Letting The Electate Have Heaven
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When you receive the Seal you will be chosen of God even if you were not predestined by Him from the beginning. And you will be chosen regardless of your past sins. You will be the electate, for God will receive you and call you His own.
Some people were predestined or predefined by God from the beginning. These are undoubtedly the chosen of God. But others are chosen by God after they have decided to come to God.
Even if you make the decision to come to God you will still be chosen. God will still choose you in the electation. You will not have been chosen from the beginning but you will receive an equal reward in electation.
Jesus told the parable of a householder. When the householder went out to hire laborers into his vineyard, he found some at the first hour and hired them and they worked all day.
Then periodically throughout the day the householder went out and hired more laborers. At the end of the day those who has started early stood side-by-side with those who had been hired near the end of the day.
He had agreed with the beginning laborers on their wages for the day's work. But when he gave the same wage to those who had been hired late in the day, the beginners complained. Did they not deserve more?
But the householder did the right thing by offering those who had come last the same opportunity. The beginners thought it was unfair because they had worked all day. But the late-comers knew it was fair that they were given the chance to work too.
When you are sealed you will either be chosen from before God created the world or you will be electate--a person who comes to God today who God chooses today even though He had not thought to do so before.
Because the beginning of the day was before God created the earth and the first man, Adam. Some of you were hired (chosen) by God from the very beginning like this. Those are the predestinated.
But others were chosen by God after they came to God later, even though He had not originally included them in predestination. And there are those who have come to God (and been chosen by Him) just recently in this generation.
Also, there are people who were raised Christian from a young age. They were chosen by God at a young age. And then there are the electate, chosen of God in their later years even though they did not know God in their youth.
You can be sealed if you were never Christian before. And you do not need to be sure you were predestinated to belong to God. You just need to believe Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead to take His ete
al throne in Heaven.
True Prosperance is getting into Heaven. This householder gave wages to His workers. The most valuable wages you can ever receive are the tokens of your entrance into Heaven.
And the Seal is one such token. When you are sealed God will write His Name in your forehead. You will bear His Name so you will belong to Him. And when you belong to Him here on earth, you belong to Him in Heaven also.
Because on Judgment Day you can show God you were sealed. That you belonged to Him. That He entrusted you with His own Name. That you were the electate chosen by Him.
So the Seal is the most valuable possession you can get. It is the most valuable reward you can possible be given both now and forever, for you will gain entrance into Heaven when you receive the Seal. nnn
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