The Scriptures are much clearer concerning what will happen to the believer in the Day of Christ. At that time the believer will be rewarded precisely in terms of his works, that is, according to the manner in which he has conducted himself as a Christian. His resurrection will be according to his behavior during his lifetime on the earth.

Grace and imputation (assigned righteousness) will not operate in the Day of Christ so as to prevent the believer from being rewarded according to his works. Rather, grace and ascribed righteousness are given to the believer during his lifetime on the earth so he can escape the clutches of the devil and become a holy one of God. This is the true grace of God.

We understand, therefore, that a false witness is being borne. The believers have been deceived concerning the realities of the spirit realm and of the Kingdom of God. Deception is one of the principal concerns of the last days, and numerous Christians are abiding in deception and seduction.

The majority of the Christian preachers are presenting the Gospel of the Kingdom of God as a ticket to a Paradise in outer space. Also, the impression often is given that God will not permit His people to suffer; and that while calamities may occur in the world, God has nothing to do with such human suffering.

This is a false witness. It is not the faithful and true witness of God or His Kingdom.

We would ask the reader of these words to approach God through the Lord Jesus. Ask God what is true of His current attitude; what the future holds for the Christian churches and the world; what he as an individual believer will experience after his physical death.

Great suffering is at hand, not only for the unsaved but also for the Christians who are not living as self-denying disciples of the Lord Jesus. God is a Spirit. He does not view human suffering as we do, although He is compassionate toward us.

God sees our spiritual state, primarily. God sends calamities and sufferings of all kinds because such fire is necessary if the flesh is to be put down and the spiritual man is to be saved.

In many instances the Christian churches are lukewarm and filled with fleshly and soulish lusts. They are bearing a false witness of God. Their traditions concerning the Christian salvation have accumulated until they are an extensive myth. The archaic term "mansions," of John 14:2, although a complete misrepresentation of the actual word that Jesus employed, remains the basis for the current concept of the goal of the Divine redemption. The fallacy here must be apparent to any competent observer; yet nothing is done about it.

The myth of mansions in Heaven passes from generation to generation with few teachers pointing out the fact that no passage of the Scriptures teaches the saints will live in mansions in Heaven or even that going to Heaven is the goal of the Christian redemption.

To be continued.