The Masterpiece: The Book of Revelation
The Masterpiece of Literature
By Pastor Joseph Chambers / Paw Creek Ministries
Without the Book of Revelation, the other sixty-five books – Genesis to Jude – do not present a clear outline of End Time prophecy. Each writer gives us a beautiful part of the whole, but these parts were never meant to finish the story. The Bible must be rightly divided, with every book and every writer set together in harmony to finish the whole. The glorified Son of God chose John the apostle to be His writer and then gave John the revelation in precise order to put the whole of End Time truth in an exact outline just as it will occur. This book is God’s model of perfect fulfillment as the Lord Himself has ordered. Any Bible student that ignores this book and its order will be helpless to teach or preach prophecy.
There is a masterpiece of order in this Book of Revelation. The flow of each chapter follows a design that makes the book easy to understand, but only if you follow the pattern. To move at random in the reading or studying will confuse you completely. Our God is an orderly Creator and His revelations are pure and precise. It is evident that His Holy Spirit and His angels that assisted in this great revelation were acting at His command. The whole twenty-two chapters give us a masterpiece of literature unparalleled. The text itself sets the perfect moment when future revelations begin. He said to John, “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter” (Revelation 4:1). From this point forward, nothing can be interpreted as historic or occurring prior to the church in Heaven at the Rapture.
The order of the names ascribed to His saints truly documents the flow of the story. Also, the description of the Son of God and the names given in each revelation follow a beautiful pattern. We will look at these two facts after we view a model of the entire book. First, let’s look at that model of the entire book and set the outline for us to follow. I believe this model will clear up a lot of confusion and help you get a broad picture to be used in your study time. (See model on opposite page.) Let’s review each of the ten sections in this pattern and build a plan to illustrate this great book of the Bible. Remember it is a story that Jesus is conveying to us.
Revelation One: This is the introduction to the whole book and gives us a breathtaking description of the Son of God. There are forty-two different titles or descriptive word pictures of Him in this first chapter. The different descriptions of Him in His glory are repeated in the seven letters to the churches. Each church letter only included a part of that vision so that all seven letters become a complete repeat of Him as seen in chapter one. More will be said about this in the forthcoming articles on chapters one, two and three.
Revelation Two and Three: Seven letters to the seven churches in Asia were never meant to be limited to those seven churches. These are letters for the churches universal and until the church is caught up to the throne. The seven churches all existed in John’s day and models of each exist today. The seven historical time periods will be described in chapters two and three and in contents of each of the seven churches and periods.
These letters are the last love letters and warnings from Jesus Christ to the body of Christ. They should be read, studied, and preached with vigor and joy. The church was commended because they did not tolerate false teachers and exposed them with great dedication. The call to holiness and separation was dynamic. The church, true to the meaning of the Word, is a called-out company, set in authority to conduct the business of the Lord of His church. These two chapters of Revelation (two and three), are the beautiful story of the church, both its strength and promises and its weaknesses and failure. His love for the church is in itself a divine story.
Revelation Four and Five: The church is never called “the church” after Revelation four and verse one but once. That was a warning intended to speak to us before the actual beginning of events after chapter four or as we read and study this great revelation. The saints are immediately given a new title as this chapter is presented. We will be His elders and are called elders every instance from Revelation four to Revelation nineteen and verse fourteen. This is absolute proof that the saints will be caught up in fulfillment of this vision of chapters four and five and before chapter six opens.
We are called elders because we will be His elders in the transactions of the succeeding chapters. We will not just be His saints watching the opening of His seals and the transaction of His judgments; we will be a part of the scene. “Elder” is a marvelous title to describe our activities with the Lord of the church. Adding to that the fact that we are seated on thrones while this vision is unveiled multiplies our involvement with the coming events of the Great Tribulation. The opening of the seven-sealed book in chapter five is preparation for the Tribulation to begin in chapter six. This book is the title deed of the earth and is the document that will determine the past of rest of this “Masterpiece” of God’s full redemption story.
Revelation Six to Eleven: While chapters four and five are the transcending moments of the celebration of the church victorious and glorified, chapter six starts the eviction of Satan and his spirits and the forthcoming judgment of sin on this earth. Everything contrary to God and His righteousness, absolutely perfect righteousness, has to be fully judged and cleansed from this universe. Chapter six begins that process. While Jesus was seen in glorified splendor in chapters one, two, and three; He is now seen as a slain Lamb performing the judicial acts for the perfect redemption of the created universe. It will be returned to the likeness of the Garden of Eden without even one thorn infested bush or cloud in the sky.
