Is
there a culling event at the end times prior to the tribulation and second
coming? I have always read these passages as pertaining to the time when Christ
returns to the earth when we rule and reign with him during the 1000 year millennial
period.
Observing
the current events thru scripture is it possible that this current event is
biblical?
Matthew 13:41-43 The Son of Man will send out His angels,
and they will weed out of
His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. 42 And
they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the
righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
In
Revelation 2 is another passage that speaks of this:
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2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate
that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she
misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to
idols. 21 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. 22 Behold,
I will cast her onto a bed of
sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation
unless they repent
of her deeds. 23 Then I will strike her children dead, and all the
churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will
repay each of you according to your deeds. 24 But I say to the rest of you in
Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called
deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you. 25 Nevertheless,
hold fast to what you have until I come. 26 And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end,
I will give authority over the nations. 27He will rule them with an iron scepter
and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.
Note: does this passage
indicate that after “a time to repent” there is an event that casts some into a
bed of sickness and gives another opportunity to repent and then to continue in
His work before He comes?
I think so.
Lord we repent of her
immorality. Let us shine like the sun.