Hello again logabe
You said in your first paragraph........
The parable you are referring to in Luke 12:42-48, is describing the Local Church:
Because the parable describes a group of “servants”, with some being saved and some unsaved.......
Luke 12:46
“The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.”
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In your 2nd paragraph you said...........
The Lord’s reference to “few stripes” or “many stripes”, is talking about God’s righteous judgement in regards to the lack of fire.............
Revelation 20:11-15
V.11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
V.12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
V.13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
V.14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
V.15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
God is a righteous judge, and every unsaved person will be judged, as to the kind of life they had lived.
They are all going to the lake of fire, because they rejected Christ as their Savior.
But their punishment in the lake of fire will be determined by their life, and how many times they rejected God’s free gift, etc.
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Your next paragraph........
Certainly salvation, is a gift and not a reward; So therefore believers can and will go to heaven, while yet losing rewards.
But the things talked about in Revelation chapters 2 & 3, given to the overcomers, are NEVER called rewards.
The Lord simply says, “to those who overcome, I will give.....”:
They are not things given, because a person overcame: but because they are overcomers.
It ever say that they were given, because these people overcame, would be teaching “works for salvation”.
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In your next paragraph you said.........
First of all, there is no such thing as a “non-overcoming Christian”.
Every Christian is an overcomer, because they trusted Christ and got saved.
Now this parable (Luke 19:12-26), does talk about differing rewards, depending upon their faithfulness. But all were overcomers.
Now the third person in this parable, is simply unsaved: This is also a parable describing the earthly(local), Church, that will be made up of both saved and unsaved people.
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Your next paragraph..........
The “fiery law” is the Law of Moses(V.4), and the Old Testament law was the way in which the Old Testament Saints, remained faithful.
It didn’t save them or keep them saved: It was simply the way they were sanctified.
As for all this stuff about......“unbelievers being “sold” to the overcomers”:
This is unBilical nonsense.
Sinners are in bondage to their sin, and are sold unto sin. (That is all)
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Finally you said.........
We are told how long Christ must reign on the earth until all enemies are put in subjection to Him.........
Revelation 20:6
“Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
And all this talk about “Christian slave owners”, is also unBilical nonsense.