Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

is now Yemen or Saudi Arabia] and Dedan [likely southern Jordan] and the merchants of Tarshish

[possibly refers to merchants from either India or Spain] and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you

come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver

and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?'

“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day

when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? You will come from your

place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you , all of them

riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. You will come up against My people Israel ,

like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against My land, that the

nations may know Me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate My holiness before their

eyes.

“Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days [i.e., Gog and Magog] by

My servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring

you against them? But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel,

declares the Lord God, My wrath will be roused in My anger. For in My jealousy and in My

blazing wrath I declare, on that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The

fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things

that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at

My presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every

wall shall tumble to the ground.

“I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord God.

Every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter

into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who

are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulphur. So I will show My greatness

and My holiness and make Myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will

know that I am the Lord.

“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am

against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and

drive you forward , and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you

against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will

make your arrows drop out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you

and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of

every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. You shall fall in the open field, for I

have spoken, declares the Lord God.

“I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall

know that I am the Lord. And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people

 

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Israel, and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know

that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about,

declares the Lord God. That is the day of which I have spoken.

“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and

burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires

of them for seven years, so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down

any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil

of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travellers, east of

the sea . It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will

be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

“For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. All

the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show

My glory, declares the Lord God. They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly

and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of

seven months they will make their search. And when these travel through the land and

anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in

the Valley of Hamon-gog. (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the

land.

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all

beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I

am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat

flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes

of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial

feast that I am preparing for you. And you shall be filled at My table with horses and

charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,' declares the Lord God.

“And I will set My glory among the nations , and all the nations shall see My judgment that

I have executed, and My hand that I have laid on them. The house of Israel shall know that I

am [Yahweh] their God, from that day forward.”

Notice how God prophesies against “the chief prince” (Hebrew = nawsee, “exalted one, king”) while He condemns Gog and Magog. So there will be a principal leader of this rebellion against God and against His people, whose headquarters will be located in the land of Magog. This leader will be what most Christians during the millennium will call a teaching and judging elder. But he will want to call himself some title of esteem, possibly the “king.” He will likely be a native of Magog, ruling over a people probably called Gog in cities or regions called Meshech and Tubal. Again, Satan will establish a hierarchical class system ruled by one man, a manipulated despot much like the beast, who leads this world-wide rebellion against God at the end of the millennium. And this “chief prince” will do so for a similar reason, through a lust for power and control over the earth’s bounty.

When this prophecy describes the armies of this “chief prince,” it says they will be horsemen in full armor, with bucklers, shields and swords. This could be figuratively talking about modern mobile armed forces with guns, but I doubt it. Since this rebellion occurs after a thousand years of peace during Jesus’ rule on earth, the knowledge of current military technology likely would be completely lost. Jesus would make the people more environmentally friendly, to care for and maintain His

 

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natural creations. So some technology would improve, like efficient and non-polluting transportation systems. But military or environmentally damaging technology would be eliminated. Another thing we would expect to see is far more small family farms with intensive food production through manual labor, to replace large corporate farms relying on heavy machinery to produce much less food per unit of land. Families would use far more environmentally friendly agricultural methods, including the use of horses. So, by the end of the millennium, the armies of Gog and Magog likely would ride horses as their only means of all-terrain transportation. Then they might also need to arm themselves by forging scrap metal into swords, arrow heads, armor and other implements of warfare.

God told this “chief prince” of Gog and Magog: “many peoples are with you. Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will be mustered” (38:6-8, ESV). Once more, this suggests that the peoples of this rebellion will gather in the land of Gog and Magog before they attack the Messiah and Israel. For all the “hosts” of the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal” will be “assembled about” or around him, and “with” him in his homeland. Only after they assemble in his lands do they march over a land route to Jerusalem against the Messiah. And Gog, Magog, Meshech and Tubal are all located southwest of Russia in the region of Georgia. The “many peoples” with him will come from all over the world. They will include the non-elect from Persia [Iran, Iraq and the Middle East], Cush and Put [Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and other parts of Africa], Gomer [Ukraine, Southern Russia] and Beth-Togarmah in “the uttermost parts of the north” [eastern Russia and Asia?]. But it seems that all these peoples will gather in the lands between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea before they go out to pillage and loot, before marching to Israel.

All these peoples were to be “attended to” or “visited and mustered,” counted and reviewed, by the “chief prince,” before they went out together in rebellion against the King of the world, before they marched to the city of Jerusalem during “the latter years.” So these peoples will behave like a typical humanistic criminal gang led by a psychopathic and despotic cult leader, just like the Babylonians, Persians and Greeks did. This prophecy was written about 2,600 years ago, during the time of the Babylonian Empire. But “the latter years” refer to a time more than 1,000 years from now, after the millennium of Christ’s rule on earth. Yet that future enemy of God will be exactly like the ancient Babylonians, with the same spiritual motives and intentions, and even the same weapons and horses.

It is interesting to see how God chose to reveal this detailed information about Gog and Magog so far in advance, in Ezekiel’s day, that is, during the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who is the father of humanism. In the days when Satan was giving birth to the religion of humanism, God revealed how Gog and Magog would rebel against the future Messiah, long after He had established peace and prosperity in all the world. So, even as Satan’s ultimate religion of deep deceptions began, God was illustrating how that devil’s non-elect children would never be satisfied. The non-elect will always cause death and destruction, because they will always want more and long to become gods, even after the whole world becomes a perfect place to live, even after the earth is almost like heaven.

God also gave Daniel, a contemporary of Ezekiel, a word about the beast, who would rise up in the days of Babylon’s fourth kingdom, as the head of Satan’s Roman kingdom. This beast would try to war against God and take over the world, until the Messiah destroyed him and his peoples, crushing the entire Roman religious kingdom into dust. But remember, Daniel also said the Messiah would leave the other three kingdoms (Babylon, Persia and Greece) alive for “a season and a time” after that (Dan. 7:12), although as powerless states. And it was about when Daniel received this prophecy that God gave Ezekiel the prophecy about Gog and Magog, more than 3,600 years before Jesus had returned and ruled the earth for a thousand years. So it was to be after the “season” and the “time” of millennium that our God Jesus chose to annihilate the three remaining kingdoms of the Babylonian

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humanistic religion, near the end of earthly time, “in the latter years,” just before He would destroy the entire material universe. For the purpose of earth was to teach and train His elect, and to provide examples and illustrations of His truths to the elect during the judgment day, to prove all His truths.

Lastly, Jesus revealed to John that His final destruction of the beast’s surviving three kingdoms would occur after the millennium of peace on earth, through the nations called Gog and Magog. And John still lived about three thousand years before this would happen. Therefore, since God revealed this event so far in advance, we must conclude that God thought it was very important for all His elect children, at least all who lived in the generations from Ezekiel to the very end of time, to study and learn about all that He taught about this rebellion of Gog and Magog. So now the elect must ask why God wants us to learn so much about this rebellion of Gog and Magog. Well, the only apparent reason is that He wanted to warn us about how Satan’s offspring will forever be cruel, materialistic enemies of His kingdom, and we should never become materialistic ourselves. Greed and a lust for power will always cause nothing but death and destruction. So we need to walk according to the truths and love that He puts into our elect spirits, not according to the minds and desires of our flesh. And Satan’s four religious kingdoms of humanism will always consist of materialistic, psychopathic, lying, murdering criminals. Humanists will never ever be acceptable to God in any way whatsoever. Therefore, we should never have anything to do that demonic religion, nor with its evil traditions of hierarchical class systems and ruling human gods. Rather, we need to build up God’s kingdom, which consists of many kinds of people, all equally respected, and with Jesus as the only Head of all.

Of course, it will only be after Jesus returns that Israel shall be “the land that is restored from war,” and the Jews shall be the people who will be “gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel” by Yahweh the Messiah Himself, gradually, over a period of years. Israel was also a land that “had been a continual waste” for centuries before the Jews began to return. And they could only return when the Ottoman Empire was declining, at the end of the 19th century. Also, before the Jews did return, it was only the Ottoman Empire that cut down most trees, destroyed most wells, ruined most agricultural lands and turned Israel into an uninhabited wasteland, not any previous empire. Before the Ottoman Empire did all this, Israel was a relatively fertile land. Therefore, this rebellion of Gog and Magog could not have occurred before the last century, when Israel came to restore their land from being a “continual waste.” And, as John and Ezekiel said, the rebellion of Gog and Magog could not happen until long after the whole world dwelt in peace, until all wars and threats of wars had ceased for a thousand years. And that will only happen after Jesus returns and rules the earth for a millennium, certainly not any time in the past or any time soon than that. Thus, all interpretations which place the rebellion of Gog and Magog in the past or in the near future must be entirely false.

This prophecy of Ezekiel is obviously about the same rebellion of Gog and Magog that John wrote about in the Revelation, where John specifies that it will occur a millennium after Jesus has returned and restored Israel. By that time, Jesus also will have gathered all the rest of the Jews, the Diaspora scattered throughout the entire world, back into the lands He originally promised to the descendants of Jacob. So literally all the Jews will “dwell securely” in Israel, while Jesus rules the whole earth in peace for a thousand years. So this rebellion of Gog and Magog simply cannot occur at any other time in history, since there never has been, nor ever will be, any other time in history that Israel could be described as safe and secure for a thousand years before Gog and Magog attacks their land.

Although the phrase “many peoples” indicates people from many nations, this is not just another description of the Roman beast’s international armies. This war against Israel is clearly by a very different group of people at a very different time in the future. But neither shall this rebellion, after the millennium, include only the people of Gog and Magog. Rather, it will also involve people from

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all over the world, people with a common interest, all gathered into a cult led by the “chief prince” of a land which was associated more with Babylon, Persia and Greece than it was with Rome. These international armies will also assemble and shall be numbered or mustered in the lands of Gog and Magog, not in the land of Israel, like the beast’s armies will be. Then they will follow “the prince of Meshech and Tubal” in a long march down from Caucasus mountains, through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon, all the way to Israel. Also, this rebellion will be personally against the Messiah Jesus, not generally against the Jews in Israel, like the Roman beast’s war will be. So there are similarities between the humanistic Roman beast’s war and this rebellion of Gog and Magog, but they are not both descriptions of the same war. Most careful readers can clearly see the irreconcilable differences.

To say that the rebellion of Gog and Magog is merely another description of the Roman beast’s final battle against Israel on the day Jesus returns, ignores many details and is irrational. For, if both were the same event, there would not only be a few similarities but also a complete lack of irreconcilable differences. So the few similarities are due to both events having international armies which attack Israel and Jerusalem in particular, and both armies can be related to Babylon and humanists. But the glaring differences in the stated times of these events and the description of the people involved does indicate two separate and distinct events. The beast’s war against God and Israel, which ends on the day Jesus returns is not the rebellion of Gog and Magog which begins more than a thousand years after Jesus returns. Clearly, the rebellion of Gog and Magog will “many days” after the beast’s war.

So here we see that Jesus will remain the King and teaching High Priest upon earth for a period which will be longer than one thousand years. For it is after a thousand years that Jesus will release Satan on the earth again. After that, it will take years for that devil to create many non-elect spirits in human babies conceived on earth, then indoctrinate them as they grow up, and finally recruit, arm and assemble “a cloud” of them, an army large enough to cover the land of Israel. Satan would require about forty years to create a whole generation which formed and organized such a vast army of soldiers and their supporting staff, possibly even a million souls or more. Then, after they perished in Israel through the works of Jesus, their bodies were to be buried and life on earth was to continue for an indeterminate period of time. So, after the rebellion of Gog and Magog, Jesus might rule the earth for another thousand years or even longer, until He finally destroys the entire material universe.

Of course, our God Jesus will be alive and well in Jerusalem during the millennium. So He will warn the awakened elect about the rebellion of Gog and Magog, long before it occurs. So all those awake elect will remain safe. Only the carnal and complacent elect will ignore His warnings and will not be prepared for their deceptions and violence. But, I repeat, God gave us detailed prophecies about that rebellion thousands of years in advance, so the awakened elect could study them and gain some kind of currently relevant information from those revelations. Thus, our first inquiries might be to ask who exactly are the people of Gog and Magog, how do those kinds of people affect us today, what are we to do when we encounter them, and how are we supposed to oppose those enemies of Jesus?

So we know that Daniel prophesied about the first three kingdoms of the beast being “prolonged for a season and a time” on earth after the destruction of the beast’s fourth kingdom. Then, in the days of Daniel and Ezekiel, the lands known to Jews as Gog and Magog, likely where many Scythians lived, were influenced by Babylon, then later by Persia, Greece and Rome. They were often a violent people who acquired much of their wealth by raiding, pillaging and enslaving other peoples. So God’s prophecies about this future rebellion of Gog and Magog seem to be warning us about the tendencies of the kinds of people who profit from stealing and enslaving, about self-worshiping humanists that form hierarchical class systems like those of first three kingdoms of the beast. And, since God warned us about them for thousands of years, those kinds of people will remain among us

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until Jesus returns to slaughter all the non-elect. Then they shall return to the earth after Jesus returns Satan to the earth. And Jesus wants us to have nothing to do with those kinds of people, since all of them are predestined for both physical destruction on earth and spiritual destruction in eternal hell.

There likely will be some kind of primitive humanistic traditions persisting throughout most of the earth during the millennium, related to an informal admiration of selfishly ambitious persons and a disguised denigration of others as inferiors. Since Jesus will hate these deluded and lying ways being practiced by some of His elect, those elect will hide their thoughts. But their carnal ways will persist and Jesus will be aware of them. Thus, Jesus will return Satan to the earth, to expose their thoughts as demonic and destructive. Then the devil will form a cult, most likely a heretical sect of humanistic Christianity, much like those we see everywhere today. The “chief prince” of Gog and Magog will pretend that he has developed a superior system of worship and government, then preach his heresies over a long period of time, repeating his lies until his dupes believe them, while he also breads a strong distrust of the truth and a hatred of those who speak the truth. Once he finally captures a large enough body of disciples, he will gather them in his homeland to march in a rebellion against Jesus.

Therefore, Satan will be returned to the earth for decades, possibly more than a hundred years, until he can create, brainwash and indoctrinate a large enough number of rebels, and “muster” all of his international “hordes” in Gog and Magog. Then his proudly duped “chief prince” will march them all against Jesus and Israel. And the deceived masses from Gog and Magog will call Jesus and the Jews things like “deceivers” and “leaches,” dehumanizing them as much as they possibly can. Yet the thieving, pillaging, murdering armies of Gog and Magog will be the only real human parasites on earth, the only ones who kill, enslave or steal from innocent souls for their own profit and pleasure.

In about 600 BC, God told the chief prince in Gog and Magog: “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you” (Ezek. 38:7-9, ESV). So even back then, almost 3,600 before it would occur, God told the chief prince of Gog and Magog to get ready and remain prepared for the future invasion of Israel. This means that God has been continuously watching the rich and powerful elite in the area of modern Georgia, since ancient times. For the successive “princes” have continuously plotted to form dictatorial humanistic states, to gain complete control over the government, judiciary and information systems in that land.

This does not mean that God has been pleased with the plots and machinations of those “princes.” Rather, God has opposed them throughout history, although their people keep raising up one despot after another. Actually, when God told them to “be ready and keep ready,” it meant that He, the wise and almighty Avenger of innocent victims, is watching them and intends to destroy both the loveless “princes” their merciless dupes who ravage His lands and His elect children. They raided and caused trouble for Israel since ancient times, when they were known as the tribes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, Magog, Meshech and Tubal. And, in the end times, a thousand years after the King returns, they will still hate their only true King and persecute the King’s elect among them again, driving them away from themselves. Then they will attack Israel once more. “In the latter years” Gog and Magog will seek plunder and slaves from Israel, from a restored, peaceful gathering of the King’s Jewish priests who faithfully serve the Gentile elect of the world through love. So there will be no readiness they can possibly have when our God Jesus decides to remove their earthly lives and send them to hell.

 

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Clearly, when God refers the kind of peace and security in Israel mentioned in this prophecy, it can only refer to a time after Jesus returns. Israel’s land and people will only be “restored from war” after it “had been a continual waste” in the days of the Ottoman Empire, then see the offspring of Jacob “gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel,” after the millennium, not before then. When it speaks of the “latter years,” it means a thousand years after Jesus returned. That is the time God was referring to when he told the “prince” of Gog and Magog: “On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme and say, ‘I will go up aginst the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates, to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth” (Ezek. 38:10-13, ESV). And this kind of sinister thought about murdering innocent people for selfish gain can only come from Satan.

So John’s prophecy was right. Jesus will release Satan upon the earth again after a thousand years. And this prophecy through Ezekiel is referring to Israel as it will exist after the millennium. For Israel only became a wasteland during the days of the relatively recent Ottoman Empire, while the Jews were still scattered among all the nations of the world. And the majority of Jews, at least about two thirds of them, have remained in the Diaspora since the days of ancient Babylon, and are still scattered among the nations to this day. But Gog and Magog will only attack Israel after all the Jews have been gathered into their land, and after their wasteland is restored, at a time that will only be completed after their Messiah returns and after the millennium. We are beginning to see the Jews return and their land being restored in our day. But we certainly have not seen all their land restored and only a fraction of the Diaspora has returned. Also, to this day, wars rage over all the lands that God promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And there will be no end to those wars until the day Jesus returns to Jerusalem. In fact, wars will only become more intense and deady until the day of His second advent. Nevertheless, Jesus will soon Jesus come, destroy the Roman beast and all the devil’s non-elect offspring on the earth, stop all the wars, remove all apostasy and lies, turn the faith of all the elect to Him, then gather all the elect Jews on earth into their restored, renewed homeland.

