10 In loud voice they cried, saying, [Our] salvation is due to our God, Who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb [to Them we owe our deliverance]!
Our salvation is due to Jesus and our Father intense love for us. Here is a great place to study exactly what the benefits of Salvation are according to the Strong’s Concordance, 4991, the Greek word Soteria:
+Deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation.
+Deliverance from the molestation of enemies.
+In an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation.
+Salvation as the present possession of all true Christians.
+Future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
+Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin.
Salvation is a gift from our Father, so all of these benefits of salvation are a gift from Him as well. We have seen the Truth that our Father never takes His gifts back, Romans 11:29, so all of these benefits of salvation are in full effect even during the Great Tribulation.
The 144,000 Jewish witnesses give Jesus credit for having salvation. They have exactly what we have in Christ right now. Some people have tried and tell me that these 144,000 have something different then our salvation, that somehow they are better then us, they don’t and they aren’t. These are just chosen Jewish witnesses that are called to preach the Truth during the Great Tribulation. They have no more and no less salvation than any true believer has. Our Father is no respecter of persons, Acts 10:34.
Keep in mind that Jesus has shown us twice so far in Revelation, that we have been sealed before any harm can come on the world. We are sealed by the Holy Spirit and that allows us to be saved from all of the instruments of our Father’s wrath that are being poured out by the Four Winds. We will be delivered, preserved, and safe from all of our Father’s wrath while we are on this earth. We do not have to be in Heaven to be safe. The Truth that we are still around and that there hasn’t been a pre-tribulation rapture will become clearer and clearer as we study on.
The Truth will set us free. And peace will come from the Truth of how exactly our Father will use those of us who are around during this time. It will actually be an honor and a privilege to be used in the power of our Father’s Spirit, when the world needs the chosen ones of God the most! Love does not want to run from those who are in need. Love wants to stay and help. Love wants to preach the Truth and offer grace when sin is abounding and we have now been made to be perfect in our Father’s Love.
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