The third aspect of Adam's fall was no sin at all. Adam's fall to the lower level of his wife was actually a loving act of self-sacrifice. Adam feared that he and Eve would be separated forever, and that she would be forced to live in terror and loneliness. Because he loved her, he fell to her level of sinful separation from God in order to protect and comfort her. In this way, Adam's sacrifice was similar to the loving sacrifice of the Savior. The difference was that Adam deliberately fell into sin and death for the love he had for his wife, but Jesus, the perfect Savior, took man's sin and death on Himself on the cross in order to separate man from them and raise man to a higher level of salvation and recreation. I Corinthians 15:20-28, 44-48; I Timothy 2:14; Revelation 21:5.
Jesus taught that self-sacrifice is the highest expression of love. John 15:13. Like Adam, we humans sometimes sacrifice ourselves because of our love for others, especially for family and country. Humans still exist partly in the image of God. God, who is Love, could never fail to provide positive rewards for such acts of love. Revelation 22:11-12; Romans 2:9-11. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. By himself, man can never overcome the power of sin and death. Spiritual salvation requires God's grace. Ephesians 2:8-9. But God can use His consuming fire to separate man's good works from his evil works, throw the totality of his evil works into the lake of fire, and recover his good works to be used to recreate a righteous human race to live on a recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-8; Revelation 22:11-12.
In I Corinthians 15:26, God promised to destroy man's last enemy which is death. God destroys death, not man. Revelation 20:14-15 records the event of this destruction. God has never created anything that is temporary. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Since God is the God "of the living: for all live unto Him," as Jesus taught in Luke 20:38, then God has evidently recorded the new names of all recreated humans in the book of life; humans recreated from God's recovery of their good works. Humans saved by grace will already be in heaven. Revelation 21:5. Only man's death, which is totally evil, will be separated from God forever in the lake of fire. Hell will also be destroyed because it will have already served God's purpose. Revelation 20;15.
Love conquers all. Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. For this reason, God must preserve every loving self-sacrificial act of man to be recreated.
God laid down the law, and all who violate the law must die, but God's Love always transcends and trumps the law. Romans 5:20-21; I Peter 4:8. All true love comes from God's Love. God cannot lie, and yet God put a "lying spirit" in the mouths of false prophets to persuade evil king Ahab to suffer defeat in battle. I Kings 22:23; Titus 1:2. God's Love trumped the law because God used the prophet Micaiah to warn the man He loved, king Jehosaphat, not to go to battle with king Ahab. Jehosaphat ignored God's warning and went anyway, but God protected him anyway. Technically, in Matthew 12:1, Jesus and His disciples worked on the Sabbath when He allowed them to pluck corn and eat. But Jesus did not violate the law because He loved His disciples and did not want them to go hungry. Jesus' love trumped the law. In Matthew 12:3-4, Jesus even taught that David did not violate the law when he and his friends ate the shewbread because he was motivated wholly by love in his care for their hunger. In Matthew 12:5, Jesus taught that if the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, they are guiltless because they were serving the people while motivated by love. Jesus healed on the Sabbath on more than one occasion because He was wholly motivated by love. Love annuls any violation of the law when one is wholly motivated by love. Rarely do humans trump the sentence of the law by being wholly motivated by love. Almost always, some selfishness taints even our best acts of love.
Eve too was partly motivated by love because she thought that her sin would raise herself and Adam to a higher level of existence as gods. Adam and Eve fell because of love tainted by sin. When Jesus hung on the cross, He was Love itself totally immersed in man's sin. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21. The difference was that a perfect Christ held the righteous power to overcome and defeat sin and death and leave them behind in hell when He rose from the dead so that He could save some by grace and the rest of humanity by recreation. I Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 2:9.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Three Methods and Levels of Salvation part five
The second aspect of Adam's fall was his weakness for sin caused by the rebellious aspect of his sin. Every human has inherited this weakness. Humans never have enough strength to overcome this weakness. Man's weakness invokes God's compassion but not his rebellion. The weak and rebellious natures of man would cause him to be lost in the lake of fire forever had not God come to earth to save humanity. God can and will forgive and redeem the weak aspect of man's sin by His recovery and recreation of all of His good elements that He put into man when He created him. Revelation 21:5. God cannot save the rebellious nature of man because it is totally evil. Like the demons, it possesses a negative consciousness which will be separated from God's recreation in the lake of fire forever.
Colossians 1:15-20. Verse 16 teaches that God created all things in heaven and earth, material and mental. Verse 20 assures us that God will "reconcile all things to Himself." The "all things" of verse 16 is the same as the "all things" of verse 20. God will recover and recreate "all things" He has ever created that have been tainted by sin. God creates only positive things. God did not create negative consciousnesses. In some mysterious way, they emerged from the chaotic abyss to infect God's creations. II Thessalonians 2:7; Ezekiel 28:15.
The weak part of Adam's sin was that he feared losing the pleasure of love making with his wife. This desire was partly selfish and lustful. But God had also commanded Adam and Eve "...to be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth..." Genesis 1:28. God created this good system. Adam feared that he would not be able to obey God's command if he occupied a higher state of grace while Eve remained in a fallen condition. Thus, Adam's fall became a good system sullied by a sinful system. Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil but not the wisdom to know how to separate these two systems. Only God has that wisdom. This explains why so often when humans sin because of weakness some good also attaches to it. It is a sin to get drunk, but drunkenness often relieves the pains of life, at least for a while. Proverbs 31:4-7. It is a sin for a man to have a mistress, but he may love his mistress with all his heart. Judges 16:4. God knows how to separate these two systems by the use of His consuming fire, and He knows how to recreate the world and mankind by using His good elements recovered from the destruction of the sinful systems. I Corinthians 3:12-15.
One cannot imagine how God the Father could ever fail to answer any prayer made by His Son. Jesus cried from the cross "...Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do..." Luke 23:34. By this cry, Jesus recognized that man's sin which had caused Him to be nailed to the cross, came from man's ignorance which is a form of weakness. Jesus asked His Father to forgive man's weakness, not his rebellion. In Numbers 15:23-31, God distinguishes the sins of ignorance from deliberate and willful sins. God always forgives the sins of weakness because of Christ's descent into hell symbolized by the burnt offering. Jesus' cry from the cross was for the sake of all mankind. When Jesus descended into hell, He left all of man's sins through weakness behind. This aspect of Christ's sacrifice became the basis for God's use of His consuming fire to separate and recover all of His good systems and elements from their defilement by sinful systems. For this reason, God will absolutely answer Jesus' plea from the cross, and will forgive and recreate all men not saved by grace to live on a recreated earth. Revelation 21:3-5.
