Posted on 11/01/2022 4:27:41 PM PDT by grumpa
BTW, I have NO righteousness of my own. All my righteousness counted for me is that of my Lord and Savior, Jesus. God made it that way so no man could boast and ALL the glory is due Jesus, God with us.
Have you read, "Abraham believed God and it was counted for him righteousness"? God imputed righteousness to Abraham because he believed God. The same is true throughout all the ages, believe God's Grace and God counts that for righteousness. When the Israelites solemnly practiced the feasts they were acting out their belief, they were believing God. When they ceased to believe God they suffered the wrath of men who hated the God of Israel.
The Essenes, representing the Zadok Priesthood which was at odds with the Pharisees, those Israelites were anticipating the suffering Messiah and were likely the first Christians when Peter proclaimed Messiah had come and been put to death by those He came to.
Just a few of the many verses clearly stating that God’s covenant was CONDITIONAL. Israel disobeyed. God gave them a final 490 years. The stoning of Stephen was the final straw. They are out, forever, as God’s chosen people, as a group.
Daniel 9: 24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Deu 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Jer 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, the shalt thou not remove.
Jer 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
——>When I and hundreds of millions fellow born agains disappear in an instant, I think you will suddenly believe God ... and it will be instantly counted for you righteousness.
Your statement is PRECISELY one of the reasons why hundreds of millions of born-agains (and those not) will lose their salvation. They will have been led into a sense of false security, that regardless if they make it in the PTR, they will always have a second chance. There are no second chances. Salvation is now. The PTR is a false doctrine, not supported ANYWHERE in the bible.
It is sad when someone scoffs and derides the blessed hope.
The blessed hope is the second coming of Christ, in all His Glory. It has nothing to do with a secret event, made up by Jesuit priests, and spread throughout the rest of the world by the likes of Darby, and then your group (anyone on Prophecy Watchers).
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