In I Corinthians 15:22, God promised that He will recover every life He has ever created from the regions of the dead. In I Corinthians 15:26, God promised to destroy death itself, not living humans. In order to do this, God must separate all life from all death. In I Corinthians 15:27-28, God promised that "all things" will be made subject to Christ's rule. Since God created "all things," then God must recover and recreate all that He ever created that has been temporarily lost to the Devil. I Corinthians 15:35-43 refers to the various resurrections of all humans, some with celestial bodies meaning those saved by grace who will live in heaven, and some with terrestrial bodies, meaning those recreated humans who will live on a recreated earth. I Corinthians 15:44-49 refers specifically to the resurrections of all humans saved by grace since God will provide spiritual bodies like that of Christ's only to His recreated believers who will live with Him in heaven. I Corinthians 15:50 relates that all earthly bodies must die and return to the earth from which God created them. God will recreate the bodies of all humans based on their DNA record, not their earthly forms. I Corinthians 15:51-57 relates that particular resurrection called the Rapture of the Church. Since "this corruptible must put on incorruption," then the dead bodies of all living saints must be left behind when the Church rises to meet the Lord in the air. Only the incorruptible, recreated, spiritual bodies of the saints will rise to meet the Lord in the air.
God will provide a better salvation and a more abundant life to all who receive salvation by His grace. John 10:10. Saints saved by grace receive the everlasting life and righteousness of Christ Himself as a gift from God, thus becoming joint heirs with Christ and an inheritance with Him in heaven. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:7. God will save by grace all who possess enough spiritual sense to realize that God loves them so much that He sacrificed Himself to save them. God provides salvation by grace to all who will repent of their sins and put their faith in Christ while still in the flesh and heavily burdened with sin. God has also promised that all His saints saved by grace will retain their former identities and most of their former personalities when He recreates their souls and spirits at the moment they believe and are "born again." Matthew 16:24-25.
All those who refuse God's spiritual salvation will be judged by Christ immediately following their physical deaths. Christ will judge spiritual believers only for their unconfessed, fleshly sins. God has forgiven and forgotten all their spiritual sins because He has already washed them away with the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:27. Only Christ possesses the authority to judge unbelievers. John 5:22. For this reason, Christians should never judge anyone. Matthew 7:1. Christ will consign the souls and spirits of unbelievers to one of the three regions of the dead because their lives will still be filthy with sin. All judgment belongs solely to Christ, but as a general rule, unbelievers who have led good and moral lives, Christ will consign to that region called "the sea," which will also contain the cleansed sins of believers. Micah 7:19; Revelation 20:13. Unbelievers who have led carnal lives, Christ will consign to that empty region called "death." or the abyss, where they will suffer remorse and anguish for their sins. Christ will also consign the carnal nature of believers to this region until remorse causes them to repent of their fleshly sins. Luke 12:46; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:30. But Christ will retain their cleansed spirits and souls in heaven until they repent of their fleshly sins so that Christ can recreate their cleansed bodies to be rejoined with their souls and spirits in heaven. Believers who serve Christ well and who daily repent of their fleshly sins will not suffer this punishment. The worst of humanity who hate God and who practice deliberate rebellion and evil, Christ will consign to that region called "hell' where they will be tormented by flames for their cruelty and inhumanity. Revelation 20:13. But even the worst humans will retain some goodness and life which God will recover in the general resurrection.
In the general resurrection, faithful Jews will retain most of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Carnal unbelievers will lose most of their former identities and personalities when God recreates the goodness and life that He put into them when He first created them. What little goodness that is left in the rebellious humans in hell, God will recover to be recreated, but their goodness will be so widely scattered throughout the recreated human race that they will lose all of their former identities and personalities. Matthew 16:25.
