge it in with the rest of the
world?
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Are you thinking things are actually
looking better?
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Obamacare, gun control, world economy,
education being dragged down to the gutter of world's education levels,
media as your final authority for truth, foreign governments buying up
Ammerican property, our own government putting their powerful paws in every
aspect of our life, government buying billions of rounds of ammo, small
businesses failing, etc.
Do you think a peace based on flattery
and vain words of man's wisdom and evil inventions is better than a real
conflict fighting against Biblical Truth?
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Maybe you still want to fight for right?
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Maybe you are one of those 'tought Bible
people who are still willing to "contend for the faith" as your pastor
so preaches!
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Jude 3,4 -
Beloved,
when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it
was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there
are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this
condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Do you not see
how that verse makes more sense when applied during the Tribulation!
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Jude is a Tribulation
book, you do know that, don't you?
Are you trying to be the good Christian
and establish your hearts with grace?
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Are you loving everybody because Jesus
(and your reverend ministry friend) tells you to - in your own heart, of
course!
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In case you didn't know, Grace "ONLY
and ABOVE ALL" is not scriptural today!
Do you think the rapture, as it so
popularily called, is just another figment & folly of religion?
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You are not one of those who think the
'rapture' has already rapted and we are either in the Tribulation, do you?
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...or as some think, we are now in the
Millennium? Seriously?
Well, if you hang in there long enough,
you may just have those opportunities...
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to prove yourself to be the Christian
you say you are...
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live a life of clean obedience not in
need of God's grace...
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no Bible will be necessary for you 'to
be led' in your daily affairs of good will toward all...
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to even 'prove' that all this talk about
a horrible tribulation is just folly and scary nonsense!
Here
are some things I have read in my King James Bible
that may help you
as you 'look forward' to
your near future on
this world united globe...
Note: In order for these notes to make sense, you will
have to have a pretty decent understanding of what it is that Paul preaches.
Paul is the 'only' apostle to the Gentiles and then to the Church of God;
we are not to follow the apostles doctrine, we are to follow Paul's.
Understanding Galatians 1:6, we
see that these teachings differ from Paul's, thus these are NOT teachings
that are to be taught in every church, as Paul states in I
Corinthians 4:17.
If we can even begin to say that we are trying
to fully know Paul's doctrine, manner
of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,.. (II
Timothy 3:10). then we can totally understand
that the following teachings are to be taught only during the Tribulation,
not today.
However, if you are a normal church-goer these
days, you will actually recognize these teachings as being taught to you
today in almost every church.
For those
of you who missed the rapture...
welcome to the Tribulation!
You have some amazing
opportunities coming up!
1. You will have an opportunity
to see solme really 'wild' weather - and you will be able to participatetoo!!
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Revelation
8:7-12 - The first angel sounded, and there
followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the
earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was
burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea
became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea,
and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning
as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon
the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and
the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the
waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and
the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon,
and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened,
and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
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Revelation
16:8 - And the fourth angel poured out
his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with
fire.
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Revelation
16:21 - And there fell upon men a great
hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed
God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding
great.
2. You will be able to have
some serious but reall fun 'worship services' of your own god!
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You will be able to worship him in the
flesh!
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You will actually be able to bow down
and feel wonderful as you worship him
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or at least his image, anyway...
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Revelation
6
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Revelation
13:1-9; 11-15
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You can get your 'Christian mark'
now to show others that you are a 'christian.'
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See your NIV - Ephesians
1:13 - And you also were included in Christ when you heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were
marked in him with a seal, ...
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See your Message so-called bible
- It's in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this
Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed,
and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first installment
on what's coming, a reminder that we'll get everything God has planned
for us, a praising and glorious life.
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You won't find this in your King
James Bible, so you may as well go get the newest bible available.
3. You have an opportunity
to tell people they have to be baptized in "good
conscience toward God"...
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I Peter 3:21
- The like figure whereunto even baptism
doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ:
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Acts 2:38 -
Then
Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost.
4. Yes, you will have those
opportunities to follow Jesus' footsteps - even try to 'imitate' Him to
keep you from sinning!
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I Peter 2:21-23
- For even hereunto were ye called: because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow
his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when
he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not;
but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
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I Peter 4:13.14
- But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers
of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may
be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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see the following
verses in your NIV bible, as well as the others, that tell you to'
imitate' God, Paul, Jesus, other Christians, famous leaders of
the past, your pastor and his faith:
Ephesians 5:1, I Corinthians 4:16; I Thessalonians 1:6, I Thessalonians
2:14, Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 13:7.
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Then look up Isaiah
14:13,14 for the Great Imitator that you
will be imitating - or trying to, anyway!
5. You will be able to pick
from all forms of so-called truth - whatever your itching ears can be tickled
with!
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II Thessalonians
2:13 - But we are bound to give thanks
alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth:
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Garden of Eden
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be as gods - eating veggies, etc.
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Noah
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live on a boat, move away to the wilderness,
etc.
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Moses
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OT
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Jesus to the Jews
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His teachings to the apostles / apostles
doctrine
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Great Commission
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with signs, wonders, miracles, poisonous
snakes, drinking poison, signs, etc. following their salvation.
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Risen Christ
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Paul's Epistles - salvation by faith
- sin not imputed because there is no law to make it sin, dispensation
of grace, reconciliation, faith of Jesus Christ, etc.
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Hebrews
to Jude & Revelation
4-18
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Jesus' teachings to the apostles / apostles
doctrine / Jewish law / everlasting Gospel
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Revelation
20-22
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Millennium / eternity - book of life
- Matthew, etc. as gospel again...
