Only believers are the elect of God.
This is not true. Not all believers are God's elect only the overcomers.
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Notice there is a distinction between the great multitudes BEFORE the throne (Rev. 7:9) in comparison to the overcomer who Christ will grant to sit with me on my throne (Rev. 3:21) .
Rev. 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Rev. 3: 21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
The elect are those who have trusted those as Savior and none else. Those who have rejected Christ will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire and be tormented in its flames forever and ever.
The lake of fire is spiritual in nature; john was in spirit on the lords day. no where does it say in the Book of Revelation that John was being literal in any since of the word.
I know I am of the elect because I have trusted Christ as my Savior. I need no other reason than that. I do not need to question God, call his integrity into question or infer that he is a liar.
Do you?
These are not my words.
2Th 2:11
(ALT) And for this reason God will send to them a supernatural working of deception, for them to believe the lie,
The elect of God will overcome.
This is true but most believers are not God's elect.
In His great victory over the power of Satan He was a sign that pointed unerringly to another company of overcoming sons. In all the churches of Revelation there were two classes of people — those who were overcomers and those who were not. It is to the overcomers that the glorious promises are given, for they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, have partaken of His mind and of His will, and thus are equipped to reign in His kingdom.
Thus to them it is said: "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God."
Rev. 2:7. "He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death."
Rev. 2:11. "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."
Rev. 2:17. "He that overcometh and keepeth My works to the end, to him will I give/wnw over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessel of the potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of My Father, and I will give him the morning star."
Rev. 2:26-28."He that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name."
Rev. 3:12, 13. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne even as I overcame and am set down with My Father in His throne."
Rev. 3:21. "He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
