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.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Commentary on Philippians 2:10-11, Romans 14:11, and Isaiah 45:22-24
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.
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.
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.
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