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

jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth

 

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carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the

eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the

gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

“And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the

Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives

it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the

earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be

no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing

unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those

who are written in the Lamb's book of life.”

When John wrote about the “new heaven” and “new earth,” he was describing the sky and land in God’s home of heaven, in the place where elect spirits will go after they receive eternal bodies made of spiritual substances, after safely passing through judgment. Also, their descent into heaven will occur after Jesus sends all the non-elect to hell. For the non-elect will be herded into that pit at the beginning of that long last day, before Jesus completes and perfects all His elect siblings (e.g., Rev. 20:11-15). Yet, when John said the heaven/sky and earth/land in heaven were “new,” He did not mean that God recently created them. Rather, the Greek adjective John used here was καινός and, in context, it meant “fresh” or “not worn out nor aged in any way.” We know this because God must have created heaven before the earth existed. The home where Jesus came from and is now dwelling certainly is not “new,” although in terms of the eternal, non-linear heavenly time, it is new. So what John actually was saying here was that he saw “a different kind of ageless or fresh sky and land” in heaven. John was indicating that earth’s temporary sky, which includes “outer space,” as well as its land or matter, which has aged and is partially worn out even now, which will have all dissolved into nothingness by the time the elect will descend into heaven’s New Jerusalem, differed from the sky and land in heaven. So we can assume that material existence actually has been made in the image of space and matter in heaven, and the general design of this material space-time continuum, which we now perceive and dwell in, must partially resemble that of heaven’s eternal space-time continuum.

Also, the land and sky of heaven will be somewhat “new” to the elect, although they will have spent the judgment day, which will be equivalent to a thousand earthly years, at the gates of heaven, where its sky and land will be much like the sky and land of New Jerusalem on heaven’s mainland. Still, we must also conclude that the judgment day will not take place within heaven’s mainland, but will occur somewhere above that mainland, because all the eternal residents of New Jerusalem will be “coming down out of [the sky] from God,” that is, from our God Jesus, down to heaven’s mainland. The elect will descend into their city, where God’s home is located upon the infinite lands of heaven.

So the judgment day will occur in a place above the mainland of heaven, on some kind of plateau or floating island directly above the capital city of heaven. So now consider how God commanded His priesthood of Israel to make their judgments in the shelters and gardens located outside their cities, near their city gates. And, likewise, the final judgement day also will take place outside of the New Jerusalem, but accessible to that capital city. Also, the commands of God to judge outside city gates, upheld by the instincts of His people, obviously were to prevent the noise of daily works in the city from interfering with the process of judging, as well as to keep younger children from seeing the punishments of unrepentant criminals. Thus, the earthly judgments at the city gates symbolically represented the final judgment in heaven, outside of the New Jerusalem, so the works of most of the angels and other creatures in heaven will not interfere with the process, and so their innocent eyes

 

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would not see the punishment of the unrepentant. Only elect humans can wisely discern between good and evil and, therefore, will be allowed to see the just, necessary punishment of the non-elect.

Since the judgment day will take place at the “gates of heaven,” the elect will not actually enter their homes in heaven until the judgment day ends. And, when John saw a “new heaven” and “new earth,” he was describing where all the elect in all history would eternally dwell. All elect humans will descend into what we might call the “mainland” of the third heaven, and enter the capital city which is the eternal home of our God Jesus and where their own eternal homes will be. And I repeat, he is obviously not speaking about a newly created eternal heaven. Here the word “heaven” (οὐρανός) refers to a “sky” and the word “earth” (γῆ) refers to a ground or land below the sky. Then, in context, the word “new” (καινός) means that the sky and lands of this city are without any signs of aging or decay. John is simply saying that, after the judgment day, when we enter heaven, we shall see our homes in New Jerusalem, under heaven’s sky, as well as all else in that city and in the lands which surround, in the same fresh, perfect condition they were in at the moment they were first created.

But, of course, God’s home in heaven existed at least as long as the material universe. In fact, the spiritual realm of heaven was one of God’s first creations. For His Word says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1, ESV). And there are only three “heavens” or skies in biblical theology. So here the plural word “heavens” means that God first created the last two of those three heavens, since He made the first (nearest) of the “heavens” (i.e., earth’s atmosphere) after He created the earth, when He divided the expanse between the “waters” or fluids (Gen. 1:6-8). Then the last two of those three “heavens” are His eternal heaven and outer space. Thus, God likely made His eternal home of heaven for Himself and His elect living entities before He made the material universe and placed the earth within it, or at least at the same time He created the earth and the material universe. Furthermore, His Word also states that He eternally rested from creating anything new after the seventh day, which would definitely include His most difficult work of creating His eternal home in heaven. When God entered His rest on that very first Sabbath day, after creating all spiritual and material existence, all He did after that was forever serve His creations through His love, and did the same works He commanded us to do every Sabbath day. After that first Sabbath, all His “works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Heb. 4:3, ESV). So God forever ceased from creating anything new after He created the world, and this also implies that all times and events were predestined in material existence (although nothing can actually be fully predestined in the non-linear time of heaven, where time is measured solely in thoughts or works).

Therefore, all that now exists, including the eternal third heaven, has existed from the beginning. God continuously maintains spiritual existence through His power and will, moment by moment, in real time, and material existence consists of predestined past and future times for spiritual purposes. But all would instantly cease to exist if He ever stopped thinking and working for even the smallest fraction of a moment. All the energy in the material universe and all its space may be aging and dissipating, but all is currently preserved by God for our spiritual education. Since God maintains His creations at all times, since His own power is the energy that forms all existing substances, and since God existed “before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col. 1:17, ESV), God is continuously serving His creations, and even creates “new” things for them from His previously created things in this material existence, such as “new” revelations of spiritual or material realities or even “new” predestined miracles on earth. But the original creation which material existence copies, is the more solid and concrete reality of heaven, and will soon be granted to the elect. And, before then, all earthly facsimiles will be handed over to the elect, when Jesus rules here for a millennium.

 

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Clearly, what eyewitnesses said about heaven in the Scriptures was never taken seriously by any of the humanistic theologians in churches and synagogues during the past two millenniums, and it certainly was not believed by humanistic secular philosophers and scientists. But knowledge has increased and we now know that time, energy, matter and space are not what the Middle Platonists and Neoplatonists thought it was. So we can now begin to believe what those very honest men had recorded in the Scriptures. Logically, we can conclude that the genius of a non-material God created the eternal heaven, as a real place where He could lovingly serve His creations. Then He created the perceptions of this material universe for many spirits to educate them, to teach and train them for life in heaven. And we might also speculate that it would have taken God significantly “longer” than six “days” to create His eternal heaven, since it is an eternal creation requiring more thought and effort.

At any rate, when we enter heaven, “the first sky and the first ground,” together with the “sea” of the earth, will have already “passed away.” Our perceptions of this material universe will be destroyed before we enter heaven. After the judgment day, it will be impossible to ever go back to the physical earth. Nor will we ever want to go back, once we obtain the original and greater realities of heaven. If the elect love the beauty of God-like manifestations in natural material creations, and enjoy the love of human and animal souls in bodies of flesh, they will love much more the original untainted reality that the material beauty merely represents. The elect heirs of God’s kingdom will rejoice ecstatically over the infinitely purer and unlimited love of all the souls living in utterly holy spiritual bodies in heaven. On the other hand, after non-elect souls are cast into hell at the judgment day, they will long to return to perceptions of life on the earth, but will not be able to return nor recreate them.

A loud voice from the throne in heaven, which is the voice of our God Jesus, also declared: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away” (Rev. 21:3-5, ESV). The two core promises of God found in both the eternal Abrahamic Covenant and in the eternal New Covenant were that: (1) His chosen ones would become His faithful people who joyfully serve His creations beside Him; and (2) He would be with them to provide all they needed to remain in peace and joy, untroubled and without hindrances. So, when the elect enter heaven’s mainland, we will see the final fulfillment of God’s New Covenant, which was made to reiterate and fulfill His Abrahamic Covenant. We also see how God could never entirely fulfill those promises until the earth and material universe “passed away.” For both good and evil existed side by side in those “former things,” causing death, tears, mourning, crying and pain.

This is quite a declaration, that the Creator of all spiritual and physical existence will dwell with elect humans in His homeland of heaven. Now we see why the Spirit of God had to create a form of a human body made of spiritual substances, so He could forever dwell among His elect humans up there, among those whom He created in His image. For, from the beginning, He wanted to joyfully labor together with them in His eternal heavenly lands. Then we also see His purpose for creating the earth and material universe, where pain and death exist, and why our God Himself also took on the perceptions of material existence, why He too felt the pain and death we feel in our bodies of flesh.

Our God Jesus had a loving purpose for placing the infantile elect spirits of His created siblings in bodies of flesh on earth, so He could share their learning experiences from birth to death in the flesh, with earth’s many tears in much mourning, crying and pain, but also with its love and joy. On earth, the illustrations of evil, of all that does not align with His will, is balanced with illustrations of good, of all that aligns with His loving will, even revealing His characteristics and attributes. In heaven, He will share our joy. But our God Jesus also wanted to share our experiences with evil, all that caused

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pain and death. And Jesus did this in His body of flesh so He could empathize with all that His beloved siblings went through to learn what is true, right and wise. Yes, Jesus already knew more knowledge and wisdom than we could ever painfully learn through our perceptions of material existence. Yet Jesus shared our painful experiences so we, His siblings, would develop a deep and true camaraderie and trust with Him, our oldest Brother. And our God Jesus had to develop this so He could teach our spirits on earth, and at heaven’s gates when we arrived on the judgment day.

The heavenly Father of our spirits gave us these temporary perceptions of life on earth so we might learn to become His helping children, heirs of His kingdom in heaven. His Holy Spirit personally educates our spirits so we might grow to trust and love Him, to joyfully approach Him without fear, as His inheriting children whose spirits were born directly from His Spirit. We do not have spirits that were merely created by His power and His hands, but received life in a far deeper way than even the angels. We were born to work with God, and His works are to lovingly serve the living beings He created. So, in heaven, we will serve the angels and billions of other elect creatures, whom we will lovingly protect, teach, counsel and cherish, as we equitably guard and share our beautiful and gracious heavenly Father’s providence with them. All other spirits can only approach God at His bidding, with great awe and trembling respect. But our God Jesus will walk with His heavenly Jerusalem, with His completed and perfected elect in the lands of the spiritual realm, just as He did in a body of flesh on the streets of earthly Jerusalem. Then He will again serve as our approachable, beloved, older Brother there, dedicated to counseling and teaching us in all matters pertaining to our loving service for all life in His kingdom, laboring beside us to build abundant lives for them all.

Unlike the ruthless kings of this world, who separate themselves in luxurious palaces far from exploited common people, the crowned elect of the renewed Jerusalem will serve by walking among their subjects on heaven’s lands, in complete communion with all aspects of their lives. Consider how, in both the eternal Abrahamic Covenant and eternal New Covenant, God made these two central promises: His priesthood of Israel would be His people and He Himself would personally serve them as their God. Then we too will walk among all the forms of life we serve, becoming one with them, and personally serve those lives. Of course, in all history, these two main promises of salvation have never been entirely fulfilled, because they can only be entirely fulfilled in heaven. But our God Jesus began to fulfill them when He came to us the first time, and will fulfill them even more when He comes the second time. Then He partly fulfilled these promises for individual elect souls throughout history, by entering their hearts and personally teaching and training their spirits.

Yet, while His elect children live in flesh on earth, where His illustrations of both good and evil exist, it is impossible for God to entirely fulfill the two main promises of His eternal covenants for the completion of their salvation. His pure heaven is the only place where God can completely fulfill His two main salvation promises. We can only become God’s entirely faithful, trusting, loving children after we receive our new, incorruptible bodies made entirely of spiritual substances, after we live in bodies fit for heaven’s rigors, in bodies which allow us to perfectly express God-like love directly from our spirits. Thus, God will soon replace our earthly flesh with better bodies, actually by waking our spirits inside our spiritual bodies that already exist in heaven’s realm, which His words have called our “mansions.” But our flesh on earth easily becomes tired, fearful, deceived, rebellious and stubborn, acting like a heavy training weights which hinder our expressions of love from our elect spirits. And, here on earth, the minds of our spirits still remain ignorant, unwise and immature.

So, to complete our salvation, we will need Jesus to awaken us within our spiritual bodies at the gates of heaven, then complete His process of teaching us through His judgments, which will last for what is equivalent to a thousand earthly years. Only then will we be perfected and fully conformed

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to the image of our God Jesus. Only then will we finally be able to truly worship (esteem, heed, serve, love) our God. For we will then be able to do the same kinds of works that God does for the life He created in heaven, and cope with a very different kind of energy, matter, time and space existing there. Then God will also truly and personally serve us as our Father, oldest Brother, High Priest and King, since we will then be able to hear His words with complete understanding and without any carnal impulses to deny any truths He teaches us. In heaven, we will finally be His true people and He will finally be able to serve us in all the ways He longed to serve us here on earth.

Also, after we turn to our Father and Brother during our sufferings on this earth, after Jesus uses our experiences on earth to counsel and correct our hearts, we will begin to behave a little more like the family priesthood of God in heaven. For God had a good reason for making His beloved children live in these darker earthly regions of His kingdom. Then our God Himself also came to dwell among us, to suffer with us in the earthly body of Jesus for a lifetime of similar experiences. And our God Jesus also allowed Himself to be persecuted and killed by the same kingdom of sinners that now persecutes and kills us. Yet He left His Holy Spirit to dwell with our spirits on earth after He went home to heaven, and He will soon return in the flesh to dwell once more among us, after He rids this earth of Satan’s kingdom. Then He will continue to teach and train our spirits while we dwell in these unruly and heavy bodies of flesh during the millennium. For, although Satan’s world order will be gone, there will still be illustrations of evil and death remaining on this earth even then.

Actually, our Creator God took a body of flesh to fellowship with us many times from the beginning. Shortly after He created all things and placed discerning spirits in human beings, God took a body of flesh and walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. He was with Abraham and Joshua too. No one even knows how many times God came to humans in the body of a man. Yet the true body of God has always been a body made of eternal spiritual substances in His homeland, in the spiritual space-time continuum He created to serve His children, His heirs made in His image, along with the myriads of other beloved living entities He created. But these perceptions of material existence He temporarily granted to His children and many other living entities, to educate their spirits, will soon be gone. So, after all life goes home for good, and receives their real, eternal bodies made of spiritual substances, then “the dwelling place of God” will truly be “with man,” and all elect lives on earth.

A temple of stone in the physical city of Jerusalem once represented God dwelling among us. But, in heaven, the real Temple of God will walk among us. The true body of Jesus shall dwell among us forever. Likewise, the people in a city are the city, not the stones of the buildings. “And I saw the holy city, [restored and fresh] Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband … Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God” (Rev. 21:2,3, ESV). So all the elect human souls who have ever lived on earth, all whose spirits possessed any inherent capacity to love like God loves, will be the real Jerusalem which this earth’s war-torn, beleaguered, grieving city has dimly represented for brief times in history. Consequently, the elect should not get too comfortable on earth, since our real home stands ready and waiting for us after our education on this earth. Rather, we need to focus on learning all that our Brother and God Jesus has to teach us.

The world order talks about “broken” people, those who will never be able to “heal,” never become “normal” again, usually after some kind of great evil was done to them or by them. They say an evil thing “permanently” damaged their lives. Yet I have seen how the spirits of some of those “broken” people have truly healed and grown deeper, richer, broader and more loving than the vast majority of “normal” people. For most “normal” ones seem to walk in a thick cloud of loveless, empty, dark delusions, and never seem to see the spiritual or even physical realities existing all around them. I

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have seen some “broken” souls find more truth and joy than the vast majority of “normal” and “whole” souls. Yes, the “normal” ones are usually able to make more money in Satan’s world order and become “successful.” But those dull souls never seem to comprehend facts and realities. For instance, few see that money is the worst of all possible systems for the distribution of goods and services, and is actually used solely for the purpose of exploiting and enslaving, so that artificially deemed “superiors” can abuse artificially deemed “inferiors.” In reality, nothing is actually what Satan’s world order brainwashes those “normal” souls to believe, because everything in that devil’s kingdom is a lie, and it is ruled by Satan’s most obedient liars. So let the elect realize this and learn to be a contrite “broken” people, since Jesus is coming very soon to destroy Satan’s entire kingdom.

I knew a women who was abused by close family members as a child, then remained oppressed and brutally abused by her husband all her life. Yet, even in the midst of that physically terrible life, she learned to deeply love her children, then her true God. And, in her latter years, she grew even more inwardly free, joyful and loving than most of the “normal” women I have ever seen. All this was because she learned ever more about Jesus and His real, biblical truths. Of course, as a women, she still focused on expressing her love by accepting what was forced upon her, and did not often war against it, as men do. And she expressed her love with many “secret” physical acts of charity and compassion for many other beleaguered souls. But the point is that our Lord truly healed her inside, so her spirit could deeply love in genuine peace and joy. She found, or actually was granted, a truly abundant life of loving and being loved, while most “normal” women have lost that kind of true life.

I also know a man who suffered permanent emotional damage form a bullying father, whose dignity, honor and manhood were crushed out of him by incessant demeaning, dehumanizing words and violence, as well as by continuous gaslighting. Yet he slowly recovered spiritually, becoming truly alive in the joy of the Lord. Yes, his mind of flesh remained somewhat “broken” all his life, and still possessed painful “thorns” embedded in permanent mental wounds. Yet his spirit, through the truths Jesus gave him, grew more awake and alive daily, throughout his life. And this healing from God will be completed in heaven, after his mind and body of flesh dissolve into nothing and all those scars shall be cast off. In the meantime, he battles on against the tyranny which caused his scars, and strives to build up the structures of God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth. He lives to do whatever works his spirit can do with his “broken” flesh on earth, because those works fill his heart with joy. But, to die in the flesh will be great gain, since he will indeed receive a perfect body made of far more solid spiritual substances, a body that he already knows and feels while he lives on earth.

