Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
You have seen the veterinarians in the animal shelters testing a stray dog to see if it is suitable for adoption into a home where there are children. When the dog is hungry they set food before it, and while it is eating, someone pretends to want to take the food away. If the dog snarls and acts viciously, sorry, it has passed its final test: no adoption for it! It’s shut out of adoption by its own unfitness for it. There is no redemption for it.
And quite possibly, its failure to pass its test may not be because of the real nature of the animal: it has been abused by its previous owner! And so, it must die. This is a very, very inadequate illustration of our final judgment!
We humans also are being “tested” to determine if we are fit to find a home in God’s eternal kingdom. Some are being “accounted worthy to obtain.... the [first] resurrection from the dead;” they are “blessed and holy” (Rev. 20:6). Others are “accounted” not “worthy” (Luke
But what about those who have been “abused” through no fault of their own? There are helpless slave-prostitutes in
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