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Biblical Controversy: “Jesus has a God” (John 20:17) – a discussion…

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Understanding John 20:17 concerning the controversy “Jesus has a God.”

Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

Discussion,

Jesus often spoke from both His humanity and from His deity; therefore suggesting that Jesus denies His deity through Scriptures like John 20:17 is eternal error.

Jesus is the fullness of Deity (Colossians 2:9-10) as Jesus is God, Elohim, I AM, Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).

Jesus entered the Realm of Time and relinquished many of His deific attributes while encapsulated in flesh; this, for YOUR benefit as Jesus’ hypostatic union of deity and flesh was essential in order to provide sinful humanity acceptable blood atonement (Leviticus 17:11; Genesis 3:21; Matthew 26:28) and thereby pave a divine Path, an acceptable Way, to enter the Kingdom where “nothing impure is permitted to enter” (John 3; Revelation 21:27; John 14:6); a purity, holiness, freely offered sinful humanity via the divine imputation of Messiah’s righteousness in exchange for your sin via faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

Therefore, if you do not see or understand or acknowledge the necessity for Messiah’s deity, you are NOT redeemed by faith as you do NOT possess the indwelling Holy Spirit who is Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father given to all who acknowledge abiding faith in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, you are not redeemed, you remain in your sin (John 8:24) and you are on the path to the “second death” in Hell.

Though the knowledge of Messiah’s deity is NOT an element of salvation, the acknowledgement of Messiah’s deity is a natural manifestation of the Holy Spirit’s divine teaching during sanctification, a daily work of the indwelling Holy Spirit in the life of the redeemed as the Spirit methodically prepares the faithful in Jesus for an eternity of service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16; 1 John 2:27).

This truism concerning Messiah’s deity is NOT open for debate as the one who denies Messiah’s deity serves a different Jesus, NOT the Jesus of Scripture. It is the indwelling Holy Spirit who teaches Jesus’ deity and His divine sovereignty as Messiah; therefore, if Jesus is not your Elohim (Genesis 1:1), you do NOT belong to Him and you therefore remain in your sin (1 John 2:22-27).

The genuine acknowledgment, abiding knowledge, of Jesus as Elohim is a distinguishing, differentiating, truism in the life of an authentic Christian and this knowledge and confession distinguishes the Christian from every religion and religious cult present in the World today.

Jesus asks you, “Who do you say I AM?” (Matthew 16:15).

Is repentance necessary for salvation?

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Is “repentance” necessary for salvation or does true repentance follow salvation by faith in Jesus as Messiah, alone?

Jesus emphasized the need for “repentance” but is repentance an element of salvation or does repentance manifest subsequent salvation? Can one truly “repent” lest one is born again by the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus?

Discussion, Premise, open for debate…

If one truly “believes” that Jesus is Messiah and desires an eternal relationship with the Father through faith in Jesus, repentance is integral with faith as that saving faith will naturally lead to a life seeking obedience, a new life in Jesus that turns away from the works of the Adamic nature as the conscience is now acutely attuned to compromise with sin; this, through daily sanctification, a work of the indwelling Holy Spirit given to all who believe (Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 1:13:14).

Repentance IS part of the total salvation experience but without the indwelling Holy Spirit given ONLY to those who “believe” (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 3)…true repentance is not possible; therefore, what comes first, the chicken or the egg?

The “desire” to repent is integral with true faith in Jesus as one realizes their need for Jesus’ atonement due their sin nature, but the ability to fulfill the desire to live a holy life is only actuated or made possible “subsequent” belief; this, as true repentance, the power and anointing to truly repent, is not possible void the indwelling Holy Spirit who initiates the “new creation” in Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:17); so then, does one have to actually verbalize or say they repent of their sin in order to be saved? I think that’s open for debate but suggesting that verbalizing or repenting in order to be saved is a theological stretch, a subtle “works doctrine,” as it’s not practically possible to truly “repent” lest one is “born again” by faith-belief and has then received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant with the Father; yes, one can express a “desire” or a NEED to repent but desire does not equate to true repentance.

What say YOU? Is “belief”-faith in Jesus as Messiah who died for you the KEY to salvation or must one first repent?

Must one repent and demonstrate evidence of that repentance in conjunction with faith to be saved – or – are the fruits of repentance (Galatians 5) that follows salvation, fruits of righteousness inspired by the indwelling Holy Spirit, the validation and authentication that one’s “faith” is true saving faith; after all, Jesus did say “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20)?

