Border Crossing

 

Border Crossing (part one of two)

Think, for a moment about border crossings. A seamstress will run the sewing needle right to the edge of the border but never crosses over its near edge. There is an unspoken rule concerning borders, property lines, country borders and even personal space. Crossing the border into another state carries with it an agreement to forsake the laws of one’s home state and follow the guidelines of the state entered. Set rules may differ somewhat from setting to setting. However, the crossing will be met with some interrogation and require permission to enter. In most cases a per-secured passport is required and is to be submitted to the proper authority with clear identification documentation. This presenting allows passage with no delays. Those who are insufficient in documentation are denied passage. They must turn back, down cast and disappointed. They can securely crawl through an ungraded breech into a country where life consists of hiding, no productive labor and fear of reprisal. Suffering wage abuses due to their shaky presence is the rule; not the law. There are thousands of border crossings every day; some legally, some not. There are check points.

A border checkpoint is a place, generally between two countries, where travelers or goods are inspected. Authorization is required to enter a country across its borders. Access-controlled borders often have a limited number of checkpoints. There are secret, ungarded places where they can be crossed without legal sanctions. There is a bordering gulf between the bad and the righteous. There are no loop holes. Rules are set in stone.

Psalms 118:17 “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.” 

Revelation 2:10 ”Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

In a parable Jesus expounded “Matthew 25:21 “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

Matthew 24:45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”

PART TWO: When God and The Word created time, they designed it to have a beginning and an end. It does not run separate from eternity but follows a border set between them.

God_______________________eternity’s_border______________forever___ \ /

Made Time Time ends

People living in any given time span comes and passes away, yet time runs still. Their time is anytime God chooses to place them and remove them. During their stay in time they are to acquire credentials opening the gate of heaven. There will be judgment of the things done in time after the proper credentials are accepted. They are wiped out by Christs signature in blood. Rewards are lost but salvation is secure.

Revelation 11:18 “...they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”

Meanwhile, those who frolic in sin and acquired not the proper pass port signed in blood are denied entrance bur are condemned eternally in hell that has no exit. Heaven is different.

Revelation 21:27”And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.”

Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that... may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Revelation 10:6 “And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,... that there should be time no longer:

Know God, know peace. Amen. 03/13/21 BLL