Gino (12
Aug 2018)
"Do the some people
believe that Christians will be stung by the locusts with
stingers?"
Do the some people believe that Christians will be stung by the
locusts with stingers? The post-trib and pre-wrath folks believe
that the Christians will be here during the seven trumpet
judgments, also those that believe that not all Christians will
go up in the blessed hope believe that many Christians will be
here for the seven trumpets, and pre-trib folks believe that
tribulation saints will be here for the seven trumpets. So, do
they believe that those Christians will be stung by the locusts
with stingers? Christians are sealed with the Holy Ghost, rather
than have the seal of the living God in their foreheads, as will
the 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel mentioned in
Revelation 7. But, only those with the seal of God in their
foreheads, will not be stung by the locusts, i.e. only the
144,000 Israelites won't be stung:
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not
hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in
their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill
them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their
torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a
man.
Only the 144,000 are thus sealed:
Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east,
having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud
voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth
and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the
trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads.
Apparently, that sealing doesn't occur until the time of
Revelation 7, as it says, "till".
So, it is only referring to the 144,000.
We, on the other hand, are not of the 144,000, and neither are
the Jehovah Witnesses, only those Israelite virgin men; and we
are not sealed in our foreheads with the seal of the living God,
but rather we are sealed with the Holy Ghost:
II Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye
are sealed unto the day of redemption.
So, it looks like some believe that there will be some
Christians stung by the locusts, as well as Israelite women, and
all the Israelite men that are not sealed, as well as lost
people?