Here Ezekiel also calls Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, “the center of the earth,” which indicates that Israel will be the homeland of the world’s only King and Jerusalem will the capital city of the earth. For Ezekiel is obviously not speaking about the geographical “centre of the earth,” but is referring to Israel as the central power of the earth, ruling over all the governments of all nations on earth, the city where the King of the whole earth dwells. And this will not happen until after Jesus has returned and after the millennium has already begun. So, a thousand years after Jesus returns, He will release Satan from hell and allow that devil to create non-elect children on earth again. Then that generation of non-elect will grow up, learn to irrationally hate everything just and good, and will rebel against Jesus, as usual. Satan will raise up a cult leader and gather them in the lands of Gog and Magog, in the lands around what we now call Georgia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

If these rebels will march directly from Gog and Magog to Israel, from what is now called Georgia, they would need to pass through what is now called Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. But this prophecy says that, after Gog and Magog begin to march against Israel: “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders [or “villages”] will say to [the chief prince of Gog and Magog], ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’” (Ezek. 38:13, ESV). Yet the places mentioned here were nowhere near Israel, Turkey, Syria or Lebanon. Sheba was likely far to the south, in what is now Yemen; Dedan probably refers to what is now southern Jordan; and

 

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Tarshish would refer to a distant ancient port in either Spain or India. So, since the armies of Gog and Magog will be low-tech, either on horseback or walking, it is unlikely that they will march anywhere near Sheba, Dedan and Tarshish. Even if Sheba and Dedan were in the region of Sudan and Ethiopia, as some say, it makes no sense to say that the armies of Gog and Magog will attack those places, or even go anywhere near them. Therefore, this prophecy is simply saying that Sheba, Dedan and Tarshish, like many other places on earth at that time, will simply send messages to the “chief prince” of Gog and Magog at that time. That is, they will be amazed that any nation would attempt to start such an evil war against the peaceful and just lands of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and especially Israel, during the just and equitable days of the millennium. This prophecy is saying that other cities and nations of the world will be incredulous, astounded that he would do such a thing.

By the end of the millennium, all nations on earth will have been Israel’s close allies for a thousand years, fellowshipping with Israel throughout all those years. Furthermore, Jesus will expand the borders of Israel to include all the lands God promised to Abraham, extending all the way up to the Euphrates River, encompassing all of Lebanon and parts of Syria. Jesus will populate those extended borders with Jews from all over the world, to dwell beside the surviving Gentile elect already there. And Israel, as well as Turkey and the rest of what is now Syria and Iraq, will be heavily populated by the time Gog and Magog attack. But none of those other peaceful lands will have armies or weapons, nor much of desire to fight. So Gog and Magog will obviously possess a huge military advantage, with the ability to plunder almost at will through those much more vulnerable and peaceful regions.

Consequently, by the time they cross the Euphrates, the northern borders of Israel, God warned Gog: “On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. You will come up against My people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against My land, that the nations may know Me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate My holiness before their eyes…. But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord Yahweh, My wrath will be roused in My anger. For in My jealousy and in My blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel…. I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord Yahweh. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. So I will show My greatness and My holiness and make Myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh” (Ezek. 38:14-16,18-19,21-23, ESV). As the self-absorbed armies of Gog begin to face extreme hardships, including earthquakes, torrential rains and hail, they will grow angry, bitter and factious. So they will turn against one another, to kill one another. Then, as the Revelation also says (Rev. 20:9), God will finish them off by pouring fire from the sky, to consume all of the survivors.

Here we also find the reason for God allowing this rebellion, so that His people will know Him and all He represents, especially the utter holiness of His love. Jesus will not tolerate ruthless behavior and lies which harm others in His earthly kingdom. He will vindicate His holiness before their eyes. Jesus will set apart His just, equitable and loving attributes, words and ways from all that does not perfectly conform to them, and destroy the rest. He does not love in worldly ways, in ways that allow some of His people to abuse others through lies and sins, but will stop all lies and sins in the appointed times. Yes, God will indirectly cause this rebellion, by releasing Satan at this time (see Rev. 20:7-9). Then He will grant Satan enough time to create and manipulate a people to rebel against Him and His people. But our God Jesus will do this in order to wake up the sleeping carnal

 

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elect who care only for the comfort of their flesh and refuse to hear Him, who will not spiritually mature into the wise children of God that He created them to become. Thus, Jesus will prove that all His ways of a loving spirit are just and true, by once more proving that all deviations from His ways are unjust and false, only capable of causing destruction, suffering and deaths through lies and sins.

After the rebellion, all God’s elect will be horrified by the behavior of Gog and Magog in their perfectly just, equitable, peaceful world where love flourishes and grows. Then the elect will more fully realize that they must never take the teachings and works of their God Jesus for granted, and never stray from His truths, lest harm and destruction result. From then on, they shall carefully heed and understand His teachings, shall emulate His just and wise ways of God-like love, for the good of His creations and for their own good. The elect will be fully convinced that genuine truth can only be found in God, the Designer and Creator of all truth. They will know, with all certainty, that no spirit can be its own god who owns and rules over any of God’s properties, who can invent its own truths, laws and ways. No ways of those who make themselves into their own gods are ever truly loving, and literally all the ways invented by selfish and loveless souls are entirely unjust and destructive.

Through this rebellion of Gog and Magog, the elect will reject the doctrines and ways of all forms of humanism, all dehumanizing and murdering hierarchical systems, since they were all malignantly designed to allow a falsely esteemed elite to steal from and enslave others, through selfish ambition and greed, through vain delusions of being a god. Anyone who wants to become a god becomes a ruthless criminal, worthy of death. And the elect will also realize at that time that it is not the mere genetics and environment of the flesh, not the nature and nurture of the body and brain, which makes a soul into a murdering criminal. The influences upon the flesh can distract, corrupt or dull the ways of a soul. However, it is the inherent nature of a person’s created spirit and the shaping of that spirit by its creator which ultimately determines whether it will become loving and just or loveless and unjust. For all the lying, murdering rebels attacking Jesus and terrorizing the land grew up in times of perfect peace, order and justice, with literally all of their physical needs abundantly provided for.

Only the non-elect spirits created and shaped by Satan inside those rebels of Gog and Magog will cause them to let themselves believe lies, until they become so deluded that they march out to kill and plunder their innocent and harmless siblings in the family of humankind. It will be entirely because God allowed Satan to create and rule over the spirits of his non-elect children that they will reject God’s just, equitable and loving truths, then even attempt to murder their God in the body of Jesus, as well as His priests who proclaim His truths. Jesus will return Satan to the earth in order to clearly demonstrate to His elect that the nature and nurturing of the flesh alone cannot produce a just, equitable and loving world without wars and crimes. Rather, only the spiritual and moral education of elect spirits can cause and maintain justice, equity and love on earth, can cause and maintain what is good for the flesh. After the rebellion of Gog and Magog, the elect will know that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Mat. 4:4, ESV). Then the carnal elect, who walk only according to their minds and desires of their flesh, with suppressed and lethargic spirits in the chambers of their souls, will awaken. Then all the elect will truly worship their God Jesus in their spirits and in truth. And this is also why God told the elect about this future rebellion of Gog and Magog about 2,600 years ago, so we too might learn this lesson from it today.

Loveless non-elect spirits will always believe lies that appeal to their own strong desire to become gods, which cause them to murder and steal through arrogance and greed. Yet, after a thousand years of peace and prosperity, our God Jesus will free Satan, will allow him to create and manipulate many non-elect children, who will spontaneously hate the obvious and clearly proven truths existing in the world. And those non-elect will do so solely because their spirits inherently love that darkness and

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those delusions, anything which makes them feel like gods, even lies which clearly deviate from the fully manifested and very apparent light of God’s created realities. Because those non-elect will want to be their own gods, they shall be entirely willing to murder, oppress, enslave and exploit their own equal siblings through selfish ambitions and greed. Thus, the only reason our God Jesus shall allow this Satanic rebellion of Gog and Magog will be to clearly draw a solid line delineating a distinction between Him and Satan, between His ways and all deviations from His ways, as well as between His own elect children and Satan’s non-elect children. Even after our God and Messiah Jesus will have provided perfect justice and all the bodily needs of all people on earth for a thousand years, Satan's deluded children will not be satisfied. And this is something we need to realize now, in our own day.

Although we have made only limited progress towards justice, equity and love in our day, we must realize that the non-elect invariably and incessantly resist and sabotage our efforts, no matter how effective, rational and beneficial our works might be. Thus, we will never make any progress if we attempt to cajole and appease the loveless non-elect, if we try to reason with their irrational desires or compromise with their destructive demands. We will never be able to bribe them into cooperating with us. Rather, we need to press on towards the goal of truth, wisdom, peace and love without the non-elect, focusing on the spiritual eduction of the elect who are able to hear and accept the truth, as we firmly rebuke and nullify the lies and sins of Satan worked by his non-elect. For we cannot build God’s just, loving earthly kingdom together with the unjust and loveless non-elect, who tear it down.

Also, we need to find other truly elect souls, so we can do our good works together with them. But we need to realize that the non-elect often emulate external manifestations of love and truth. They try to copy the spoken words and physical ways that elect spirits use to express love and truths. Thus, we must not judge others, and place our trust in others, merely because they say the right words and put on the right outward appearances. Rather, we will know the elect by their fruits of love, equity, justice, truth, wisdom, joy and peace from their spirits. And I repeat, Jesus commanded us: “Do not judge according to appearance, but rather judge [according to] equitable justice” (John 7:24, from: μὴ κρίνετε κατʼ ὄψιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν δικαίαν κρίσιν κρίνετε). As for “false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves,” Jesus also told us, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Mat. 7:15-16, WEB); by the loveless ways they exploit and enslave others, by how they cause suffering and death, not by their religious-sounding words and friendly outward behavior.

The greedy, grasping hands of the non-elect will murder, enslave and crush innocent lives to gain power and make themselves feel like gods, even if the world provides for literally all their physical needs and if their environment was always beautiful, peaceful, just and loving from birth. They will want to be “wealthy” and lord it over other siblings in the family of humankind, even if the world’s economy distributes goods and services equitably according to need, and no longer uses financial systems and money. They will deny that universal principles of justice and love exist, and will say that laws do not apply to them, even after God Himself comes to dwell among us and personally teaches us why those truths critical for abundant life. Even after all is rationally proven, they will lie to themselves and others, then strive to gratify their most base lusts, no matter how much harm it causes and without taking any responsibility for other lives. Yet not one non-elect soul will ever be able to fully gratify one’s own lusts, no matter what they do. All will always want more, and always strive to get it through lies and evil deeds that cause suffering and death, until they die and go to hell.

But Satan never provides any particular kind of binding and unifying doctrines for his loveless, selfish and self-seeking non-elect children. The only thing that unites them are their common carnal lusts, which actually enslave them, which force them to labor day and night for their gratification, although those lusts can never actually be gratified. But the non-elect never unite around any truths,

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teachings or principles that are beneficial for them or anyone else. Yes, Satan and his psychopathic non-elect make far more laws than God and His elect ever will, then enforce all those inconsistent, irrational, unjust laws far more swiftly and violently. Yet neither Satan or his ruthless non-elect have ever felt that any truths, laws or teachings actually apply to themselves. They all want to be law-making gods who force others to obey them, but never feel that any law applies to them. And this is why they insist on forming hierarchical systems with only one god sitting at the top, where every tier can ruthlessly abuse lower tiers, except those artificially designated to be their slaves at the bottom.

Every evil army or rebellion led by Satan professes some kind of religion designed to cement them together, some kind of banner to march under. Some kind of common belief system and some kind of god must draw them together and send them out to murder the innocent, as one body that thinks with one mind and strives for one purpose. These are all false religions, invented by human gods for the purpose of providing a superficial unity. But those lies make Satan’s armies committed to being as mindless, unquestioning and loyal as possible, to blindly obeying their human god and ultimately Satan. And this means that all become puppets who require their strings to be pulled before any will do anything. So the head human god pulls the strings of the next lower tier of his owned gods, then those pull the strings of the next tier, and so on, down to the bottom tier. And not one soldier will dare to cut the strings and act according to one’s own initiative. Yet all God’s soldiers are trained to see, think and act independently, according to wise and carefully taught principles, each according to one’s own God-given gifts and abilities. So this gives God’s soldiers a tremendous advantage over Satan’s troops. And only one of God’s soldiers can sometimes cause a thousand of Satan’s troops to flee in terror, since Satan’s troops cannot always have their strings pulled fast enough by their lords.

So what will be the religion of the army that will gather in Gog and Magog to worship “the prince of Meshech and Tubal”? Their delusions and deceptions will most likely revolve around the teachings of humanism, since this is Satan’s ultimate religion, his most powerful religion for uniting his dupes against God. But this rebellion will occur a thousand years after the world has been vilifying and educating against Roman innovations of humanism, against Roman traditions such as the oppression and domination of conquered nations through international financial systems, or Rome’s attempts to transform human soldiers and workers into machines. Therefore, Gog and Magog will revert to the kind of humanism practiced by the first three kingdoms of the beast, by Greece, Persia and Babylon.

For, let me repeat, Daniel said those first three religious powers would survive for a season and a time after Jesus destroyed the fourth kingdom, which was Rome (Dan. 7:11-12). So we can assume that Gog and Magog will most likely practice a more primitive, non-Roman form of humanism. And Jesus will probably allow writings from Greece, Persia and Babylon to survive after He destroys the beast’s Roman kingdom. After all, Jesus was always a true educator, never a censor striving to keep souls ignorant so they could be manipulated. But even those more primitive forms of humanism were very effective forms of Satan’s ultimate false religion, well able to promote the core sin of Satan which caused all his other sins. Satan’s greatest sin was his desire was to be his own god who could control his own destiny, his own lawmaker who could alter his self-serving laws according to his own whims, a god who could seize God’s creations and own them in a way which allowed him to abuse God’s properties according to his own desires. Then Satan created his human offspring in his own image. So they too possessed the same core sinful desire which would cause all their other sins.

Humanism is fundamentally a religion based on the spirit’s evil and irrational desire to become its own creating and law-making god, to be the owner of one’s own kingdom, hopefully even a god who owns other people to worship oneself as well, by forcing them to esteem and serve oneself through financial pressures or violence. And Babylon, Persia and Greece all practiced these fundamental

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traditions of humanism, although not in a form that was able to establish dysfunctional families and nations all over the world. Yet all forms of humanism could justify all of one’s own sins and lies, all the evil that one committed, to delude oneself into feeling like a god who alone can judge oneself.

Thus, Gog and Magog will take up the lies of ancient humanism and place all their faith in its dark lies and delusions, in its traditions that suit their own purposes. All will refuse to acknowledge the truths and realities which have been objectively proven to produce the most effective and beneficial governing of all life and all existence. A humanist from Gog and Magog will tentatively adopt only the laws and ways that one invents for oneself at the moment one is required to justify one’s lies and sins in one’s own mind and in the minds of other humanists. A humanist from Gog and Magog will never acknowledge or approve of any of the immutable laws and ways of Jesus, but hate those laws and strive to murder that Lawmaker. Then they will falsely justify their murdering and plundering of innocent lives on their way to Israel, in their attempt to create yet another dark, bloody humanistic “utopia” with an enslaving hierarchical class system ruled by their human god, their “chief prince.”

Gog and Magog will be convinced that they must impose their own invented laws and ways upon all others in the world, so all will become worshipers of their “chief prince” too, as well as worshipers of themselves. They will insist that everyone must think like they do. For humanists feel extremely insecure whenever they are surrounded by truth and realities. So they must conquer or destroy every creation of God, since they constantly reveal the truths and the realities of God. Then the awakened elect are worse, since they actually utter their most hated truths and realities. If there is one thing a truly faithful lover of darkness cannot tolerate, it is the dissolving and shaming light of truth and realities. Since a dark and demonic humanist wants to be surrounded by others who comfortably reinforce one’s own lies, who are just as dark and deluded as they are themselves, every blindly committed humanist must use whatever means possible to force all others to accept his lies and delusions. A true non-elect humanist mus use every form of deception, bribery, torture, violence and coercion at his disposal to promote his delusions. And, if anyone fails to reject the truth and join him in his darkness, or at least fully submit and remain silent, then the humanist can “justly murder that enlightened one and steal that one’s property. For only humanists can claim to be “enlightened” by their dark delusions, and must force their dark “enlightenment” upon all the world for Satan’s sake.

When Satan is released after a thousand years, he will cause his created non-elect human offspring to become true and thoroughly committed humanists. They will become the rebels of Gog and Magog, who seek only the rewards of Satan's world order, only power and possessions, including slaves to worship themselves. They will be much like the first three humanistic kingdoms of Satan, much like Babylon, Persia and Greece. For the devil will easily manipulate his own non-elect children. Satan's temptations will appeal to the inherent strong desires of their spirits, as well as to their flesh, to their lusts of their eyes, lusts of their flesh and their pride of life. Their non-elect spirits shall seek nothing beyond this, nothing spiritually good, only that which serves their physical existence on earth. Their spirits in their hearts shall pursue only carnal pleasures, as well as their artificial status symbols and their own vain arrogance aroused by imagining that they bear unlimited power over God’s creations.

Our God Jesus will allow Satan to command his non-elect offspring to commit horrifying sins for awhile, until Jesus decides that His elect have been sufficiently convinced that any and every form of self-worship is indeed a destructive and deadly sin. When His elect know that they were created to love and serve His creations as He does, because He alone is the Creator God and they were made in His image, then He will cast Satan back into hell, while annihilating Gog and Magog. Until then, Jesus will allow Satan’s non-elect to behave just like the selfishly ambitious, greedy, psychopathic

 

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Greeks, Persians and Babylonians. They will worship other men through their worship of self, through a faith and hope that their chief human gods will enable them to become gods themselves.

All the non-elect spirits of Satan's children will also pursue their murderous carnal desires without any inner conflicts, without their spirits objecting to any lies and sins of their flesh. For their spirits will declare themselves to be their own gods. All will delude themselves into thinking they bear a “right” to rule their own destinies and make their own self-serving laws for themselves, even to rule over their siblings in the family of humankind. For, although their minds of flesh will not know it, all their spirits will falsely believe that the spirit of their hellish father also bears that “right.” Yet they will not likely adopt a form of secular humanism, since that was invented by the beast of the fourth Roman kingdom. Instead, like the first three Satanic kingdoms of humanism, and like the Great Prostitute, they will likely be theistic humanists. After a thousand years of truth, true science and true religion on earth, it will no longer be possible for them to believe the Roman myths of Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. They will not be able to revive the invented fictions about the “Big Bang” or evolutionary doctrines, the imaginings of secular humanists. Instead, they will believe that they are the only true worshippers of the only real god, although their leader will have invented that “one true god” in his own depraved mind, and it will actually be created in that man’s own image.