Understanding Christian “good works” relevant to Ephesians 2:10…

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Understanding Christian “good works” relevant to Ephesians 2:10…

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

Good Works are a product of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is given as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father subsequent faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, a Christian does not “work” to be saved but works (seeks obedience to the Father’s will) because they are saved and their works are NOT defined by chasing after letters-laws or days or diets but their works are divine “fruit” produced through them by the indwelling Holy Spirit via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5); this, as Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20); therefore, salvation from death in Hell is NOT a work of mankind but a work performed by Messiah at Golgotha via His divine blood atonement and the benefits of Messiah’s work are actuated in the life of sinful humanity through faith, belief, in the Son; that is, believing, confessing, with a sincere heart, the Son, Jesus Christ, as Messiah who died for you to provide you blood atonement which initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father, forever (Romans 10:9-10).

This salvation from the second death in Hell is not of man but of Elohim who imputes-gifts the perfection-righteousness of the Son, Jesus Christ, over the life of the one who believes and consequently the Father, by covenant promise, declares the one who believes in Jesus as “not guilty” by divine promise; therefore, eternal life is bestowed upon the one who believes by grace through faith and not by human effort that anyone can boast in pride and arrogance and self-righteousness concerning their worthiness before the Father (Ephesians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3; Hebrews 8:12).

Advocate of the Devil: Jews-Israelites reject Christianity due Christian Persecution – what is the truth?

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An advocate of the Devil stated that Jews-Israelites reject Christianity due Christian persecution. What is the truth?

There are no greater advocates of the Jewish community, the Nation of Israel, than a Christian. Jews, Israelites, reject Yeshua due Rabbinical apostasy and secularization of the Jewish faith and the Jewish Curse.

Yeshua came specifically to Jacob’s children to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel as Israel’s children were foreordained to be ministers of the Great Commission in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham (Matthew 15:24; Genesis 12:3b). Israel’s free will rejection of Elohim’s “Great Commission” initiated a cataclysmic change to Elohim’s eschatological plans going forward.

It is tragic, but an overwhelming number of Jacob’s children will perish in Hell due unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27), a demonically rooted rejection of Yeshua as Messiah; this, a resultant of their forefathers curse upon the children (Matthew 27:25) and Israel’s rejection of the New Covenant, a Covenant established in Yeshua’s blood (Romans 11:25). Jews, Israelites, are overwhelmingly hard of heart, stubborn, arrogant, self-righteous, blind, secularized.

The Scriptural glorification of Israel subsequent the Jewish Curse is solely for Elohim’s eschatological purposes, Elohim’s glory, Elohim’s defeat of Satan through our Jewish Messiah (1 John 3:8b) as the Nation of Israel was given the Patriarchy via an unconditional covenant and Elohim is NOT a man that He should lie or fail to keep His covenants irrespective of Israel’s unfaithfulness.

When Israel’s children insult the Christian and Christianity; when Israel’s children obfuscate their culpability concerning unbelief and their destiny in Hell due unfaithfulness, they insult the ONLY ally, the only advocates, they will have in this fallen World; that is, the blood-bought Christian redeemed by the blood of Yeshua.

Seeking to disparage true Christianity through the Cult of Catholicism…

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One seeking to disparage Christianity said:

“Documented, ancient history has it where Christianity was legalized in Rome in 313 AD, which should tell those of you something!”

Is that true? A Roman Emperor named Constantine, desiring greater control over the masses in the Roman Empire, envisioned an opportunity to coalesce the people under the Edict of Milan (312-313AD); Constantine, wanting to make Christianity attractive to the masses, opted to merge Roman and Babylonian paganism with elements of Apocryphal doctrine sprinkled with Christian doctrine thereby forming the World’s 2nd-largest religious cult aptly named “Catholicism” – 2nd-only to Islam in its deception and death in Hell; this, no different than those who seek the Kingdom of God via the self-righteous religion of Judaism.

Catholicism has never been Christian but there does exist those who hate Christianity and choose to insult that which Christ initiated in His own blood by suggesting Catholicism is Christianity, Peter was a Pope. Your obfuscation only finds relevance with those who seek death in Hell through religious works and the rejection of Jesus Christ as Messiah.