Monday, February 26, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Everlasting Life part one
In light of Numbers 23:19, Ecclesiastes 3:14, Luke 20:38, Romans 11:29, and Genesis 2:7, every human that God has ever created possesses everlasting life. God can never uncreate anything He has ever created, nor can He ever take back anything He has ever given. God is Almighty. He cannot lose to the Devil any life He has ever created. All life belongs wholly to God. No life can ever be trapped by the Devil within the regions of the dead forever. God does hold the right and power to dissolve or disassemble any system He has ever created to its constituent elements in order to create a new system composed of those recovered elements. But God retains the dissolved system within His eternal memory, and the irreducible constituent elements forever remain within His Infinite Word. For these reasons, at the Great White Throne Judgment just before God recreates the heaven and the earth, God will use His consuming fire to dissolve every individual human system within the regions of the dead in order to separate out the good and living elements of each system for their recovery and recreation, and to consign all of the totally dead and evil elements of each system to the lake of fire forever. I Corinthians 3:12-15; Numbers 31:23; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 32:22; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:1-7; Revelation 22:11-12.
According to Revelation 20:15, God casts only the totally dead into the lake of fire No life and goodness whatsoever remains within the regions of the dead because God will have already recovered every good and living element of each person's system for Him to use to recreate new, righteous humans to live on His new, recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29. According to Revelation 21:8, sin causes death, and death causes sin. This means God's created life and goodness can never sin. God's life and goodness can be sullied by sin, but in itself, it can never sin. God Himself was wholly sullied by sin and death when we humans nailed Him to the cross. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21. But the blood and water that Christ shed from the cross holds the miraculous power to cleanse and save every one who believes in His power to save them through His death, burial, and resurrection. The Holy Spirit can cleanse with the blood of Christ and save from sin and death all who believe while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; John 6:54; John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11; I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5.
According to Revelation 22:12, God will give rewards to every person for his good works. God can only give rewards to living persons, not dead ones. This fact can only mean that God must separate by the use of His consuming fire the goodness and life of every human within the regions of the dead from their sin and death. God will recreate their recovered goodness and life into new, righteous humans and cast all of their sin and death into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 22:11 recounts this event of a complete separation of all that is good and alive from all that is filthy and unjust.
According to Revelation 20:15, God casts only the totally dead into the lake of fire No life and goodness whatsoever remains within the regions of the dead because God will have already recovered every good and living element of each person's system for Him to use to recreate new, righteous humans to live on His new, recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29. According to Revelation 21:8, sin causes death, and death causes sin. This means God's created life and goodness can never sin. God's life and goodness can be sullied by sin, but in itself, it can never sin. God Himself was wholly sullied by sin and death when we humans nailed Him to the cross. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21. But the blood and water that Christ shed from the cross holds the miraculous power to cleanse and save every one who believes in His power to save them through His death, burial, and resurrection. The Holy Spirit can cleanse with the blood of Christ and save from sin and death all who believe while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; John 6:54; John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11; I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5.
According to Revelation 22:12, God will give rewards to every person for his good works. God can only give rewards to living persons, not dead ones. This fact can only mean that God must separate by the use of His consuming fire the goodness and life of every human within the regions of the dead from their sin and death. God will recreate their recovered goodness and life into new, righteous humans and cast all of their sin and death into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 22:11 recounts this event of a complete separation of all that is good and alive from all that is filthy and unjust.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
God's Salvation of the Jews part two
Except for the first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job, God speaks directly to faithful Jews in the rest of the Old Testament. God speaks to the Jews about the righteousness that He put into them when He created the human race. Deuteronomy 6:25; I Samuel 26:23. Jews who adhere to this righteousness will faithfully attempt to obey God's Law and Moses' law, and when they inevitably fail, they must further obey God by offering sacrifices of animals to humbly demonstrate to God their faith that the sacrificed animals prophecy that only God can take away their sins. Leviticus 18:5; Genesis 3:15 and 21. God promised the Israelites that those who faithfully practice Judaism will live forever. Leviticus 18:5; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 12:28; Deuteronomy 33:29; Romans 11:26-29. Jews who fail to even attempt to keep God's commandments, God will cut them off from Judaism, and they will fall to the level of the Gentiles. I Samuel 3:14.
