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"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 27 Aug, 2017 04:46 PM
**THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS IS **FAITH** EXPRESSING ITSELF THROUGH LOVE**!!{Galatians 5:6}
Acts 26:17,18: Jesus said to Paul, "I am sending you to the Gentiles to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are **SANCTIFIED BY FAITH**!"
Romans 1:17: For in the Gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is **BY FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST**!!
Romans 3:23-25: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood--to be received **BY FAITH**!!
Romans 3:27,28: Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? **NO**, because of the law that **REQUIRES FAITH**! For we maintain that a person is **JUSTIFIED BY FAITH** apart from the works of the law!!
Romans 5:1,2: Therefore, since we have been **JUSTIFIED THOUGH FAITH**, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access **BY FAITH** into this grace in which we now stand!!
Romans 10:5-9: Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The person who does these things will live by them." {Lev 18:5} But the righteousness that comes **BY FAITH** says...The word is near you: it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the message concerning **FAITH** that we proclaim: IF you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your **FAITH** and are saved!!
Romans 12:3: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the **FAITH** God has distributed to each of you!!
Romans 14:23: Everything that does not come **FROM FAITH** is sin!!
2 Corinthians 1:24: We work with you for your joy, because it is **BY FAITH** you stand firm!!
2 Corinthians 5:6-10: We are always confident and know that as long as we are at home with the body we are away from the Lord. For we live **BY FAITH**, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please Him... For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad!!
Galatians 2:16: We know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but **BY FAITH** in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our **FAITH** in Christ Jesus that we may be **JUSTIFIED BY FAITH** in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law **NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED**!!
Galatians 3:23-26: Before the coming of this **FAITH**, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the **FAITH** that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be **JUSTIFIED BY FAITH**. Now that this **FAITH** has come we are **NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVION OF THE LAW**. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God **THROUGH FAITH**!!
Galatians 5:5,6: For through the Spirit we eagerly await **BY FAITH** the righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expressing itself through **LOVE**!!
Ephesians 2:8-10: For it is by grace you have been saved, **THROUGH FAITH**--and this is not from yourselves, it is the **GIFT** of God by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do!!
Ephesians 3:16,17: I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts **THROUGH FAITH**!!
I Thessalonians 1:3: We remember before our God and Father you work produced **BY FAITH**!!
2 Thessalonians 1:3,4: We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your **FAITH** is growing **MORE AND MORE**....Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and **FAITH** in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring!!
2 Thessalonians 1:11: We constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling, and that by His power He may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed **PROMPTED BY FAITH**!!
I Timothy 1:3,4: Command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer... Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God's work--which is **BY FAITH**!!
2 Timothy 3:14,15: Continue in what you have learned and become convinced of...and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation **THROUGH FAITH** in Christ Jesus!!
Hebrews 11:1,3,6: So **FAITH** is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see...**BY FAITH** we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, in that what is seen was not made out of what was visible... Without **FAITH** it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He **REWARDS** those who earnestly seek Him!!
Hebrews 12:1,2: Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of our **FAITH**!!
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 23 Oct, 2017 09:37 PM
**THE LATEST SATANIC UTTERANCE OF POPE FRANCIS WHO CERTAINLY QUALIFIES TO BE THE FUTURE FALSE PROPHET OF 666**:
"Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God."� Pope Francis declared."?????
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 24 Oct, 2017 02:09 PM
**PORTRAIT OF THE FUTURE FALSE PROPHET OF 666 IN GOD'S WORD**!!
Jesus is called a **LAMB** 30 times in the book of Revelation and Revelation 13:11 states the False Prophet of 666 will be **LIKE A LAMB** which implies that he may be a well known **RELIGIOUS LEADER**!.
Revelation 17:9 shows that the future headquarters of 666 and his False Prophet will be the evil city on 7 hills or Rome {See Rev 17:9}; which is also the present headquarters of Pope Francis and the former headquarters of 666, Nero Caesar, who will come up from the Abyss or Hell as per Rev 17:8!! {See Daniel 7:23-25}
NOTE: **666** is called the **BEAST** 36 {6X6} times in Revelation and the False prophet is called **ANOTHER BEAST** one time in Revelation 13:11.