The view in chapters six to eleven covers the whole of the seven years of the Great Tribulation from a Heavenly view. The saints were raptured in the beginning of chapters four and are viewing and participating in this scene from a Heavenly vantage point. First and Second Testament writers prophesied of many great truths that are seen in these chapters. Their chronological order is clearly set forth in the progression we view on the pages of the Holy Scripture in this book. These will be dealt with on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
Revelation Twelve to Sixteen: This covers the same seven years as chapters six to eleven, but from an earthly view. Now, the scene moves to cover the casting out of the devil from the second Heavens and the revealing of Satan as god, the first beast as Antichrist, and the second beast as the false prophet or false anointing. It’s important to see chapter twelve as a repeat of chapter four and following the same period but with an earthly picture of evil incarnate on the earth. The Tribulation Saints, saved after the Rapture, are seen caught up in the first picture while the Jewish converts are seen raptured in the second scene of the same seven years.
Also, in the first picture of the seven years of Tribulation we see the two prophets that could not be killed, but finally allowed by God to be killed and raptured up to Heaven before the watching eyes of the world. In the second picture, we see a remnant of Jews different from the 144,000 that had been sealed also caught up to God (Revelation 15:2-4). Prepare yourself to study each of these chapters one by one.
Revelation Seventeen: The events of this chapter and the next two all occur during the same seven years of Tribulation, but must be viewed separately to fully understand them. This is the picture of the One World Religion that will reign during the seven years. Led by the second beast or the false prophet, or we may call him “the false anointing”, it will be an apostate religion with a “Christian” imitation; totally false. We see this unity religion developing as I write. Doctrine is out, but political correct unity is in. Religion in preparation for this coming seven years must be a smorgasbord of ideas and theologies all equally held and tolerated.
The one idea that will be excluded is Biblical infallibility. The final authority of Scripture is too narrow, the rejection of pagan ideas is too restrictive, the idea of an eternal Lake of Fire is too unmerciful, and any strong standard of God’s commandments is plainly unacceptable. While this broad religion will give great support to the first beast and his One World Government, the two entities will become competitors. The first Beast will declare Babylon the eternal city, while the second beast will declare and defend Rome as the eternal city. The Antichrist will burn the city of Rome and the ecclesiastical system of the One World Religion. When the Antichrist has full worldwide control, he will not need the religious system any longer.
Revelation Chapter Eighteen: The city of Babylon will have finally returned to its great glory, even greater than the past. I believe the palace built by Saddam Hussein overlooking the city of Babylon will soon be the palace of the first beast. He will rule the world from this location. As an Assyrian, he will come to power by flatteries, but rule by the same vicious cruelty as the ancient Assyrians. Babylon has been the center of Satan’s activities since the beginning. The great prophets of the First Testament, especially Isaiah and Jeremiah, prophesied of this revival of Babylon’s mysticism and religious debauchery.
Since Babylon moved its dark religion to Rome as a deceptive action and faded off the radar, Satan has longed the recapture its original glory or his capital. The devil moved Saddam to start the process. The last tour and singing album by the Rolling Stones was entitled, “Back to Babylon.” Who better than a demon-possessed singing group to call for a return to Ancient Babylon? The defeat of Saddam Hussein and the present struggle to establish a democracy in Iraq shows the perfect timing of Biblical prophecy. The entire region of Babylon will be totally obliterated and become a desolate wasteland during the future Millennium of Jesus Christ. It will be the location of the Lake of Fire.
Revelation Chapter Nineteen: This chapter covers more than one subject, but the central theme is the Marriage Supper. The greatest event in Heaven and in the city of New Jerusalem during the seven years of the Great Tribulation is this wedding. The Son of God will be the Bridegroom and the firstfruits of the raptured saints will be His Bride.
I believe the banquet hall is in the city foursquare that John saw in chapters twenty-one and twenty-two. That city will not descend to the earth until after the Millennium or the one thousand year reign of Jesus Christ has concluded. Yet, the Bride at the marriage will meet her Bridegroom in the city and will be awarded their reward and mansion at some point before we descend to earth at the Battle of Armageddon.
