If you don't know whether you are going to heaven, then you aren't. Even if you think you are, but it is only head knowledge, you aren't. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:22-23 As they say the distance between Heaven and Hell is the distance between your Head and your Heart. Accept Jesus into your Heart!
Likewise if you are going to Heaven but have not been immersed by Jesus in the Holy Spirit, ask Jesus right now and open your mouth to let the Holy Spirit flow up through you and out of you and if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you will be given the assurance of being immersed in His spirit. I give all the glory to God for what Jesus Christ has done in my life and pray what I am about to say will find a receptive home.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalms 27:14
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: Deuteronomy 16:16
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.Zechariah 14:16
I feel like I have had a Revelation, but that revelation is that I am a man of unclean lips. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Isaiah 6:5 That I know nothing about so many things of God. That truly I see through the glass dimly, but I never realized how dimly. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. I Corinthians 13:12 That I had been reading the Bible chronologically like a picture drawn on a TV screen but to discover deeper truth it must be read subject by subject by subject, word by word, precept upon precept. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:9-10 Like a holograph that covers the whole Bible to see the reality instead of just a flat picture of the reality. I have just scratched the surface. I have been using a free software tool that allows me to go subject by subject, precept upon precept. Put in a word or phrase, and read every scripture in the Bible where it occurs. http://members.aol.com/bibleplus. That along with reading other people's findings of "patterns in chaos" has led me to believe that the pretribulation Rapture would be much more accurately described as the Bride of Christ Redemption. And if we are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, and joint heirs to the father then we are truly "sons of God", a phrase that I never would have taken on before to mean myself. But if we are the Bride of Christ, then we become the children of God, the sons and daughters of the Father. Jesus is the Son of God. We, through Marriage become the adopted sons of God. Jesus is our covering just as it is the glory of woman to have her head covered, we are covered by his Tabernacle (tent, covering) of love.
Not through any righteousness that we have done.
I see so many that have entered into Salvation through Jesus Christ our Passover Lamb who have not entered into Holy Spirit Filling through Jesus Christ our Pentecost Baptizer.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Matthew 3:11 (See also Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, John 1:33) or John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Acts 1:5
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. II Samuel 23:2 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Acts 2:4 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. Acts 19:6 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. I Corinthians 14:2, For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.I Corinthians 14:14
How then must we enter into Bride Redemption through Jesus Christ
our
Tabernacles Covering by being not only virgins, being justified by the
blood of Christ, and living a santified life, but that the oil in our
lamps
is overflowing with the Holy Spirit?