Chapter 21: Myth—Everybody Gets To Go
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Myth—Everybody Gets To Go
Yet to God they are only pseudo acts of caring clouded over by the unabashed support of sexual immorality. If you understand the following
Bible verse, you’ll begin to understand that so-called caring by a church can be wiped out by its support of unrighteousness in God’s eyes. Even though the church engaged in acts serving the needy, the church was lawless in God’s eyes. In essence, they went through the motions, but it was all for
naught. Their “unrighteousness” stunk so much that individually they all wound up headed for Hell instead of in the batch headed for Heaven.
“I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.
Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to
repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.” Rev. 2:19-21
Now let me summarize the four groups of people that Jesus teaches
about. Two groups (#1-2) wind up in Heaven and two groups (#3-4) wind up in Hell. Three groups (#2-4) will pass through some type of judgment under Christ and one group (#1) will bypass judgment. I have illustrated these four groups in two separate graphics for you. In the first graphic you
find God on the top left with an arrow going back and forth to group number one. Jesus teaches that this is a group of people who “believes in God who sent him” and not just in His Son. The direct implication is that many who claim belief in Jesus have never come to respect God. Yet those who do
respect God have bypassed Christ’s judgment and have already, while on this earth, obtained eternal life. This is consistent with the Gospel of Philip’s teaching that you need to get your eternal life while alive, which was a previous teaching. It is also consistent with what Christ taught while
on earth.
We see in John 6:45 that group one (1) readily embraces and goes to the Son. In the grand scheme of Heaven, Christ is the King, but God is still
the only God. In fact, still the only divine if that is supposed to mean God. For me, Christ and all who reflect God are of His divine nature.
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