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. . . . the chaff and the wheat?:
"If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." 1 Corinthians 3:15 (KJV)
JTB declared: “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. . . . .
. . . . His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” Matthew 3:11-12 (ESV)
I find it interesting that verse 12 is an inference to it being His threshing floor and a "living" one Jesus will purge and not the threshing floor of others which might of presumption, claim/believe to be His [I leave it open that they might be one in the same]. However, this, I believe is what the 7 years of tribulation will accomplish because of what it will produce for God, i.e., a people "made" compete in Him. This will be the time of ultimate and last period of time given those for whom repentance is possible.
Ref's: Heb.9:14; 2Pet 3:14; 1Tim 6:14; Eph. 5:27; Rev. 7:13,14; Rev. 13:7,17; Rev 7:16.
Obviously, this is arguable [at least some parts are] and I hope they will be in an intelligent, Christlike manner.
"If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." 1 Corinthians 3:15 (KJV)
JTB declared: “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. . . . .
. . . . His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” Matthew 3:11-12 (ESV)
I find it interesting that verse 12 is an inference to it being His threshing floor and a "living" one Jesus will purge and not the threshing floor of others which might of presumption, claim/believe to be His [I leave it open that they might be one in the same]. However, this, I believe is what the 7 years of tribulation will accomplish because of what it will produce for God, i.e., a people "made" compete in Him. This will be the time of ultimate and last period of time given those for whom repentance is possible.
Ref's: Heb.9:14; 2Pet 3:14; 1Tim 6:14; Eph. 5:27; Rev. 7:13,14; Rev. 13:7,17; Rev 7:16.
Obviously, this is arguable [at least some parts are] and I hope they will be in an intelligent, Christlike manner.