Revelation 13:11-18: Then I saw another beast coming out of the earth. He had 2 horns **LIKE A LAMB**... He will exercise all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed {Nero Caesar was fatally wounded by the sword and yet will live again}... He will order them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived... He will be given power to give breath to the image {Statue} of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image {On Worldwide TV?} to be killed. He will force everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast {Nero Caesar?} or the number of his name. {666} This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a man's number. The number is **666**! {The man Nero Caesar's name adds up to exactly **666** in Hebrew!}
Revelation 14:9-11: The angel of the Lord will say, "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives the mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the **LAMB**. And the smoke of their torment rises **FOR EVER AND EVER**!!"
**THE LATEST SATANIC UTTERANCE OF POPE FRANCIS WHO CERTAINLY QUALIFIES TO BE THE FUTURE FALSE PROPHET OF 666**:
"Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God."� Pope Francis declared."?????
**LIKE POPE FRANCIS THE FALSE PROPHET OF 666 WILL SPREAD THE LIES THAT YOU CAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS STATUE AND RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND STILL GO TO HEAVEN, AND THAT THERE WILL BE NO HELL**!!
Pope Francis has also declared: �All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of truth is there? In the past, the church has been harsh on those it deemed morally wrong or sinful. Today, we no longer judge. Like a loving father, we never condemn our children. Our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for the pro-life and the pro-choice! For conservatives and liberals, even communists are welcome and have joined us. We all love and worship the same God.�
Pope Francis has also declared: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, with the Blood of Christ:, not just Catholics. Everyone! Even the atheists. Everyone!" However Jesus says, "No one can come to the Father except through Me." John 1:12,13: To all who received Him {Jesus}, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God--children born not of human descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God!
Pope Francis also says, "Who am I to judge homosexuals." and Pope Francis states that sincere homosexuals will also enter the kingdom of heaven. But what does God's Word say?? I Corinthians 6:9-11: Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor **HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS** will inherit the kingdom of God. {Unless they repent} And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
For the first time in History the Roman Catholic Church has elected a **JESUIT POPE*!! One of the main enforcers of the Roman Catholic Inquisitions were the Jesuits. All Jesuits take the same Satanic oath today. Pope Francis has taken and administered this same Satanic Jesuit oath which includes the following amazing statements:"I promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage war , secretly and openly, against all heretics and protestants as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive those infamous heretics; rip open their stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race.
And so it is interesting to note that the 112th and last pope {??} who is the leader of about 1,000,000,000 {One Billion} Roman Catholics agrees with Satan on everything!!
Matthew 23:9: "Jesus says, "Do not call *ANYONE on earth 'father,' for you have **ONE FATHER**, and He is in *HEAVEN*!!" This is an obvious reference to a SPIRITUAL FATHER since earthly fathers of earthly children are mentioned hundreds of times in God's Word. And so according to Jesus: calling the leader of the Satanic Roman Catholic Church 'Holy Father' is a terrible sin.
Pope Francis {Who Satanists call **HOLY FATHER**} has made a Papal Decree stating that he alone has given power to Roman Catholic priests {Who Satanists call **FATHERS**} to forgive **ALL ABORTIONS** which would include Gruesome and Horrific Abortions an hour before conception!! Is this **MURDER**??
As usual, the Satanic Pope Francis is absolutely contradicting God's Sacred Word!!:
Psalm 22:10: David said, "From my mother's **WOMB** you have been My God!"
Psalm 139:13: David said, "For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's **WOMB**!"
Isaiah 44:2: This is what the Lord says--He who made you, who formed you in the **WOMB**!
Isaiah 44:24: This is what the Lord says--your Redeemer, who formed you in the **WOMB**!
Jeremiah 1:5: The Lord said, "Before I formed you in the **WOMB** I knew you!"
**AND SO WE CAN SAFELY CONCLUDE THAT POPE FRANCIS COMPLETELY QUALIFIES TO BE THE FUTURE DECEPTIVE FALSE PROPHET OF 666 FROM THE EVIL CITY ON 7 HILLS**!!
