Satan's elect.

[whirlwind]

Ezekiel 28:2 "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; 'Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, 'I am a GOD, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;' yet thou art a man, and not GOD, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

• This is the prince, not the king, of Tyrus. Here he "hast said," and he sits in the seat of God. Past and present tense. This is now...today, when he sits in the "seat of God."
  
  On the other side of the coin...who is The True King and who (is/are) His prince? Jesus and His man child (-ren), the elect. In Ezekiel the "king of Tyrus" is a type for Satan so who is the man in "thou art a man" or...who is Satan's prince of Tyrus? Is the "man" there many men, just as the man child of Jesus is many?
  
  The following verse is future....

28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (10) Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

• Notice that "deaths" is plural. Can one man die deaths? Is the prince of Tyrus one man?

11 Thessalonians 2:1-2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

• What "man" will try to deceive us? Who is "that man of sin?" The same man sitting in the "seat of God" today as taught in both Ezekiel and here in Thessalonians. This is present tense....this "man sitteth and is shewing himself" there now! Where is this? IN THE TEMPLE and where is the temple? We are the temple!
  
  [list:2522cayq]1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

This man, termed the prince of Tyrus, is symbolic of Satan's elect...the tares. And they are in among us, in the Temple of God, pretending to be Christian...the many antichrists John wrote of.

• 1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

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2:6-7 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

• Iniquity - unlawlessness, wickedness, transgression of the law.
  Mystery - a secret. (this word is only in the New Testament)
  
  The secret of wickedness is already at work. Who is "he who now letteth" that will "be taken out of the way?" He, or they, are already working their wickedness but who (he/they) are will remain a (mystery/secret) until it is time...his time to be revealed.

2:8-9 And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy, with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.

 

[Joe67]

The anti-elect

Rom 9:21-23
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, KJV

The law works wrath. Where there is no law, there is no transgression. Romans 4:15.

Joe

 

[Vince]

This does bring up the question:

Does Satan call people to the ministry?

 

[NIGHTMARE]

This does bring up the question:

Does Satan call people to the ministry?

Yes,,,,just like we have people dedicated to serving and helping save souls,,,we have those dedicated to destroying christianity..... its alot easier to accomplish christian destruction from a pulpit.....

 

[lovely]

Matthew 13

36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.†37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed is the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, 42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

 

[whirlwind]

This does bring up the question:

Does Satan call people to the ministry?

You must not watch much television down in Mexico. I'm not naming names but...they're there playing like they are teaching about God.

 

[Vince]

Actually, I don't watch any television here in Mexico.