Today,
reply is on the process and substance of testing, temptation, and
trials that mankind undergoes from divinity. From Wuhan, China to
New York City, America covid-19 death tolls are being published,
without totals for those who have recovered. There have been
multiple cases of recuperation from covid-19, yet, not a single
successful treatment regimen appears to have been properly
documented! In the same way discussion of testing for covid-19
continues in the United States to be a distraction to publishing the
details for successful treatment of the disease, many confuse
challenges that regularly accompany life experience on the earth
with punitive interventions by the Creator to declare divine dominion over
mankind. Among mature Christian believers, testing by GOD is
understood as providing correction rather than punishment, and
pertains to GOD completing sacred operations that establish
immortality, eternal life, sanctification, and the expression of
immutable permanence. Discourse properly centers on the outcomes of
Creation, judgment, prophecy, redemption, sacred law, salvation,
solemn promise, resurrection life, and the second death. It
is written: Revelation 3: 10-13, King James Version (KJV): 10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to
try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold
that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12 Him that
overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall
go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and
the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which
cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him
my new name. 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
saith unto the churches. One of the fighters at “Yahoo! Answers”
Religion & Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no
profile information shown) posted the following:
If
millions of people catching a terrible disease is another test from
our loving and benevolent God then is dying from it a pass or a fail?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished: (2nd
Peter 2: 9, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Challenge of Covid-19 (03/22/2020); Jacob
Wrestled With GOD? (09/26/2018); Testing and Divine Process
(06/12/2017); Temptations, Tests and Trials? (05/12/2015); Is Sin a
Matter of Temptation? (04/22/2015); The Testing of Job? (10/06/2014);
Knowing the Spirit is Inside? (10/07/2014); Continuously Tested
(12/31/2013); Chosen To Serve As Prophets (01/01/2014)
“Anonymous”,
the Creator has continuing contact and exchange with mankind on the
earth by appearing as spirit process and substance within human
awareness and self-will (willpower). The testing that Christians
undergo are stages in their cleansing, development and spiritual
growth along with levels and phases in their becoming mature/ripe for
harvest by the Lord at his coming. Divine testing is not opposition
to entice, manipulate, or seduce someone to do evil. Your idea seems
to be that GOD is administering challenges, temptations, tests and
trials to the living as though they are students in a classroom where
their knowledge and skills must be assessed and rated, and their
achievement of grade-level standards must be determined and
acknowledged. More correctly, sinners must undergo permanent change
within covenant relationship through operations of divinity that
include acquiring sacred knowledge rather than academic or
secular knowledge; receiving fresh endowments of life
essence (breath; spirit; utterance; word) imparted from the
makeup of GOD; and becoming altered by multiple interactions among
the inseparable aspects of divine fullness such as balance, faith,
holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Rather than a focus on
material objects and social behaviors, testing and transformation by
GOD are through discovery, gradual growth, practice, and study of
things sacred as well as by passing through divinely generated events
and operations that call forth, display, and extend ones own spirit
content. Thus, developing believers are to embody accountability,
commitment, discernment, forbearance, forgiveness, gratitude, praise,
prophecy (comfort, edification, exhortation), purpose,
reconciliation, unselfish service, and suffering. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Wintley Phipps:
(1.)
Zechariah 13: 7-9, King James Version (KJV): 7 Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow,
saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and
the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the
little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the
land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be
cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I
will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as
silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall
call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my
people: and they shall say, The LORD is
my God.
(2.)
1st Corinthians 3: 11-15, KJV: 11 For other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if
any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s
work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because
it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s
work of what sort it is. 14 If any man’s
work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so
as by fire.
(3.)
James 1: 13-15, KJV: 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn
away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GznYI1aFolM.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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