It feels as though “broken” souls being healed by Jesus while they live in flesh on earth, are few and far between today. And I suppose they always were rare, since Satan has kept this world in darkness so thoroughly and for so long. Yet these crushed and contrite loving souls always existed everywhere on earth, in every “race” and tribe. However, Satan’s kingdom has always ignored and marginalized them, because those loving souls have almost never been as “great” and “successful” as the loveless ones, which the devil’s history books like to extol. But these joyful and loving souls are not even found in churches anymore either, since most churches now preach the same humanistic lies found in Satan’s secular institutions, and even small, obscure churches now serve only the devil’s kingdom.

So let me tell those “broken” souls a well-kept secret. Satan places guards all around the love and joy you find in life, to keep others away from it. Still, Jesus is the almighty God. And Jesus has openly broadcast the truth about love and joy to elect spirits in every corner of this entire world throughout history, then will continue to make it known to all the elect until the end of time. By the time Jesus returns, those truths will be shouted from the rooftops and all the elect will hear about His kind of love. Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed. His light will overcome all of this darkness.

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Yes, people will commit evil deeds that cause “permanent damage” to other human beings and to themselves. In fact, literally all humans are truly terrible sinners. And those sinners are all ultimately puppets acting on behalf of their master, who is a spirit called Satan, the temporarily appointed ruler of all sinners on earth. But only flesh can actually say and do evil deeds to other flesh. No spirit can directly harm another spirit, since God does not allow such things on earth, only words and actions of the flesh. Yet the only real and truly permanent damage possible is spiritual. In reality, even the worst kinds of deceptions, permanent physical injuries or murders cannot directly pour any kind of spiritual darkness into another human spirit. Also, a loveless non-elect human spirit does not require any physical pain to become ruthless and evil, to ultimately grow like Satan’s spirit. Likewise, a potentially loving elect spirit does not require any physical pain to become compassionate, just and good, to ultimately grow like Jesus’ spirit. Furthermore, neither having evil done to one’s body of flesh nor doing evil can makes one’s spirit worthless, dirty and insignificant, like a piece of garbage owned by the loveless non-elect who actually love to do evil. The only real, permanent damage is done by the spirits experiencing evil through their flesh, either as a victim’s spirit bowing to an evil doer or as a spirit whose flesh does evil but refuses to repent into the truth. So, for all the elect who are able to love, there is always hope. The oppressed and persecuted can find ways to do works of love which bring them joy. Then elect sinners can repent into the truth to receive God’s forgiveness, so one can then bear fruits of repentance, by doing joyful works of wise love from one’s own spirit.

Loveless non-elect human spirits inflict evil and oppress through their flesh because those spirits are, by nature, children of Satan. And the only reason those non-elect will ever limit their evil is to avoid negative consequences, such as in a just system established by the elect to limit their evil. But any infantile, ignorant elect spirit can also be taught to do the same kinds of evil by the non-elect, if the elect soul is subject to an evil system of a cult or government belonging to Satan’s world order. Yet literally all elect spirits are inherently able to love, able to repent, able to hear God’s counsel, able to learn how to wisely nullify the evil works of the non-elect and their father, and able learn how to build God’s just, equitable kingdom on earth. So this means all the non-elect, and even the deceived elect, have a less powerful spirits than the spirits of the awakened, repentant and loving elect. For non-elect spirits never possess any of the most useful attributes of God, such as wisdom and strength activated through the spirit’s love. For none were made in the image of God. Nor do the non-elect have any love which enables them to repent, to receive God’s full forgiveness and almighty help.

Only elect spirits were made in God’s image. And only elect spirits receive the almighty help of God to do their works through just, equitable love. So it is this potential help from our God Jesus, who is always watching over His elect, which terrifies non-elect spirits, even Satan himself. For, if the real Jesus ever wanted to, He could even “uncreate” the spirits of all the non-elect humans that Satan ever created, all the fallen angels and Satan himself. But none of those loveless spirits will ever want to cease to exist, since they all see themselves as “great” gods. Then Jesus can also bind all their thoughts and abilities in an instant. Or Jesus can cast them all into hell at any time, before any could blink an eye. Thus, Satan and all his demons instantly fall prostrate before the real Jesus, in absolute terror, whenever Jesus turns his gaze upon them. And it is also why Satan and his minions want all their inferiors to squirm in terror whenever they look upon them, because they want to pretend to be God themselves. Nevertheless, non-elect spirits will never stray beyond the limitations that Jesus places upon them. Consequently, when Satan and the human spirits of his non-elect children do evil, and try to force the elect to feel like worthless garbage owned by them, it is all a huge lie and they instantly flee in terror when they must face the just, equitable, loving presence of Jesus in the elect.

 

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The non-elect react so violently to Jesus and His words because they are terrified that He will work through the zealous love of His elect siblings and His truths to expose and destroy their convenient lies and evil works. Then those non-elect would lose all their illicit income and power to force others to serve them like gods. All loveless vain despots, fake preachers and other wanna-be gods inwardly know, with certainty, that the almighty Creator and Ruler of all existence condemns them, but merely tolerates them for a short time on earth for His own unknown purposes. So those liars and murderers try to take advantage of that time by stealing whatever they can, while tricking and terrorizing the elect into serving them. And their non-elect spirits also know that, if elect spirits ever began to awaken, hear and commune with their real God Jesus, their non-elect souls would soon become utterly powerless to do the evil which makes them feel like gods. Thus, Satan and his offspring will always desperately defend their lies, delusions and vile exploitative pleasures with extreme force.

But Satan and his minions are severely limited in their power to maintain their lying labors, since they only have their physical bodies and minds to do physical deeds. They have no Holy Spirit to unite and coordinate the hearts and minds of the many, like the elect do, nor any spiritual power from God to enable and empower good works done through loving spirits. Furthermore, they all know their time is coming to an end, since our God Jesus will soon return to remove them from the earth. For their spirits know that God’s truths are rising up all over the world, and He never intended to hand His elect and His earth over to them forever, to be possessed by those wanna-be human gods.

Yes, our heavenly Father temporarily gave Satan a kingdom of sinners on earth, and even handed His sinning elect children over to that devil and to his delusions, so their spirits could learn to hate lies and evil, then repent into the truth. But God only let Satan and his brood lie and do their evil deeds within His established physical boundaries, within the limits of earthly flesh. So non-elect spirits can only temporarily delude minds of flesh, and cause elect flesh to worship them like gods. Satan and his brood can never cause elect spirits to worship them, although non-elect spirits can deeply esteem and faithfully serve just about anyone or anything, including Satan himself. So, after the revival of the elect at the beginning of the end times, those loving elect will cast aside the delusion that any of those non-elect can be their saviors and gods. The elect, made useful, sufficient and even powerful by God, will no longer let those evil wanna-be gods judge and rule over them. Then Satan and his weak non-elect will have no elect to exploit, and will need to rely on their own factious, incapable, inept and dishonest ranks to survive. And, without God or His elect, they will destroy themselves.

We shall soon see Satan’s entire world order blown away like a fog, as we learn the truth from Jesus’ Holy Spirit, and when Jesus comes to take up His rightful place as our genuine teaching High Priest and law-making King. For Satan and all non-elect spirits will always cower before the real Jesus and His immutable truths, but can never actually do any truly effective and beneficial works for either themselves or anyone else. They want us to believe they are powerful enough to do anything through their own selfish wills. Yet, in reality, all they have is their fragile flesh and the even more fragile egos of their deluded spirits. And no human being is ever powerful enough in flesh or spirit to truly do any works if God chooses to frustrate those works. Nor can any human truly own anything, nor judge and rule over anything. God alone will always owns all, and God alone has the right and the power to judge and rule over all. Jesus is the omniscient and omnipotent God of all, the first cause of all existence, and no entity can overcome or escape His will. Thus, since all the elect inherently want the loving, just, equitable, humble, honest and good will of our God to be done, they will see it done.

A human authority may receive power from Jesus, but only to joyfully labor as a steward of God’s property, for the good of His people and His creations, with a welcome obligation to do all works according to His will, to please Him alone. And this yoke is easy, with a light burden, since He does

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not want to wear us out nor stumble and damage His precious properties. Unlike this foolish world order, our Owner treats His stewards well, so they will do their good works wisely and effectively. But, if any loveless non-elect spirit gains any power, it will result in loss, destruction, pain and even deaths. If God allows us to choose an authority whom He did not choose, it is to teach His elect to turn away from Satan’s lying promises and the world order, towards the real Jesus in repentance.

Therefore, the elect will be victims of Satan and his loveless children and will become “broken” if they believe and live according to their lies. Thus, it is critical that the elect repent into these truths:

1) Jesus is the only Head Teacher and High Priest of every mature elect man. Then all elect

women can serve Jesus by working together with mature men, beside the men, using the gifts

God gives them. Women naturally build the order of their lives around the spiritual and moral

structures which men build, and automatically accommodate those structures. And men will

naturally oppose and tear down or else approve of and build up those structures, sometimes

foolishly and sometimes wisely. So it is important for elect men to grow wise, for the sakes

of women and children. And Jesus does directly teach and train the spirits of elect men, so

they will know how to build good structures, when elect men silence their flesh, so they can

hear and willingly serve Jesus through their spirits’ love. But let elect women choose to love

and build their lives around the precepts of truly free, wise and loving elect men. Let no elect

soul serve traditions or commands of men, especially not the Satanic religion of humanism.

2) Every elect soul’s own will and power, both of the flesh and of the spirit, are never wise nor

sinless, and utterly incapable of saving oneself or anyone else. Therefore, no human being,

not even a truly loving and wise elect man, can ever become anyone’s savior, teacher, judge

or decision-making authority of any kind. In the end, there must be freedoms of conscience,

religion and speech for all, in families, churches and secular societies, to maintain honesty

with a balance of truth and power exerted through the influences of Jesus’ Holy Spirit on all.

3) The Holy Spirit of Jesus is sinless, wise and powerful, able to counsel, alter circumstances,

encourage, empower and save elect souls, by teaching, training, building up and shaping the

spirit, where His life-giving power, truth and love thrives in the heart. And His Holy Spirit

can also call other elect spirits to help one another, to unite and coordinate millions of elect.

4) The concepts from Jesus’ Holy Spirit, which He pours directly into a spirit, can be trusted,

since His truths are never unjust and will never distort nor nullify any of God’s intended

meanings of His words. But the words of the loveless can never be fully trusted, even if those

words do contain some truths wrongly applied. Thus, we must always confirm the words of

even loving elect souls, because all elect humans are infantile and easily deceived. So let

each man diligently pray and study God’s words in His Book and in His creations, letting the

Holy Spirit confirm all truths, with guidance in how to rightly apply multiple principles to

each and every situation, so all our judgments may be wise and just, according to His will.

5) Jesus alone bears the right and the only true authority to judge anyone or anything. At times,

He judges directly, as He will in heaven, by causing rewards and punishments through His

power. But He often also judges through His chosen elders or decision-making authorities, so

He might train their spirits for their works in heaven. Then He will also directly or indirectly

judge those elders too, for no one is above His authority and laws. Furthermore, our Father in

heaven and our God Jesus has never granted any entity on earth or in heaven any power to

condemn anyone or anything to hell, nor any right to call anyone either an elect or non-elect

soul, much less whole identifiable groups or races of people. Not all the elect will behave like

 

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the elect should, since Jesus only teaches and trains some His elect as His disciples while

they live on earth. Only some will consciously serve His other equal disciples by giving wise

counsel, true teachings, comfort, rebukes, corrections and help of all kinds. Only some will

be called to nullify the words and works of Satan, as well as punish the totally unrepentant.

All awakened elect spirits of disciples and elders learn to live by the fulfilled laws and ways

of Jesus, regarding all matters of life and faith. But many elect learn very little of this during

their lifetimes and look just like the non-elect, which is why it is critical to form and maintain

equitable, just, careful and impartial justice systems. For all are stewards of God’s property

and obligated to do all works in His name alone, through His just commands to their spirits.

6) Jesus alone, and no one else on earth or in heaven, has any right to call, send, command and

determine major aspects of anyone’s works, nor determine how much each receives to do

one’s works, nor how many hours each soul willingly does God’s works each day. For all

works are ultimately for God, their Owner, and for His kingdoms. Let all elders in churches,

governments and businesses realize that Jesus alone is the Owner and Manager of all. And

He lives. Our living Jesus is well-able to guide, compel and encourage every worker to do all

that He needs to accomplish. There is no need for any human to dictate what their own equal

siblings do, to micromanage their works. It is enough for elders, managers and organizers to

listen to Jesus, so they might choose the called workers for various tasks, then also do all the

difficult and loving works of teaching, training, coordinating, organizing and, above all, truly

helping to build up their personal lives, so all will be able to fulfill the joyful destinies that

Jesus calls their hearts to pursue. Then let all equal siblings receive whatever is required for

the modest needs of their families and themselves, to maintain their lives and works for God.

7) Jesus is the one and only High Priest who carries the authority and ability to create any true

local church for Himself, from start to finish. And Jesus creates local churches according to

His will alone, solely with the elect whom He awakens and calls to become His disciples at

any given time. Absolutely no human power or will is remotely qualified or capable of ever

gathering together the true elect as Jesus’ disciples, except through the express commands

and power of Jesus’ Holy Spirit upon literally all the members of that church. No human can

build any kind of true New Covenant church anywhere at any time. No one except our God

Jesus bears the wisdom and authority to choose His own disciples. Thus, our only duty is to

hear and heed Him as He makes those choices, so we do not make the mistake of trying to

free those He has left in bondage, nor bind those He has freed and called to serve Him. For it

is impossible to effectively do His good works together with those who remain bound in their

unrepentant lies and sins, or without those He called to share in His very difficult works of

love. And a true local church is a local priesthood of our God Jesus, appointed to live in a

perpetual Sabbath, to do His works for His people and His creations seven days of the week.

God caused His elect children to dwell on earth solely for the purpose of having their spirits taught and trained to do the same kinds of works they will do in heaven, so all can begin to joyfully fulfill their eternal destinies. And our Creator, the heavenly Father of our spirits, put no one except Jesus in charge of that teaching and training. Then Jesus educates some elect within His priesthood of His true church and some outside of it. This is His choice alone. But, in the end, on the judgment day at heaven’s gates, He will gather literally all His elect into His true priesthood, to complete and perfect their education for their joyful occupations, which they were created to fulfill on heaven’s mainland.

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siblings for their eternal destinies in heaven. And we can know which of these more mature disciples are appointed to become His assistant teaching and judging elders by their fruits, by their words and deeds, by how well they do God’s just, equitable, loving works. So God’s Old Covenant commands us to choose only these men as our elders, as our decision-making authorities. Jesus also taught us to fulfill this law by choosing only those whom He has chosen to serve in our churches, governments and businesses, each according to his own personal God-given abilities. For Jesus chose His own assistant teachers from His disciples for us while He walked among us, then expected His elect to listen to them, instead of to non-elect wanna-be gods. And He also expected these elders to build up the spiritual and physical lives of people and properties owned by Him alone, according to His will.

So the elect are to build up God’s kingdom on earth in the likeness of His kingdom in heaven, and do His just, loving will on earth as it is done in heaven, for the spiritual and physical benefit of all His people and all His creations. And we do this with a limited priority to first serve the just and loving elect, yet do not treat others unjustly either, because we are not allowed to know who the elect and non-elect are among them. Our whole purpose for being assigned to live on earth for a short time is to let our God Jesus teach and train us for life in heaven, and help other elect souls to be better taught and trained by Him for life in heaven. No other purpose for life on earth exists. And, if elect spirits do not pursue a life based on these biblical teachings, they will not keep themselves from becoming “broken” and deluded, while they also break the lives of others. Our goal is build up just place where the elect can serve God and His creations, both human and otherwise, where all can learn from Jesus to do the works they will do in heaven. Yes, this often means that we must also tear down some of the works of Satan, but while we also provide freedoms of conscience, religion and speech, so we do not ever oppose the will and authority of Jesus to rule as the High Priest and King over all the earth.

The elect cannot freely and effectively do any of Jesus’ effective good works by laboring together with wanna-be human gods, with those who bow before Satan, nor in the way liars do their works through the devil’s invention of money. Of course, we allow those others to freely practice their lies and delusions, and must only prevent them from harming or murdering others. But we cannot work with them in our churches, and must not elect or hire them for government and business positions of decision-making authority. Until Jesus chooses to return, to cause all the elect to bow before Him and takes away all the non-elect, we are not allowed to censor, persecute or murder anyone, and are not allowed to even begin to establish a theocracy with human high priests or kings. For our focus must remain on building up life, in the way Jesus taught us to fulfill His command, “Do not murder.”

Still, we must be careful that the spiritual and moral works performed by God’s priesthood of His church are done solely by souls who manifest solid evidence of their spirit’s ability to hear and heed the real Jesus. Only if we see Jesus’ Holy Spirit begin to do His real works of teaching, training and healing in a person, should we call that one a member who can serve in the name of Jesus and our church. Any works by our church can be interpreted as portraying the attributes and truths of our God Jesus. All works done by our church will be seen as reflections of Jesus and His ways. So all these works must be done solely by the elect whom Jesus appointed for those works. Works like teaching doctrines, judging teachings or actions, counseling in matters of life and faith, encouraging behaviors or practices, prophesying, performing miracles, healing and other spiritual works done through love in the name of Jesus and our church, must be done through the express commands and power of Jesus, and only by deeply, strongly and consistently evidenced elect souls. Of course, we should also listen to almost all others, within reason, since Jesus can expose sins and reveal truths even through His enemies. And we are to serve everyone in the world, to labor for their spiritual and physical welfare, since we are priests of God appointed to serve literally all His creations. But all

 

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that a church says and does will ultimately defines the character and attributes of Jesus in the minds of those who behold those works, will form their perceptions and doctrines about Him and His ways. Thus, if we are careless about who our churches calls its members, we can easily slander the name of Jesus, and lead souls into destructive false teachings and sins. On the other hand, we also cannot allow men to determine the members of our churches, since only Jesus can do this. Rather, we let the awakened and mature elect men and women prayerfully and carefully recognize their elect siblings.

