"Trust ye in the LORD for ever:
for in the LORD JEHOVAH is Everlasting Strength" (Isaiah
26:4). 4 And
his tail drew the third part of the stars [Rebel Angels] of Heaven, and did cast them to the Earth: and the Dragon
stood before the woman [Israel] which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child [the Messiah]
as soon as it was born"
(Revelation 12:3-4). Conclusion back
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It is a tribute to the Heavenly Father that He is able to establish a Perfect Kingdom
that will so effectively and thoroughly discourage sin that it will be said, "There shall in no wise enter into
[the Holy City, New Jerusalem] any thing that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which
are written in the Lamb's Book of Life" (Revelation 21:27). "12 Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the Living God. Luke 16:22-26 records the story of how the rich man looked up and saw the poor man, Lazarus, at peace in heaven. What the LORD Jesus meant when He said,
"God is a Spirit: and they that worship
Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth" (John
4:24), is that God is an Infinite and Pure Spirit that "dwelleth not in temples made with hands" (Acts 7:48) and cannot be worshipped or serviced
by any external worship of man's hands, as if it was essential to His being or character,
i.e., "Neither is worshipped with men's
hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and
all things" (Acts 17:25). "11 And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about
the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the Throne on their faces, and worshipped
God, 12 Saying, Amen:
Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might,
be unto our God for ever and ever. As we have
already seen, all the inhabitants of Heaven engage in the morally, eternally
fulfilling experience of worshipping God, and what we shall see following the Pre-Tribulational
Rapture will be a gathering of all the Angelic and Human inhabitants of Heaven to
worship God, as witnessed by the Apostle John in Revelation 4:1-11: So, the presence of this Throne Scene following the Pre-Tribulational Rapture, establishes
the fact that both Glorified Saints and Heavenly Angels are still Moral Agents;
and, the fact that God has created and preserved such Moral Agency in the Inhabitants
of Heaven further indicates the necessity for the continued exercise of Moral
Agency throughout Eternity for worship-- for when can worship be exhausted upon such
a Worthy God?-- and for any other Heavenly Employment to be devised by our Benevolently
Wise God. When we perform the Will of God, we become inescapably happy in spirit and
heart-- and, our emotion of happiness will only catch up thereafter. If
the Omniscient God knew that Lucifer and his cohorts would rebel, why would the Creator
give Man or Angels His Moral likeness? "Prove
all things; hold fast that which is good" (1Thessalonians
5:21). Manifestly, to reject Christ is to reject the Government of
Christ and to walk in open rebellion against Him. I don’t have all the answers, but I do have some. "In the fear
of the LORD is strong confidence: and His children shall have a place of refuge" (Proverbs 14:26). The Dead Know Not Anything. And now so many of my acquaintances have gone there, that
it sometimes seems to me that I know more in heaven than I do on earth."]. Though the Holy Angels presently
in Heaven have never transgressed, these Angelic Beings take great delight and interest
in the Gospel of Redeeming Grace. "He that spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us
all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" If Heaven's Occupation was only to Learn of Christ, then that alone would
give Heaven Full Employment! "To the Law and to the Testimony: if they speak not
according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20). LORD, "Thy servant, who is
devoted to Thy fear" (Psalm 119:38), desires the privilege to dwell
"in the secret place of the Most High" (Psalm
91:1) "under the shadow
of Thy wings" (Psalm 17:8) as long
as Thy Glory shall endure. Without breaking the mechanism of the Moral Agency of Angels
or Man, He recognized that no one would ever come unless He morally drew or persuaded
them. Homepage Holy Bible At the Rapture both our soul and our physical bodies with be joined up with Jesus in the clouds on our way to Heaven. “There are two images in the New Testament about what happens. Instead, All Glory should be given to the Everlasting God,
"which worketh in you both to will and
to do of His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13), to bring to pass a blessed government and circumstance, where never sin
will molest. "Thy
will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven" (Matthew
6:10). I propose to Scripturally demonstrate that the Saints and Angels in Heaven:
(1) Are still Moral Agents, as we are,
(2) Must continually trust the LORD, as we must,
(3) Are encouraged by the exploits of the Godly, as we are, and
(4) Will always be in a state of being perfected, as we also always
will be. "Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD" (Leviticus
19:18). What the Scripture teaches
us about the Glorified Saints and Angels in Heaven must have profitability for the
advancement of God's Kingdom, or such investigation would necessarily come under
the classification of "vain jangling" (1Timothy 1:6). 11 Blessed
[happy] are ye, when men shall revile you,
and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake" (Matthew 5:3-11).
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