Hi Darren,
Well that is a good question. As Bob said the Elect will be ruling with Christ. To think of what that entails is probably beyond our minds capability. Ray gave a little insight into that at the end of the Bible study 'Can We Lose God's Sprit and Eonian Life?'
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A few fringe benefits are:
Access to the TREE OF LIFE, which means you will be given immortality, never die again or fear death or worry about death.
You avoid SECOND DEATH, which is not only the second death spiritually, but all the judgment and stuff that goes with it. Why? Because you are judged now, if you are judged here you don’t need to be judged and condemned with the world later.
You get a new NAME, this means a lot of things, but it’s like you have to believe in the name and the name is everything that it represents and not just a new name, a better name.
POWER over the nation.
RIGHTEOUS garments, which mean we will be clothed in a perfect attitude, perfect righteousness.
Your new name will be CONFESSED BEFORE GOD THE FATHER.
Made a PILLAR, a mainstay, a vital support in the Temple of God.
SIT WITH CHRIST IN HIS THRONE.
(Rev. 2 & 3)
That’s a lot of good stuff. In fact here’s a problem with it. It’s too profound, we almost don’t even meditate on it.
See if you could go into some kind of training and after so long you would be like a cabinet member of the president of the United States, you would say that would be pretty neat. You might put up with a lot to go into some kind of training like that, because you would hob knob with the president on Air Force One, that a pretty neat plane. You would meet all the other royalty around the world and so on and that would be pretty good. Don’t you reckon this is a little higher calling then that? It is a high calling. Really high, probably too high for our spirit to take it in. We’re just oh okay that is pretty cool. But it really is great and I suppose, I’m thinking the further we go in life, if we believe these things, then it becomes more tangible. Not only will we believe them and think about them, we’ll start expecting them. Where the King James uses hope the Concordant uses expectation. We will expect it, we’ll be looking for it that much.
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Audio
March 2008 Bible Study Can We Lose God's Sprit and Eonian Life?
http://bible-truths.com/audio/Bible Study 03-02-08 Pt_1.mp3
http://bible-truths.com/audio/Bible Study 03-02-08 Pt_2.mp3
mercy, peace and love
Kat