The deliberate and willful sins of mankind have always been allied with Satan's rebellion. God cannot forgive Satan because he is totally evil, and God cannot forgive that aspect of man's nature which is totally evil. Those who are determined to be evil never desire to repent. Mark 3:28-29. But if any human who has chosen to be rebellious does repent, this repentance happened because he submitted to the conviction of his sins by the Holy Spirit. By this repentance, he demonstrates that his rebellion was only temporary and caused by weakness. God can and will forgive and reconcile any person who sins through weakness. But the rebellious nature of man which hates God forever, He will consign to the lake of fire forever. Numbers 15:29-31; Revelation 21:15; Revelation 22:11.
Colossians 1:15-20. Verse 16 teaches that God created all things in heaven and earth, material and mental. Verse 20 assures us that God will "reconcile all things to Himself." The "all things" of verse 16 is the same as the "all things" of verse 20. God will recover and recreate "all things" He has ever created that have been tainted by sin. God creates only positive things. God did not create negative consciousnesses. In some mysterious way, they emerged from the chaotic abyss to infect God's creations. II Thessalonians 2:7; Ezekiel 28:15.
The weak part of Adam's sin was that he feared losing the pleasure of love making with his wife. This desire was partly selfish and lustful. But God had also commanded Adam and Eve "...to be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth..." Genesis 1:28. God created this good system. Adam feared that he would not be able to obey God's command if he occupied a higher state of grace while Eve remained in a fallen condition. Thus, Adam's fall became a good system sullied by a sinful system. Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil but not the wisdom to know how to separate these two systems. Only God has that wisdom. This explains why so often when humans sin because of weakness some good also attaches to it. It is a sin to get drunk, but drunkenness often relieves the pains of life, at least for a while. Proverbs 31:4-7. It is a sin for a man to have a mistress, but he may love his mistress with all his heart. Judges 16:4. God knows how to separate these two systems by the use of His consuming fire, and He knows how to recreate the world and mankind by using His good elements recovered from the destruction of the sinful systems. I Corinthians 3:12-15.
One cannot imagine how God the Father could ever fail to answer any prayer made by His Son. Jesus cried from the cross "...Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do..." Luke 23:34. By this cry, Jesus recognized that man's sin which had caused Him to be nailed to the cross, came from man's ignorance which is a form of weakness. Jesus asked His Father to forgive man's weakness, not his rebellion. In Numbers 15:23-31, God distinguishes the sins of ignorance from deliberate and willful sins. God always forgives the sins of weakness because of Christ's descent into hell symbolized by the burnt offering. Jesus' cry from the cross was for the sake of all mankind. When Jesus descended into hell, He left all of man's sins through weakness behind. This aspect of Christ's sacrifice became the basis for God's use of His consuming fire to separate and recover all of His good systems and elements from their defilement by sinful systems. For this reason, God will absolutely answer Jesus' plea from the cross, and will forgive and recreate all men not saved by grace to live on a recreated earth. Revelation 21:3-5.
The deliberate and willful sins of mankind have always been allied with Satan's rebellion. God cannot forgive Satan because he is totally evil, and God cannot forgive that aspect of man's nature which is totally evil. Those who are determined to be evil never desire to repent. Mark 3:28-29. But if any human who has chosen to be rebellious does repent, this repentance happened because he submitted to the conviction of his sins by the Holy Spirit. By this repentance, he demonstrates that his rebellion was only temporary and caused by weakness. God can and will forgive and reconcile any person who sins through weakness. But the rebellious nature of man which hates God forever, He will consign to the lake of fire forever. Numbers 15:29-31; Revelation 21:15; Revelation 22:11.
Monday, July 24, 2017
The Three Methods and Levels of Salvation part four
This theology does not advocate universal salvation. This theology advocates universal recreation.
In this theology, God condemns lost sinners to torment forever in a lake of fire. This lost condition constitutes a part of the being of every human since the fall of man. This lost condition equals total rebellion against God. This lost condition allies itself with the rebellion of Satan, and is totally evil. Atheists have given their consciousnesses over to this way of thinking. The deepest part of Adam's sin was that he knowingly and willfully disobeyed God. In this respect, Adam became allied with Satan. To a degree, the consciousness of Adam and all his progeny became allied with negative consciousness; that is, demonic consciousness. God cursed this demonic consciousness when He cursed the serpent and the ground. God's project is to separate all humans from this demonic consciousness either by using salvation by grace or by His consuming fires of hell. God never forgives total rebellion because total rebellion never repents. He can, and must, condemn it to be preoccupied with torment forever so that it can never infect His creations again like it did with Lucifer's rebellion. Genesis 3:8-11, 14-19, 21; II Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11.
All of the Old Testament animal sacrifices, including the burnt offering, symbolized some aspect of the finished work of Christ in His life, death, burial, and resurrection. Hebrews 9:26. Jesus bore the sins of all mankind when He died on the cross. Isaiah 53:6. When Jesus descended into hell, He left behind all of the sins of all men not saved by grace to be burned by God's consuming fire. Psalm 22:6; Mark 9:48-49; Leviticus 2:8-13; Matthew 3:11-12. The Bible often uses the term "worm" to symbolize man's sin. Isaiah 66:24; Exodus 16:19-20. The Biblical term "salt" symbolizes that which preserves the lives of men. Leviticus 2:13; Mark 9:49. The lives of all those saved by grace do not descend with Christ into hell because their sins have already been cleansed by the shed blood and water of Christ on the cross. The lives of all sinful men have descended with Christ into hell where their sinful systems were burned in order to liberate the good elements of those systems to be used by God to recreate a new human race to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. But their rebellious nature; that is, their demonic consciousnesses which are capable of inventing false systems called sin, God will condemn forever to the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14-15. Every aspect of the finished work of Christ for the spiritual salvation or the recreation of mankind is interconnected. In other words, the burnt offering does not work without the blood sacrifice, and both do not work without Christ's perfect life and resurrection. Hebrews 13:10-13.