The people of Gog and Magog will proclaim that Jesus is a false god who must be murdered, and all must worship their false god, which they will claim to be “the one true god.” But their false god will definitely be a god whom they think humans, especially their most esteemed men, can manipulate by uttering magic words and by performing magic rituals. For, like all theistic humanists throughout history, they will believe that humans are higher gods than their “one true god.” So it seems highly probable that Gog and Magog will form a heretical church which they will call the only true church.

Then Gog and Magog will probably be antisemitic too, just like most humanistic false churches have been in the past. Since the Jews will remind them of God’s immutability and faithfulness, which they will oppose with their invented false doctrines about God, faith and life, they will hate the Jews and try to murder them. They will invent some kind of conspiracy theory, telling their followers that the Jewish Jesus uses the Jews to corrupt and control the minds of the people. So Jesus and all the Jews therefore must be murdered. Thus, all the disciples of their false religion will attack Jesus and Israel.

The very first thing Satan always tries to do in the minds of all those whom he deceives is to make them forget about the real God, about the realities which the real God has written in His creations and revealed in His Book. Then Satan tries to nullify God’s truths and ways which effectively bring joy to His elect and to all His other living creations. Once he turns the attention of his dupes away from the real God, and nullifies God’s words and effective power, it is easy for Satan to lure their minds of flesh into committing sins that destroy both them and others. For we have seen Satan do these same things throughout history. Satan has always been able to convince his non-elect, and even some elect, to distrust what their own eyes see and their own ears hear, so they will instead trust and believe in his self-serving lies, although those lies are also self-destructive and always lead to death.

But remember, during the millennium, every word of the Scriptures will be preached often and everywhere on the earth. All people everywhere will know or will be able to easily find out the true interpretation of every word that God caused the prophets and the apostles write down in the Bible, because the sole Author of God’s Word will dwell among them in the flesh, teaching His intended meanings of His own words. Therefore, since this rebellion of Gog and Magog will occur after a thousand years of Jesus’ perfect teachings, everyone on earth will have heard and understood even

 

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these prophecies about Gog and Magog through Ezekiel and the apostle John. Yet, after our God Jesus Himself has revealed all this, Satan will deceive many people, enough to form a huge army.

Most of the deceived will have non-elect spirits born of Satan, although some may be the carnal elect with sleeping spirits. Most of the elect will have nothing to do with those deceived ones, so those non-elect will be shunned in most nations on earth. And this is likely why they will travel to the lands of their “chief prince,” and gather in Gog and Magog. The non-elect will want to fellowship and dwell among other equally loveless and like-minded souls. After all, just as Satan’s offspring were not convinced by the teachings of our God Jesus at His first advent, and tried to murder Him, so too will Satan’s offspring not be convinced by Jesus’ teachings at the end of the millennium, and try to murder Him. For there is no reasoning on earth or in heaven that can possibly correct and instruct the stubborn and irrational spirits born of Satan. Satan’s children have no ability to believe the truth, since they can only love the darkness of lies and delusions, like their father does. All the non-elect spirits are permanently blind, incapable of seeing light or real evidence of genuine truth.

So, in spite of the plain evidence and sound explanations of truths and realities everywhere on earth, including those relating to God’s prophecies about Gog and Magog, the non-elect will not see nor believe any of that. They will rebel against the truth and try to murder Jesus, along with all of Israel and all His other faithful elect, knowing that God announced long beforehand that this would rouse Him to anger. They will realize that God said He would slaughter all who dared to murder, steal from and enslave His people under His watch during the millennium. Yet they will still rebel nonetheless. For, just like the humanists today, they will think they are so wise and powerful that they will be able to murder the real God Jesus, then replace Him with their own human god, with their “chief prince.”

Yahweh, the God of Israel and all existence, has told them: “I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and drive you foreward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Yahweh. I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the [distant lands], and they shall know that I am Yahweh” (Ezek. 39:1b-6, ESV).

So those rebels of Gog and Magog will not be innocent, because their souls will know full well that all their desires are all sinful and based on lies, that all the thoughts of their spirits are evil. And, even before they decide to march against Jesus and Israel, their inner beings will also realize that they are destined for certain death and eternal hell. For God predestined all this. God Himself, by releasing Satan on earth to create and deceive those non-elect souls, will actually cause that deadly rebellion. God proclaimed that He Himself would “lead” them “against the mountains of Israel.”

Those dupes of Satan were ultimately manipulated by God Himself, because God also leads the chained spirit of Satan wherever He wills. And God also declared that He will do all this for a purpose, so that His surviving elect “shall know that I am Yahweh.” God will kill all the non-elect in “the open field” so the elect will witness His power and wrath against ruthless sins. And this implies that, by the end of the millennium, many elect will grow complacent, carnal and shallow. It seems that many elect will begin to treat their God Jesus like a common, weak and foolish brother, not as their only unique, almighty and wisest oldest Brother. Yes, our God Jesus wants us to feel close and comfortable with Him, since He will be with us eternally, as our Brother and best Friend. But we must also respect and cherish Him as our only Source of all the truth and wisdom necessary for us to

 

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love, which is what the name “Yahweh” actually implies. And, to maintain this awe and respect for Jesus, we must never think we are our own gods who create our own truths, like the humanists do.

Through Ezekiel, God explained that, after He has struck down Gog and Magog, many elect will be changed: “And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let My holy name be profaned [i.e., treated as a common thing, as not being special and holy] anymore. And the nations [i.e., the Gentile elect of the world] shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord Yahweh. That is the day of which I have spoken” (Ezek. 39:7-8, ESV). At the end of the millennium, the elect who do not truly know what God’s name means will know it after they see what Jesus does to the non-elect of Gog and Magog.

Of course, after a thousand years of Jesus on earth, many elect will already know that “Yahweh,” the name God chose for Himself, means “I AM (all that exists).” Many will still realize that His name indicates that the Creator God alone was never created and can never change, because He created all that exists, including all times in heaven and on earth. And, because God created all times, it also means that He predestined all linear times in the material universe, while He Himself continuously dwells in a perpetual “now,” which will be the non-linear time of His home in heaven. And He will soon gather all His chosen or elected spirits into that eternal “now,” to dwell together with Him in His homelands of heaven. Also, this means many will know He is the Source of all the truth which builds up the timeless and eternal love between all the spirits of life that He elected for life with Him in heaven, where linear time does not exist. In the distant future, many will already know all this. In fact, many will even realize all this much sooner, after the great revival of sixth seal’s era, or after repenting during the plagues of the seventh seal’s era, or now, in these times before the end times begin. But, after a thousand years of a comfortable, stable, secure life, many elect will forget all this.

So, after a thousand years of Jesus on earth, many elect will not bother to learn much history, and will know nothing about the humanistic Roman beast, while other will not learn anything valuable from history. Many will not take any interest in spiritual matters, while they have a safe, pleasant, intellectually fulfilling and gratifying life in the flesh. These elect will remain carnal and somewhat humanistic, but will not actually be bad people. They will merely be spiritually asleep, shallow in love, narrow in their world views, superficial and dull in their conversations and activities. They will think it is more important to focus on their daily physical works than it is to inwardly comprehend why they are doing those works, what those works ultimately will accomplish and for whom they are doing them. This is why Jesus will wake up their spirits, by bringing back Satan to create a people with loveless non-elect spirits who will cause this rebellion of Gog and Magog, who shall kill and plunder to artificially gain a feeling of power and superiority, with delusions of a god-like status.

Then the sleeping elect will look at those very physically oriented materialists with horror. And they will ask themselves: “Why are those people doing those evil works? What do those liars and sinners hope to accomplish through their violence and oppression? Who will gain anything truly good from their insane, irrational, unnatural, hurtful and ruthless works, which destroy their own lives as they destroy other lives?” This will make them think about their own lives. They will realize that these kinds of tragedies and horrors actually did occur previously in history, and the non-elect kept on causing them for thousands of years. But Jesus removed the non-elect and stopped all those evil practices. After that, the elect could labor for the good of one another and for the good of all His other living creations, through love from their spirits. Then the elect could live free, safe and secure lives where all could grow in love and wisdom, and where each could pursue the spiritual destiny that one’s heart was created to inherently desire. The elect could serve their God Jesus, by serving life everywhere around them, in ways that benefited all life and even themselves, in the same loving

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and just way that God serves all life. Those sleeping elect will wake up to a true worship of Yahweh, where their spirits serve and esteem the loving Spirit of the Creator who exists in all and through whom all reality exists. They will worship through a knowledge of this truth, as He serves them all.

This awakening of the sleeping elect will also serve as a good illustration to all the elect at the gates of heaven on the judgment day, as they are being taught for their repentance. Jesus will show them all the past events on earth. And the rebellion of Gog and Magog will demonstrate how they must not grow complacent and take God for granted, nor any of their siblings in the family of humankind, nor any life God created, nor even the material things God made for all to share through love. For that kind of complacency is loveless, and a lack of love is sin. A spirit must always guard the truths about God, about God’s ways and about God’s creations in the chamber of one’s soul, and never let those truths fade and die inside, nor let them be swept out like worthless and expendable thoughts.

After a millennium of peace, after a thousand years of never seeing any kind of unjust violence, the waves of destruction caused by the ruthless “hordes” of Gog and Magog, and the unleashed power of God’s wrath against them, will shake every sleeping elect spirit wide awake. At first, the spirits of all living beings everywhere on earth, the spirits of both humans and animals, will instantly recognize that evil has returned to the earth, at the very moment God releases the Satan from the darkness of hell. As soon as that loveless spirit begins to share perceptions of material reality with them again, every spirit will grow anxious, although most minds of flesh will not yet know why. Then, after some years, as an increasing number of children grow up to be loveless and greedy, troubles will manifest in every land. Then a charismatic and ambitious man will rise up in the lands near the Black Sea, calling all those non-elect souls to join him in a rebellion against the Messiah and Israel. Then all the elect on earth, even the sleeping elect with only a little love in their hearts, will be shocked and terrified by all this. Then the sleeping elect will become indignant, and begin to realize how much they love the loving, gentle, just and equitable lives they receive through the rule of their wise King Jesus, and His teachings as their High Priest. They see how much Satan’s non-elect place such a high value on material prosperity, and so little on spiritual wealth. Then those sleeping elect will repent, and prioritize the spiritual truths and principles that build up love above all else. So their spirits will then pray in earnest for Jesus to remove that devil and his offspring from their midst.

And Jesus will do this for them. Jesus will cast Satan back into hell and remove all his psychopathic human offspring from the earth, as soon as they cross the borders of His homeland, immediately after the wicked intentions of Gog and Magog become absolutely clear and indisputable. On the open fields of Israel, the fires of His wrath will slay every last one of those rebels. “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord Yahweh” (Ezek. 39:9-10, ESV). The main thing that Jesus’ inner priesthood of Israel will “seize” as their “plunder” from the dead rebels will be practical goods, like firewood for cooking food and warming their homes. Then Israel and the rest of the elect on earth will return to a simple, uncomplicated, peaceful life of loving one another in joy, but with renewed intent, zeal and purpose. And once more Israel will serve the earth by cleaning up the trash left behind through the lies and sins of God’s enemies, as good and faithful priests must often do.

Jesus’ inner priesthood of Israel will also show respect for the dead bodies, even though they had been non-elect criminals, because those physical bodies still held life belonging to God’s earthly kingdom. And God said: “On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of

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Travelers, east of the sea [i.e., east of the Dead Sea]. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried [i.e., travelers will not be allowed to tread on the graves of the dead]. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-Gog [i.e., ‘Valley of Gog’s Multitudes’]. For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown [or ‘better character’] on the day that I show My glory, declares the Lord Yahweh. They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers [i.e., the bodies of those who traveled from Gog] remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search. And when [the searchers] travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog. (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land” (Ezek. 39:-11-16, ESV).

The corpses of the Satanic rebels from Gog and Magog will buried in their own city of the dead called Hamonah. Their bodies are the property of God, and the stewardship of those bodies during their lives was a gift of God, to be used solely for God’s purposes, not for works of the devil against God. So those bodies will return to the dust from where they came, to fertilize God’s soil in that place. And, as a sign that tainted spirits once inhabited those corpses, they will be buried apart from all other dead flesh, to be purified by the lives of God’s trees, shrubs and grasses growing there.

In our day, we see countless dull, blinded spirits in middle class dupes serving evil taskmasters as though they were mindless drones. Some elect souls now even worship the prototypes of the demon-possessed Roman beast and Satanic “chief prince” of Gog, by esteeming and serving the devil’s most favored deceivers, such as Hitler, Trump and the like. But, during the millennium, the elect will not become as stupid as they are now, since many true priests will rebuke both the exploiters and the exploited, to stop the kinds of religious, political and financial crimes we see today. When Jesus rules the world, the people will be corrected whenever they begin to fall too much into thoughtless selfishness. Still, everyone during the millennium will have bodies of flesh which will naturally tend to take over their lives with constant demands for its physical needs and comforts. So, a generation or more before Jesus will annihilate the earth and the entire material universe, He will wake up the complacent elect who walk according to their minds of flesh, whose spirits remain asleep. Jesus will demonstrate His power and holiness to them in ways that cannot be ignored by either spirit or flesh.

Then they will know that they truly need Yahweh in Jesus to be their Lord, to be the only King who makes all their laws and the only teaching High Priest of every man. God will cause this terrible rebellion of Gog and Magog for a good purpose. For all the elect who experience that rebellion, or ponder it when they study earth’s history, will learn to remain spiritually awake, and let their spirits always heed the Holy Spirit of Jesus, to always walk according to their spirits and not according to their minds of flesh. An internal and eternal knowledge of their Father’s utter holiness will fill their souls, and a deeper, more respectful love for their oldest Brother will fill their hearts. Thus, all the eternal spiritual good produced by this temporary evil on the temporary earth will far outweigh its physical, brief and temporary cost. Now we too must learn this from these ancient prophecies, if we can, although these events have not yet occurred. For that is why He gave them to us so long ago.

We need to realize that we have eternal spirits which are more real than our temporary perceptions of life on earth. And the ability of our flesh to perceive anything, and the life of our flesh itself, will soon end. But the memories of those earthly perceptions in the minds of our spirits, and the lessons our spirits learned from them, will never pass away. So the purpose of all we perceive on earth is for the growth and maturing of our spirits, to teach our spirits to love and hate, to discern between good and evil, so we can walk in truth to build up just, pure, equitable love. Thus, all who walk according to their flesh alone, who only seek gain for their flesh, who are like the rebels of Gog and Magog,

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are short-sighted fools. Those who strive only for wealth and power are idiots who will soon die. Then they will face the wrath of God for their loveless covetousness, as well as their for all their harmful lies, thefts from hungry children, sexual exploitations, murders and worse sins. Nor can they ever achieve true wealth of the spirit, nor true power from the almighty God, which He grants to His variously gifted individuals working together as His one body with one mind and for His purposes.

Our spirits feel the pain that our flesh feels, but not in the same way that our flesh feels it. For an extreme, prolonged pain of the flesh can cause permanent physical and psychological damage to our brains of flesh. And so can injuries, illnesses, toxins and so on. But nothing done to our flesh can permanently damage the minds of our spirits, and absolutely nothing material can ever kill our spirits. So, once our spirits learn truth and love, these can only be suppressed by our mind of flesh, through its fears or its stubborn will. But these cannot be forgotten by our spirits. And elect spirits will live forever with those memories, and never again suffer pain or the resisting will of earthly flesh once our spirits receive their new, perfect, spiritual bodies and brains in heaven. Of course, this also means that non-elect spirits will also never forget the lies, delusions and hatred their spirits gained on earth, but will wallow in the darkness of those memories for all eternity. The point is, the elect must focus their earthly lives on feeding their spirits with the nourishing manna that God rains down upon their earthly lives from heaven. Then we can also pray for the daily food that our bodies and brains of flesh need to do God’s works on earth. But covet nothing more, because anything too excessive for our flesh will distract us from hearing God, or cause our flesh to suppress our spirits.

Even if our flesh did live a thousand years in pain on earth, that is an insignificant fraction of a few million “years” of life in heaven, if time in heaven could be measured in years. And our damaged, faulty, weak and irrational brains of flesh will not exist in heaven, only the brains of our new bodies made of spiritual substances. At the moment an elect person dies on earth, that one is granted a perfectly healed and whole vessel for one’s spirit. Also, it seems that the new heavenly bodies of some of earth’s loving and deeply suffering elect, after they reach the gates of heaven, develop at an extraordinarily rapid rate. Some of the most loving elect remain awake and are sent to directly to the gates of heaven where, within what we experience as only a few earthly months or years, their new heavenly bodies become blindingly bright and solid. This is why we need to walk according to our spirits and heed Jesus’ Holy Spirit, why we need to seek the kingdom of God as our highest priority.

While we live in bodies of flesh, it is difficult for our brains of flesh to even remember the truths and principles Jesus taught, because the flesh can never truly comprehend spiritual matters and has no innate desire to do so. But our elect spirits never forget those truths, once our spirits truly understand them, once His Holy Spirit teaches their true meanings to our spirits. Then our minds of flesh will cease to feel or know anything after death, but will rot in the ground with the rest of our flesh. Later, every molecule of the flesh will also burn into nothing, become nonexistent, after God destroys the entire material universe. So we need to walk according to the eternal minds of our spirits, and let our spirits remind our minds of flesh about the truths Jesus taught, as we make decisions about life and faith in the chambers of our souls. We use our minds and bodies of flesh to do God’s works on earth, for the teaching and training of our spirits, but we must not place an inordinate value upon our flesh.

