In Philippians 2:10-11 and Romans 14:11, the Apostle Paul quotes a part of a prophecy of Isaiah 45:22-24. Isaiah prophesied about an actual future event in which all humans who have ever lived will worship God. In verse 22, God bids all humans on the earth to come to Him and be saved. Verse 23 records the worship service of all humans who ever lived when they come before God. Verse 24 records that all men who ever lived will come to God being ashamed of their sins. This attitude demonstrates repentance, faith, and worship which is all that one needs to be saved. At this future worship event recorded in Revelation 5:8-14, humans saved by grace in heaven will worship God because they have already been saved. Those humans on the earth and under the earth will worship God in order to obtain a living resurrection from the dead in a general resurrection that Jesus prophesied about in John 5:28-29.
Romans 14:9 teaches that Christ is "...Lord both of the dead and living" because He has the authority to do that which He wills with both. But Luke 20:38 assures us that God is not the God of the dead "...but of the living, for all live unto Him." This condition can only mean that in light of Romans 11:29 and Ecclesiastes 3:14, God can never allow any living person He has ever created to become permanently dead. God will recover and recreate every living person from the regions of the dead by dissolving each individual system in order to recover the life within them. God will use His consuming fire as the means to separate out for preservation the living part of each individual and consume forever each dead part of them in the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:12-15. The dead parts of men can never worship God. Only living men can worship God.
In Philippians 2:10-11, Paul extends Isaiah's prophecy to the worship of Christ as being God and Savior. Christ extends His salvation by grace to all who will repent and believe while still living in the flesh in the world. John 5:24. But Christ extends His salvation by His mercy to all the rest of mankind trapped by sin and death. To the former, He provides a home forever in heaven. I Peter 1:4. To the latter, He provides a recreated life on His recreated earth forever. Revelation 21:5.
God is Almighty. Death cannot impede God's power. In fact, God has promised to destroy death itself. I Corinthians 15:26. Revelation 20:14 records the very event when God destroys death. God created life, and He has absolute power over death. For this reason, God will recover the living part of every human not saved by grace from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
Many teach that those who suffer physical death without a Christian salvation can never be saved but will suffer in hell forever. They believe this despite Jesus' teaching in John 11:25. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead to prove that He, as God, had power over physical and spiritual death. According to Matthew 27:52-53 and Ephesians 4:8-10, when Jesus descended into hell, He visited the Old Testament saints trapped in Paradise next to hell, saved them by His grace, resurrected them and took them, with Paradise itself, up to heaven when He ascended. Without a doubt, this story proves that God has complete power over physical and spiritual death. God can never lose to the Devil anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. For these reasons, God will resurrect the living parts of all humans who did not get saved by grace from the regions of the dead, use His consuming fire to separate their lives from their deaths and cast the dead parts of them, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20: 11-15; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-7; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
God's Absolute Victory part three
Joel prophesied about a specific future event that will happen to all mankind following the Rapture of the Church. The Apostle Paul also prophesied about this future event in Romans 4:11 and Philippians 2:10-11. Revelation 5:13-14 records this future event. This great worship service will begin with the Raptured saints, spread to all the angels, and will culminate with the worship of every living creature that God ever created including all living humans entrapped in hell, death, and the sea. In the Tribulation period which will immediately follow this great worship service, the Devil will launch a massive counterattack in his desperate attempt to ruin for eternity the living parts of men by putting a mark on them and by holding their lives forever within the regions of the dead. Satan will be desperate because he will know that he must succeed in permanently ruining some of God's creations in order to begin a process that will lead to the death of God. Satan believes that he can kill God because he remembers that when he was Lucifer he must have rebelled because there was something wrong with the ideas God used to create him. In other words, Satan believes that God can sin, and if He can sin, He deserves death. Matthew 4:1-11. Satan blames God for his own evil. Satan knows that if he fails to show some flaw in God's creations, then God will cast him alive into the lake of fire, and he will be forced to suffer all of the horrible pain and torment possible to a positive consciousness that God will force on him.
Isaiah 45:22-24 best describes the results of this future worship service. God will bid all of humanity to look to him and be saved. Every human who has ever lived will respond by bowing and worshipping God. Only living persons can worship God. Death and total evil absolutely refuse to ever worship God. Revelation 9:20-21. All men will come to God ashamed of themselves for ever allowing sin and death into their lives. This attitude shows repentance as well as worship. No one would want to worship God without an attitude of repentance. The Tribulation period will test mankind to the utmost. But in the end, the Devil will fail to hold down God's living humans in the regions of the dead, and thus ruin God's Word and cause God's death. God's Love was tested to the utmost on the cross, but He passed that test as well. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God can only reward living persons, not dead ones. Colossians 1:15-20. God clearly teaches in these verses that He will reconcile everything He has ever created back to Himself. Romans 11:36. Everything that God has ever extended from Himself in creation comes back to Him. Luke 20:38 and Romans 11:29. All that God has ever given life, lives forever in Him.
