IMPORTANT NOTE:
Dear Readers, this last mailing of the book ”Tragedy and Glory of Believers” shows God’s timeline of Man’s Salvation and End Time Events according to the Scriptures. We invite you to to diligently study it by clicking on the following link in order to view the picture of the timeline in a separate window while reading the notes below.
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ADDENDUM
Please, see the sketch of the Timeline [link above] on a separate sheet of paper at the end of the book. The important events (arrows) and places are numbered and the comments following below correspond to their number on the Timeline.
1 – All pagans of all ages that died either BEFORE or AFTER Christ’s Resurrection went to the compartment of Hell for the condemned which is the place of Flame and Torment. (Lk. 16:23-26) The same applies to all pagans that die from now until the Great White Throne Judgment (point 15) when all pagans are resurrected and condemned to the eternal death. (Jn. 5:29) There is no possibility of Redemption after death.
2 – All believers (Israel and others) that died BEFORE Christ’s Resurrection went to the compartment of Hell for the righteous, which may be called Abraham’s Bosom (Lk. 16:22), and I also call it the “First Paradise” (as there is also a “Second Paradise”). AFTER Christ’s Resurrection, the Overcomers go to a different place (point 7) while the rest of the believers still go to this First Paradise.
3 – After the Lord died on the Cross, He descended to the same Abraham’s Bosom or the First Paradise where He preached to the spirits and souls that were disobedient during the time of Noah. (1Pet. 3:19,20) Here came also the thief to whom He promised, while on the Cross, saying “today you will be with Me in Paradise”. (Lk. 23:42,43) At that time Christ made His first Judgment of believers under the earth. All Overcomers (from the Old Testament) were to leave that First Paradise and be translated into the Second Paradise without being resurrected (see 5).
4 – After three days, Christ rose from the dead and appeared unto Mary Magdalene. (Jn. 20:14-17) Then He ascended to Heaven to open the Book with seven seals (Rev. 5:1-9) and the same day He returned to the earth to see His Disciples. (Jn. 20:19) He remained on the earth for forty days and showed Himself to many of His Disciples.
5 – Based on the Judgment of the Lord, all Overcomers from the Old Testament were translated into the Second Paradise which is in the Third Heaven (7) and it is their new transitional place before being taken to the Throne of God. (Rev. 2:7) They did not receive new bodies except those resurrected right after Christ’s Resurrection. We should see and understand that to be caught up, translated or raptured does not necessarily mean to obtain a new glorified body at that same time. (2Cor. 12:2-4) Yet the Lord allowed some of them to be resurrected, to rise from their graves and show themselves to many in Jerusalem (Mt. 27:52,53) before being taken to the Third Heaven. This was an exception because of His own Resurrection; otherwise, the First Resurrection 2,000 years later would not be the First.
6 – After forty days on the earth, the Lord was taken up to Heaven in the sight of His Disciples. (Mk. 16:19// Lk. 24:51)
7 – The Second Paradise is in the Third Heaven and has the Tree of Life which represents the Living Christ. This is a new transition place AFTER His Resurrection for all Overcomers who died before being caught up to the Throne of God directly. (2Cor. 12:2-4// Rev. 2:7) Here came also Apostle Paul, who walked by faith being a spiritual believer. (2Cor. 5:7,8) It is in this place, a heavenly area, where another Judgment Seat of Christ is set up to judge the Overcomers. This Judgment only decides on their particular rewards before they enter the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
8 – Sometime before the antichrist is revealed (2Thes. 2: 7,8) and takes up the power over the whole world which will be close to the middle of Daniel’s 70th week and to the beginning of the Great Tribulation, the Lord comes for His Bride. (Mt. 25:6,10) All the living Overcomers are caught up directly to the Throne of God. (Rev. 12:5) There they will be joined by all the other Overcomers which will get there from the Third Heaven, the Second Paradise. Those that had no new bodies, at that time, will receive them. They all will take part in the war in Heaven, and on behalf of the whole Israel-Church, they will overcome Satan. (Rev. 12:7,11)
9 – Satan and his angels are all cast down to the earth. (Rev. 12:7-9) Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! Satan knows that he has but a short time; he makes war with the believers that keep God’s Commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Rev. 12:12-17) This is the time (the middle of the 7 year Tribulation) when the antichrist is revealed as he desecrates the Holy Place in the Temple of God by stopping the sacrifices sitting in the Temple and showing himself to be God. (2Thes. 2:1-4)
10 – Before the last 7th trump, the Lord again uses His Judgment Seat in the First Paradise and judges all the believers therein as to who is worthy of God, of His Kingdom, (1Thes. 2:12// 2Thes. 1:5// Mt. 25:19) of His calling fulfilling the pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power; (2Thes. 1:11) who did the Will of His Father (Mt. 7:21) and who is holy and blessed and thus worthy of the First Resurrection. (Rev. 20:6) All these shall be prepared for the rapture of the Israel-Church. Then He returns and descends from Heaven to meet His Church in the air; He does not come to the earth at that particular time. (1Thes. 4:16,17)
11 – All those judged as worthy of the First Resurrection shall be resurrected (from the First Paradise) or changed (if still living on the earth) and raptured to meet the Lord in the air and so they shall ever be with the Lord; it means, that these believers shall never depart from the Lord, not that they shall ever be in the air. (1Cor. 15:51-53// 1Thes. 4:16,17) Then they shall go to Heaven to be prepared for their return to the earth with the Lord to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Those that came out of the Great Tribulation and washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb (Rev. 7:14) and were seen by John before the Throne of God are those also raptured at the last trump. We should see and understand that most of those believers judged as worthy of the First Resurrection will be “refined” by the Fire and the Spirit of Burning during the Tribulation. To “wash their robes and make them white in the Blood of the Lamb” represents the process of the Salvation of their souls, which includes all the works of their faith.