The Work of the Devil exposed in San Francisco, USA

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The work of the Devil…

…in the daily life of those who serve the god of this World (2 Corinthians 4:4) – the demonically possessed and influenced, those who reject the selfless love of Jesus Christ and His Gospel…

I’m currently in the State of Satan’s pride, California, USA, having visited Satan’s dominion, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington. Those who are absent simple, abiding faith, mock the work of Jesus our Messiah during His 3.5-year Earthly ministry as Jesus went about healing the sick, exorcising the demon possessed; the natural World laughs at the thought of demons and demonic possession yet I walk among these demon-possessed here in San Francisco, on the sidewalks of Portland. I see their work in the rapidly decaying bodies lying prostrate on the sidewalks and curbs of the inner-city; the demonic substances injected into these addicted bodies; the resulting infected sores, scabs, physiological-psychological horror and torment and destruction accompanied by human excrement on the curbs, in the drains, on the sidewalks, the deck of public transportation; the horror, the horrific results of auditory hallucinations; the torment of demonic possession unrestrained; the self-destruction of suicide; the souls bound for Hades’ torments and Hell; all of this, the victory of the Evil One, Satan’s fodder.

I encounter these very same demons of deception and destruction during theological debate with unbelieving, Hell-bound, Jews-Israelites-Islamists-Mormons-SDA-Jehovah’s Witnesses-a myriad of cults-sects-religions who reject the purity, simplicity of the Gospel as these men, women, in a state of spiritual and physiological decay, clamor and fight against the purity, the simplicity, the holiness, of the Gospel of grace and faith, grace and faith earned for us, freely offered to us, through the suffering and selfless love of Jesus our Messiah at Golgotha.

Tragically, true Christianity will progressively be subject to increasing hatred and persecution as “Progressive Wokeness,” a work of the demonic, inundates our decaying World, a dying World devolving into demonic chaos and unconscionable filth; this, much like the days of Adam and Noah (Romans 1:18-32); therefore, know your enemy, know his works, stand fast defending the Gospel and hold tightly to Jesus Christ through obedience to the precious indwelling Holy Spirit.

Ultimately, the victory belongs to Jesus our Messiah; therefore, the only alternative to Jesus is defeat and subservience to the Devil and ultimately nihilism via the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 5:5). Endure to the end.

What does Jesus mean by “If you love me, you will obey my commandments”?

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Judaistic-Islamist-Religionist misunderstanding relevant to Messiah’s words “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.” John 14:15

What does Jesus say immediately following John 14:15?

“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever. He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.”John 14:16-17

Discussion,

First of all, Jesus IS NOT advocating for or teaching a works based religion or salvation by works in John 14:15 nor is Jesus suggesting that obeying His commands engenders eternal security.

Jesus was speaking to a transitional audience that had lived under the law covenant now transitioning to the Covenant of Grace (New Covenant) and Jesus said that if these former slaves to the written code (Romans 7:6; Romans 6:14) loved Him, they would honor and obey what He has told them, taught them, during His 3.5-year Earthly ministry and in order for these former slaves serving a dead law covenant to actually obey Messiah’s message, they must first comply with the Father’s will and honor Him as Messiah (John 6:29), receive the indwelling Holy Spirit who would remind them of everything Jesus had taught over those years (John 14:26); therefore, if one desires to honor Jesus’ teaching ministry and the edicts He provided, they must first honor the Father by faith in the Son (John 6:29), receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk by the Spirit in daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16) thereby allowing the Spirit to produce fruit through the redeemed conscience (Galatians 5; 2 Corinthians 5:17) of the faithful in Jesus; this obedience manifests through the spiritual law written upon the heart (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15) as per New Covenant promise (Hebrews 10:16).

Jesus’ “commandments” are fulfilled by walking in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during daily sanctification, sanctification manifesting subsequent salvation by faith and NOT by chasing after letters from a dead covenant of works (Hebrews 8:7) that only defines sin and demanded obedience from a sin nature that could never comply and provided no hope of atonement or life (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16).

It is the devil, himself, that indwells the blind legalist and hides this truth from the Judaistic – Islamist – Religionist legalist that prowls these forums seeking to enslave the servants of Messiah with cult practices (2 Corinthians 4:4).

Israel v. Iran-Islam…what’s the truth about Islam?

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Israel v. Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah-Russia-China-Anti Semitism…do not be deceived…

Do NOT be deceived, the current conflict between Israel v. Hamas-Iran-Hezbollah-Islam is a physical manifestation of the Great Kingdom War between Elohim v. Satan having manifested in the Realm of Time via Islam’s Allah.

