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Isaiah 57:1 – I don’t understand this verse. So why I did I choose it? Maybe because I need to chew on it a little longer. I understand the righteous perish and are spared evil. I focus on this when children die as it is the only way I can deal with God allowing something like that to happen. What I don’t understand is “no one takes it to heart”. Is God talking about how the evil people not taking it to heart when we die knowing there is one less narrow minded bigot that they don’t have to see and feel guilty when they do see us. Well, one thing I do know is that God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And it doesn’t matter if no one cares and no one comes to your funeral and no one comes to your deathbed because Jesus is always with you and He will usher you into heaven. Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said unto Him, Lord, we know not where you go, how can we know the way? Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

So many of the righteous have perished and continue to perish! Thank God that they find rest as they lie in death! Thank God that we are only sojourners on Planet Earth and that our real home is with God and His righteous ones!

This is a comforting verse, as I have often suspected that the dear saint friends we have lost over the past couple of years were taken home, because they served so well and they would be spared the troublesome days ahead. We who are left, I believe will need to be strong and stand firm in our faith. Help us, Lord, to remain stedfast in our faith as the end times tribulations come upon us. Amen. Sorry, I do not believe in pre-tribulation rapture theory as many prominent people of faith do. One such passage refering to the anti-Christ is Rev 13:7-8 "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (8) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slRev 13:ain from the foundation of the world." If the saints are not here because of the so-called pre-trib rapture, then how is the anti-Christ going to overcome them??