Isaiah 45:22-24 best describes the results of this future worship service. God will bid all of humanity to look to him and be saved. Every human who has ever lived will respond by bowing and worshipping God. Only living persons can worship God. Death and total evil absolutely refuse to ever worship God. Revelation 9:20-21. All men will come to God ashamed of themselves for ever allowing sin and death into their lives. This attitude shows repentance as well as worship. No one would want to worship God without an attitude of repentance. The Tribulation period will test mankind to the utmost. But in the end, the Devil will fail to hold down God's living humans in the regions of the dead, and thus ruin God's Word and cause God's death. God's Love was tested to the utmost on the cross, but He passed that test as well. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God can only reward living persons, not dead ones. Colossians 1:15-20. God clearly teaches in these verses that He will reconcile everything He has ever created back to Himself. Romans 11:36. Everything that God has ever extended from Himself in creation comes back to Him. Luke 20:38 and Romans 11:29. All that God has ever given life, lives forever in Him.
Monday, January 29, 2018
God's Absolute Victory part two
In Acts 2:17-21, the Apostle Peter in his sermon quoted the prophet Joel's prediction in Joel 2:28-32 that one day in the future, God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Peter quoted Joel's prophecy as being symbolic of God's power to pour out His Spirit on the Church at Pentecost. But Joel's prophecy was not specifically about the Church at Pentecost. Clearly, Joel's prophecy was about a future event in which God would pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Joel's prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:13-14. In this future event, absolutely everything that God has ever created, whether physical or spiritual, will thunderously praise God in a tremendous worship service. God will literally pour out His Spirit on all He has ever created including all humans who ever lived. In this great worship service, God will identify for separation and recovery all of the life and goodness He has ever created. In Revelation and Joel's prophecy, the Tribulation period will immediately follow this great worship event. The Tribulation period will symbolize the pain and torture of God's consuming fire that He will use finally to separate all of His life and goodness that He has ever created from all of the evil and deadness that has infected His creations.
God will separate and recover all of His created goodness and life by a series of purges of sin and death. First, God has already cleansed and recovered all of the Old Testament saints by His blood and water that flowed from His cross immediately following His resurrection. Matthew 27:52-53. All of these saint reside in heaven with Christ. Second, God is currently in the process in the Church Age of purging the souls and spirits of all believers in Christ from all their sin and death by His use of the blood that flowed from Jesus' cross. These individual events of salvation constitute the "born again" experiences of believers and their Spiritual baptism into the body of Christ called the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 12:12-13; John 3:7; I Peter 1:18-25. Third, God will thoroughly purge His Church of all of their fleshly sins at the Rapture of the Church. God will use the water of His Word to cleanse them. This Spiritual cleansing directly connects to the water that flowed from Jesus' side on the cross. Church saints can also be cleansed of fleshly sins by daily confession and repentance. But God will completely cleanse all the unconfessed fleshly sins of His Church saints and recreate their bodies to be spiritual bodies like that of Christ at the Rapture of the Church. John 13:1-17; Ephesians 5:25-27; I Corinthians 15:44-57; I John 1:9; I John 3:2-3. Fourth, God will cleanse and recreate the Tribulation saints who endure to the end with the blood and water from Jesus' cross after they get to heaven. This event will happen in the first resurrection immediately preceding the millennial reign of Christ. Revelation 20: 4 and 6. Fifth, God will effect a general resurrection of all the dead immediately following His last battle with evil as recorded in Revelation 20:7-10. In the first part of this resurrection, God will recover all of His created life and goodness that He put into the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5. In the second part of this resurrection, God will consign all of the separated total evil in the dead to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15. Jesus Himself prophesied about this general resurrection in John 5:28-29. The home of all humans saved by grace will be in heaven. The home of all those lives whom God will recover from death, hell, or the sea will be as recreated humans who will live on God's recreated earth. Revelation 21:3-4. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin and death. God can lose nothing to Satan. Revelation 21:5. God will dissolve every individual system within death, hell, or the sea in order to recover and recreate every life that has been entrapped by death and evil.