12 – Then, after the seven vials of the wrath of God are poured upon the earth, the Heaven will be open and the KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS, CHRIST JESUS, with His armies in Heaven shall descend to the earth, stop the battle of Armageddon, cast the Beast and the False prophet to the Lake of fire and brimstone (arrow 12c) and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. (Rev. 19:11-21) Then will the Lord establish His Seat of Judgment on the earth and judge the nations and individuals as per His Word in Mt. 25:31-40 (arrow 12a) and in Mt. 25:41-46 (arrow 12c). Also those that will survive the Tribulation and will be living, but were an offence to the Lord and worked iniquity will be gathered by God’s angels and cast into the “outer darkness” and fire (arrow 12b), there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Mt. 13:41,42,49,50) But the righteous shall enter the Kingdom (arrow 12a) and shall shine in it as the sun. (Mt. 13:43)
13 – Satan is cast into the bottomless pit. After the 1,000 years of the Kingdom of Heaven, he is released for a short season to go and deceive the nations. (Rev. 20:1-3,7,8)
14 – When the holy and blessed believers from the First Paradise are resurrected and raptured (point 11), those judged unworthy of the First Resurrection (point 10) shall be cast out of the Lord’s Presence and into another transitional area called the “outer darkness”, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Mt. 7:23; 8:12; 22:11-14; 24:51; 25:11, 12,30// Lk. 13:27,28, etc.) This area will be in some manner interconnected with the Lake of fire and brimstone, which will hurt these believers with its fire in some way. (Rev. 2:11) They shall not live until the 1,000 years of the Kingdom are passed during which the Overcomers will reign with Christ on the earth. (Rev. 20:4,5) Then they shall leave the “outer darkness” and be resurrected and shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment together with all the pagans which shall also be resurrected. (Rev. 20:11-13)
15 – All pagans of all ages in the compartment of Hell for the condemned, the place of Flame and Torment, (Lk. 16: 23-26) shall be resurrected and shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment. (Rev. 20:11-13) There they shall be judged according to their works. The believers resurrected from the “outer darkness” (point 14) shall also be judged at this Last Judgment Seat of Christ according to their works recorded in the books. All those that shall not be found in the Book of Life shall be condemned and cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone, which is the Second Death. (Rev. 3:5; 20:15) It is fair to say that many of these believers will have plentiful chances to see and believe what they were and what they had done during their earthly life. They will be able to do the necessary confessions and repentances (in plural) during those 1,000 years and thus be cleansed and purified by the FIRE and the Spirit of Burning (Is. 4:4) so that their names may not be blotted out of the Book of Life. Lacking physical bodies, they will need a more intense fire and testing of their souls and spirits to undo what they were sowing all their earthly “Christian” life.
16 – The believers that remained in the Book of Life shall remain saved and shall join the saved nations that shall walk in the light of the Holy City of New Jerusalem. (Rev. 21:24)
17 – The believers whose names were blotted out of the Book of Life (Rev. 3:5// Jn. 15:6) and all pagans will be together condemned and cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone, which is the Second Death. (Rev. 20:15) Hell and Death shall also be cast into the same Lake of fire and brimstone. (Rev. 20:14) These underground “transitional” areas (1, 2 and 14) will then cease to exist. This will be the end of evil as a living force in the New Creation of God. But the Lake of fire and brimstone, this Second Death with its torment, will continue for ever.
18 – The New Creation of God, New Earth, New Heaven and New Jerusalem, (Rev. 21:1,10-27) will commence after the Great White Throne Judgment is completed and all its decisions executed. This New Creation of God with all the Glory of God and peace and joy will also continue for ever.
EPILOGUE
Since this is a sequel to our book “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ[8]”, the Lord provided the same closing word also to this book and that through brother T. Austin-Sparks from his brochure “The Kingdom that cannot be shaken, Part 4”, published by The Golden Candlestick Trust, Twello, Holland, pages 2,3 and 4:
“We will not – we must not – put Romans 8:28-29 into any lesser category than God’s purpose for all in Christ; that is, we must not say that this is for a certain number in the thought of God. It is for all in Christ, and this is God’s will for all His people, but as has always been the case, the majority of the Lord’s people do not follow on spontaneously, and the Lord has continually to have in the midst of them, amongst them, before them, a company embodying and representing and expressing His full thought, to be a ministry of revelation and a ministry of strengthening and exhortation to His people. It is a ministering vessel in the midst of His people, and that vessel not just having special information to give, but that vessel being the embodiment of that, which the Lord would have all His people know and be. Paul put himself into that category in a personal way…
…He put himself, therefore, in the position of one, who was the full embodiment of God’s thought for the Church, and so Paul became in very truth a dispensational man; that is, the individual in whom the whole supreme meaning of the dispensation was gathered up experimentally; and the Church, the Body of Christ, being the supreme feature of this dispensation, had its embodiment and expression in a living way in that one man.
