The term "salvation" means delivered from the image and works of Satan and brought to the image and works of God. Christians are using the word salvation today to mean we are forgiven and on our way to Heaven. Can you see the difference between these two concepts?

It is impossible for any descendant of Adam to be part of the Wife of the Lamb. The Wife of the Lamb is the complement, the fullness of Christ. She has been formed on His body and blood. She, like Him, is the total, perfect integration of the human and the Divine. No human being can marry Divinity, and the Lord Jesus Christ is Divinity!

The Christian who wastes his or her life fulfilling the desires of the flesh and mind will die spiritually. He will go to his grave believing he will be admitted to Heaven. Whether he will be admitted to the spirit Paradise when he dies is not for us to decide. The holy Scriptures have relatively little to say about what happens to us when we die since the Scriptures are devoted mainly to the manner in which we are to enter eternal life, into the Kingdom of God.

But of one fact we are certain: he or she is not a member of the Kingdom of God. For the Kingdom of God consists of those in whom Christ has been implanted and the fruit of God produced.

When we review the nature and the glory of our inheritance it is easy to understand why the writer of the Book of Hebrews issued such solemn warnings to the believers. They were in direct danger of dying in a spiritual wilderness, of never entering the land of promise that is the inheritance of the sons of God.

"We are not of those who draw back to destruction," he exhorts, "but of those who persevere in faith to the saving of the soul." (Hebrews 10:39).

To cease pressing into the rest of God is to draw back to destruction. There is no middle ground, no place of pausing, of vacillating in carelessness or indecision. The spiritual tides, the enemies, are too strong for that. The inheritance is so vast, so magnificent, that not to reach for it at all times is to be unworthy of it.

God is the Greatest of all kings. He has summoned us to sit with Him on His throne, to eat at His table, to share in His very Life. The human being who is too busy to devote his full attention to responding to this summons is not worthy of the feast God has prepared. He will not taste of the abundance the love of God has set before us.

God's messengers will go out into the streets and alleys and bring in the outcasts, so to speak. They will sit down at God's table while the sons of the Kingdom look on, gnashing their teeth with remorse because of opportunities forever lost. (from Attaining the Inheritance)