The greedy, antisemitic rebellion of Gog and Magog against Jesus also proves the spiritual nature of human beings. For this rebellion will occur long after Jesus establishes nearly perfect peace, equity and justice in all the earth, a thousand years after the Jews have faithfully helped the Gentiles of all nations and races, and while there is prosperity for all flesh. But this peace could only exist when all the people on earth had elect spirits and were rightly taught by Jesus. For the first thousand years, even the most carnal elect remained content with God’s abundant provisions, keeping peace with

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God and one another. This peace would only be disturbed after God returned the spirit of Satan to the earth, and after that devil created the loveless spirits of his non-elect human offspring. Only then could lies grow strong enough to result in a great war with oppression, death and despair. Therefore, in these prophecies about Gog and Magog, God is telling us that it is not merely environment, not a mere lack of adequate food and physical needs, not injustice and hardships, which cause the loveless non-elect to become evil. The non-elect possess an innate tendency to become violently antisemitic haters of Jesus who exploit, steal, oppress, enslave, murder and gather to make unjust wars against vulnerable, innocent peoples. Even in a perfect world, the non-elect will invent lies to justify their real spiritual reasons for doing all of their evil, to even make their crimes feel noble and rational.

And notice how all the worst sins of Gog and Magog’s began with their least sin, with covetousness. The non-elect wanted to possess more and to be more esteemed. Then their father from hell fanned those smoldering selfish desires until their lusts burned uncontrollably, until they became obsessed with a desire to own and rule God’s properties like gods, even to own other human beings, so they could gratify every whim of their wicked hearts. They had to find a way to do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, with slaves to serve them. So those insanely covetous non-elect went out to conquer, plunder and enslave their peaceful and innocent siblings in the family of humankind. They seized lands and resources owned by God, which God granted to His appointed stewards. Then they pretended all this stolen property truly belonged to them, so they could exert control over it. Those thieves only gave a minimum amount of food and shelter to those who served them, who submitted to their demands and harsh conditions, who bowed to them as though they were gods. They did exactly what Babylon, Persia and Greece did in ancient times, for the same reasons and with the same evil motives stirred up by the same devil. This is why God gave us these prophecies in ancient times, as a warning that the non-elect will never change, that we must not be deceived by their false reasoning and lies, that we must react quickly to undo their works as soon as they begin, and guard Jesus’ words of truth in our hearts, so we can build up and maintain His kingdom on earth in truth.

For our own good, we need to keep our spirits awake and alert as much as possible, and continuously guard the principles and truths that Jesus’ Holy Spirit teaches to our spirits, especially truths about justice, equity, responsible freedoms and love. Our spirits must never let liars convince our flesh to suppress and silence those truths in our hearts and souls. We need to realize that it is a lie that there are alternative truths. For literally every spirit, even Satan, knows that the core teachings of Jesus are true and effective for building abundant life, since those truths are no only written in His Book, but also in all His spiritual and physical creations. Although our amoral and self-seeking flesh will often try to deny those truths, those truths are immutable, eternal and will remain standing forever, after all the lies of the non-elect perish. Satan and his non-elect will always hate those truths, because they want to be their own gods, and always want to delude themselves into thinking they can create their own truths and realities for their own gain and carnal pleasures. So they attempt to nullify, replace or corrupt those truths. So we must not succumb to their dark deceptions, but constantly resist their lies.

God will cause the rebellion of Gog and Magog for a purpose, to cleanse the minds of His people from the last filthy remnants of humanism. Forever after in heaven, souls will be able to look down at Gog’s earthly rebellion, to remind themselves about the self-destructive ways that various forms of theistic and even secular humanism caused the elect to practice mindless, cruel, empty lives. They will see how false preachers and false prophets, all sent by Satan, stole abundant life from them on the earth. Above all, they will see how Gog and Magog rebelled against the greatest freedom and prosperity on earth in all history, against the most perfect King, High Priest and priestly government that ever existed. Then they will understand how the devil’s invention of humanism had always and

 

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invariably plucked love and peace out from the heart, divided each and every individual from the others, and ultimately resulted in violence, until it crushed the lives everyone it was able to touch.

It is impossible to build real peace or inner unity among those who worship human beings and divide the human family into hierarchical class systems, according to the foundational doctrines taught by the religion of humanism. All its core doctrines are divisive and factious, based on lies and partial truths applied through false reasoning, and upon unreal concepts revolving aroung Satan’s invention of money. Not one humanist is exempt from the falsely perceived “duty” to cut oneself off from the rest of humankind or to bow low before the supposedly almighty demon Mammon. Each humanist is obligated to esteem oneself and other human beings above other siblings, and must always strive to promote the designated lies and delusions that paint an artificial image of superiority or inferiority upon all lives. Since each and every humanist must seek to become a god who creates and rules over one’s own destiny through one’s own fictional “free will,” unity of mind and purpose is not only impossible but forbidden. All must dedicate and submit their lives to one “chief” human god, while also expending all their thoughts and efforts to becoming the owners of their own kingdoms. All must be both loyally serving one human god while also being selfishly ambitious. So keeping one’s entire focus upon the glory of only one ruling human god and upon oneself prevents one from every empathizing with or understanding the needs of all other siblings, leading to only factions and wars.

So Jesus will teach His people about all this, and clearly demonstrate the entirely irrational ways of humanism, by allowing Gog and Magog to rise up in rebellion against a perfectly wise government which provides the maximum peace and prosperity for an abundantly loving life on the earth. And He gave us these prophecies about Gog and Magog so early in history, shortly after humanism first began in Babylon, for this reason. He wanted His elect, all who lived throughout the times of the humanistic kingdoms, to guard the minds of their spirits against the lies and delusions spread by that Satanic false religion. And now we have seen that every humanistic body of people in history has become increasingly deluded, divisive and ruthless as they have grown older or more powerful. Also, their process of devolving into ever-darker delusions and destructive violence has always been in direct proportion to their increasing faith in the teachings of lies by their worshipped human gods.

Surely, after centuries of observing both theistic and secular humanists, we should be able to learn this very valuable lesson, and prepare ourselves for the great revival of Jesus’ one true church during the coming era of the sixth seal. Now we should realize that the truths and wisdom of the one true God, who designed and created all things to function perfectly, cannot be altered and improved upon by foolish, sinful, arrogant human beings who think they are gods, who somehow delude themselves into thinking they are superior to those with spirits created in God’s own loving, just, equitable image. It is more than enough to be the children of God, and learn from the Holy Spirit of our Father and oldest Brother. We do not need anything more from those wanna-be human gods. For humanistic corruptions from demonic teachers, even in the physical sciences that pretend to merely observe and record observations of God’s creations, lead only to sins and death. Look at the lies of humanistic evolution for example. Yes, God does genetically alter life, in very beneficial ways that instruct us about spiritual “genetics” too. But humanists used their lies about evolution to conclude that some “races” of their siblings were inferior to them, and should even be enslaved by them for their own good. Then Hitler used the humanistic doctrines of evolution to justify his murdering of the Jews.

The minds of loving elect spirits must guard the truths of God in their hearts and souls, and never let the dark delusions and lies of humanism deceive them, not any of the naive and ignorant. The elect must also educate the world about the good and necessary effects produced by God’s principles of love, equity, justice and a modest, simple live in the flesh. For the elect were all called to become

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priests of God, and He always calls at least some of His priests to teach His truths to His people for their good. Our Father and oldest Brother in heaven are one God, and He is utterly holy. He can never be truly worshipped or loved through even the slightest corruption of any pure truth, but will rebuke and even punish the flesh for those lies. Then, to complete His cleansing, He will end every rebellion against Him and His beneficial ways by killing unrepentant rebels who harm His people.

God prophesied against Gog and Magog with great anger, and His wrath has been reserved for them for a very long time—not just since the days of Ezekiel in the 6th century BC, but from the very moment He created the earth. For God, who created the dimension of time, necessarily predestined all events in the material space-time continuum. We know this to be true because He foretold events hundreds and even thousands of years in advance. His faithful prophets and apostles knew about the fate of Gog and Magog even before the Messiah would return and the millennium had passed. God also told Gog and Magog, through Ezekiel, that He spoke to them “in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against” Israel (Ezek. 38:17). So God created and has maintained the lands of Gog and Magog to keep Himself angry for a very long time. God has reserved His wrath for the non-elect in Gog and Magog, and for the non-elect who join them, for a purpose as well. He predestined their rebellion and their attack against Israel to complete His one of His most critical teachings at the end of earthly time. Before He destroys the material universe, God will ensure that all His elect know the inevitable effects of humanism, of their sin of coveting the sovereignty of God over His people and His creations, of their resulting sins of murdering, pillaging and enslaving siblings in the family of humankind. God will demonstrate and illustrate His wrath against deliberately believed loveless, exploitative, dark lies.

Humanists do what is right in their own eyes, no matter how much harm it causes to their siblings, and they intentionally do these things merely to make themselves feel like gods. But not even the real God does what they do. Yes, the real God does what is right in His own eyes, because only His eyes truly know what is perfectly right, just and loving. But the real God always does what is right through His love for others, and takes full responsibility for His actions. The real God serves all His creations and never stops serving them. God continuously labors for the ultimate spiritual and eternal good of all the living creatures He created to dwell in His heavenly home, and will do so forever, after He brings them all home. Then God has also openly revealed to all what is right and good, in His spiritual and physical creations, as well as in His revelations to His elect priests and priesthood.

God even explains why He does all that He does. God is completely transparent about what He does and why He does it. In fact, God has told us His reasons for doing some of His greatest deeds even before He has done them, so His trusting elect might be prepared for those events. And now those with spirits created in His image should do the same, for He created His elect children to serve one another and His creations in the same ways He does. We are to build up and serve His kingdom on earth in the same way we will serve His kingdom in heaven, so His good will is also done on earth.

God chose Gog and Magog to be the places where He will demonstrate the effects of the Satanic religion of humanism. So He seems to have caused Gog and Magog to be the lands identified with some kind of great sin related to humanism long ago, even in the days before Ezekiel prophesied. And they also would have never collectively repented, as a nation, although some of the loving elect souls among them would have repented. It seems that the people of Gog and Magog must have been ensnared by the humanistic traditions or doctrines of Babylon at some time before Ezekiel gave this prophecy about them. They likely loved the idea of them becoming their own gods as well as the esteeming and denigration of various siblings in a hierarchical class system. Then they seem to have also embraced further humanistic teachings of Persia and Greece after that, but in a way that was not

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quite equivalent to Roman humanism, not like the kind of secular humanism the beast will practice. Their people likely rejected the way Rome assimilated cultures and peoples through the delusion of nationalism and the classification of individuals according to each one’s loyalty to Rome’s traditions.

Those long-practiced lies and sins of Gog and Magog must still exist today, and will exist for another thousand years after Jesus returns. I am not sure precisely what those spiritual lies and sins actually are, but they must be extant to this day. And those false teachings are the reason for God’s anger against Gog and Magog for so long, and why God will display His wrath against Babylon, Persia and Greece, against the first three kingdoms of the devil’s religion, when He destroys the non-elect in Gog and Magog, as per the biblical prophecies. That future rebellion of Gog and Magog against Jesus and Israel will occur for God’s purpose of eliminating the last remaining lies of that religion.

Gog and Magog will illustrate how the Satanically induced humanistic delusions of the first three kingdoms invariably cause only injustice, suffering, destruction and death. Then Jesus will finally teach His elect to hate those unjust traditions of the first three kingdoms and destroy the non-elect who prefer and perpetuate those lies. Those first three religious kingdoms of Satan’s beast were formed in the days of Ezekiel and Daniel, but will end after the millennium, not long before the end of the material universe. For our perceptions of material existence, to teach and train the spirits of God’s elect, will no longer serve a purpose; after the last of His concepts of truth and love have been illustrated and after all the possible types of lies against those truths have been exposed as harmful.

Also remember that, in the ancient Hebrew language of Ezekiel, the word translated as “coastlands” or “islands” referred to any lands that were a great distance from Israel, whether or not they were actually coastlands or islands. And this prophecy definitely does not refer to the coastlands or islands of Gog and Magog or Israel, nor the coastlands or islands anywhere else. Therefore, when God said, “I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands” (39:6), God meant that He will not only burn the non-elect humanists in the lands of Gog and Magog, but will also burn all the other unrepentant humanists in lands far from Gog and Magog, everywhere on earth. For Gog and Magog, where Georgia is today, is located on the eastern shores of the Black Sea. And ships can get to the Mediterranean Sea from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus Straight. Then ships can sail from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean and to ultimately to every other continent’s or island’s coastlines on earth. So Gog and Magog theoretically could be reached by ships from anywhere on earth, even from lands that Ezekiel and the other ancient people knew nothing about in those ancient times. And this was also known to the Babylonians, Persians and Greeks. So peoples from many nations around the world will join the cult of Gog and Magog, and some of these will join the armies of Gog and Magog in the distant future. Yet all of the unrepentant souls in that humanistic cult, no matter where they are on earth, will be burned by our God Jesus, after Gog attacks Him and Israel.

During the millennium, Gog and Magog will dwell securely, like all the other nations on earth. But Gog and Magog will grow increasingly evil after Satan is released, since that devil will create many non-elect in that land, including a demonically enhanced “chief prince.” Of course, Satan will create non-elect human offspring in all the other nations on the earth as well. And that devil’s chosen “chief prince” will be able to preach his humanistic lies and delusions to all of those non-elect through similar kinds of mass communications that we have today. So the “chief prince” of Gog will develop a world-wide cult and call some of its members to join him in his homeland, to war against Jesus and Israel. But, as the non-elect from all over the world gather in Gog and Magog, most of the elect in that land likely will have fled from there, and emigrated to other lands. So they likely will be safe.

 

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Finally, after the demonically inspired “chief prince” has gathered a large enough army, he will begin to attack the lands to the south, on the way to Israel. So the elect who live there will probably flee into Israel or to other nearby lands, where other elect souls will care for them. But once those armies of Gog and Magog have all passed the borders of Israel they will be destroyed by the power of Jesus, with infighting, earthquakes, extreme weather conditions and fire. Also, since their destruction will be during the millennium, it will occur somewhere within the extended borders of Israel. So it may occur anywhere south of the Euphrates, in what is now Syria or Lebanon. Then, shortly after Jesus destroys those armies of Gog and Magog, He will also destroy all the rest of the non-elect on earth and cast Satan into hell again. Jesus will also “send fire” on all the non-elect remaining in the lands of Gog and Magog, but also upon all the non-elect remaining in all other lands around the world.

In the same way Jesus previously removed the more evil non-elect of the humanistic Roman Empire and the beast at the beginning of the millennium, He will also remove the non-elect of the devil’s first three humanistic kingdoms and their “chief prince” near the end of the millennium. Then notice how the Revelation also said God will destroy Gog and Magog when “fire came down from heaven and consumed them” (Rev. 20:9, ESV). So this not only indicates that both Ezekiel and John were prophesying about the same rebellion of Gog and Magog, but also reveals the nature of those rebels. For God commanded His priesthood of Israel to burn anything that could withstand fire, if it needed to be purified from spiritual uncleanliness, such as from having been associated with false gods or any other unholy uses (e.g., Num. 31:22-23). And spirits can withstand fire. Thus, as a sign that He has purified the spirits of His elect human siblings and the elect spirits of all other living creatures on earth, Jesus will “send fire” from heaven, down upon the earth, to burn away the spiritually unclean non-elect, to consume all unclean spirits, to purify all His elect spirits remaining on earth. Then the unclean spirits of Satan and his non-elect brood will eternally burn in a greater spiritual fire of hell, to signify that they can never be purified or cleansed from the perpetual evil rising from their hearts.

After God said His fire will spiritually cleanse the earth, He repeated: “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.” This implies that Yahweh’s name, primarily referring to the holiness of His Spirit in the Messiah, will be profaned during the first thousand years after He begins to rule the earth, in the days before the rebellion of Gog and Magog. And this disrespect or lack of adequate respect for God will occur “in the midst of My people Israel” during that time. But “Israel” will include all the awakened Gentile elect in all “the nations,” the Gentiles whom Jesus has brought into His priesthood of Israel and into His tribe of Judah. So most of this profaning of God’s name will be done by the sleeping elect “among” the awakened Gentile elect throughout the world; then even more by the non-elect created on earth after God returns Satan to the earth. But, after the witnessing the horrors of Gog’s rebellion, literally every elect human spirit on earth will awaken, and all will “know that Jesus is Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.” None will take the name of Yahweh in Jesus lightly. Everyone on earth will respect His holiness and His love.

This restored respect for Jesus will not simply be a carnal fear. Rather, it will involve the minds of all elect spirits gaining a far deeper understanding of the utter holiness permeating Yahweh’s wise Spirit in Jesus. For the first thousand years, there will be some carnal elect with sleeping spirits who shall complain about Jesus and His priestly awakened elect serving as teaching and judging elders. They will not see the wisdom in all the King’s laws and ways, and think His government is too limiting, or not being pragmatic and “rational” in what He asks of them. Then all those sleeping elect will see how the subtle lies and half-truths of the theistic humanists in Gog and Magog promote greed, then eventually radicalize them, until they become murderous, plundering rebels against Yahweh in Jesus.

 

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After that rebellion, even the sleeping elect will clearly see how Jesus is perfect in His just love, and absolutely no one could ever do anything nearly as wisely and effectively as He does. None will complain about anything Jesus says or does, because they will trust Him completely. And this is actually what we call “saving faith,” the spirit’s belief in Him and His truths. And this definitely is not the kind of fear one has for a despot, but the kind of confidence which knows with all certainty that all His words and deeds are wisely done to lovingly serve His people and all other life on earth.

There have always been professing Christians and Jews who believe that they can alter God’s laws and teachings to make them better, so all can be done easier, as well as in more efficient, financially “responsible” ways. And humanistic hierarchical class systems are ideal for that, because they do not involve any necessity for difficult assessments and judgments based on a host of relevant factors and facts. Rather, a human god can simply make decisions through his or her whims, then lie to make one’s foolish, unjust and ultimately harmful decisions outwardly appear to be wise and praiseworthy.