The rebellious part of man's nature extends from Satan's rebellion. Satan injected his rebellion into the whole of humanity when Adam fell. Excessive pride constitutes a sinful system which is the basis for all sinful systems. Excessive pride invents the idea that one can replace God's rule with one's own invented systems. But in order to do this, one must first get rid of God. In this way, excessive pride became the basis for the sins of lying and murder. Excessive pride caused Satan to lie about God in order to discredit Him and provide a reason to try to kill Him. Excessive pride also became the basis for all other sins. Ezekiel 28:1-19; Genesis 3:1-5, 15; John 8:44-45.
Sinful systems are always inventions, never creations. Only God can create. Sinful systems may cause heightened pleasure and excitement in the short run, but they always prove to be destructive in the long run. Hebrews 11:25. One invents sinful systems when one steals God's true and good ideas and arranges them into a false system. For example, the calculation 2+3=6 is a false system even though every element of it is a true and good idea. This example provides a simple illustration of that which Lucifer did when he rebelled against God. Lucifer allowed a false system called "excessive pride" to enter into his consciousness and he acted on it. Both "excessive" and "pride" are good and true ideas as God knows how to use them. Every human possesses some of this same form of rebellion within him. John 8:44.
When a Christian believer dies, his soul and spirit immediately return to God because God has already thoroughly cleansed him from all his sins by the blood of Jesus and has recreated his soul and spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. II Corinthians 5:8. When an unbeliever dies, his soul and spirit descends into hell where God's consuming fire burns up all his sinful systems in order to liberate God's good and true elements which return to God to be used in His future recreation of the earth and mankind. I Corinthians 3:15; Revelation 21:5. However, the unbeliever's negative consciousness which is his rebellious nature remains in hell to be later cast into the lake of fire. God never forgives rebellion because it never repents. Revelation 20:14-15
In this theology, God condemns lost sinners to torment forever in a lake of fire. This lost condition constitutes a part of the being of every human since the fall of man. This lost condition equals total rebellion against God. This lost condition allies itself with the rebellion of Satan, and is totally evil. Atheists have given their consciousnesses over to this way of thinking. The deepest part of Adam's sin was that he knowingly and willfully disobeyed God. In this respect, Adam became allied with Satan. To a degree, the consciousness of Adam and all his progeny became allied with negative consciousness; that is, demonic consciousness. God cursed this demonic consciousness when He cursed the serpent and the ground. God's project is to separate all humans from this demonic consciousness either by using salvation by grace or by His consuming fires of hell. God never forgives total rebellion because total rebellion never repents. He can, and must, condemn it to be preoccupied with torment forever so that it can never infect His creations again like it did with Lucifer's rebellion. Genesis 3:8-11, 14-19, 21; II Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11.
All of the Old Testament animal sacrifices, including the burnt offering, symbolized some aspect of the finished work of Christ in His life, death, burial, and resurrection. Hebrews 9:26. Jesus bore the sins of all mankind when He died on the cross. Isaiah 53:6. When Jesus descended into hell, He left behind all of the sins of all men not saved by grace to be burned by God's consuming fire. Psalm 22:6; Mark 9:48-49; Leviticus 2:8-13; Matthew 3:11-12. The Bible often uses the term "worm" to symbolize man's sin. Isaiah 66:24; Exodus 16:19-20. The Biblical term "salt" symbolizes that which preserves the lives of men. Leviticus 2:13; Mark 9:49. The lives of all those saved by grace do not descend with Christ into hell because their sins have already been cleansed by the shed blood and water of Christ on the cross. The lives of all sinful men have descended with Christ into hell where their sinful systems were burned in order to liberate the good elements of those systems to be used by God to recreate a new human race to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. But their rebellious nature; that is, their demonic consciousnesses which are capable of inventing false systems called sin, God will condemn forever to the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14-15. Every aspect of the finished work of Christ for the spiritual salvation or the recreation of mankind is interconnected. In other words, the burnt offering does not work without the blood sacrifice, and both do not work without Christ's perfect life and resurrection. Hebrews 13:10-13.
The rebellious part of man's nature extends from Satan's rebellion. Satan injected his rebellion into the whole of humanity when Adam fell. Excessive pride constitutes a sinful system which is the basis for all sinful systems. Excessive pride invents the idea that one can replace God's rule with one's own invented systems. But in order to do this, one must first get rid of God. In this way, excessive pride became the basis for the sins of lying and murder. Excessive pride caused Satan to lie about God in order to discredit Him and provide a reason to try to kill Him. Excessive pride also became the basis for all other sins. Ezekiel 28:1-19; Genesis 3:1-5, 15; John 8:44-45.
Sinful systems are always inventions, never creations. Only God can create. Sinful systems may cause heightened pleasure and excitement in the short run, but they always prove to be destructive in the long run. Hebrews 11:25. One invents sinful systems when one steals God's true and good ideas and arranges them into a false system. For example, the calculation 2+3=6 is a false system even though every element of it is a true and good idea. This example provides a simple illustration of that which Lucifer did when he rebelled against God. Lucifer allowed a false system called "excessive pride" to enter into his consciousness and he acted on it. Both "excessive" and "pride" are good and true ideas as God knows how to use them. Every human possesses some of this same form of rebellion within him. John 8:44.
When a Christian believer dies, his soul and spirit immediately return to God because God has already thoroughly cleansed him from all his sins by the blood of Jesus and has recreated his soul and spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. II Corinthians 5:8. When an unbeliever dies, his soul and spirit descends into hell where God's consuming fire burns up all his sinful systems in order to liberate God's good and true elements which return to God to be used in His future recreation of the earth and mankind. I Corinthians 3:15; Revelation 21:5. However, the unbeliever's negative consciousness which is his rebellious nature remains in hell to be later cast into the lake of fire. God never forgives rebellion because it never repents. Revelation 20:14-15
Saturday, July 15, 2017
The Three Methods and Levels of Salvation part three
The highest level of salvation belongs to all saints saved by grace. Grace means that God gives them a special gift of salvation which they do not deserve. God cleanses them from all sin in soul and spirit by the blood of Jesus the moment they believe. God further cleanses them of all sins of the flesh every day they repent and then completely at the Rapture of the Church by His Word symbolized by the water shed from Jesus' riven side. I John 1:7; Ephesians 5:25-27. Without this cleansing, Satan would hold them in hell forever. Acts 26:16-18. These saints receive the "more abundant life" promised by Christ in John 10:10. These saints receive the everlasting life of Christ within themselves the moment they believe. Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:4. This everlasting life is the Spirit of Christ. Romans 8:2.
