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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Bringing the Throne Into the Land of Promise, continued
Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness." (II Timothy 2:19—NIV)
If we do not obey God but "accept Christ" to escape pain, we can expect great amounts of trouble to come our way.
"But will we be ‘saved' anyway?" people always ask. It may be true that you will enter the Kingdom as a naked spirit with no inheritance, there to be governed by the more diligent. Or you may go past God's limits and hear "Depart from Me, I never knew you." After all, this statement was addressed to someone who worked miracles in the name of Jesus.
A good cure for the concept of unconditional love are the parables of the foolish virgins and the person who buried his or her talent. The door was shut in the face of the foolish virgins and the talent was taken from the lazy servant while he was cast into the outer darkness.
To say "these people never accepted Christ" is to reveal an almost total ignorance of the Divine salvation, to cling to the pitiful Evangelical formula for salvation which understands little of the way God works with people and knows practically nothing about His timing.
But then religion is always this way. It strains out gnats and swallows camels.
Well, the Lord knows those who are His, and He commands them to depart from wicked behavior. God will have no one in His royal priesthood who is not totally obedient to Himself. It will be the task of the priesthood to govern the nations of the earth for eternity, for it always will be possible for people to decide to disobey God.
There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22:5—NIV)
We have seen, then, that the return of Jesus at the head of His army of saints will drive all sin from the earth. How near we are to this event? I have no idea. Will the Church be caught up to mansions in Heaven before this invasion? Of course not.
However, at the time of the first resurrection from the dead we will be caught up into the air that we may possess the thrones that govern the spiritual atmosphere of the earth. We will be assigned a white war stallion and directed to our place in the army.
Then Christ and His army will descend in the fullness of the power of God. Antichrist and the kings of the earth will seek to prevent Christ from entering His lawful inheritance, that which He purchased with His blood on the cross. But to no avail. They will be crushed totally.
It is the holy law of God, the doing of His will, that will be entering the earth, the land of promise. The Ark will have entered Canaan. The whole earth will be filled with joy and peace. The Throne will be joined to the footstool. Heaven will have become one with the earth.
Your Kingdom come. Your will be done in the earth as it is in Heaven. (from Bringing the Throne Into the Land of Promise)