Brother, not everything I say comes from my study, some of what I picked up along the way I did not question. I have put more effort into the study of the Sabbath than other areas that arise when I share the Sabbath. It was someone on a forum similar to this that made me study the Sabbath more thoroughly.
What I can tell you is that you will not go to heaven if you are alive and not of the resurrected when Jesus returns, and that you will remain on earth if you are not destroyed. My personal understanding is that God sees three groups with three different destinies when Jesus returns.
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15-16 NIV)
Jesus means by “spit you out of my mouth” that you are not ready to go to heaven when He returns and will be left behind on the earth, neither cold to destroy nor hot to take to His Father’s house. Those who will fight Jesus at Armageddon will be destroyed. Those who are ready with all the truth in the Bible, including the Sabbath, will go to heaven with Jesus. And the rest of the living who are not of the resurrected and who need further growth will remain on earth for the thousand years with the part of Israel that hardened until the full number of the gentiles “come in” that Jesus will take to heaven. Those in need of further growth like Judaism will remain on earth with the help of Israel, now fully convinced of Jesus.
To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first… Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’ To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Revelation 2:18-29 NIV)
Those who have not grown up with the truths of the New Testament, but who have held on to what they have, like the Jews with the Old Testament, will be given authority over the nations and will rule them with an iron scepter for a thousand years.
It is easier to see the proper relationship that Jesus expects with the shadow than with reality, mainly because Jesus only dies once and the animal sacrifices were many. It was easier to see what we should do each time we fall, rather than assuming there is no further need for repentance after accepting Jesus, which was made easier by removing the law that reminds us that we are not growing in obedience to the law.
Told was she that we would learn more about the Sabbath. Specifically, “when it is” that “even” falls after having understood “what even is”, the sunset. Her inspiration is right even when she did not understand it. She was a great woman; I wish she was alive to confirm my find about the Sabbath.
I have no idea how you can justify taking apart what God put together and raised by writing it with His own finger. The Bible has a name for your preaching, we have been forewarned, be on guard so that you do not get carried away by the error of the “lawless”.
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. (2 Peter 3:13-17 NIV)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