All saints saved by grace will enjoy far greater benefits and blessings than the recreated people who live on the earth. Heaven will be the home of all saints saved by grace. They will enjoy far greater bliss than those who live on the recreated earth. John 17:24; I Peter 1:4. The Church Age saints will become the Bride of Christ. Revelation 19:7-9; Ephesians 5:25-27; Romans 7:4. One cannot even begin to imagine the benefits and blessings that will accrue to such a position. Saints saved by grace also become the adopted children of God and "joint-heirs with Christ." This can only mean that they will own and enjoy everything that Christ Himself owns and enjoys. Romans 8:14-17. God will also allow all saints saved by grace to retain their basic identities and personalities. When God saves a person by His grace, He cleanses their souls and spirits of all sin by the blood of Jesus and recreates them. This miracle changes their personalities to some extent because they become better and more loving people. Yet, they also retain their basic personalities and identities. The recreated people who live on the recreated earth will lose their former identities and personalities because God will have recreated them as different individuals from a pool of good elements which God recovered from the destruction of their identities and personalities by His wrathful fire. Jesus taught these truths in Matthew 16:24-28; Mark 8:34-38; and Luke 9:23-26. Those who give their lives to Christ to receive His grace will save their lives; that is, they will retain their basic identities and personalities in heaven. Those who attempt to retain their sinful lives will be destroyed by God's fire, but God will recover their good elements from the fire and use them to recreate new people to inhabit His recreated earth. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this burning of sinful systems and God's recovery of His good elements. Matthew 16:27 teaches that God will "reward every man according to his works." When God's Word states "every man," it means exactly that which it states. Every man has done some good works and some bad works. Most of his good works have been tainted by his bad works. God will burn every person not saved by grace with His wrathful fire in order to recover all the elements of His good works which He created in the first place. I Corinthians 3:12-15; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20.
The second level of salvation rests on God's promise that He will preserve the religion and the nation of Israel forever. I Chronicles 17:9-15; 28:8; Romans 11:26-29; Numbers 18:8. But this promise applies only to Jews who faithfully practice their religion. God will disqualify all Jews who fail to believe in Him from participation in this promise. Ezekiel 20:38; Numbers 15:30-31. Recreated Jerusalem will be the capitol of the recreated earth, and all recreated people will go there to worship. Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 3:17. In Ezekiel 20:40, God promises to restore the original Jewish religion with all of its laws and offerings. In Ezekiel 22:17-22, God promises to melt Israel in His purifying fire, burn the dross, symbolic of sin; and preserve the metals, symbolic of her righteousness. In Ezekiel 37:23-28, God promises that He will cleanse Israel and restore her religion and nation forever. In Ezekiel chapters 40 through 48, God describes the future Temple of restored Israel with its offerings and sacrifices. I Chronicles 17:10-12 relates that Christ alone will build this future Temple. The saints in heaven will enjoy the privilege of seeing and worshipping Christ anytime they desire, but the Temple worshippers on earth will only get to see and worship Christ on the Sabbath and the day of the new moon. Ezekiel 46:1-2.
The third and lowest level of salvation will comprise all recreated people living on a recreated earth. These recreated people will be divided into those of the Jewish religion and nation who will rule the world, and those nations subject to the laws enacted by the ruler nation Israel. Revelation 21:2-3. These recreated people will not be the same individuals who inhabited the former earth. These people will constitute a wholly new creation of God from a pool of all His good elements that He recovered from His consuming fire. God will give them immortal life and freedom from all suffering and pain. Revelation 21:3-5. These are the meek that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5:5. God calls them "the meek" because He will have stripped them of all excessive pride which is the basis of all sin. God will absolutely separate and recover all of His good elements from all sinful systems. These recreated people will only get to see Christ and worship Him at times when they travel to Jerusalem for the Temple ceremonies on the Sabbath or the new moon. Ezekiel 46:3; Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 3:17.
God casts only the dead into the lake of fire. Sin causes death and so death, as a total separation from God, must be totally evil. Revelation 21:8 describes these dead as being totally evil. Revelation 22:11 describes God's absolute and complete separation of all that is good and righteous from all that is totally filthy and evil. Revelation 22:12, interpreted in the light of Revelation 21:5, can only mean that God will separate all of the good things He has ever created from its being tainted by evil, and will reward every man with a blessed recreation. God promised in I Corinthians 15:26 that "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Revelation 20:14 records the destruction of this death which is totally evil.
All saints saved by grace will enjoy far greater benefits and blessings than the recreated people who live on the earth. Heaven will be the home of all saints saved by grace. They will enjoy far greater bliss than those who live on the recreated earth. John 17:24; I Peter 1:4. The Church Age saints will become the Bride of Christ. Revelation 19:7-9; Ephesians 5:25-27; Romans 7:4. One cannot even begin to imagine the benefits and blessings that will accrue to such a position. Saints saved by grace also become the adopted children of God and "joint-heirs with Christ." This can only mean that they will own and enjoy everything that Christ Himself owns and enjoys. Romans 8:14-17. God will also allow all saints saved by grace to retain their basic identities and personalities. When God saves a person by His grace, He cleanses their souls and spirits of all sin by the blood of Jesus and recreates them. This miracle changes their personalities to some extent because they become better and more loving people. Yet, they also retain their basic personalities and identities. The recreated people who live on the recreated earth will lose their former identities and personalities because God will have recreated them as different individuals from a pool of good elements which God recovered from the destruction of their identities and personalities by His wrathful fire. Jesus taught these truths in Matthew 16:24-28; Mark 8:34-38; and Luke 9:23-26. Those who give their lives to Christ to receive His grace will save their lives; that is, they will retain their basic identities and personalities in heaven. Those who attempt to retain their sinful lives will be destroyed by God's fire, but God will recover their good elements from the fire and use them to recreate new people to inhabit His recreated earth. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this burning of sinful systems and God's recovery of His good elements. Matthew 16:27 teaches that God will "reward every man according to his works." When God's Word states "every man," it means exactly that which it states. Every man has done some good works and some bad works. Most of his good works have been tainted by his bad works. God will burn every person not saved by grace with His wrathful fire in order to recover all the elements of His good works which He created in the first place. I Corinthians 3:12-15; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20.