A true church does not allow any human authority, like a head pastor or board of elders, to choose its members. Nor are members elected by other members. Instead, a true church allows Jesus to draw in new members, then He reveals those elect to the other true members. Each spontaneously gravitates towards the others and they naturally begin to work together. Just as a family or small community adopts a new person into them after they work and live together for a time, a true church also does the same. There is no official registration of members, just an internal bonding developed as their spirits make covenants of love with one another. Of course, secular groups often bond with one another according to external criteria such as through common usefulness, worldly esteem, wealth, race, language, culture, clothing and so on. But minds of awakened elect spirits look for spiritual criteria which manifests their common just, equitable, loving attributes, resembling those of our God Jesus. So awakened maturing elect members simply and naturally adopt and include other awakened maturing elect into their fold. They recognize their true brothers and sisters by the works that their High Priest and King is doing in their spirits, since Jesus is their Head who chooses and unites them.

While on earth, all the elect become victims of Satan’s deceptions and persecutions, for the teaching and training of their spirits. Jesus permits this on earth so their spirits can begin to recognize evil and learn how to wisely and justly oppose, nullify and prevent it. “Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” (II Tim. 3:12, WEB). During our earthly lives, Jesus exposes and nullifies the lies that Satan and his non-elect minions force upon His elect through seduction, deceit or coercion. For Jesus’ Holy Spirit must begin to teach and train each elect victim’s spirit to recognize and oppose all that is not of Him, to prepare those spirits for their future works in heaven.

So, while the elect dwell on earth, the light of Jesus starts to burn away lies through pains of the flesh, and reveals the identities of the liars. All elect spirits begin to truly hate lies, not only because of the pain and deaths they cause for the flesh, but because their spirits begin to see how dark, vile, malignant and poisoned the spiritual evil is in the hearts of those who deliberately seed the worst of those lies. The horrifying visage of the spirits who create lies for personal gain deeply repulses their elect spirits, and those elect begin to realize why they need to learn real truths and real wisdom from our God Jesus. And the loveless hearts who love the darkness of lies will never stop their destroying, wounding and killing, since there is nothing in them to ever cause them to repent into any real truths and beneficial wisdom. They are nothing like the elect. So those non-elect must be actively opposed in a consistent and incessant way, through just, disciplined and God-approved force, sometimes even with a deadly force that utterly drains the life out of the elect who apply it. For God’s kingdom of heaven on earth must be defended at all cost, so the elect and all God’s other good living entities on the earth can live and love. Then, when the elect reach heaven, they will do something similar there.

All that is said or done against God’s revealed will on earth surely will cause destruction, pain and death. So the elect must learn to watch out for this, to discern when this occurs, prevent it and stop it if it ever occurs. The elect need to be taught and trained to do this because they will need these skills in heaven. For, even in heaven, certain kinds of impulses and instincts of various living entities there will also need to be managed, balanced and kept in check, or those entities can cause harm. None of the life forms in heaven are sinful or evil in any way. But all are designed to perform certain specific

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functions which can cause damage or harm if they are not rightly managed. All the living entities in heaven need to be managed much like they all do on earth, in a way which the Bible calls “judging.”

All living entities in heaven, even the creatures we call angels, need to be “judged” through the teaching, training, counsel, encouragement, rebukes and love of “judges.” At times, this “judging” will even involve doing the same works those other entities do, to “apprentice” some of them. And these “judges” must know all the wise principles that God created for the effective functioning of everything in heaven, as well as how to rightly apply those truths. Now God can do this judging all by Himself, without any help from anyone else. And, in fact, He is doing this alone in heaven even “now” (i.e., in terms of our earthly understanding of time). But God is love. So God created human spirits from His own Spirit, from His “breath,” as His children in His family, as His “heirs” who are like Him. So, after we have been completed and perfected through our teaching and training on the last day, we will labor beside Him to do the works of “judging” the other entities in heaven, through our love for them. And, since this kind of work is the inherent cause of joy in us, it is our reward for the pain and death we endured through our perceptions of earthly life in our fragile bodies of flesh.

Literally all the elect eventually learn to hate intentional, ruthless, exploitative lies, since they see Satan himself in those lies, and in the non-elect liars who use them without love or reason, with no concern for their victims. And, although the elect weep over the deaths, pain and destruction those lies cause, they do sometimes laugh at the stupidity of those lies, as well as at pettiness, foolishness and ignorance of the liars. For, after elect souls learn some real truths and wisdom, it amazes them that, no matter how much evidence, information and explanation those liars are granted, they never seem to comprehend how their lies can only cause others and even themselves nothing but suffering. So the elect find it hard to believe that the non-elect, even with intelligent minds of flesh, can be so foolish as to believe those obvious lies, and bow before their “greatest” liars. But the non-elect never stop lying and murdering, since they were created in the image of their loveless father, who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning. And the elect will never stop repenting into the truth, since they were created in the image of their loving Father, who was just and honest from the beginning.

Heaven is the unconscious goal of all elect spirits, while all non-elect spirits know they cannot possibly survive the bright light in heaven. So all elect spontaneously seek the light of truth and love while they live on earth, straight from their hearts, although it sometimes takes them awhile to see that this is what they really desire. But the non-elect possess none of those inward compulsions; so they seek only an earthly reward, no matter how many lives they may need to kill or destroy just to feed their egos and the pleasures of their flesh. Then the non-elect wanna-be gods can often deceive the infantile elect into believing that they can provide all the truth and love they desire, if those elect souls will worship them. So the foolish elect often accept all the teachings and judgments of those lying gods, even when those liars tell them that the souls of their siblings are worthless and must be sacrificed for the good of all. Then the elect march with the non-elect to kill and pillage their own elect siblings, even thinking they are doing God’s works as they do so. Every evil under the sun has been done by the elect, together with Satan’s offspring, and often in God’s name, just because those elect have been deceived into thinking God will reward them with truth and love if they do that evil.

But the end-time judgments of our God Jesus will soon fall upon the whole earth, upon both the elect and the non-elect who lie and do works of injustice and exploitation. So now the elect must wake up and realize that their home in heaven is not what those lying human gods say it is, and understand that they must only do works which build up God’s earthly kingdom, using His just, equitable, loving kingdom of heaven as their example. Our goal during this short life on earth is to esteem and serve our God and oldest Brother Jesus, as we will in heaven. And we are to build our earthly lives

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and kingdoms according to the model of our eternal home in heaven, where there will be no bodies of amoral flesh, only genderless bodies made of spiritual substances. In God’s kingdom, “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28, WEB). Let the elect remember this, and cast aside all the ignorant and unjust ways of Roman humanism that still plague false churches everywhere on earth.

Yes, while we live in the flesh, there are some things that will not exist in heaven which we must contend with here on earth. There are some differences in what males and females desire in the flesh, and, at the present time, we still need to interface with Satan’s world order through the use of that devil’s invention of money. But, in our churches, businesses and governments, we need not focus most of our attention on financial systems, class hierarchies and human gods. Rather, our primary attention must be given to the just, equitable, loving needs of the people, while accommodating the demands of Satan’s world order as little as we possibly can, just enough to appease them, while also preventing their excessive lies and sins. We must speak the truth through sacrificial love in full unity, against the contradicting lies of the factious non-elect. We must overcome evil with the good works of God, so that even the non-elect will prefer our ways to those of their own cruel, loveless non-elect siblings. Then those non-elect wanna-be gods will no longer gain any opportunities to rule over us.

If elect spirits do not bow before the real Jesus as their only Lord and God, or at least agree that His just, equitable, loving ways must be upheld, then an evil or even demonic non-elect human god will overpower them through the lying power of Satan. And that dictator will demand to be worshipped with higher esteem and a more slavish service than will be allowed for the real Creator God. And no infantile human spirit possesses the power to stop Satan’s power from overcoming it, not even the most mature and awake elect spirit. Either all spirits that long for truth and love will unite under the banner of our God Jesus, or at least guard His universal truths written in His creations and in His Word, or else our almighty God Jesus must withdraw His helping power from them. For God cannot oppose or contradict Himself, cannot help both His causes and Satan’s causes at the same time. We have only two choices. Either we build the kingdom of heaven on earth, or we will be abandoned to the devil’s delusions and live in the unjust, exploitative, enslaving, hellish kingdom of Satan. And, as all the elect awaken or fall asleep, their land will move in either one direction or the other. Thus, it is critical for the elect to always remain awake and aware of our real Jesus and His immutable truths.

The elect need Jesus Himself to stop Satan from overcoming and enslaving their souls. The elect cannot do this themselves, not even as a large group. Humans simply do not have the power. And Jesus always limits Satan’s power, but He is not able to deny His own attributes of love built solely upon a solid foundation of His own true principles. So Jesus will only help us if we acknowledge Him and His ways, or at least His loving ways. We must accept Him as the only Head of every man, and ask for His will to done, not our own wills. Now some might try to avoid having to pray to Jesus and developing a close relationship with Him, so their spirits do not need to hear His council. And some will even use the excuse that salvation, with the awakening of spirits to the presence of His Holy Spirit and truths, is predestined. But all that is nonsense. For we cannot second-guess His timing for our salvation. And Jesus is indeed personally calling, teaching and training each and every elect spirit right now, and at all earthly times. So we simply listen for Him and press on towards the goal of our salvation. Also, although His Spirit seldom gives our spirits very many details about the precise physical actions we should take or when we should do them, He surely does teach our spirits how and when to apply His principles of truth, so we will learn both eternal knowledge and wisdom.

Depending on how much an elect one’s mind of flesh is taught and conditioned to love Satan’s world order, Jesus will let Satan overtake the life of that elect one. But, at the same time, His Holy Spirit

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will also continuously reveal many inconsistencies and contradictions in those evil practices and world views. So that elect victim will begin to question the validity of Satan’s lies more and more, and eventually grow completely alienated from those who still accept them. That elect soul will leave false churches, withdraw loyalty from Satan’s appointed heads of government and businesses, and generally find oneself becoming more “broken,” unable to work, fellowship and live with the citizens of Satan’s kingdom. But, if one’s spirit begins to heed the voice of God’s Spirit, even if that one does not consciously know the biblical names of God, one will grow more just and loving, and also gravitate towards others with a more just, equitable kind of love. That is, the process of Jesus’ New Covenant salvation will begin in the mind of one’s spirit, preparing one for eternity in heaven.

In reality, there is no such thing as a permanently broken or irreparably damaged elect human spirit. Some bodies and brains of flesh may be damaged beyond repair, but never an elect spirit. And every loveless non-elect spirit is beyond repair, from birth. But Jesus is well-able to entirely heal every elect spirit, even to total completion and perfection by the end of the last day. Literally all the elect will eventually become the one, united, holy “new Jerusalem,” living under the “new sky” and upon the “new earth” of heaven’s mainland. So, if you feel “broken,” let your spirit look to the real Jesus.

Jesus will soon stop every elect spirit from worshipping human gods and demons, expose all false judgments, and prove His well-earned right to be our Lord. I have seen Jesus’ power personally, in my life and in the lives of other elect souls whom I have known extremely well. Over time, after our spirits began to hear and heed the truths which come directly from the Spirit of Jesus, as He spoke to our human spirits. Now all the lies of abusive wanna-be gods in Satan’s world order are being cast off like filthy garments, and replaced with clean robes. Our tears dry, and our faces shine with a pure inner joy that cannot ever be taken from us. This is what I have seen on this earth, although our flesh surely weakens us. So how much more will we see above? Now let me declare, with all certainty, that Jesus indeed “will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away!”

Now, after the apostle John was taken up to a future time in heaven, he saw that, by the time we arrived on the mainland of heaven, just after the judgment day, “the first sky and the first land had passed away, and the sea was no more” (Rev. 21:1). So, in what we call the first century of our earthly perceptions of time, while he was experiencing a future time in the spiritual realm, John saw that our heavenly Father and oldest Brother Jesus had already destroyed the entire material universe. And all that will be our future perceptions of time during our perceptions of material existence had already been eliminated in the past of his present time up in heaven, after he saw us all raptured up to heaven’s gates for the judgment day. Then John returned to his appointed time of perceiving life on earth at a real place on earth, on the island of Patmos during what we perceive to be near the end of the first century. So John saw and returned to our past on earth after seeing the earth and the entire material universe destroyed. Therefore, the time, space, energy and matter of the earth and material universe are not what we think they are, and they will always exist, even after God destroys all of it.

So the entire history of the earth and material universe must be a part of the spiritual realm, must exist in a moment of heavenly time and space. Yet the material space-time continuum must be some kind of truly existing and real spiritual, non-material information in heaven, which the minds of our spirits “now” perceive from heaven, as our eternal bodies live in heaven, in a non-linear time in heaven. Then all times in heaven must exist at the same time, and we will be able to randomly access all the times of eternity at once, as we expand our experiences in heaven. Thus, when we experience time at heaven’s gates or on heaven’s mainland, we will also be able to randomly access all this information about our own personal earthly experiences, and those of every other earthly entity, even

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at any time. We will see every detail of every moment everywhere on earth, to learn from it. And, as we learn from all that we see and ponder from earth’s time, it will be an experience of new growth in heaven’s non-linear time, added to the minds of our eternal spirits, as a new “time” of life in heaven.

Clearly time does not pass linearly in heaven, since John experienced multiple future times on earth and in heaven, even as he was living at one particular first-century time on earth. So all that God has taught all who ever lived on earth can be reviewed and studied at any time. And, after the moment we experience the end of linear time on earth, and after a certain degree of experiencing a linear time for our learning and repenting at heaven’s gates, God will continuously make all things “new,” will always be adding to whatever experiences we gained on earth and at heaven’s gates. This will be an ongoing process in an eternal “now,” as was indicated by the durative present tense of the verb ποιῶ.

And, again, let me remind the elect that the adjective καινός also indicates “new to us.” All that we will learn in heaven’s more concrete and real creation of lands, skies, living creatures and time will be new and novel in our eyes, although all that will be “new to us” had been created before the material universe even existed. And, although our “future” selves, who will exist at the same time as our “past” selves, will have already learned it, those truths and that love always will be new, revived, reborn and fresh to us, as we rejoice in the ever-present moment of “now.” For we will have bodies and minds made of truly spiritual substances, with new kinds of work to do in heaven, on a land that will be always new to us, covered by a beautiful sky that will be forever a new day. These will be the true realities of the mere facsimiles we perceive during our earthly lives. The whole ecology, all the natural order of life in heaven, will be perpetual vigor and youth. All will function differently, yet in a way we recognize. Life will feel familiar, comparable to all that is truly good in our earthly lives.

Even now, our spirits know that heaven is our true home, and we will receive it like very weary travelers arriving back at our dear and precious homes at last. For this tired earth’s ecology has been a dim, corrupted and temporary shadow of our true home in heaven, where many reflections of hell have been reminding our souls of all that is not God’s land. Yet life on earth also conveyed the true essence of heaven’s spiritual realities and love too. In heaven, we shall see how its government is completely different, yet similar to glimpses of what we sometimes saw in families on earth, much like some moments of just and pure love in communions we experienced on earth. Here on earth, our spirits witnessed some times which illustrated how Jesus will govern us in heaven, the ways He calls elect spirits to live on earth, especially in how He taught and trained the prophets and apostles. There we will never see Jesus act like kings on earth. Earthly kings want to sit on cold gold thrones that are pretentiously raised above us on platforms in stone palaces, commanding their armies to silence the bowing crowds below, demanding that their “inferiors” hear and blindly obey. But our true King will sit in circle together with us, on a level floor of gleaming light, so He might hear our requests, counsel us with truth in loving honesty, and faithfully serve us for our good. Jesus has never wanted anyone to fearfully heed His words in blind ignorance, nor ever made anyone pay an unjust penalty.

Our God Jesus has always taught us like a beloved and trusted oldest Brother should, like a High Priest who serves His dearly loved and cherished fellow priests, laboring together with us in all our works of life and faith. For our God Jesus has always served His creations in heaven by doing the gentle works of a priestly King, and is training us to serve in those infinite lands together with Him as priestly kings. Jesus has never wanted or needed to be served by us, but longs for us to serve His beloved kingdom together with Him, as a warm family of our heavenly Father’s children. Our God Jesus does not want nor need any bowing and fearing “inferiors,” but only deeply loved lives, with whom He shares in the joys of their many little triumphs, as He cares for them and teaches them about life. Therefore, when Jesus came to walk among us on our common, dusty roads and fields, He

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calmly spoke to our hearts, forcing nothing, patiently waiting for His words to sink in past our feeble minds of flesh, into our infantile spirits. And, when we did not understand or rightly apply His truths, He was not angry because He was concerned about losing power or some of the devil’s invention of money. Rather, whenever we failed, Jesus was concerned about how we might harm our own lives and the lives of His other creations. For He came to fulfill His loving, wise laws in us and through us, so we could live in joy and bring joy to all life, to help us succeed in building up abundant lives.

When Jesus came to dwell among us for one lifetime on earth, He diligently taught us the principles of immutable truths that will also exist in heaven for all eternity, and trained us in the Father’s ways. For He knew we were made in His image and He would be able to complete all His works upon our hearts during the long judgment day. He often lets us learn from our mistakes too, but seldom will harshly punish us, except when we intentionally hurt others, when He was forced to discipline us. And our punishments only damage our very temporary flesh, not our eternal elect spirits. Nor was Jesus ever actually worried about any harm we might cause through our folly, ineptitude, errors or sins of the flesh. For He is able to fix anything we break, and can even raise the dead. Jesus’ greatest desire is to serve His creations for their own good, through love, especially His elect brothers and sisters in His family. For literally all the elect bear the same inherent, innate desires in their spirits.

Jesus never wants to be blindly served through fear, and never for His own selfish reasons. Jesus is nothing like the self-proclaimed human and demonic wanna-be gods on earth. And Jesus is friendly to all whose spirits possess the potential to love in the same way He loves. Jesus is never afraid to love and build a relationship with them, since He has the power to personally love and serve them all, and to be loved by all. The Holy Spirit of God in Jesus never grows tired nor runs out of time to serve anyone. Rather, He knows all our needs and has planned to fulfill literally all our spiritual needs from the beginning of time. Our God Jesus never lacks the time, resources or means to keep literally all His promises to His beloved. And He never lies nor makes any foolish promises, since He is wise and His entire essence is a faithful, serving, honest love. Therefore, He not only hears all our requests, but also honestly tells us and gives us what we truly need for the good of our loving spirits, even if when we do not actually know what we are asking. Jesus is our Brother and Friend, always seeking what is inwardly best for us. And He can make no mistakes in what He gives to us.