The spiritual root of the Israel – Islam conflict is pre-Adamic, pre-Creation yet finds its current relevance in the adulterous affair between the Patriarch Abraham and a bondwoman named Hagar. Elohim’s eschatological plan and purposes were foreordained to be fulfilled through Abram (Abraham) via Abram’s wife, Sari (Sarah) via Isaac (Genesis 22:17-18); unfortunately, both Abraham and Sarah demonstrated a lack of faith in Elohim’s promises and Sarah, in a vain attempt to negate her shame due infertility, enticed her husband, Abraham, to engage in sexual intercourse with Sarah’s handmaiden, Hagar, and Sarah would then claim the child as her own. As is typical, Abraham reaped what he sowed in his sexual sin with Hagar as well as his sin of refusing to wait upon Elohim’s promises (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:12-15).

The tragic results of Abraham’s infidelity,

Abraham’s adulterous union with Hagar produced the “wild ass” of a man named Ishmael (Genesis 16:12) whose descendants, the Ishmaelites, would become virulent enemies of Israel’s children; Ishmael’s descendants were prophesied to be adversaries of everyone not of their Tribal affiliation and they would dwell to the east of their brethren, Jacob’s children, just as they do this very day.

Islam’s Allah, who is he?

Satan has worked through the Ishmaelites to produce a 7th-Century demon-possessed, murdering, thieving, pedophile, named Muhammad who plagiarized the Jewish Torah in hopes of convincing the Jews and Christians in Media to follow his new religion. When the Jews and Christians rejected Muhammad, the false prophet began to persecute, enslave, murder, Jews and Christians by the edge of the sword and from this demonically inspired hatred was born the Islamic Caliphate and ultimately the Crusades in response. Most recently, Allah’s demonic objectives are observable in Time via the Jewish Holocaust and the 2nd Jewish Holocaust, October 7, 2023.

Islam’s Allah is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14) and currently Islam’s number-one representative in this fallen World is the Nation of Iran.

The current state of war between Israel and Iran, Hamas-Iran, Hezbollah-Iran; the current state of anti-Israel rhetoric and unprecedented rise in antisemitism is rooted in the demonic and know that those who chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are those who serve the Devil in his lust to declare Elohim a liar and to nullify Elohim’s unconditional covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, concerning their rights to the Land of Israel, forever (Genesis 13:14-18).

Know this with certainty,

The Land of Israel will remain viable irrespective of Allah’s demonic objectives through Iran, Russia, China and Elohim will save a “remnant” of Israel’s children through the coming Tribulation Era as this remnant will believe in Yeshua as Messiah and rule and reign with Messiah for one-thousand-years during Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom (Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); therefore, those who side with Palestine, Iran, Hezbollah, the antisemites, side with the Devil AKA Allah and they will surely reap what they are sowing; both, in the Realm of Time and within the Realm of the Eternal.

The Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, concerning the Biblical Creation Narrative…

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Biblical Cliffs Notes – The who, what, where, when, why, how, relevant to what the Holy Spirit has provided mankind in the Canon of Scripture…

1) The ONLY reason for the Genesis Creation Narrative is Elohim’s response to an unfathomable angelic rebellion in the Kingdom of Elohim.

2) Elohim’s sovereign decision to deal with the Great Kingdom War was to commission the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35), to take elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by a life-form constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 1:1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).

3) Elohim, the Father, Son, Spirit, collaborated on Day-6 of the Genesis Narrative to create the complex human genome in their spiritual image; this, for eschatological purposes going forward.

4) Subsequent Day-6 of the Creation Narrative, the rebellious participants in the Great Kingdom War were extricated from the Kingdom and placed upon this Earth (Luke 10:18) as the Kingdom War is now partially constrained by Time and physics, the leader of that rebellion placed in Eden, his physical attributes described for us through the prophet Ezekiel in Chapter 28:11+ and his spiritual attributes analogized as a crafty serpent (Genesis 3:1; Revelation 12:9; John 8:44).

5) Elohim, the Father, made the sovereign choice to ordained the Son, Jesus Christ our Messiah, as Warrior King who would do battle with the Serpent and a Declaration of War was established in Genesis 3:15 as the Messiah would enter Time through the virgin seed in order to circumvent the curse of the sin-nature passed through Adam’s genome (Romans 5:12) and the Messiah would be victorious over the Serpent by crushing the head of the Serpent but Messiah’s victory would not be without injurious ramifications i.e. the Crucifixion e.g., a bruising of Messiah’s heal (1 John 3:8b).