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 12 Nov, 2017 12:55 PM
Now the pre-tribbers like Equalizer21 believe that **ALL** the **CHURCH SAINTS**, dead or alive, will be raptured **BEFORE** the Great Tribulation begins and that the unbelievers will be resurrected **AFTER** the Great Tribulation ends???
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY**??
2 Thessalonians 1:1,6-10: To the **CHURCH** of the Thessalonians... God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen **WHEN**the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His powerful angels {See Matthew 24:29-31 and Matthew 25:31} He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the Gospel of our lord Jesus They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord **ON THE DAY HE COMES** to be glorified in His holy people {Including **CHURCH SAINTS**--See Matthew 25:31-46} and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes **YOU**** {Thessalonian **CHURCH SAINTS**}
Pre-Tibbers also claim that the **CHURCH SAINTS** and the Lost will not be resurrected on the same **LAST DAY** of the Great Tribulation??
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY**??
John 12:48: Jesus says, "There is a Judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words, that very word which I spoke will condemn him on the **LAST DAY**!" See Matthew 25:31-46; Daniel 12:1,2 and John 5:28}
John 6:40: Jesus says, ""For My Father's will is that **EVERYONE** who looks to the Son and believes in Him {**CHURCH SAINTS**} shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the **LAST DAY**!"
Pre-Tribbers also claim that all of the Church saints will be raptured **BEFORE** the **MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED**??
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY**??
2 Thessalonians 1:1; 2:1-3, 8: To the **CHURCH** of the Thessalonians... Concerning the **COMING*** of our Lord Jesus and **OUR** {CHURCH SAINTS} being gathered to Him.... Don't let anyone {Like Pre-Tribbers} deceive you in any way, for **THAT DAY WILL NOT COME** **UNTIL THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS
REVEALED**!... The lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor **OF HIS COMING**!! {On the **LAST DAY** of the Great Tribulation**} It is interesting to note that the only **COMING** of the Lord Jesus when the **CHURCH SAINTS** are gathered to Him; mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 and 2:1 and 2:8; is on the **LAST DAY** of the Great Tribulation!!
I Peter 1:13: �Therefore, prepare your minds for ACTION, and set your hope *FULLY* on the grace to be given YOU when Jesus Christ is **REVEALED**.
I Corinthians 1:7: �YOU do not lack any spiritual gift as YOU eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be **REVEALED**.
Now the pre-tribbers claim that the glorious **REVEALING** or *REVELATION* of Jesus will be *CONCEALED* BEFORE the beginning of the Great Tribulation. However, every other time the Word **REVEALED** {Greek-Apocalypsis} is used related to resurrection events it refers to the glorious **REVEALING** of Jesus
on the **LAST DAY** of the Great Tribulation {See 2 Thess 1:7-10 & Luke 17:26-31}. And *CONCEALED* is the exact opposite of **REVEALED** and **APPEARED** according to every dictionary! The Word of God clearly shows that the **CHURCH SAINTS** are waiting for the **APPEARING** and **REVEALING ** of our Lord Jesus Christ which completely contradicts the Pre-Trib theory that the **CHURCH SAINTS ** are all waiting for a **CONCEALED RAPTURE**???
Titus 2:13 **WE** {**CHURCH SAINTS**} wait for the **BLESSED HOPE**---the glorious **APPEARING** of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ!!
Hebrews 9:28: Jesus will **APPEAR** a 2nd time {And not a 3rd TIME!} to bring salvation **TO THOSE WHO ARE WAITING FOR HIM**!!
Colossians 3:4: When Christ, who is your life **APPEARS**, then **YOU** {**CHURCH SAINTS**} also will **APPEAR** with Him in glory.�
I John 3:2,3: �When Jesus **APPEARS**, **WE** {**CHURCH SAINTS**} shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure!!�
Matthew 24:29-31: Jesus says, �IMMEDIATELY AFTER the distress of those days {The Great Tribulation} the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky. At that time the sign of the Son of Man will **APPEAR** in the sky and the nations will see the Son of Man **COMING** on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory! And He will send His angels with a **LOUD** {7th & Last} trumpet call and He will gather His **ELECT**!"