God will separate and recover all of His created goodness and life by a series of purges of sin and death. First, God has already cleansed and recovered all of the Old Testament saints by His blood and water that flowed from His cross immediately following His resurrection. Matthew 27:52-53. All of these saint reside in heaven with Christ. Second, God is currently in the process in the Church Age of purging the souls and spirits of all believers in Christ from all their sin and death by His use of the blood that flowed from Jesus' cross. These individual events of salvation constitute the "born again" experiences of believers and their Spiritual baptism into the body of Christ called the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 12:12-13; John 3:7; I Peter 1:18-25. Third, God will thoroughly purge His Church of all of their fleshly sins at the Rapture of the Church. God will use the water of His Word to cleanse them. This Spiritual cleansing directly connects to the water that flowed from Jesus' side on the cross. Church saints can also be cleansed of fleshly sins by daily confession and repentance. But God will completely cleanse all the unconfessed fleshly sins of His Church saints and recreate their bodies to be spiritual bodies like that of Christ at the Rapture of the Church. John 13:1-17; Ephesians 5:25-27; I Corinthians 15:44-57; I John 1:9; I John 3:2-3. Fourth, God will cleanse and recreate the Tribulation saints who endure to the end with the blood and water from Jesus' cross after they get to heaven. This event will happen in the first resurrection immediately preceding the millennial reign of Christ. Revelation 20: 4 and 6. Fifth, God will effect a general resurrection of all the dead immediately following His last battle with evil as recorded in Revelation 20:7-10. In the first part of this resurrection, God will recover all of His created life and goodness that He put into the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5. In the second part of this resurrection, God will consign all of the separated total evil in the dead to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15. Jesus Himself prophesied about this general resurrection in John 5:28-29. The home of all humans saved by grace will be in heaven. The home of all those lives whom God will recover from death, hell, or the sea will be as recreated humans who will live on God's recreated earth. Revelation 21:3-4. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin and death. God can lose nothing to Satan. Revelation 21:5. God will dissolve every individual system within death, hell, or the sea in order to recover and recreate every life that has been entrapped by death and evil.
God's Absolute Victory part one
Deuteronomy 30:15 reveals that God eternally associates life with goodness and death with evil. To be alive is to be creative and to do good. To be evil is to be destructive and dead. God 's Word always associates sin and evil with death and emptiness. Deuteronomy 32:21. This verse clearly reveals that that part of humanity which practises evil cannot even be human. This conclusion makes sense since God created humans to be only alive and creative. Humanity was infected with sin and death which is nonhuman. To be creative means to possess a positive consciousness. The opposite of a positive consciousness can only be a negative consciousness. God's positive consciousness creates reality, life, and beauty. Reality exists in time and space. Negative consciousness nonexists nowhere and at no time. It is total evil, vanity, death, and destruction. Positive consciousness can get no idea whatsoever of negative consciousness except that it is totally dead and evil. II Thessalonians 2:7. This happens because positive consciousness connects only to reality and negative consciousness is not real. In some mysterious way, God's greatest creation at the time, Lucifer, became suddenly infected with a negative consciousness which caused him to rebel against God. God stripped him of all of God's goodness that He had put into him and cast him out of heaven to the earth leaving him totally dead and evil and causing him to become Satan, the god of this world. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
God can never lose to negative consciousness anything He has ever created. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14. Should God ever lose anything to death and evil, such an event would weaken God's Word who is God Himself and cause the eventual eternal death of God. God did allow Satan to cause His death for three days, but God used those three days to get rid of sin and death completely and eternally, and to rise from the dead gloriously victorious over sin and death and the Devil. Isaiah 25:7-9; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 15:54-57; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Hebrews 2:14. God's victory over sin and death must be absolute and complete. Otherwise, God will lose a part of His creations to the Devil. Deuteronomy 32:22 records how God will use His consuming fire to separate and destroy all evil from the earth including all the evil in all humans. II Peter 3:10-13 records the fulfillment of this prophecy. Revelation 21:1-5 reveals how God will recover from His consuming fire all that He ever created, including all humans to be recreated to live on His new earth.
God can never lose to negative consciousness anything He has ever created. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14. Should God ever lose anything to death and evil, such an event would weaken God's Word who is God Himself and cause the eventual eternal death of God. God did allow Satan to cause His death for three days, but God used those three days to get rid of sin and death completely and eternally, and to rise from the dead gloriously victorious over sin and death and the Devil. Isaiah 25:7-9; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 15:54-57; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Hebrews 2:14. God's victory over sin and death must be absolute and complete. Otherwise, God will lose a part of His creations to the Devil. Deuteronomy 32:22 records how God will use His consuming fire to separate and destroy all evil from the earth including all the evil in all humans. II Peter 3:10-13 records the fulfillment of this prophecy. Revelation 21:1-5 reveals how God will recover from His consuming fire all that He ever created, including all humans to be recreated to live on His new earth.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Commentary on Numbers 15:30-31 part two
In Numbers 15:30-31, God revealed that the person who sins presumptuously will never be forgiven. A presumptuous sin, by God's definition, means a sin for which one never repents. God said "...that soul shall utterly be cut off: his iniquity shall be upon him." That type of condemnation can only be eternal. Presumptuous sins stem from Adam's sin because Adam knew fully well the commandment of God but he willfully violated it anyway. I Timothy 2:14. Presumptuous sins stem directly from Satan's rebellion and are always totally evil. In the end, God will consign all total evil in the Devil and in man to the lake of fire forever.
