Does The Heaven Where God Resides Now Which We Call As New Jerusalem Need To Be Burnt Because Of Sin And Newly Built Again For God To Reside?

Where Did Sin Originate?

Question: Where did Sin originate? If it did originate in heaven through the fall of Satan the Lucifer, then this heaven where God resides must also be burnt by fire like the present earth which will be burnt by fire at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ. My question is, does the heaven where God resides now which we call as New Jerusalem need to be burnt because of sin and newly built for God? What are your thoughts on it?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus mighty name!

The origin of the first sin is not on earth, but it actually started in heaven when Satan thought the thoughts of pride (Isa 14:12-, 13-15; Ezek 27:14-15, 16-17), which made him sin and fall from the highest heaven to the second heaven where he started to reside for a period of time until He started to convince one third of the entire community of angels to side with him to form a separate kingdom, and thus started causing rampage on the newly created earth and started to cause chaos in it (Rev 12:4; Gen 1:2).

I believe that there are at least three heavens and the highest heaven which is the most holy place of God's throne is part of the third heaven.

1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth which is the first heaven directly above the earth, the second heaven and the third heaven (Gen 1:1).

2) The second heaven is the invisible heaven where angels reside and where God meets them once in a while on a particular day and time to review their work being done under his command (Job 1:6-7; 2:1-2).

3) The third heaven is the Paradise of God where He resides and from where the whole Universe is run by Him (2 Cor 12:2-4).

The creation of earth was the purpose for which God created all other heavens (Isa 45:18), and thus humans are the apex of the creation of God (Gen 1:26-28).

You are right, as Satan was walking on the holy mountain of God, he walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones, until the iniquity of pride was found in him to think pridefully expressing his five 'I' statements expressing to usurp the authority of God to be like him to ascend, exalt his throne, sit equally with God on the mount of congregation, ascend above the anointing to rule like God and be worshiped rather than be ruled by Him that has brought the downfall of Satan (Ezek 28:14, 15; Isa 14:13-15).

Satan after his fall in to sin not only created a rebellion among the angels to follow his way of iniquity in to sin, but also was looming large out of first heaven which they immediately took as abode to make mankind sin once the process of creation of God moved ahead by His Spirit, without even a slightest delay or hesitation from God. He proceeded to create in spite of the chaos that they [i.e. Satan and demons] let loose to stop the creation of earth and the apex of it existence which are the humans from proceeding to come in to existence, because of Satan's jealousy over the creation of mankind which will reflect God's image higher than him and his glory (Gen 1:2; Ezek 28:15, 17), i.e. humans who will be more closer to God than him who was until then without any peers which he hated as a sadist (Gen 1:6-8; Ezek 28:3-5; Dan 1:17; Eph 2:2). From that point of time, Satan became an adversary to all humans and a rebel against the authority of God.

Thus God put a test for humankind to choose God or self in the garden, humans chose self over God and thus the whole of mankind fell in to sin and death (Rom 5:12; Gen 2:15-17; 3:1-7). But the gracious God has chosen to help mankind in Jesus Christ because of his mercies, grace and love shown to them abundantly by releasing the new life of heaven and restoring friendship with Himself as a way out of sin and rebellion to be the children of Abraham by their faith (Gal 3:26, 29; Heb 2:17-18), which was not shown to the Angels who fell in to sin because there was no external influence but only a conscious choice which made them fall in to sin to follow Satan their leader of the kingdom of darkness (Heb 2:16).

In the highest heaven, Satan's sin polluted the heaven's atmosphere only because the sin of Satan was just a thought, an impure and a unclean thought which he entertained to promote himself over God Almighty's sovereign authority, and thus the cleansing for it is more than enough with the blood of Jesus, which was taken over to heavenly tabernacle by Jesus after his death on the Cross of Calvary and sprinkled over there which made it holy forever and ever (Heb 9:12; John 20:17, 19). When Satan was judged on the Cross and was disbanded from his legal right to enter the most holy place anymore forever and ever, the highest heaven itself was redeemed by Jesus from the influence of the vessel of iniquity and sins of Satan (Col 2:15).

But when it comes to humans, the sins of the thought becomes sins of action later which makes the earth get defiled not just in spiritual atmosphere, but in the reality of its essence within itself. For example, when the first murder and man slaughter happened because of jealousy over a righteous Brother and a wicked faithless Brother in Cain and Abel, after the death of Abel, his blood in which life gets sustained on earth was spilled on ground which God said was crying out of it to Him to bring back justice and vengeance on earth as it is in heaven where perfect justice always prevails in the very atmosphere over there (Gen 4:8-12; Matt 6:10).