In I Chronicles 17:9-15, 17-22, and 28:8, God promised that all faithful Jews will be citizens of a recreated nation of Israel that will last forever. The prophet Nathan in these verses spoke directly about King Solomon but indirectly about the coming Messiah. Nathan prophesied that King Solomon would build the first Temple, but the Messiah would build the third Temple of the eternal nation of Israel. Nathan also prophesied that the Messiah would rule recreated Israel forever. Clearly, God gave these promises to faithful Jews and not to the Church which will be at home with Him in heaven. This truth is further reinforced by Paul's prophecy in Romans 11:26-29.
In Isaiah 60:11-16, Isaiah prophesied that the recreated nation of Israel will rule over the recreated Gentiles. God will resurrect both the living Israelites and the living Gentiles from the regions of the dead following the Tribulation period. Revelation 20:5. God will recreate the new nation of Israel when He recreates the heaven and the earth. Revelation 21:5. In the history of Old Testament Judaism, faithful Jews who attain to some level of faith in a coming, suffering Messiah, God will elevate them to a salvation by grace, and they will live in heaven with Christ. All Jews who fail to even attempt to practice Judaism, God will demote them to the level of the Gentiles, and God will resurrect them with the living Gentiles.
In Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel prophesied about God's resurrection of faithful Jews and of His recreation of the eternal nation of Israel. In Ezekiel chapter 46, Ezekiel prophesied that the Messiah, called the prince, will come to worship with the faithful Israelites on the Sabbath and the day of the new moon. In the new Temple that the Messiah will have built, the faithful Jews will offer all the Old Testament animal sacrifices to honor the Messiah for His personal sacrifice and resurrection that has saved all men on three levels. The recreated living Gentiles will worship at the door of the gate of this Temple. John 1:29; Romans 11:26-36; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-7.
In I Chronicles 17:9-15, 17-22, and 28:8, God promised that all faithful Jews will be citizens of a recreated nation of Israel that will last forever. The prophet Nathan in these verses spoke directly about King Solomon but indirectly about the coming Messiah. Nathan prophesied that King Solomon would build the first Temple, but the Messiah would build the third Temple of the eternal nation of Israel. Nathan also prophesied that the Messiah would rule recreated Israel forever. Clearly, God gave these promises to faithful Jews and not to the Church which will be at home with Him in heaven. This truth is further reinforced by Paul's prophecy in Romans 11:26-29.
In Isaiah 60:11-16, Isaiah prophesied that the recreated nation of Israel will rule over the recreated Gentiles. God will resurrect both the living Israelites and the living Gentiles from the regions of the dead following the Tribulation period. Revelation 20:5. God will recreate the new nation of Israel when He recreates the heaven and the earth. Revelation 21:5. In the history of Old Testament Judaism, faithful Jews who attain to some level of faith in a coming, suffering Messiah, God will elevate them to a salvation by grace, and they will live in heaven with Christ. All Jews who fail to even attempt to practice Judaism, God will demote them to the level of the Gentiles, and God will resurrect them with the living Gentiles.
In Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel prophesied about God's resurrection of faithful Jews and of His recreation of the eternal nation of Israel. In Ezekiel chapter 46, Ezekiel prophesied that the Messiah, called the prince, will come to worship with the faithful Israelites on the Sabbath and the day of the new moon. In the new Temple that the Messiah will have built, the faithful Jews will offer all the Old Testament animal sacrifices to honor the Messiah for His personal sacrifice and resurrection that has saved all men on three levels. The recreated living Gentiles will worship at the door of the gate of this Temple. John 1:29; Romans 11:26-36; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-7.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
God's Salvation of the Jews part one
According to Genesis 1:31, everything that God created was "very good," including mankind. Man could only do good because God created him to be good. Such passages as Deuteronomy 6:25 and I Samuel 26:23 refer to God's created righteousness of which every person retains some measure. But man also acquired a sin nature, and so almost every good action which any man may choose to do will always be tainted by the filthiness of sin to some degree. Isaiah 64:6. For example, a person who chooses to feed the hungry can rarely avoid some feelings of self-righteous superiority to others. Sin within him compels him to feel this way. Sin is unavoidable.
