in which you stated:
What I have
wondered about is the spectrum.
At the one
end is being totally sold out to
Jesus, living godly and holy lives.
At the
other end is being fully Laodicean.
With the
vast majority of believers falling
somewhere in between, with some more
towards one end, others toward the
other, but most possibly distributed
closer to the middle.
My question
is whether only those at the one end
will be taken up?
Or will
only those at the other end be left
behind?
Or is there
no way, for the majority, in the
middle, to know for sure if they are
going up at the rapture, or if
they'll be left behind?
Those living the godly &
holy lives are doing it with the help of
the Holy Spirit; they could be considered
the Philadelphia church of today that are
faithful and would qualify as being hot in
their love for Jesus and go in the Rapture
in my opinion. They are walking in the
Spirit.
The Laodicean type church
member of today is not in the cold
category. That category applies to the
unsaved who won't be in the Rapture. The
Laodicean is lukewarm and are in the
middle sitting on a fence or with one foot
in the world following their sinful,
carnal desires which they haven't so far
repented of as they are walking in the
flesh. Their other foot is on the other
side of the boundary line calling
themselves Christians professing they love
the Lord so they have one foot in the
church. However, no Christian has a
license to sin nor a license to commit
adultery nor a license to commit
fornication whether it be 2 heterosexuals
or 2 homosexuals although married
homosexuals think that their marriage
license makes them clean of sin when in
reality it could be called a marriage
license to commit sin. There are also
other sins for which no one has a license
to commit sins. Please see my 9/14
post
TO
GINO: PARTIAL RAPTURE to
review all the sins that can keep a
person out of the kingdom of God.
In my opinion, in the case of
the so called Christian abortionist or so
called Christian who has an abortion, they
would qualify for the Laodicean church
also unless they confess their sin to the
Lord, ask forgiveness for their sin and
repent before the Rapture. A Christian
can't drink from the cup of Jesus' blood
and at the same time drink of the Devil's
bloody cup of abortion and murder. What
drinking the blood of Jesus means is the
same thing as washing your robe in the
blood of Jesus. It is when a person
confesses their sins, asks forgiveness for
them, and the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanses them of all righteousness and
sin. And at the same time no one who calls
themselves a Christian should take
communion either until they have confessed
their sins, asked forgiveness and repented
of their sin.
1 Corin. 10:21, "Ye
cannot drink the
cup of
the Lord, and the
cup of
devils: ye
cannot be
partakers of
the Lord's table, and of
the table of
devils."
A
person professing to be a Christian
wouldn't also want to be guilty of
spiritual fornication by sinning in
their mind either. Jesus said
for a man to lust after a woman is
adultery. So a Christian man
or woman shouldn't being doing that
nor watching pornography either. It
is also not right for a Christian to
believe that it's okay for another
person to have an abortion although
they don't have an abortion
themselves. We are not to condone
someone else's sin.
Revelation
3:16 shows our Lord Jesus spewing
(vomiting) the Laodicean church
members out of His mouth. In my
opinion, this takes place at the
Rapture because they have not
repented of their sins. He is
repulsed by their behavior and
sinful actions, and is sick of
putting up with it. He is no longer
going to tolerate their behavior. As
I see it a Christian is either in
the Philadelphia Church or the
Laodicean Church. A pastor
once told us that Christians do sin,
but you don't want to be in a
continuing state of sin, but when
you do sin be quick to confess it to
the Lord, ask for forgiveness and
ask the Holy Spirit to help you not
do it again. An example of a
continuing state of sin would be a
Christian who backslides into a
sexual sin and remains in it.
Instead of confessing the sin and
asking forgiveness for it, they
whitewash their sin so it doesn't
look like a sin. They don't repent
of it right away. Anyone
anticipating being in the Rapture
should want to remain in a state of
sin.