Jesus has no anxieties, anger or frustrations about anything He says or does, because He always knows and causes all the effects of all that He says and does. And, in this material realm, He has actually caused the precise ordained end of all from the beginning. Jesus is never weak or grumpy, but always awake, aware, adept and able to do all that His loving heart desires for His beloved elect siblings and for all His other creations. So our only real duty on earth is to let our spirits learn from our short personal lives on this earth, and from the entire history of earth, where all is predestined. For we, all the elect human spirits on earth, were created in His image and set in flesh upon this earth for the sole purpose of learning from Him, so we might all serve His creations in heaven, together with Him and our Father. And since, we shall serve all earth’s creatures in heaven, all these living spirits who will soon all receive new bodies made of a spiritual substances, let us focus on learning to lovingly, wisely and faithfully serve all life on earth. For we shall even “judge” angels in heaven, in a biblical way, by teaching, counseling and training them. On earth, Jesus teaches and trains us to cherish, guard and wisely apply His truths, and He will also complete and perfect His teaching and training on the judgment day at heaven’s gates. So our spirits must actually be aware of this purpose.

John was taken up into heaven and saw all the permanent residents of the “holy city” of Jerusalem descending upon heaven’s mainland, all who will be called the “bride” of Jesus, all of those He had “prepared” for life in heaven during the day of judgment. Then “He who was seated on the throne,”

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who is Jesus, commanded John, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true” (Rev. 21:5, ESV). And what Jesus wanted John to write down was this: “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirst I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be My son” (Rev. 21:6-7, ESV). So our God Jesus wanted us to know certain “trustworthy and true” facts that would help us, which would encourage and guide our spirits into a loving abundant life.

John, while living on earth at the end of the first century AD, had just finished witnessing the end of earth’s entire history and the end of the long judgment day, with his own eyes. Then the first words Jesus wanted him to write down were: “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end” (from: Γέγοναν. ἐγὼ τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος, SBLGNT). The first Greek word is Γέγοναν (translated here as, “It is done!”). This one word is a complete sentence, a perfect tense verb with an embedded pronoun subject. And the perfect tense indicates a completed action, but with an emphasis on the current, ongoing effects or results of the past action. So it really means something like: “The multiple effects [caused by the events you witnessed] are now occurring.” And we are still seeing what John witnessed in the past occurring. Also, those events will continue to occur until the existence of the material universe ends and the last day at heaven’s gates will end, until we all descend onto the mainlands of heaven. But if John had already witnessed all this, and if all Jesus said is “trustworthy and true,” then we must logically conclude that our eternal homes in heaven are fully predestined, already prepared and waiting for us. So there is no chance that any of the elect can ever go to hell. Literally all spirits which bear the potential to build up wise and God-like love on a foundation of God’s immutable truths and realities, will surely pass through the judgment day and enter their eternal homes in heaven. For this destiny resides in our omnipotent and omniscient God Jesus, who is the first and the last, the beginning and the end, of all words commanded by the Father.

Jesus was telling John, and all of us, that He had already finished causing all that John heard and saw in the Revelation. All that Jesus showed John in this prophecy of the Revelation, which also aligned with and confirmed all the other biblical prophecies about the last days, were about to begin. Our God Jesus, whose will cannot be altered or thwarted in any way, will cause it all. Jesus was saying that He predestined it all; the eras of the seven seals, the days of the seven trumpets in the era of the seventh seal, and the seven bowls of wrath poured out on the beast’s kingdom during the time of the seventh trumpet. Then He will return, rule the earth for more than a thousand years, rapture us all up to heaven’s gates, complete and perfect us all, then finally take us to our true homes in His heaven.

All these prophesied events will surely come to pass. Jesus confirmed that He was talking about the fulfilling of all these prophecies when He declared that He is “the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” Figuratively, Jesus is the first letter of the alphabet and the last, as well as all the characters between the first and last. He is all the words of the Revelation and the entire Bible that were written with the letters of the alphabet, and they are in Him. Jesus is the entire living, active and effective Word of God, all the truths that have ever been written or ever will be written in all His creations and in His Book. All that He proclaimed will be fulfilled through Him. All that ever occurred or will occur, from the beginning to the end, exists right “now,” in our God Jesus, who created time and holds all times within Him. All that occurs results from His will, words and power.

Jesus made all events in linear time, from the beginning to the end, all at one and the same non-linear spiritual time in heaven. And He made every sub-atomic detail in every immeasurably small moment of it in His mind, all for the minds of our spirits. For He created our spirits in His image, then created linear time in order to teach and train our spirits to know all He knows inside Himself, so we could become His beloved family, working with Him to lovingly serve other beloved lives in

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heaven. And He created heaven’s lands and skies for those living creatures to enjoy with intricate and amazing interactions that grow love and understanding in them, which we will further teach and train for all eternity, as we too grow love and understanding in our loving God, and more like Him.

Life on heaven’s mainland does not seem to involve linear time. Rather, there is a kind of binding of each one’s own consciousness at various stages of one’s inner growth. Each mind can see itself as what it will be at a further stage of growth, then grow into it through works of love, only to “later” see what one will be at another stage in life, then grow into that, and so on. So there are “linear” times of progress in heaven, all at the same “time,” into an ever-progressive infinity. An “arrow” of time, a sequential experience of time, without seeing our “future” selves, only exists during our lives on earth, and partially on the “day” at heaven’s gates for our teaching at our judgment. And all this linear time on earth was indeed predestined for the education of our spirits, in a way that resembles the “times” of our growth in heaven. But the loving unity that God is developing on earth and in heaven will all lead to a perpetual joy of infinitely deep fellowship in the mind of God, through love.

All that we would call past and future events since the days of John, all the eras of all seven seals which have passed or are about to begin after the days of John (i.e., after about AD 96), have been occurring just as Jesus said they would. And all that has not yet happened will occur just as He said they would. For Jesus has already created and finished those events, has already caused them all to occur. So this is useful information for us, teachings us not only how to prepare for the future, but also why we should live and prepare for it. This is why Jesus told John to write down what he heard and saw. Jesus told John, “Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this” (Rev. 1:19, ESV). Now the prophecies of the first five seals have come to pass as He said they would, in one dreary enslaving century after another, but while we also saw the growth of one biblical concept after another. Then Jesus repeated this command here (in Rev. 21:5). So here Jesus repeated what He told John about Himself at the beginning, when He first told John that He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last (see Rev. 1:8,17). And most of what Jesus took John to see involved the events of the seventh seal’s era, including the millennium of His rule on earth, then the judgment day and heaven. So these are what our spirits need to prepare for the most.

So “it is done.” All the end times and the judgment day, right up to the entrance of the elect into the mainland of heaven, has already been completed in our God Jesus. For He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Therefore it is predestined and certain that “the one who conquers will have this heritage” (21:7), which is the fulfilling of God’s two eternal Abrahamic and New Covenant salvation promises; (1) to be their God and (2) He will cause them to become His “sons” (i.e., in a gender-indefinite way, meaning His “inheriting children”). And the participle here, ὁ νικῶν, does not actually connote “the one who conquers.” For Jesus does all the real conquering, both through His own direct works and through us, both in our personal lives and in the world. So, in this local and global context, the present (durative) participle of νικάω would be better translated as, “the one who continuously prevails.” And literally all eternal elect spirits will prevail through the end times, then the millennium, then the final judgment day, although all their bodies of flesh certainly will perish long before the entire process of their salvation is fulfilled. All elect spirits are created with all they need to prevail and are predestined to prevail, until they all descend into their homes in His heaven.

Also, this passage about the goal of our salvation bears a clear implication that we prevail solely because Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, predestines and causes us to prevail, even to the very end. It is only by His power, and according to His will, that we receive our heritage of His waters of life, which are the true principles and concepts provided by His Holy Spirit to our spirits, to quench the thirst for understanding in the minds of our spirits. And the entire global context of the Scriptures

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reinforces this interpretation. So νικάω is defined as “to win in the face of obstacles, be victor, conquer,” but also “overcome, prevail” (BDAG3). And I know that the vain like to imagine that their “free will” can “conquer” all things for one’s own personal profit, power and glory. But the local and global context seems to suggest a far more humble meaning, where we allow our spirits to heed the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, so our spirits can prevail through the pains and tribulations of our salvation process, so our spirits can better empathize with others and love them unconditionally.

Here Jesus summarized His reason for granting this Revelation. Jesus gave us this prophecy because the elect are “thirsty” for the knowledge of His truths about Himself and life. They long to know: (1) the meaning and purpose of their lives; (2) the reasons for all the good and evil now existing as the effects caused by all that occurred in the past, and why God allowed or directly caused it all; as well as (3) what God will cause in the future, to save our eternal souls, especially as we pass through the dark and terrifying events prophesied for His future judgment of this world. This is why Jesus freely gave us this book of the Revelation, to reveal all these things to us. All of these confirmations of other biblical prophecies and the revealed order of these events give us hope, which will help us work towards realizing our goals. These prophesies reveal our most critical needs for survival and to build abundant lives now and in the future, even the most direct and easy path to eternal salvation.

What will be most valuable for us are our truly just and loving works which train our spirits and will please our coming King, Jesus. And these very certain and real prophecies help us prioritize and do those loving works, by revealing the past, present and future works of God in our lives. They make us realize that we need to be change, through His Holy Spirit’s counsel and power. For we simply cannot remain as we are right now. God has never and never will allow us to remain static. God has always pushed us onward towards His goal of salvation, into greater spiritual growth, into the further education of our spirits, so we will learn how to serve all His creations through love, just as He does.

From the beginning God told us to place our full trust and faith in Jesus’ counsel and power, not in our own strength and the wills of either our flesh or spirits, nor in words or powers of any other human souls or organizations of men. Only humanists, not Christians, believe a man can be “one who conquers” for his own eternal salvation, where they also define salvation in terms of personally gaining power over God’s properties and acquiring more of the devil’s invention of money. Christian spirits know that a man cannot “conquer” anything through a human will, strength or cunning. Yet, solely because of the way Jesus created and now shapes their spirits, literally all the elect surely will prevail to the very end, up to the day literally all of those loving souls descend into heaven’s lands.

All the elect will succeed in reaching their home in heaven, because the Spirit our God Jesus will not falter nor fail to call, command, discipline, correct, teach and train their spirits. For Jesus is well-able to bring all elect spirits through the many earthly deceptions, temptations, trials and even the death of the flesh. He is well-able to cause all the spirits in our hearts to turn back to Him, before we fail eternally. He has chosen to call many elect spirits to their repentance, into a knowledge of His name and His revealed truths, at a later time, on the judgment day, instead of while they live on earth. But all those elect who will repent at heaven’s gates actually now have spirits that are capable of just and pure love, which will make them able to repent when they meet Jesus face to face. And, whenever our God Jesus seems to do less of His saving works for some elect on earth, we should know that He has preordained all their earthly experiences for the final education of their spirits upon that last day.

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now exist inside their spirits, and will eventually flourish into an abundant, joyful and loving life. So Jesus will soon grant bodies made of spiritual substances to their eternal spirits and souls, which are being trained by being forced to endure unruly, amoral and burdensome bodies of flesh on earth. He will fully complete and perfect all His salvation works for literally all the elect in all history, on the final judgment day, even for those who never consciously knew His name or any words of the Bible.

Since Jesus will conquer all obstacles for our sakes, to educate us for our eternal salvation, and there is really nothing left for us to “conquer” through our own wills or powers, literally all the elect, all whose spirits were created in God’s image, will surely receive a “heritage” from the Father of our spirits on that last day. We will all enter His home as His children, as inheriting family members, so His home in heaven will also be our home. Every elect child of the Father has a prevailing spirit, a spirit that does not stop loving and that cannot stop seeking the kind of love and its foundation of truths. So our heavenly Father and oldest Brother, who are one and the same God in His lands that He created to express His love, will cause literally all the elect to prevail until they all enter His home in heaven after the judgment day. Our almighty and all-knowing God cannot lose even one.

All the elect will surely receive God’s two main salvation promises of His New Covenant: (1) God will serve each individual human elect soul as that one’s personal and benevolent God; and (2) each shall serve God’s creations next to Him, as a faithful heir of all of His property. Of course, God will always also serve all the eternal elect angels, spirits of plants and animal spirits in heaven too, as their God and Lord. But God promised much more to elect human beings. God will serve elect human beings in a way where they consciously know and deeply fellowship with their very personal loving Father and oldest Brother. The Father of their spirits and their dearly beloved Brother will treat elect human spirits as members of His beloved family, as those with whom He will share all His thoughts and works. We will not be mere beloved servants of God in heaven, like the elect angels and the other created elect spirits. Elect humans will be His children, heirs of the infinitely vast lands of heaven. And, like all heirs, we will help our Father and our oldest Brother serve His entire estate.

This is why each elect child is now being taught and trained, during this life on this earth, to learn some aspects of the Father’s responsibility, to do the kinds of works that each one’s spirit has been created to enjoy. And it is absolutely demonic for secular humanists to transform work into class and slave systems, to make souls hate the works which God created them to do for their joy, to say that some works deserve more esteem than others, and to make some works disdainful. For all good works express the love which our Creator inherently “wired” into elect spirits, to be the primary and greatest source of their joy, just as loving works are God’s greatest joy. And, since the Father of our spirits and our oldest Brother will live forever, we shall forever rejoice by helping Him administer the works required to serve life in His heavenly kingdom. Laboring beside Him, we will forever “judge” lives, by teaching and training them to do God’s works through ever-deeper love, and by doing many kinds of sedentary and active tasks through our love for all the other lives in heaven.

Incidentally, let me repeat that, in context, the word υἱός is definitely gender indefinite here. It refers to any elect human, either a male or female. Literally all the elect will be granted a predestined share of the Father’s estate, the very same share that each individual’s whole being was created to desire and enjoy the most, even for all eternity. Of course, back in John’s day, kingdoms and estates were usually left only to male children, since only they could continue to do the works of their father. But, even in those days, the apostles knew “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28, WEB). Here on earth there are neither male nor female spirits and, in heaven, there are no male and female bodies for those spirits. For all the living entities that God chose to create on earth will already exist, and no

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new lives will ever need to be born on earth. If any new lives are needed, they will be created whole in heaven, like the angels were. A spirit can never have any real sexual identity and, when we are resurrected for the judgment and “cannot die any more,” we will be children of God and sexless “like the angels” (Luke 20:36, cf., Mat. 22:30, Mark 12:25). Whether an elect spirit is placed in a

male or female body while on earth, that spirit is a υἱός (inheriting child) of our Father in heaven.7

Keep this in mind when we read John’s description of heaven. John was talking about human spirits who have already received their bodies made of eternal spiritual substances. So, after all humans receive their spiritual bodies, their attributes will be entirely spiritual, without physical or cognitive flaws, and also without any ability to commit the physical sins they could on earth. For instance, when all are judged at the gates of heaven, none will ever be able to commit murder or sexual sins again. So, when the non-elect are judged and cast into the “lake of burning fire” for their “second death,” their spirits will be: “those lacking moral fortitude (δειλός) and not able to be trusted (ἄπιστος), even having been made detestable (perfect passive participle form of βδελύσσομαι) as ruthless violators of God’s laws and ways (φονεύς), immoral exploiters (φαρμακός), those who try to force their own wills to be done upon others through spiritual powers or deceptions (φαρμακός), worshippers of demons, men and other idols (εἰδωλολάτρης), and all kinds of liars (ψευδής)” (Rev. 21:8, ALT). Of course, this clearly describes all non-elect spirits dwelling in flesh on earth, who physically act in cowardly, faithless, detestable, murderous and sexually immoral ways, or practice magic to try and exert their will on others with multiple kinds idolatry that do the same, always inventing vile kinds of lies to promote the worship of themselves, other human benefactors and “friendly” demons, so they can gain more power and money. Yet the elect also commit these same sins. The difference is that the elect can and will repent after their deceived and weak minds and bodies of flesh die, while the loveless non-elect cannot and never will repent, since their malevolent spirits actually cause all of their physical sins.

God was not revealing the eternal fates of spirits and souls in bodies of flesh here (Rev. 21:6-8). It is not our earthly bodies that will be sent to hell or enter heaven, since all flesh and the entire material universe will have passed away and will have already “burned” before anyone goes to the judgment day, before anyone is sent to hell or enters heaven. This prophecy is clearly about entirely spiritual beings in eternal and genderless bodies made of spiritual substances, whose “portion” will be either heaven or hell. And the “portion” of the spirits born of Satan’s loveless spirit will be the lake of spiritual fire that emits a horrible spiritual stench comparable to what our flesh on earth knows as the scent of burning sulphur. This spiritual kind of fire and our sense of smell in our spiritual bodies will not be earthly, physical fire or the more perfect senses we will have in our spiritual bodies. For there is nothing eternal and spiritual can possibly be consumed, destroyed or killed by spiritual fire, and the senses of our spiritual bodies will accurately detect spiritual substances with instant recognition.

Spiritual fires can burn with raging flames forever, without consuming the fuel being burned. That is, the fuel will be the imagined wicked works in the minds of their spirits. Then the fires will be their strong desires to do those wicked works. So the spiritual fires of hell will be the disabled, unfulfilled, frustrated desires of the non-elect to lie and sin, which will cause extreme pain in their spirits and souls, producing a terrible spiritual odor of rage, due to their forced impotence and total inability to ever lie and sin again. For hell will have absolutely nothing in it, not even any light of God’s truths to lie about. The non-elect will have nothing to exploit, to pretend to own or rule over like gods, no person or thing to kill or destroy in order to display their “great” power. Hell is an empty void that will frustrate all their loveless and wicked desires. In hell, not even Satan himself will ever be able to rule over anyone or anything, and his human children will not be able to form any hierarchical class systems with human gods ruling over them either. For, in that utter spiritual darkness, no soul will be

 

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able to even “see” anyone else, much less rule over them. So all those non-elect spirits will be utterly alone, each trapped in one’s own dark delusions and lies, overwhelmed with their frustrated desires.