The saints that return with Christ in glorified bodies will be fully capable to ascend and descend between the city and the earth. We will reign with Him over the earth from both our Heavenly mansion and our earthly dwelling. The seven years of the Great Tribulation will end when we return with Christ as His army to defeat the devil, his two beasts, and his army of the wicked marked with the “Mark of the Beast.” Jesus Christ has been called the “Lamb” or the “Lamb of God” from Revelation four and five to the point where He descends with His saints to defeat the Antichrist and establish His kingdom on earth. This is another great proof of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. The Lord of the church is wonderfully present in Revelation one, two, and three; and immediately becomes the Lamb of God revealed as a judicially victorious judge in chapter four to chapter nineteen. This chapter ends with the great Battle of Armageddon. The Son of God will return to this earth in all His glory to reign as King of Kings.
Revelation Twenty: This great chapter covers the judgment of the devil and his being cast bound into the bottomless pit. He will be out of commission for one thousand years, which is the great time of Christ’s Millennium on earth. That is a wonderful period where the faithful saints are given their geographical dominion over the earth. We will reign with Him over this universe and enjoy a glorious Millennium of purity, peace, and prosperity. But the focus event of this chapter will be the Great White Throne Judgment that follows the One Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ.
The wicked dead will know nothing of the Great Marriage Supper, our eldership with Christ during the Tribulation Period, or our reign with Him as kings and priests on earth. Their resurrection is a resurrection of damnation that occurs right before the New Heaven and New Earth is revealed to the saints. Bodies of damnation suggest that every evil, rebellion, or wickedness known in life will be manifest in their resurrection. These are bodies that live forever in the Lake of Fire and are filled with every appetite of the flesh and of the evil spirits they have followed. They will see the saints ready to enter into Heaven’s eternal joys, but they will be barred at the door. As they are judged, the Book of Life with all its promises will be there; but the search for their name will be filled with great consternation. Trembling and great emotional sobs will fill the air, but mercy will be absent. The two kingdoms – darkness and light – will have finished their campaigns of conversions. The die is cast and the eternal future for all souls is settled. It’s New Jerusalem and the New Heaven and New Earth, or it’s the Lake of Fire, an insane asylum for eternity.
Revelation Twenty-One and Twenty-Two: It’s over! Eternity has finally begun. Sin is history, the devil is in the Lake of Fire never to worry or bother another angel or soul again. His last hoorah was a failure. Everything he labored to accomplish, along with his false Christ and false prophet, is utterly destroyed. His kingdom of darkness is no more. The devil will have the darkest hole in the Lake of Fire for all eternity.
But, the saints have just begun to live. The New Heaven and the New Earth is a worldwide Garden. The entire cosmos is in perfect peace and there is no one to break the peace. Sickness and disease are forever removed, death is a forgotten dark dream, and all tears are washed away. The Father and His Son are the Light of the world, and they are present to enjoy and be enjoyed.
To crown this New Heaven and New Earth is a golden city fifteen hundred miles square and fifteen hundred miles high. It descends from God out of Heaven. Twelve foundations and twelve levels give us living space just in the city of 27,000,000 square miles. There will be no vast oceans on the New Earth, plus the great New Heaven will give us an enlarged world to enjoy. It will be space to spare as we live in an unspotted world full of saints and angels all enjoying the Father and His Son.
Conclusion
What a revelation fills the pages of this masterpiece. Its organization is unparalleled and its message is the hope of the ages. Some people read this book and only view the thorns of evil and judgment. But, every thorn has a rose beside it and every judgment has redemption in its finish. Sin must be forever vanquished and to do so cannot be all beauty. This book answers the question of the doubters and fills the bosom of the believers with unspoiled assurance. After we view the progression of the titles given to His saint and the progression of the names assigned to our Lord, we will take each chapter verse-by-verse to watch a New Heaven and a New Earth unfold in the end. What a story this masterpiece presents.
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The Book of Revelation only covers the Great Tribulation. The desire to equate the 70th Week of Daniel to it is wrong. The Great Sign in Rev 12 occurred during Sept, 2017 and herald the beginning of the last 3 1/2 years before the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. There will be no new Temple built and there is already an abomination unto God on the Temple Mount. They call it Al-Aqsa. It is a Temple dedicated to the founder of Islam, Satan.