The second level of salvation rests on God's promise that He will preserve the religion and the nation of Israel forever. I Chronicles 17:9-15; 28:8; Romans 11:26-29; Numbers 18:8. But this promise applies only to Jews who faithfully practice their religion. God will disqualify all Jews who fail to believe in Him from participation in this promise. Ezekiel 20:38; Numbers 15:30-31. Recreated Jerusalem will be the capitol of the recreated earth, and all recreated people will go there to worship. Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 3:17. In Ezekiel 20:40, God promises to restore the original Jewish religion with all of its laws and offerings. In Ezekiel 22:17-22, God promises to melt Israel in His purifying fire, burn the dross, symbolic of sin; and preserve the metals, symbolic of her righteousness. In Ezekiel 37:23-28, God promises that He will cleanse Israel and restore her religion and nation forever. In Ezekiel chapters 40 through 48, God describes the future Temple of restored Israel with its offerings and sacrifices. I Chronicles 17:10-12 relates that Christ alone will build this future Temple. The saints in heaven will enjoy the privilege of seeing and worshipping Christ anytime they desire, but the Temple worshippers on earth will only get to see and worship Christ on the Sabbath and the day of the new moon. Ezekiel 46:1-2.
The third and lowest level of salvation will comprise all recreated people living on a recreated earth. These recreated people will be divided into those of the Jewish religion and nation who will rule the world, and those nations subject to the laws enacted by the ruler nation Israel. Revelation 21:2-3. These recreated people will not be the same individuals who inhabited the former earth. These people will constitute a wholly new creation of God from a pool of all His good elements that He recovered from His consuming fire. God will give them immortal life and freedom from all suffering and pain. Revelation 21:3-5. These are the meek that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5:5. God calls them "the meek" because He will have stripped them of all excessive pride which is the basis of all sin. God will absolutely separate and recover all of His good elements from all sinful systems. These recreated people will only get to see Christ and worship Him at times when they travel to Jerusalem for the Temple ceremonies on the Sabbath or the new moon. Ezekiel 46:3; Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 3:17.
God casts only the dead into the lake of fire. Sin causes death and so death, as a total separation from God, must be totally evil. Revelation 21:8 describes these dead as being totally evil. Revelation 22:11 describes God's absolute and complete separation of all that is good and righteous from all that is totally filthy and evil. Revelation 22:12, interpreted in the light of Revelation 21:5, can only mean that God will separate all of the good things He has ever created from its being tainted by evil, and will reward every man with a blessed recreation. God promised in I Corinthians 15:26 that "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Revelation 20:14 records the destruction of this death which is totally evil.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The Three Methods and Levels of Salvation part two
God possesses a third method of salvation, His consuming fire. Hebrews 12:29. Such scriptures as Psalm 21:8-10, and many other scriptures, reveal that God purges evil by devouring it with fire. Such words and phrases as God's "enemies" and "those that hate thee," and their "fruit," and their "seed" indicate that God will purge sin and evil with fire, but He will never purge humans. God never cursed the human race. Psalm 36:6 proves that God will preserve men forever. All of God's good works last forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
According to God's laws of physics which He created to govern the universe, the word "destroy" never means annihilation. Annihilation can only mean that something has been reduced to absolute nothingness. According to God's laws of physics, annihilation never happens. Whenever God destroys a false system, He merely reduces it to its constituent good and true elements. Lucifer stole some of these good and true elements and used them to invent false systems called "sin." Verses such as Psalm 145:20 and Matthew 10:28, which refer to God's destruction of the wicked in hell, actually mean that God will use His consuming fire to reduce false systems to their true and real elements so that He can recreate good systems from those recovered elements. The fires of hell serve this purpose. God never annihilates anything He has ever created. Numbers 23:19. God created the finite consciousness of man. Therefore, it must, from the time it was created, last forever.
All of this means that the lake of fire must serve a different purpose than the fires of hell. In hell, God separates the positive consciousness of each man there which is wholly good from his negative consciousness which is totally evil. In the lake of fire, God preoccupies these negative consciousnesses with torment forever so that they can never again invent false systems to infect His creations. In this way, God even turns the lake of fire into a good system.
All of the offerings of the Old Testament priests symbolize God's three methods of salvation. The priests and Levites symbolize God's highest level of salvation, the saints saved by grace. The blood of the slain animals symbolize the shed blood of Christ applied to cleanse all repentant sinners. Leviticus 1:5. The washing with water of the animals inwards and legs symbolize the daily need of the saints saved by grace to be wholly sanctified in their fleshly natures in preparation for their resurrection to live in heaven forever. Leviticus 1:9&13. The burnings of the animals symbolizes God's complete separation of all His good elements of every person He has ever created from all false systems which infect those persons. The "sweet savour unto the Lord" of verses 9, 13, and 17 symbolize God's recovery of every good thing He has ever created. Romans 11:36.
In Leviticus 6:8-13, God presents a definite purpose for the burnt offerings. In verse 11, the priest takes the ashes of the burnt offering to a "clean place." The ashes symbolize the good elements reduced from the sinful system destroyed by fire. The clean place represents the recreated earth where God will recreate His recovered good elements into new, good systems. In verse 13, God commands that this fire never be allowed to go out. This command symbolizes the lake of fire. In Leviticus 7:8, God commanded the priest to keep the skin of the burnt offering. This command symbolizes the fact that God uses fire to burn sinful systems in order to recover their good elements. In Leviticus 9:7, God reveals that the burnt offering is just as efficacious for the atonement of the people as is the sin offering.