The sentence of hell is called the “second death” because it is their second separation from God’s kingdom. Their first death is the separation of their temporary bodies of flesh from God’s earthly kingdom and their second death is the separation of their eternal spiritual bodies from God’s more real and permanent heavenly kingdom. The attributes of every non-elect soul in hell actually bears the same attributes as their father in hell, who is Satan. That is, all the non-elect lack pure, equitable, just, unconditional, God-like love. Therefore, all the non-elect spirits possess an unquenchable desire to exploit and destroy, a craving to make themselves feel like gods who can exert their own wills upon God’s creations. They all want to be able to have the power to do whatever they want with no restraints, regardless of how much it will harm others or destroy good. Thus, all non-elect spirits, all the loveless demonic spirits and all the loveless human spirits made in Satan’s image, need to be forever separated from God’s kingdom in a “second death.” For God is love, and so is His kingdom.

So the non-elect will not be sent to hell because of their physical lies and sins, but because of their lying, wicked, loveless spirits which express their vile inner attributes through the lusts and desires of their flesh on earth, by committing their physical sins and crimes against God’s earthly kingdom. Therefore, we must conclude that not all who are cowardly, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars because of the thoughts of their flesh on earth will go to hell. Only those who do such things through the innately loveless core desires their spirits will go to hell.

That is, only those who sin without any conflicts arising from the inner conscience developed by God in the minds of their spirits, will go to hell. And we also see that the first and foremost kinds of loveless non-elect on this list are “cowards” or “those lacking moral fortitude” (δειλός), as well as the “faithless” or “those not able to be trusted” (ἄπιστος). First and foremost, we can determine those who have loveless spirits by the way they lack any ability to resolutely hold onto and firmly uphold any moral truths or realities in their spirits and souls, then how they often refuse to be convinced that such things are even true or real, even with the most firm evidence. Rather, their hearts turn away from truths and realities for their own personal survival or physical gain, without any inner conflict about how much harm or suffering this may produce for their siblings in the family of humankind. And this is often called cowardliness. Then, because they never take a stand on the truth, they cannot be trusted with anyone’s welfare or anything that is critical to anyone’s well-being, and are faithless.

But, if some have “cowardly” brains in their bodies of flesh, paralyzed by indecision through things like cognitive and emotional dysfunctionality or fears and self-doubt, they can still actually have very brave spirits. If their spirits and souls cling to and refuse to relinquish the truths and realities that God’s Holy Spirit has written upon their hearts and minds, if the inner conscience developed by God in the minds of their spirts disdains lies and longs to do good for one’s siblings in the family of humankind, that is what God calls true courage. And, even if their flesh trembles, they will inwardly feel compelled to battle against evil, in whatever ways they are able. Yes, the truly cowardly souls of Satan and his minions will gas-light those brave souls, by mocking their trembling flesh and calling them “cowards.” But, in reality, the loving, honest elect souls with genuine spiritual and moral inner convictions and fortitude are the only truly brave souls on earth. And they are the only ones who can be trusted at all, the only ones who can develop covenants of love through their spirits’ faithfulness.

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emotional delusions in minds of flesh are used by Satan and his minions to build and control his evil empires, his enslaving hierarchical class systems ruled by psychopathic wanna-be human gods. The devil hypes up his armies to kill, destroy and enslave their own equal siblings through deluding lies and superstitious fears which dehumanize harmless siblings and make them feel like “enemies.” So their armies are hyped with more delusions to feel “courage” through the emotions of their flesh, which also glorify the “brave saviors” who kill and enslave the most “enemies.” But, in reality, those who fight for evil are all mere deluded, ignorant cowards in their spirits, who cannot be trusted to stand on a single truth nor take responsibility for the well-being of anyone or anything. The truly brave and trustworthy souls do not need lies and delusions to fight for truths and justice. Yet some fight in their own ways and, even if some flee from physical battles through the weakness of their minds of flesh, they never stop fighting the real enemies of God’s kingdom. So these are the ones whom God’s power will always support, those whom God appoints to serve the life of His kingdom.

The fact is that all the elect actually possess brave spirits, since all possess an inner desire to uphold truths as the foundation of the just kind of love their spirits crave, the kind of love that defines the character of the Creator God. All the elect feel compelled to war against evil, at any cost. Still, not all elect brains of flesh possess outwardly manifested courage and confidence, and not all elect now consciously know the real Jesus, nor see His heavenly reward for earthly sacrifices. This takes time. First, first elect spirits need His awakening, which only occurs at His appointed times. Then their spirits require personal teaching and training from Jesus’ Holy Spirit. After much of this, as they grow more inwardly mature, their spirits can better manage their minds of flesh in the chambers of their souls. So their spirits also begin to honestly recognize the strengths and weaknesses of their flesh, as well as the limits of their infantile spirits. So they can then act with some wisdom in doing their good works in the ways God meant them to do them. Then, working together beside the other elect, as with one mind in Jesus, they become more effective in their battles against true spiritual enemies, to nullify works of Satan and build up the just, equitable, loving kingdom of God on earth.

All the elect begin life with extremely infantile, weak spirits and even more fragile flesh. So life soon teaches them to fear pain and death. And, in their infancy, all the elect long for love and joy, to learn truths which enable them to do good that can express their love. But Satan’s world order often uses their fear to direct them into very irrational thoughts and anger, then teaches them that violence and terrorism are the only solutions to whatever causes their fears. So they begin to think that they must be tyrants or follow despots, to survive and succeed in life. That demonic spirit is continuously working through false religions, especially through Roman humanism, to teach both his own non-elect human offspring and God’s elect children that their fears must be transformed into rage against all who oppose their own wills. But devil is controlling and deluded their wills, making them think that their stupid, foolish, destructive, murdering thoughts of the flesh are “right” and “good,” even the only way to “save” themselves. So those fools strive to seize control, to use physical power to coerce everyone into obeying their deluded wills. Of course, that always inevitably causes their own eventual destruction, after they mindlessly destroy what they need to survive and murder those who can help them live abundant lives. In every family on earth, Satan convinces some fools to become tyrants and despots, for the destruction of all. Satan tries to tear down all the loving, cooperating, just and wise works that our God Jesus continuously calls the elect to build. But now the elect must learn to heed Jesus, so they can tear down Satan’s lies, delusions and stupidity, to build up God’s kingdom.

Soon Jesus will remove all the non-elect from the earth, all the loveless spirits made like Satan’s spirit. For all those non-elect slavishly labor night and day to promote their cherished lies, delusions and destruction. Yet all those non-elect spirits are terrified of God. All their cowardly spirits tremble

 

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whenever God causes His created realities and truths to thwart them. Yet their terror transforms into a blind rage against Him and His clear, empirically observed realities and truths. Then they also persecute God’s children, the brave elect whose spirits boldly approach our God Jesus, who not only reveal His realities and truths, but also build love and abundant lives upon them. Because the mature and awakened elect always tear down the oppressive hierarchical systems and the delusions which the non-elect wanna-be gods created through their selfish ambitions, because those elect then replace those abominations with God’s stable, wise, just, equitable and loving kingdom, the non-elect hate and want to murder those elect. So this war has raged from the beginning. But Jesus will soon end it.

On earth, the cowardly and untrustworthy non-elect do not even want to hear God’s name spoken out loud. Yet those trembling spirits want to feel brave. So they make their flesh feel bold through the delusions and ignorance granted to them by their hellish father, although some also need alcohol or drugs to supplement that false courage of their deluded flesh. Then these children of Satan use this fake courage to bully and dehumanize others, so they can feel like gods. Yet they ensure that their victims are smaller, weaker, unprepared and more defenseless, whenever they attack them, since they are inwardly cowards. Thus, there is never anything noble or just about their warfare, when they strut in their military costumes to prove how much greater they are than the others. For their purely evil warfare is entirely designed to oppress and steal from their pseudo-enemies, not for the salvation of anyone, not even as a defensive action to save themselves. Or, if they possess enough of Satan’s invention of money, they will hire other poorer psychopathic bullies to do their evil works for them, since Satan’s children will do anything, even murder, to get a little cash, or the things it can buy. And their minds of flesh always believe Satan’s false promise, that they can acquire a “good life” through the acquisition of wealth and power, although they never find any satisfaction, contentment, peace or joy in it. So the devil then deludes them into thinking their dissatisfaction is because they need even more money and power for a truly “good life.” So this evil insanity continues until the day they die.

Nevertheless, all spirits know they will not be able to keep their bodies of flesh in the afterlife, and that no money nor any sinful pleasures will exist there. So the evil father of the non-elect might give them lies and delusions, with some temporary perceptions of courage and pleasures of the flesh on earth, but this will make their more real everlasting lives worse after the judgment day. For the lies and delusions that their spirits believed on earth will remain with them forever, and cause painful frustrations for their souls in hell. Thus, the wretched and dissatisfied lives of the richest and most powerful non-elect, who most diligently served their hellish father with the most esteem on earth, will end up suffering the most in hell. For their ruthless father gave them an extended education in evil and greater carnal rewards to reinforce his lies and delusions, while they lived on earth. Of course, that education and those rewards will cease forever after their lives on earth end. But their stronger lies and delusions will cause greater eternal pains for those “greater” non-elect, since they will cause them worse frustrations, once they dwell in hell. Yet the “lesser” non-elect will suffer less in hell, since they will merely believe lesser lies and delusions, which will cause them less painful frustrations in hell. Therefore, if the elect build just, equitable, loving environments for themselves and the non-elect on earth, where those elect boldly proclaim truths and realities which tear down the lies and delusions of the non-elect, this will not only allow the elect to create more spiritual treasures for their eternal lives in heaven, but will also spare many non-elect from much greater pains in hell.

In contrast, even the most immature, trembling spirits of the elect will spontaneously resist and oppose at least some lies and sins of the non-elect, even the non-elect who are far more rich and powerful, and demons who can easily crush them but are kept in check by God’s power. Elect spirits cannot help but hate lies and evil, and instinctively resist injustice, even if their flesh is afraid. If an

 

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elect soul is thoroughly beaten down and enslaved, it may suppress its spirit’s thoughts about truth and justice, but will still remain unable to stop them completely. For all elect spirits know what the real heaven is like, and what their heavenly just, equitable, loving Father is like. So literally all the elect inwardly long to build the real heaven on earth, as well as become more like their Father and oldest Brother, since they were created in His image. And that is true courage, although it is indeed inherent and involuntary from their spirits. Then their acts of courage gradually make them more trustworthy and results in their genuine faithfulness to God, which Jesus rewards by making their good, just, loving words and works on earth effective, even if the non-elect might destroy their flesh.

This kind of courage is always built on verities, created through an elect spirit’s faith in real truths, with an inner (and sometimes unconscious) knowledge that the Creator God surely will reward them in the end, even though it might be after their flesh dies. For their spirits know they cannot ever die, that their lives have only begun with their temporary perceptions of life on earth, that infinite growth will surely occur after they enter their eternal homes waiting for them. This kind of spiritual courage of the elect often terrifies non-elect spirits, since they also know that the almighty God Jesus will uphold the words and works of elect souls who faithfully serve Him in spirit and in truth. The flesh of the non-elect might not admit it, but their spirits know they have already lost, that the unstoppable power of the omnipotent, omniscient and holy Spirit of God Himself works in and through the elect.

Until Jesus returns, even a hint of God’s light shining from the least of His realities and truths, to pierce the oppressive darkness of Satan’s world order, can cause the non-elect great alarm, sending them into an irrational rage fueled by their innermost fears. For it reminds them that all the slavishly painful works of their flesh can easily and quickly fall apart. They plot and plan throughout their sleepless nights, to guard the rubble of their little kingdoms from any rogue monsters or mice who might crack or creep under their thin, fragile but highly polished walls. They go out by day and by night to murder their rival non-elect siblings, and the rebelling love of the elect. Yet their non-elect rivals still manage to stab them in the back when they aren’t looking. Then the elect keep rising up again, to tear down their putrid palaces of lies, so they can rebuilt God’s true, just, loving kingdom in its place. And while those non-elect keep on slaughtering and toiling for Satan’s earthly rewards until they drop, their spirits know that all their bitter striving will end in futility. Their souls cannot shake the feeling that God will soon cast them all into a dark, endless lake of perpetual black fire, emitting the eternal stench of their selfish ambitions like the smell of burning sulfur. But the light of our God Jesus will never stop radiating above them, upon the joyful myriads of His elect siblings in heaven.

Satan and his non-elect offspring know full-well that they can never win, cannot ever usurp God’s rule over heaven and earth. They all inwardly know the elect will surely inherit God’s kingdom on earth and in heaven, no matter what they might be able to do to try to stop them. And that is why the awakened elect can walk in such boldness and confidence, why their spirits rejoice even when they face death, while their beloved God Jesus subjects them to these perceptions of wretched material existence, with all its pains and persecutions. For their spirits actually exist in the spiritual space-time continuum of heaven at all times, even as they perceive life on earth. Their spirits are always feeling the warmth of God’s light in the reality of that eternal realm, despite earth’s cold darkness.

Of course, both the non-elect and elect have cowered and bowed before the worthless, insignificant souls whom Satan promotes to positions of vile power in his dark world order. But there is a great difference between the elect and non-elect who serve those wanna-be gods. The non-elect love the stench of those arrogant nobodies, and want to smell just like them. Those loveless ones bow with the hope of material gain and power from those spiritually impoverished dupes of the devil, and see nothing wrong with the way those Satanic puppets lie, exploit, steal, abuse and kill. But the elect try

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to keep as far as possible away from that stench, and merely submit to those illicit powers if it is absolutely necessary, whenever they cannot directly oppose those authorities who were not chosen by God. And even sleeping elect spirits who have never heard the Gospel hope to undo the evil lies and works of God’s enemies, then strive to serve all justly and equitably through their love for all.

Satan’s minions disguise these tendencies of the non-elect and elect in many ways, by calling evil good and by calling good evil. And the devil’s fake churches obscure this very obvious distinction between the elect and non-elect the best. For his humanistic churches preach a fake gospel, claiming that Jesus died so He could send all who prove physical loyalty to Him into His kingdom of heaven. They say that, by taking physical sacraments or verbally uttering a “Sinner’s Prayer,” anyone can enter heaven, no matter how much they lie and sin. And they say this because that is how their pagan wanna-be gods accept the members of their unjust, oppressive, hierarchical kingdoms. Then those fake churches twist the Scriptures to prove this partial truth, which is actually a deeply poisoned lie.

By preaching this, those fake churches nullify the whole emphasis of the real Gospel and distract from God’s main purpose of salvation, which is to teach and train elect spirits to be loving, just and truly righteous. To keep their captives focused on superficial matters of the flesh, they never actually say a thing about God’s real New Covenant salvation promise, which really involves the Messiah personally writing His Law upon our hearts and minds, until He can truly serve us as our God once we learn to rightly, wisely and lovingly serve Him. Their lies also make the resurrection of Jesus’ body of flesh from the dead superfluous and unnecessary. For, if Jesus died solely as a substitute for us—just so we would be judged according to His own loving righteousness, instead of according to our own loving righteousness that He Himself has put inside us—then there would be no actual need for Jesus to rise from the dead. But the real reason Jesus’ body of flesh rose from the dead was so that He could send His Holy Spirit from His living body to personally teach and train our spirits, so we could become more loving, just and wise each day, even while still living in these bodies of flesh. Also, on top of all this, their fake salvation never says anything about the completing and perfecting of souls on the long judgment day, because all those fake humanistic churches believe only in pagan kinds of judgments, where the only purpose is to either punish the guilty or free those holding the power to escape their guilt. They know nothing about God’s true justice, which always teaches for the purpose of causing repentance into the truth, if it can, and only punishes those who do not repent.

So, day in and day out, we see both the secular world and fake churches, all belonging to Satan’s world order, confusing and obscuring the difference between true and false love, true and false justice, spiritual and carnal wisdom. Their propaganda makes good look like evil and evil look like good, so their people will not be able to discern between light and darkness, so they will become totally immune to the stench of their wickedness. The elite human gods lie to the heavens, just to keep their unjust, destructive, murdering, illicit hierarchical kingdoms from being abandoned by the elect, because the elect are indeed the only useful souls on earth. Those lying servants of Satan tell those elect that they alone serve God, that they alone are just and righteous. And the blinded, deaf, senseless elect believe them, because they can no longer see, hear nor smell the rotting corruption of the murderers ruling over them. Injustice, bigotry, racism, exploitation, slavery, persecutions of those who speak the truth and other evils all look normal and good to those elect, and they cannot rightly judge any words and works as either good fruits of God’s Holy Spirit or bad fruits of Satan’s spirit.

Yet the suppressed spirits of all those deceived elect, who cannot tell their right hand from their left, who are taught to fear and flee from any truths not authorized by their illicit enslavers, still carry an ember of hope for an an abundant life, full of love and justice. Because God created their spirits with eternal innate desires for His kind of love that is entirely founded on His truths, those inner longings

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can never be expunged from them. And our God Jesus is well-able to awaken, quicken and redeem their deeply suppressed, sleeping spirits. Whenever Jesus begins to do this, they always begin to hate the sight, sound and smell of evil. Then they feel compelled to resist evil, as Jesus’ Holy Spirit grants their elect spirits a trust in His truths and a confidence in His loving, holy, just power. As He writes His just and loving Law upon their hearts, as this saving faith causes their inner eternal parts to trust in the words, power and love of Jesus, they do the training works which fill them with joy and hope.

