CHAPTER TWO
WHO SHALL BE SAVED?
Know first this one thing, that it is the goodness of the Creator God, Yahweh, that turns man to repentance, and not vain threatenings. For from whom did you learn this? Threatening the fires of Hell on those who do not believe your witness does nothing more than to harden them against the Gospel! You may have read, “repent and flee from the wrath to come”, but who gave you authority to tell an individual that he has this one chance only and that if he does not take it, he shall indeed go to Hell? By doing this, you provoke wrong reactions. Some may wish to believe through fear, whilst others who may have been on the edge of believing your witness, could be offended and reject your words.
Do all with the love of the Creator and with the patience and longsuffering He shows to us, knowing that the Father loves them much more than you do – for when was it that you last gave counsel to the Creator God? Yes truly it is written, “He that believeth and is baptised (with holy spirit) shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”
Did our beloved Saviour say that all men shall be condemned having lived and died rejecting one witness? Or two or three witnesses? What about a man who dies in old age having rejected many witnesses throughout his lifetime, and on his deathbed he repents and gets saved, dying as a child of God? You make the Creator a respecter of persons with your beliefs, seeing that He prefers one man above another. You understand very little of the plans of God. The Lord Yahweh Himself has said, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways. For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” As I have said before brethren, the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of man!
Did not Yahweh listen to Moses and change his mind in thinking to destroy His nation Israel in the wilderness, telling Moses that He would raise up a new nation from him? Do you not understand that the Father will judge no man but has handed judgement over to His Son, and that we ourselves have been given part in this judgement? I told you plainly before that we will judge both men and angels. Why do you still worry and fret over loved ones? Is Yahweh hard of heart? No, Yahweh forbid, but you are hard of heart, hard of hearing and slow to understand.
There once lived a man, of good report and good standing amongst his fellow men, in a far remote place on the Earth, and that, around 1500 years ago. Well the man died without having received a witness of the Gospel as no-one had dared venture to such a remote place. On dying, he found himself in Hell and suffering intensely. Being greatly tormented, he cried out for help as he did not know where he was nor how he got there. Yahweh answers him and the man asks why he is in such a dreadful place. Yahweh tells him it is because he does not believe in His Saviour Son, Yashua HaMasiyach, sent to save the world from sin. The man replies saying that he knew not of any Saviour, nor of any plan of redemption. He protests to Yahweh arguing that if no-one had been sent to teach him, then how could he be found guilty? Yahweh replies, “Sorry but rules are rules! Anyone who lived and died after My Son’s death and resurrection without becoming born again, ends up here – tough luck!”
That brethren, is what you teach in your churches. Your beliefs and teachings are absurd and do not line up with the greatness of Yahweh’s salvation plan! You brush aside all the people over the past 2000 years who have lived and died without having received a witness to the Gospel - you place them according to your beliefs, in Hell along with humanities worst offenders! With the worst criminals that have ever walked the face of this Earth! Man’s wisdom!
I thank my God that He has more love and wisdom than you people all together, and that His longsuffering is such that those of you who are saved – remain so! What about a child? I have been told you have many strange ideas regarding children, and some of them are just to please people. Others, on the other hand, are downright cold blooded and hard, not befitting the thoughts and beliefs of Son’s of Yahweh!
You say that a child becomes fully responsible for believing or rejecting the Gospel at an age set by God which is different for each child. Oh heartless generation! How does the Lord Yahweh keep patient with you? You speak as natural men, with no real love of the Father in you, which makes me wonder whose children you are! If a child comes of age to believe, and at the first, rejects the message and dies, how then does he compare with the aforementioned aged man who refused all witnesses throughout his long life, living in sin, but dying as a child of the Most High? The truth is brethren, we cannot tell who belongs to the Father and who does not unless the Father Himself reveals it unto us. Neither can we know at what point a person will be born again as these things belong to God.
It seems to me that you are altogether much too eager to send people to Hell – and thank God he has not left this decision in your hands! Are you so void of understanding? O hard hearted generation!
The subject of Hell, we will leave till later but now I must clarify somewhat, Yahweh’s total plan of redemption. If the Father truly loves much more than we (and He most certainly does!), then why do you hold in your hearts that He is using a very wide mesh sieve in order to lose as many souls as possible? If you, looking to save your family, and having less love than the Father Himself, would employ everything within your grasp in order to save them, then why should not God whose love is deeper than man can fathom? Cannot He use every method at His disposal to save as many as possible, using finer meshed sieves? Does not the Almighty Father God, the Creator of all, work in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform? Has God Himself told you by revelation that all the children of the infidel nations put to death in ancient times by the nation of Israel, are all bound for Hell or do you just presume so?