As we know all the electronic chip we do in the present time to store information comes out of the dust of the ground, the Bible reveals that the earth does have a memory in itself to open its mouth to receive blood and also react in justice under the sovereign hand of God for the sin of mankind by yielding less to bring famine and lack of supply to its inhabitants (Gen 4:11-12). The Bible also reveals that walls can speak and will do it in judgment against the inhabitants who have abused their short stay in this pilgrim life on earth (Hab 2:11).

What I am trying to convey is that, earthen vessels which were prepared for holy use among the humans for eternity are sprinkled by the sinless blood of Jesus to be redeemed from sin, self and Satan forever and ever (Heb 9:21-22, 23-24, 28; Lev 17:11; Rom 5:19, 21). But the earth which vomits the sinful inhabitants out of it in Divine judgment and retribution through the law of sowing and reaping (Gal 6:7-8), cannot be cleansed of just its spiritual atmosphere as the sinful works were physical on it, and so the very components of earth as an inanimate object needs to be burnt by fire and be made to disappear in to thin air as gas which is the only judgment that purifies the intensity of sin that has been done on it literally (Lev 18:28, 25; Isa 48:10; Zec 13:9; Mal 3:3; 2 Pet 3:10-13; 1 Pet 1:7).

Thus we now know that the New Jerusalem where God resides which has been polluted spiritually when Satan polluted it by thinking with pride in the highest of heaven has been immediately judged by God and was thrown down from it to the second heaven where he persuaded one third of angels to follow him to form a rebellious kingdom of darkness on earth (Ezek 28:14-15, 16; Isa 14:12-15; Gen 1:6-8), thus New Jerusalem has been spiritually redeemed by the very blood of Jesus after his death to cleanse its spiritual atmosphere and that is why the very same figurative language which has been used to describe the redeemed souls of the Church who are the Bride of the Bridegroom Christ, is the same figurative language with which the New Jerusalem has been described in the Book of Revelation (Rev 21:2; 5:9-10; John 3:29; Matt 25:6; 2 Cor 11:2).

Because the angels rebelled physically in the second heaven and humans rebelled physically against God on the earth by heeding the Satanic demons that were at work from the first heaven (Gen 1:6-8; Eph 2:2; 6:12), both "the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat: both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up...all these things will be dissolved..." and go in to oblivion as everything will become invisible gas and vapor (2 Peter 3:10, 11). The above will be the physical act of judgment which will cleanse the universe of its sinfulness and brings restoration of blessings of God for all eternity in all the universe, except in the hell hole and museum of prison where the worm does not die and fire is never quenched (Mark 9:44, 47-48; Rev 20:14-15).     

Since these things are going to happen, how much more we as the children of God should live for God and make use of every minute of our lives count for eternity?


Much Blessings.....

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What Does It Mean By First Resurrection And Second Death?

How Long Can A Human Really Live?

Question: How long can a human really live? Can someone live for a millennium in the future, is it possible. Why does God have to speak specifically about first resurrection and second death in the Book of Revelation, when we know that the Rapture will be the first resurrection for all the saints of all time. Can there be a symbolic hidden meaning behind the use of words 'first' and 'second'?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Let us see from the Bible how long can a human really live?

We know from the timeline of Genesis, the age of the Patriarchs of old described in the Book of Genesis, Adam lived 930 years (Gen 5:4), Seth lived 912 years (Gen 5:8), Enosh lived 905 years (Gen 5:11), Cainan lived 910 years (Gen 5:14), Mahalalel lived 895 years (Gen 5:17), Jared lived 962 years (Gen 5:20), Enoch lived 365 years and was translated (Gen 5:23), Methuselah lived 969 (Gen 5:27), Lamech lived 777 years (Gen 5:31), Noah lived 950 years (Gen 9:29), Shem lived 600 years (Gen 11:10–11), Arphaxad lived 438 years (Gen 11:12–13), Shelah lived 433 years (Genesis 11:14–15), Eber lived 464 years (Gen 11:16–17), Peleg lived 239 years (Gen 11:18–19), Reu lived 239 years (Gen 11:20–21), Serug lived 230 years (Gen 11:22–23), Nahor lived 148 years (Gen 11:24–25), Terah lived 205 years (Gen 11:32), Abram (Abraham) lived 175 years (Gen 25:7), Isaac lived 180 years (Gen 35:28–29), Jacob (Israel) lived 147 years (Gen 47:28).

Though we see several men of the Patriarch's of old living for several hundred years at once in their earthly life between Adam and Jacob, yet the original intention of God was for humans to live forever and ever. Sin brought disobedience and then introduced death to humans which is separation from the physical body of people that spread to all (Gen 3:1-3, 16-19; Rom 5:12).

We see that a man's life is 70 years normally or by reason of strength is 80 years, according to the will of God and soon we are cut off to fly away to the blessedness of eternal life of God which He has called us to live in Christ Jesus (Psa 90:10; John 3:16).

So what is that eternal life?

