So did the anti-Christ deceive me into believing that this very fine, extremely kind and selfless person who used to be in my life but died of the jab was righteous, or that she died? The wicked have their reward in this mortal coil; the elect receive theirs later. That's Matthew Six.
OK (don't see anything to respond to here).
The elect will be protected, or the elect will be rewarded?
Both.
Do I tell her widower don't grieve, she must not be of the elect because she wasn't protected, or am I misunderstanding your dogma?
Isaiah 57:1 -- "The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil."
This is why the most innocent among the righteous go first. The good really do die young, that's Isaiah 57:1.
The good don't die young? Was I wrong to tell her mother that we must work harder at being good, so we can spend time with her again?
I personally wouldn't use those words, but I assume you were conveying a sincere sentiment.
Are we elected, or should we humbly stand by to see how His vote falls? And should we just stand by, or should we keep seeking Him? Because He isn't in the clown show. He's the people made hungry, cold, put in hospital or prison, not Trump at all but the least of these brethren of ours. Didn't He say so? That's Matthew 25, by the way, just so you can snap at me and tell me again that you know Matthew better than I do.
Sure, we may think of it that way. But being God, his ways are inscrutable. So, when he says that "when you did it to the least of these, you did it unto me", this is not a statement that he can only appear as those in destitution. Being very God, he does whatever he wants, Dan. 4:35.
Do you heed your own warning, or do you imagine that you can imagine what I can't imagine?
No, I imagine that Scripture directly informs us what you and I both cannot imagine:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isa. 55:8,9)
judging me to be unprotected from their lies, and therefore not of the elect. That's pretty harsh, man. It's a judgement if ever I read one.
I'm informing you that if you (anyone) think you can escape the coming Great Deception by human cleverness and "Show-Me"-ness,
you are already deceived. You're already in the jaws of the Great Deception itself, even as you comfort yourself that you won't fall for it because you're just so cynical and hard-boiled. The hard-boiled cynics and "Show-Me"-types are at the very head of the line to go over the precipice into the Great Deception, and that's exactly what Scripture tells us, it's not merely my opinion.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
1 Cor. 1:18-25
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Heavenly "pay grade" doesn't work the way it does on earth:
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and
show myself to him. (John 14:21)