I John 2:28: �Dear children, continue in Him, so that when He *APPEARS* **WE** {**CHURCH SAINTS**} may be confident and unashamed before Him at His COMING!� {See 2 Thess 1:7-10; I Tim 6:14; Heb 9:28 & Col 3:4}
2 Tim 4:8: Paul said, There is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on THAT DAY�and not only to me, but to *ALL* {**CHURCH SAINTS**} who have longed for His **APPEARING**!!� {See Matt 24:30 above!!}
I Peter 5:4: �When the Chief Shepherd **APPEARS**, **YOU** {CHURCH SAINTS**} will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away!�
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 13 Nov, 2017 12:26 PM
Psalm 90:1,2,4: Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations... from everlasting to everlasting you are God... 1,000 years in your sight are **LIKE A DAY** that has just gone by!!"
2 Peter 3:3,4,8: In the Last Days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is the Coming He promised? Ever since are ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."... But do not forget this one thing, ear friends: With the Lord **A DAY IS LIKE 1,000 YEARS** and **1,000 YEARS ARE LIKE A DAY**!!
John 6:40: Jesus says, "For My Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the **LAST DAY**!"
John 12:48: Jesus says, "There is a Judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the (SAME}**LAST DAY**!"
This **SECOND RESURRECTION** which will bring in **EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS** on the **LAST DAY** of the **1,000 YEAR DAY** will include all the saints and lost of all ages who are not **MARTYRS** or one of the **24 ELDERS**.
IS THE 1,000 YEAR FIRST RESURRECTION IN REVELATION 20:4-6 FOR THE 24 ELDERS ON THRONES AND MARTYRS ONLY??
Jesus promised to 12 Apostles who followed Him {Including Paul?} that they would be given 12 THRONES and the authority to JUDGE in Matthew 19:28 & Luke 22:30.
Matthew 19:28: Jesus said to His Apostles, "When the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne you who have followed Me {Paul instead of Judas} will also sit **ON 12 THRONES** **JUDGING**!"
In Revelation 4:4 Before the beginning of the Great Tribulation John saw exactly 24 thrones surrounding God's Throne in Heaven. The other 12 thrones were most likely given to 12 prominent OT Elders such as Abraham, Joseph, Isaiah, Jeremiah, David, Daniel, Moses, Elijah, Samuel, Joshua, Noah and Enoch. One of these 24 Elders speaks in Rev 7:13-17 and after the 7TH angel sounds the 7TH and Last Trumpet in Rev 11:15.
Revelation 4:4: Surrounding the throne were 24 other thrones, and seated on them were 24 Elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads!
These 24 Elders on 24 thrones surrounding the Thrones of the Father and Jesus; are mentioned **12 TIMES** in Revelation 4:4,10; 5:5,6,8,11,14; 7:11,13; 11:16-18; 14:3 and 19:4!! The **MARTYRS** who are **AWAKE* and are already reigning in Heaven are mentioned about **24 TIMES** in Revelation 6:9-11; 7:9,10,13-17; 8:3,4; 11:7-12; 12:11; 13:11,15; 14:1-5,13; 15:2-4; 16:6; 18:24 and 19:2! The **24 ELDERS** and the **MARTYRS are the only saints mentioned in heaven who are already **AWAKE** and **REIGNING** with Jesus in heaven during the 1260-day Great Tribulation in Revelation 4:4 to Revelation 19:4.
It is completely obvious that the 1,000 year reign mentioned in Revelation 20:4-6 is for 24 ELDERS on Thrones and MARTYRS ONLY according to God's Word in Revelation 20:4,5b,6a: "I saw Thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to JUDGE and I saw the SOULS of those who had been beheaded {Or martyred} because of their testimony for Jesus {NT Martyrs} and because of the Word of God {OT Martyrs}. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands {Tribulation Martyrs}. THEY {THE 24 ELDERS & MARTYRS} came to life and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years... This is the FIRST RESURRECTION... Blessed and holy are those who have part in the FIRST RESURRECTION. Rev 20:5a: �The rest of the dead {Those saints who are not martyrs or the 24 Elders on Thrones} did not come to life until the 1,000 years were ENDED.�
Which, of course, would be the SECOND RESURRECTION at the 2nd Coming of Jesus. There are only TWO RESURRECTIONS for all saints mentioned in Rev 20:4-6: The FIRST RESURRECTION is for Martyrs and the 24 Elders only and INCLUDES the Tribulation Martyrs. And therefore the SECOND RESURRECTION must come on the Last Day of the Great Tribulation and must include all saints {Both OT & NT} who are not martyrs or the 24 Elders on thrones.
