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Layla:
I always thought the reference to the first shall last and the last shall be first was in reference to OT Church (Israel) and the NT Church (Israel) and the order of their entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Peace,
Layla

WillieH:
WillieH: Hi Layla... peace...  :D


--- Quote from: Layla on October 14, 2006, 09:24:42 PM ---I always thought the reference to the first shall last and the last shall be first was in reference to OT Church (Israel) and the NT Church (Israel) and the order of their entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Peace,
Layla

--- End quote ---

GOD's Word... a many layered onion! These type verses can have many meanings and applications...

Maybe the prettiest and handsomest will be admiring the ugliest in the next world eh?  ;D

Peace...  8)

In  JESUS ...willieH  ;)

gmik:
Hi Willie, glad to see you over here!!

gena

YellowStone:
Sandy wrote:

I think what Jesus is saying here, are those who are first (or last in this world) will be last (or first in the next world).

Those being "first" now are the ones Christians look up to: pastors, teachers, etc. The "last" now are those considered on the lower rungs (lay people, students, custodians, etc.).

When Jesus chose His disciples, He didn't pick those in the upper echelon of the Jewish synagogues; He went to the tax collector and fishermen. In a way, our values upside down from God's POV.

Those whom we think should get the highest honors will get the lowest, while the man or woman who prayed behind closed doors, helped their neighbor, and did other anonymous deeds as unto Christ will be honored above them.
I hear you loud and clear Sandy :)

Here are a couple more scriptures that give the same witness.

1Cr 1:27
* But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

1Cr 1:28
* And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Peace, Love and Joy to you,

Darren

Layla:
 Luk 13:29-30  And they shall come from the east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.


--- Quote ---GOD's Word... a many layered onion! These type verses can have many meanings and applications...
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Hi Willie

Yes I agree.  More specifically what I am seeing is the FIRST chosen was OT Israel, but because of unbelief and rebellion that house has been made desolate and will not be restored until the time the wicked are restored LAST.

Eze 16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

The election (chosen overcomers) who are LAST in terms of appearance are faithful and shall be restored FIRST partaking of the first resurrection.

Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful.

Peace,
Layla

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