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take your pick!!!!!!!!
6. You men can finally boss your
wives around.
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...even use physical force if you need
to, and they can't leave you!
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Divorce will be considered a sin - just
like most Christians think that today - that it is the unforgivable sin
- especially towards pastors today!
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I Peter 3:1-4
- Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without
the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your
chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting
on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which
is in the sight of God of great price.
7. For you 'nice' people, charity
will 'rule' again!
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II Peter 1:5-9
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7 And to godliness brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and
cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old
sins.
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I Corinthians
13:12,13 - For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know
even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
but the greatest of these is charity.
8. You will have opportunities
to speak evil of truth with those others that do the same thing...
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II Peter 2:1,2
- But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow
their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of.
9. Your days will be shorter,
but not for the reason you would hope...
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Matthew 24:22
- For then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor
ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should
no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
10. The Jews will have the
opportunity to serve God again - instead of having to look to the Gentiles!
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I Peter 4:1-5
- Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered
for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he
that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer
should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but
to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have
wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein
they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,
speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge
the quick and the dead.
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Romans 11:11
- I say then, Have they stumbled that they
should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come
unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
11. You will have the opportunity
to pick your own 'Christ' - to your own liking / itching ears, etc.
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Matthew 24:23-26
- Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo,
here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have
told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in
the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe
it not.
12. You might even have an
opportunity to meet Moses and Elijah!
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Revelation
11:3 - And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days, clothed in sackcloth.
13. You can comfortably use
the 'born again' phrase again!
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I John 2:29
- If ye know that he is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
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I Peter 1:23
- Being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
for ever.
14. You won't have to answer
the door when those of 'other persuasions' come door-knocking or tell those
'other' people to have a good day!
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II John 10,11
- If there come any unto you, and
bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him
God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
15. You think you will have
the opportunity to receive that "inner understanding" from God that you
claim now as you try to convince folks today about the fallacy of following
Paul and a King James Bible about the Risen Christ!
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I John 5:20
- And we know that the Son of God is come,
and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true,
and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the
true God, and eternal life.
16. You will finally have that
special anointing that you brag about today!
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I John 2:27
- But the anointing which ye have received
of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the
same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
17. You will have those opportunities
to pridefully 'pray and display' that 'unction' from God again!
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I John 2:20
- But ye have an unction from the Holy
One, and ye know all things.
18. You will have the opportunity
to try to be holy again...
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I Peter 1:16
- Because it is written, Be ye holy; for
I am holy.
19. You will certainly have
many opportunities for a better prayer life.
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...with potentially even better results
then you have ever seen these days!
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I John 5:14,15
- And this is the confidence that we have
in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we desired of him.
20. You won't have to worry
about hearing from that old antiquated and out of date politically incorrect
King James Bible anymore!
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Amos 8:11-13
- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord
GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor
a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall
wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall
run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In
that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Just don't 'finally'
figure out Paul's teachings and try to follow them!
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II Peter 3:15-16
- And account that the longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according
to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his
epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard
to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as
they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
21. You will 'feel' loved by
God again because you will be chastised on your road to holiness!
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Hebrews 12:5-11
- And ye have forgotten the exhortation
which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son
is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore
we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and
live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;
but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now
no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which
are exercised thereby.
22. You will also have many
opportunities to be able to feel better about yourself...
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because you will be able to confess
your sins - and to continue to do so as you stumble in your flesh!
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I John 1:9
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
23. Here ya go, ladies - more
and more opportunities for you ladies to preach!
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You can even count on visions and dreams
being from God, just as it wanted it in the past!
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Acts 2:17,18
- And it shall come to pass in the last
days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens
I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
24. You won't have to worry
about your or your loved ones / animals, etc. ever being lost and hard
to be found!
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Revelation
13:16,17 - And he causeth all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right
hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
25. You will have some of your
greatest opportunities to 'count it all joy'
as you will find yourself into some serious 'divers
temptations.'
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James 1:2-4
- My brethren, count it all joy when ye
fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
26. You
will certainly have opportunity to be able to earn your crown of life!
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You must endure
all those temptations!
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James 1:12
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation:
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord
hath promised to them that love him.
27. You will have that great opportunity to prove your own faith
to be like your OT Bible heroes!
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Hebrews 11
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But they received not the promise... does that concern you?
28. Are you tired of being told there is 'nothing for you to do'
concerning your salvation? There will be that opportunity to do your
part in earning your own salvation!
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James 1:21,22 - Wherefore
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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Now you will be able to really boast!
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Ephesians 2:8,9
- For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
29. You will have those opportunities to be made perfect &
to be justified in all your own works proving your faith!
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Hebrews 6:1 - Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith
toward God,
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Hebrews 13:20,21 - Now
the
God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make
you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which
is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
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James 1:4 - But
let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.
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James 2:22-24 - Seest
thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and
it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend
of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith
only.
30. You
will have the opportunity to actually see the Lord coming - what a thrilling
moment - but alas, you will be on the wrong side - and it will be too late
to change sides!
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Matthew 24:29-33
- Immediately after the tribulation of
those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall
be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to
the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise
ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the
doors.
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Revelation
19:11-21 - And I saw heaven opened, and
behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and
True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as
a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written,
that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which
were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white
and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath
on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud
voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may
eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty
men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh
of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make
war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast
was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before
him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake
of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword
of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth:
and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Pastor
- Mike Paulson
www.scatteredchristiansorg
The
entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO
us!
We
learn from the "For" and we try to apply the 'TO!"