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So then we strive to enter into that rest. And the struggle is bitter indeed. :)

It sounds like you need to go to my dialectic thread...where very few admit and are honest to see the seeming contradictions! :) But here is the verse for you. Hebrews 4:11 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

If we go to Him He will give us His Comforter that turns the bitter to sweet. We need not comfort ourselves lest we become adulterous in so doing. Our comfort must come from Him alone. We are not to try avoiding the bitter...but rather to face it with Him. We take on the hard verses of the...

The husband here is Jesus and the woman is us....the potential Bride...or not.

Man..you are fast! ;) I was thinking of adding in the flying scroll from Zechariah...but thought to make it's own thread. But the result of the curse is the bitter given to they who STEAL the sweet from the bible and give a false swearing (seven times-ing) as to their allegiance.

The tree of life. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. His life and order by the Spirit brings in divine order to our natural chaos. God sends His Comforter to make the bitter sweet for us.

That's just it. We in God's house are not subject to the "life and death" judgment...but we are fully engaged in the "blessing and cursing" judgment of the house of God. The fact that so few believers realize this is very scary indeed. Many believers are bitter...not sweet. They are bad figs...

And one last point regarding the OP... Ez. 3:14 "So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness" וְרוּחַ נְשָׂאַתְנִי וַתִּקָּחֵנִי וָאֵלֵךְ מַר Just as in Rev. 10 with the small book...that is sweet to the taste but bitter in the belly...so too the same is...

God hides things. He is a God who hides. Look at all the microscopic life...well we can't see it actually. But why go to all that trouble? What about the quantum realm. All seemingly chaotic. So then the chaos is built in. From the beginning..as in...in the beginning. God created darkness as...

I see natural chaos as when the divine order is hidden. Like why doesn't the earth spin out of control? Divine order! But no scientist can figure out why. And that's because we ...besides being very limited...need to just trust God from the "unknown" (the part that handles the "chaos") part of...

Actually only the beginning of story. The modern doctrine has the race won with one step. But such as do that in the real race are disqualified. We need to attain to Christ. God gives us time to do this. But if we are smug and feel like we are privileged without striving to enter into God's...

Now Rev. 10 is not a stand alone prophecy. The root of it goes back to the OT...as all prophetic statements should. So we have a much better appreciation of things when we get both perspectives out of treasures both old and new. :) So we begin Ez. 3 with this statement... v-1 "Eat this...

Before going to Ez. 3 and the megilat-sefer (the book-scroll) I'd like to compare two passages regarding chaos and the Spirit. Let's start at the beginning... 1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; (CHAOS) and darkness was upon the...

A mixed bag of responses here...from the interesting to the bizarre. :) But I think less speculation and imagination are needed...and more prophetic insight! The hardened forehead is a good thing...nothing to do with the mark of the beast...and this is in order to stand up to they who are...

But many believers who are saved from hell fire will be rejected into outer darkness. Judgment begins at the house of God. The truth is not just about eating sweets. Allow the truth to sink into your mind and heart.

False of course. We receive grace in order to do the works of heaven, or at least for works of righteousness for which we will be judged. We are justified by walking in grace in order to fulfill the commandments of God. If we love God we will DO His commandments. But if you think grace is a...

This is wrong. Jesus came to give us His perfection so that we would walk in it...and do the works of Jesus. God DOES expect perfection by giving us grace...to walk in the perfected humanity of Jesus. THAT is what grace does, Otherwise you have an invented pretend grace. Grace is the power of...

But redemption into what? Salvation into what? You are like a person who just wants to take a bus without knowing where the bus is going. Grace fulfills the law...otherwise it isn't grace. faith establishes the law otherwise it isn't faith. So you are trying to understand something spiritual...

Welcome here SYL :)

This is false. You are taking things too far...as all religious people do. The judgment of Christ is about the kind of works you do. Are they eternal works prepared in advance? Are they just human works based on religious posturing. Many will be rejected by God. Out of the same lump God makes...