Numbers 16:30-40 records the rebellion of Korah and his followers against Moses and God. God destroyed Korah and his followers with fire, and while they were burning but still alive, God caused the earth to open and swallow them. This story shows that God always sends the rebellious to a fiery hell. But this story also symbolizes that God uses the fires of hell for a purpose. Verses 36-40 records that God commanded Moses to tell Eleazer to recover from the fire the brazen censers that these rebellious men had used to offer strange incense which God could not accept. These hallowed censers were then used to make a covering for the brazen altar where the priests offered the animal sacrifices for the atonement of the people. This story symbolizes the fact that God uses the fires of hell to destroy rebellious systems in order to recover the good elements of those systems that He created in His own image. God then uses these good elements to recreate good systems; that is, new men reconciled to Him who live on His recreated earth. The brazen censers symbolize these good elements which were made a part of the brazen altar where sacrifices were made to atone people to God.
Numbers 31:21-24 records that God uses both fire, which symbolizes His means to destroy sinful systems, and water, which symbolizes the power of the Holy Spirit's use of His Word to cleanse. God uses holy fire to separate and cleanse His good elements, represented by precious metals, from their being tainted by sinful systems. God cleanses His good systems which He does not submit to the fire by the power of the Holy Spirit using the eternal Word of God symbolized by water.
Deuteronomy 4:24 informs us that God's consuming fire directly connects to His jealous protection of His people. This fact demonstrates that God uses His holy fire as the third means by which He destroys sinful systems in order to cleanse and recover His good elements which He uses to create new, good systems; that is, new men. The first and most powerful method God uses to save and cleanse men from sin issues from the shed blood of Jesus. The second method comes from the Holy Spirit using the cleansing power of God's Word represented by the water that flowed from Jesus' riven side. The third method involves God using His consuming fire, which is the fire of hell, to destroy false systems; that is, sin, in order to recover the good elements of those false systems which He then uses to recreate new, good systems; that is, new men living on a recreated earth. Many scriptures support these interpretations including Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 24:11-12; Job 38:13; Psalm 37:27-29; 90:3; 119:89-91; Isaiah 6:5-7; 45:22-23; Jeremiah 23:28-29; Mark 9:49; Luke 3:6,9,17; 17:21; 20;38; John 5:21-29; 1:9; 3:35; 6:33; 12:32, 47; Acts 15:16-18; 3:25-26; 10:34-35,42; Romans 8:19-23; 11:26-36; 14:9; 12:3; 2:9-10; II Corinthians 5:18-19; Ephesians 1:10, 21-22; Philippians 2:10-11 with Isaiah 45:22-23; Colossians 1:15-20; I Timothy 2:4-6; 4:10; 6:13, 17-19; II Timothy 4:1; 1:10; Hebrews 1:2; 12:29; 11:20; I John 2:2; 3:8; 4:14; III John 1:11; Revelation 20:12-13, 15; 21:3; 4:11.
According to God's laws of physics which He created to govern the universe, the word "destroy" never means annihilation. Annihilation can only mean that something has been reduced to absolute nothingness. According to God's laws of physics, annihilation never happens. Whenever God destroys a false system, He merely reduces it to its constituent good and true elements. Lucifer stole some of these good and true elements and used them to invent false systems called "sin." Verses such as Psalm 145:20 and Matthew 10:28, which refer to God's destruction of the wicked in hell, actually mean that God will use His consuming fire to reduce false systems to their true and real elements so that He can recreate good systems from those recovered elements. The fires of hell serve this purpose. God never annihilates anything He has ever created. Numbers 23:19. God created the finite consciousness of man. Therefore, it must, from the time it was created, last forever.
All of this means that the lake of fire must serve a different purpose than the fires of hell. In hell, God separates the positive consciousness of each man there which is wholly good from his negative consciousness which is totally evil. In the lake of fire, God preoccupies these negative consciousnesses with torment forever so that they can never again invent false systems to infect His creations. In this way, God even turns the lake of fire into a good system.
All of the offerings of the Old Testament priests symbolize God's three methods of salvation. The priests and Levites symbolize God's highest level of salvation, the saints saved by grace. The blood of the slain animals symbolize the shed blood of Christ applied to cleanse all repentant sinners. Leviticus 1:5. The washing with water of the animals inwards and legs symbolize the daily need of the saints saved by grace to be wholly sanctified in their fleshly natures in preparation for their resurrection to live in heaven forever. Leviticus 1:9&13. The burnings of the animals symbolizes God's complete separation of all His good elements of every person He has ever created from all false systems which infect those persons. The "sweet savour unto the Lord" of verses 9, 13, and 17 symbolize God's recovery of every good thing He has ever created. Romans 11:36.
In Leviticus 6:8-13, God presents a definite purpose for the burnt offerings. In verse 11, the priest takes the ashes of the burnt offering to a "clean place." The ashes symbolize the good elements reduced from the sinful system destroyed by fire. The clean place represents the recreated earth where God will recreate His recovered good elements into new, good systems. In verse 13, God commands that this fire never be allowed to go out. This command symbolizes the lake of fire. In Leviticus 7:8, God commanded the priest to keep the skin of the burnt offering. This command symbolizes the fact that God uses fire to burn sinful systems in order to recover their good elements. In Leviticus 9:7, God reveals that the burnt offering is just as efficacious for the atonement of the people as is the sin offering.
Numbers 16:30-40 records the rebellion of Korah and his followers against Moses and God. God destroyed Korah and his followers with fire, and while they were burning but still alive, God caused the earth to open and swallow them. This story shows that God always sends the rebellious to a fiery hell. But this story also symbolizes that God uses the fires of hell for a purpose. Verses 36-40 records that God commanded Moses to tell Eleazer to recover from the fire the brazen censers that these rebellious men had used to offer strange incense which God could not accept. These hallowed censers were then used to make a covering for the brazen altar where the priests offered the animal sacrifices for the atonement of the people. This story symbolizes the fact that God uses the fires of hell to destroy rebellious systems in order to recover the good elements of those systems that He created in His own image. God then uses these good elements to recreate good systems; that is, new men reconciled to Him who live on His recreated earth. The brazen censers symbolize these good elements which were made a part of the brazen altar where sacrifices were made to atone people to God.
