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WIE IS DIE OORBLYFSEL VAN GOD?

WIE IS DIE OORBLYFSEL VAN GOD?

Die woord wat in die Skrif as “oorblyfsel” vertaal word, verwys na diegene wat oorbly, die laaste deel van ‘n groep. Dit word regdeur die Bybel gebruik om na die oorlewendes te verwys. Byvoorbeeld:

Josef het vir sy broers gesê, “God het my voor julle uit gestuur om vir julle ‘n oorblyfsel op aarde te bewaar en julle lewens te red deur ‘n groot verlossing” (Genesis 45:7 NIV 84).

Deur die profeet Jesaja sê God vir koning Hiskia, “Weereens sal ‘n oorblyfsel van die huis van Juda ondertoe wortelskiet en boontoe vrugte dra. Want uit Jerusalem sal ‘n oorblyfsel kom en uit die berg Sion ‘n groep oorlewendes” (2 Konings 19:30, 31 NIV 84).

En Esra beskryf die 50,000 wat na die 70-jarige ballingskap na Jerusalem teruggekeer het deur te sê, “O HERE, God van Israel, U is regverdig! Ons word vandag as ‘n oorblyfsel oorgelaat” (Esra 9:15 NIV 84).

Die oorblyfsel van God was nog altyd diegene wat oorbly, wat agterbly. Openbaring beskryf ook ‘n oorblyfsel, ‘n volk wat die laaste gebeure van die aarde se geskiedenis oorleef en getrou bevind word wanneer Jesus terugkeer – en Satan haat hierdie mense:

En die draak was toornig op die vrou en het weggegaan om oorlog te voer teen die oorblyfsel van haar saad, wat die gebooie van God onderhou en die getuienis van Jesus Christus het (12:17).

Satan haat ongetwyfeld die oorblyfsel, die laaste groep getroue mense wat op die aarde is wanneer Jesus terugkeer. Die hele wêreld is syne – behalwe hierdie enkele getroues.

Maar wie is hierdie eindtydse oorblyfsel? Die vrou is die bruid van Christus, die gelowiges, die ware kerk, die regverdiges, so die oorblyfsel sou die laaste geslag van God se gelowiges op aarde wees ten tyde van sy wederkoms.

Openbaring gee ook twee identifiseerders van hierdie getroue oorblyfselmense: Hulle “onderhou die gebooie van God en het die getuienis van Jesus Christus”. Maar wat beteken hierdie identifiseerders?

Sommige Christene het insig gevind uit die engel se reaksie op Johannes wat in Openbaring 19:10 gevind word:

Ek is jou mededienskneg en van jou broers wat die getuienis van Jesus het. Aanbid God! Want die getuienis van Jesus is die gees van profesie (NKJV).

So, die eindtydse oorblyfsel is diegene wat die gebooie van God onderhou en die getuienis van Jesus het, en hierdie getuienis van Jesus is “die gees van profesie”. Maar wat beteken dit?

Party Christene het voorgestel dat dit die spesiale gawe van profesie is, God se profetiese gawe soos dit aan Daniël, Johannes en al die Bybelskrywers gegee is. Hulle soek ‘n organisasie wat God se gebooie ophef en bevorder en ook binne dié organisasie ‘n individu (verlede of hede) wat die profetiese gawe geopenbaar het.

Maar is dit die beste en mees akkurate begrip van hierdie gedeeltes? Is dit die betroubaarste manier om te bepaal wie die eindtydse oorblyfsels is?

Byvoorbeeld, as daar ‘n denominasie was wat gehoorsaamheid aan al tien van God se gebooie waardeer en leer en ook ‘n individu daarin gehad het wat mense saamstem, geseën is deur die spesiale gawe van profesie, sou dit beteken dat deur by daardie groep aan te sluit en ‘n lid van daardie denominasie te word, ‘n mens nou deel is van die oorblyfsel van God?

Tweeduisend jaar gelede was die Jode God se spesiale uitverkore volk, deur Hom geseën met veelvuldige individue met die profetiese gawe en wat al tien God se gebooie entoesiasties bevorder het. Maar het dit beteken dat om ‘n lid van daardie groep te wees verseker het dat die persoon aan God se kant is? Sou om ‘n leier in daardie groep te wees beteken dat hy ‘n lid van God se span was? Nie volgens Jesus nie, wat vir daardie leiers gesê het dat hulle van hulle vader die duiwel is (Joh 8:44).

