SteepleChase2T47 said:
Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
~Ephesians 5:10
Ro 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
Isaiah 56:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that
keep my sabbaths, and
choose the things that please me, and
take hold of my covenant;
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And
they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Thus all men except those few of the house of Israel [paganised as gentiles, scattered amongst all nations as lost sheep of Israel ]and the House of Judah [visible Israel, the Jews] ALL listed by Jesus EXPLICITLY in Rev 7:3-8 , are simply unable to please God in THIS world ... it does NOT mean that the many are not saved , but simply that God WILL show His power by saving the children of Israel first, it is what God states that He will do !!
the MANY then are saved AFTERWARDS [Rev 7:9-10] ... thus most men are saved AFTER death and AFTER the second resurrection ... as the scripture points out explicitly, only the few CAN enter by the narrow way of the first resurrection as saints, the mANY go by the broad way through destruction of the body in death BEFORE God pours His spirit on them after the second resurrection ...
To prove this to oneself against the tradition of men, simply consider the mANY who already died, christians too, who did nOT know all truth of god in THIS life, who could not prophesy at all ...
they were NOT saints, they cannot be resurrected at the first resurrection. but God has promised to pour out His spirit on them eventually, and on ALL flesh, thus this CAN only be after the second resurrection, before the judgment... that then is when most men are saved ... whereas inthis earth almost all men will be deceived by tradition of men in religion to worship Satan, that is what JESUS tells us in Rev 13:3-7, Satan is GIVEN that power to lead men to worship him as chrsit and god... consider ten what these scriptural passages say about modern christianity and its actual role before God in His plan!
Ac 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit
upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Do all our sons and daughters prophesy now, they really do NOT ... but many men already died and were sinners in THIS life, they cannot receive this promise until AFTER the second resurrection when they first live again....