A MAGAZINE OF PURE UNDERSTANDING Online Edition Volume 4  Number 2 March—April 2009

You’re Outta Here! Personal—What Difference Does It Make The Sabbath: A way to remember the Creator The Secret Rapture Question: Fact or Fiction

 

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You’re Outta Here!

By John Didymus Pope

 

YOU have heard an umpire in a baseball game tell a manager or coach, and/or a player those words, "You're outta here".Have you not? It must be embarrassing, to say the least. I have seen managers get thrown out of a game and he would get so frustrated, he would kick dirt on the umpires shoes, or on to the home plate, or throw a bunch of bats out on to the playing field, or spill gator -aid buckets out, or even throw his hat at the umpire. It makes you want to, "Wail and gnash your teeth."

Wailing and gnashing your teeth is a proof to some, that when you die a sinner, you go to a firey "HELL", where satan the devil is and demons and all other sinners. If you think about it, satan never was in such a place, but he was in heaven, as "Lucifer", the head of Arc Angels, Isaiah 14:12. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! v.13. For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, On the farthest sides of the north; v.14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high." Sound like, "Santa Claus'? (Look in the dictionary and see who "Old Nick" is And then canonized by the catholic church.v.15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, (Pit), To the lowest depths of the pit.

Satan said 5 times here, "I". Like the manager who argued with umpire, was thrown out of the game, no longer has the power to call the shots, or make strategic decisions, the player tossed out of a game, must play by baseball rules, or leave the playing field. Taken clear out of the game in every manner. He is not even allowed to sit with the fans. Sometimes the managers are really, after "Instant replay," right, and the umpire is in fact, wrong. But once a decision is made , it is final. A judgment call is what makes the umpire right. What can be more frustrating than to be "Thrown out" of a game? In baseball, the only worst frustration is to lose the game.

There is one thing that made me pray and study the Bible more. I read Matthew 7:21-24. In verse 23, "And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you." (Notice it doesn't say, "I do not know you any more."?) Wow, that really scared me when I first read that. The implications are, not only was I tossed out of the game, I was never in the game. Now that would make a person, "Wail and gnash his/her teeth." Lets read Matthew 7:21 -24. "Not everyone who say's to Me, "Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. v.22. "Many will say to Me in that day, (At His returning) "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in your name?" v.23. "And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you: depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!". (Iniquity) in some Bibles or (wickedness in others). v.24. "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: These four scriptures, 21-14 is what caused me to look further into the Bible and discover that I indeed called Jesus "My Lord and savior", but I realized like the manager thrown out of the game, I was not following the rules, (The 10 Commandments.) Especially the 4th Commandment, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy......." When I was told that back in about 1964, I told the person that told me that, "That is nuts," silly, to go to church on saturday and not on Sunday!" "Everybody goes to church on Sunday!" "I" reasoned, with those words.

You might say I argued with the umpire. But I was only arguing scripture, as a pentecostal does when something is contrary to what they believe, or any church doctrine or organization for that matter. My greatest rude awakening was the fact that I not only wasn't in the game to be thrown out, I was never even in the ball park. What a rude awaking I received after I read Matthew 7: 21-29. "What if Christ never knew me?" I subconsciously asked my self. I always say when asked, "Where you ever a member of the World-wide Church of God?"I answer this way, "No, they fired me before they hired me." Why would I say that? I asked a Worldwide Church of God minister once as I let him know I was receiving Garner Ted Armstrong's tapes and literature, on a weekly basis, "If I have these tapes in my home and listen to them, Can I join your organization?" The astonishing answer was, "Well, we would have to set an appointment and talk about it." I told the minister that, that was not scriptural". So I wonder if Jesus at the well with the Samaritan lady, or the man with the withered hand, or the harlot that wiped His feet with her hair after she wept tears on His feet, or the woman that touched His garment and Jesus felt the virtue (Power) flow out of Him, or a lot of times Jesus was confronted, I wonder if Jesus wants an "Interview" with everyone the Father calls, to His Truth? If that minister was an umpire and we were in a baseball game, I would have been banned from baseball, 8 balled, black balled, fined, sued, and probably crucified, most assuredly excommunicated.

........After being pentecostal, I often wondered if I would not have returned to pentecostalisim. The Sabbath and Gods Holy days settled that for me. I know the rules(10 Commandments) now, I cannot argue with the umpire, (God the Father) and (Jesus) the base umpire, no, their rules are set, and when I am wrong there are no arguments. If Jesus would return and say to me, "I never knew, you." I think I would go looking fore some ministers. And I would be wailing and gnashing my teeth. That is what the Bible means by, "Wailing and gnashing of teeth." But a lot of churches tell people that that is what happens in "Hell Fire". Wrong!

Read Matthew 24:4-5. And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.v.5. "For many will come in My name, (In the Authority of Jesus, and using His name) (emphasis mine) ...saying , 'I am Christ', (Saying that Jesus is the Christ), Some people do claim they are Jesus, but not many), ...and will deceive many."When I compared that with Matthew 7:21-29, it scared the HELL out of me and I began obeying the 10 Commandments, even this one, (4th) "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy......, Exodus 20"8-11. And reasoning within my heart that God the Father is the plate umpire and Jesus is the base umpire, and he not only says "Your outta here", They will say. "I never knew you." That means I was NEVER in the game in the first place. Think of it, John 5:39. "You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me " THESE means these scriptures, the ones in Gods word, the Bible, study the Sabbath and Gods Holy days, not the pagan holidays of Christmas, Easter, Halloween and many others. Don't be thrown out of the game, once you are in it, obey the 10 Commandments.