Of course, almost none of the churches and synagogues today truly believe that Jesus is utterly holy, that He is completely just, righteous and loving. They all say they believe Jesus is holy, but their words and deeds actually deny that Jesus is holy, since they contradict, reject and slander His words, thoughts and ways. But now we need to realize that their complaints and arrogance, their esteeming of their own thoughts and ways above the thoughts and ways of Jesus our God, will eventually incur the wrath of our very patient God, who constantly calls elect spirits to hear and heed His wise Holy Spirit. There will come a time, after a thousand years of the perfect teachings of our High Priest, when He will no longer tolerate any of the arrogant teachings of humanism. There day will come when Jesus will expose and destroy all that most churches and synagogues believe to be truly good and correct biblical teachings, but are actually doctrines based on conservative theistic humanism.

False synagogues and fake churches have promoted and practiced this kind of hypocrisy since the days of ancient Babylon. Yet almost all theistic humanists in history have publicly declared that they worship the real God, and that He is holy. Yet every theistic humanist, without exception, has made oneself or some other human being into one’s highest god, who supposedly has the ability and power to edit God’s words and to judge by their own man-made laws. So they actually believe that their human gods are “holier” than the real God, that is, more just, righteous and loving than the real God. And they put far more faith in human gods for their physical and spiritual salvation than they ever put in the real God. So traces of these humanistic doctrines will exist on earth during the millennium.

Thus, once Jesus has personally and sufficiently educated the elect of the world, He will deal a final blow against the remaining doctrines of humanism. Jesus will purify the whole earth, so that all upon it live as perfectly as possible in earthly flesh. And He will do this not long before He “burns” the earth, before He eliminates all material perceptions from the minds of all spirits. For His purpose in creating the earth will be completed. He provided a training ground for His elect, a place where they could learn to walk in His ways. But, after the rebellion of Gog and Magog, He will have finished that work entirely. Then, forever in heaven, the elect will be able to look at all the times and places of the earth, to study exactly what happened at any moment in history, to learn all the reasons for all the events which occurred. The elect will investigate the harmful effects of everything that even slightly deviated from the perfect truth and love existing within their holy Father and oldest Brother.

But it is also interesting that Jesus will not “burn” away the material space-time continuum until the earth spends years of work in burning of weapons of war and burying the dead. For God’s Word tells us that Israel will spend seven months gathering the corpses of Gog and Magog, so they can bury them in the Valley of Hamon-gog. Then they will also burn the weapons of the rebels for seven

 

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years, to provide fires for cooking and heating their homes. So it seems that this time will be therapeutic, satisfying to the souls forced to experience the mind-bending horrors of war. For they will see all those warriors silent, being eaten by birds of prey, without lifting a finger against anyone or anything. And, since it will take seven years to burn their weapons, they will be reminded daily, during all that time, that no weapons will ever be made against them again, even until the earth ends.

Also notice that the weapons will definitely be made of wood. This prophecy does not allow for any figurative interpretation of the kind of weapons used, since it specifically states that Israel will burn them as fuel. So these will not be like the weapons used by the army of 200 million or the weapons used by the beast a thousand years before that rebellion of Gog and Magog. And we are forced to assume that the technology of war and weaponry will be all but lost during the millennium. This makes sense, because there will be no wars for a thousand years. So, by then, almost all weapons of war will rust to nothing or will be smelted into building materials, tools and so on. Yet, if all the weapons are made of wood a thousand years after Jesus returns, it also implies that all the people on earth will return to a simpler, peace-loving, more natural lifestyle, without factories to manufacture steel weapons and armored vehicles. Of course, there likely will still be advanced technology, since all knowledge will grow exponentially, including scientific knowledge. But all that knowledge will only be used for peaceful and good purposes. And most things will be made in smaller and more informal work places designed for the comfort and well-being of the workers, not solely to make a profit through the ruthless exploitation of workers, since no money will exist during the millennium.

Also, this prophecy indicate that the earth will exist for many years after the first thousand years; for a generation or two of Satan creating and corrupting non-elect human beings, plus seven years of burning the weapons of those non-elect rebels after that, and an undisclosed amount of time after that. So the millennium of Jesus ruling the earth will be longer than a thousand years, at least about 1,100 years. But, considering how God allowed humanism to exist on earth for about 3,600 years, until a thousand years of the millennium had passed, and began to create the priestly nation of Israel through Abraham about 1,400 years before that, Jesus might rule on earth for another 5,000 years or more after the rebellion of Gog and Magog. However, I doubt that He will continue to maintain the earth and material universe that long after all His teaching and training of the elect on earth has been completed. Then Jesus will cause the second resurrection of all humans who had ever lived on earth, along with the rapture of all up to the gates of heaven in the spiritual realm for the judgment day. And, after all His elect are up there with Him, He will finally destroy the entire material universe.

Jesus will utterly destroy every last trace of Satan's world order in the end, all its social, economic, educational, political, military and philosophical doctrines and systems, which are all now primarily based on the traditions of Roman humanism. But, during the millennium, even after Jesus exposes and destroys Roman humanism, Jesus will need to expose and nullify many of the more basic humanistic beliefs developed in ancient Babylon, Persia and Greece. All His teaching and judging elders will be able to discern between those lies and the truths taught by Jesus. There will also be some elders who shall be able to do this much sooner than that, during the great revival in the era of the sixth seal. Yet many of the elect will not fully comprehend what Jesus and those elders are teaching them. Thus, many of the elec shall still cling to remnants of ancient humanistic traditions, both during the great revival and for another thousand years after Jesus returns. After all, Jesus is a Teacher, who patiently waits for His disciples to gain understanding, and does not even try to force anyone to believe anything hypocritically in fear. Nevertheless, after a thousand years, His elect will understand enough to be ready for the final exposing of the evils inherent to that kind of humanism.

 

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So it will take a thousand years of Jesus’ perfect teachings before a significant percentage of the elect will be ready to reject the final traces of humanism, before Jesus will be able to finally demonstrate how those humanistic believes are entirely evil, by allowing Satan and his non-elect to use those humanistic teachings and systems in a rebellion against Him and Israel. And a thousand year is a very long time. Now we are certain that literally all the minds of all elect spirits are absolutely brilliant, rational and capable of learning all these truths within a day, and possess perfect memories which can never forget those truths. So why will it take Jesus a thousand years to get His elect ready before He can expose those humanistic lies and get them all to finally accept the real truth? And, while we ask this, we should also ask why it took 2,000 years from the days of Abraham until Jesus could reveal His New Covenant salvation to His elect, then another 2,000 years after that until Jesus is almost ready to revive His elect, so they can serve as His priests in His New Covenant church?

We might think there is something deeply wrong with the spirits of the elect, or even that all spirits must be extremely dull and stupid. But it is not actually spirits that are so dull and stupid, only that minds of flesh in the chambers of elect souls are stupid, no matter how high their IQ might be. And their flesh is constantly taking captive and suppressing the minds of elect spirits, because the amoral flesh does not want to learn any spiritual or moral truths. Yes, Jesus can and does sometimes rebuke and silence the flesh, which is seldom a pleasant experience, although the elect spirit later rejoices when it gains truth through His often harsh disciplinary actions against the flesh. Still, even after that, the flesh tends to cling to what it already knows, to what it thinks will provide for all its wants and needs, even if those things are mere lies and delusions. Thus, God’s elect usually require a long period of time spent in exposing lies and in reinforcing the efficacy of God’s truths, before they are ready to finally accept and practice those truths in their daily lives. There comes a time when just one final demonstration of the harm caused by those lies will be enough to turn the elect around, with a true repentance of the spirit and the flesh out of those lies and delusions, into the real truth.

It has taken about 2,000 years of injustice, exploitation, slavery, terrorism, wars and pure evil for the elect just to begin realizing that the Roman humanistic religion, philosophies, laws and ways might be fake “truths” and false “realities,” and that Rome does not provide any real answers for life and faith. Rome is not the only kingdom on earth, nor the best, like they brainwashed us believe. And the elect did not take so long to realize all this because their spirits were so stupid, nor because their spirits were incapable of truly loving in a just, equitable and wise way. It was because Rome’s lies appealed to the emotions of their flesh so often, so incessantly and so confidently that their minds of flesh believed those lies. Then their flesh silenced and imprisoned their spirits, did not allow their spirits to heed the Holy Spirit of Yahweh in Jesus, lest the flesh might lose the false salvation offered by those liars. Rome stroked the little carnal egos of the elect, said they could become gods if they loyally served Rome’s greatest human gods, and told the elect that those gods might let them own some of God’s created, served, completely controlled possessions for themselves, that they might even be able to own some of their siblings in the family of humankind, whom God created for them to serve through love. That is how the thoughts of their flesh became so dark, empty, deluded and fearful, why they not only destroyed the lives of other siblings, but also their own lives, for so long.

The revival and greatest awakening of elect human spirits in history is about to happen. Within one generation after that, our God Yahweh will return to dwell on earth together with us in a body of human flesh, as our only Lawmaker and King, even as our teaching and judging High Priest. Later, after a thousand years of His teachings filling the earth, He will complete our purification from all the lies forced on us through Babylon, Persia and Greece. For God has promised: “I will not hide My face anymore from them, when I pour out My Spirit upon the house of Israel” (Ezek. 39:29, ESV).

 

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The Holy Spirit of Jesus will pour His concepts of truth and love into the minds of all elect spirits in Israel, into those of all elect Jews as well as all elect Gentiles gathered into His priesthood of Israel. “Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord Yahweh. That is the day of which I have spoken” (39:8, ESV). All this will occur, no matter how much it might be resisted.

Babylonian, Persian and Greek forms of religion still exist among the peoples. But Jesus will eliminate all traces of their so-called “glory,” of all vain humanistic status symbols, hierarchical class systems, terrorism to make themselves feel like powerful gods, and the oppression of money used to manipulate, control, subjugate and destroy lives. Humanists have deceived us into thinking that no one has “being,” that no one is truly human, that no one has a right to a voice and justice, unless that one possesses the power which only the real God actually possesses and wields, unless one owns the property which only the real God created, rules and truly owns. They lie. In reality, all that truly exists is extant solely because God causes it to exist. Nothing exists through the wills of men. And all that exists in the minds of humanists is a delusion which God created and cast them into. Now we can only accept the realities which God created on earth and in the more solid, permanent reality of the spiritual space-time continuum. And those true realities, which our loving Creator continuously serves, which He maintains forever, are all ultimately beautiful, even the horrors of evil which turn our spirits away from them, that train our elect spirits to love in more just, equitable and wise ways.

There have always been some who insist that we must pursue the approval, esteem and accolades of human gods in carnal pride, and appease our self-indulgent desires of our flesh rather than serve our brothers and sisters in our family of humankind. They want us to believe their man-made concepts of races, cultures and religions, though they are all mere delusions. And all Satan’s offspring inwardly despise the mild, gentle elect who lack their kind of self ambition. Those non-elect love humanism. And their theistic and secular factions of humanism have always persecuted the elect who truly love others and care nothing for the rewards of Satan's world order, since those elect often let a truth or two escape into their kingdoms, to free their most useful slaves, who are all elect souls themselves.

The non-elect, particularly the humanistic majority among them, seek nothing but the renown and glory promised by Satan’s world order. They will labour like Satan’s slaves, day and night, so they can delude themselves into feeling like gods and somehow gain a little more esteem for themselves. Yet that pathetic and tentative kind of esteem is only conditionally granted by other members of their sect and cult of humanism, by others who share the same delusions, and is not based on any realities whatsoever. It is not based on any approval and warmth from our Creator and God Jesus, nor from any truly rational and loving souls who worship Jesus in their spirits and in truth. And, for all their efforts, they die an ignoble death, then will be cast into the frustrating darkness of their own lies and delusions for all eternity, where their lusts can never be gratified in even the slightest possible way.

Why do the elect still listen to those who will be slaughtered by the King of truth, reason and love? For our King insists that literally all His human creations must be justly treated as the equals of all other humans, and that His elect must find and closely fellowship with all their joint heirs of the kingdom, which is ruled by Him, their Father and their oldest Brother. So those whose motives and intentions of their spirits is to justly and lovingly serve Jesus and His creations shall receive a warm acceptance from their King and Owner, who bears the only opinion which is worth obtaining. Our God Jesus will love and cherish the elect, will value and love them all, forever and unconditionally. But the elect will all soon forever forget all the nameless non-elect fools who worship human gods and Satan, all those humanists who tell them to strive for their approval, who pose as their saviors.

 

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After Jesus kills the hordes of Gog and Magog, He will command Israel to bury their bodies in a designated place for the ceremonial cleansing of the land, for the spiritual healing and recovery of everyone on earth. And this suggests that the earth will exist for some time after the millennium. For there would be no reason to cleanse the land if the people were not going to live on the earth for a long time, if He was going to end the existence of the material universe immediately after that. But why would Jesus want the elect to live on the earth after evil no longer existed, since evil teaches His elect children to hate all that deviates from His created principles of truth? Why not simply send them all to the gates of heaven for the completion and perfecting of their education? Well, God told us why, when He summarily stated: “And I will set My glory among the nations, and all nations shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid on them” (Ezek. 39:21, ESV).

For as long as the earth would exist, humans would remember how Jesus brought Satan back to the earth, allowed the devastating rebellion of Gog, then slaughtered all that devil’s non-elect offspring. It would be a history lesson that all would learn. And all would be able to see the graves of those rebels in Israel when they travelled there. This would also remind them that Jesus had exposed and crushed the last remnants of false teachings on earth through those actions. So it would raise a good opinion of Jesus throughout His earthly kingdom. Then later, when these elect met the previously deceased elect at heaven’s gates on the final judgment day, they could also personally share that good opinion of Jesus with the others. For a critical part of our education on that day will involve personally sharing our experiences of earthly life with all the other elect souls, so we will all get to know each other very well and become one people, and fully understand God’s works on the earth.

Actually, this has been God’s work from the moment He created the material universe. The principal purpose of this physical creation is to instill His “glory” in His elect children. The Hebrew word translated as “glory” here is kawbode, which indicates the mass and substance of all that exists inside God, all His love, wrath, holiness, wisdom, power and everything else. This is why He created His children in temporary bodies of flesh on earth, so they might learn about all that is in Him, so they might learn to become what they were created to be, the very image of their Father and oldest Brother. The Creator of both heaven and earth chose to reveal Himself to His children through all He created on earth, through both its pastoral calm and terrifying storms, through both His love and His wrath on earth. All the earth was to be a nursery and training ground for their spirits, and also where all His children would seek Him and lean to cherish Him. In fact, the spirits of all creatures that will experience earth’s good and evil, then dwell eternally in heaven with God—the spirits of all plants, animals and angels—will learn many truths and grow wiser by experiencing God’s works on earth.

Yet, of all the created spirits allowed to touch the earth, elect human spirits possess the greatest capacity to absorb knowledge about God, and can love Him most. For elect human spirits were created in the image of the Creator’s Spirit. And, of all God’s works on earth, the most powerful was His work on the cross, even more than raising His own body of flesh from the dead and becoming our eternal Teacher. For He created us to not only observe sin on earth, but to also experience the act of sinning through the desires of our flesh. Then He voluntarily sacrificed His flesh in a very painful death to free us from the guilt, condemnation and penalty of our experienced sins through repentance into His truth. Our God Jesus allowed His flesh to be murdered so our spirits could experience and learn to hate lovelessness and evil while living on earth. He partook in our lives, joys, temptations, sufferings and deaths on earth so He could fully educate us, so His perfection and the substance of all that exists in His uncreated Holy Spirit might be contrasted with all that lacks His utter holiness.

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us as our King and teach us as our High Priest, He will kill the loveless, wicked non-elect to save us from their weapons of war. That, and all He has done in addition to His work on the cross, will also shine with the glory of His justice and love, which will be utterly holy and extremely welcome. Even so, as He radiates with the warm light of His holy truths and salvation from our enemies on that future day, He will not exceed the brightness which shone from Him on that day upon the cross. And the deaths of the non-elect on that day will not be enough to fully demonstrate His utter holiness, nor the deaths of Gog and Magog a thousand years later. For He did very much more to demonstrate His loving and righteous holiness through His own death on the cross. Thus, because of all His works throughout history, but mostly because of His work on cross, we know He is our holy God Yahweh.

There is one more prophecy with details that seem to describe the rebellion of Gog and Magog, the following, which God gave us through Isaiah. It has an obvious world-wide scope, devastation with fire and a permanent outcome. Also, God gave this prophecy after declaring this about the world in a Messianic prophecy: “For Yahweh is our Judge; Yahweh is our Lawgiver; Yahweh is our King; He will save us” (Is. 33:22, ESV). Then it talks about Edom, where Ezekiel said the dead of Gog and Magog will be buried, and how it becomes a perpetual wasteland given over to wild animals, where “none shall pass through it forever and ever” (Is. 34:10, ESV). So it appears to be about God’s wrath at the rebellion of Gog and Magog after the Messiah rules the earth from Israel for a thousand years.

Isaiah 34:1-10 (ESV): “Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the

earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. For [Yahweh] is enraged

against all the nations, and furious against all their host; He has devoted them to destruction,

has given them over for slaughter. Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses

shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood . All the host of heaven shall rot away ,

and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like

leaves falling from the fig tree.

“For My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom

[where Gog and Magog will be buried], upon the people I have devoted to destruction. The Lord

has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah [a city in Edom], a

great slaughter in the land of Edom. Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the

mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion . And the

streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become

burning pitch. Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever.

From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.”

First, notice how this prophecy speaks about “nations” and “peoples,” then states, “Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world.” So it is about a world-wide event where God slaughters some kind of an international enemy in Israel. And these “people [God has] devoted to destruction” refers only to the non-elect of the earth. Then this prophecy also tells us about their bodies being buried in Edom, south of Israel. And the reason they are killed is because “Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; He has devoted them to destruction.” Yahweh will pour out His wrath against the peoples from all nations on earth, presumably the non-elect of the world, because they come to attack Israel. God is very angry with these nations “for the cause of Zion,” that is, because they want to destroy Israel and Jerusalem. So, to save His people, God kills all of them.

