A while ago, I was helping wash my step dad's car and all of a sudden I heard, "You will be hated." I've also had a dream that showed me that I would be prosecuted for teaching. I get minor things said to me online, but when I start doing it to people in person, it's going to get messy. I just pray for God's Wisdom, Discernment, and Protection through it all.
My Freind,
It will be God who is the author of your trials.....
Philippians 2:29: "For to you it is graciously granted, for Christs sake, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also."
If were suffering for Him, it means that were doing something right; Hes doing us a favor. It means that He has chosen us in grace for a high privilege. What privilege? To enjoy an even higher reward of glory.
We are) joint enjoyers of Christs allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also" (Rom. 8:17).
For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory..." (2 Cor. 4:17).
"Transcendent" isnt a mystical word. In the Greek it means, "over-cast." This is not a meteorological term, but means, "cast up over all else." Its something incredibly high, higher than the highest thing.
The apostle wants to emphasize this, so he calls the glory "transcendently transcendent." This sounds like ridiculous redundancy, and it is. Paul had nothing in his language to describe it, so he does the best he can with what he has. When he runs out of words, he simply repeats the best one he has.
You have been chosen to bear the burden of eonion Glory, for the Millenium reign of Christ, and for the New Heaven New Earth eras of Gods plan for man....these two eras will come to an end at the Consumation of Gods plan for man....when he does away with the Final enemy death.
So far we know that the lightness of your affliction in this life will be the hatred of others...
You must prepare for what lays ahead.....God never gives us more than we can handle....but you need to be made aware....if you wish to taste Glory to the dregs.....you will also taste suffering to the dregs.
Note that the trials are called "light," while the glory is a "burden." Paul had a healthy perspective here.
We often suppose that these trials are weighty and that the glory could never eclipse the pain. This is so wrong.
Our bodies need to be changed. Why? Because we cant carry so much glory in these frames. Without new bodies, we couldnt bear the glory ahead. It would be like asking a light bulb filament to channel a nuclear explosion....
See you up in Glory my Freind.