Don’t let these Christian churches fool you with their prosperity doctrine! Enduring through the furnace of affliction is part of God’s proving process for those who will enter the kingdom. If you want salvation from Christ, you must suffer as He did.
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Furnace
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:10
(5) And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
(6) As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.
wisdom of solomon 3: 5-6
(4) Whatsoever is brought upon thee, take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate.
(5) For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
ecclesiasticus / sirach 2: 4-5
Fire
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear, and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.
revelation 3:18
Adversity
A friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity.
proverbs 17:17
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
proverbs 24:10
