Will carnal Corinthian believers be blameless if the Lord returns suddenly?
Scripture indicates that if the Lord should suddenly come, those carnal Corinthian believers would be blameless so far as God was concerned. Their blameless standing rested not on their conduct but on the work of the cross and the shed blood of Christ, which answers the accuser’s charges.
Les explains that the apostle, by inspiration, told these carnal Corinthian believers that if the Lord should suddenly come, so far as God was concerned, they would be blameless. The basis could not be their own conduct; it was the work of the cross and the shed blood of Christ. Les connects this to Revelation 12, where Satan, the accuser of the brethren, accuses them before God day and night. He notes that the old devil still accuses every time a believer sins, but the cross and Christ’s shed blood provide the comfort and standing for blamelessness.