Dear Ritajanice,
In this world, most of mankind is not called to be saints. They will remain unbelievers until they die. They have no choice in the matter. However, there are "many" people who are called to be saints. But from that large group of "many", only a "few" of them are chosen by Christ to actually become saints. They are the Elect/First Fruits/heirs.
The unbelievers will never be given the Early Rain of the Spirit before they die. The people who are
called but not chosen will be given the Early Rain of the Spirit but
not the Latter Rain of the Spirit. They will remain unconverted until they die and will receive their portion with the unbelievers.
For those who are called
and chosen, they will receive both the Early and Latter Rains of the Spirit and be converted.
The decision by God (which He made before the foundation of the world) concerning who will be given both the Early and Latter Rains of the Spirit is what determines who will be saved in this age and who will not. God is in full control of all things and His "will" rules supreme.
Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
The Doctrine of Free Will is just another lie of the apostate church.
Below is the detailed pathway to salvation that all the Elect will travel to be converted and saved.
- Christ gives the Early Rain of the Spirit to a person and calls them to be a saint. This is when they will make a confession of faith and enter the church (1Cor 12:3). However, the new believer will remain spiritually blind, carnally minded and unconverted (Mat 12:43-45).
- The spirit of anti-Christ will then come to the unconverted believer and cause the Abomination of Desolation to occur within them. When the new believer consumes Satan's leavened bread, they will become "worse than the first"; a Man of Sin who mixes their own works with faith under the New Covenant.
- The new believer loses their salvation and unknowingly enters the apostate church.
- The apostate believer will hear and answer the call of Elijah to repent of their works so that the pathway for Christ is made straight. This is when they are restored to faith.
- Christ then comes quickly to them (the Second Coming of Christ) and He pours out the Latter Rain of the Spirit. This is when an Elect believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise (Eph 1:10-14).
- The new child of God is born within the believer.
- The believer's spiritual blindness is healed.
- Marriage Supper/Lord's Supper occurs where Christ feeds the believer His milk, bread and New Wine.
- Christ then appears to the believer and gathers the believer to dwell with Him in heaven (spiritually speaking).
- Judgment then arrives for the "born again" believer (Day of the Lord/Thousand Years Reign). The spirit of anti-Christ and the believer's carnality (Great Harlot) is removed from within the believer and is cast into the Lake of Fire for destruction. From this judgment, all that will remain within the believer is the Holy Spirit. They will now walk by the Spirit and will be able to keep the commandments of Christ because Christ causes them to "will and do of His good pleasure" (Phi 2:13).
- The believer is now converted from a child of the devil into a child of God. This is salvation.
- Next comes the time of testing by Satan when he is loosed from his prison (Rev 20:7-10). After the believer passes their time of testing, it will be said that they have overcome this world just as Christ overcame this world (Rev 3:21).
- The believer is now ready for the bodily resurrection which will occur at the end of the age (redemption of the body).
The pathway to salvation which I presented above is at the heart of the "
great mystery" of Christ and His church (Eph 5:32). It is very concealed by the spiritual language of Christ and is taught "here a little and there a little, line upon line and precept upon precept" so that
all unconverted believers (those who draw from the breasts) will "fall backward, and be broken, and be taken and snared" by Satan.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another language will he speak to this people. 12 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Since Paul's death, all Elect believers will pass through the apostate church before they are converted and saved.
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
No one can avoid becoming an apostate believer prior to Christ giving them the Latter Rain of the Spirit.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The pathway to salvation includes not only "bread" but also "leavened bread". Why? To humble us:
Ecc 1:13 An experience of evil God has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.
It is a very humbling experience to come out from Satan's deceptions and see the Abomination of Desolation that previously occurred within yourself. I speak from my personal experience.
Finally, I accuse no one of anything because that implies that the person is responsible for doing something wrong. They are not responsible for their sins but
they are guilty of their sins and will have to give an accounting to Christ for them.
Consider what these two verses state:
Jer 10:23 I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
Prov 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
See how Paul deals with the truth that these two verses above teach as it applies to man's sin and subsequent judgment:
Rom 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
God's ways are not man's ways.
Joe