So, ek dink nie ‘n mens kan deel wees van God se eindtydse oorblyfselvolk deur bloot by ‘n denominasie aan te sluit nie. Ek dink die oorblyfsel is diegene wat in Hebreërs 8:10 beskryf word as die wat God se wet op hulle harte en gedagtes geskryf het, lojaal is aan Jesus en die getuienis gee wat Jesus gegee het.

Kyk na ‘n ander vertaling van wat die getuienis van Jesus is:

Die draak was woedend vir die vrou en het weggegaan om te veg teen die res van haar nageslag, almal wat God se gebooie gehoorsaam en getrou is aan die waarheid wat deur Jesus geopenbaar is (Openbaring 12:17).

Die oorblyfsel is diegene wat God se gebooie gehoorsaam en getrou is aan die waarheid wat deur Jesus geopenbaar is, die getuienis wat Jesus gegee het:

“Want die waarheid wat Jesus geopenbaar het, is wat die profete inspireer” (Openbaring 19:10).

Die Bybel sê vir ons dat die getuienis wat Jesus gegee het, dieselfde waarheid is wat die profete geïnspireer het; dit is dieselfde waarheid wat deur al 66 boeke van die Bybel geopenbaar word. En die oorblyfsel van God sal deur daardie selfde Heilige Gees geïnspireer word om dieselfde getuienis te gee, dieselfde waarheid, wat Jesus in sy lewe geopenbaar het en waardeur al die profete geïnspireer is en waarvan hulle in hulle geskrifte getuig het.

En wat is die getuienis wat Jesus gegee het? Hy het gesê:

Ek het getuienis wat groter is as dié van Johannes. Want die einste werk wat die Vader my gegee het om te voltooi, en wat ek doen, getuig dat die Vader my gestuur het (Johannes 5:36 NLV 84).

En wat het Jesus gesê sy werk was waaroor Hy kom getuig het? Hy het verkondig;

Ek het die werk voltooi wat U My gegee het om te doen. Ek het U Naam geopenbaar aan diegene wat U My uit die wêreld gegee het (Johannes 17:4, 6 NKJV beklemtoning myne).

Jesus het die waarheid oor God geopenbaar. Jesus is die Woord van God wat vlees geword het. Jesus het gekom om die leuens van Satan te vernietig en ons terug te wen in intieme liefde en vertroue met die Vader. Toe Filippus Jesus gevra het om hulle van die Vader te vertel, het Jesus geantwoord:

Ken jy my nie, Filipus, selfs nadat ek so lank by julle was nie? Elkeen wat My gesien het, het die Vader gesien. Hoe kan jy sê, “Wys ons die Vader”? Glo julle nie dat Ek in die Vader is en dat die Vader in My is nie? Die woorde [getuienis] wat ek vir jou sê, is nie net my eie nie. Dit is eerder die Vader, wat in my woon, wat sy werk doen. Glo my as ek sê dat ek in die Vader is en die Vader in my; of glo ten minste as gevolg van die wonderwerke self (Joh 14:9-11 NIV 84, beklemtoning myne).

Jesus se getuienis is die waarheid oor God, en die oorblyfsel van God sal dieselfde getuienis gee. Die apostel Paulus stem hiermee saam en lig ons in dat die sentrale kwessie in die oorlog die kennis van God is; hy verduidelik dan dat diegene wat in God se span is, die goddelike wapens van God sal gebruik om al die leuens en onwaarhede oor God wat in harte en gedagtes werk en mense gevange hou in ‘n valse stelsel van geloof en vasgevang hou in sonde, te vernietig:

Want al leef ons in die wêreld, voer ons nie oorlog soos die wêreld nie. Die wapens waarmee ons veg, is nie die wapens van die wêreld nie. Inteendeel, hulle het goddelike krag om vestings af te breek. Ons vernietig argumente en elke aanspraak wat homself teen die kennis van God opstel, en ons neem elke gedagte gevange om dit gehoorsaam aan Christus te maak (2 Korinthiërs 10:3-5).

Ons vernietig die leuens van Satan deur die getuienis van Jesus te omhels en te bevorder, die waarheid oor God wat al die profete geïnspireer het, dat die Vader presies soos Jesus in karakter is, ‘n wese van oneindige krag wat ewe genadig is en niks van meer waarde skat as ons vryheid nie, want God is liefde en liefde bestaan slegs in ‘n atmosfeer van vryheid.