Now what was true in him as an individual early in the dispensation has had to be true and be repeated again and again through the dispensation in instruments, which God has raised up; that is, that there shall be a living voice – not a voice of teaching, a voice just of truth in the technical or academic sense, not just the proclamation of something, but a living embodiment and expression of God’s thought amongst His people. The Word of the Lord to such a vessel at all times will be: “whether they will hear or whether they will forbear”. (Ez. 2:5)
It is so easy from time to time to let go, to sag because your message is not wanted and because you see no place for it, no room for it, or because you see almost universal opposition to it; to conclude, or to take the attitude as though you had concluded, that this is not the message for the time, the people are not ready for it, they are not open to it, they will not have it. Whether they will hear or whether they will forbear is the Lord’s word to an instrument, which He raises up for any purpose. That is, although you may be speaking in the wilderness, you have to get on with it; although no one will listen to you, you have got to go on; although you may see no response, but just universal antagonism, you have to go on with your work… “whether they will hear or whether they will forbear”.
For the fullness of God’s thought a vessel has to be constituted accordingly, and if the fullness of God’s thoughts is sonship as the means of the universal dominion of which this letter speaks, the universal dominion of Christ, then our training is along the lines of sonship, for we are called to that ministry…
…What is the basis of the training of sons? It is the cross. What is the pattern of the training of sons? It is the Son. What is the sphere of the training of sons? It is in the spirit.”
Amen.
LIST OF LITERATURE
[1] “The Messenger of the Cross” by Watchman Nee. Published by Christian Fellowship Publishers, Inc., 11515 Allecingie Parkway, Richmond, Virginia 23235, USA. (in English only)
[2] “The Release of the Spirit” by Watchman Nee. Pub- lished by Ministry of Life, Box 74, Route 2, Cloverdale, Indiana 46120, USA. (in English only)
[3] “The Battle for Life” by Austin-Sparks. Published by Emmanuel Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. (in English only)
[4] “Strong in the Day of Battle” by Austin-Sparks. Published by Emmanuel Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. (in English only)
[5] “The Christ, the Antichrist and the Church”, Part 1, by T. Austin-Sparks. Published by The Golden Can- dlestick Trust, Twello, Holland. (in English only)
[6] “Our Warfare” by Austin-Sparks. Published by Emmanuel Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. (in English only)
[7] “The Cross and Higher Ground”, Parts 1-4, by T. Austin-Sparks. Published by The Golden Candlestick Trust, Twello, Holland. (in English only)
[8] “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ” by brother Hanola. Published in 2006 by Montreal Remnant Min- istries (MRM) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (also in Slovak as „Slovo k Cirkvi Ježiša Krista“)
[9] “Truth about Salvation” by brother Hanola. Pub- lished in 2003 by Montreal Remnant Ministries (MRM) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (also in Slovak as „Pravda o Spáse“)
[10] “Open Letter to His Majesty and Excellency Christ Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the only true God” by brother Published in 1986 by MRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (also in Czech as „Otevřený Dopis Jeho Výsosti a Excelenci, Ježíši Kristu, Králi králů a Pánu pánů, jedinému pravému Bohu”)
[11] “The Mystery of Reality” by brother Hanola. Pub- lished in 1995 by MRM, Montreal, Quebec, (also in Slovak as „Tajomstvo Skutočnosti“)
[12] “Seek Ye First the Kingdom” by brother Published in 1990 by MRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (in English only)
[13] “The New Temple and the Second Coming” by Grant. R. Jeffrey. Published in 2007 by WaterBrook Press, 12265 Oracle Boulevard, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80921, USA. (in English only) Reprinted from The New Temple and the Second Coming. Copyright© 2007 by Grant Jeffrey. Used by permission of Water- Brook Press, Colorado Springs, CO. All rights reserved.
[14] “Generation Cords and Their Effect on You” by John Adejoro-Oluwa. Published by Plummet Publish- ing, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. (also in Slovak as „Generačné Povrazy a ich vplyv na vás.“)
[15] “Dealing Wisely with the Sins of My Youth” by John Adejoro-Oluwa. Published by Plummet Publish- ing, Ikeja, Lagos, (also in Slovak as „Hriechy Mojej Mladosti a ako s nimi múdro jednať.“)
[16] “Thy Kingdom Come” by brother Published in 1983 by MRM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (in Slovak only as „Príď Kráľovstvo Tvoje“)
[17] “Christians will go through the Tribulation” by Jim McKeever. Published in 1978 by Alpha Omega Publishing Company, O.Box 4130, Medford, Oregon 97501, USA (in English only)
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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