 

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From the other prophecies, we know God will destroy “hosts” of international armies who come against Israel twice: once at the battle at Armageddon, when the beast gathers armies from every nation to attack Israel; then once again during the rebellion of Gog and Magog, when they gather a host of warriors from all over the earth. So this prophecy is about one of these two events. But this prophecy seems to occur after Yahweh, as the Messiah, becomes the King of the world, not before that time. For, just before this prophecy, another Messianic prophecy through Isaiah told us about a time when “Yahweh our Judge, Yahweh is our Lawmaker; Yahweh is our King; He will save us” (Is.33:22, ESV). So this indicates that this prophecy is about Gog and Magog, not about the beast’s armies at Armageddon. It looks like God gave a prophecy about Gog and Magog to Ezekiel in about 600 BC to clarify the details about this prophecy given through Isaiah more than a hundred years earlier. Then God repeated His message about Gog and Magog to John, who specified the time of this event in the Revelation. So God progressively revealed increasingly more information about the rebellion of Gog and Magog over a period of about 800 years, although primarily through Ezekiel.

Here it says “the mountains shall flow with their blood.” But the death of the beast’s armies will occur primarily in the valleys around Armageddon, not in the hills and mountains. And this will likely be because the beast’s armies shall be using more modern vehicles for transportation, such as tanks and armored personnel carriers, which are better suited to lower and more level ground. But the armies of Gog and Magog will definitely use horses, which can traverse hills and mountains, in order to take the more strategically advantageous higher ground, which will be critical, since Gog and Magog will be using far more primitive weapons made of wood. So this is more likely about the armies of Gog and Magog attacking Zion, rather than about the armies of the beast attacking Israel.

Then this prophecy tells us that God’s sword “descends for judgment upon Edom.” So, if God will judge or condemn Edom at this time, there will likely be many non-elect in Edom who will join the rebellion of Gog and Magog, to attack and plunder Israel, as they also did often before and after the days of ancient Babylon. Here God also spoke about “a great slaughter in the land of Edom,” which more properly means, “an abundant amount of something slaughtered in Edom.” Then it adds that “Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.” Bozrah was the capital of Edom and is located just south and east of the Dead Sea, approximately where Ezekiel said the bodies of Gog and Magog warriors would be buried. Thus, there will be so many dead carcasses of the soldiers from Gog and Magog in that area of Edom that “the streams of Edom shall be turned to pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land will become burning pitch.” And that would require a very substantial number of corpses, millions of dead bodies that “rot” in a hot compost for many years.

In the prophecy about the rebellion of Gog and Magog through Ezekiel, God told us: “It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there, and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’” (Ezek. 39:11, WEB). So Israel will bury Gog’s multitude in a place east of a “sea,” and the only two “seas” in eastern Israel are the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Then in this prophecy through Isaiah, God tells us the corpses shall lie in Bozrah, which is a low area or a valley east of the Dead Sea where, “from generation to generation it shall be a waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever” (Is. 34:10, ESV). Also, the words “forever and ever” (Hebrew = olam, “up to a vanishing point, for eternity”) indicate that this shall be a wasteland and a forbidden place to the end of time. Then, from John’s Revelation, we know that the next great event after the rebellion of Gog and Magog will be the end of the whole material universe. So all these details in this prophecy through Isaiah harmonize with the prophecies through Ezekiel and John about the rebellion of Gog and the mass burial of their dead east of a sea in Israel.

 

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Furthermore, the prophecies about Gog by Ezekiel and John say that God will burn Gog’s army with fire from heaven. Then this prophecy from Isaiah says the corpses of this invading army will burn after their burial in the land of Edom, in a way that will not be quenched night or day, and its smoke will rise “forever.” Likely, there will be only a few generations existing after the rebellion of Gog and Magog, before the world ends. But that is still “forever,” in terms of earth’s linear and limited time. And, after their bodies burn or “rot” with great heat in Edom, it will never again be inhabited. Thus, since these kinds of burning will only occur with the armies of Gog and Magog, but nothing indicates that the beast’s armies will burn at Armageddon, nor that the land where the beast’s armies are buried will become a wasteland forever, this prophecy in Isaiah must be about Gog and Magog.

 

A Second Resurrection, Rapture and Judgment

After more than a thousand years of Jesus ruling the earth, and just before Jesus “burns” the entire material universe, He will raise to life again all the human beings who died throughout history. Both the good and evil deceased souls will be resurrected in bodies of flesh on the earth, to walk among those still alive. Then Jesus will lift all those resurrected and still living souls up to heaven’s gates for the judgment day, transforming their bodies from earthly flesh into eternal spiritual substances along the way. So the earth’s end will see a second resurrection, then a rapture of all humans up into heaven, followed by a final “day” of linear or earth-like time experienced by all at heaven’s gates. There, all will all receive a just, biblical judgment from Jesus for all we said and did on earth, a fair trial involving His omniscient and honest assessment of all the motives and intentions of our spirits.

For God told us, through Paul, that “we shall not all sleep [i.e., we shall not all die], but we shall all be changed” (I Cor. 15:51, ESV). In context, when the Holy Spirit of Jesus declared that “all” would be “changed,” there can be only one logical interpretation. “All” must include both the humans who died before being “changed” as well as all who still remained alive before that time. So God was referring to literally every human that ever felt the gravity of the earth, literally all who ever lived on the earth for even a moment. All the loving elect and all the loveless non-elect will be “changed” at the final resurrection, which is sometimes called “the rapture.” Jesus will “change” each good or evil human’s temporary, earthly body of flesh into a new eternal body made of solid spiritual substances.

God created two places for spirits to live, two space-time continua, each with its own kind of space, energy, elements and time. The eternal and most concrete reality is the spiritual realm, which has two regions, God’s bright holy home and the darkness of a void, each separated from each other by an impassible spiritual gulf. Then His temporary material space-time continuum illustrates and partially demonstrates both the brightness and darkness of the permanent spiritual realm, for the spirits living in it. But earthly life never has a totality of either. And, as our spirits still dwell in the spiritual realm while they are temporarily locked into perceptions of the material realm. So this earthly life treats spirits like babies in a womb, then like infants in a nursery, then like children at home with one’s parents, until the education of the spirits is complete and they are ready to live in the outside world. After the illustrations of earthly life have completed the teaching and training of spirits, all those perceptions of earthly life are removed from the minds of those spirits, and they awake to find that they are in the spiritual realm. But, as adults, they still need to remember the lessons of childhood.

This seems to be why even those who died in the beginning of human existence on earth—when Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and subsequent descendants first received the discernment and awareness of good and evil—shall be raised from the dead into restored bodies of flesh on earth. It will like a brief

 

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visit to their childhood home, to remind them of the lessons they learned at that time. Then those earthly bodies shall be “changed” into spiritual bodies that are able to enter the permanent spiritual realm, either into God’s home of heaven or into Satan’s home in hell. So, in very next verse, God said, “the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed” (I Cor. 15:52, ESV). And, by saying the dead “will be raised imperishable,” it does not negate the fact that all the dead will first be raised into bodies of flesh on earth. For only earthly flesh needs to be “changed,” even after being raised from the dead. We know this because the Holy Spirit just finished telling us that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable” (I Cor. 15:50, ESV). So all the dead will be resurrected into bodies of earthly flesh. And, actually, both the resurrected dead and those still remaining alive on earth will be “imperishable,” because none will be allowed to die before Jesus transfigures all their bodies of flesh into eternal spiritual substances.

This Scripture explains that “we,” which refers to those living in flesh on earth, will be “changed,” in the way He previously described. That is, those having a “perishable” and “natural body” which is “in dishonor” and “weakness” will be granted an “imperishable” and “spiritual body” which is “in glory” and “power” (I Cor. 15:42-44). And this “we” obviously includes the dead who had just been resurrected too. Thus, both will be in bodies of flesh for a short time, so the resurrected dead can refresh their experience of having to perceive earth’s space, time, energy and matter. Then all those human spirits together will also share the same experience of being “raptured” up to heaven’s gates.

This Scripture cannot mean that only the living will be “changed.” The pronoun “we” (i.e., which is imbedded in the first person plural verb ἀλλαγησόμεθα) must include those resurrected from the dead. Just because the dead are raised “imperishable,” it does not mean that they will already be resurrected on earth in their heavenly bodies made of spiritual substances. Literally all who ever died on earth shall be wakened and restored to bodies of flesh on earth first, so all humans can be together on the earth, then all can experience the rapture into heaven’s gates together. And it will be when all are being raptured into heaven’s gates that all will go through the process together of feeling their earthly flesh “changed” into the spiritual bodies fit for the eternal realm. All the elect and non-elect will remain on earth for an unspecified period of time, just long enough for the living to see the dead rising to life and just long enough for the resurrected to see what Jesus has done with the earth. After this second resurrection, after the dead have breathed the fresh air of the restored earth again, all their bodies of flesh will be “changed” into eternal or “imperishable” spiritual bodies, while all are being lifted up to heaven’s gates where all will be publicly judged before all. Then, after all have been judged, some “spiritual bodies” will be descend into heaven and some will be driven into hell.

But why have a resurrection at all? Why does God not simply grant spiritual bodies to the deceased immediately after they die? Well, actually, He does. In fact, all spirits, even plant and animal spirits, have a body or “mansion” which already exists in heaven. And He allows many elect to immediately “go to” the gates of heaven after they die, awake and alive in spiritual bodies which walk with Him in those lands. For all spirits must already exist in the spiritual realm, since spirits are not material entities and cannot exist “in” the material realm, but can only perceive and experience it. So Jesus will cause many elect spirits and all non-elect spirits to “sleep” in an unconscious state until the second resurrection on the earth and the judgment day. Many will sleep in the skies of the spiritual realm, in their spiritual bodies. Only some elect spirits will awake in their spiritual bodies at the gates of heaven, to be taught and trained to assist Him on the last day. But He will not judge all humans as soon as they die, since a just and biblical kind of judgment requires certain procedures.

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be judged even now, at this very moment, after they die. For they already began their repentance on earth. But the carnal elect on earth will need to have spiritual realities exposed to them, then will need to be rebuked, until their spirits wake. So these will sleep until the judgment day, with all the loveless and entirely carnal non-elect, who will never repent. Still, literally all human spirits will be awakened for the judgment, and all the “sleeping” human spirits will be resurrected into bodies of flesh on the earth. Then all will be raptured. For, on that judgment day, literally all who ever lived on earth will be required to publicly testify about all they experienced on earth, so that all will face one another, so all will understand that the judgments of Jesus are completely just. And, since all the generations overlap and affect one another, all will need to testify, without one missing. But this testimony will not take as long as it does on earth, since all spirits will see the thoughts of other spirits and instantly absorb massive amounts of information, in a way where none will be able to lie.

After Jesus judges all, He will send all to their appointed eternal destinations, either to heaven or to hell. Since it will not take long to determine who the loveless and darkness-loving non-elect are, they will be sent to hell almost immediately, within the first “minutes” of that “day.” For all the elect will clearly see their lies and how they hate God, how they want to be gods and will never repent into the truth. And this exposure of the non-elect will break all the covenants of love that the elect made with those non-elect, since they will then clearly see how those covenants were never reciprocated. But the elect, especially the carnal elect who had to remain asleep until that day, will take some time to be taught all the spiritual truths required for life in heaven’s mainland, time to comprehend those truths fully, then more time to learn how to apply them rightly and wisely. Even the awakened elect, who went straight to heaven’s gates after dying on earth, will also more need time to be further taught and trained. But, after literally all the elect have fully repented into all spiritual realities, after all the elect are completed and perfected, all will descend from the gates of heaven, each into their individually unique prepared homes waiting for them in the New Jerusalem, on heaven’s mainland.

But that last “day” at heaven’s gates will not be entirely like a day on earth. Time during that last day will be linear, in that progress will occur progressively, step by step. In that way, it will be like a day in earthly time. However, time on that day will not be predestined and rigid, like time is on earth. For God can “stretch” time at heaven’s gate, to the point where it would take a hundred years or more on earth to make as much progress as one will make in one “hour” at heaven’s gates. On the other hand, the whole day at heaven’s gates will seem like an hour passing on the earth. Then, once that “day” of judgment has passed, linear or progressive time will no longer exist at all. Rather, we will exist in all the phases of our lives all at once. We will grow in experiences and make progress, but also exist as we were the first moment we entered heaven, both at the same time. For time in heaven cannot be linear, as it is on earth. After all, we are like God, who is who He is at all times, who exists outside of the times He created, who made all times relative to His thoughts and exists in an eternal “now.”

From all we see in the Scriptures, we can assume that God and many heavenly beings are able to see earthly time from its beginning to its end, all at once. For, in His prophecies, God revealed both the beginning and the end of earthly time, and the future could not be known in such detail unless it could be seen. For the past might be remembered by one who had seen it and has a good memory. But the future not only has to be predestined but also seen in its already existing state. For it is not possible for God to allow things like truly “free will” which can alter destinies and change the future, yet also describe the future in detail. We cannot simply say God will cause the future to be what it will be if there absolutely any factors are allowed to alter the future, since even the slightest little altered detail can change the whole course of history. Thus, earthly time is not as real as we think it

 

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is. All the past and future exist at once, within a “now.” All the teaching and training we receive in earthly time is all just one present “moment” or thought of God in heaven, and all relative to Him.

So all the spirits with earthly bodies that died first upon the earth, many thousands of years ago, actually died at the same moment as those who will die last, not long before the final day of earth’s existence. And the earthly lives of the spirits in earth’s past and future will wait equally long for the judgment day. The time of all spirits who “sleep” will be the same, and the progress made by the awake elect spirits who went straight to heaven’s gates after death will be the same, and seem only like a moment; even for the spirits of who died thousands of years ago, like the spirits of Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham and the rest. Time will mean nothing after the death of the flesh, after perceptions of earthly existence are removed from the minds of our spirits. But growing in the minds of our spirits will occur, even eternally and infinitely. All this may seem “unreal,” but is actually the more real reality, and the reality that all our eternal and “imperishable” spirits of life now experience on earth.

Next, we must realize that the judgment of our God Jesus will not be a matter of merely finding out who is guilty of what sins, then punishing those sinners according to a system of how many demerit points they accumulated, minus their earned merit points. That is a pagan Roman kind of judgment designed by the loveless non-elect servants of Satan who ruled through terrorism, since that system fooled the people into constantly striving to please their human gods. And it was a system that God predestined the elect to observe, so they would know how to take actions against evil. But the kind of just judgment of God primarily revolves around teaching and correcting those able to repent, for their redemption and restoration. The main goal of biblical judgment is to educate sinful, ignorant elect children of God until they are perfected and completed, until each becomes fit to one’s destined works in serving life, as well as restoring the losses of sin and healing sin’s wounds. And this kind of teaching and correction always causes the elect to repent, although it requires more effort, resources and time. So, when Jesus judges on the judgment day, it is not going to be 24 hours of earthly time, but a lengthy period of gradually making progress, long enough to complete the perfecting of all the elect. It may be equivalent to a thousand earthly years or more, although it will feel like just one day.

Now consider the states of all spirits at the gates of heaven at the beginning of the judgment day. All will have shed their earthly tents of flesh just after the whole material universe “burns,” and all will see and hear perfectly in their permanent spiritual bodies. Most would have slept after the deaths of their flesh at some point in earth’s history, so they would have no memory or knowledge of earthly events after death, except for a brief time on the beautiful restored earth when they were awakened during the second resurrection, just before the judgment day. But now they have all been lifted up to the infinitely brighter and glorious natural beauty of the lands at heaven’s gates. Yet a few loving and just elect spirits will have remained awake in these lands at heaven’s gates, and were taught by Jesus.

So the few elect who remained awake will have seen the events that occurred on earth after the deaths of their flesh on the earth, before the second resurrection and the judgment day. And these few would have been supplicating on behalf of their beloved siblings on earth, begging our God Jesus to nullify the works of Satan and to build up His just, loving kingdom. Then Jesus will have responded, granting them His wise teachings and explaining His plans for each of His elect siblings still living on earth. So the few awake elect will have grown in knowledge, wisdom and strength at heaven’s gates during their time with Jesus, where a day with Him is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. But all other human spirits will have slept in silence during all that time.

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dark delusions they had so carefully crafted during their lives on earth. So the non-elect, as usual, will make no progress from the day their earthly flesh dies until the second resurrection and their judgment. But the sleeping worldly elect spirits will make a little progress. For they shall moan in their dreams about missed opportunities to love and work justice. Then the angels will be called to wake all the sleeping spirits and take them, together with the elect who remained awake, back down to the earth for the second resurrection. Once they arrive, all will see what life on earth could have been like if their spirits had heeded our God Jesus, as they briefly experience His peace, order, justice, equity and beauty on the earth. Yet the resurrected elect and non-elect will react differently.

When the sleeping spirits wake and find themselves back in their healed and restored bodies of flesh on earth, they will remember their lives on earth. Then the non-elect will be horrified, once they see how life could have been on earth without them, how the “weak” and “inferior” elect are living such happy and free lives, without anyone to “properly” rule over them, to make them “productive” for the elite. So they will lurk in the shadows, plotting to somehow “correct” this “chaos” through the “wisdom” of their cherished dark delusions, lies and sins. For they will hate how the loving elect inherited all the earth, and were able to live so well by doing God’s just and loving will on earth as it is done in heaven, without worshiping them. And they will marvel how the light of God, which they hated so much from the very the cores of their beings, had overcome all the darkness they created and dearly loved while they lived on earth. So they will gather in small tight factions, brooding, then sneaking out at night to “steal” food, which grows everywhere and is freely available to all people.