Could it not be that Yahweh, in His eternal wisdom, ordered the deaths of these little ones in order that they be saved in the future? That they be given a proper chance in life instead of the one they were headed for with parents who were Devil worshippers? How can you tell? Has the Creator shown you these things in a vision or revealed it to you in other ways? How can you tell O man, the plans of the Almighty Creator Yahweh, to save mankind? In your wisdom you have reworked God’s complex scheme of things, and will now advise Him of the way to go! Like a child who advises his parents of right and wrong. Yes I am aware that on some occasions the women and the children were spared and on other occasions were not. I understand your beliefs on that, but who has confirmed the truth of the matter? Man, by nature, jumps to conclusions! The plan is God’s – not mans! God, who gave His only begotten Son, to be humiliated, beaten, tortured, and which Son willingly gave His life for all mankind, seeks the maximum harvest!
Happy are the humble in pride, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Happy are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Happy are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
Happy are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Happy are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
Happy are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
Happy are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
These words were not spoken to us as believers, under this Grace administration – the people mentioned will be additions to the family. Not until the Kingdom is set up will we see the fulfilment of this prophecy, and the results of it will be very far reaching! Reaching back also into time, as well as affecting people living today and people living under the 1000 year reign of the Messiah, Yashua.
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy, that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to be sociable, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation, against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
To whom is that scripture talking? To son’s of Yahweh? We already have life eternal! In regards to the above scriptures, our Lord Yashua Messiah, in answer to His disciple’s question, “What shall be the sign of the end of the world?” Messiah answered, “When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the Throne of His Glory and before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me meat, thirsty and you gave Me to drink. I was a stranger and you took Me in, naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’
Then shall these righteous answer Him and say, ‘Lord, when did we do these things for You?’
The King shall answer and say to them, ‘When you did any of these things for even the least of these, My brethren, you did t for Me!’"
Yahweh has made all these people righteous because of their behaviour and treatment to the brethren! My beloved children, does it not thrill you to see the ways that God has provided to save His family? Do you understand more, Yahweh’s tremendous love for His creation? His people are many, and He in His most glorious wisdom and love, has provided a way for all those written in the Book of Life, which book I believe is large and thick. Albeit some may need re-educated in the Truth, but is that impossible for our God when you weigh it against the value of a human life? Yes, and it is true our Lord and Saviour did say that wide is the way that leads to destruction and many are they that find it, and narrow is the way that leads to life and happiness and few are they that find it, but cannot the Creator God lead some later towards that narrow way? Our Lord Yashua did not explicitly state that if you missed that way first time around then you are lost forever.
For the hard heartedness of the Church, I write these things, that you might not walk so narrow minded and that your vision and understanding relating to Yahweh’s Kingdom might widen a little more to the inexplicable greatness of His redemption plan. I thank my God again that He did not leave it to man himself to make these decisions. For who indeed would be saved? The hard heartedness of man cuts to the heart – like cold steel!
Did not Daniel write, “And at that time (the end of the seven year tribulation period), thy people (Israel) shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the Book. (As clearly stated also in the book of Revelation):
Revelation 20: 4: “And I saw thrones, and they (we the saints) sat upon them, and judgement was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Yashua (tribulation saints) and for the Word of Yahweh (Israel), and whosoever had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands (a third group of people! Not Israel, and not tribulation saints!), and they lived and reigned with Messiah a thousand years.”
The goodness, greatness and mercy of Yahweh! Clearly stated after this verse is, “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years had passed.”
The rest of the dead include the following:
1. All the most evil devil seed people who have wilfully and knowingly walked contrary to all the Creator stands for, following the leadings of their Serpent king, Satan.
2. All the people who have ever lived and died, not knowing the Creator and His Son, but who did not fall to Satan.
3. All people since Pentecost who did not receive a witness of the Gospel.
4. All people since Pentecost who were of good heart but for varying reasons did not accept their calling i.e. the churches throughout history have invariably given a very bad image of the Creator and have actually driven many away from God and His plan of salvation.
5. The mentally ill, born on the Earth during all ages and abandoned by their families.
6. All people who have lived a life of mental and physical abuse since childhood, becoming severely psychologically damaged.