God provided an example of His punishment for a presumptuous sin in Numbers 15:32-36. God did not command Moses to offer an animal sacrifice for the forgiveness for the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath. God ordered Moses to have this man stoned to death because God knew that he had deliberately violated God's law, and he had no sorrow for it.
Adam did not sin solely because of weakness as Eve had. There were two extremes to Adam's sin. At one extreme was the presumptuous sin of willful disobedience. This condition accounts for man's inheritance of the sins of atheism, deliberate cruelty, idolatry, and hatred of God. Very seldom does one who practises these sins repent. God never forgives a total rejection of His Love. Matthew 12:31-32.
The other extreme of Adam's sin consisted of sacrificial love. God's Love always trumps sin. Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:7-8. Man's love can mitigate sin but never abolish it. Adam fell because he loved his wife and wanted to be with her in her fallen condition. In this regard, Adam prefigured a Savior who would come to fallen mankind with all the power of Love and self-sacrifice needed to raise man again to his place of favored fellowship and reconciliation with God. I Corinthians 15:44-49; I Corinthians 15:20-22; Romans 5:12-21.
God did forgive Adam's willful and deliberate sin because he repented. By faith, Adam and Eve accepted God's provision for the forgiveness of their sins when they allowed God to clothe them with the animal skins that God had sacrificed for them. God will forgive any person's willful and deliberate sin when they repent and accept God's provision for it by faith. When a willful sinner repents and demonstrates his helplessness and weakness before God, then God will always change his willful sin which He cannot forgive to one of weakness which He can forgive. For this reason, even the worst sinner who hates God can be forgiven and reconciled to God. But this event seldom happens. Matthew 12:31-32 is not about a sin which only the Pharisees could commit. In these verses, Jesus describes the fate of any person who totally hates God and forever rejects His Love. This kind of sin is totally evil and allied with Satan. God never forgives total sin. God will judge all total evil and deadness to be cast into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Genesis 3:21.
But before God condemns total evil, He will effect a general resurrection of all mankind not saved by grace. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve all individual human systems in order to recover the good elements He put into them to recreate a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated, righteous earth. He will condemn the total evil within them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
God provided an example of His punishment for a presumptuous sin in Numbers 15:32-36. God did not command Moses to offer an animal sacrifice for the forgiveness for the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath. God ordered Moses to have this man stoned to death because God knew that he had deliberately violated God's law, and he had no sorrow for it.
Adam did not sin solely because of weakness as Eve had. There were two extremes to Adam's sin. At one extreme was the presumptuous sin of willful disobedience. This condition accounts for man's inheritance of the sins of atheism, deliberate cruelty, idolatry, and hatred of God. Very seldom does one who practises these sins repent. God never forgives a total rejection of His Love. Matthew 12:31-32.
The other extreme of Adam's sin consisted of sacrificial love. God's Love always trumps sin. Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:7-8. Man's love can mitigate sin but never abolish it. Adam fell because he loved his wife and wanted to be with her in her fallen condition. In this regard, Adam prefigured a Savior who would come to fallen mankind with all the power of Love and self-sacrifice needed to raise man again to his place of favored fellowship and reconciliation with God. I Corinthians 15:44-49; I Corinthians 15:20-22; Romans 5:12-21.
God did forgive Adam's willful and deliberate sin because he repented. By faith, Adam and Eve accepted God's provision for the forgiveness of their sins when they allowed God to clothe them with the animal skins that God had sacrificed for them. God will forgive any person's willful and deliberate sin when they repent and accept God's provision for it by faith. When a willful sinner repents and demonstrates his helplessness and weakness before God, then God will always change his willful sin which He cannot forgive to one of weakness which He can forgive. For this reason, even the worst sinner who hates God can be forgiven and reconciled to God. But this event seldom happens. Matthew 12:31-32 is not about a sin which only the Pharisees could commit. In these verses, Jesus describes the fate of any person who totally hates God and forever rejects His Love. This kind of sin is totally evil and allied with Satan. God never forgives total sin. God will judge all total evil and deadness to be cast into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Genesis 3:21.