6) Elohim, in Genesis 3:21, provides a word picture of the divine “battle strategy” (the Gospel of Jesus Christ) that would be employed by Elohim, Himself, through the shedding of innocent blood in order to clothe sinful humanity in an imputed robe of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) while rejecting the works, efforts, self-righteousness, of humanity to conceal his own sin (fig leaves).

7) From Genesis 3:21 forward, the entirety of Scripture, the Holy Spirit’s work through forty anointed men of old, is focused upon Elohim’s eschatological plan to destroy the works of the devil via selfless love; this victory accomplished by Messiah at Golgotha with the words “It is finished.”

8 ) From the Gospel of John 19:30 forward, the Holy Spirit details the purposes for the Great Commission; the New Covenant Church; the reasoning for the Time of the Great Tribulation; the purpose for the Millennial Kingdom; the necessity for the Judgment of the Devil and his angels; the necessity for the Judgment of the Condemned involving humanity; the destruction of this Earth and the Heavens – their purification by fire and the creation of a New Heaven and a New Earth and the placement of the New Jerusalem where the resurrected redeemed in Messiah Jesus will serve King Jesus, forever, in resurrected bodies fashioned after Messiah’s resurrected body (Philippians 3:21).

9) In summation, the previous 6000-years of demonically motivated horror upon this temporary Earth; the 1000-years of peace during Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom, will act as bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will remains extant by necessity.

10) Therefore, the entirety of Scripture, the primary purpose for the existence of Time, physics, humanity, is as a response to the Great Kingdom War, this Earth as a temporary repository for a demonically led rebellion in the Kingdom of Elohim where nothing impure is permitted to enter (Revelation 21:27); this, as Elohim is currently reestablishing order, holiness, peace, to His Kingdom ravaged by the covetous desires of a charismatic rebellious cherub angel known to humankind as the Devil, Satan, the Serpent, the Evil One; this, as Elohim endeavors to maintain intimacy and volitional relationship with His faithful, beautiful, angelic creation that He loves, cherishes and adores beyond human comprehension.

Finally, by faith in Messiah Jesus as King, humankind has been granted the opportunity to ally with Elohim in the Great Kingdom War, a spiritual war that rages around us, through us (Ephesians 6); those who trust in Messiah Jesus as Lord and Savior will live eternally with Elohim in the New Jerusalem (John 14:3).

What if Jesus had been accepted as Messiah 2000-years ago – what kind of a World would He have continued to build until now?

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“What if Jesus had been accepted 2000 years ago, attended and loved instead of being betrayed and crucified? What kind of world would he have continued to build until now?”

That World you seek will manifest in the Millennial Kingdom where Messiah will receive the Kingdom denied Him at His first-advent. Messiah’s betrayal and murder was foreordained as an eschatological mandate that the shedding of innocent blood for the atonement of sin could be realized according to prophecy and covenant (Genesis 3:21; Leviticus 17:11).

Messiah is the Lamb of Elohim slain before the foundation of the World (Revelation 13:8) via a Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10); therefore, “the primary reason Messiah entered the temporary Realm of Time was to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b); therefore, the previous six-thousand-years of demonically rooted horror upon the Earth compared/contrasted to the one-thousand-years of Millennial peace (Satan bound) is a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, where free will remains extant by necessity.

The “god of this World” (Satan – 2 Corinthians 4:4) has been exposed to humanity and to the faithful angelic creation as the “Evil One” and the faithful angelic creation will concur with Elohim in that Day that Satan’s eternal torment/judgment is just and righteous (Revelation 20:10); therefore, the Kingdom war continues within us, around us, through us (Ephesians 6), but the victory belongs to Jesus (Revelation 5:5).

The faithful in Jesus, those that endure to the end via the Holy Spirit’s guardianship (Ephesians 1:13-14), shall be saved from the fate of Satan and his demonic angels (Matthew 24:13); therefore, this temporary life in flesh, a temporary carnal existence constrained by Time and physics, culminates in one primary objective; that is, ally with Elohim as a Kingdom warrior by trusting-believing in the Son, Jesus Christ, and receive the spoils of war; that is, glorification by Elohim and life with Him, forever (Romans 10:11) or ally with Satan in his demonic rebellion by rejecting the Son, Jesus Christ, and suffer a fate similar to that of Satan and his rebellious angels (Revelation 20:10-15). It is most relevant that we, this very day, choose whom we will serve (Joshua 24:14-15).