This is the first place I flew to this morning when I could. To read Amadeus post again.
We are all going to face Gods fire. Its a purging. For those who face that fire now, when they face His brightness when He comes again they will be able to stand. These might suffer some loss, but they will stand. They faced trial and testing after they met Him and before they physically died. Over the course of their life with Him here.
But then it says some will be saved as through fire. It doesn't sound really good exactly for them. It sounds to me like they will stand but...will enter with no...umm...coin of the realm. Like, they'll enter, but as paupers. Not just paupers, but with not much treasure stored up in heaven?
So its sort of a matter of WHEN we face that fire. Now? (Judgement begins with the house of God) or later (saved but as if through fire).
To face the fires of His testing now is like...the fire is gentle and takes away what can't remain. It doesn't feel so gentle sometimes but I think He really is being gentle with us as He prepares us for bearing the weight of His glory.
So, we face His fire of testing now, or we face it only a little now and face it more all at once later. Because we must be purified at some point or we won't enter at all.
You can see I'm struggling a little with understanding this. But I'm much less apt to feel sorry for myself in any further testing here and now and to instead face it with joy, knowing its producing eternal treasure. Treasure that can't corrupt or be eaten by moths.
Which takes me to that odd verse about how it will be better for Sodom on the day of judgement than it will be for some others...its a curious verse. It will be better for those like Sodom, who never said they could see than it will be for those who say they can see but can't...if you hadn't said you could see, you would have no sin, but since you said you can see, your sin remains.
How odd it seems sometimes. I wish I could see it all more clearly. It begins to appear as if those who are told they are headed for hell will fare better than the ones SAYING it...
Here's an odd thing from biology. We see upside down. Literally. But there is something in the brain that flips the image. It does it so fast that we aren't aware of information going to our eye upside down, but it is entering upside down. It has something to do with the eye being curved.
And in a spiritual sense, this makes some odd sense. Because we see upside down there also and flip the image, so that what appears to be is not so...
And as usual, I will make no sense to anyone and should not post this but I will anyway.
