Ears To Hear

He who has an ear, let him hear!

Jesus gave John, the Beloved Disciple, seven letters to communicate to the churches.  This was after His resurrection.  These letters were to the Church, not to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus spoke in Revelation chapter 3:

10  Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. [11] Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the Temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the Name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God. And I will write on him My New Name.

13 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 6:

15  And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

The Church is clearly omitted from the wrath of GOD!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5:

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation (G4991) through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

The word salvation used here means:

deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation

deliverance from the molestation of enemies

in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the soul’s safety or salvation

of Messianic salvation

salvation as the present possession of all true Christians

future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.

There is no mention of suffering wrath but just the opposite!

The disciples asked Jesus about the end times.  In conclusion, He spoke in Luke chapter 21:

34″But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth (earth dwellers).

36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

We escape the Tribulation by our demonstrated reliance on Christ, our Redeemer; we don’t endure the Tribulation.  A few verses earlier, Jesus tells us, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.” 

He didn’t warn us to look out, He said to look up. There are no admonitions for the Church to watch out for the Antichrist. She is to look up for His Imminent Return.

Jesus, Paul, and John all recorded FATHER’S Love for the true church, the Bride of Christ.  FATHER will protect His Son’s Bride more so than an earthly father would.  He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

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