But before God condemns total evil, He will effect a general resurrection of all mankind not saved by grace. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve all individual human systems in order to recover the good elements He put into them to recreate a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated, righteous earth. He will condemn the total evil within them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Commentary on Numbers 15:22-31 part one
In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus taught that the purpose of the Ten Commandments was to instill love in the hearts of men first for God and then for one's fellow man. Thus, God in Christ confirmed the truth of Deuteronomy 6:5. God gave the Ten Commandments directly to Moses, but God allowed Moses to write the rest of the law. Jesus confirmed this fact in Matthew 19:4-9. Jesus affirmed that the law of divorce, written by Moses, directly contradicted God's original law that one man should be married to one woman by God for life.
Contradictions in God's Word never invalidates it. God allows contradictions in His Word for a holy purpose. Through contradictions, God affirms His gift of free will to man. God never allows sin, but God does allow each person to choose whether or not to sin with every temptation. For this reason, God allowed Moses to allow his people to divorce even though it is a sin. God manifests this same truth throughout the Word of God. Fear of sin causes humans to get some wrong ideas about it. Humans believe that sin can cause irreparable harm to some of God's creations. Humans forget that God is Almighty. God knows exactly how to handle sin and exactly how to get rid of all of it forever. God knows how to put pressure on the one who sins in order to cause that person to repent and return to making the right choices. God also knows how to handle those who refuse to repent. Despite any choices humans may make, God still maintains complete control over man's history and destiny. People who refuse to obey God do not hinder God's control of history. God simply eliminates them, or He raises up people to replace them who will obey Him.
God allowed Moses' law to be a part of His Word. God can make man's word a part of His Word by His approval. In Acts 17:28, God allowed Paul's quote of a pagan poet to become a part of His Word. God has a holy reason for sometimes allowing man's word to become a part of His Word. In the case of Moses' word, God desired to demonstrate how feeble man's attempts could be in trying to explain God's Law. Moses' law could make sense in some regards, but be silly and senseless in others, just like man's laws of today. Moses' law was also unduly harsh in that it always required the death penalty for adultery, sodomy, and incest. But Moses began to get a sense of what God's Law really meant when he wrote Deuteronomy 6:5.
God demonstrated that His Law was also one of love and mercy in Numbers 15:22-29. In these verses, God commanded that anyone who violated God's Law or Moses' law could find God's forgiveness if they sinned through ignorance and if they made the right animal sacrifices. The Hebrew word for ignorance here meant "an inadvertent mistake;" that is, to sin because of weakness. All sins of weakness stem from Eve's sin in that in her innocence the wicked serpent deceived her into believing she could have something better. God understands man's weakness for sin, and therefore, He always immediately cleanses and forgives all repentant sinners who put their faith in the sacrifice and shed blood of Christ. God got rid of all sin forever through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. Any sinner's willingness to repent demonstrates to God that his sins resulted from weakness. That part of any person who absolutely refuses to repent forever equals total evil and deadness which God can never forgive and which He will consign to the lake of fire forever. John 1:29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.
Contradictions in God's Word never invalidates it. God allows contradictions in His Word for a holy purpose. Through contradictions, God affirms His gift of free will to man. God never allows sin, but God does allow each person to choose whether or not to sin with every temptation. For this reason, God allowed Moses to allow his people to divorce even though it is a sin. God manifests this same truth throughout the Word of God. Fear of sin causes humans to get some wrong ideas about it. Humans believe that sin can cause irreparable harm to some of God's creations. Humans forget that God is Almighty. God knows exactly how to handle sin and exactly how to get rid of all of it forever. God knows how to put pressure on the one who sins in order to cause that person to repent and return to making the right choices. God also knows how to handle those who refuse to repent. Despite any choices humans may make, God still maintains complete control over man's history and destiny. People who refuse to obey God do not hinder God's control of history. God simply eliminates them, or He raises up people to replace them who will obey Him.
God allowed Moses' law to be a part of His Word. God can make man's word a part of His Word by His approval. In Acts 17:28, God allowed Paul's quote of a pagan poet to become a part of His Word. God has a holy reason for sometimes allowing man's word to become a part of His Word. In the case of Moses' word, God desired to demonstrate how feeble man's attempts could be in trying to explain God's Law. Moses' law could make sense in some regards, but be silly and senseless in others, just like man's laws of today. Moses' law was also unduly harsh in that it always required the death penalty for adultery, sodomy, and incest. But Moses began to get a sense of what God's Law really meant when he wrote Deuteronomy 6:5.
