Speaking to the religious in Matthew 7:23 Jesus said......
" Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”
Again......I am no expert and you and anyone else are free to ignore what I think. I believe that May 14, 1948 was the day that God's prophetic time clock kicked in.
The Jews were placed back into the Promised Land. That one event is the catalyst. When that happened it opened the door to the rest of the End Time prophecies that must take place.
So then......since that date God has been pruning the religious out of the church. The only people who will be included in the Rapture are the truly born again believers.
Matthew 7:22-24 ........
"Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?"
In Jesus’ words on Judgment Day, we see several important truths: it’s not a verbal claim that one follows Jesus that saves - Matt. 7:21
. Nominal Christianity cannot save. Going to church can not save. Talking the talk can not save.
Also, it’s not a demonstration of spiritual insight or power that saves (verse 22). A person can
seem like a Christian in the eyes of other people, yet still be an “evildoer” in God’s sight and sent away from His presence (verse 23). Only those who do the Father’s will and who are known of God will enter heaven.
So, what is the Father’s will? Some men came to Jesus once with a question about what God required of them: “They asked him, ‘What must we do to do the works God requires?’ Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent’” (
John 6:28–29). God wants us to have faith in His Son: “This is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ” (! John 3:23). Those who are born again by faith in Christ will produce good works to the glory of God ----Ephesians 2:10.