The World and the Word

        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Two types of apostates exist. The first is the believer saved by grace who backslides from his faith, returns to a sinful lifestyle, and refrains from daily repentance for forgiveness. These types of apostates who may daily repent just for show actually practice deliberate evil. According to II Timothy 2:12-13, Christ will deny these apostates His protection and His comfort, but He will never rescind their faith. Christ has all power, and He knows exactly how to return these apostates to true repentance and faith that they can know they have. When they physically die or Christ Raptures His Church, He will consign their sinful, fleshly natures to the bottomless pit until they truly repent and cry out to Christ to return them to His Church and knowledge of their salvation by grace. Matthew 5:25-26; Luke 12:45-48. Christ will present to His Father an absolutely pure and wholly sanctified Church. Ephesians 5:25-27.

The second type of apostate actually happens to be an agent of the Devil who pretends to be a Christian in order to spread false doctrine and discord in Christ's Church. The Apostle Peter wrote about both types of apostates in II Peter 2:1-22. He wrote about Lot who represents the first type of apostate. II Peter 2:6-9. Peter also wrote that God will cast the agents of the Devil into a burning Hell until the day of Christ's Judgment in the end of the world. II Peter 2:1-4. Peter further wrote that the agents of the Devil will learn a lot about Christianity, and they will pretend to be righteous but pretending to know Christ when one actually happens to be corrupt and evil is the worst type of deliberate evil. Judas Iscariot was this type. Nevertheless, in the day of Christ's Judgment, God will raise even the puny, little souls and spirits of these apostates who have done some good for Him to recreate to live on His  recreated earth. Even these apostates will repent and believe in the Lamb like all the others confined to the regions of death. Revelation 5:11-14. But God will recreate these apostates to be completely different persons than they were on the former earth. John 12:25. The Apostle Jude also wrote about these agents of the Devil in Jude 1-19.

Christ will come to Rapture His Church to Heaven. He will thoroughly cleanse it by washing it in the water of His Word so that He can present it to His Father as a glorious Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Ephesians 5:25-27. At the same time, Christ will remove His Holy Spirit who restrains evil from His world. II Thessalonians 2:6-8.

Christ will judge the world when He turns it over to total evil in the Tribulation period. The human race will suffer horribly in this evil time, but Christ will not abandon those who cling to an intellectual faith if they endure to the end. Matthew 24:13. But even in this evil time, Christ will not allow His gospel to go unpreached. When the Beast has overcome Christ's saints and has completely muted the preaching of the gospel, Christ will send an angel to preach His gospel to the whole world. Matthew 24:14; Revelation 13:7; Revelation 14:6-7. The Tribulation saints must endure to martyrdom or the end to become saved by grace. Because the Holy Spirit will not be in the world to restrain evil, He will not be available to wash them in the blood of Christ. They will have to wait until they get to Heaven to be washed in Christ's blood and receive their white robes of righteousness. Revelation 7:13-17. Those who refuse to be washed in Christ's blood because of fear or a desire to return to earth, Christ will cast out of Heaven into the bottomless pit to await their resurrection to be recreated. Matthew 22:11-14.