Word Of Wisdom Ministries
By Cheryl Arnold

Think of the parable of the talents too. The same message is being spoken there as well. The foolish servant has only one talent, just one seed, to give to the master when he returns. The wise servants have many talents, many seeds, to present to the master at his return. The foolish servant represents the saved but not sanctified, while alive, believer, who produced nothing for the kingdom… No fruit. He brought himself and that is it… The wheat remained just one seed. But the wise servants represent the sanctified believer who did die to self rule and therefore produced much fruit because he was a kernel of wheat that fell to the ground and died. Jesus clarifies in verse 25 that he is also talking about the believers. Some will die to self rule by losing their lives and other believers will save their lives by hanging on to self rule and lose life. We can only bear fruit if we die to self rule.

All of this is to reinforce the possibility that a wife can sanctify her husband and children by being that kernel of wheat that falls to the ground and dies whereby producing many seeds. There are dozens of scriptures to show that what I am saying about a sanctified believers in the last generation is a real and strong possibility, but I will mention just a few. I have mentioned all of these already but want to look at a few more a little closer. Hebrews 11:5 says that Enoch was taken and did not see death because he walked with God and he pleased God. He was sanctified. To walk with God and to please God refers to being sanctified… Walking in the fear of the Lord. He is a picture of the raptured church. There is another hidden message here I think: this also means that a believer can be sanctified without experiencing physical death… But if you will. Most believers will have to die physically to entirely sanctified. But there are those who like Enoch will walk with God while alive and be sanctified while alive through death to self rule.

I believe Noah and his family represent the 144,000 Israelites that will be brought safely through the tribulation period. Remember that Israel, the ones who now have received Christ, is taken to a safe place and untouched by the wrath of God during this period. They are neither harmed nor raptured  but refined and preserved through the trouble on the earth. They will be the righteous who see Christ at His second coming and also go into the period of the thousand year reign of Christ as the redeemed. Another reason that I think Noah and his family could very well represent the nation of Israel preserved through the tribulation is that they will also, like Noah and his family, re-populate the earth during the thousand year reign. Interesting.

We know from all the last day prophecy that during the thousand year reign of Christ that there will again be many nations. This confused me until I remembered that Noah, being one family, became many nations. So it still seems plausible to me that the 144,000 will re-populate the entire world during the millennium. Paul tells us that not all Israel is Israel. I am sure that even though the 144,000 believing Jews enter the thousand year reign as Israel that their offspring will become these nations of the earth during the thousand year reign. Noah’s sons went out and settled the lands and made nations and peoples and many worshipped  foreign gods. And think of this: Abraham was not a Jew. His offspring would become a people claimed by God because of the covenant he made with Abraham, and this people would be called Israel but Abraham was chosen to be the father Of many nations, genesis 17:4, etc., and he was. I believe this is just what will happen during the thousand year reign. The 144,000 or not the bride of Christ but they are also the redeemed. “And all Israel will be saved.”

I believe that because so few believers will be raptured, they will hardly be noticed when they are. Isaiah, in chapters 56 through 57, describes this time. Isaiah says that the righteous, sanctified, are removed from the wrath to come and no one notices. The word perish here actually could mean vanish. I happened upon this on Whitestone ministries website, looked it up and it is correct. The better translation of that word is indeed vanish. We have a strange representation of the rapture today. Some have  thought that all of a sudden multitudes disappear. They say that all children will disappear as well and that would be an unmistakable clue that the rapture has occurred. But here this thought for a moment and consider it with me. I don’t think all children will go and here is why: not every child will become a believer and God sees that… He knows every heart and every destiny. Hitler was once a sweet baby and a child but God knew who he would become… He would never become a believer. Again, think back to the scripture that described Jacob and Esau even before they were born… Remember? Their destinies were already determined even before they could choose good or evil. And all who were ordained to eternal life believed, Act 13:48. So while we see an innocent child,  God sees the finished person. All are offered salvation but not all will receive it.

more next time!

I believe Noah and his family represent the 144,000 Israelites that will be brought safely through the tribulation period. remember that Israel, the ones who now have received Christ, is taken to a safe place and untouched by the wrath of God during this period. They are neither harmed nor raptured but refined and preserved through the trouble on the earth. They will be the righteous who see Christ at his second coming and also go into the period of the thousand year reign of Christ as the redeemed. Another reason that I think Noah and his family could very well represent the nation of Israel preserved through the tribulation. Is that they will also, like Noah and his family, repopulate the earth during the thousand year reign. Interesting.