I read that too Arc. How true and yet how sad it is to know that they are so decieved and they have no clue about it! Come to think of it, I know for a fact the my dh has had more troubles in life b/c of 'christians' that b/c of any other people. It has all the sudden come to me now and he is saying "see, i told you so"! I was blinded for years as to just how corrupt they really are! IMO, these will have the hardest time at the white throne of judgement b/dc they are unteachable at this point; they think that they have arrived. The Physical road leads to deception, the spiritual road leads to life; although b/c they see with their eyes instead of w/ their spirits, then they SEE me getting all kinds of trials and they think that I must have some hidden sins in my life that I have not repented of and thus I must deserve this 'punishment of trials that I am going through, b/c they aren 't going through these things, so they must be in the will of God'! But, oh how thankful that I am a child of God whom is voluntarily going through the Gahenna fires and being cleansed in righteousness at this time,,,,,
PS, Arcturus, I am so sorry to hear about your Grandmother. I am sure she was very special to you; I know that mine was to me before she passed away. Sounds like she got to live to a very ripe age! ( Does that run in your family?
) Isn't it great and comforting to know that we will meet up with our loved ones again; and when we are with them next time, they will be perfected in their very own and unique personalit and totally mature in the spiritual person that they always were... (that we saw glimpes of while they were with us.)
I knew an elderly neighbor of mine whom passed away at age 96 and she had stated to me one time that( b/c she was a multi millionaire) that "NO ONE HAD EVER HELPED HER TO GET IT; I GOT IT ALL BY MYSELF"...Of course I couldn't let her go through life being so decieved, so I did indeed inform her that it truly was GOD that helped her along the way; she refused to believe it till the day she died
.... go figure!!!!!!