2Thess 2:10..because they received not THE LOVE of the truth,… 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
123’s of true Christianity v popular & damnable heresies
#1 “ANOTHER JESUS”:
-“ONE” not triune: Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all? 29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the first commandment….. 31. And the second is….. IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON LOVE & SIN IS MOOT….. (NOTE: And yes, the specific Greek and Hebrew words used also and only define one person contrary to the ridiculous obfuscation attempts of some!?!)
PART 4 & 5 HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE FOR THE ONE GOD TO TALK TO?? Who was Jesus praying to??!?…. The real question should be … How does having multiple different persons keep this one God/being/entity from praying to himself?! (The trinitarian “schizophrenic” “god-head”) The Trinitarians want to have their cake and eat it too as the saying goes. On the one hand they need to say they only worship one indivisible God being/ entity but on the other hand they feel the need for some reason to keep Jesus or God from praying and talking to himself by dividing him up into different persons!?! It never occurs to them that that since there is only one indivisible God to pray too and Jesus is that indivisible God come in the flesh that he would need to talk to himself as to show us how to live, suffer, pray and die for our/ flesh) benefit not his!?!….. So while Trinitarians are quick to complain that God was not talking to himself at Christ baptism or in Gen “let us” they ignore the logical demands of their own theology! If Jesus is the ONE GOD in flesh and the Father is the SAME ONE GOD in heaven then Trinitarianism demands THE ONE GOD is talking to HIMSELF! Claiming that God is multiple different persons as the reason for why God is not talking to himself (because God is three different “selfs”) only demonstrates that what they really worship is in fact not a ONE GOD who talks to himself but three different god “selfs”/ and they all talk to each other! When they speak about who God was talking and praying to, they are quick to say “the other person, NOT HIMSELF!” But if you ask them how many gods do they pray to then they will say “ONLY ONE”!?! They expect you to believe that those three different persons are THE ONE GOD-BEING” which is like calling three different cars “THE ONE VEHICLE” (text book examples of prov 26:12)
-PART 5 Echad, Echad, my God, God is Echad!….:The Greek word pros in Jn 1:1 does not demand nor demonstrate multiple different persons because:
1. The definitions (without forced conclusions stuffed in) are just as equally valid as reference to parts of the same person (modalisim) Your head and your right arm have close relationship to each other; can be facing, towards, relating to, moving to, in the direction of, to, unto, looking to; even at home with, a living union, in the presence of, a common ground, closeness They are still both distinct and different from each other and yet they are of both the same person. Ironically the scriptures use the very same terms to describe father and son.
2. Ironically and most hypocritically, the trinitarians are trying to appeal to the anthropomorphisms (they claim this passage implies) to demonstrate different persons while at the same time denying the very anthropomorphisms that God himself specifically in scriptures uses to define the son and the son’s relationship to the father. Apparently only the literal anthropomorphisms that trintiarins “see’ exist while the one’s that God himself uses should not be taken too literal or too anthropomorphic or seriously. Is the face anthropomorphic and or literal face or just some metaphor? Either way the problem for trinitarians still exist and simply does not cease with linguistic distractions. There are many different types of faces; face of a clock; face of a mirror; face of one’s palm. Further, the face of one’s palm would be totally consistent with the anthropomorphism that God uses when discussing his own right arm as the son! So either way, a literal and or anthropomorphic face or a metaphorical face in close relationship only leaves the trinitarinas peddling an empty argument hoping no one notices the fact that this argument is nothing more then delusional smoke and mirrors for “the faithful” and for everyone else, well, just “never mind that man behind the curtain”.
3. You cant appeal to your own desired and or preconceived conclusions as evidence that your methodology in arriving at your conclusions are valid. [ie the use of Jn 1:18 et al as proof that Jn1:1 supports different persons in Jn1:18 et al or visa versa ] How difficult can they make these simple things? The God in heaven is a he but cannot be known except by the he who is the same God in flesh! So why can’t they be the same he again? It should not be difficult to understand since:
A. The same God who is in heaven is on earth and the difference need only be of circumstance which at least we know that much to be factually true [spirit only v spirit in human flesh] There is no further need or demand for different individual persons since all the different he’s are in fact the same HE!. Trying to claim that God is multiple different “He(s)” who make up the one being either leaves your God to be a “it” that consist of different he(s) or a“God being” who is a he while simultaneously consisting of different individual he(s) [Father-he; Son=he; Holy Spirit=he].
