Answer to Vicki’s question. What about gold and silver? Jan. 14, 2010

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Today I received a question from Vicki.  I wanted to answer this question here at my site because I am sure others may be thinking the same thing.

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I quote, “Question for you. As Christians the Bible tells us in the days of the Antichrist we will not be able to buy or sell because of the mark. Can you explain should we have gold & how gold would be good to have at that time. I'm not sure. How could we use it?

Thank you.

Vicki,”

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Depending on your position in the last days gold and silver may help people for a short period of time. Stay with me on this and I will explain. Keep in mind the Antichrist is going to stop everyone from buying or selling anything unless they take that mark. Of course this period begins three and a half years into the seven year tribulation.  Anyone who may have wealth whether it be gold, silver, or a new currency will be all right if they take the mark of the beast. However, there is one major problem with this, and I mean major.  If they take the Antichrist’s mark in order to be able to buy and sell these people will have sealed your fate to (HELL) for all time.  So, in the long run the ownership of this gold and silver or any type of wealth will end up a curse to them, because they end up in hell for choosing wealth over Jesus Christ. 

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You said, "Can you explain should we have gold & how gold would be good to have at that time." The part of your quote that is alarming is "that time", meaning you are actually in the seven year tribulation, which would mean you missed the rapture of the Church.  This is the worse position to you can ever find yourself in! 

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There are going to be three groups of people I want to center on that will be in the tribulation. The first group will be the people who refuse the mark of the beast, and will be excluded from the Antichrist economic system.  These are the people who became Christians after the Church has left, and now are going to have to die as martyrs for Christ by not taking the Antichrists mark.  It is simple, refuse the mark and the beast seeks you out to kill you, because it will mean you have refused to worship him as God.   The form of death is found in Revelation 20:4, which is by beheading. So if you miss the rapture and you have gold and silver it may only help you up until that three and a half year mark. 

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The second group of people will be those who don't listen to the warnings of God and they choose to take the mark of the beast, or Antichrist.  These are the people who may think that their possessions will keep them safe. These are the people where I cited above that they would have a major problem with this, and I mean major.  They take the mark, they think that they are safe because they took the mark and are not excluded from the Antichrist’s economy.  Here is the problem.  If this people are very lucky they may live till the end of the tribulation, which will mean they only have three and a half years left on Earth before Jesus comes to make war against them.   All these people will be killed and they will go before Christ at the judgment seat and be cast into the lake of fire where they will burn and suffer for eternity.  There is no hope for these people at all once that mark is put in their hand or forehead.  This is the group you do not ever want to find yourself in!

The third group of people are those who are left behind after the rapture.  They go into the tribulation period.  The are the ones who do not take the mark and hide out and are some of the very lucky ones to make it through the entire tribulation period.  Of course these people will have to endure all of God’s wrath that is poured out on Earth, so it will appear to them as hell on Earth!  At the end of the tribulation these people will be able to go into the 1000 year reign of Christ here on Earth.  They will be ruled with a rod of iron by Christ for the 1000 years.  These people will remain in their physical bodies unlike the Church who comes back with Christ, they will have bodies like Christ, and be able to do things unheard of at the present time.  The Church who comes back will be ruling with Jesus as kings and priests.  At the end of the 1000 years Jesus is going to let Satan out of the chains for a short season.  Satan will do what he also does, he will tell the same old lies about Jesus and try to convince the people to follow him instead of King Jesus.  Those people who made it through the entire tribulation and live in the 1000 year reign of Christ will be prone to Satan’s lies and many will turn on Christ and take sides with Satan.  At the end of this short time frame Jesus takes Satan and every person who took sides with Satan, and He casts them all in the lake of fire where they will burn for all time.  This is known as the second death and I will explain below.

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Revelation 20:14 reads: "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." Death itself means separation. The first death, physical death, is separation of the spirit and soul from the body. The second death is eternal separation from God for ever and ever.

Death is the result of sin. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12). When Adam sinned by disobeying God, death entered into the world (Genesis 2:17). We read in Romans 6:23 that "the wages of sin is death." The first death is the wages of sin in this world while the second death will be the full and final wages for eternity. Death in the Scriptures is never, as some like to think, the cessation of existence so that they might escape the consequence of their sins.