7. All children born into satanic families and sacrificed to Satan, never having had a chance to live.
8. Aborted children of which there are many millions.
These I believe brethren, are the eight categories of the dead who will appear at the end of the 1000 year reign of Messiah, in the Resurrection of the Unjust, recorded in the book of Revelation 20: 4, and mentioned in Matthew 25: 31-46, John 5: 28, 29, and also in Daniel 12: 2. These countless millions died unjustified, so therefore must appear in the Great White Throne Judgement of the Unjust in order to receive justification or condemnation.
I must explain something further at this point. In Mark 16: 16 it is recorded: “He that believeth and is baptised (directly with holy spirit) shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”
We as men, by nature, jump to giant conclusions. The Greek word used here for “condemned” or “damned” is “katakrinō” which is a definite negative judgement, and from which there is no escape! But our Lord Yashua did not say, “But he that believeth not immediately on hearing, then dies, shall be damned!” Nor did He say, “But he that believeth not during his lifetime upon Earth shall be damned!”
There is no time limit placed on the words of our Saviour Yashua. The only condition placed on His words are “he who does not believe”, it does not state time. Man always pounces on the negative and proclaims them boldly, even eager to blow them up out of proportion because it is part of our old man nature. Learn from this beloved.
We must always be very careful when reading. Careful not to put our own private interpretation into what we read. Yahweh, does not write or speak as man. There is always a depth of meaning in the words of Yahweh. Sometimes hidden meaning that is not obvious at first, but He can reveal them to us as we apply ourselves to His Word, meditating, studying and praying. Yahweh will give understanding and wisdom to those who ask sincerely from the heart!
In Revelation 20: 13, the Greek word used for “judged” is not “katakrinō” as in Mark, but “krinō” which does not mean a negative judgement only, but a “determining” or a “concluding” judgement. In other words, all the people appearing in this Great White Throne Judgement, will be assessed as to their fate, hence the reason for the bringing forward of the Book of Life. It is the reason why we read in verse 15: “And whosoever was not found written (the goats of Matthew 25: 32) in the Book of Life, was cast into the Lake of Fire.”
As I pointed out before brethren, Yahweh does not waste His time giving us written information that we do not need or which is not significant. Why would He then, have the Book of Life brought forward at the Great White Throne Judgement if it did not contain the names of anyone appearing there? If all appearing are to be condemned, why have this book brought forward? Yahweh is much wiser than to do such a thing! We can then, by this, re-read mark 16: 16 and understand it thus: “He that believeth on Me shall be saved, but, at the end of time, when all is said and done, and there remains people who refuse to believe, those people shall be condemned.”
God’s will is that all men come to a knowledge of the truth and be saved – that is His will, but we with freedom of will, must in the end choose correctly, and as God has explained to us in Revelation, even during the 1000 year reign of His Son on Earth, there will be those who refuse to follow Him. Many will gather themselves together at the end of the thousand years and attempt to destroy Israel and Yashua as they do not want to be told how to live and be obedient to the laws of the Creator Yahweh!
So now you see, the scriptures of Daniel, Matthew, Mark and Revelation fit perfectly together with no discrepancies whatsoever. The people mentioned will form the vast majority of the multitude that make up the “nations” mentioned in Revelation 21: 24-26, along with people who will undoubtedly join them from the period of the 1000 year reign of Messiah. We, the Body of Messiah, and Israel, (the bride) cannot be counted among these “nations.”
How else could we reign as a nation of priests after the 1000 year reign? Countless millions will be required in order that we can fulfil this scripture! There will always be people who will have physical bodies that the Creator can keep alive eternally as was the plan for Adam in the beginning. Physical bodies that will need healing occasionally, for which purpose serve the trees of life or “living wood” that are on each side of the river that flows through the New Jerusalem, “whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.”
The reason we read the word “many” in Daniel 12: 2, and not the word “all” is because the fallen ones, called in the Hebrew tongue, “Nephilim” in Isaiah 26: 14 and later another group called the “Rephaim”, translated “deceased”, shall not rise! The other lords that had dominated God’s people, but who were extremely evil and are called in Isaiah the “deceased”, or in other words, the “destroyed” who Yahweh visited and who seemingly will have no resurrection. They have been dealt with fully!
You should take note that they have in one verse of scripture, six negative judgements pronounced upon them, which is rather significant! People who stood against the Creator are marked out by the number six, like Goliath and King Nebuchadnezzar. The coming Antichrist has sixes marked against him as well!
Isaiah 26: 14: “They are dead, they shall not live, they are deceased, they shall not rise, therefore Thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish!”