God demonstrated that His Law was also one of love and mercy in Numbers 15:22-29. In these verses, God commanded that anyone who violated God's Law or Moses' law could find God's forgiveness if they sinned through ignorance and if they made the right animal sacrifices. The Hebrew word for ignorance here meant "an inadvertent mistake;" that is, to sin because of weakness. All sins of weakness stem from Eve's sin in that in her innocence the wicked serpent deceived her into believing she could have something better. God understands man's weakness for sin, and therefore, He always immediately cleanses and forgives all repentant sinners who put their faith in the sacrifice and shed blood of Christ. God got rid of all sin forever through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. Any sinner's willingness to repent demonstrates to God that his sins resulted from weakness. That part of any person who absolutely refuses to repent forever equals total evil and deadness which God can never forgive and which He will consign to the lake of fire forever. John 1:29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Resurrections part two
The second part of the general resurrection will be the resurrection of the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:11-15. Strictly speaking, this cannot be a resurrection since a resurrection can only be to life, and God does not use this word in these verses. The essence of life is a positive consciousness. These dead will be totally dead, and therefore, can possess only a negative consciousness. Positive consciousness can get no idea of what a negative consciousness can be except that it is totally evil. II Thessalonians 2:7. God will call out these totally dead from one of three different places where they have been consigned by the judgment of Christ immediately following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. Christ will cast whole humans into one of these three places, but the living and good parts of them will have already been resurrected before this Great White Throne Judgment of the dead. God will judge these totally dead and cast them into the lake of fire forever. God will also destroy the places called death and hell by casting them into the lake of fire, also called the second death. The lake of fire cannot be a continuation of hell. This judgment records the very event when God will destroy death itself as He promised in I Corinthians 15:26. For this reason, the lake of fire is called the second death because it puts an end to the first death. Since God will destroy death, He will have no more use for hell, and so it too will be destroyed. God will also eliminate the place called the sea by a means not specified. Revelation 21:1. The lake of fire will be a place where only total evil will be consumed forever. Revelation 21:8. In the first part of the general resurrection, God must recover and recreate all life that He has ever created to last forever, or His promise to destroy death cannot be fulfilled. God's Word cannot fail. I Corinthians 15:22; Matthew 24;35.
Jesus Himself taught about this general resurrection of the living and the dead in John 5:28-29. When Jesus taught this, He already knew about the three resurrections of all His saints saved by grace. This means His phrase "...all that are in the graves shall hear His voice...," can only refer to a general resurrection of all living persons not saved by grace. All humans have done some good works, and God will restore this living part of all humans from being held down by a temporary death. God will recover their lives from the realms of the dead by dissolving each individual system by His use of His consuming fire in order to separate and recover the good and living elements of each individual from their totally evil and dead elements. I Corinthians 3:12-15. God can only reward a living person for his good works, and so He must raise to life all humans who have been sullied by sin and death. Revelation 22:11-12. According to such passages as Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 3:12-15; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12, (as well as many other verses) God must recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created from its temporary subjection to sin and death. God has created absolutely every positive creation, visible and invisible. Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11. God must destroy all of the Devil's attempts to permanently ruin some of God's creations in the Devil's attempts to sully God's Word with sin and death and thus kill God. All of God's creations come from His Word. Genesis 1:3. God will prove to the Devil and His creations that His Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8.
Jesus Himself taught about this general resurrection of the living and the dead in John 5:28-29. When Jesus taught this, He already knew about the three resurrections of all His saints saved by grace. This means His phrase "...all that are in the graves shall hear His voice...," can only refer to a general resurrection of all living persons not saved by grace. All humans have done some good works, and God will restore this living part of all humans from being held down by a temporary death. God will recover their lives from the realms of the dead by dissolving each individual system by His use of His consuming fire in order to separate and recover the good and living elements of each individual from their totally evil and dead elements. I Corinthians 3:12-15. God can only reward a living person for his good works, and so He must raise to life all humans who have been sullied by sin and death. Revelation 22:11-12. According to such passages as Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 3:12-15; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12, (as well as many other verses) God must recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created from its temporary subjection to sin and death. God has created absolutely every positive creation, visible and invisible. Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11. God must destroy all of the Devil's attempts to permanently ruin some of God's creations in the Devil's attempts to sully God's Word with sin and death and thus kill God. All of God's creations come from His Word. Genesis 1:3. God will prove to the Devil and His creations that His Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Resurrections part one
The Bible (KJV) teaches that there has been and will be two different types of resurrections for two different types of people. The highest type of resurrection belongs solely to all humans saved by grace. Three categories of the first type exist: the Old Testament saints, the New Testament saints, and the Tribulation saints. God resurrected the Old Testament saints immediately following Christ's resurrection. Matthew 27:52-53. God will resurrect the New Testament saints at the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-18. God will resurrect the Tribulation saints at the end of the Tribulation period. Revelation 20:4. All saints saved by grace obtain the righteous life of Christ Himself and a home with Him in heaven forever. But in the second type of resurrection, God will effect a general resurrection of the rest of humanity at the end of the millennial reign of Christ. God will recreate the goodness He put into these humans into a new humanity to live on His recreated earth.