Meanwhile, all the sleeping elect will rejoice with great relief when they are resurrected, and will be greatly comforted to see how the King and High Priest of the earth had restored all things and had so fully redeemed the lives of everyone upon it. All wars had ceased, all crimes had become futile and unthinkable, not one suffered or died through the greed and sins of vain souls, and now all lived joyful, free abundant lives filled with love. So the resurrected sleeping elect will go to the elect who remained alive on earth, as well as to the resurrected elect who had remained awake at heaven’s gates, to ask many questions. Then they will laugh with joy at the answers they receive. But all the elect will see the non-elect fearfully huddling in whispering cliques, and notice how those horrified non-elect refuse to talk with them. So the elect will simply ignore those powerless and plotting non-elect, leaving even their non-elect former friends and family members to brood in miserable envy.

So it seems that the purpose of this second resurrection of literally all the dead into new bodies on the earth, before being lifted up from the earth and “changed,” will be to prepare them all for their final judgment. There does not seem to be any other reason for this second resurrection. And any resurrection, by definition, is the raising of the dead to life on earth, not to life at heaven’s gates. So, since literally all humans who ever lived on earth will be resurrected to live on the earth for a short time, there simply must be a good reason for it. When we think about how each will awake upon an utterly purified and holy earth, such a sight would indeed tend to convict elect souls of their sins and begin to lead them into repentance, even as it also exposes the loveless folly of the non-elect to the elect. Both will be made ready for the judgment day. The elect will be far more eager to enter the even more perfect and beautiful lands of heaven. But the non-elect will fear and hate our God Jesus even more than they did in their first lives on earth, and want to flee from Him even more than ever.

As the non-elect are raptured into the infinitely brighter lands at heaven’s gates, where God’s power, justice, equity and love is displayed in its full glory, the heavenly angels will not find it difficult to herd those darkness-loving non-elect into hell, since they will want to flee from God’s exposing light as soon as they possibly can. And the elect will not miss their non-elect friends and family members once they forever leave their presence. But the elect will run with all their hearts to the beautiful and

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wise Jesus, knowing that His judgments will teach and purify the thoughts of their spirits to utter perfection, filling them with wisdom and love, so all can partake in the gratifying joy of laboring at the tasks their hearts have always desired, in serving Jesus and all living creations through their love.

Logically, if it were true that all elect human spirits could remain awake in heaven after their flesh died on earth, and could also learn all truth from God through prayers while in heaven, there would be no need for the second resurrection into bodies of flesh on earth. All the elect could simply enter their eternal spiritual bodies and go directly the judgment day, while all the non-elect could be cast into hell immediately after then flesh died on earth. But it will be important for those untaught and worldly elect spirits to be resurrected near their homes on earth, beside their non-elect friends and family members, after Jesus has redeemed all life on earth. Then the elect will see that life on earth actually could be what they dreamed it could be, that their hopes have become realities. At the same time, they will also realize why life on earth never was what their hearts so earnestly longed for it to become. The elect will see, with their own eyes, that it was the non-elect who did not want any of the real justice they desired, nor any of the real and unconditional love they craved. As they speak with the non-elect after the second resurrection, they will understand that it has always been the non-elect who held them back, who kept the earth in a constant state of war, through their greed, lies and sins.

If all the elect spirits remained fully awake after the death of their flesh, they might not fully agree with His judgments against the non-elect, nor fully understand His teachings while He was judging them. So an initial reconnection with everyone on earth, by being resurrected in earthly bodies after the earth is restored and redeemed, must be critical for the education of sleeping, worldly elect souls. For those worldly elect had inner desires and hopes aligned with God’s will, but dismissed them as “unrealistic.” Yet a resurrection onto the earth will prepare them to trust their Owner and Lord, their High Priest and King Jesus, on the judgment day. The only reason all spirits will be first resurrected into bodies of flesh on earth, before they are raptured into heaven and receive their spiritual bodies, must be to prepare their spirits for the judgment. The worldly elect will first need to compare their old earthly lives to the lives of those who were perfectly taught and ruled entirely by Jesus after the millennium. Then they will place their faith in Jesus as He judges them after that, at heaven’s gates.

Of course, there are some elect whose spirits have been awake, loving and aware of the differences between the elect and non-elect spirits on earth. These kinds of elect have existed throughout the history of humans on the earth, and exist even now. A vast number of these kinds of elect will also exist after the great revival during the era of the sixth seal. So these elect spirits can remain awake in their spiritual bodies and go directly to the gates of heaven, after their flesh dies on the earth. Then many of these might sleep a little while after they get to heaven’s gates, because their spirits will be exhausted from their conflicts with the non-elect while on earth. But their spirits will mostly remain fully awake after their flesh dies. And these kinds of elect rejoice in helping their sibling elect souls in God’s family. So they will not mind returning to the earth to help the elect living there. Thus, some of these will return to the earth with Jesus during the first resurrection, then the rest during the second resurrection. And these elect, after spending time with Jesus in heaven, will be very helpful to those remaining on the earth, and to the sleeping elect who return to earth after the millennium.

Since even the loveless non-elect will be resurrected on earth during the second resurrection, even the worst and most psychopathic despots from history will stand on earth with the resurrected elect at the end of the millennium. However, all those non-elect will not have Satan or any other demons to delude and embolden them. So all those non-elect will be terrified of the King Jesus, and mostly ignored by the elect, seen as deluded, insane and extremely ignorant souls who refuse to cooperate through willful ignorance. So the elect will generally co-exist with them on earth for the unspecified

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time after this second resurrection. And the non-elect will not dare to make any actual attempts to harm, enslave or persecute the elect at that time, as they did when they lived on earth the first time.

Because Jesus will be ruling the earth then, He will know what those non-elect are thinking even before they do, and will prevent them from even beginning to do anything evil. And the elect will have learned all the lessons they could learn on earth from past conflicts with the non-elect, so Jesus will not allow any more conflicts to occur. Remember, Jesus said this to His true and faithful church: “Whatever you bind on earth will have already been bound in heaven with the effect that you shall bind them on earth” (Mat. 16:19 and 18:18, note that the perfect passive periphrastic constructions here should be correctly translated in the Greek perfect tense, not as aorists). So the elect will be able to bind and severely limit the non-elect in what they can do at the end of the millennium. Also, a correct translation of II Peter 2:4 states: “For, if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but having cast them down to a lower place [on earth] in chains of darkness, He delivered them to be guarded for judgment.” Likewise, He will place the resurrected non-elect on earth at that time in some kind of spiritual bondage and not allow them to harm anyone, so the elect can freely fellowship with others.

After an unspecified time on earth, all the resurrected elect and non-elect will be lifted up to the gates of heaven for the judgment day. As their bodies of flesh rise, they will be “changed” into their spiritual and eternal bodies. Then, as the last of these resurrected dead rise into the air, all those who remained alive in the flesh at the end of the millennium will be lifted too, and their bodies of flesh will be “changed” in the same way. Then all the loveless non-elect will be clearly seen for who and what they actually are, then willingly herded into hell, fleeing in terror from the exposing light of that day. But all the elect shall be thoroughly taught and corrected by Jesus, so they will know all the reasons for all their earthly experiences, and realize the truths about all they saw while living there.

The knowledge and wisdom that all the elect learn together at the gates of heaven on that last day will cause a permanent and thoroughly effective repentance into all truth, making them fit to serve all heavenly creations, together with Jesus and their Father. For all elect spirits are born with the innate attributes of their Father and Jesus. Thus, are all able repent into the truth, able to learn to live through just and God-like love. But the wicked non-elect, born of Satan, also will be exposed to the glaring light of God’s truth, for a moment, yet flee in horror from it. So the darkness and delusions of their God-hating hearts during their earthly lives—a loathing which arose through their innermost desire to be their own gods—will be justly condemned for its vile injustice. But the non-elect will love only that darkness and hate the light. So they will prefer hell, where His light does not shine.

On that final day, all the spirits born of Satan will gladly flee from God’s burning light when Jesus turns His eyes upon them, into the dark pit of hell, since they will never relinquish their love of the dark lies and delusions they cherished on earth. And Jesus shall mercifully prevent His light from shining into hell. So all the non-elect will fall ever deeper into their own beloved darkness forever, without any interference. Of course, since none of God’s light exists in hell, no creation of God exists there either. So the children of Satan will have nothing to exploit and abuse, nothing to gratify their desire to be gods. Thus, as they lust for gratification, they will suffer frustration and agony. This eternal, unsatisfied desire will burn inside like fire and consume their souls like worms. Still, all will prefer eternal existence in this darkness of their cherished delusions, although it causes them eternal pain, and none will want to be sent to heaven, not even for a moment. For the delusion-destroying light of heaven, the same light they saw on the judgment day, would be even more painful to them.

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who are resurrected will more clearly see the meaning of God’s words when they live again upon the earth. The beauty of the restored earth, and especially the wonder of the elect living in peaceful, just and simple harmony together, will help them understand. But the former delusions of the resurrected wicked will be exposed at that time. Their innermost thoughts and desires will be revealed as lies, then condemned by the elect, as God exposes the secrets of their hearts. “Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?” (I Cor. 6:2a, ESV). This is the purpose for the second resurrection upon the earth in bodies of flesh, a resurrection of all who ever lived. And God also has a purpose for revealing His plan for this final resurrection to us now as well, while we live on earth. We should remember that our lives on earth are not yet what they should be, that our lives have not yet fulfilled their real meanings and purposes. But our meaning and purpose will not be found without our spirits being taught and trained by Jesus to rightly serve His creations, together with Him. God has revealed these eschatological teachings to remind us that we must not live merely to gain things of this world.

It is obvious, however, that when we are all resurrected again at the end of the millennium, none will remain on the earth in bodies of flesh for long. During the first resurrection, Jesus will resurrect only some of the awake elect to serve with Him on earth for a thousand years. But, when literally all the humans who ever existed are returned at the second resurrection, all will soon ascend into heaven, and all will see their earthly bodies transformed into bodies fit for heaven. For it states, “we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed” (I Cor. 15:51-52, ESV). All who ever died on earth will be resurrected into bodies of flesh, then all shall be “changed.” And the elect will all need these “changed” bodies made of spiritual substances to dwell in the spiritual space-time continuum of heaven, while the non-elect will also need them to dwell in hell. For the earth is merely an approximation of all that is in the spiritual space-time continuum, of both heaven and hell at once.

Heaven, where God dwells, is far more real and solid than this temporary material universe. Yes, the material universe is also real, since it is created by God and all in it acts and reacts in immutable ways. But it is merely a darker, temporary, vaporous similitude of His spiritual creations. Remember how James described life on earth, calling it “a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes” (James 4:14, ESV). Life on earth is a temporary “mist,” but life in heaven is a far more real, eternal existence. Only heaven was created to be eternal. So our flesh is vaporous, while our spirits, and spiritual bodies waiting in heaven, are truly concrete. And a body of vaporous flesh can be blown away by the gentlest heavenly breeze, or torn to pieces by even the softest touch of any spirit from heaven, if God allows it. Somehow, the lie that spirits are vaporous and flesh is solid grew out of the myths of men, likely because solid spirits can walk right through vaporous material things. But this is not true. All who have truly experienced spiritual beings, while living on earth, all who have seen Jesus or angels, have said their light almost blinded their eyes of flesh, and it did blind Paul. So, if the light of spiritual beings is so intense that eyes of flesh can barely cope with it, then spiritual energy and matter are far stronger, denser and more solid than earthly energy and matter, and bodies made of spiritual substances are also far more solid and able to cope with that stronger light energy.

Just before God is about to destroy the material universe, literally all earthly bodies, both those who were resurrected from the dead and those who remained alive at the end of the millennium, will be lifted up into the sky and into the spiritual realm. And all these earthly bodies, those belonging to both the wicked and the elect, will be “changed.” This lifting up and changing of literally all human beings who ever lived is what may be called the “rapture.” And this will be the only “rapture.” There will be no pretribulation rapture of the hypocrites who give tithes to the false, humanistic churches.

 

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God’s Word only ever allows one “rapture” to occur. And this one and only “rapture” lifts up the living from the earth to be with Jesus, that is, in heaven. First the Scriptures say Jesus descends, and then He remains on earth for a millennium. So this is when “the dead in Christ will rise first” (I Thes. 4:16, ESV), which is the first resurrection—since this is not speaking about the resurrection of literally all human beings who ever lived, but only a resurrection of some of the elect (Rev. 20:4-5). Immediately after that it says: “Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air , and so we will always be with the Lord” (I Thes. 4:17, ESV). So, at the “rapture,” we will be “together with the Lord” (σὺν κυρίῳ), not merely “meet” Him, and we will then be “together with” Him “always” or “forever” (πάντοτε). This refers to the one and only “rapture.” But it will occur when Jesus ascends into the clouds again, which will be after the millennium ends, after all the dead who ever lived on earth are resurrected for their judgment, and just before He “burns” away the material space-time continuum. So this “rapture” cannot occur when Jesus descends to the earth and raises the martyred saints who were killed by the beast, nor before it, in a “secret” coming of Jesus. The “rapture” certainly does not bring anyone down to be with Jesus on earth for a thousand years. Rather, it occurs when Jesus ascends, up into the clouds.

So a rapture clearly does not occur when Jesus returns to the earth, to live on the earth for a thousand years. Since He will come to stay on earth for the entire millennium, He will not go up to heaven and no “rapture” will occur then. The dispensationalists’ pretribulation rapture doctrines are wrong, because the only possible “rapture” is one that takes us up to be with Jesus, when He ascends into heaven again. And Jesus will only ascend back up to heaven after the millennium, just before He destroys the entire material universe, which is shortly after literally all the dead in all history have been resurrected on the earth. Then all the resurrected dead, both the non-elect and the elect, will be “raptured.” Even those who remained alive at the end of the millennium will be “raptured” too, lifted into heaven, immediately after the resurrected dead have been lifted up. And all shall receive new spiritual bodies as they ascend. For all must stand before Jesus for judgment at the gates of heaven.

Paul also referred to both those who “sleep” in death and the living when he said: “we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye,” into “spiritual” bodies. Paul received a revelation from God about these spiritual bodies made of spiritual substances. For he also stated: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable” (I Cor. 15:50-54, ESV). So it is impossible for earthly flesh to survive the unbridled light of God in heaven, or even survive anything made of the far more solid materials of the spiritual realm. Thus, we will need better bodies. Our earthly bodies are seeds that grow, then shrivel and perish, to feed our spirits, so our spirits may grow. The elect are born with earthly conflicts in their souls, as their spirits strive to rule their unruly bodies of earthly flesh. The flesh is consumed through this struggle, so we might dwell in our spiritual bodies which function in complete harmony with our spirits, and are able to do all that satisfies the longing of our spirits. An elect spirit’s dwelling “is sown a [soulish] body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a [soulish] body, there is also a spiritual body” (I Cor. 15:44, ESV).

The new bodies which all shall receive before the judgment will be eternal and never age or suffer bodily pain (e.g., Rev. 21:3-4). Only our spirits in those spiritual bodies will ever feel any kind of pain, but a spiritual pain like we feel when we lie or sin, not a pain in the body. Only on earth does God need to grab the attention of our spirits or discipline us through our bodies, by causing pain to our flesh. Also, since the mind of our spiritual bodies will not be made of flesh, they will function in perfect harmony with the minds of our spirits inside them. The minds in our spiritual bodies will not be like our brains of flesh, always resisting the thoughts of our spirits. Our minds of flesh constantly desire things of the flesh and of this world, whatever it can use for its own pleasures or its survival,

 

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in ways that often oppose the minds of our spirits dwelling in our flesh. For a mind of flesh knows it is not eternal and will soon cease to exist. But the minds of spiritual bodies will be very different.

We all have two minds, and we all know this, although many do not like to admit it. God grants an earthly body to every human spirit, both to elect spirits born of His Spirit and to non-elect spirits born of Satan’s spirit. And an elect spirit’s earthly body exists for the ultimate purpose of training that spirit, as well as for expressing the spirit’s desires during one’s life on earth. But the earthly bodies of the non-elect actually limit their spirits’ evil desires, since they too use their flesh to express their wicked spiritual desires, but the immutable laws of God’s earthly creations prohibit most of what their spirits desire. This is why witchcraft is so popular with the non-elect, since if promises to provide the non-elect with the power to “make real” the evil desires of their spirits.

Now, naturally, every body of flesh needs a mind, a brain to process, maintain and control all bodily functions. But the spirit also has a mind to process all spiritual functions of love and hate, all that produces morality, laws, social conventions and everything pertaining to the quality of life. So the principal mind of every human being is the mind of one’s eternal spirit. Yet every spirit remains completely autonomous from its body, since a spirit actually exists in the spiritual real and has its real body in that realm. So that eternal part of every human being is actually apart from the mere perceptions of material existence it is caused to experience, through its “life” in flesh on the earth.

The life or essence of every human, the eternal part, the source of all the principles a human being lives by, the part of a human which gives its life all its meaning and purpose, is the eternal spirit, and only the spirit. Of course, the non-elect live only for the flesh because they also inwardly know that nothing good awaits their spirits. Nevertheless, those non-elect also live solely for the gratification of their spirits, but with the spiritual lies and delusions they can make for their spirits while living on the earth. Thus, each and every human possesses its own unique mind of its own spirit and lives solely for the gratification of that spirit, and each spirit’s mind has a will to do either good or evil.

Yet, since every spirit belongs to a completely different part of the spiritual space-time continuum, either to heaven or to hell, a spirit can never be anything like the temporary mind of the flesh. For no spirit’s mind ever worries about survival, nor even about any vaporous material things which will soon cease to exist. Spirits only desire spiritual things, like truths and love or lies and hate. All spirits, including God, angels, Satan, demons, human spirits, animal spirits and so on, are totally independent entities, which exist in an entirely distinct, eternal reality which is far more concrete than material existence. Therefore, all earthly spirits possess their own minds and wills, which are separate and distinct from the minds and wills of their flesh. All spirits of life in all flesh seek only to fulfill spiritual desires, which they can express through their flesh, but cannot ever possibly satisfy or gratify through their flesh. In fact, a mind of flesh is actually a great hindrance to every spirit, very limiting. For a spirit can never rely on the flesh to think or do what it requires to fulfill its desires.

