2006-11-11 08:41:04 · 26 answers · asked by bethybug 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
this would be a test of your loyalty to God
2006-11-11 08:52:24 · update #1
we are already being tested as we are living at the "end of time".
Matthew 24:3 says "While he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”".. and chapter continues all the way to verse 14 with a list of the "signs" that match up with what is happening today... wars, lots of earthquakes, diseases, hunger,..etc.
The Bible shows that those who want God's rule will be protected and will survive. Those who do not want God's rule will not be protected but will be destroyed along with Satan's world. (Prov. 2:21,22)... it also mentions that we have to stay "awake" in these last days..(Rev: 16: 14-16)
It doesn't suffice by just believing in God as many believe either.. Infact, James 2:19 says that the demons believe in Him... so does that make them followers of God? nope!.. so to "Pass" the test of these last days you have to not only believe, but SHOW it by acts and DO what God says to do.
2006-11-11 09:30:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jolly J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think God will test you? Think about it, if He is an unconditionally Loving God then why would He put limits to what you have to do to make Him happy?
You have been created in the image and likeness of God. God is in you, but not the same way a raisin is in a bun, that is not 'unity'. God is in you as the ocean is in a wave. The wave is nothing more nor less than the ocean expressing as a wave. You are an expression of God. You are a co-creator. Read outside the box...there's Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch, also Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth...etc
2006-11-11 16:47:20 · answer #2 · answered by Diana 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God tests us on a daily basis.
But end-times are unique. There is an explosion of information as a result of advances in the information and telecommunication technologies. But I doubt that the essence of it will be any different. There will always be people who hide the truth, promote half truths and deceive the masses so that they can perpetuate whatever they think matters most to their selfish fulfillment. The challenge for us would be the ability to weed out the hearsay, the falsehood and comb the sands of info-overdose to seek the truth.
2006-11-11 16:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by tomQ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be a very quick, two question test:
"What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?"
The same questions that Jesus asked the Pharisees in the Gospel According to St. Matthew 22:41
Simple Pass/Fail system - no "grading on the curve".
2006-11-11 16:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are living the test. God will give you the grade at the end.
2006-11-11 16:46:06 · answer #5 · answered by jim h 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is not quite as powerful as you may think.
God needs all that he/she has created in order to experience what god can not.
Don't you know that god is a spirit and that is all that god can be.
Nothing more, nothing less.
But god has the power to create material things and beings.
And through god's creation god expericences what he/she cannot experience directly!
There is no god test at the "end of time" as you suggest. The end of time would be the end of god!!!!
2006-11-11 16:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When time ends you will have passed the test, but the real test comes hourly.
2006-11-11 16:49:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The test is, did you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and take up your cross and follow Him?
You will not answer, for God will know.
2006-11-11 16:50:31 · answer #8 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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For 'book of life'Php 4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the BOOK OF LIFE.
Php 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the BOOK OF LIFE.
Re 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the BOOK OF LIFE, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Re 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the BOOK OF LIFE of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Re 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the BOOK OF LIFE from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Re 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the BOOK OF LIFE: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Re 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the BOOK OF LIFE was cast into the lake of fire.
Re 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's BOOK OF LIFE.
Re 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the BOOK OF LIFE, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
2006-11-11 16:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The test is going on now.At the end time it will be to late.Hope you pass the test.
2006-11-11 16:47:56 · answer #10 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