SUBSTITUTIONS AND DELETIONS IN HEAVEN

One of the greatest heights of heresy is the erroneous teaching and belief by some denominations that once saved is forever saved and that there is no possibility of a man falling from grace. Some even teach that once you become born again, even when you continue in sin God won’t be angry because He (God) has forgiven both your past sins and future sins, and so you are “licensed” sin. Some people use this as the reason they fornicate because according to them, God has forgiven them in advance. Pitifully, these are the types of doctrines that people want to be taught. However and sadly, these doctrines have taken many people to hell and still do take many there.

The Bible says “He that committed sin is of the devil” (1 John 3:8). Sin naturally attracts the atmosphere of satan. He that is born of God does not sin (1 John 5:8). You cannot continue in sin and ask grace to abide...God forbid! (Romans 6:1, 2). If you are born again and you continue in sin, the Bible says the soul that sinneth shall die! (Ezekiel 18:4, 20). This is spiritual death.

There is nowhere in the Bible that God says you can continue in sin after you have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour. That you became Born Again implies that your name moved from being in the book of death and entered into the book of life. That is the point that Heaven rejoiced over you with gladness. The moment you go back to sin, there is a deletion of that name from the book of life and back to the book of death. This is deletion in heaven! If that person dies in that state, he is headed for hell. Now, was he ever born again? Yes! But, the Bible says “without Holiness, no man shall see God”. This is the reason many Christians still go to hell, because of secret sins, and those lifestyles they ignored.

There is a story about a young man who died and got to the judgement seat only to be told that 3 hours earlier his name was in the  book of life, but he went on to fall to the sin of lust and fornication. He died moments later while he slept off. This is why, for us as Christians in this race, it is heaven at last we seek. Apostle Paul was a great man of God; he had the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit; wrote the highest number of epistles in the Bible, but the man was fervently always praying, “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (1 Corinthians 9:27).

At judgement, God will not arrange people into denominations and judge them based on the doctrines they were taught in their Churches...No! He will judge everyone according to His (God’s) own standard. Whether or not you were thought that alcohol, smoking, masturbation, etc are sins or not...God will judge every man. He won’t have to ask your pastor what he preached to you in order that he can use it to judge you. No! Even the pastors will be judged by what they preached and how they lived. Many preachers and pastors are guilty of heresies; many are guilty of not preaching to their congregations about the realities of Hell and Rapture. Many preachers are only preaching the “loving” and “good” side of God, they never tell their members about the other side of God; a God who hates sin, who is a consuming fire, whose anger (at judgment) will burn like an oven. These pastors and preachers will be judged for failing to prepare their church for rapture.

Judas Iscariot was one man whose name was once in Heaven. He had his name inscribed against 1 of the 12 pillars. He also had a throne among the 12 thrones in Heaven for the apostles among others. But he fell from grace and lost his place.  His place was substituted. I imagine how the angels felt cancelling his name from among the 12 pillars, from the throne, etc. This is a typical substitution in Heaven!

There are many names that entered the book of life but are no more there. This is the reason Heaven declared a state of emergency in Heaven because many names, including prominent names here on earth in the Church are not in the book of life. Beloved, there is active deletion going on in Heaven. One of the wonders when we get to heaven is that, those we expect to see won’t be there. Where is your name at the moment? Do you need to make some things right with God? Please, now is the time, tomorrow might be too late...eternity might just be a moment away.