A person has to REPENT OF THEIR SINS. If they didn't believe in Jesus before---then repent of that too!
Tell me, do these things we are to repent of sound like ONLY repent of UNBELIEF?
Acts 8:22 Repent, therefore, of your wickedness,
That was said to Simon the sorcerer who had thought he could buy the power from Peter & John of giving the Holy Ghost as if by the laying on of hands when God is the One doing that.
And he was not saved yet along with those other Samaritans for the reasons that they were following Philip out of fanfare rather than coming to & believing in Jesus Christ for salvation.
Philip learned his lesson with the Ethiopian eunuch.
Acts 8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
So what had happened here? Do you see any call to repent? All I see that Philip emphasized on was to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation.
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “the Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
Is that just unbelief? NO.
Carnal believers and former believers are called to depart from iniquity because that foundation remains as that seal of adoption does too if they wish to be received by the Bridegroom as that vessel unto honor in His House rather than denied by Him for being in iniquity and left behind to die but their spirits will be with the Lord in Heaven waiting for their resurrection after the great tribulation as vessels of wood & earth, the vessels unto dishonor, but still in His House.
That is the only way vessels unto dishonor, the vessels of wood & earth, that did not depart from iniquity can still be in His House because of the power of God in salvation for all those that believe in Him, even in his name.
How about this:
Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
They were not believers since they would not be suffering this plague having the seal of God on their foreheads.
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree;
but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Saved believers are to daily repent of their sins by looking to Jesus Christ to set them free & keep them free from their sins to be found abiding in Him for when the Bridegroom comes or else be left behind to become vessels unto dishonor.
Revelation 16:10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Verse 15 above is a reflective warning to remind believers before the rapture event that these working of devils will be the iniquity that causes many to go astray within the church for why they are to repent or else be left behind to face the coming great tribulation and when that son of perdition is revealed along with all those false prophets.
Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
But... Revelation 16:10-11 is about the torture of those with the mark of the beast or those refusing to believe in Him for why they do not have that seal of the Holy Ghost in their heads.... which the only way they can get that seal is by believing in Him.
2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE REPENT JUST MEANS TO REPENT OF UNBELIEF?!!!
I am trying to help you!
That reference is Paul addressing saved believers to repent of those sinful practices. He was not judging them as not saved or they have fallen away to such a point so they cannot be renewed and but to all them to repent.
Paul was telling the church to call those that live in sin to repent or else be excommunicated as they had done to that other brother that had his father's wife in the first epistle and later he had repented and was forgiven & let back in..
- I'd call him a quack. Rather he would tell him of his grave condition before offering the cure.
