Dear Doves,

When people are very much in love and about to be married, most feel that they already know everything important about their betrothed.  Sometimes they do; sometimes they don't.

What if a bridegroom really did know everything about his bride to be...her very thoughts, her mind, soul, spirit....he would be able to make a very correct decision about whom he was marrying.

Now, there are some who would marry a prospective groom for the wrong reasons:  money, position, fancy houses, cars, trips, jewelry, expensive clothes, etc.  Perhaps this type of person who would marry him for all the wrong reasons, might eventually dump him if they thought a better offer came along.

Would a groom knowing these things, that she didn't really love him and was not fully committed to him, go through with the marriage?  No, he would not, unless he wanted to be with someone who was just using him.

What about Jesus Christ?  He obviously knows everyone's heart, mind and soul.  He is unable to be fooled.  Do you really think He is going to "marry" someone who only wants the finest things and pleasures (eternal life in Heaven) but would actually leave Him if they thought a better offer was around (AC's lies and deceiving wonders)?  Would He marry someone who barely thought about Him, or took Him for granted?  No, He wouldn't.  He already told us He would spit out of His mouth those whom are lukewarm.  That is not a guess or an opinion, we have His words in the Book of Revelation, chapter 3:

¹⁴ And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

¹⁶ So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Jesus is talking to His own followers in His own church in Laodicea; also to those in His churches at the end.  The lukewarm Laodiceans were very wealthy people, caring much more about that than Him....and HE KNEW IT.  They were not ready to be His bride, but He would give them a second chance to become the wife He deserves.

Anyone taking the Mark of the Beast *will* lose their salvation.  Those people taking the Mark will *never* see the face of God.  They will, however, have plenty of company:  antichrist, false prophet and their followers, and ultimately, satan....in a place called the lake of fire.

~Patty RP