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             GGOODD’’SS PPRROOMMIISSEESS     Consider well this fourfold                           GGOODD’S’SPPRROOPPHHEECCIEIESS
             RREEVVEEAALL WWHHAATT IISS            stated theorem:                                     RREEVVEEAALLWWHHAATT

                    HHIISS WWIILLLL          Let us now examine a series of   THE                   WWILILLLTTAAKKEEPPLLAACCEE
                                             promises found in God’s Word
             GGOODD’’SS PPRROOMMIISSEESS                                                           GGOODD’S’SPPRROOPPHHEECCIEIESS
      CCOONNTTAAIINN AA MMEESSSSAAGGEE OOFF       as well as the projected                    CCOONNTTAAININAAMMEESSSSAAGGEEOOFF
                                                   fulfillment as stated in
       PPOOSSIITTIIVVEE PPOOTTEENNTTIIAALL      prophecy in order that we                        NNEEGGAATTIVIVEERREEAALLITITYY
                                              might test this stated theory:
           ((WWHHAATT GGOODD WWIILLLLSS))                                                        ((WWHHAATTWWILILLLHHAAPPPPEENN))
                                               This first example deals with a
:THE                                          promise of salvation to the entire                        :

           “I WILL JUDGE YOU,                     house of Israel. Notice the                 “ ‘AND IT SHALL COME TO
 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, EVERY ONE                  specified conditions attached to                 PASS IN ALL THE LAND,’
                                              the promise that must be met by                          SAYS THE LORD,
     ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS,’                    each individual. Now consider                   ‘THAT TWO-THIRDS IN IT
          SAYS THE LORD GOD.                 what actually happens to Israel in
                                                                                             SHALL BE CUT OFF AND DIE,
  ‘REPENT, AND TURN FROM ALL                     this prophecy of the Second                           BUT ONE THIRD
YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT                    Coming of Jesus Christ. How
                                              many are saved? Only one-third.                      SHALL BE LEFT IN IT;
    INIQUITY WILL NOT BE YOUR                   Is this the will of God that two-           I WILL BRING THE ONE-THIRD
RUIN. CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL                  thirds perish, or is it the result of
THE TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU                 the individual expression of the will                  THROUGH THE FIRE,
                                              of man that causes the fulfillment            WILL REFINE THEM AS SILVER
    HAVE COMMITTED, AND GET                  of this promise to be less that what            IS REFINED, AND TEST THEM
YOURSELVES A NEW HEART AND A                                                                AS GOLD IS TESTED.THEY WILL
                                                           God desired?
  NEW SPIRIT. FOR WHY SHOULD                                                                  CALL ON MY NAME, AND I
   YOU DIE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?                                                                WILL ANSWER THEM. I WILL
FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE                                                                  SAY, ‘THIS IS MY PEOPLE’;
                                                                                               AND EACH ONE WILL SAY,
     DEATH OF ONE WHO DIES,’
          SAYS THE LORD GOD.                                                                    ‘THE LORD IS MY GOD.’”
                                                                                                           Zech. 13:8-9
  ‘THEREFORE TURN AND LIVE!’”
                  Ezk. 18:30-32                                                               (NEGATIVE REALITY)

   (POSITIVE POTENTIAL)

:THE                                                                                   THE              :

    “FOR I AM JEALOUS FOR YOU                     Our second example is like                 “THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
   WITH GODLY JEALOUSY. FOR I                 the first except that this promise              IS LIKE TEN VIRGINS…WHO
  HAVE BETROTHED YOU TO ONE                  was given to the church instead of
  HUSBAND, THAT I MAY PRESENT                Israel. It is a promise to be married             WENT OUT TO MEET THE
    YOU AS A CHASTE VIRGIN TO                to Christ. What are the conditions?              BRIDEGROOM… FIVE WERE

        CHRIST. BUT I FEAR, LEST                They must be found as chase                       WISE AND FIVE WERE
     SOMEHOW, AS THE SERPENT                 virgins. They must avoid becoming              FOOLISH…THE BRIDEGROOM
DECEIVED EVE BY HIS CRAFTINESS,
                                              seduced by Satan’s craftiness in                 CAME…THEY THAT WERE
        SO YOUR MINDS MAY BE                    preaching “another Jesus…a                    READY WENT IN WITH HIM
CORRUPTED FROM THE SIMPLICITY                                                                TO THE WEDDING; AND THE
                                              different spirit…another gospel.”
            THAT IS IN CHRIST.”              What does the prophecy state will                       DOOR WAS SHUT.
 (“YOUR MINDS MAY BE CORRUPTED                 happen? Only half of the virgins                 AFTERWARD THE OTHER
AND SEDUCED FROM WHOLEHEARTED                                                               VIRGINS CAME ALSO SAYING,
 AND SINCERE AND PURE DEVOTION                 are found ready at His coming.                ‘LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US!’
                                              The other half is left behind. The                BUT HE ANSWERED AND
              TO CHRIST” Amp.)                 promise was made to the whole                 SAID, ‘ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO
FOR IF HE WHO COMES PREACHES                 church by God as an expression of              YOU, I DO NOT KNOW YOU.’
                                              His will, but half made some bad              WATCH THEREFORE FOR YOU
   ANOTHER JESUS…A DIFFERENT                 choices based upon their own will.                (FOOLISH VIRGINS) KNOW
   SPIRIT…A DIFFERENT GOSPEL…                   In doing so, they have allowed               NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE
   (I FEAR) YOU MAY WELL PUT UP                                                             HOUR IN WHICH THE SON OF
                                                 themselves to be doctrinally
                    WITH IT.”                  seduced from pure devotion to                         MAN IS COMING”
                   2 Cor. 11:2-3                                                                    Matt. 25:1-13 excerpts
                                                               Christ.
   (POSITIVE POTENTIAL)                                                                        (NEGATIVE REALITY)
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