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In part 2 we centered
around what paradise earth will be like for Armageddon
survivors. In part 3 we would like to discuss the final
test ahead for mankind according to the
Watchtower.
After the 1,000 years is
over and all have perfect bodies, including the survivors
of Armageddon, the Watchtower says that there will be a
final test for everyone. Only the survivors of that
final test will receive eternal life. The Society also
says that many will fail the test including an
indeterminate number of the Armageddon survivors who have
worked hard for 1,000 years to prove themselves worthy.
In the Watchtower religion there is no guarantee at any
time that you are accepted by God, no guarantee that you
will be a survivor. A Jehovah's Witness can be
disapproved before Armageddon, anytime during the 1,000
years or at the end of the millennium. A Jehovah's
Witness never has the assurance that they are good enough
to make it.
Does the Bible give any
qualifications and assurances that one can be a survivor?
The Bible gives very simple instructions on how to be a
survivor. Survivors will be those who are born again. 1
John 5:4 says "for everyone born of God overcomes the
world..." Who are those that are born of God and
overcome the world? 1 John 5:5 says "Who is it that
overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is
the Son of God." For one to be a survivor and enter into
God's Kingdom it is imperative that one must be born
again and put their faith in Jesus alone as the Son of
God. How can one be born again? John 3:1-18 gives the
story of Nicodemus, a very religious man, who came to
Jesus at night. He was a member of the Jewish ruling
council yet had no assurance that he was good enough to
be approved by God. Since the Jews had made confessing
that Jesus is the Christ a crime punishable by
disfellowshiping (see John 9:22), Nicodemus came secretly
at night in order to not be observed talking to Jesus.
When Nicodemus confessed to Jesus that he believed that
Jesus had come from God, Jesus told Nicodemus that the
only way of survival into God's kingdom was to be born
again. Nicodemus was dismayed for if the only way of
survival into God's kingdom was by being born again, how
could he ever qualify? How could he as a grown man enter
back into his mother's womb to be born again? Jesus
replied that Nicodemus' first birth was a natural,
fleshly birth, but a second birth, a spiritual rebirth
was needed. This new birth, this spiritual birth would
come as a result of believing in and trusting in Jesus.
Jesus said, "Just as Moses
lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must
be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have
eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send
his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save
the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already because he has not believed in the name of God's
one and only Son." John 3:14-18.
Everyone that is not born
again will be condemned. Those who are condemned will
not survive into the kingdom of God. Only those who have
been born again by God's spirit, those who trust in Jesus
alone to save them will survive. The survivors, those
who overcome the world, are given the right to eat from
the tree of life, (Rev 2:7) they will never be hurt by
the second death (Rev 2:11), they will never have their
name blotted out from the book of life (Rev. 3:5) they
will inherit everything (Rev 21:7) Are you a
survivor?
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