B. If you find no difficulty in accepting that God is a he that consist of father son and holy spirit also referred to each as a different he and yet all the same he then what is the point to claiming different persons again? How is the multitude of hes who are all the same he show or demand different persons rather than different circumstances of the same person who is in fact “HE”?
In any case, the trinitarian inconsistency and or incoherence will never be resolved by simply chalking it all up to “how great thou art” unless you willingly and blindly “drink the cool aid” calling it “faith”. True faith is in the words of God (including the specific anthropomorphism God himself uses) not in wild created imaginations of three different persons with different minds, locations and instructions for each other that is somehow not a pantheon of three gods who are only “one in terms of purpose not one god!….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the same person that came in the flesh! Trinitarians confess & preach literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
-JOHN 14: 8-20 ….[Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father] ….The son, father/Holy Spirit are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?!
Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
-The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his person” ( the person of God; singular not plural) Any attempt to lay claim otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense
-Like a thief in your house caught stealing your things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5; TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…
-This should have given you a hint, harking back to Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you will be more WISE……Today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and by your traditions have taken the words of God and made them of no effect, refashioning God into the image of your vain imaginations!
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#2 “ANOTHER GOSPEL”:
-If you ask most people what the Good news or Gospel is they will probably tell you about the virgin birth or Christ death burial and resurrection. This would be rather humorous if it was not so sad considering that for the three and half years of Christ ministry he does not mention hardly ever. However, Christ does spend a lot of time preaching out of the OT scriptures. Now imagine given a report or manual to read and understand, that makes reference to and even quotes other source material and then ignoring that source material when it comes to defining the context and meanings of words in the report or manual you are trying to make sense of. If that seems dysfunctional that is because it is. This is, however, what most people are doing when it comes to understanding sound NT doctrine and or even what the Gospel message of Jesus was. The mystery of the gospel was not the death, burial and resurrection although it is part of it. In fact, death, burial and resurrection was the sign, the only sign, that Jesus gave to validate that the gospel message he was preaching all that time was true……and yet most deny it!?!?!
-The “2nd coming”… “I come quickly” so “Hold fast till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 years I might be coming soon any time now, so hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70 (in their lifetime) are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the Lord that bought them ( 2Peter 2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the 2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim 4: 4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES. The “idea”/ doctrine that Jesus has not yet returned but “soon any day now soon” does not just make God out a liar; it is not just ridiculous but makes Christianity a mockery, A pathetic “ship of fools”!?!
-The following example excerpt from Bertrand Russell: sometimes quoted by atheist et al and from his published work “Why I Am Not A Christian”
Defects in Christ’s Teaching
Having granted the excellence of these maxims, I come to certain points in which I do not believe that one can grant either the superlative wisdom or the superlative goodness of Christ as depicted in the Gospels; …. I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospels, taking the Gospel narrative as it stands, and there one does find some things that do not seem to be very wise. For one thing, he certainly thought that His second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at that time. There are a great many texts that prove that. He says, for instance, “Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come.” Then he says, “There are some standing here which shall not taste death till the Son of Man comes into His kingdom”; and there are a lot of places where it is quite clear that He believed that His second coming would happen during the lifetime of many then living. That was the belief of His earlier followers, and it was the basis of a good deal of His moral teaching. When He said, “Take no thought for the morrow,” and things of that sort, it was very largely because He thought that the second coming was going to be very soon, and that all ordinary mundane affairs did not count. I have, as a matter of fact, known some Christians who did believe that the second coming was imminent. I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden. The early Christians did really believe it, and they did abstain from such things as planting trees in their gardens, because they did accept from Christ the belief that the second coming was imminent. In that respect, clearly He was not so wise as some other people have been, and He was certainly not superlatively wise.
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#3 GOD LOVES EVERYONE; Jesus Died for “you”…… Just “come as you are”
Does God love you?….”Probably” NOT!….and NO Jesus did not die for everyone!?!……There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups : A. The predestined damned B. the “many” called C. The “Few” Chosen
Predestination….its true..its all true… God does NOT love everyone:
Prov 8: 17. I LOVE THEM THAT LOVE ME …………
1John 5:3. For THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, that we keep his commandments:
(1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
(2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27; (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
(3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I
will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
PS: “The world” that God so loved was not the Roman world nor the world of the Maya nor the world you imagined in your head that God specifically told them NOT TO LOVE!?!
