Re: Being called out of Babylon younger and younger....
Cute story...but there is probably a rather lengthy thread in what you said here. I have witnessed that it's been mostly the older ones who are being called out of Babylon. I became a 'Christian' when I was 20 and wandered in the wilderness of my denomination for many years and even more years after that in fruitless searching. I'm 47 now and it hasn't been until the last few years that I have come to really begin to understand some of the truth behind what I thought I had locked down solid as a man in my twenties.
A lot of water has to pass under the bridge and a lot of time spent in the wilderness for most of us in order for our house of sand to finally fall. Young people who really see these truths have to have an accelerated learning curve in spiritual things which for most of us come with time and wandering.
I think tragedies have much to do with this. Not that we ALL don't face them, as we all do.. But, at least for me, it was a few tragedies that 'started my Spiritual wheels turning in another direction'. First, it was my Nana who died, and some in my church told me that she might not be in Heaven, because she hardly ever went to church.
What? I thought.
How could Jesus send my Nana to Hell? She was one of the sweetest ladies I ever knew! Then it was the death of my 'dad' [by birth only...] He was never around, I perhaps met him half a dozen times--and most of those when I was a small child. For years I hated him... but then when I heard of his death, suddenly I felt compassion and pity for him. This caused me to question the doctrine of eternal torment as well--seeing that I, a sinful human could forgive a man who didn't deserve my pardon... Yet Jesus Christ couldn't do likewise? Am I more righteous, loving and forgiving than My Saviour? Yeah, right!
But of course, nobody in my church had any good answers... Most chalked it up to,
well, I guess we'll all know the rest of the story when we get to heaven. But that wasn't good enough for me... and THANKS TO GOD He led me to
BT!
- Christopher