The Heavenly rewards for the faithful and courageous *MARTYRS* is one of the most important central themes in the book of Revelation. For they will reign with Jesus in Heaven during the 1,000 years before His 2nd Coming; and according to Revelation 7:9,14-17: They are before the Throne of God and God will spread His tent over them. They will receive White Robes washed in the blood of the Lamb. Never again will they hunger or thirst and God Himself will wipe every tear from their eyes. Jesus will be their Shepherd and will lead them to springs of Living Water.
FOR EXAMPLE: Let us suppose that the SECOND RESURRECTION takes place on October 25th, 2021 after a 1260-day Great Tribulation starting on May 14th, 2018: Then the continuous 1,000 year FIRST RESURRECTION for MARTYRS AND 24 ELDERS ONLY would take place from October 25th, AD 1021 to October 25th, 2021. The 24 Elders and all of the OT & NT saints martyred before October 25th, 1021 were awakened to reign with Jesus in Heaven and every Martyr martyred after October 25th, 1021 were and will be immediately awakened to reign with Jesus in the continuous 1,000 year FIRST RESURRECTION to be completed on October 25th, 2021 at the SECOND RESURRECTION when "The rest of the dead come to life when the thousand years are ENDED." {Rev 20:5a} Rev 20:4b �I saw the *SOULS of those who had been martyred because of their testimony for Jesus... they came to life and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years.
I Corinthians 15:51,52: Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep {Since the 24 Elders and Martyrs will be **AWAKE**}, but we will be changed--in a flash, in a twinkling of an eye, at the Last {And 7th} Trumpet.
Daniel 12:1,2: There will be a time of distress such as not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone found in the {*LAMB'S} Book--will be delivered. Multitudes who **SLEEP** in the dust of the earth will **AWAKE** {Except the *24 ELDERS* & *MARTYRS* who are already AWAKE!} some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt... It will be for time {360 days}, times {720 days} and 1/2 a time {180 days}... all these things will be completed!
This seems to contradict John 6:40: Jesus says, �EVERYONE who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life and I will raise him up at the LAST DAY.� However, the LAST DAY RESURRECTION could last 1,000 years for in 2 Pet 3:8 we read: �With the Lord a DAY is like 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are like a DAY!!
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 14 Nov, 2017 08:15 PM
**THE MIRACULOUS REWARDS FOR THE CORAGEOUS AND FAITHFUL **MARTYRS**!!
Revelation 6:9-11: When He {Jesus} opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony they had maintained {**MARTYRS**}. They called out in a loud voice, How long Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth an avenge our blood?" Then each of them were given a **WHITE ROBE**, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed!
Revelation 6:9-11 above will take place at the **BEGINNING** of the 1260-day Great Tribulation and **BEFORE** the Last Day!!
Revelation 7:9,10,13-17: After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no on could count, from **EVERY** nation, tribe, people and language, {Not just Jacob's Trouble!} standing before the throne and before the **LAMB**. They were wearing **WHITE ROBES** and were holding palm branches in their hands. And the cried out in a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the **LAMB**>"... Then one of the {24} Elders asked me, "These in **WHITE ROBES**--who are they and where did they come from?' And he said, "These are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation {**MARTYRS**}; they have washed their robes in the blood of the **LAMB**. Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will shelter them with His presence. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. For the **LAMB** at the center of the throne will be their Shepherd; He will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes!"
Revelation 7:0-17 above will take place shortly **BEFORE** the 7 Trumpet plagues in Revelation 8 and **BEFORE** the second resurrection of the other saints who are asleep in Christ and who are not **MARTYRS** like Jesus on the Last Day!!