This inner hope, which our God Jesus writes upon their hearts and in their minds, translates into their courage and faithfulness. This hope in literally all elect spirits, although it is often deeply hidden and unconscious, will eventually transform into truly good, just, loving works, both on this earth and in heaven. And, after their flesh dies, their eternal spirits and souls will awake in everlasting spiritual bodies, which will be completed and perfected by Jesus before they enter their true homes in the city of New Jerusalem on heaven’s mainland. So the deaths of their earthly flesh will result in eternal rest from all their mundane, profane works on earth, since they will then only do the Sabbath works of their heavenly Father in heaven, in their always energetic, fully loving and rejoicing spiritual bodies.

Non-elect spirits, born of Satan, cannot have any such hope, courage or faithfulness. For, without any hope for an everlasting goal, their hopes for their transitory and often thwarted short-term goals cannot produce much courage or unwavering loyalty to anyone or anything. As they are forced to forfeit their short-term goals, they simply give up and cowardly flee from their enemies, so they can find a new “god” to conditionally and transitionally pledge their loyalty to. Their inherently selfish and loveless spirits, which often hide behind false religion and good works designed to purchase favor, are utterly incapable of actually trusting in real God or any of His created truths and realities.

The only kind of love that Satan and his non-elect offspring will ever allow in their kingdoms is an emotion or lust from minds of flesh, a conditional, possessive, jealous kind of love that can vanish in a moment. For the non-elect know that true love, worked by Jesus and based on His just principles, will expose their filthy lies and break apart their unjust power structures. Therefore, the “mighty” kingdoms in Satan’s world order are actually very weak and fragile, easily fragmented, constantly suffering from the rebellions of betraying rivals. Since they cannot have genuine, God-like love, they have nothing in them to maintain hope or courage when they face losses or terrors of the flesh, no faithfulness to unite and keep them fighting for a captain or a cause. They have no commonly shared truths nor any real communion at all. There is absolutely nothing in them that can prevail when they lose sight of this world’s rewards for the flesh. Then their myopic short-term goals for money and power, to gratify their flesh, not only destroys others, but themselves. So, in the end, the persistent and inherent hope that God puts in all elect spirits will overcome all evil. Their brave faith will make every elect soul into “one who conquers,” so each “will have this heritage” of eternal life in heaven, so each will become an inheriting child of the Father, because Jesus has served them as their God.

So spiritual desperation and fear in the non-elect feeds their zeal for carnal rewards from Satan’s world order, since their spirits can have no hope for any gain in their eternal homes. And their spirits, like Satan’s spirit, actually dwell in hell even now on earth, although all non-elect human spirits will briefly visit heaven’s gates on the judgment day, to see where their hellish father was born. It is their inner terrors which stir up their inner rage, which in turn makes them more fervently lie and fight more violently for false promises of earthly wealth and power. These external acts of risking all for temporary gain may seem like boldness and loyalty, at times. But all are merely outward expressions of the spirit’s fear and hopelessness, definitely not real inner courage nor true faithfulness. Yes, the non-elect love to prattle on about their courage, patriotism, superiority and so on, but it is all empty talk to hide the dread in their souls. Whenever they ruthlessly threaten, suppress, oppress, slander,

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dehumanize, starve, beat, torture and murder the innocent to make themselves feel like gods, it actually proves that their trembling little weak souls are vainly striving to become something when they are nothing. Their sexually immorality, which exploits other flesh so they can feel virile and powerful, only proves that nothing inside them can ever know the joy of fulfilling responsibilities for anyone through God-like love, and that they are the most useless waste of human flesh on earth.

Let the elect see through all this, lest the trauma caused by those non-elect destroy their lives. For the elect possess spirits which can see the spiritual beauty of God’s earthly creations and can love one another. But the non-elect only gravitate to the portrayals of evil God also placed on earth, because they are inwardly hopeless and afraid. All they can ever become are cowards, untrustworthy traitors to all their siblings in humankind, “the detestable”, “murderers” and the “sexually immoral”. Many want to be “sorcerers” too, trying to manipulate people and things with their human wills and carnal desires. Yet their “magic” is always either an empty delusion or a contracted work of Satan’s spirit, and will cost them even greater eternal pains in the end. All the non-elect are “idolaters” as well, since they either worship themselves, other humans or demons, sometimes all three kinds at once.

The elect were born for a different eternal destiny, which their education on earth is teaching them to fulfill. So the elect will see and experience evil, which God Himself allows and placed on earth. But the reason God allows His beloved elect to see and experience evil is to demonstrate what is not His will, to their spirits, so His elect will more deeply ponder the good and beautiful, which He has also manifested through His earthly creations. For He wants our spirits to more zealously desire and cherish His loving, just, equitable facsimile of heaven on earth, then build it. And our common experiences with evil help us empathize with one another more. Then our Creator and Father came in the body of Jesus to suffer all the evil we experience during our earthly lives, so He could empathize with us and share our disdain for all that opposes His good and loving will. Yet, while He lived with us, He spent all His short precious earthly hours teaching us to fulfill His Law; not merely to prevent ourselves from murdering, which He commanded for even the non-elect, but to actually build up truly abundant, fulfilled, loving lives wherever we went. His elect siblings were to become just, equitable and loving like He was while He walked among us, and take His example to heart. So we are to speak the truth against evil, but through love, to tear down the lies and evil works of Satan’s kingdom, as He did. However, our principal and most fulfilling work is to train to become builders of His heavenly kingdom on earth, to share our lives, works and bread with our beloved siblings in humankind, as He did. If we learn all this from Jesus, we will not join the non-elect in doing evil.

At the beginning of this chapter, John saw the elect citizens of the New Jerusalem “prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband” (Rev. 21:2). So he saw how, during the judgment day, Jesus had completed and perfected all the elect who had ever received perceptions of earthly life, how He had prepared and made them ready for their works and lives on the mainland of heaven. Then an angel, one who had been called to serve in the judgment against Satan’s world order, told John, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb” (21:9b). Then the angel carried John’s spirit to “a great high mountain,” so he could see the citizens of New Jerusalem “coming down out of heaven from God” (21:10). After this, John described the city itself. So here we see how this angel called Jesus, “from” whom these elect came, by the title of “God.” Then the descending city is, of course, the residents of that city, who are “coming down” to the inanimate houses, streets and walls of their city. Yet they descend “out of heaven,” because the location of the judgement day, which they just completed, was actually within the spiritual space-time continuum we call “heaven.” Thus, we can then differentiate between these two parts of heaven, by calling the place of judgment heaven’s

 

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“gates” and by calling the rest of heaven its “mainland.” But it is not the inanimate houses, streets and walls of New Jerusalem which descend onto “mainland,” only the elect citizens Jesus redeemed.

Jesus revealed how “the holy city” will descend, how “the Bride, the wife of the Lamb” will receive her inheritance. Our descent into heaven will be our heavenly Father’s completed fulfilling of His two main salvation promises in the Abrahamic and New Covenants, when the elect will finally see their destinies and enter their permanent homes in the far more real and eternal spiritual space-time continuum. Myriads and myriads of elect, all in their everlasting bodies made of spiritual substances and wearing their robes of righteousness “washed in the blood of the Lamb” (all forgiven and fully “prepared” by the works of Jesus) shall come down from the high gates of heaven down into the New Jerusalem, all at the same time. For, by the end of the judgment day, we will be one people.

Adam and Eve, the first two who received spirits made in God’s image, will stand before our God Jesus at heaven’s gates on the last day, together with all elect human souls who ever lived on earth. There, we will all come to know one another well, as He teaches and trains us together, until all can work together as one body with one mind, until each is able to joyfully fulfill all of one’s deepest inner desires and express one’s own just, pure love. Although the spirits of literally all these elect were also being taught and trained in the nursery of the earth, not one will have reached completion and perfection yet. All will have died in the flesh as sinners, yet with hopes and callings much like all the past and future elect souls with them on that last day. “These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise” of the New Covenant salvation while on earth, because of “God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect” (Heb. 11:39-40, WEB). For all the elect will be made complete and perfect together on the judgment day, where all will share their earthly experiences, which all will be able to observe and learn from, as they study the “times” on earth from heaven’s gate. Then all will enter heaven together, as one body of our God Jesus, as His one true church serving all lives with Him forever.

As for the streets, buildings and walls of our heavenly city, which John calls the New Jerusalem, all those inanimate things already exist. Jesus Himself said there were many residences, places for us to dwell in, already waiting for us in heaven, and that He was returning to heaven to make them ready for us (John 14:2, note the present tense of the linking verb in the first clause). Or, in reality, Jesus is actually making us ready for our homes and workplaces in heaven, every day on earth, and He will complete that process on the last day at heaven’s gates. Our homes in heaven will be a part of Jesus’ vast palace complex in the Father’s kingdom, all within the walls of the heavenly Jerusalem. And it is called Jerusalem in heaven because the city of Jerusalem is now the dwelling place of God in His earthly kingdom, where He is represented by His temple, which will be Jesus in heaven. Likewise, the name Jerusalem means “the foundation of peace,” and God is the only foundation of true peace.

The palace of our High Priest and King, with our homes already waiting for us in it, is already fully prepared for our arrival. So all the elect who ever lived on earth in all history together, as one people who all know and love one another, will soon descend into that city, to live and labor with our God Jesus forever. And, in following verses, John describes the city’s walls, buildings and streets for us.

So now we might ask why New Jerusalem in heaven will have “a great, high wall.” Of course, there will be no enemies of God in heaven. All His enemies will be securely locked in hell and will never come anywhere near the lands of heaven again. So why would God construct such a massive stone wall for this city which always existed and always will exist in a land of perfect peace, without even a hint of any threat from anyone or anything? Well, there are also privacy walls. Just as each ancient lord’s house once had its own courtyard behind a high wall, even in times of complete peace and

 

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security, so too shall God’s home, the entire inner city of Jerusalem. For the counsel of our King and High Priest, as well as the words from His wise assistant elders and priests, must remain somewhat confidential. For those with less background information and less understanding might catch some of their words, but not comprehend the true intent or meanings, then grow very upset and worried about what was discussed, though they should rejoice over the future results of all the plans being formed.

Jerusalem will be the house of God in heaven, and the reason for its high wall will be to provide complete privacy, to make it impossible for most other living entities to hear their conversations or watch what they do. Behind this high wall, the completed and perfected children of the heavenly Father, created and shaped into His image, shall dwell in new spiritual bodies, together with Jesus, their High Priest and High King, who is one with the Father. So this city was designed to be a place where Jesus and all the Father’s children can find privacy and rest, where they also will be able to confidentially discuss matters and plan their works with their oldest Brother Jesus and with one another. For only Jesus and the elect children of the Father know how to rightly discern between good and evil, how to know what is the will of the Father and what is not. Only they will know how to wisely plan for the joyful spiritual growth and development of all life in heaven’s vast kingdom.

Now it is also true that the elect will also be governing and working in other towns or cities within the vast kingdom of heaven (e.g., see Luke 19:17,19). And the elect who rule or work in those other towns and cities will likely have their own residences there as well. But the principal family home of all God’s children will be in the heavenly Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be their main residence. As the children of the High King and Father of all, each and every elect soul will have a residence within the walls of this city, even in the palace of the High King Jesus, who is one with the creating Father.

This Scripture also seems to identify the twenty-four elders (see Rev. 4:4,10; 5:8,14; 11:16; 19:4). We were not told who these are and we know little about them. We can only assume that, since they are called “elders,” they must have once lived as male human beings who once lived on earth. They were once men who served God until they grew old enough to become elders who judged and taught at the city gates, or in other public places. Then this Scripture talks about twelve gates of the city, where teaching and judging traditionally occurred, and these twelve gates were named after the twelve sons of Jacob/Israel. Next, we also see twelve foundations of the city walls named after the twelve apostles of Jesus, representing the twelve foundational teaching and judging elders of His true priesthood of Israel. So this Scripture also defines twenty-four elders, separate from all the other elect souls in history. Thus, these twelve patriarchs and twelve apostles surely must be the 24 elders mentioned in the other parts of the Revelation. Since John provided no other identification when he wrote down this Revelation, he seemed to assume that we would know who those 24 men must be, through all we knew from the Old and New Covenant Scriptures, then confirmed it here (21:12-14).

The city gates in ancient Israel often had a courtyards where judges could teach as they made their judgments, wide and open public places, often with pleasant gardens and sheltered from the weather, where many souls could sit to hear God’s counsel. So, by naming the gates after the twelve sons of Israel, it implied that true teaching and judging elders would provide all who entered Jerusalem with the completely free counsel of God. This would be granted for both the citizens and for all those who came to visit His priesthood of Israel. It also symbolized that all who came to God’s body and family of Jerusalem would enter its gates through God’s teachings and judgments, through the kind of wise, just, equitable, loving counsel which caused them to repent into the truths which solved all problems.

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recorded the foundational truths of the Messiah’s salvation for all the elect who would become His eternal New Covenant church. The mission of the first apostles was to proclaim the Gospel, to reveal how the Holy Spirit of Jesus would teach and train elect spirits to truly fulfill God’s immutable Law, which would serve as a solid foundation in all matters of life and faith. As long as the load-bearing walls of a structure stood on a firm foundation, all the floors, partition walls and roofs could be anchored to them and remain firmly in place. Thus, it seems that the entire city of New Jerusalem, all the eternal priesthood serving our God Jesus, was built upon the Gospel foundation preached by the first twelve apostles. All their various works of service in heaven would remain unmovable forever.

Thus, all who come to the heavenly Jerusalem shall enter through the gates named after the twelve great-grandsons of one of God’s solitary priests, Abraham, through whom God promised to form His eternal priesthood of Israel. God only allowed those twelve, and all their elect spiritual siblings who ever lived throughout earth’s history, to inherit His salvation granted through Abraham. Then God revealed His Law through those twelve sons of Jacob and, later, came to earth in a body which had descended from one of those twelve, from Judah, and from all the Gentile Canaanites and Africans who joined that tribe. If it was not for God creating a people through those twelve, the priesthood of Israel would not exist, and His Law would have never been fulfilled through His works in the body of the Messiah Jesus, for His priesthood. So God established the church of Israel upon the Gospel of salvation worked by Him in the Messiah, upon that foundation which the twelve apostles proclaimed and recorded for all the elect on earth. Through the twelve patriarchs of Israel, God brought all the elect into His priesthood and eternal home. And through the twelve apostles, laboring in the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, God fulfills His Law in and through His elect, to serve the living up in heaven.

So our God Jesus created, taught and trained those 24 elders, then gathered together every elect individual who ever lived into His eternally serving heavenly priestly family which He constructed through them. Together, these twenty-four elders serve Jesus as His assistant teachers and judges. So they will counsel, teach, exhort, comfort, encourage, guide and love all the other elect souls and all the other living entities in heaven, laboring beside Jesus. Then all the elect will do the same for one another, as well as for all the other elect angels and other elect creatures in heaven. For there will be many trillions of beloved living entities in heaven whom we will serve with great joyful satisfaction.

When John was taken into heaven, the angel took out a “measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls” (21:15). And John saw that the New Jerusalem was square, with “its length the same as its width,” to suggest that there will be equity within its walls, the same love and justice for all. Then this angel gave the measurements in Roman stadia, since John would have been most familiar with those units. In our time, one stadion would be equal to about 185 meters (606.75 ft or 202 yards). Each of the four walls around the heavenly Jerusalem is the same length, about 12,000 stadia (about 2,220 km. or 1,379 mi.). So the walled part of our heavenly city is a perfect square with an area of over 4.9 million square kilometers (or more than 1.9 million square miles). A well-planned city this large, without any streets for motor vehicles, could easily and comfortably house more than ten billion people in spacious residences with wide sidewalks, countless parks, restaurants, shops and other structures. So it would indeed have room for all the elect who ever lived upon the earth. Also, since space-time is different in heaven, all these people could instantly transport themselves to other places in heaven as well. Thus, only a few would actually remain in their home city most of the time.

Since there are three gates on each side, each wall is likely divided into four sections, likely equal in length, with a gate precisely in the centre of each wall and two other gates in the centers between that gate and the ends of the wall. If this is how they are configured, the lengths of the four sections of a wall would each be about 3,000 stadia (about 555 kilometers or 345 miles). That may seem like

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a long way to travel to get to each gate, but time is eternal in heaven and also not linear, nor is space in heaven the same as it is on earth. So the travel time to get to each gate would be nothing for the creatures in heaven, basically merely a thought away, easily accessed within a moment of their time.

Also notice how John mentions that the measuring rod is made of gold. This is probably to indicate the unlimited prosperity of heaven, or that no substances in heaven has an artificially inflated value, since even some of the most common utilitarian tools and objects will be made of gold. In the next verse, we also see how gold in heaven is as “clear” as glass (ἡ πόλις χρυσίον καθαρὸν ὅμοιον ὑάλῳ καθαρῷ means “the city [was] pure/clear/clean gold like pure/clear/clean glass”). So it seems that heavenly gold might be transparent with warm, golden hue. And this means the element of “gold” may bear different properties in the spiritual space-time continuum, possibly less malleable and more transparent, making it a better building material in heaven, stronger than other corrosion resistant materials we now use for tools on earth. And, if gold is so different in heaven, all the other elements or substances must be different there too, although somewhat familiar and identifiable, since the earth is a weak, darker, temporary facsimile of heaven, and God made earth able to be corrupted.

Here John equates the “human measurement” of a cubit with “an angel’s measurement” of a cubit (21:17). Since a human’s cubit in John’s day was the distance between the tip of the middle finger down to the end of the elbow, this implies that the angels’ bodies resembled human bodies, or at least that their forearms are like those of human beings. A Jewish cubit in the first-century Roman Empire, when John wrote this, was about 55 centimeters (about 21.6 inches). So the height of the wall, at 144 cubits, was about 79 meters (259 feet or 86 yards), or about the height of a 25 story building. And a height like that would require the wall to be very thick at its base, as well as with a very deep and solid foundation for each section of that wall, in order to support the weight of stones to the very top.

