There have been numerous times that a "partial rapture" teaching is made using the 5 wise virgins and 5 foolish virgins.Is there anyone who reads the letters on FiveDoves, who knows that they are among the wise virgins?Or is it more closely resembling something like, "I hope that I'll be in that number"?Isn't that kind of hope more like wishing on a star or over birthday candles?I, for one, know that I'm not "good enough to go", based in any way upon me.There is this problem with sin.Jesus had said:
Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Less than 2 seconds into a tv commercial, I'm already guilty, if only for a moment, of what is mentioned in line 28.And how much worse if I watch an entire show or movie?
Then there is the all too common thing, where, if someone troubles me, I imagine some scenarios.Most often, I imagine myself the victim, and imagine the other person doing or saying something against me.Now, I know that the LORD sees and hears my every thought, so it is like I'm portraying this video for the LORD, in my mind.It's almost like I'm saying: LORD, did you see what they did to me? Did you hear what they said to me?All the while I'm merely imagining the entire scenario, and thus bearing false witness against my neighbor before the LORD.
Additionally, I'm violating:
Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:18a An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
Additionally, how many other imaginations of mine, also involve wicked things?Like imagining something wild, like Russian intelligence spilling the beans on US & Chinese mutual involvement in fixing the 2020 election.I certainly don't know things like that for sure, so it is simply wicked imaginations on my part.
Then there is murmuring and complaining:Whenever a light turns red before I can get through the intersection, I get angry, say things out loud or under my breath, and sometimes hit the steering wheel.I'm not angry with myself, since I didn't make myself miss the light.I'm not angry at the light, as it is an inanimate object.No, for that one moment, I become a super-calvinist, believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, to where, in my heart, I blame the LORD for not letting me make the green light.Then, I murmur and complain the same way that Israel did in the wilderness.
And what about, thou shalt not covet ... ?Is there a portion of credit card debt due to taking money I don't really have, to buy things I don't really need, to impress people I don't really know?Also, what about:
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Then to cap it all off:
Romans 14:23b for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
A vast number of things I do, or say, is not of faith at all, and is simply by the flesh, the same way I did those same things before I was saved.
So, there is more than enough reason for me to know that I'm not "good enough to go" in a partial rapture.I would, however, really like to know how many people know that they are "good enough to go"?Or do people take the catholic approach to sin, i.e. mortal vs venial sins? i.e. that venial sins aren't bad enough to keep one here for the tribulation?It would really be sad if people are, hoping that they'll be "good enough to go", when it happens.Because if they haven't been, "good enough to go", up to this moment, why do they think they will be very different, going forward?Maybe some think that if they can go without sin, at least for the 5 minutes before the trumpet, that they'll just barely make the cut?
I'm not "good enough to go", but am I the only one?Is there anyone else who reads FiveDoves, that also knows that they, too, are not "good enough to go"?
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