Revelation 14:1-3,8: Then I looked and there before me was the **LAMB**, standing on Mount Zion {Another name for Heaven as per Heb 12:22}, and with him the 144,000 who had His name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from **HEAVEN** like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the **THRONE** and before the 4 living creatures and the {24} ELDERS. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been **REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH**!... A 2nd angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries!"
The fall of Babylon which will be the headquarters of 666 in the evil city on 7 hills or Rome will occur a few weeks before the Last Day/} And so the 144,000 from the 12 tribes of Israel who are saved during the Great Tribulation in Revelation 7 will all have been **MARTYRED** and in Heaven **BEFORE** the headquarters of 666 is destroyed a few weeks **BEFORE** the Last Day!
Revelation 15:1-5: I saw in **HEAVEN** another great and marvelous sign: 7 angels with the 7 last plagues--last, because with them God's wrath is completed. And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the Beast and his image and over the number of his name {**TRIBULATION MARTYRS**} They had harps given them by God and sang the song of God's servant and of the **LAMB**!
So again we see **MARTYRS** like Jesus **AWAKE** in heaven with heavenly bodies and dressed in White Robes **BEFORE** the Last Day!!
Daniel 12:1,2,7b: There will be a time of distress such as not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name was found in the {**LAMB'S**} Book--will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake; {Except the **MARTYRS** who are already AWAKE} some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt... It will be for a time {360 days} times {720 days} and 1/2 a time {180 days}. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, **ALL** these things will be **COMPLETED**!
! Corinthians 15:50-52: I declare to you brothers and sisters that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will no all sleep {Since the **MARTYRS** are **AWAKE**}, but we will all be changed--in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye at the **LAST {LOUD & 7TH} TRUMPET**{See Matt 24:31; I Thess 4:16, Rev 10:7 & 11:15-18. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Except the 24 ELDERS and **MARTYRS** like Jesus who are already **ALIVE** **CHANGED** and **AWAKE** in heaven!!!
These 24 Elders on 24 thrones surrounding the Thrones of the Father and Jesus; are mentioned **12 TIMES** in Revelation 4:4,10; 5:5,6,8,11,14; 7:11,13; 11:16-18; 14:3 and 19:4!! The **MARTYRS** who are **AWAKE* and are already reigning in Heaven are mentioned about **24 TIMES** in Revelation 6:9-11; 7:9,10,13-17; 8:3,4; 11:7-12; 12:11; 13:11,15; 14:1-5,13; 15:2-4; 16:6; 18:24 and 19:2! The **24 ELDERS** and the **MARTYRS are the only saints mentioned in heaven who are already **AWAKE** and **REIGNING** with Jesus in heaven during the 1260-day Great Tribulation in Revelation 4:4 to Revelation 19:4. If there was a pre-trib rapture of all the Church saints **BEFORE** the Great Tribulation why are they never mentioned in heaven during the Great Tribulation in Revelation 4:4 thru 19:4 ?????
It is completely obvious that the 1,000 year reign mentioned in Revelation 20:4-6 is for 24 ELDERS on Thrones and MARTYRS ONLY according to God's Word in:
Revelation 20:4,5b,6a: "I saw Thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to JUDGE and I saw the SOULS of those who had been beheaded {Or martyred} because of their testimony for Jesus {NT Martyrs} and because of the Word of God {OT Martyrs}. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands {Tribulation Martyrs}. THEY {THE 24 ELDERS & MARTYRS} came to life and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years... This is the FIRST RESURRECTION... Blessed and holy are those who have part in the FIRST RESURRECTION. Rev 20:5a: �The rest of the dead {Those saints who are not martyrs or the 24 Elders on Thrones} did not come to life until the 1,000 years were ENDED.�
Which, of course, would be the SECOND RESURRECTION at the 2nd Coming of Jesus. There are only TWO RESURRECTIONS for all saints mentioned in Rev 20:4-6: The FIRST RESURRECTION is for Martyrs and the 24 Elders only and INCLUDES the Tribulation Martyrs. And therefore the SECOND RESURRECTION must come on the Last Day of the Great Tribulation and must include all saints {Both OT & NT} who are not martyrs or the 24 Elders on thrones.