Numbers 31:21-24 records that God uses both fire, which symbolizes His means to destroy sinful systems, and water, which symbolizes the power of the Holy Spirit's use of His Word to cleanse. God uses holy fire to separate and cleanse His good elements, represented by precious metals, from their being tainted by sinful systems. God cleanses His good systems which He does not submit to the fire by the power of the Holy Spirit using the eternal Word of God symbolized by water.
Deuteronomy 4:24 informs us that God's consuming fire directly connects to His jealous protection of His people. This fact demonstrates that God uses His holy fire as the third means by which He destroys sinful systems in order to cleanse and recover His good elements which He uses to create new, good systems; that is, new men. The first and most powerful method God uses to save and cleanse men from sin issues from the shed blood of Jesus. The second method comes from the Holy Spirit using the cleansing power of God's Word represented by the water that flowed from Jesus' riven side. The third method involves God using His consuming fire, which is the fire of hell, to destroy false systems; that is, sin, in order to recover the good elements of those false systems which He then uses to recreate new, good systems; that is, new men living on a recreated earth. Many scriptures support these interpretations including Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 24:11-12; Job 38:13; Psalm 37:27-29; 90:3; 119:89-91; Isaiah 6:5-7; 45:22-23; Jeremiah 23:28-29; Mark 9:49; Luke 3:6,9,17; 17:21; 20;38; John 5:21-29; 1:9; 3:35; 6:33; 12:32, 47; Acts 15:16-18; 3:25-26; 10:34-35,42; Romans 8:19-23; 11:26-36; 14:9; 12:3; 2:9-10; II Corinthians 5:18-19; Ephesians 1:10, 21-22; Philippians 2:10-11 with Isaiah 45:22-23; Colossians 1:15-20; I Timothy 2:4-6; 4:10; 6:13, 17-19; II Timothy 4:1; 1:10; Hebrews 1:2; 12:29; 11:20; I John 2:2; 3:8; 4:14; III John 1:11; Revelation 20:12-13, 15; 21:3; 4:11.
Monday, July 3, 2017
The Three Methods and Levels of Salvation part one
God has three levels and three methods of salvation. God's three levels of salvation belong to saints saved by grace, the recreated religion and nation of Israel, and the rest of the recreated human race who will inhabit the recreated earth. God's three methods of salvation extend from the shed blood of Jesus, the water shed from Jesus' riven side, and by God's consuming fire.
The highest level of salvation belongs to God's people who have been saved by grace. These three groups comprise Old Testament saints, New Testament saints, and Tribulation saints. All saints saved by grace must be spiritually washed from all their sins by the shed blood of Christ, and be spiritually birthed into the Kingdom of God. John 3:3; John 3;7; Ephesians 1:6-7.
The Old Testament saints were given a special revelation from God that a suffering Messiah would come to save them from sin and hell and recreate them in soul, spirit, and body. Genesis 3:15; I Peter 1:10-12; Psalm 22; Isaiah 53. The Old Testament saints had no spiritual ability to acquire any deep understanding of what this revelation meant. They could only get a glimpse of its meaning. But they put their faith in this revelation, and because of that, God consigned them to go to paradise which God had put next to hell in the earth at that time. Ezekiel 31:16-18. When Jesus descended into hell after His death on the cross, He visited these Old Testament saints and preached to them His highest form of salvation which is by faith in His shed blood and coming resurrection. All of the Old Testament saints, and one of the thieves who died with Jesus, believed the gospel that Jesus preached. As a result of their faith, they were "born again," and Jesus resurrected them in body, soul, and spirit when He resurrected, and took them, and paradise itself, to heaven with Him when He ascended. Matthew 27:52-53; Luke 23:40-43; Ephesians 4:7-10; Psalm 68:18.
The New Testament saints are the same as the Church Age saints. Humanity currently lives in the dispensation called the Church Age or the Age of Grace. In this age, God saves His saints when they hear the gospel, believe that only the blood of Jesus can wash away their sins, and put their faith in His resurrection which gives them His righteousness and everlasting life. God gives the Church Age saints His everlasting life the moment they believe. The moment they believe, they experience the miracle of being "born again" and recreated in soul and spirit. John 5:21-24; Romans 10:8-10, 17; John 3:3; Ephesians 2:1; I Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 1:5; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 2:10-13.
The Old Testament saints had to wait in paradise for Jesus to come and save them completely in spirit, soul, and body. God saves the New Testament saints in spirit and soul the moment they believe, but they must wait until the Rapture of the Church for the salvation of their bodies. Romans 8:23.
The Tribulation saints will believe the gospel and accept Jesus as their Savior during the terrible Tribulation period. The book of Revelation records God's terrible judgment of the earth in the absence of the restraining power of the Holy Spirit. Mankind must learn how horrible the world will become in the absence of God's power. However, God will make sure that His gospel will be preached during this time. The Tribulation saints will hear the gospel and believe, but they will not be "born again" while still on the earth because the Holy Spirit will have ceased His operation of baptizing believers into the body of Christ and washing them clean of their sins in the blood of Jesus. II Thessalonians 2:6-7. Most of the Tribulation saints will be martyred, but when they get to heaven they will then be washed in the blood of Jesus and recreated in body, soul, and spirit. Revelation 7:9-17.
In the gospel of John chapter 13, Jesus washes the feet of His disciples with water. His action symbolized the fact that the Holy Spirit saves New Testament believers in spirit and soul the moment they believe, but not their bodies. God allows New Testament saints to retain their free will and thus their capacity to sin. But God separates this capacity from their recreated souls and spirits which cannot sin and puts it into their fleshy nature which will retain the ability to sin. I John 3:9; Colossians 2:11. This means that the New Testament saints will need a daily washing of sin from their fleshly nature by the Holy Spirit when they daily repent of their sins. Saints who fail to daily repent of their sins will not lose their salvation, but God will punish them to correct them. Hebrews 12:6-12.