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http://www.globethics.net/gtl/10920800
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https://www.academia.edu/25217564/Most_True_Christains_Go_to_Hell
THE THIEF-BAPTISM-GRACE& THE NAME-LORD & LT
“whosoever shall call on THE NAME OF THE LORD shall be saved”
………So WHAT “NAME” did you “CALL UPON”?……
Rev 19:13. .. and HIS NAME IS called THE WORD OF GOD
Ps 138:2. praise THY NAME … for thou hast magnified THY WORD ABOVE ALL THY NAME -
NOTE: God placed His “THE WORD” ABOVE all of God’s various NAMEs – and Jesus NAME IS called “THE WORD” no other name saves. The MOST important name we should KNOW and CALL UPON is “THE WORD”; Not letters that spell “word” but the sayings/ doctrine/commands. It does NOT say “thy word is given a name above other names because here THY WORD is identified as the name that is placed above all other names.
Isaiah 52:1. . 6. Therefore MY PEOPLE SHALL KNOW MY NAME: ..What NAME do you “KNOW”.?
1Jn 2:3. And HEREBY WE DO KNOW that we KNOW HIM, if we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS./ Titus 1: 16. They profess that THEY KNOW God; but IN WORKS THEY DENY him…
“AT the name OF JESUS”…..Jesus has a name that belongs to Jesus…just like the name OF GOD means a name that belongs to GOD but it is ridiculous to suggest that the letters G-O-D is that name…likewise the name OF JESUS is NOT the letters J-E-S-U-S. Why would anyone think that you could pronounce THE HIGHEST NAME OF GOD letter by letter…. (ie Judges 13:18; 2Cor 12:4 but God’s name is not as great and or “unspeakable )
Rev 3:8 kept MY WORD, and hast not DENIED MY NAME; …
.Jn 17:6. I have MANIFESTED THY NAME And they have KEPT THY WORD.;
THE WORD is THE NAME above every name that saves us 1Pt 3:21 The ONE baptism(Eph 4:5) is into THE WORD ( which is also baptism in the Holy spirit Jn 6:63the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit ) ..ALL the sayings doctrines and commands….what did THE WORD that became flesh command? (Mat 28:19)…..what did THE WORD exemplify? (Mat 3:15/ Jn 4:1)………among other things…..YES .water baptism is just as essential and necessary for much a part of salvation (1Pt 3:21) as is keeping one self away from works of the flesh (Gal 5:21)….In fact obedience to the command of water baptism is specifically identified as the act of calling on the name of the Lord (Col 2:12 “……though the operation[work] of God” CAN ANY MAN BE SAVED WITHOUT GOD WORKING ON HIM?) …..THE WORD OF GOD is the name of God that men call upon OR…OR ..they DENY with their disobedience
The scriptures tell us almost nothing about the thief’s life. However, the scriptures tell us a great deal about Christ life……Jesus had been around for 3.5 years before the cross and was Baptizing (Jn 4:1-2 in fact He instructed his disciples to do so and did many more then John the Baptist ever did) …..Those who try to appeal to the thief on the cross assume the thief had never heard of Jesus preaching and had never ever been baptized….The burden of Proof is on those who say baptism is not essential! ………..You can’t claim a logically valid “non-essentiality” doctrinal argument on ANYTHING based on what the scriptures do not say and in spite of the things it clearly does state to the opposite effect!…That is like looking at the constitutional law and then basing a argument against a constitutional principle in law based on the fact that history did not record for us what some unknown cattle thief did or did not do a 150 years ago?!?! What??..Who cares?? We know what the constitution did say 150 years ago. I don’t know of any Law school that bases its teaching on constitutional law based on what history does not tell us about unknown cattle thieves!?! ..Jesus command, preached & practiced Baptism so did the apostles ….To build one’s theology on the fact that the scriptures do not tell us ANY detail(s) of the thief’s life before the cross (we know almost absolutely nothing about the thief!!) it is quite foolish and willfully ignorant of what the scriptures do say about baptism…….so those who try to use the thief are in effect building their house on the sand of what scriptures do not say about a thief in spite of what the scriptures do specifically tell us about baptism!?!… “Their damnation is just” comes to mind…
https://www.scribd.com/document/326686356/Thief-Cross-3D OR https://www.academia.edu/23846490/Thief_and_Cross_3D