The Heavenly rewards for the faithful and courageous *MARTYRS* is one of the most important central themes in the book of Revelation. For they will reign with Jesus in Heaven during the 1,000 years before His 2nd Coming!!
"The only thing that counts is **FAITH** expessing itself through Love Galatians 5:6."
Posted : 15 Nov, 2017 03:38 PM
Jesus promised to 12 Apostles who followed Him {Including Paul?} that they would be given 12 THRONES and the authority to JUDGE in Matthew 19:28 & Luke 22:30.
Matthew 19:28: Jesus said to His Apostles, "When the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne you who have followed Me {Paul instead of Judas} will also sit **ON 12 THRONES** **JUDGING**!"
In Revelation 4:4 Before the beginning of the Great Tribulation John saw exactly 24 thrones surrounding God's Throne in Heaven. The other 12 thrones were most likely given to 12 prominent OT Elders such as Abraham, Joseph, Isaiah, Jeremiah, David, Daniel, Moses, Elijah, Samuel, Joshua, Noah and Enoch. One of these 24 Elders speaks in Rev 7:13-17 and after the 7TH angel sounds the 7TH and Last Trumpet in Rev 11:15.
Revelation 4:4: Surrounding the throne were 24 other thrones, and seated on them were 24 Elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads!These 24 Elders on 24 thrones surrounding the Thrones of the Father and Jesus; are mentioned **12 TIMES** in Revelation 4:4,10; 5:5,6,8,11,14; 7:11,13; 11:16-18; 14:3 and 19:4!!
The **MARTYRS** who are **AWAKE* and are already reigning in Heaven are mentioned about **24 TIMES** in Revelation 6:9-11; 7:9,10,13-17; 8:3,4; 11:7-12; 12:11; 13:11,15; 14:1-5,13; 15:2-4; 16:6; 18:24 and 19:2! The **24 ELDERS** and the **MARTYRS are the **ONLY SAINTS** mentioned in heaven who are already **AWAKE** and **REIGNING** with Jesus in heaven during the 1260-day Great Tribulation in Revelation 4:4 to Revelation 19:4. If all of the millions of **CHURCH SAINTS** since AD 33 were raptured before the Great Tribulation began why are they not even mentioned **ONCE** in all the prophecies of the Great Tribulation in Revelation 4:4 to Revelation 19:4????
Revelation 13:4-10: Men worshipped the Dragon {Satan} because he had given authority to the Beast {666}, and they also worshipped the Beast {666} and asked, "Who is like the Beast {666}? Who can make war against him?" The Beast {666} was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for 42 {30-day} months {Or 1260 days or time {360 days} times {720 days and 1/2 a time {180 days} {See Daniel 7:25 and Daniel 12:1,2,7b} .... He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And He {666} was given authority over **EVERY** tribe, people, language and **NATION**. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb that was slain. He who has an ear let him hear: If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints!!
Matthew 24:3,9-13; 29-31: The disciples asked Jesus, "What will be the sign of your Coming and the end of the age? and the end of the age?"... Jesus answered, "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by **ALL NATIONS** because of Me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold but they who stands firm to the end will be saved... Immediately after the distress of those {1260} days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from the sky! {Luke 21:28 adds "When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!"} Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. and then all the {Unsaved} peoples of the earth will mourn when the see the son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud {7th & Last} trumpet call, and the will gather His elect from the 4 winds, from one end of heavens to the other!" {Mark 13:27 adds "From the ends of the earth!"}
It is interesting to note that a pre-trib rapture of all of the **CHURCH SAINTS** since AD 33 is **NEVER MENTIONED** or even implied in the Olivet end-time prophecies in Matthew 24,25, Luke 21 and Mark 13 or in any of the end-time prophecies in Revelation!!
Revelation 1:1-3: The Revelation from Jesus Christ which God gave Him to show His servants what must take place. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blesse is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it!!
Jesus said to John, "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now {Rev 2 & 3} and what will take place later!" {The Rest of Revelation}
Revelation 22:16,18,19: "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches.....I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone **ADDS** anything to them {Like the pre-trib rapture}, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes *WORDS AWAY* from this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City {The **NEW JERUSALEM**}, which are described in this Book.!!"