Temporary life on earth, and all flesh upon it, exists only for a temporary purpose, for the training of infantile elect spirits, so elect spirits can learn to love God and His ways through their trials and joys on earth. To facilitate this training, a mind of flesh resists an elect spirit’s the mind, so the mind of the spirit needs to overcome the mind of flesh, until the thoughts manufactured by both minds in the chamber of the soul are completely managed by the mind of the spirit. Of course, just because a spirit learns to control the thoughts in the soul, and therefore the actions of its body of flesh, it does not mean that the spirit will always be successful in what it wants to do. For God also limits what a soul can do and cannot do through the body of flesh, in both the elect and non-elect lives on earth.

 

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So we should realize that the mind of flesh often desires what the spirit hates, and a mind of flesh can also be “trained” to desire what the spirit hates, or become damaged in a way that habitually seeks what is bad for the spirit or the flesh or both. But every elect spirit eventually learns to hate the loveless, unjust, inequitable spiritual things which the flesh either ignores or desires. If an elect spirit is not “taken captive” and silenced by the flesh, if it is awake and hears God’s Spirit, it will gain a knowledge of the truth so it can love in a just and equitable way more each day, as well as hate lies and injustice more each day. As an elect spirit sees more of the consequences of the lies and sins of the flesh, it will more urgently try to regulate and manage the mind of its flesh—not through mere suppression, but through training its flesh to express God-like love. In this way, the elect spirit is strengthened over time, and learns to value God’s ways far more than the foolish, profitless ways of the flesh. But, if an elect spirit remains weak and ignorant, its flesh can often pull so hard towards its own lusts and pleasures that it will completely suppress the thoughts of an elect spirit. As Paul said, the flesh is capable of “taking the spirit captive” (Rom. 7:23). So the spirit must learn to remain alert and constantly guard the truth, to manage its flesh and its whole life. We learn to walk according to our spirits, as our spirits are taught and trained by Jesus, so we may not walk according to our flesh.

Therefore, we must first learn to discern between what is spiritually good and what is spiritually evil, as well as what is spiritually neutral. And spiritually neutral things, like food or clothing, can also become either good or evil, when used as symbols of spiritual good or evil for the minds of our spirits. So we must also discern when that occurs too. The Holy Spirit of God, along with what He wrote in His creations and His Book, teach us to distinguish between the good and evil thoughts in the minds of our spirits and our flesh. And this is often difficult, since the thoughts of both minds often merge together indistinguishably within the soul. So we need God’s help in “the dividing of soul and spirit” (Heb. 4:12), to separate what is spiritual and what is not. Both the mind of the spirit and the mind of flesh are continuously communicating with each other in the soul, sending their thoughts to one another before committing to any conscious action of the flesh. So this mix of thoughts from both minds is not always easy to sort, especially when our proud minds of flesh take credit for good thoughts from our spirits, which is actually impossible for an amoral thing like the flesh to do. All truly loving, just and wisely moral thoughts come from the minds of our elect spirits, and ultimately from God. And none are anything like the conditional and emotional so-called “love” of the flesh. Nor are the thoughts of elect spirits anything like the self-serving and vengeful thoughts of “justice,” or the self-esteeming and falsely judging “morality,” from the minds of non-elect spirits.

So the minds of our spirits are made of a different, more solid, substantial, eternal, spiritual “matter.” And God, through His absolute control of our perceptions of material existence, does not allow our flesh to perceive spiritual substances. After all, that was His purpose in creating those perceptions of material existence in the minds of our spirits, to force our infantile spirits to remain limited within this training ground of the earth. So our weak, vaporous flesh cannot see any spirits, not even our own spirits. All our flesh can do is perceive the evidence of a spirit’s desires, power and effects upon material existence, because spirits are not a part of this temporary, material space-time continuum.

This makes it very easy for our flesh to deny thoughts from our spirits, or to even deny that spirits exist, despite all the evidence of entirely spiritual love, hate, inner fears, inner justifications, morality and laws, which the flesh has no interest in, nor any use for, yet are always imposed upon our flesh by our spirits, and are always severely affecting the actions of our flesh. Also, it is always our elect spirits that make our thoughts far more rational, intelligent, capable, solid and unchanging. The minds of our always do the opposite, and lead us to the destruction of ourselves and others. Thoughts of an elect spirit are so deep that the flesh can never fully comprehend them nor alter them, although

 

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God can. Nor can any earthly languages, cultures, pains, pleasures, deceptions or temptations of the flesh directly alter thoughts from the mind of a spirit, only the thoughts from the mind of flesh. All that so easily influences the mind of the flesh produces very few effects on the mind of the spirit. For a elect spirit’s mind will either learn immutable truths or not, will desire either good or evil, will make covenants of either love or hate, and can be far more objective and rational than the biased, unstable, forgetful, manipulated, ignorant, self-justifying mind of flesh. The flesh cannot even begin to be wise, in ways that produces lasting beneficial effects, but the mind of an elect spirit can be.

Therefore, the weak mind of flesh should be made subject to the stronger mind of the elect spirit, contrary to the teachings of some false religions. And, although the flesh often ignores and even outright rebels against the elect spirit, since the flesh wants to pursue its own needs and lusts, it is not evil of itself, but rather a valuable and useful tool or instrument of the elect spirit in it. Of course, loveless non-elect spirits are perfectly content to let their flesh harm or even kill others through its lusts and desires, if they can get away it. The only inner conflict the non-elect experience between the minds of their spirits and the minds of their flesh occurs when their flesh is afraid to do or is incapable of doing the evil that their spirits desire. So it is always best to let the flesh of the non-elect to keep their spirits asleep, lest their spirits wake up, heed Satan, and become psychopaths. We keep their flesh content enough to never be pushed into action by their non-elect spirits, then wake up.

So God’s call for spirits to wake up and manage their flesh is for the elect, while all the spirits born of Satan must simply be pacified and kept asleep, but threatened with consequences if they do not abide by the most basic natural laws against murder, rape, theft and slander. The elect grant non-elect flesh all its needs and do not provoke their flesh, let them pursue relatively harmless lusts of their flesh in ways moderately limited by laws of the land. As God taught us through Paul, we must not judge those outside of His true church (I Cor. 5:12-13), those who are not the awakened elect, which always includes some sleeping elect and many non-elect. This means we do not require them to live according to the same principles of God’s Word. We cannot expect the loveless non-elect to ever live an abundant life of loving and being loved. From the beginning, God always had different and higher standards for His priests than He did for the secular people of this world, and never placed the same demands on both. God was always more strict with His awakened elect than He was with all others.

Even in His Old Covenant Law, God commanded His priesthood of Israel to leave food for outsiders in their land, for the “gare,” for the Gentile foreigners, strangers, sojourners or immigrants that came to live in their lands God granted through Abraham. Israel was to destroy the worst of the Gentiles, those who raped and murdered. However, Israel was not to oppress the others, nor steal from them, but to promptly pay fair wages to them, and never slander nor do injustice to any of those Gentile neighbors, but rather judge them with justice and love them as they loved themselves (Lev. 19:9-10,13-18). All true Jews were to live by this principle, which is actually God’s Law requiring the separation of church and state. And Jesus came to fulfill these laws in the lives of all true Christians, not nullify them. Thus, there is greater inner law for awakened elect, and a lesser law for all others.

Since Satan’s children experience very little conflict between the minds of their flesh and spirit, they can easily delude themselves into thinking they have only one mind, the mind of the flesh. Most even begin to think all the irrational delusions of their minds of flesh are logical, rational, true and real. So, if we put them in a land that allows freedom of religion, and give them basic food, clothing and shelter, then limit the lusts of their flesh with only the laws and punishments required to prevent them from severely harming or killing others, while also keeping their lies in check through a vigilant dissemination of truth, the non-elect can be controlled enough to minimize sins in the land.

 

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But the elect need much more, even abundant life. The elect need to have their spirits awakened, active and full of zeal for serving God. The minds of elect spirits must learn to rule over their minds of flesh, or the holy Creator cannot teach and help them to effectively undo Satan’s works, to fully overcome evil with good. Every elect spirit’s mind is far superior to its mind of flesh, and a spirit’s mind alone can serve God. The mind and body of flesh cannot ever willingly serve God without an elect spirit managing and directing it. Of course, both the mind of the spirit and the mind of flesh both have a will. Both can think and both possess a memory. But the mind of flesh has a will only for material things, things for itself, things of this world. Yet the mind of an elect spirit has an innate will desiring the things of God, and longs for truth which are the foundations of love. And the mind of flesh cannot even truly comprehend those purely spiritual concepts, while the mind of the spirit can comprehend and effectively work with both spiritual and material concepts to benefit all others.

So all spiritual knowledge and wisdom, including the memories of all spiritual aspects of all physical experiences on earth, can be retained in the mind of the spirit. But none of these can be kept in the mind of flesh, which forgets even the physical. All data received from our physical senses, with all the thoughts and intentions produced in our minds of flesh, can be stored in the minds of our spirits. For all that enters the mind of flesh through the senses, and all that the mind of flesh thinks, will flow through the interface of the soul, to the mind of the spirit. All data and thoughts of the flesh are processed and appraised by every elect spirit. But even the input from our physical senses and the thoughts of our flesh cannot all be remembered by our very limited and temporary minds of flesh, and most memories of the flesh are also corrupted. So, since every elect spirit’s mind can perfectly store all memories of all input from the physical senses, as well all past thoughts of the mind of flesh, and since an elect spirit’s mind can learn spiritual knowledge and wisdom from God in an almost unlimited, honest way, the elect must learn to walk according to the minds of our spirits. The only way the elect can act rationally, wisely, justly and lovingly is by living through their spirits.

Literally every elect spirit is being taught something by the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus. But each is taught much more if an elect spirit is awake, free from the captivity of its flesh, and bears a strong awareness of Jesus, with a greater trust in the concepts received from His Holy Spirit. An elect spirit will learn much less through the weak faith of a spirit taken captive by the flesh, inhibited by the mind of flesh. And the flesh always suppresses whatever Jesus teaches to the spirit. Nevertheless, every elect spirit learns at least some spiritual truths and principles from Jesus and sends, through the interface of the soul, that knowledge to its mind of flesh. In this way, the elect spirit affects all the flesh might think, will, desire and intend. For the elect spirit inherently knows that it bears a duty to govern the lesser mind of flesh, to provide advise, comfort or rebuke, to provide an inner conscience.

Yet all the truth possessed by an elect spirit comes from what it learns from Jesus’ Spirit. And, although Jesus’ Spirit teaches literally every elect spirit, either directly or through experiences of the flesh or from His Word and His creations, His deepest truths come to light only through His Spirit explaining His concepts and intended meanings to their spirits. Now, if an elect body of flesh cannot read a Bible and that one’s ears of flesh never hear its words, Jesus can still personally teach that elect spirit some truths that are found in His Word. Jesus can also use experiences to teach an elect spirit. Therefore, literally all the elect receive some of Christ’s true interpretations of God’s Word, some truths which judge between the thoughts of the flesh and thoughts of the spirit. So every elect one knows what it feels like to have the mind of one’s spirit struggle against the mind of one’s flesh.

All the elect possess an inner conscience, a spirit that judges all matters of life and faith within the chamber of the soul. Whenever an elect spirit’s mind rebukes the mind of flesh, causing an inner conflict, we call this the inner conscience. During this inner struggle, our minds of flesh try to justify

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their words and deeds through false reasoning or lies. And this false justification is often from the outer conscience, from teachings stored in the mind of flesh, based on decorum invented by society, or the traditions and laws of false religion, or the cultural and family doctrines taught to the mind of flesh. For the world also defines spiritual criteria, what it wants to portray as good or bad, right or wrong, true or false. And the world always defines those spiritual matters in material terms for the mind of flesh. But this outer conscience often opposes real truths that Jesus teaches to elect spirits. It often opposes the inner conscience from in the mind of the spirit, truths learned from the real God.

As Jesus reveals more truths to elect spirits from His Word, the minds of our spirits learn to reject more and more of the principles held by the outer conscience in the mind of flesh. The elect spirit rebukes the mind of flesh by sending its thoughts and commands to the flesh through the interface called the soul. For instance, an outer conscience may say it is right and just to persecute Jews or to enslave siblings, but God teaches us to reject those evil doctrines, and our inner conscience of the spirit soon opposes that outer conscience. The mind of flesh may fight back, by citing the principles of its outer conscience taught to its flesh by one’s family, church or society. But the spirit points to God’s Word as the final authority in all matters of life and faith. So this conflict in the soul might increase to the point where one needs Jesus’ power to subdue the flesh and bring peace to the soul. Thus, “the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart/spirit” (Heb. 4:12, ESV). But the elect will never find peace if they allow their flesh to suppress their spirits and reject God’s Word. To find peace with God and men, an elect spirit must rebuke the thoughts of one’s mind of flesh and seize control of the flesh, to live by God’s just love.

Our two minds communicate with each other through the soul. So the mind of the spirit also receives and stores all the same data received by the mind of flesh and brought to the soul. But the mind of an elect spirit will eternally and accurately remember all this data, as well as all the spiritual aspects of all earthly experiences, while the mind of flesh subjectively records and remembers only some of that data. Then the elect must deal with the sins or deceptions that their spirits find in their minds of flesh, although their minds of flesh cannot even begin to comprehend why their spirits become so disturbed by those lies and sins. And this is what God intends the second resurrection to accomplish.

God created the earth to be a humbling and a critical training ground for all elect spirits. So, at the second resurrection, all the elect will be granted restored bodies of flesh and a second chance to rethink all that they had thought in their previous lives on earth, but in an environment of peace and right teachings. And the non-elect they knew on earth will be raised beside them, so they can see the sources of the deceptions they believed with their minds of flesh. For the elect spirits must learn to govern their minds of flesh, to reach beyond the flesh, so they might make sense of what they hear from their Father in heaven, and make all right with Him through Jesus and His words. For all that our spirits learn on earth is eternal and will be used for our services to our Father in heaven. So, especially after the subtle lies of the first three kingdoms of the beast are exposed, and able to be soundly confuted by all who remain on the earth after the rebellion of Gog and Magog, the elect will be brought back to the earth. Then the resurrected elect will be able to counter any subtle lies and delusions they believed before they died on the earth in previous times. And the resurrected elect will see, with their own eyes, how pure truth from Jesus is the most effective, just and loving way.

While living in flesh on earth, infantile elect spirits may remain in confusion and frustration, with devastating results. But we should also realize that, when the elect lose the body and mind of flesh in death, they lose nothing of permanent value. They lose their body and brain of flesh, but the memory of the mind of flesh is redundant and imperfect. The flesh forgets most of what it stores in it and

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even changes some of that data for its own carnal purposes. So its memory is incomplete, corrupted and worthless. But the minds of our spirits retain complete, true and worthy memories of all it has experienced on earth, all sorted and processed in a rational way. All that needs to be remembered for the judgment day will be remembered perfectly by our spirits. And we will only need these pure memories. And the sleeping elect at the second resurrection, with the restored minds of flesh from the perfect memories of their spirits, will be much more able to assess the matters of life and faith, especially in the peace and security of the restored earth where our God Jesus rules as the true King.

All those resurrected bodies will have reset minds, filled with accurate, uncorrupted memories of their past lives. The elect will walk according to the minds of their loving spirits, and the non-elect also will walk according to the minds of their deluded, dark, unloving spirits. And, with Jesus ruling over all, the elect will be able to observe all clearly, without external pressures to conform to their outer consciences, while the non-elect will tremble in fear, not daring to express the evil in their hearts. The elect will not have confusion, anger, frustration, anxieties and deformed memories from their past lives. Their resurrected bodies will be cleansed and fully governed by their spirits. For all the unspecified time in which the elect will be resurrected on earth, they will remember all the past rightly, and will not be bound by the false reasoning of the mind of flesh, according to traditions of men. Their outer consciences will crumble and fail. Only their well-developed inner consciences will prevail. So the resurrected elect will quickly learn to truly walk according to the spirit, as their spirits hear and heed Jesus and His disciples. They will no long walk according to the flesh. Then Jesus will finish His teaching, correcting and purifying of their spirits, through repentance, at heaven’s gates.

So, at the second resurrection, we will all see our flesh as it really is, then either condemn or approve of all our words and deeds during our past lives on earth. We will also remember all our spirits did to either cause or suppress the works of our flesh, all that our spirits felt about all its experiences. Our spirit's love or hate, rejoicing or sorrows, desires and pleasures, faith and prayers will all be clearly remembered, without any confusion or delusions from our minds of flesh to distort those memories. After this resurrection, we will have all our rational thoughts and pure emotions of our spirits clearly delineated from the irrational, self-justifying thoughts and impure emotions of our flesh. Then we will be lifted up into the sky, have our flesh changed into spiritual bodies, land in heaven and stand before our Lord Jesus on the judgment day. Likewise, of course, Jesus always saw all this reality clearly, and will rightly judge it all. At this time, the minds of our spirits will perfectly remember all we did on earth, and all we experienced. So we will learn much. Then Jesus will teach us all the rest.

Consequently, on that judgment day, Jesus will judge our spirits by the way our spirits themselves judged all that we experienced on earth at the second resurrection. He will not judge what our minds of flesh thought and did, only what our elect spirits thought and did. For our flesh often acts contrary to our spirits’ desires, and all elect spirits always detest the sinful words and deeds of the flesh. If elect spirits do not regret sins immediately, they will regret them in the end. So an elect spirit’s lack of intent to commit the sins done by its flesh will mean that God shall regard all sins of the flesh as unintentional sins, with regard to our spirits, since our spirits were not able to fully govern our flesh, and our flesh often overpowered and “took captive” our infantile elect spirits in those days. Yes, the intentional sins of the flesh will be forgiven, after the flesh dies, even in Christ’s flesh on the cross.

So literally all our sins of the flesh were paid in full by Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross. The sin sacrifice of Jesus will bring full forgiveness to our repentant spirits, with atonement to restore the relationship of our spirits with the Spirit of our Father and oldest Brother. And, if all the intentional sins of our flesh are paid in full through Jesus’ work on the cross and by the repentance of our spirits, then certainly the unintentional sins of our elect spirits will be fully paid and forgiven as well. Jesus’