Who will be the Lamb's bride.
Hello John and Doves,
Originally I wanted parts to present evidence from Scripture in this about the Pentecostal rapture in this part, but I felt compelled to share with you what many of our may be experiencing now.
I know that it is not easy to remain so intensely waiting for the rapture for such a long time, I am experiencing it myself. I have been looking forward to the coming of the Lord since the spring of year 2017, just like so many of you. It is good to realize that God never said that waiting for the rapture would be easy and compared it to labor pains. However, when a child is born, no one will not remember the pain anymore. The Lord Himself experienced difficult times on this earth and in Gethsemane He asked the Father to take his cup. Experienced it too Moses, Noah, Elijah, Jeremiah, Paul, and in fact almost all of God's servants who looked to the future reward and were therefore able to overcome every difficult period of life victoriously.
If the rapture were it happened in 2017, it would be very easy for everyone. However, there would be one catch. No one would have to pay any price, and even foolish virgins would get to the wedding. Apparently it was God's intention that this should not happen. From the Scriptures, we can understand that in order to receive God's promise, which is always free, a Christian often has to go through a certain fire - by sifting. What God offers us is always extremely valuable and cannot be approached in a lax manner. The Lord speaks clearly about this when he says that we must lose our soul for Him in order to have life. Mt 10:39: "Whoever finds his soul will lose it; and whoever loses his soul for my sake will find it."
Whoever loves his soul and wants to be well in the sense of enjoying this world will lose his soul. This is clearly true applies to us who are waiting for the Lord's coming. The Scriptures say that judgment will begin from the house of God, and few Christians want to walk the narrow path. All that we have gone through yoso far in waiting for the Lord's coming has thoroughly sifted the bride, and only those who truly love the Lord, love His coming, and live for that eternal, not for that temporal, remain.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18: "16 Therefore we do not give up, but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is now but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
From God's perspective, what we are experiencing now is just a light affliction. The Lord says that His burden is light, but only when we look not at the things which are seen - the temporal - but at the things which are not seen - the eternal. Romans 8:18: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us."
We must always keep in mind only that future glory and we will be given the strength to overcome everything to reach the goal of our journey, to be with the Lord at the wedding. Many times we have looked forward to different dates and then nothing happened and we experienced disappointment. But we are still running towards the goal, as Paul teaches in Phil 3:13,14: “13...one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and I relate forward to what lies ahead. 14 I am running on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
I can confess in harmony with Paul: “I forget all the past, unfulfilled deadlines of the rapture and run towards the goal, to the deadline that the Lord Jesus himself will fulfill.” I testify that the unfulfilled deadlines did not bring me to my knees, but on the contrary, strengthened my expectation and desire to know the one right day. The true love of the bride for the groom is that nothing will deter her, on the contrary, the desire of the real bride for the heavenly groom is constantly growing and this is proof of authenticity.
The last lap of a marathon is always the hardest for a runner, but he overcomes all difficulties to gain the prize. We also have a reward waiting for us that cannot be compared to anything earthly. It is the eternal crown of glory for which we are running forcedly.
I had to share these things for to better understanding of future teachings.
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Blessings, Petr