The Salvation of a few and eternal hell for the rest.

Ezekiel 5:3-4

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“You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment. Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.” Ezekiel 5:3-4

Some of the shaven hairs from the head and beard of Ezekiel were to remain in the hem of Ezekiel’s clothing and some thrown into the fire. God had Ezekiel to do this to show the Jewish people that some will be saved but the rest thrown into the fire to be burned. The Jewish people who reject Jesus Christ will unleash a fire through Israel.

A fire ravishes the land of the State of Israel because of the rejection of Jesus Christ. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus 2000 years ago, it’s because they exalted their own culture above the will of God. As a result, God gathered them to the State of Israel to unleash His judgment on them, Ezekiel 36:22. If they had received Jesus as their Messiah, they would be Christian, and the Jewish State of Israel would not exist. Christians do not have a nation to call our own on this earth, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. The unbelieving Jewish culture spreads the fire that goes out into all the house of Israel.

While the unbelieving Jewish culture will be thrown into the eternal fire of hell, those who believe in Jesus Christ will remain in the hem of God’s garment of eternal Salvation. This is described in the parable of the wheat and tares, “Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’ Matthew 13:30 The way to be among the wheat is to abide by the will of God to believe in His Son, Jesus, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

We live in a global culture that welcomes the entity that governs through their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. This entity enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

The whole world follows the entity that gives them what to think and feel and makes war with the followers of Jesus Christ. The global culture will burn in the eternal fire of hell, but the name of the few who are faithful to the testimony of Jesus is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. “It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:7-8. The “him” in this verse refers to the beast associated with the image and mark of the beast.

The world government of the beast, and its global culture, cause the fires of tribulation to spread throughout every city in every nation across the globe. They cause people to turn from God the Creator, tell people the remission of sin through Jesus Christ is not necessary, and encourages everyone to oppress the presence of the Holy Spirit. As a result, lawlessness abounds because the Holy Spirit has been taken out of the way, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 Click here for a post on the “lawless one”.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1