@Taken
Let’s try it this way:
When you read this passage:
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you” (1 Peter 4:12)
How does it affect you?
For me it’s telling me to not be surprised when fiery trials come my way. It prepares me to endure those trials.
I asked you...what endure means specifically...
~ It’s a warning to BELIEVE, by your own will-power In the Lord God, until the end of your natural life......
~ The gift for THAT ^? You shall be Saved.
~ A Warning...IF YOU DO NOT continue...ENDURE BELIEVING to the end of your natural life...You will not receive Gods Gift of Salvation.
Endure, Keep, Continue......WHAT......Believing.
Until WHEN.....................................The end of your natural life.
WHY...............................................You will BE SAVED....THEN.
WARNING.........WHY? Because you are KEEPING IN BELIEF, by your own WILLPOWER.
So?
Remember that thingy...powerful evil spirits roaming the earth?
Remember that thingy...powerful kings oppressing people?
Get it?
Powers greater than you, have cunning devices to trick you into following THEM, believing in THEM, rather than God.
I do NOT “endure” to my end.
Which is to say “I” don’t BY MY WILLPOWER, Keep in Belief, by MY WILLPOWER....
I agree with Scripture....powerful evil spirits and powerful wicked men DO have more Power than me. I opted to NOT make myself caught off guard, tricked by an evil spirit or wicked man and INSTEAD accepted the CHOICE Jesus Offered....THAT HE would PUT HIS POWER “IN” ME, and DO THE KEEPING OF MY BELIEF....FOR me, by His Power.
And the FIRERY TEST? Already Been TESTED....WHEN, I freely chose to CONFESS my Belief to the Lord, IN God and IN Christ Jesus....and gave Him my Bodily LIFE......DEAD......Crucified with Jesus.
And......His Test of Fire IS part of His Holy Baptism.
Matt 3:
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11] I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
My body was already given...dead...expressly freely given to the Lord God.
My confession was Made, My confession Tested it be True, My soul restored, (saved), my spirit born of Gods Seed, (born again), my body taken, washed, covered (with His Light), sanctified, justified, prepared....to be Lifted UP off the face of the earth, BEFORE Gods SENDS DOWN His Wrath upon the WHOLE earth.
I did the Will of the Father....and in no way, shape or from subject to be ON EARTH and suffer His Anger and Wrath upon the unrighteous.....and those unrighteous making their decisions to CONFESS their belief, and mortally DIE for their belief, and then BE SAVED.