Just as the souls and spirits of believers must be washed clean of sin by the blood of Jesus before God can recreate them, so the sinful fleshly nature of believers must be washed in the water of the Word before the Church of Christ can be presented to Him as a pure, holy, and chaste virgin Bride. Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 19:7-9. The Holy Spirit must perform this miracle in a moment, just as He does with the "born again" experience of believers. God performs this miracle at the Rapture of the Church. In a moment, in the "twinkling of an eye," the Holy Spirit will wash the Church thoroughly clean of all of its unrepented sins, and all the Church saints will receive their holy and glorified bodies which Christ will bring with Him from heaven. The saints will leave their earthly bodies behind. I Corinthians 15:51-56; II Corinthians 5:1-5; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Philippians 3:20-21; I John 3:1-3.
Because of their sins, the earthly bodies of believers must die at the Rapture of the Church in accordance with God's decree in Genesis 3:19. God's decree is universal and must apply to all men equally. I Corinthians 15:50. Nevertheless, the fleshly sinful nature of believers must be cleansed of all sin by the power of the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the water of God's Word. Only after this cleansing can the saints receive their recreated, glorified bodies which God will bring to them from heaven. Enoch and Elijah were translated to heaven before they died, but they had to have subsequently died. God buried Moses' body after he died, so He could have buried Enoch and Elijah after they died.
All of this put together proves that the shed blood and water from the body and riven side of our Lord on the cross must be spiritually applied by the Holy Spirit to every believer for them to be saved in spirit, soul, and body. I John 5:5-12; John 6:63.
The highest level of salvation belongs to God's people who have been saved by grace. These three groups comprise Old Testament saints, New Testament saints, and Tribulation saints. All saints saved by grace must be spiritually washed from all their sins by the shed blood of Christ, and be spiritually birthed into the Kingdom of God. John 3:3; John 3;7; Ephesians 1:6-7.
The Old Testament saints were given a special revelation from God that a suffering Messiah would come to save them from sin and hell and recreate them in soul, spirit, and body. Genesis 3:15; I Peter 1:10-12; Psalm 22; Isaiah 53. The Old Testament saints had no spiritual ability to acquire any deep understanding of what this revelation meant. They could only get a glimpse of its meaning. But they put their faith in this revelation, and because of that, God consigned them to go to paradise which God had put next to hell in the earth at that time. Ezekiel 31:16-18. When Jesus descended into hell after His death on the cross, He visited these Old Testament saints and preached to them His highest form of salvation which is by faith in His shed blood and coming resurrection. All of the Old Testament saints, and one of the thieves who died with Jesus, believed the gospel that Jesus preached. As a result of their faith, they were "born again," and Jesus resurrected them in body, soul, and spirit when He resurrected, and took them, and paradise itself, to heaven with Him when He ascended. Matthew 27:52-53; Luke 23:40-43; Ephesians 4:7-10; Psalm 68:18.
The New Testament saints are the same as the Church Age saints. Humanity currently lives in the dispensation called the Church Age or the Age of Grace. In this age, God saves His saints when they hear the gospel, believe that only the blood of Jesus can wash away their sins, and put their faith in His resurrection which gives them His righteousness and everlasting life. God gives the Church Age saints His everlasting life the moment they believe. The moment they believe, they experience the miracle of being "born again" and recreated in soul and spirit. John 5:21-24; Romans 10:8-10, 17; John 3:3; Ephesians 2:1; I Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 1:5; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 2:10-13.
The Old Testament saints had to wait in paradise for Jesus to come and save them completely in spirit, soul, and body. God saves the New Testament saints in spirit and soul the moment they believe, but they must wait until the Rapture of the Church for the salvation of their bodies. Romans 8:23.
The Tribulation saints will believe the gospel and accept Jesus as their Savior during the terrible Tribulation period. The book of Revelation records God's terrible judgment of the earth in the absence of the restraining power of the Holy Spirit. Mankind must learn how horrible the world will become in the absence of God's power. However, God will make sure that His gospel will be preached during this time. The Tribulation saints will hear the gospel and believe, but they will not be "born again" while still on the earth because the Holy Spirit will have ceased His operation of baptizing believers into the body of Christ and washing them clean of their sins in the blood of Jesus. II Thessalonians 2:6-7. Most of the Tribulation saints will be martyred, but when they get to heaven they will then be washed in the blood of Jesus and recreated in body, soul, and spirit. Revelation 7:9-17.
In the gospel of John chapter 13, Jesus washes the feet of His disciples with water. His action symbolized the fact that the Holy Spirit saves New Testament believers in spirit and soul the moment they believe, but not their bodies. God allows New Testament saints to retain their free will and thus their capacity to sin. But God separates this capacity from their recreated souls and spirits which cannot sin and puts it into their fleshy nature which will retain the ability to sin. I John 3:9; Colossians 2:11. This means that the New Testament saints will need a daily washing of sin from their fleshly nature by the Holy Spirit when they daily repent of their sins. Saints who fail to daily repent of their sins will not lose their salvation, but God will punish them to correct them. Hebrews 12:6-12.
Just as the souls and spirits of believers must be washed clean of sin by the blood of Jesus before God can recreate them, so the sinful fleshly nature of believers must be washed in the water of the Word before the Church of Christ can be presented to Him as a pure, holy, and chaste virgin Bride. Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 19:7-9. The Holy Spirit must perform this miracle in a moment, just as He does with the "born again" experience of believers. God performs this miracle at the Rapture of the Church. In a moment, in the "twinkling of an eye," the Holy Spirit will wash the Church thoroughly clean of all of its unrepented sins, and all the Church saints will receive their holy and glorified bodies which Christ will bring with Him from heaven. The saints will leave their earthly bodies behind. I Corinthians 15:51-56; II Corinthians 5:1-5; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Philippians 3:20-21; I John 3:1-3.
Because of their sins, the earthly bodies of believers must die at the Rapture of the Church in accordance with God's decree in Genesis 3:19. God's decree is universal and must apply to all men equally. I Corinthians 15:50. Nevertheless, the fleshly sinful nature of believers must be cleansed of all sin by the power of the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the water of God's Word. Only after this cleansing can the saints receive their recreated, glorified bodies which God will bring to them from heaven. Enoch and Elijah were translated to heaven before they died, but they had to have subsequently died. God buried Moses' body after he died, so He could have buried Enoch and Elijah after they died.
All of this put together proves that the shed blood and water from the body and riven side of our Lord on the cross must be spiritually applied by the Holy Spirit to every believer for them to be saved in spirit, soul, and body. I John 5:5-12; John 6:63.
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