This I can agree with, and in fact, Have been shown a few times since I have been here, where I made mistakes of assuming somethign that was not true based on something someone said.
Which is why I think we need to stop looking at signs, and actually listen to people (I have tried to tell peter this for months now)
However, When it comes to a few select people. I think it is quite clear..that is not what is happening here.
Yes,,
Thats not what I hear a few people in here say.
The word chopped down actually means to prune,, It talks about a vine which is laying on the ground unable to produce fruit, So the vine keeper lifts it up and cuts off all that has died, so the living can start to produce fruit.
This is what God does to his children, He does not cut them off (take back their salvation) he cuts off the dead (most likely by trial, tribulation and chastening) until we start to produce fruit again..