During the end of days God will release the four horseman to spead every form of suffering there is across the planet.
If a person recieves the mark of Satan they will be spared the suffering but also lose their souls to him.
You would think Satan would be the one in control of the four horseman but it's God, why does he push them toward Satan so hard?
I'd think anyone that made it thru the suffering would be thought highly of in heaven, but considering they didn't care to begin with I wouldn't think vary many would make it.
Why does God test them so hard?
2006-10-24 19:22:05 · 20 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It will be a last ditch attempt to bring those souls to Him, because when we humans suffer enough all our psychological defenses come down and all that is left is our true nature. That is usually a turning point where you make you decision to follow or run from God even harder.
2006-10-24 19:29:46 · answer #1 · answered by neverland_mom 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the suffering spared by receiving the mark is not the same as what the 4 horse men give the earth. The mark enables them to buy and sell and escape a hard death at the hand of Satan, and those in the white robes who receive special honor are those who live during the trebulation and are believers.
Those who remain have been given a chance and decided to be God's enemy and as such they will be treated as enemys
2006-10-24 19:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is created in the image of man. These are mans qualities written by man and assigned to God.
The concept of God destroying anyone not of a particular religion or sect is absurd. There are 30000 religions, and most people will never be in contact with more than a handful. Only an egotistical human would say, "if you do not believe what I believe you are on Satans side and deserve eternal destruction or damnation"
2006-10-24 19:49:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-25 19:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by maza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Book of revelation is a highly symbolic book, seriously metaphoric, but more importantly IMMENSLEY HISTORICAL. It is almost a historical symbolic commentary commenting on the problems and states of the end of the 1st C AD with Rome torturing Christians. I don't think it really is prophetic in the sense that it predicts the future. The common evangelical reading is simply an interpretative on a very dense book leading to thousands upon thousands of interpretations.
God is kind, loving, and patient. Anything else is not God. Insofar as a Father is hard on his child or a Mother hard on her child , God is hard on us, but not in the sense to torture us do our parents teach us, but rather to get us to learn.
2006-10-24 19:28:59 · answer #5 · answered by Heidegger 11 30 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan has only a short time to spread misery on earth,as he rules this world. So in the end times the battle will be good verses evil.
2006-10-24 21:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess you could look at it like this, God gave you everything, and you gave Him nothing. All he asks is for you to trust and believe in Him and live your life according to the guide he gave you. Instead you choose to reject Him live as you please and deny he exists. It is called Righteous Judgment. He gives us all and all he asks is for us to accept his free gift of Salvation through Jesus Christ. The Bible tell us while we were still sinners Christ gave his life so we might have eternal life. If your Son gave his life for others and then they said "No Thanks, I think I'll pass on you offer. Your son died for nothing" don't you think your Judgement of these people would be harsh but Just ?
Rom 5:6 ¶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Rom 5:11 And not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Rom 5:12 ¶ Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
2006-10-24 19:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by Tim P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every person has the free will to choose to believe in or reject God and Jesus. Those who choose to reject Gods gift of love have chosen their own eternity. It isn't God who makes the choice, it is up to each individual to make up their own mind. Those who repeatedly deny God and Jesus seal their own fate. We can only pray that they will come to belief and acceptance of the existence of God and the need for Jesus in their lives.
2006-10-24 19:33:41 · answer #8 · answered by Country girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Love of God bears all things, including intense suffering.
If one trades one's love for God in exchange for the alleviation of one's temporal suffering, one's love for God was up for sale to the highest bidder to begin with. If the highest bidder is God's enemy, then it is good for people to know exactly to whom their soul belongs. So they know that it is not God condemning them, but they that condemn themselves by denying God's ultimate mercy.
2006-10-24 19:29:36 · answer #9 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans are childish, petty, selfish, egotistical, jealous, and vengeful. None of those are attributes that could rationally be assigned to a God. Stories like the above are just there to scare people into putting more money in the ol' collection plate.
Live a good life and all will be taken care of,
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2006-10-24 19:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by Alan 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