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The First Death

Let's notice a few facts about the first death. Every person has a body, a soul, and a spirit. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The human spirit is that God-conscious part of a person that distinguishes him from the animals. It includes both knowledge and judgment (Mark 8:12; 1 Corinthians 2:11). The soul is that part of a person that is the home of the affections–right or wrong–of love, hate, lusts and even of the appetites of the body (Job 23:13; 1 Peter 2:11). The body is the earthly house in which the spirit and soul dwell. At death a person's immortal (never-dying) spirit and soul leave the mortal (subject to death) body. This is the first death, or physical death.

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A believer's spirit and soul go immediately into a place of blessing at the time of death. This is evident in the well-known account of the thief on the cross. This repentant thief owned that he was getting what he deserved, and confessed Jesus as Lord, believing God would raise Him from the dead: "Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom." The wonderful answer from the Lord Jesus was, "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in paradise" (Luke 23:39-43). This blessed truth of the believer being with the Lord Jesus immediately after death is also repeated in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 and Philippians 1:23.

It is especially comforting to the Christian to see that the Lord Jesus did not refer to the death of the believer as death. The Bible speaks of it as the body falling asleep (see John 11:11-14 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Death is the penalty of sin. The believer in the Lord Jesus does not come under the penalty of sin because the Lord Jesus took that penalty when He died on Calvary's cross.

An unbeliever's spirit and soul go immediately into a place of torment at the time of death. The Lord Jesus tells us of this awful torment in His account of the rich man and Lazarus (read Luke 16:19-31). "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame" (verses 23,24). The rich man was in torments, not because he was rich, but because he had not believed God's Word. People may disregard this account, but it came from the lips of the One who suffered sin's agony and torment on Calvary's cross so that no one ever would need to experience this awful judgment.

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The Second Death

The believer will never experience the second death. He is waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus to take him home to heaven. When this event (commonly referred to as the rapture) occurs, the spirits and souls of believers will be united with glorified bodies. "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself" (Philippians 3:20,21). "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (1 John 3:2). Every believer will then experience fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore (Psalm 16:11).

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For an unbeliever, the second death will take place after the one thousand years of peace that Christ will yet bring to this world. Following this millennium, the devil will be cast into the lake of fire and the Great White Throne judgment will take place. There all unbelievers will be judged according to their works and cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death–eternal separation from God for ever and ever (read Revelation 20:11-15).

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There are people who have said, "How can a God of love cast anyone into the lake of fire?" God, however, in His wondrous love and grace, has provided a way of escape, a salvation from this awful judgment. God gave His only Son to die for men's sins so that anyone believing in the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved from that awful judgment. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).

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God made the lake of fire, known as hell, for the devil and his angels–not for mankind (Matthew 25:41). But when men refuse to accept the deliverance provided in the Lord Jesus, He must cast them into the lake of fire to suffer the penalty for sin.

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Spiritual Death

Another kind of death is mentioned in the Bible. It is a spiritual death. This spiritual death took place immediately when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. This death is separation of man from God by his sins. We read in Ephesians 2:1 that every unsaved person is "dead in trespasses and sins." This is a spiritual separation from God. When a person turns to God in repentance, believing in Christ as personal Saviour, he receives the gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23). This new life, eternal life, enables a person to have spiritual fellowship with God.

If the reader is one who has never personally come to the Lord Jesus, we pray that you will do so before it is too late

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Here is the bottom line to all of this.  Jesus died on that cross to keep you for hell. Christ made salvation easy for us and we who receive Jesus are justified by Christ’s work on that cross.  He has given everyone the free gift of salvation as it states in Ephesians 2:8 and I quote, “⁸For ^(A)by grace you have been saved ^(B)through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is ^(C)the gift of God; ^9(A)not as a result of works, so that ^(B)no one may boast.”  No one can earn a free gift, but everyone can take it, and this is what Christ wants you to do. 

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 ¹⁵"We are ^(A)Jews by nature and not ^(B)sinners from among the Gentiles;  ¹⁶nevertheless knowing that ^(C)a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by ^(D)faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since ^(E)by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified” Galatians 2: 15-16.

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I hope and pray that anyone reading this message who hasn’t taken the free gift from Jesus, do so today.

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It is my prayer that my work for Jesus has guided you to accept Christ as your Savior. If this is the case, you can begin your new walk by saying this prayer.  Notice I said begins your walk.  Once you make a commitment to Christ pour out your heart to Him and let Him help you grow in His ways.  Seek out a Church where they teach the entire Bible, and join in the Lord’s fellowship.  We are much to close to the Lord’s second coming to be a lukewarm Christian.

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