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Good day Revelation Man, I on the other hand believe the travailing woman to be the saints being made white (cleaned from their double mindedness, love for the things of this world), during the tribulation period (Daniel 11:35). Many saints being cleansed from their love for the things of this world, will die during this tribulation time (Revelation 6:11), but not a hair on their heads will perish, and will then take possession of their souls (Luke 21:18-19). Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Luke 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. 19 In your patience possess ye your souls.

Gideon's international. I would look them up.

ALWAYS   ACTS 5:41  and they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted --worthy-- to suffer shame for  HIS  name  --5:42--  and daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach  JESUS  CHRIST   PHILIPPIANS 1:29  for unto you it is given in the behalf of  CHRIST  not only to believe on  HIM  --but also to suffer for  HIS  sake-- MATTHEW 5:10  blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesses sake for theirs is the kingdom of  GOD JOHN 15:20  remember the word that I said unto you the servant is not greater than his  LORD  if they have persecuted  ME  they will also persecute you if they have kept  MY  saying they will keep yours also 1 CORINTHIANS 4:12  and labor working with our own hands being reviled we bless being persecuted we suffer it    PSALM 56:11  IN  GOD  HAVE  I  PUT  MY  TRUST  I  WILL  NOT  BE  AFRAID  OF  WHAT  MAN  CAN  DO  UNTO  ME MATTHEW 9:38  pray you therefore  THE  LORD  of the harvest that  HE  will send forth labourers into  HIS  harvest    LUKE 21:34  and take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that they come upon you unawares  --21:36--  watch you therefore  --AND  PRAY  ALWAYS--  that you may be accounted worthy-- to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before  THE  SON  OF  MAN   PROVERBS 16:7  WHEN  A  --MANS  WAYS--  PLEASE  THE  LORD  --  HE  MAKETH  EVEN  HIS  ENEMIES  TO  BE  AT  PEACE  WITH  HIM 2 THESSALONIANS 1:11  WHEREFORE  ALSO  WE  PRAY  ALWAYS  for you that our  GOD  would count you worthy of  HIS  calling and fulfil all the good pleasure of  HIS  goodness ---and the work of faith with power---   PSALM 66:18  if I regard --INIQUITY-- in my heart  THE  LORD  will not hear me    LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

I saw the title and thought that Ephesians would be a good source........and then saw that this is exactly where Scripture was quoted from..............

Really enjoyed the clear speaking in this devotional today, regarding the amazing characteristic of Christ living in and through His church! As the first line says, "The church is not an entity separate from the Person and work of Christ." WOW!  Ephesians has such a wonderfully high vision of the ekklesia!  Consider verse 22 in the second chapter - "In Him you are also being built together for a dwelling place of God in Spirit."  What words can be used to express this?  As the song says, "It is joy unspeakable and full of glory and the half has never yet been told!"  "And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all." Ephesians 1:22-23 The church is not an entity separate from the Person and work of Christ. We should not think of the church as something different from His Person and work. The church is a description of Christ with the fullness of His Person in His Body resulting in a testimony of all that He has accomplished in His work to produce us as His expression. So the church is simply a manifestation, an extension, of Christ's Person and Christ's work. Coming from various backgrounds, we may have different ideas of what "church" means. The church is a building, or the church is an assembly of people, or the church is what we experienced for years and maybe were disappointed with. "Church" could mean many different things to us. But we need to see a simple and clear revelation of the church--it is nothing less and nothing more than the Person and the work of Christ embodied and expressed through His people. This is the way we need to consider the church. Properly speaking, the church is an extension of Christ's Person and His work. When the Bible says that we are His Body, it adds, "the fullness of Him who is filling all in all." This is how we are Christ's extension. It is by His filling us. As we are being filled, there is an expression of all His riches. Look at His Person, look at His work. Then you know the church. The church is simply Christ Himself and all that He is dispensed into all of us, with all the riches of His Person and His work flowing from each one of us to express His fullness. What a marvelous realization of what the church is. It is just Christ and more of Christ filling all His organic members. From The Supplied Life by B. Freeman