I Will Praise the LORD Always!!!

As we continue in this chapter, there are two sets of people being distinguished from one another. The backslidden and the reprobate. The backslider is illustrated in the parable of the prodigal son found in the Book of Luke, chapter 15, verses 11-32. There is still a chance to repent and to be restored unto the grace of the LORD. This will be evidenced by the rest of the world, who will not immediately fall in the destruction of “Mystery Babylon”. But once you have fallen in a reprobate state, it is done. It is finished. You have no more recourse. “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame” (Hebrews 6: 4-6, KJV).

Think about this for a minute. God saves you and you see His glory. But because of the choices that you or your loved ones make, and the consequences that you know will come, even with sincere repentance, you just turn away. As if this will make His judgment null and void. And it can happen to any of us as we see people falling away at a rapid pace. If we are not firmly rooted in Him, it would be easy to become disillusioned or to give up. To think that if so and so is not going to make it, then I don’t care to. Or I will just wrest the scriptures so that we all, or at least those whom I believe are worthy, will be able to enter in.

But it doesn’t work like that. This is why we are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. This is to be taken literally, and we must trust in Jesus to prepare our hearts and minds, as God’s prophetic judgments are swiftly coming to pass.