En wat het Jesus oor wet en geregtigheid geopenbaar? Jesus het geopenbaar dat God se wet ontwerpwet is, die wette wat direk in die struktuur van die kosmos ingebou is en ons bestaan en lewe beheer, soos die wet van swaartekrag, wette van fisika, gesondheid en die morele wette. Ons kan nie gesondheid hê terwyl ons die wette van gesondheid oortree nie – selfs al bid ons vir goeie gesondheid. Elkeen van Jesus se gelykenisse leer ontwerpwet.

Die oorblyfsel van God is die eindtydse mense wat terugkeer na die aanbidding van God as Skepper. Hulle verwerp die leuen dat God se wet funksioneer soos die Romeinse wet, opgelegde reëls wat wetlike handhawing deur opgelegde strawwe vereis. Hulle verstaan dat al God se wette ontwerpwette is en dat liefde slegs in ‘n atmosfeer van vryheid kan bestaan en funksioneer. En hulle sien Jesus as die volmaakte openbaring van die karakter, metodes, beginsels en lewende wet van God regdeur sy hele lewe, maar veral wanneer dit in die mees beledigende en onregverdige dade is. Mense het Hom gemartel en doodgemaak, maar Hy wou nie mag en krag gebruik om die onreg te stop nie. Hoekom nie? Want liefde kan nie verkry word deur geweld, deur bevele, deur eksterne mag, deur intimidasie, deur straf nie! Liefde word slegs deur liefde verkry. Die getuienis van Jesus is dus dat God liefde is, en hierdie getuienis is wat al die profete geïnspireer het, soos Sagaria, wat geskryf het:

“Nie deur mag of deur krag nie, maar deur my Gees,” sê die HERE van die leërskare (4:6).

Dit is die getuienis wat Jesus en al die profete gegee het: God kan nie liefde, vertroue, lojaliteit, getrouheid en vriendskap van mense kry deur opgelegde reëls met opgelegde strawwe, soos dié wat sondige mense, gebruik nie.

God se weë is nie ons weë nie; God se wette is nie ons wette nie (Jesaja 55:7-9; Jeremia 33:25). Dit is die wette waarop die werklikheid funksioneer, en om dit te oortree, beseer die wetsoortreder self en sal tot die dood lei, tensy dit deur die Skepper genees word. Die eindtydse oorblyfsel van God is diegene wat terugkeer na Skepperaanbidding, die waarheid oor God se wet aanhang, Sy lewende wet op hulle harte en gedagtes geskryf het, en dieselfde getuienis oor God gee as wat Jesus en al die profete gedoen het.

Die eindtydse oorblyfsel van God word geïdentifiseer deur dat hulle karakters soos Jesus het; hulle gee dieselfde getuienis oor God as wat Jesus gedoen het, beide in woord en daad, want hulle beoefen die wet van God deur die waarheid in liefde te leef en ander die keuse te gee om self te besluit. Hulle weier om die mag van die staat te gebruik; hulle weier om dwang, geweld, intimidasie, ekonomiese sanksies of enige ander manier van eksterne mag en druk te gebruik. Hulle is die oorblyfsel, diegene wat die aanval van die mens van sonde oorleef, diegene wat weier om die opgelegde regstelsels van hierdie gevalle wêreld aan te hang, diegene wat soos hul Skepper is in karakter, metode en beginsel. Hulle is die oorblyfsel – hulle het hulle lewens nie so liefgehad dat hulle teruggedeins het vir die dood nie (Openbaring 12:11). Hulle sal eerder sterf, net soos hul Verlosser aan die kruis gedoen het, as om die metodes van geweld te gebruik om hulself te beskerm. Hulle is soos Daniël en sy drie vriende wat hulle lewens aan hulle Verlosser toevertrou.

Ek nooi jou uit om te kies om deel te wees van die oorblyfsel van God – om die leuen te verwerp dat God se wet soos menslike wet funksioneer en in plaas daarvan terug te keer na Skepperaanbidding, om ontsag vir God te hê en “Hom heerlikheid te gee” omdat die uur in die menslike geskiedenis aangebreek het vir mense om op te hou om God te oordeel asof Hy soos ‘n Romeinse diktator is en die getuienis van Jesus te aanvaar dat God presies is soos Jesus Hom geopenbaar het om te wees, om die waarheid aan te hang dat al God se wette ontwerpwette is en daardeur die Skepper te aanbid, “Hom … wat die hemel en die aarde, die see en die waterfonteine gemaak het” (Openbaring 14:7).

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