12/02/20 REQUIREMENTS FOR HEAVEN

12/02/20 REQUIREMENTS FOR HEAVEN

COPIED FROM MY POSTS IN 2012
I wrote and posted this eight years ago. Still true, still relevant. I have added a few lines (***) concerning works and salvation, in order to make my point clearer.

WHAT IF YOU GET "LEFT BEHIND?" Let me mention three different responses to the those who will miss the Rapture of the Church.
1- Some writers are offering "Post Rapture" instructions and encouragement to those who reject Christ at this present time. They offer a FALSE HOPE, since those people will not get saved during the Tribulation.
2- Some writers are offering "Post Rapture" messages of salvation for those who have never heard the gospel prior to the Rapture, since it is possible for them to get saved during the Tribulation.
3- I (and probably others) offer "Pre-Rapture" advice to those who hear the gospel now, but have not surrendered to Christ's Lordship;

* R E P E N T, because, if you miss the Rapture, you don't get a another chance during the Tribulation.

* LET ME SAY, if you think it is difficult to be a Christ follower today, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTH'N YET.

* BESIDES, if you reject Him now and are left behind, He will send you strong delusion, so that you will believe the lie you have loved, and you will not be saved.
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET SAVED.

AGAIN, CONCERNING THOSE WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

Actually, there will be many who are left behind because they never prepared to go in the Rapture.

* Some people think that faith without works will save them.

*** DLG 2020 note... (The Bible clearly teaches that we are not saved by our works, but it also clearly teaches that faith without works is dead. We will have good works because salvation by grace through faith actually works and does good works. In fact we not only keep His commandments, we do that which is well pleasing in His sight.)

* If our faith does not work, it will not save us from sin in this present evil world or from God's wrath in the world to come. In fact, if they (we) do not EXPERIENCE the purifying grace of God in this world, they (we) will never spend eternity with God. Consider the verses ... below. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

BE RAPTURE READY...
I know that some of these points overlap. However, I titled the points according to the verse(s) they introduce. The fact that they overlap indicates the importance of knowing these truths.

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY PURE pure will be Rapture Ready.

 2 Corinthians 11:2
(2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE sanctified, cleansed, spotless, holy and without wrinkle or blemish will be Rapture Ready.

Ephesians 5:25-27
(25) ... Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
(27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE HOLY, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight will be Rapture Ready. (Remember, God sees us as we are.)

Colossians 1:21-23
(21) And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
(22) In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
(23) If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED ENTIRELY AND THOSE whose spirit and soul and body is preserved blameless unto His coming will be Rapture Ready.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
(23) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(24) Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

* Only those who are following holiness will be Rapture Ready.

Hebrews 12:14
(14) Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE SPOTLESS and blemeless will be Rapture Ready.

2 Peter 3:13-14
(13) Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
(14) Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE PURE, even as He is pure will be Rapture Ready.

1 John 3:2-3
(2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
(3) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE UNBLEMISHED (faultless) will be Rapture Ready.

Jude 1:24
(24) Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

* ONLY THOSE WHO ARE PRESENTLY CHILDREN OF GOD BY ACTIVE FAITH will be Rapture Ready. If your salvation is not experiential, your salvation is not actual. Faith that does not conform you to the image of Jesus in this present world is not saving faith, it is presumption.

*** THE FOLLOWING VERSES WERE ADDED TO THIS POINT AND THIS POST ON 12/02/20

Galatians 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 10:38
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 10:38-39
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

1 John 3:6-10
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

John 5:1-5
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:18
18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.