On Truth and Falsity

     The Rapture and the General Resurrection continued

Jesus gave His broken body on the cross to save the world; that is, every living human who ever lived. John 6:33 (KJB). Jesus gave His broken body and shed His blood on the cross to save by His grace all living humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 6:53 (KJB). Jesus taught that He would give His spiritual flesh "for the life of the world." John 6:27; John 6:31-32; John 6:47-51 (KJB). No where in His teaching about "the bread of life" did Jesus say that anyone who refuses to receive His spiritual bread while still alive in the flesh will be lost from God forever. If that were true, that would have been an indispensable part of His message. When Jesus preached that He will give "the bread of life" to all humans, he had to have meant that He will devise a way to cause all humans to receive it by faith. Some people demanded that Jesus give them a sign that He came from God, and they referred to Moses and said that Moses gave the Israelites in the desert manna to eat. Jesus corrected them and told them that God gave them His manna for them to eat. John 6:30-33 (KJB). All of the Israelites in the desert ate God's manna. They chose life over death. In a similar way, when Jesus fed the five thousand and the four thousand, they all ate until they were filled. They chose food over hunger. Matthew 14:15-21; Matthew 15:32-38 (KJB). When Jesus appears to all living humans confined to the regions of death, He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God. They will all choose life over death. When they all see His Majesty and Love, they will receive His spiritual bread because they will choose that their emptiness be filled with His Spirit, and they will choose life over death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In this way will Jesus give His spiritual flesh "for the life of the world." John 6:51; John 6:63 (KJB).

Living humans who become saved by God's grace will have to receive by faith both Jesus' spiritual flesh and His spiritual blood. John 6:52-58 (KJB). They must receive by faith Jesus' spiritual flesh in order to gain eternal life and victory over eternal death, and they also must receive by faith the spiritual blood from Jesus' cross so that His Spirit can thoroughly cleanse their souls and spirits of all sin, evil, and spiritual death. Then the Spirit can move into their cleansed and forgiven hearts and give them the eternal life of Christ Himself by means of which God will be able to accept them into Heaven when they die. I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:24 (KJB). The Holy Spirit will also cleanse and forgive every believer saved by grace of their fleshly sins and evil with the spiritual water that Jesus shed on the cross as they daily repent of them. I John 1:9 (KJB). Jesus shed actual blood and water on His cross, but the Spirit brings it to believers in spiritual form. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). At the last supper in all three of the synoptic gospels, Jesus first gave His disciples the broken bread which symbolized His broken body that He would "give for the life of the world," and only after that did Jesus give them the wine which symbolized His shed blood "for the remission of sins." Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20 (KJB). It is quite significant that Jesus gave His broken bread to Judas Iscariot but not the wine. John 13:25-30 (KJB). God can give a created eternal life to all humans saved to be recreated to live on His recreated earth, but God will give the eternal life of His own Son to all who become saved by His grace.

Jesus promised His believers saved by grace that He will "raise them up at the last day." But Jesus had to have meant the "last day" of the Church Age which will be the Rapture of the Church. John 6:54 (KJB). Jesus will raise and recreate the bodies of all believers saved by grace in the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-18 (KJB). Jesus also promised all others who will receive by faith His "bread of life" that He will "raise it up again at the last day." John 6:39 (KJB). But when Jesus said that, He must have meant "the last day" near the end of this present world. Revelation 5:20; John 5:28-29 (KJB). Whenever God creates a particular Age, He ends a former Age. This constitutes the eternal renewal of His creations as Jesus taught in Revelation 1:8 and Revelation 22:13. Whenever God brings an Age to a last day, He always begins a new day which is a new Age.