TODAY...... OCTOBER 5TH 2015, IS IN GOD'S CALENDAR, THE LAST GREAT FEAST OF THE 7 FEASTS OF THE LORD., FOR THE YEAR.
WE HAVE TODAY DOZENS UPON DOZENS OF SECTS OF CHRISTIANITY. AND THEY OBVIOUSLY DO NOT AGREE WITH EACH OTHER, IF THEY DID, WE WOULD NOT HAVE DOZENS UPON DOZENS OF SECTS OF CHRISTIANITY.
THEN THERE ARE THE OTHER "RELIGIONS" OF THE WORLD!
THEN WE CAN ADD TO ALL THIS MIXTURE THE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF "SECULAR" ..... WELL CALL THEM WHAT YOU LIKE, MAYBE "MY WAY OF LIVING" - A SONG THAT BECAME VERY POPULAR SOME DECADES BACK WAS CALLED "MY WAY."
THE WORLD IS FULL TO THE BRIM, OVERFLOWING REALLY, WITH THIS WAY AND THAT WAY TO LIVING THIS PHYSICAL LIFE, IN SOME KIND OF "WAY."
WELL THE GOD IN HEAVEN - YES THERE IS A GOD, A SUPREME BEING, WHO MADE THE UNIVERSE [FULFILLED BIBLE PROPHECY IS ONE GREAT WAY TO PROVE HE EXISTS]; THIS GOD ALSO HAS "A WAY" - AS HE IS GOD, HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, AND PERFECT, HIS WAY IS THE BEST WAY.
BUT TO KNOW HIS WAY, YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE HE LEFT US AN INSTRUCTION BOOK TO TELL US HIS WAY.
HE DID GIVE US AN INSTRUCTION BOOK; IT'S CALLED THE HOLY BIBLE.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH: THAT INSTRUCTION BOOK CANNOT BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD UNLESS YOU READ IT FROM COVER TO COVER, EVEN THEN, YOU STILL MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IT ALL; ALL THE TRUTHS IT CONTAINS, FOR IT IS WRITTEN LIKE A JIG-SAW-PUZZLE - YOU HAVE TO HUNT FOR ALL THE RIGHT PIECES THAT GO TOGETHER, THAT FIT TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WHOLE PICTURE. ANOTHER WAY TO SAY IT IS THAT THERE ARE MANY MANY TOPICS IN THE BIBLE, AND TO FIND THE TRUTH ON ANY TOPIC, YOU MUST FIND ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT TOPIC, AND PUT IT ALL TOGETHER TO GET THE FULL AND COMPLETE PICTURE OF TRUTH.
YET THERE IS ANOTHER CATCH: THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT TO GET ALL THE TRUTHS IT CONTAINS YOU NEED SOMETHING FROM GOD - YOU NEED THE HELP OF GOD'S SPIRIT; OFTEN CALLED "HOLY SPIRIT" IN THE BIBLE.
THERE ARE THREE VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE; THREE CHAPTERS THAT ARE PRETTY CLEAR TO READ; NO UNIVERSITY DEGREE NEEDED; YOU JUST READ THE CHAPTERS AND BELIEVE WHAT IS WRITTEN THERE.
THOSE CHAPTERS ARE ROMANS 9, 10, AND 11.
IN A NUT SHELL, THOSE CHAPTER SAY, ALL PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY BLIND - UNLESS, UNTIL, GOD GRANTS YOU A MIND TO SPIRITUALLY SEE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT HE TELLS YOU IN THE BIBLE., CONCERNING THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE, THE WAY INTO GOD'S PRESENCE FOR ALL ETERNITY. IF GOD DOES NOT WORK THIS MIRACLE FOR YOU TO SEE THE THINGS HE WANTS YOU TO SEE IN THE BIBLE, YOU ARE STILL SPIRITUALLY BLINDED!!
NOW ONCE THAT SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS IS REMOVED YOU ARE NO LONGER SPIRITUALLY BLIND..... PRETTY SIMPLE, RIGHT? YES INDEED!
AS THOSE CHAPTERS IN ROMANS SAY, ALL ARE SPIRITUALLY BLIND, AND SOME, IN FACT FOR NOW THE MAJORITY IN THE WORLD, ARE SPIRITUALLY BLINDED. AND THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY BLINDED TO GOD'S TRUTHS BY ALL THE DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES, RELIGIONS, MEN'S PHILOSOPHY OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, OR JUST THERE OWN IDEAS ON LIFE AND HOW THEY WANT TO DO IT "MY WAY."
SO AS ROMANS 9, 10, 11, TELL US, IT IS ONLY A RELATIVELY FEW TODAY WHO HAVE THE BLINDNESS REMOVED; AND THEY CAN THEN BE UNDER GOD'S GRACE, PART OF HIS FAMILY, BY UNDERSTANDING AND FULFILLING GOD'S TERMS ON HOW TO BE PART OF HIS FAMILY.
SO IT IS A TWO FOLD AGREEMENT...... GOD REMOVES THE BLINDNESS, THE PERSON ACCEPTS THE TERMS ON BECOMING A MEMBER OF GOD'S FAMILY.
HENCE THERE IS A PART THE CALLED ONE HAS TO BE WILLING TO DO; THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE TO DO IT; THEY ARE A FREE AGENT AND CAN IF THEY SO DESIRE CHOOSE NOT TO DO IT.
NOW THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY A PERSON CAN BECOME A CHILD OF GOD, A MEMBER IN HIS FAMILY. AS YOU READ THE BIBLE YOU CAN SEE WHAT THAT WAY IS.
BUT TODAY WE HAVE MILLIONS, WELL BILLIONS, WHO DO NOT EVEN READ THAT HOLY BIBLE. THEN YOU HAVE ONES WHO DIED WHEN BABIES OR CHILDREN. YOU HAVE MILLIONS WHO HAVE LIVED AND DIED WHO NEVER HAD SOMEONE BRING THE HOLY BIBLE TO THEM. EVEN AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE THE BIBLE, YOU HAVE DOZENS UPON DOZENS OF DIFFERENT IDEAS AS TO WHAT IT ALL MEANS. THEY CERTAINLY CAN NOT BE ALL CORRECT, FOR SOME ARE DIRECTLY CONTRARY TO EACH OTHER.
SO WITH ALL THIS, AGAIN MEDITATING ON ROMANS 9, 10, 11, I HAVE TO SAY, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COULD TO A POINT SEE THE OVERALL PICTURE OF THOSE CHAPTER; THEY CAME UP WITH A KIND OF SOLUTION,,,,,
CALLED PURGATORY!
A PLACE WHERE SOME COULD BE HELD, IN A KIND OF "NO MAN'S LAND" -
AND FROM THERE THE POSSIBILITY TO MOVE TO HEAVEN.... WE DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE OTHER PLACE THEY COULD END UP IN.
THE PROTESTANTS HAVE NO SUCH "INTERMEDIATE" PLACE, SO THEY HAVE MORE TROUBLE TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS TO ..... THOSE WHO DIDN'T HAVE THE BIBLE, OR JESUS IN THEIR LIFE.
THE ANSWER IS NOT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ANSWER, OR THE PROTESTANT ANSWER.
THE TRUTH OF GOD'S ANSWER IS IN REVELATION 20, AND IN THIS LAST GREAT FEAST.
I HAVE A FULL IN-DEPTH STUDY ON IT FOR YOU ON MY WEBSITE; IT IS CALLED "THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT."
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EVERYONE, IN ITS TIME.
NO ONE WILL BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD AS WE SAY.
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