I’ve started a conversation with Curtis on his situation. The Word of God in Hebrews 6 and Hebrews 10 both refer to those whom have truly been born again. This very strong meat in God’s Word is not for babes in Christ. For someone who has not yet been visited by Christ and tasted of Heaven and been illuminated and enters into ongoing willful sin, a simple prayer for forgiveness is not sufficient. Punishment is waiting on such an individual. A certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation reserved for the adversaries awaits. Consider what King Saul went through. I know this from first hand experience. I can’t absolutely say that I ever entered into a knowing and continuing willful act of sin. However, it is a fearful thing to fall into The Hands of The Living God. I have had that experience as well and I never want to have that happen again for eternity. Scourging and chastising are part of True Christian growth as well. The Fear of The Lord is in today’s vernacular bone paralyzing terror. When the enemies of God The Father were cast out of Heaven to earth, it was then that The Word of God came that States thou believest there is one God, thou doest well, the devils also believe and tremble. Those that were cast out had no clue as to the absolute and infinite Power of God The Father. I doubt that God The Father has ever Shown all of His Power. Since when Christ walked the earth, He was a perfect example of how God The Father is. God The Father has infinite Wisdom and is the only one Who Knows the Future and those He shares knowledge of the future with. Because of His Great Wisdom, He would not have shown those He knew would fall His Power. The fallen found out the hard way. After they were cast down, they wanted Enoch to plead with God The Father on their behalf. God The Father refused to hear of it.
Now consider, after all of the time since the fall, that the fallen have waxed worse and worse with pure hatred and no tempering. Also consider that all of the pain and suffering in this world has been caused by sin. There is a great deal more that can be gleaned from Scripture on this topic. I do not recommend that just anyone read The Book of Enoch not because it’s not true but because it names names that you don’t want floating around in your head until you are 100% protected by Christ.
If you think that any of the aforementioned is crazy or sounds crazy, please consider something that will sound even more so. The evil knowledge that the fallen shared with man, some of which had been written down, was burned up in the form of books by new believers. The value in pieces of silver was 50,000. Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.
Acts.19
[19] Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Just as some of God The Father’s children know that they are His children, so do some of the children of the fallen. The fallen had knowledge that surpassed man and has continued to grow in probability. I have considered that perhaps the millions of UFO sightings might be constructed by the fallen and/or the children of the fallen. That possibility is not necessary for salvation and might be a giant waste of time to ponder. However, should such a thing be true, public revelation of such a thing could cause a great falling away. I don’t dwell on that possibility nor do I recommend anyone else to dwell on it.