Small minority of the Elect make it to Heaven

[CherubRam]

The mainstream does not make it to Heaven in the first resurrection.

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

The true Elect are a small minority.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

So who or what is "mainstream?"

 

[Rajni]

Define "heaven".

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

The mainstream does not make it to Heaven in the first resurrection.

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

The true Elect are a small minority.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

So who or what is "mainstream?"

I don't know who is the elect is but I pray that I am one that He is looking for in these last days.

 

[CherubRam]

Define "heaven".

The place where God lives.

 

[Rajni]

The place where God lives.

Since God is everywhere, everyone is already there.

 

[CherubRam]

"yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."


Honorable Mention
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History of the name Jesus:
The English form "Jesus" was not seen nor spoken until after the year 1525, when Sir William Tyndale, a Protestant Reformer from Oxford, England; invented it.


Last Days.
Zechariah 13:9
This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘Yahwah is our God.’”



For uncertain reasons there are Christians and Jews who do not want God's name or Christ name used.

Exodus 23:21
Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.

Yah / wah
Yah / shua

 

[CherubRam]

Since God is everywhere, everyone is already there.

Not according to the bible.

 

[CherubRam]

Yah short form

Yah (Hebrew: יהּ‎‎ Yah) is a short form of Yahwah (in consonantal spelling YHWH Hebrew: יהוה‎‎, called the Tetragrammaton), the proper name of God in the Hebrew Bible. This short form of the name occurs 50 times in the text of the Hebrew Bible, of which 24 form part of the phrase "Halleluyah".

 

[Rajni]

Not according to the bible.

Not that the bible is the only thing to weigh in on God's nature, but yes, even the bible agrees that God is everywhere:

"‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord" - Jeremiah 23:24

7 "Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you."

-Psalm 139:7-12

Therefore, everyone is elect and in His presence.

 

[Residential Bob]

I don't know who is the elect is but I pray that I am one that He is looking for in these last days.

If you believe, then certainly you're among the countless multitudes who have followed the elect (a remnant of the house of Israel) into the presence of God (Rv 7:4-10).

 

[dlamberth]

Not according to the bible.

As a person who experiences the presence of God everywhere, my take away is that I have no idea how people are able limit, bound up and separate the Divine into a small and limited space. When it rains, those drops of water falls on everyone regardless of their beliefs. It's the same with God.

 

[Lost4words]

I know that i will be on the last train. And that train is heading down!

 

[CherubRam]

Not that the bible is the only thing to weigh in on God's nature, but yes, even the bible agrees that God is everywhere:

"‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord" - Jeremiah 23:24

7 "Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you."

-Psalm 139:7-12

Therefore, everyone is elect and in His presence.

A man can be anywhere, but his house is his home.

 

[CherubRam]

I know that i will be on the last train. And that train is heading down!

Life is full of choices.

 

[CherubRam]

I don't know who is the elect is but I pray that I am one that He is looking for in these last days.

The Elect in the first resurrection are a minority who do not follow the doctrine of mainstream.

 

[CherubRam]

116 views in an hour. That must be a record.

 

[Kenny'sID]

Define "heaven".

The opposite of Hell.

Define Hell you say? The opposite of heaven.

On the outside chance your only purpose is not to be disruptive and you really want to know, do a Google search on both, and for scripture that describes both.

Hope that helps.

 

[Rajni]

A man can be anywhere, but his house is his home.

God is more than a mere man. Heaven is just where His throne is. Dwelling places generally contain more than a fancy chair to sit in.

"Thus says the Lord: 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?'" (Isaiah 66:1)

 

[CherubRam]

God is more than a mere man. Heaven is just where His throne is. Dwelling places generally contain more than a fancy chair to sit in.

"Thus says the Lord: 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?'" (Isaiah 66:1)

This thread is about the Elect.

Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

 

[CherubRam]

The mainstream does not make it to Heaven in the first resurrection.

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

The true Elect are a small minority.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

So who or what is "mainstream?"

I presume people know what mainstream believe?