Why Do We Deny Truth?

 There will be the UNJUST, there will be the WICKED, there will be those who endure the SECOND DEATH. These are all Biblical truths. Not all is rosy and uplifting. When Christ ministered upon the earth, He called out the wicked! He didn't hide their wickedness from them. 

Mat 23:27  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 

Jesus spoke truth, so why do we deny truth? I want to belong to the LORD, I long to be with my SAVIOR, I want to see HIM return! I want to rise to meet my LORD in the air and be with HIM for ever more! I don't want to be among the wicked, among the hypocrites, among those who are seemingly Christ's to all outward appearance but inwardly evil, God forbid! I do know the wicked exist! I do know evil exists! 

Jesus called out the wicked for their wickedness and He wanted them to turn from their wicked ways! May this be our desire, to turn from all wickedness and to desire all the wicked to turn from their wicked ways and seek Jesus Christ the LORD, their Savior!

We can't deny wickedness exists. We can't sugarcoat wickedness because to do so is to embrace deception and that is deadly, eternally deadly.

God help us! Keep us from evil, Father! PLEASE! We are such weak, sinful creatures! Please, save us from ourselves! Clean our hearts LORD, PLEASE.

All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR now and forever!!!!!!!

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Resurrection of the Just and Unjust

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The unjust will be resurrected, some object to this truth. The article we've been studying is vindicating the truth of the resurrection of the unjust- scripturally, logically. Pray for enlightenment through our Savior, by the Holy Spirit.

A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Unjust

By J.H. Waggoner 

CONTINUING STUDY….

Dan 12:2  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

'I have seen a change of translation of Dan. 12:2, which is far more plausible than that produced by the opposers of the resurrection of the wicked. It is the substitution of the word multitude for many. "The multitude of them sleeping in the dust of the earth shall awake." I do not assert positively that it is correct, though the word there used is sometimes rendered multitude, in the Old Testament. 

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 

1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming

1 Cor. 15:22, is another passage which, in my mind, clearly teaches the resurrection of the unjust: "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." They are made alive in, or by, Christ; not, as some say, "all in Christ" are  made alive, but in Christ shall all be made alive. If this be not so, I cannot imagine what verse 23 can mean: "But every man in his own order." For if the righteous only are made alive there is but one order. And here I am obliged to say I must dissent in some respects from the expositions of this text that are

generally given by those who affirm the resurrection of the wicked. 

It is usually admitted that there are three orders in the text: 1. Christ; 2. His at his coming; 3. The rest of the dead, or the wicked. This is evidently an error, and also gives the whole ground, on that verse to the opposition; for, in allowing that Christ is one order, verse 23 becomes explainable without any reference to the wicked, there being two orders without them. But it will be noticed that the resurrection of Christ is made the basis of the argument for the resurrection of man, and it is in, or by, Christ that "all shall be made alive." When it says, "Every man in his own order," it refers to every man of them who are made alive in Christ, and to no others. And to make Christ one order in this list we must make his resurrection the basis of his resurrection; that is to say, Christ is included in the number who are made alive in Christ! but this is absurd. Some authors, whose research and learning entitle their opinion to consideration, apply the word translated end (telos) to the rest, or last part of the resurrected ones. On this, expositors are not agreed. Whether this be so or not, makes but little difference so far as this argument is concerned. The resurrection of the wicked is found in this passage in these expressions, "All be made alive," and, "Every man in his own order." To make sense of this it must be allowed that there is more than one order. And it is no detriment to this view that the argument in the latter part of the chapter is concerning them that are Christ's exclusively; as it is no uncommon thing to first state a great truth and then take up an argument upon a certain branch of that truth. And that this is a correct view of this text is proved by those scriptures which state in positive terms that there is more than one order of the resurrection, to wit, one of the just, and one of the unjust; one of them that have done good, and one of them that have done evil; one to everlasting life, the other to shame and condemnation.

To be continued…