This entire wall was made of jasper, a stone with widely varying colors and meandering lines of darker or lighter colors throughout, forming unique patterns in each stone, even in each part of each stone. Highly polished jasper is frequently used to make jewelry or artistic carvings, since its deep, natural colors and lines are so intriguing and beautiful. Therefore, it is likely that this wall of jasper will not have a plain, smooth surface. It will probably be covered with intricate, symbolic carvings gleaming in the bright light of heaven. And there also might be stairs, walkways and windows carved into its contours at various heights, to serve as viewpoints, where the people can gaze upon the surrounding lands. Most ancient cities would construct walls with features like this, although nothing nearly this spectacular. The span between each gate had a supporting arch set upon a foundation of stones laid deep enough in the ground to firmly rest on bedrock. Then a gate’s foundation would likely rise a few feet above the ground to create a platform much wider that the thickness of the wall at its base. This platform would ideally extend many meters or yards beyond the inside and outside of the wall, often far enough to serve as a patio on the inside and outside of the wall. Some of these patios could even wrap all around the interior and exterior perimeters of the wall, and could be wide enough to serve as streets. If they were wide enough, people could set up shops, restaurants and booths next to the wall, while still allowing pedestrian and wagon traffic to pass by in front of them.

The twelve sections of the foundations of this wall, which may have included interior and exterior patios with streets extending between the twelve gates, seem to be the foundations that were named after the twelve apostles. And each section was adorned with a different kind of precious or semi-precious stones. These jewels likely would be laid out in artistic and symbolic patterns, or carved into the shapes of plants and animals in peaceful and tranquil scenarios, or used to create a series of pictures that told stories about earth’s history, or adorned the wall in some other way that would be interesting and beneficial to the citizens. Likely the foundations of the wall would wrap around the

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corners and those corners might be rounded in a large circumference to accommodate an easier flow of traffic. So the “first” foundation might be a platform extending from edge the twelfth gate, around the corner of the wall, and up to the edge of the first gate. Then the jasper used to adorn each of the twelve foundations was probably a different color, and different from the jasper used to build the wall above it, since the “jewels” in each will likely contrast the highlights in some kind of artwork.

Since each of these twelve foundations were named after the original twelve apostles (21:14), each corner patio also might be named after one of the four belonging to the “inner” group of apostles. So the patio around the first corner might be called “The Peter Corner,” with the other three named after Andrew, James and John. The first patio or foundation below the wall (the foundation between the first and second gates) was decorated with more jasper. The second had sapphires. The next had some kind of art made with agates (or maybe chalcedony). The second corner was adorned with emeralds, followed by an onyx (or sardonyx) section, then a carnelian section. The third corner had artwork made of chrysolite, followed by a section of beryl and one of topaz. The fourth corner was adorned with chrysoprase, followed by a section decorated with jacinth, then one with amethyst.

Because the wall itself was constructed with expensive stone, with foundations adorned with jewels, and since the gates on every side were made of pearl, this definitely was not any kind of a defensive wall. Rather, this extremely high and beautiful wall was obviously a privacy barrier, and also built to be seen by all the King’s subjects who lived outside of Jerusalem from a very great distance. As the creatures living in heaven approached Jerusalem, with its lofty, multicolored walls sitting on or near a mountain, they would see its spectacle sparkling on the horizon from hundreds of kilometers away.

Then all that was within these walls was constructed of gleaming “pure gold like pure glass.” That is, both the streets and the buildings were made of transparent or semitransparent polished gold which would open up the spaces between buildings. That is, it would allow the warm, golden outdoor light to shine into and through every room. And, since this would not provide any privacy, we can assume that all the individuals in the city will be extremely familiar with one another, without anything to hide, and that there would be no shameful private behaviors that any would want to hide. Daylight reflecting from all this gold also would produce a warm, cheerful and friendly ambiance in the streets and everywhere else in the city, especially when combined with the various shades of color in the walls, waters, trees, flowers and other things in the city. For the God who created nature on earth would surely make this eternal city into a natural wonderland. These gleaming golden buildings, likely even with plants and birds on their roofs and balconies, would look splendid beside the blue river running through the city centre. And the city planning would perfectly please all the residents.

The gates to a city of this size would have to be extremely wide to accommodate billions of souls and all the visitors, especially since there will only be twelve gates. And John told us that all twelve gates are made of pearls which reflect and bend the light into many colors. Each gate is made of one gigantic pearl, likely in a “tear-drop” shape. So an impossibly massive pearl would need been buried half-way into the ground then hollowed out to form the entrance. A very wide tunnel would need to be carved through the upper half of the buried pearl that was set into the wall to serve as a gate. Then the pearl would form a gleaming white arch above a gleaming white floor with thick, gleaning white walls curving over it. And notice how nothing was said about any doors on these gates. We were merely told that twelve angels are appointed guard the twelve gates, one for each gate (21:12). These are likely unarmed angles, administrators who keep an orderly flow of heaven’s visiting creatures coming through the gates. The angels would provide information or directions to those creatures.

 

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Those guarding angels would simply keep everyone safe as they pass through the gates, since there is no threat to anyone in heaven, and no possible harm can be done to any life or property belonging to Jesus, our all-knowing and almighty God. And, since there will be no night there, we can assume these gates will not have doors and never be shut in any other way. Also, ancient gates often had guard rooms within the walls, to provide storage for supplies and furnishings for the guards, when they rested or ate. So their likely will be homes where the angel stationed at each gate will dwell.

Outside each gate, there were usually buildings or covered areas used as meeting places or courts of law, teaching and judgments. The people went to the gates when they required settlements in legal matters, expert advice in their trades, counseling, teachings of all kinds, and so on. Since these gates were named for the twelve sons of Israel, and each son was unique, each gate might be used for some unique purpose. Each gate might be used as a meeting place for one particular kind of trade guild, or as a place to make judgments regarding a certain type of problem, or for teachings and a library about a certain kind of doctrines, or to provide one particular classification of information.

Lastly, as we look at these things, we should keep in mind that the light, energy and matter in heaven will resemble that which is on the earth, since the earth is made to be similar, as a training ground for heaven. However, the spiritual energy and matter, making up all bodies and all substances in heaven will be better and without decay. There will be no fully linear time or space, merely times of God’s thoughts progressing through seasons of flowing time, where multiple seasons can be accessed at various times in a creature’s eternal existence. For instance, while John was up in heaven, he saw and heard himself in a future time, since he was one of the 24 elders. All will be far more real, eternal, bright, compliant and functional in heaven than it is on earth, but without evil or entropy. Yet we will be familiar with the way it all functions up there, since the earth is actually a dim facsimile of heaven, and our spirits in these earthly bodies of flesh are actually made of the same substances that we shall find in heaven. The major difference is that all our earthly spiritual desires will be met.

Thus, on the one hand, it is possible to imagine what it will be like in the New Jerusalem, in our heavenly home. But, on the other hand, it is impossible to fully comprehend what John described here. Nevertheless, God gave John the opportunity to actually see and describe it for us. So God wants us to know what heaven will be like, remember that it exists, and realize that it is the only place which the spirits of all the elect long for, so we will continually try to build heaven on earth.

It is important to remember John’s observations in heaven. For, when God created this solar system, where our earth resides, He placed a sun at its centre, the most massive body in our solar system, the provider of all earth’s light. This was to represent Jesus as the source and centre of the lives of all creatures on earth. Then the stars in the almost infinite outer space represent the vastness of God, and possibly other kingdoms of God that we know nothing about, which may also become other cities in the vast lands of the spiritual space-time continuum. However, in heaven, Jesus will not be far away, not high in the sky, but beside us, working together with us in heaven. Nor will His light blind us if we look upon it in heaven. And His light in heaven will cast no shadows, since we will no longer lie or sin in heaven. Nothing will be allowed to block His spiritual light. Rather, His light will shine everywhere, in every corner, all with the same intensity, and come to us from every direction, even from within. For energy, space and time are far different in heaven, far beyond anything on earth.

Also notice, there is no building in heaven which serves as a temple, since the Person of Jesus is its only temple in heaven (21:22). This is one of the many proof texts which affirm important doctrines regarding our relationship with our God. To begin with, if no temple building or tent of any kind exists in heaven, because the living body of Jesus is the only temple in heaven, it clearly means that

 

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inanimate things, like the physical temple in Jerusalem on earth, were and will be merely symbols designed to provide signs, other information and shelter for God’s loving elect. Those inanimate things are not to be worshiped or revered, not to be defended as though they are somehow more holy and “spiritual” than the heaven-bound spirits giving life and love to humans or even animals. For God commanded us to build a stone temple in Jerusalem, in a certain way, solely to remind us of the presence of true Holy Spirit of our God Jesus coming to dwell among us in a temporary body of flesh. And our bodies on earth are mere temporary things like a temple, like the stone building or tent that God commanded His priesthood of Israel to build. So, whether a temple on earth is made of solid and durable stone or fragile and easily torn cloth, it will end. But the Holy God Himselfe is an uncreated eternal Spirit, and the loving elect also have eternal spirits made in the image of His Spirit.

Therefore, if a physical temple is destroyed, its absence cannot possibly affect the quality of each elect soul’s personal relationship with the real God in any real way whatsoever. And, if the absence of a temple building cannot possibly affect our worship of God, neither can the absence of a church building. Also, since no physical temple or church building is required for worship, we can worship God anywhere that God exists. And God is ubiquitous and omnipresent, existing everywhere in and beyond all His creations. So we can worship God anywhere and everywhere. For God, a Spirit, is always near us, and His temple in Jerusalem was just a symbol reminding us that He is among us.

After the symbol was destroyed, God, a Spirit, had no less ability to speak to our elect spirits, and had no less love for each of His elect than He did when the temple stood, or in the very beginning of time, when there was no temple in the Garden of Eden. Although a symbol reminds us that God lives among us, the real God always lives among us, regardless of whether or not a symbol representing His presence is created or destroyed. Since there is no temple in heaven, and all who are in heaven worship God in Jesus alone, the same holds true for all the elect spirits living in flesh on the earth.

So we are not to limit ourselves to worshipping in a temple, and we certainly are not to worship any symbol itself, even if that symbol does accurately represent God’s presence, like the temple which God commanded His earthly priesthood of Israel to build. Rather, we are only to worship our very personal, loving, wise, just, equitable Spirit of God Himself. For the lack of a temple building in any place with heaven’s vast lands means that the Spirit of God alone is the sole source of all that is holy and loving, of all the light revealing all realities and truths upon which our spirits build our love. No symbol representing God’s presence can be holy, unless it reveals God’s actual presence and will to our spirits. We can only be holy ourselves if our God chooses to be present within our hearts and if He also reveals His loving, just, equitable will on earth in us and through us. But God is not created by us to obey us, and certainly does not come to dwell in us, or in any other place or thing, according to the wills of men. No matter how high and mighty an ignorant, sinful, infantile human being may think he or she is, that one cannot “bless” anyone or anything to make that one or that thing “holy.”

Since God comes and reveals His presence only when He chooses to do so, we can safely assume that the Vatican City, and all that is within it, is not actually holy at all. For nothing in it was ever built according to the direct commands of God’s Holy Spirit to any spirits of His true serving priests. There is no building in the Vatican which God Himself designed to serve as a symbol of Himself, nothing like the temple He Himself designed in His earthly capital of Jerusalem. And even that temple in Jerusalem, built precisely to God’s own specifications, was a mere symbol, which God made truly holy solely during the times when He chose to make His presence and His truths known to His just, equitable, loving elect whom He called to assemble there. There is nothin holy other than that in which the Holy Spirit of God chooses to reveal His true loving self and the light within Him.

 

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Thus, we cannot say that the buildings and other inanimate religious things in the Vatican City are holy at all, since all those buildings and things were made according to pagan Roman designs so they could illustrate the teachings of pagan Roman theistic humanism. Exactly the same can be said about the Muslim’s city and mosque in Mecca, or the Mormon’s temple in Utah, and so on. And, in fact, even the secular humanists are guilty of worshiping fake “temples,” although they more openly and honestly worship human sinners, often lying murderers, as their “holy” and revered “temples.” All of the secular and theistic humanists who form the current capitalist, fascist, communist, socialist and authoritarian systems of Satan’s unjust world order worship some person, place or thing, just like all their humanistic fake religions do. All are the same, despite all of the petty differences they love to point out. And none of them ever actually and truly differentiate between evil liars and the truly holy, just, equitable, wise and loving people and truths from God. Rather, those humanists all divide their groups and war against one another according to loyalties to fake gods and humanly ordained “holy” things, according to carnal creeds, “races,” cultures, greed and their lust for power. And now the elect blindly follow them into all this self-destructive idiocy, which harms and murders the innocent.

So now let the elect forget all of that pagan nonsense and superstition, especially the humanistic kinds which divide and cause hell on earth. The only things the elect really need to look for, when they require fellowship, are signs of just, equitable, God-like love in the spirits of siblings within the family of humankind, regardless of anyone’s race, culture, religious affiliation, political loyalties and so on. Then also let the elect avoid fellowship, as well as spiritual or moral kinds of work, with the loveless, no matter what those unjust destroyers claim to be, especially the ruthless, unjust, hating humanistic wanna-be gods. And let the awakened elect remember the words of our God Jesus: “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the middle of them” (Mat. 18:20, WEB). Our God is a very personal God, deepening the fellowship and love of all elect spirits who pray alone or with even one other loving elect soul. And He never needs any temple, any specific physical place, no special object supposedly made “holy” by the hands of blaspheming sinners, or anything else to pour His concepts of truth into the minds of our spirits, so we can build love upon those truths. Jesus is well-able to teach and train our spirits without the need for props or stages.

Whenever the Holy Spirit of the Creator God sees two or more of His truly loving, just, honest, humble, elect children worshipping Him directly from their spirits and in the pure truths He revealed to their hearts, He is right there, standing with them. He is just as present there as He would ever be among any two awakened elect souls worshiping at His temple in Jerusalem. And this will be even more true in heaven, where our living God Jesus will be the only temple in that infinitely larger and more real realm. God can set aside a physical temple, or anything else, then command it to be used only for His purposes. And that will make that place or thing holy, but only while God is present and while God uses it for His own loving, wise, just, equitable purposes. But absolutely nothing on earth can possibly become intrinsically holy by the wills and works of men, and all that God Himself makes truly holy will stop being holy at the moment God’s favor withdraws from that place or thing.

Therefore, if anyone displays worshipful respect for anything that anyone claims to be holy, or for anything someone claims to be a symbolic representation of the presence of God—for a church building, alter or anything else, even a biblically built temple in Jerusalem—and does this without any respect for God’s loving, wise, just, equitable truths, that one is a liar and fake worshiper. Only the those who worship God in their spirits and in truth are acceptable to the real God. So, if any elect soul, either alone or together with other awakened elect spirits, finds God’s truly loving and wise holiness in any place or thing, such as in the Jerusalem temple about to be constructed by the Jews, then that is acceptable to the real God. For God does write His truths in all His spiritual and physical

 

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creations, and does reveal even His own inner attributes through them, but to our spirits, never to our flesh. But only while God is using some place or thing for His purposes can it be called truly holy, and He does this simply to turn the thoughts in the minds of our spirits towards Him, the real God, who is the only temple in all of heaven and, thus, the only real temple in His earthly kingdom too.

Then the antithesis is also true. If anyone deliberately and willfully disrespects a truly holy and beautiful symbol of God or His truths, that one sins against God. However, this is a sin because it is actually one’s spirit hating and opposing the real Holy Spirit of God and His truths, not because the symbol itself is intrinsically holy. So anyone who does this by accident is innocent. For no temporary material creation can possibly be inherently holy, because all truly holiness is eternal like God. In fact, if anyone thinks a material place or thing is inherently holy, that one is guilty of a form of idolatry, including the one who deliberately disrespects that place or thing solely because one thinks it represents God or His truths. And only humans can commit these sins. For the spirits of animals instinctively love and revere God and His truths, whenever He calls their spirits to do so. Only some human spirits are able to love and revere God and His truths through their own wills, or else hate and disrespect God and His truths through their own wills, since only human wills can discern between good and evil like God does, and were made to be free in the spiritual realm after their flesh dies.

Illustrations of these principles can be seen in almost all false religions, especially humanistic ones. For instance, some humanists believe that a man-made wafer of bread is inherently holy and call the use of it a “sacrament,” whenever one of their fake priests, who worship a man-made god, mutters a few words over it. But this is idolatry on many levels, since their people worship both the physical supposedly “holy” symbol and the fake priests who pretend to make those wafers “holy.” Then there are other sins involved with this practice, such as calling the building this is done in a “holy” place, just because those fake priests have supposedly “sanctified” that place. So they are no better than the Satanists who deliberately attempt to “defile” those wafers and themselves through basically the same brands of idolatry and superstition. Both sin equally against God and His truths. In reality, God wants His elect children to worship Him alone, to esteem Him by emulating His just, wise, loving ways and by serving His just, wise, loving purposes. Then He will make truly holy whatever He chooses, whenever He chooses, for the real edification and joy of their truly worshiping spirits.

Now we know God’s temple will soon be rebuilt in Jerusalem, and a new generations will be able to pray in it. Yet we must remember that it is a mere symbol of Jesus, and will be used by Him during the millennium. So we must remind ourselves that God’s temple cannot make our prayers heard and cannot help us gain a better relationship with God. It will be God’s only temple on earth, but it will only exist to remind us that God is with us while we live on earth. And it will serve as a meeting place for the beloved brothers and sisters of Jesus, as a place where we can feast together and share all things in common, according to His will. And, when Jesus comes, He will be infinitely greater than that temple. He will be the only true presence of the real God on earth, as He was the first time He came (e.g., Mat. 12:6), and as He will be in heaven. For our God Jesus has always been with us at all times, and was our only true teaching High Priest and judging King from the very beginning.

So the declaration that our God Jesus Himself is the only temple and only light of heaven is an important doctrinal statement. Neither the earth nor heaven have any need for a temple building, and heaven does not even need a sun, moon or stars for light. Thus, the teaching and judging of all of humankind on earth does not depend on a temple or anything else built by man, but only on Jesus. Our closeness to God does not depend on us or where we are, but only on Jesus. Then all light and all matter on earth is formed from energy, and all energy is actually God’s non-material and spiritual power. So all light and matter on earth, somewhat like it is in heaven, is actually the will and power

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of Jesus too, completely regulated and controlled by Him. And this is why earth is much like heaven, why the awakened elect in Jesus can nullify works of Satan on earth, then build heaven on the earth.

