Reprobate!

 Reprobate!

Reprobate = n. unprincipled or immoral person. adj. immoral.1

Reprobate = Hebrew: mâ’ac; a prim. Root; to spurn; also (intrans.) to disappear:-abbor, cast away (off), contend, despise, disdain, (become) loath (-some) melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.2

Reprobate = Greek: adŏkimŏs; from 1 (as a neg. particle) and 1384; unapproved, i.e. rejected;  by imp. worthless (lit. or mor.):-castaway, rejected, reprobate.2

Reprobate System: Revelation 17:1, 18:21 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked to me, saying to me, ‘Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters.’...Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great mill stone and threw it into the sea, saying, ‘Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.” (Study Revelation 17, 18)

Reprobate Nation: Jeremiah 6:30 “People will call them rejected silver because The LORD has rejected  them. (Study 6:27-30)

Reprobate Nation: Micah 1:6 “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field; places for planting a vineyard; I will pour down on her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.” (Study 1:1-9)

Reprobate City: Isaiah 1:21 “How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.” (Study 1:21-23)

Reprobate Religion: Matthew 23:39 “...for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He Who comes in The Name of The LORD!’” (Study 23:37-39)

Reprobate Individual: Proverbs 1:28 “Then they will call on Me, but I will not answer; they will seek Me diligently, but they will not find Me.” (Study 1:20-33)

Reprobate Individual: Romans 1:18, 32 “For the wrath of GOD is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness and of men, who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness,...who, knowing the righteous judgment of GOD, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” (Study 1:18-32)

Reprobate Individual: 2 Timothy 3:8 “Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;” (Study 3:1-9; Exodus 7:11-12, 22; 8:7; 9:11)

Reprobate Individual: Titus 1:16 “They profess to know GOD, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.”  (Study 1:10-16)

But, there is salvation to those who do not become reprobate, for GOD does not want to destroy people. Ezekiel 33:11 “Say to Them: ‘As I live’ says The LORD GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’” (Study 33:8-11)

2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, as to whether you are in the Faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified.” (Study 13:4-9; John 3:14-21)

Are there reprobates in the Church? Yes!

2 Timothy 3:1,5,9 “But know this, that in The Last Days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves,...having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!...but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all,...” (Study 3:1-9; 1 Timothy 6:3-5)

Titus 3:9-11 “But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second warning, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self condemned.”

3 John vs. 1 “I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.” (Study 2 John vs.7-11; 3 John vs. 9-12)

The most telling is JESUS’ own Words, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘LORD, LORD,’ shall enter The Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does The Will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in That Day, ‘LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name, and done many wonders in Your Name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23

All Scripture is quoted from The New King James Version Bible, Thomas Nelson, 1994

1The Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford University Press, 1998

2 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible, MacDonald