Rekindle That First Love! - "To Him That Conquers"

Note: To my readers, I would like to make a suggestion.   As the the movie: The Bible coming up; Unless you have read the Bible word for word thoroughly at least a couple of times and/or have had Bible Study from Jehovah's Witnesses, I suggest that you do not watch it. Hollywood has a habit of not only exaggerating the truth, but also not putting the whole truth in  one of their movies of the Bible.  I have watched them to see.  To get the whole truth, you need to have one of the Jehovah's Witnesses to give you a Bible study to teach you the truth, because Hollywood will not.   Also, there is a show on the weather channel coming up,  called Hacking the Planet.  We do not want to stop any of that weather they are going to be talking about, because that is messing with God and no one, I repeat, no one wants to do that.  God is the one who controls that  and If you don't want  (pardon the language) a piece of him, then you have to leave it alone. The show is Satan's idea, another way to keep people from worshiping God, believe me.  Don't mess with God!   I care about all of you and your souls, and I am just trying to help you to stay on God's good side and not to mess with his work, ever!  Thank you all for reading my blogs.  I want to get the truth out there for everyone.   




"To Him That Conquers"

Finally,m as he does also in his other messages, John calls attention to God's spirit as making known through Jesus the rewards for faithfulness. To the Ephesians  he says:  "Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations:  To him that conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God." (Revelation 2:7)  Those with hearing ears would be eager to heed that vital message, knowing that it did not come  on Jesus' initiative but that it flowed from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself through His holy spirit, or active force.  How could they 'conquer'?  By following closely in the steps of Jesus, who kept integrity to the death and so could say: "Take courage! I have conquered the world." -John 8:28; 16:33; see also 1 John 5:4.

Since they have no prospect of living in an earthly paradise, how is it that anointed Christians, such as those Ephesians, are rewarded with eating "of the tree of life, which is the paradise of God"?  This could not e the restored Paradise on earth, since the 144,000 anointed Christian, including those of the congregation at Ephesus, are bought from among mankind to rule with the Lamb, Christ Jesus, on the heavenly Mount Zion as spirit sons.  (Ephesians 1:5-12; Revelation 14:1, 4) Hence, the reference here must be to the heavenly garden like realm inherited by these conquerors.  There "in the paradise of God," yes, int he very presence of Jehovah himself, these over comers who have been granted immorality will continue to live eternally, as symbolized here by their eating of the tree of life.

What, then, of the loyal earthly supporters of the 144,000 anointed ones?  A great crowd of these companion Witnesses  are also conquering.  But their hope rests on entering an earthly paradise, where they will drink from "a river of water of life" and find healing from "the leaves of the trees" planted alongside that river.  (Revelation 7:4, 9, 17; 22:1, 2)  If  you are one of this group, may you too express your warm love for Jehovah and win out in the conquest of faith.  Thus you may attain to the happiness of everlasting life in the Paradise earth. -Compare 1 John 2:13, 14.

Next time: Striving to Be Conquerors

From the Book of Revelation