The humanistic false church utterly confounded this biblical teaching, replacing our reliance on the teachings and judgments of the real God with a reliance on the teachings and judgments of foolish, greedy, power-hungry human gods, in accordance with the pagan Greco-Roman philosophies of Middle Platonism. As a consequence, both secular and theistic humanists concluded that the earth was the centre of the universe, instead of the sun, since the sun symbolized the light of our Creator God, whom we know by the name of Jesus. They taught that both the sun and moon revolved around them, since they dreamed that God and the elect, who reflect God’s true light, should revolve around them. In their deluded minds, the earth belonged to them, not to God. All their thoughts focused on themselves, on Satan’s invention of money and achieving the power to sin as they pleased, never on their people, nor on God’s truths required to sustain their people. Instead, they crushed the honest souls who opposed their lies and asked for true justice worked through love. But they could never crush the real God, nor alter His immutable principles created for the effective functioning of all life. So they destroyed themselves, over and over again, while they destroyed all that is good on the earth.

Humanists believe man is the actual and virtual god of gods, the god whose “free will” determines the actions and activities of all other gods. Meanwhile, Plato’s god in the highest heaven, whom the false church then equated with the God of the Bible, was figuratively represented by gods who ruled the sun and moon. But, ultimately, everything in the heavens spread out from the high god in heaven. So, by the third century, the real reason church humanists believed the sun and moon revolved around them and the earth was because they felt that God’s actions and His heavens revolved around their decisions and actions, and that they acted on God’s behalf, through their human wills. Since their impassive high god did not possess any actual will of his own, but mindlessly sat in heaven’s void, ignoring all things. Meanwhile, all the accidentally created angels, super-human gods and other very carnal “spiritual” creatures spent all their time and effort reacting to one another and to their own extremely foolish and sinful whims in hierarchical systems, and to the whims of men, especially to the “great” elites, whom other humans worshipped as their gods in their own Roman hierarchies.

Serving the wills of the elite was a top priority in every Roman humanist’s life, and humanistic churches believed that only their elite humans could manipulate the heavenly high god who had accidentally created all things, because god never really had any real will of his own. Of course, now we know what is implied by the real biblical teachings is true, that the earth revolves around the sun, and the moon merely reflects the light of the sun as it revolves around and serves the earth. So the sun was a symbol of the real God, the earth is still a symbol of man, and the moon is like the true church, as it should have been under the real Jesus. For, in reality, God gives and controls the lives of all humans, and literally all life revolves around God, according to God’s will. Life is completely determined by God’s very strong, immutable and wise will. Then God’s true servants, whom He sends to serve all life on earth, His faithful awakened elect, merely reflect God’s will upon earth.

In the end, all light and matter on earth is the power of God emitted according to His will, both the physical light in the material universe and the spiritual light of true principles in heaven. We should never forget this, lest we become so deluded and arrogant that we begin to think like the humanists. We must never start to believe that we can own and control light, energy and matter, that our own extremely infantile, ignorant and unwise wills can determine God’s choices and our own destinies. Knowing that all physical and spiritual light willfully and purposefully originates from God means we are responsible to God for the way we use it. We are obligated to God for the way we use the energy which makes up our own bodies, and to serve as His disciples to learn His light of knowledge

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and wisdom. All forms of energy remind us that God’s truths alone must establish all our highest priorities in life. The loving elect are infants learning from a very personal, loving, serving God.

When John saw the New Jerusalem of heaven, he told us: “And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Rev. 21:23, ESV). So the source of all light in heaven is the Lamb, is our God Jesus. Then His completed and perfected New Covenant church in heaven will no longer merely reflect His light, but His light will shine in and through them, because He will only gather all His elect into His church after He has fully conformed them all into His image. And this is what we are to strive for while we live in these perceptions of life in this material realm, where both signs of both heaven and hell exist. For the very next thing John wrote, immediately after telling us this about heaven, was: “By its light will the nations walk, and the [decision-making authorities] of the earth will bring their glory into it, and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life” (21:24-27, ESV). So here we see that humankind will soon form nations on the earth which a direct connection to the New Jerusalem in heaven, and bring all honor and glory into the gates of heaven’s Jerusalem. For Jesus will return to earth’s Jerusalem and dwell with us here.

By the light originating from God’s glory or good opinion “will the nations walk,” and all of the decision-making authorities on earth will bring their good opinion into heaven’s New Jerusalem, up into the eternal spiritual realm. Therefore, all the elect human spirits recorded in Jesus’ Book of Life from the beginning of time, and still living on earth, will be fully aware of heaven. During the final millennium of earth’s existence, while Jesus dwells with us on earth, the elect will finally realize that earthly time and space are not what they seem to be, that their spirits are made of spiritual matter and actually exist “now” in the eternal spiritual realm, where Jesus rules at all times. All elect spirits will directly communicate and give their glory or good opinions to our God Jesus, while Jesus is both in Jerusalem on the earth and in the New Jerusalem of heaven. And the elect will be able to do this at any time and in any place on earth, since there is “no night” in heaven, no time when heaven sleeps and the gates of New Jerusalem are shut. But throughout earth’s past and future, none of the spirits of the “detestable or false,” none of the deliberate sinners or liars, could ever possibly enter heaven.

The elect should not walk according to the dark dictates of man for the glory of men, but joyfully serve only our loving, just God Jesus, by serving one another and His other creations for their good. Then, as we walk in the good opinion of God, our spirits will be able to lift up our good opinions of Jesus to very gates of our eternal home city, in the eternal lands of heaven. And notice how this confirms that the gates of our New Jerusalem “will never be shut by day and there will be no night there.” The twelve gates of Jerusalem likely have no doors, and will never be shut to our access even throughout eternity. Even now, our spirits can speak directly and personally with our God Jesus in heaven, as long as we desire, since time is not limited or linear in heaven, not for the Creator of time.

John told us that “the kings [or the serving, authoritative, decision-making teaching and judging elders] of the earth will bring their glory [or good opinion] into” the gates of heaven’s New Jerusalem, and they will also “bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.” These “kings of the earth” are awakened elect children of God, and this will occur both while they live on earth during the millennium and after they die in the flesh. John identifies them as those “who are written in the Lamb's book of life,” which only includes the elect. These are contrasted with those who go to hell, who are the “unclean,” who do “what is detestable or false,” who are the non-elect, who will not ever enter heaven’s gates.

 

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But literally all elect humans who were ever born on the earth, from all families in all history, from every artificially created national border and class, will be crowned in heaven. Literally all the elect will eventually serve as “kings” under the High King Jesus, as authoritative teaching and judging elders serving all the other living creations in heaven. Then their “glory” and “honor,” all their good opinions of Jesus and their words of praise for Him, will be brought into the gates of Jerusalem with great and joyful celebrations. For their works will be their source of joy, and their High King Jesus deserves all their “glory” and “honor,” because He caused all they do and all they became, through His power working in and through them, through His joyful works of serving His beloved siblings.

Revelation 22:1-5 (ESV): “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as

crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of

the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding

its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will

there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His

servants will worship Him. They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be

their light, and they will reign forever and ever.”

A radiant, clear, pure “river of the water of life” will flow through the midst of broad pedestrian street within our eternal home city of new Jerusalem, where the elect from all nations on earth will stroll. The source of this “river” or canal (ποταμός) of “life” (ζωή) will be “the throne of God, even of the Lamb, through the middle of the street (πλατεῖα) of the city.” The word ποταμός can actually refer to a canal or to a long pond or pool of water, and does not always refer to a river. Nor is it always “flowing” water, although it is definitely pure and potable, since it provides “life” for the people and other creatures in the city. The word πλατεῖα, translated as “street” in the ESV, and it did usually refer to a “wide road or street.” But actually indicated any broad or wide place. So the word ὁδός (“road, path, way”) was often implied, since all kinds of carts, horses and other traffic bustled through most wide places built by the ancient peoples. Yet they did not have streets in sacred places or huge palace squares. So the singular articular form of πλατεῖα seems to refer to one unique “wide place” in the city. And, since a canal or pond ran through the middle of it, it likely does not refer to a street where business traffic moved, as much as to a promenade for leisure in a beautiful public park.

Of course, new Jerusalem is huge and it would have many streets, not just one street. And each of the twelve gates would have a main road leading through it into the city. So there would be many main and side roads, many broad roads and streets. But, since John’s wording seems to indicate that this is the only πλατεῖα in the city, and since the throne of God is located at one end of it, and since a canal flows down the middle of it, and since trees grow within this πλατεῖα, it must be a very wide park in the centre of the city, hundreds of kilometers long and likely a few kilometers wide. And, like most parks, there would be foot traffic only. Then many bridges would likely cross the “river” or canal, perhaps it every hundred meters or so. These would likely be high arched bridges, to allow boats to travel beneath them, as in ancient times. Since this contains the water of “life,” it might flow through the rest of the city and out to the lands beyond the city, to provide the “life” of Jesus to all of heaven.

John also describes a “throne” of the Lamb, whom He calls “God.” This seems to be a large palace at one end of the πλατεῖα, likely some kind of a massive platform stretching across the entire width of this park, since this structure serves as God’s throne room in heaven. It may have had a roof held up by ornate pillars, but would not likely have any outer walls. Nor would it need any outer walls, or even a roof for that matter, since there almost certainly would be no inclement weather in heaven. So the only reason it may have a roof would be for aesthetic purposes, to display art and artistically

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arranged carvings of vegetation at a great height, to remind the people of the beauty and glory of God. But, considering the nature of our God Jesus, there would be no outer walls to restrict access to anyone or anything in heaven. For His throne is always freely accessible to everyone on this earth.

This throne room was previously described in this way by John: “Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius [a red stone, likely

ruby or carnelian]. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at…. Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal” (Rev. 4:2-3,6, WEB). Then he also said, “I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God” (Rev. 15:2, WEB). Since these redeemed elect were singing to the music of their harps or lyres in the throne room, it portrays a time with the royal family gathered to celebrate the great peace and joy of the kingdom.

So this throne room at the end of the waters has a semitransparent floor, since it is described as a “sea of glass” (Rev. 4:6), or a “sea of glass mingled with fire” (Rev. 15:2). And the entire structure would be large enough to accommodate thousands or even millions of souls at once. Its furnishings would likely be a very comfortable ancient eastern kind, since that was what God called His children of Israel to make and use during their days of faithfulness. So it was probably furnished with ornate cushions or couches to recline upon, beside various short-legged tables with carved legs. Then there could have been decorative dividing walls around some areas, and various booths where plates and bowls of refreshments could be stored or prepared. Broad hallways and courtyards might provide access to the various sections of this throne room. Overall, it seems to be a place of celebrations.

The actual throne of our God Jesus would either be located in the middle of this long and broad platform, or in the middle of one of its sides at some distance from the edge. The throne itself would likely be a comfortable chair carved out of stone. But, if we consider how twenty-four elders were seated or reclining around the throne, it was likely supplemented with a cushion or couch nearby, for Jesus to recline upon at one end of the circle of the elders. And each elder would have his own couch to recline upon within the circle. But the throne room would be nothing like those of more modern kings, since modern ones were not designed for long, casual conversations. Jesus’ throne room would be a beautiful place where many souls could relax and eat, so they could all comfortably engage in long, deep, informative conversations with their High King and the twenty-four elders.

Water would need to constantly flow from one side of the throne’s structure, into the long canal, to keep it full. Then, on either side of the canal and promenade, a broad open garden or park would be enjoyed by the people and other creatures in heaven. John said: “On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” The word “tree” is singular here. Yet it grows on both sides, bears 12 kinds of fruit every month, and has medicinal leaves used by “nations,” by many thousands of living entities. So this “tree” is obviously a massive organism, and extremely useful, possibly the original tree that the “tree of life” in earth’s Garden of Eden was patterned after. On earth, we have some whole forests that are technically only one huge organism with one shared root system. And this “tree of life” in heaven may be something like that, possibly stretching for hundreds of miles along the canal. Together with the “water of life” beside it, one would have all the food and water one needed to live. Thus, one could likely wander for days in this park, without taking any supplies.

So waters, stones, trees, creatures and humans exist in heaven, before the throne of our God Jesus. This spiritual realm supports passing time and a space defining dimensions, but a height, width and depth that is never pressured and rushed. For, up there in the past, John sat and watched himself sit

 

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among the 23 other elders in a future time that existed at the same time, while he was joyfully and deeply fellowshipping with Jesus and those other deceased men from long ago. And I know John actually did this, since my spirit “senses” that place too. Since my spirit is still foolish and ignorant, I cannot trust much of what it thinks. Yet I know this, that the temporary earth was truly made in the likeness of heaven, but with elements of “anti-heaven” in it. God loves to create life, for Himself to lovingly serve. And there is a truly wondrous variety and quantity of plants and animals in heaven.

Now, considering the πλατεῖα again, we saw that the tree of life in it will bear a different fruit in each of heaven’s twelve months. First, this means that, although there is no sun nor moon in heaven, there is a passing of time, even in twelve months. The eternal heaven has various seasons in a year. So the earth was made to emulate that kind of passing time. Although time in heaven cannot be linear, since a past John could see his future self and other past lives in the future at the same time, heaven’s time is cyclical, with regular and repeating months and seasons for growth. Just as the tree of life bears a different fruit in each of heaven’s twelve months, so will we and all that lives up there. Thus, all of us will experience some kind of personal spiritual growth in heaven over time, some kind of inner development that presumably makes us more like God, since we were created in His image. After this revelation of time cycles in heaven, John made no other comments. Yet we can assume that, because John saw himself and others in one of those future cycles of time, then we will also do so.

Also, if the tree of life bears a different kind of fruit throughout each month, to feed the people and creatures in heaven every day, it would need to flower before it did that. And, since it usually takes months for a flower to transform into a fruit, it would need to produce different flowers throughout each month in order to produce those fruits. So the tree of life would continuously flower all year, in order to produce fruits for everyone every day of the year. There would be a different kind of flower to look at each month of the year, possibly of a different color. So each month might be color-coded.

This also means that the climate must be consistent and warm all twelve months of the year, since flowers and fruits die in a frost. The weather could never vary significantly, if the tree will keep blooming and bearing fruit all year. And, since its leaves will also possess necessary medicinal qualities which heal, then new leaves must grow on it whenever other leaves are picked off. So the whole year will be a growing season. But, if healing will be necessary, then heaven cannot possibly be a totally safe place. At times, there must be some kind of spiritual or bodily harm that will need to be healed in heaven, as well as the need for food and drink to sustain life. Therefore, logically, the perception of heaven as a static place with no growth and no risk of harm definitely must be wrong.

Certainly, heaven must be a beautiful and pleasant place, but also a place of changes, growth and at least some risks of harm, which will need to be healed. Yet, actually, inner spiritual growth always involves some risks and some pains. God Himself must have gone through some inner pains as He risked creating lives to love and serve. Our God even came to us on earth, to die in a body of flesh on a tortuous cross for us, through His love for us. Likewise, as we grow into the image of our truly infinite God, we will surely take some risks and experience at least some pains of inner growth up in heaven. But, like the tree of life, we will also create beauty and joy as we grow, and our abundant fruits of our labors will benefit the many beloved lives we shall build up as we do our works. So, for all our works on earth, “the ground is cursed,” and we must “eat from it with much labor,” even all the days of our lives (Gen. 3:17, WEB). On earth, we know frustration in all our works, with much of our labor bearing bad fruits, or none at all. In heaven, all our works will be wise, skillful and will bear much good fruit, yet we will still have some pains that will need healing, as we take some risks.

 

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The extreme beauty of heaven will be very functional and wondrous, providing an eternal abundant life full of deep inner laughter, joy, interest and growing love. And time will never run out or be scarce. For, after our zealous labors of love that will bear much good fruit, heaven’s consistently good weather will also provide us with long, leisurely walks and times of feasting together in warm fellowship. We will always have plenty of time to rest or heal. And we will never even need to pack a lunch or carry drinks, since God will provide all kinds of instantly available “fast foods” and drinks for us everywhere, every day of the year. Yet it will not be the rest, but the satisfying labors of love for our God and His heavenly life that shall be our true and eternal Sabbath rest. For the true biblical Sabbath was never about sitting around and doing nothing. In reality, His Sabbath always has been about His true priesthood doing His loving works for His creations, and learning how to love like He also loves, as they did so. For God has always been working to serve His creations, and always will.

Now, since the earth and material universe will be gone by the time we shall be living in heaven, and because the devil and all his minions will be inescapably locked in the vacuum of hell, we will live a life in heaven where “no longer will there be anything accursed.” And, since nothing will ever be cursed, there will never be any lies, sins or deaths in heaven. For, by the end of the judgment day, all the elect will have permanently repented into a full and deep understanding of all our Creator’s true principles of life. The promises of Jesus’ New Covenant salvation will have been completely and eternally fulfilled by the time we descend from heaven’s gates, down into our permanent homes in the New Jerusalem. From that moment on, every elect soul shall worship (esteem and serve) God alone, whose whole Being will be the Spirit of life within the spiritual body of Jesus. Then our God will serve all the elect as their loving Father and Brother forever. We should keep this in mind, since learning to love and serve in the way our God does, so we can do so in heaven, is the entire goal of our salvation. This is what all the Law and the Prophets spoke about, what Jesus purchased for us.

Yet let us remember that our worship definitely will involve service in heaven, the kind of work which Jesus Himself does for all life now on earth, in opposition to Satan’s world order. We will not be idle in heaven, although we will not be overworked either. For John told us that, in heaven, “His slaves will carry out religious duties for Him. And they will study His face, and His name will be upon their foreheads” (Rev. 22:3-4, ALT, from: καὶ οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ λατρεύσουσιν αὐτῷ καὶ ὄψονται τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν μετώπων αὐτῶν). This should not be translated as: “His servants will worship Him,” since the word δοῦλος refers to a “slave,” to one owned by a Lord. And the plural form refers to all the elect. We are all actually the beloved created property owned by God. We do not have uncreated spirits like God’s Spirit, therefore, we cannot actually own ourselves.