God will divide the general resurrection into two events. In the first event, God will recover all of His created life that He has put into mankind, which at that time will reside within the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5-6. Only humans saved by grace can be called "...priests of God and of Christ..." This means the first resurrection of verse six can only refer to the resurrection of the Tribulation saints prior to the thousand year reign of Christ. But the first resurrection of verse five can only refer to the first part of the general resurrection when God will recover all the living that He created from their confinement within the realms of the dead. God used the phrase "...the dead lived not again..." Since the dead cannot be alive, then this phrase can only mean that God will recover all lives He created from among the regions of the dead.
God holds the right and the power to dissolve any system he has ever created into its constituent elements for the purpose of recreating those elements into a new system. Each human is one such system. In the first part of the general resurrection, God will dissolve the individualities and personalities of all the dead in order to recover the life and goodness He originally put into each one of them for the purpose of recreating a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 2:1-3. Life and goodness are synonymous. God created all life to be good. Genesis 1:31. All good works come from being alive. Deadness comes from the sin that has infected mankind. All humans not saved by grace must go to one of the three regions of the dead; that is, the sea, the death, or hell according to the judgment of Christ. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. They must go to one of these three places of the dead because their lives and goodness have not been cleansed from being sullied by sin and death. Isaiah 64:6. God's consuming fire is His power that cleanses and separates the living from the dead. I Corinthians 3:15. God will never dissolve the individualities and basic personalities of all saints saved by grace forever. Mark 8:34-35. All saints saved by grace are cleansed from sin and death by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and they are made alive by Christ's resurrection from the dead. All the rest of humanity will be saved by the descent of the Spirit of Christ into hell where He left behind all of the sin and deadness of mankind. God puts His salvation by grace into effect when a repentant sinner becomes "born again." God puts His salvation and separation of the living from the dead into effect by the use of His consuming fire. God created all life, and since God's Word and His creative powers can never be diminished, then God will recover and recreate all human lives that He ever created. Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3;14; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
The Devil has counted on destroying all of God's creations by permanently reducing them to the level of sin and death. By this means, the Devil seeks to diminish God's Word and power and thus kill God. God has fully met the Devil's challenge on the cross, by His descent into hell, and by His resurrection from the dead. God has and will cleanse and separate all that He has ever created from sin and death and will recreate it all. Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5.
God will divide the general resurrection into two events. In the first event, God will recover all of His created life that He has put into mankind, which at that time will reside within the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5-6. Only humans saved by grace can be called "...priests of God and of Christ..." This means the first resurrection of verse six can only refer to the resurrection of the Tribulation saints prior to the thousand year reign of Christ. But the first resurrection of verse five can only refer to the first part of the general resurrection when God will recover all the living that He created from their confinement within the realms of the dead. God used the phrase "...the dead lived not again..." Since the dead cannot be alive, then this phrase can only mean that God will recover all lives He created from among the regions of the dead.
God holds the right and the power to dissolve any system he has ever created into its constituent elements for the purpose of recreating those elements into a new system. Each human is one such system. In the first part of the general resurrection, God will dissolve the individualities and personalities of all the dead in order to recover the life and goodness He originally put into each one of them for the purpose of recreating a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 2:1-3. Life and goodness are synonymous. God created all life to be good. Genesis 1:31. All good works come from being alive. Deadness comes from the sin that has infected mankind. All humans not saved by grace must go to one of the three regions of the dead; that is, the sea, the death, or hell according to the judgment of Christ. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. They must go to one of these three places of the dead because their lives and goodness have not been cleansed from being sullied by sin and death. Isaiah 64:6. God's consuming fire is His power that cleanses and separates the living from the dead. I Corinthians 3:15. God will never dissolve the individualities and basic personalities of all saints saved by grace forever. Mark 8:34-35. All saints saved by grace are cleansed from sin and death by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and they are made alive by Christ's resurrection from the dead. All the rest of humanity will be saved by the descent of the Spirit of Christ into hell where He left behind all of the sin and deadness of mankind. God puts His salvation by grace into effect when a repentant sinner becomes "born again." God puts His salvation and separation of the living from the dead into effect by the use of His consuming fire. God created all life, and since God's Word and His creative powers can never be diminished, then God will recover and recreate all human lives that He ever created. Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3;14; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
The Devil has counted on destroying all of God's creations by permanently reducing them to the level of sin and death. By this means, the Devil seeks to diminish God's Word and power and thus kill God. God has fully met the Devil's challenge on the cross, by His descent into hell, and by His resurrection from the dead. God has and will cleanse and separate all that He has ever created from sin and death and will recreate it all. Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5.
