Dear Steve,
Thanks so much for all your insightful letters on end-time events and how things may very well play out.  Thanks also for your comments on "once saved, always saved."
 
Your placement of so many key scriptures that have been so difficult to connect:- the 10 days of tribulation; the double anointing of Elisha; the 2nd passover and the midnight cry heard by the 10 virgins; and how they tie in with Ascension Day and Pentecost, all suddenly appear to fit.
 
Those of us who agree with you concerning the prospect of having our names blotted out of the Book of Life, and the fact that only a select group will be chosen as the Bride find it difficult to share such truths with other Christians.
 
A subject that probably produces even more resistance and controversy is the sad fact that so many of God's children have not asked their heavenly Father for the gift of the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13), the oil for their lamps, and thus are not "endued with power."  Having the Holy Spirit with us is not the same as having Him living in us -
"But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Rom. 8:11).
 
If indeed, the infilling of the Holy Spirit is the oil in our lamps, I for one do not want to take the risk of being without it at this time.
 
In Christ,
Susie Parker