Indeed the point being that many of these so called rapture dreams and NDE's seem not to follow what we have been told! That is distressing. All we can do is wait, watch and be hopeful! Many no doubt are born out of our own desires and misconceptions! No doubt some are real and personalized for those who experience them! But they are affirming for the most part! TR :amen: :rose: That was painful to hear Geri, people believing the lie’s told about you, and how hard that was/is to endure. Just one person in any given situation can be used of the enemy to try to destroy another through their own false perceptions. I suppose it has happened to most of us, and to me. It is most comforting to think on how God our Father, Lord and Savior, see’s each one for who He created us to be. Without fail, He has the everlasting unconditional love for each of us that brings us through and takes us forward in Him. The One Who has died for our sins, will not judge our sins at the Bema seat. Koinonia House: The Bema Seat deals with rewards for obedience, crowns, and the call of the Bride to the Marriage of the Lamb which occurs in the Father’s house. The Bema Seat Judgment is apparently the first order of business for the translated saints after the Harpazo. Everyone present will be “saved;” salvation is not the issue here. (That was concluded on a wooden cross erected in Judea about 2,000 years ago!) Everyone present will have been saved by the completed work of our Lord Jesus. The issue here is fruit-bearing, not salvation. The evaluation procedure is then detailed: Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, [or] wood, hay, stubble; 1 Corinthians 3:12 (KJV) The first three are permanent. The last three will perish under fire. (The largest load of hay or wood would be worth less than the smallest diamond.) Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 1 Corinthians 3:13 (KJV) If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. — 1 Corinthians 3:14 (KJV) So you have been saved: what have you done with it? That which is done for sake of personal gain, popularity, influence, or its impression on the world, will be for naught. https://www.khouse.org/articles/2014/1213/ Gee Yohanan all you did was pull her hair, Peter tied my braids in the desk's ink well and I got in trouble for not standing for the Pledge in Mrs. Lynn's 1st grade class. LOL Lol! That is hilarious Lee! Pulling Marie’s ponytail was my way of telling her that I loved her. I think she was sweet on me too and throwing things at me was just her way of saying so. 😁
Notice that there are six commodities in two groups, in descending order of worth. Three are products of a God’s creative act, not growth or development; three are the result of natural growth and development (from our old nature?).
Also, notice that the “work” is being appraised, not the person. It is the work being tested by fire, not the individual. All are building on the same foundation, but the results are vastly different.
Rewards, not salvation, are the issue. Among these rewards, five crowns may be included: the Crown of righteousness, Crown of glory, Crown of life, incorruptible Crown, and Crown of rejoicing.