Monday, January 1, 2018
Speculation on Free Will and Determinism
Science has done some remarkable experiments in the realm of quantum mechanics which is a branch of physics. Quantum mechanics is that branch of physics that investigates the behavior of atoms and sub-atomic particles. Science has discovered that sub-atomic particles actually exist as waves through space until such a time as they become measured by a detector such as a Geiger counter. Since the Geiger counter was invented by a human mind, this means that when consciousness observes the world of objects and space, our consciousnesses actually collapse waves into particles.
One of the amazing experiments that science has done has revealed that when a detector collapses a wave to a particle, somehow that detection causes the wave to become a particle even before it was detected. In other words, the detection of a particle causes that particle to be a particle in the past as well as the present and future. For example, when we observe the particles called photons of light that come from a star, our consciousness determines them to be photons all the way back in the distant past when they were emitted from the star. For this reason, one could speculate that to a finite mind the passage of time is but a mere illusion. No past or future exist on its own; only a long series of presents which determine both the past and future.
This speculation can be extended to a possible resolution of the contradiction between free will and determinism. Many theologians have reasoned that God does not observe the passage of time, but that He continuously observes an infinite history of His creations. But nevertheless, this condition would mean that God observes a static, linear passage of time, which means that God would have to predetermine everything to be the way it is. This condition leaves no room for free will. But suppose this is not the way God's Mind works. Suppose that eternity, to God, is not an infinite, linear history, but rather it is an infinitude of presents in which His creative decisions are made. In other words, instead of eternity being a linear passage of time, it has to be an infinitude of present decisions in the Mind of God that determines the past and future of each decision. This means that God would know everything that has and will happen, but at the same time, also allow mankind created in His image to possess free will. But this condition would also mean that our linear passage of time can only be a kind of illusion since we really only know a lifetime series of presents in which we make our decisions, each one of which equally determines both our past and future.
Every decision made must nullify one or more other decisions. All nullified decisions possess a possible or potential real existence, but nevertheless, remain completely unknown except as a possibility. Both potential existence and the unknown equal absolute nothingness. Only a consciousness of real decisions can create a reality with a past and future. The unknown equals nonexistence, but conscious decisions can override nonexistence by creating reality. For this reason, God can allow each person to make his own decisions, but at the same time, God can know and influence the complete, integrated reality of every decision made. All of this put together means that while God knows and can exert His will over the integrated reality of every decision made, still He must wait for each person to decide in every present moment what the reality of his life will be. This integrated reality means that God can still control and predict the past and future no matter what each person may decide in the present.
One of the amazing experiments that science has done has revealed that when a detector collapses a wave to a particle, somehow that detection causes the wave to become a particle even before it was detected. In other words, the detection of a particle causes that particle to be a particle in the past as well as the present and future. For example, when we observe the particles called photons of light that come from a star, our consciousness determines them to be photons all the way back in the distant past when they were emitted from the star. For this reason, one could speculate that to a finite mind the passage of time is but a mere illusion. No past or future exist on its own; only a long series of presents which determine both the past and future.
This speculation can be extended to a possible resolution of the contradiction between free will and determinism. Many theologians have reasoned that God does not observe the passage of time, but that He continuously observes an infinite history of His creations. But nevertheless, this condition would mean that God observes a static, linear passage of time, which means that God would have to predetermine everything to be the way it is. This condition leaves no room for free will. But suppose this is not the way God's Mind works. Suppose that eternity, to God, is not an infinite, linear history, but rather it is an infinitude of presents in which His creative decisions are made. In other words, instead of eternity being a linear passage of time, it has to be an infinitude of present decisions in the Mind of God that determines the past and future of each decision. This means that God would know everything that has and will happen, but at the same time, also allow mankind created in His image to possess free will. But this condition would also mean that our linear passage of time can only be a kind of illusion since we really only know a lifetime series of presents in which we make our decisions, each one of which equally determines both our past and future.
Every decision made must nullify one or more other decisions. All nullified decisions possess a possible or potential real existence, but nevertheless, remain completely unknown except as a possibility. Both potential existence and the unknown equal absolute nothingness. Only a consciousness of real decisions can create a reality with a past and future. The unknown equals nonexistence, but conscious decisions can override nonexistence by creating reality. For this reason, God can allow each person to make his own decisions, but at the same time, God can know and influence the complete, integrated reality of every decision made. All of this put together means that while God knows and can exert His will over the integrated reality of every decision made, still He must wait for each person to decide in every present moment what the reality of his life will be. This integrated reality means that God can still control and predict the past and future no matter what each person may decide in the present.
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