Gold is tested in the fire tim, and those accounted worthy are those who stand .
I have.
Ive tried to tell you that - the wheat grows with the tares till the harvest.
The wicked are then seperated, tied in bundles.
The trying which produces pure gold has to happen in the life of every believer and is not connected to the great Tribulation.
I've been tested and I have come through. I am not perfected in body but I have been scourged and chastened and tried: I've been through my own version of "Job" with five storms of the blackest darkness assaulting my personal being to the point of longing for death, as Job did, and having had thoughts of suicide come which I did not invite and which I totally rejected for the reason of absolute obedience to God on that matter, even if He slayed me.
These storms are over in my life and I rest in His peace. They lasted for many years to the point I thought I would never see the end of them in this life. Yet I have. I had dreams of five blact tornados coming again and again, during that time, over my place, and at the end I had the sweetest most wonderful dream of five eggs being sat upn by a mother cardinal, in a low hedgerow which I found. The daddy cardinal sat nearby, a bit higher, and looked at me as I parted the brush with a particular eye of warning, and I heard these words from within my spirit, in my dream "don't disturb the nest or the eggs may not hatch". Those words came with the flood of absolute joy and peace which I cannot describe and I woke with that peace which was absolute heaven in my soul.
What the futrue holds I do not know, but those are ended.
I know so many people who have been through their own personal trials to the point of empathizing with Job and wishing death that I have seen it as a pattern for this life: we enter through much personal tribulation and God scourges every son He receives and puts upon none of us greater than we can bear and does it for His own glory.
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But the Great Tribulation is not about God's sons having the wrath of God poured out on them: God's sons will be in heaven in the Holy of Holies celebrating the feast of their consecration seven days, while seven years pass on earth; as the Schoolmaster teaches in the first principles -in the ABC's of the Doctrine of God.
Standing before the Son of Man is a term about being counted worthy to be taken to the Holy of Holies as consecrated sons of God -priests in the image of the Firstborn, standing before His face as Gabriel said he did, as a son of God.
It's a term used about those who escape the things coming and stand as priests before His presence in His Holy of Holies.
And the tares are not Adamic seed, but the wicked demons, whether in bodies of flesh as "before the flood and also after that" who will be totally removed and burned at the Messiah's return. -They are those whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the beginning, not being born of Adam's seed, who will worship that final man of sin. They are not redeemable, being the wicked, foul, unclean spirits which proceeded from the fornicating sons of God who took and apparently take again, daughters born in Adam as wives.
They are in the world until then.
The end of the great tribulation shows the tares gathered from the world and cast into the everlasting fire: the elect [Nation of Israel] are gathered from the globe, and purged; and the rebels cast into the everlasting fire [they are not called tares, but the elect who are rebels, and gathered from all Gentile nations and brought to the wilderness and judged before the LORD on His throne at Mount Sinai [Ezekiel 20:33-44, and also Enoch names Mount Sinai as the place of His descent for that judgment at His return]; the Gentile nations are gathered and separated as goats and sheep at His return and also are judged before Him at Sinai, in the wilderness; with the goatGentiles sent into the everlasting fire and the sheep Gentiles given eternal life in the New Covenant but remaining in their adamic bodies [as we are at this time who are born again in Spirit in the New Covenant], to enter His Millennial kingdom and populate the earth with the Elect [those of ISrael's name] who do likewise.
The tares are not the goat Gentiles and they are not the rebel Elect.
You have the sons of God already harvested in the first harvest at the beginning of the Last Day -before the night comes of that day- and at the dawning of that Last Day the tares, Elect, goats and sheep are all gathered and go to their places.