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CHURCH NOT REMOVED
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And this is a real argument against the idea that God’s people will be snatched away prior to this grand finale, which the world will be experiencing very soon. The Church has not yet been victorious. And before God takes us out, we must make those walls of Jericho fall. And this will not happen until God’s people finally topple the walls of Jericho (and topple our love for this world of sin) in our very own hearts!
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So the conquering of Jericho ultimately represents the overthrow of sin, and the overthrow of this world of sin, and the overthrow of our love for this sinful world.
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CHURCH TAKEN OUT
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But this caveat must be added. Those who teach that the Church will be taken out of the world, before the great tribulation are correct in their thinking, to a certain extent. That is, the Church, God’s Elect, will enter into the Most Holy Place with Christ, in heart! And though our mortal bodies will still be on earth, yet our hearts will be hidden with Christ in heavenly places. But this won’t happen until God’s people grow weary of embracing all the glittering tinsel-like treasures and trinkets of this world! We must finally forsake the faithless ways of this Babylonian world!
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THE GREAT AWAKENING was a spiritual revival that focused on inward reflection and faith.
“TO MOLES & BATS”
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“In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.” Isaiah 2:20, 21.
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This passage from Isaiah has a special application for today. In this age of materialism and hedonism, it has become a special test for God’s people to overcome the things of the world. The Christian community had been bombarded by a host of earthly entanglements: career-aspirations, various amusements, lusts, material goods, pride-filled attainments, political questions, and various ideologies.
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These are just some of the things which entangled and ensnared the Church, causing a Laodicean lukewarm-ness among God’s people. Now of course, God understands this, and has allowed the Church to experience, first hand, the folly and vanity of these things.