How much more emphasis does the Creator need to place in this scripture to get us to take note? They have been dealt with severely!
Remember I wrote to you before regarding unbelieving husbands and wives? I said also that it was I who spoke and not Yahweh, taking liberty to say what I said, knowing the goodness and mercy of the Creator. I say again the same, having my beliefs strengthened that the unbelieving husbands and wives are sanctified by their believing spouses. They do good, one to the other, and as such, the unbelieving partner must be rewarded. The word “sanctified” in the Greek is “hagiazō” and equals the Hebrew “kodesh”, translated as “holy” but which means “set apart”(set apart for God.)
It first appears in the book of Exodus, in 3: 5. Kodesh in scripture must always have this one meaning, and, is never used to imply moral quality except when applied to Yahweh. My beloved, how else could our Creator tell us that He shall wipe away all tears from our eyes and that sorrow, crying and pain, shall no longer be? Yes, it is true that the former things shall be forgotten eventually, concerning the old heaven and Earth, but our loved ones? We must refrain from jumping to conclusions, and rather, pray for wisdom and understanding that we may see more clearly, the plans of the Father, whose wisdom, mercy, grace, power and love, are unsearchable!
Remember always, that the words of the Father are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace. Words pertaining to the Earth, but which have been purified seven times! Seven is the number of spiritual perfection and is the hallmark of Yahweh. His wisdom is watermarked by this number! Yahweh will speak to us in very few but extremely well chosen words. Respect what is written and treat His Word with the same care in which it has been given to us!
I read, I pray, I meditate, I speak in tongues, I pray in tongues, in order to receive from the Father, wisdom and enlightenment.
After the Rapture, the gathering of the saints, there will be a period of false peace on Earth as the Antichrist will be revealed and will fool the majority of people on Earth into thinking that he is indeed a man of peace. Shortly afterwards, he will show forth his true nature and will go out destroying the nations who stand against him. He will stand in and profane the holy Temple in Jerusalem and shall blaspheme the name of God, which will begin the period of Yahweh’s wrath upon the nations of the Earth. The Antichrist will go after all who follow the Creator during these days and many will be martyred!
Revelation 7: 9: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.”
Verse 14: “... And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Could it be made plainer that many will be saved out of the great tribulation to come? This is not the nation Israel, but many nations. Nor is it the 144.000, for they are of the Tribes of Israel. Neither is it the Body of Messiah which previously had been taken from the Earth! All these saved had been given a second chance to believe, once the true Church had been removed. Give place to the truth of the Word and let the Word do the talking! Let your doctrines of devils cease!
Were not Yahweh’s prophets of old sent time and time again, sometimes over many years, to warn His people to repent of their evil and to turn back to Him before judgement finally fell? Yahweh does not change. We can rely on Him to remain constant in His ways. In this regard, I perceive that all men will be treated with fairness and righteously, and that all will be given the appropriate opportunities to believe as again I say, Yahweh is no respecter of persons!
Was not I, the least of all saints, given an unwarranted and exceptional witness to the Gospel, to the which many could point their fingers at and say, “His witness was unfair! I received no such witness otherwise I too would have believed!” But no man will need accuse the Father of any unfairness – no man will have any need to complain!
The 144.000 mentioned in Revelation are all special men of God, priests, undefiled by women, who shall be sealed and protected so that none may harm them as they go about their task of preaching to the inhabitants of the Earth during the Tribulation. They shall gather a very great harvest!
At the end of the seven year tribulation, Messiah will return and end the war before all flesh is completely consumed. His reign shall begin, and countless millions more will be saved. Think about it brethren. What kind of a witness will these people receive? Surely the greatest witness of all times! How can you then continue to believe and teach as you do, that if you do not believe now, you will go to Hell? Do you call that fair? Is your God a fair God?
One other nonsense I must deal with here is that at the return of Messiah, any woman left on the Earth, and who is with child, will lose that child to the rapture! That Yahweh will not leave any children on the Earth for the Tribulation period. Any children whose parents do not believe, will undoubtedly remain here, which is the perfectly normal thing! Why else would Yashua have said “And woe unto them who are with child and to those who give suck in those days…”
Life will go on as normal, as we have been told, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.”
Why then do you teach that God has planned a massive disappearance of children? Do you also teach that a woman will not be able to become pregnant during those tribulation years? Why do you differentiate so between children in those last days and children who live and die today in much misery and pain?
Taken from AWAKE TO POWER! By Edward Laughlan and featuring the apostle Paul.
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