God wrote His Word to three classes of people. The first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job are directed toward all mankind who are not Jews or saved by grace. The rest of the Old Testament is directed toward those who faithfully practice Judaism. The New Testament is directed toward all those saved by grace. The meaning of God's Word depends on the class of people to whom His Word is directed. The first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job reveal that God gave to all mankind a conscience to guide them to a knowledge of God and a discernment of what is right and wrong. Man failed to follow his consciousness of his inner righteousness, and so God had to destroy all of the wickedness of mankind with a flood except righteous Noah and his family. Later on in man's history, God gave to His chosen people His Law by which those who read it could clearly know right from wrong. But again, sin within man caused him to fail to keep the law. In the New Testament, God Himself intervened in man's history to rescue man from always being defeated by sin when He took man's sin on Himself on a cross to pay the penalty of death for man's sin, and to cleanse all who would believe in Him of all their sins by His blood and water that He shed from the cross. But Christ also descended into hell to leave behind all of the sins of the rest of mankind not saved by being washed in His blood and water. This fact means that all humans not saved by grace, God will separate their inner goodness and life that He put within them from their deadness and sin by the use of His consuming fire. God will recover and recreate all of His goodness that He put into their lives into new, righteous humans to live on His recreated earth, and He will consign all of their separated deadness and total evil to the lake of fire forever. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this thorough salvation provided by Christ when he descended into hell. Deuteronomy 32:22; John 1:29; Hebrews 12:29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-7; Revelation 21:8; I Corinthians 3:12-15.
God has established three levels of salvation and recreation for all mankind. The highest level of salvation and recreation belongs to all whom God saves by His grace. The lowest level of salvation and recreation belongs to all humans who are not saved by grace or are not faithful Jews, called by the Bible Gentiles or heathen. The home of all those saved by grace, whether Jew or Gentile, will be heaven. The home of all recreated Gentiles will be God's recreated earth. But the level of salvation and recreation between these two will be the restored nation of Israel comprised of all faithful Jews. Leviticus 18:5; Deuteronomy 4:40.
God wrote His Word to three classes of people. The first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job are directed toward all mankind who are not Jews or saved by grace. The rest of the Old Testament is directed toward those who faithfully practice Judaism. The New Testament is directed toward all those saved by grace. The meaning of God's Word depends on the class of people to whom His Word is directed. The first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job reveal that God gave to all mankind a conscience to guide them to a knowledge of God and a discernment of what is right and wrong. Man failed to follow his consciousness of his inner righteousness, and so God had to destroy all of the wickedness of mankind with a flood except righteous Noah and his family. Later on in man's history, God gave to His chosen people His Law by which those who read it could clearly know right from wrong. But again, sin within man caused him to fail to keep the law. In the New Testament, God Himself intervened in man's history to rescue man from always being defeated by sin when He took man's sin on Himself on a cross to pay the penalty of death for man's sin, and to cleanse all who would believe in Him of all their sins by His blood and water that He shed from the cross. But Christ also descended into hell to leave behind all of the sins of the rest of mankind not saved by being washed in His blood and water. This fact means that all humans not saved by grace, God will separate their inner goodness and life that He put within them from their deadness and sin by the use of His consuming fire. God will recover and recreate all of His goodness that He put into their lives into new, righteous humans to live on His recreated earth, and He will consign all of their separated deadness and total evil to the lake of fire forever. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this thorough salvation provided by Christ when he descended into hell. Deuteronomy 32:22; John 1:29; Hebrews 12:29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-7; Revelation 21:8; I Corinthians 3:12-15.
God has established three levels of salvation and recreation for all mankind. The highest level of salvation and recreation belongs to all whom God saves by His grace. The lowest level of salvation and recreation belongs to all humans who are not saved by grace or are not faithful Jews, called by the Bible Gentiles or heathen. The home of all those saved by grace, whether Jew or Gentile, will be heaven. The home of all recreated Gentiles will be God's recreated earth. But the level of salvation and recreation between these two will be the restored nation of Israel comprised of all faithful Jews. Leviticus 18:5; Deuteronomy 4:40.
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