Eternal life is not just an after life like the earthly one where God in His love, mercy and grace has given and shown to the good as well as the evil person to experience his goodness (Matt 5:45), though it is God's will for every man to live forever in His goodness and grace (1 Tim 2:3-4). Yet by each man's choice to either accept or reject Jesus Christ (John 3:16), before their physical death they become responsible before God to accept life with God in their after life which is what eternal life is (John 17:3), or live a life without God in their afterlife which is what actually hell is (2 Thess 1:9).

When we know that God desires us to live with Him forever, how long does a human really live to the max?

I believe that all the patriarch's we have seen above lived for several hundred years, and the maximum age a man has ever lived on this planet earth belongs to Methuselah who lived for 969 years (Gen 5:27). Methuselah’s name means a “man of the spear” and “his death shall bring” which brings the message that the man who lived the longest was cut short by death to bring a judgment upon the wicked world which lived in sin and thought in sin and promoted sin as food and water. Thus Methuselah is the man whose death brought the spear of God's judgment upon humankind. This judgment came upon the whole sinful world of humans, except Noah and his family who were left as a comfort of God to humankind which would have ceased to exist if not for His mercy, grace and love shown to Noah and his family shown during the flood by God (1 Peter 3:20). Hallelujah!

Will God allow a man to live for a thousand years which is a Millennium?

The very fact that God calls the resurrection at the time of Jesus second coming before the Millennial rule of His as the "first resurrection", and the resurrection of all unbeliever who ever lived on this planet earth as sinners to face "second death" shows the symbolic meaning in the message that God has planned some obedient model believers to live for a thousand years along with Jesus and be changed in a moment of time at the end of the Millennial rule like the living saints of the Church who got raptured before them and settled in the new heaven and new earth to colonize it for His Glory, because of their obedience to God in their lives (1 Cor 15:50-54, 55-58).

The following are the resurrections mentioned in the Bible,

1) The resurrection of many Old Testament saints at the time of Jesus resurrection (Matt 27:50-54).

2) The Rapture of the Church (1 Thess 4:14-18).

3) The Rapture of the Two Witnesses (Rev 11:11-13).

4) The "first resurrection" will be for all the Martyred Tribulation saints along with all those who were ever martyred for their faith from the beginning of time from Abel to that time of the Second Coming of Jesus (Gen 4:10; Matt 23:34-35; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 20:4-5), these will live with Jesus as special Priests of God and of Christ on the present earth to reign with Him from the earthly Jerusalem until the time of the the second death which is the only resurrection for all the unbelievers which is left forever that will happen after this which is called in the Bible as 'The Great White Throne Judgment' (Rev 20:11-15; 1 Pet 2:5; Num 3:11-13; 8:15-19; Exo 32:27-29; Num 25:7-13).

We know that in spite of the three resurrections that preceded the Second Coming resurrection of the Tribulation saints at the starting of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ, it is called as the "first resurrection" because it is indeed the first and the last resurrection of the dead saints who have been martyred for Jesus (Rev 6:9-11), and all the dead saints will sit with Christ as priest in the earthly temple in Jerusalem in their metaphysical glorious body while all living saints of the Millennium in their physical body will live through the Millennium and be caught up and transformed from being physically alive to inherit the metaphysical body of glory in a moment of time at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ (1 Thess 4:17; Rev 20:7-10).

The one reason I believe God revealed through John the apostle revelator the following verse saying, "Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years." (Rev 20:6), is because after the first resurrection there will be no death to the living saints in the flesh at all to attain to the resurrection of the righteous any more like before in the previous resurrections of the righteous saints (John 11:24; 5:28-29; Dan 12:2), but rather death would have been overcome forever by the saints who will live physically on earth and many who make their exit through great Tribulation in to the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ will live for a thousand years time to be taken up alive in to the new earth at the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus to meet their peers of the Church age, but sinners will die in before even their hundredth year gets fulfilled which will be considered as baby life span during the Millennial Reign of Jesus (1 Cor 15:55-58).

From what we have learnt from the above anointed exposition reveals that, after the first resurrection there will not be any second death for any believer for a Millennium and forever, because the sting of sin which is death would have already been overcome and imprisoned for a thousand years time (1 Cor 15:56-57; Heb 2:14-15; Rev 20:1-3), so when at the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus when Satan is let loose to deceive those nations of individual people whose number will be like the sand of the sea in the four corners of the earth who still live to please their own self rather than do the will of God in spite of enjoying the fullness of the goodness of God (Rev 20:8), they will be made to rebel against God openly through the deception of Satan and his minions who will try to kill again those saints living in the present earthly Jerusalem and around the world where they had been serving in the camp of the saints with Jesus as their king for a thousand years time (Rev 20:10; 2 Thess 2:10, 11-12), which will lead all those unbelievers straight in to white throne judgment to face the second death which is being cast in to the lake of fire based on the works of filthy rags that cannot save them for eternity (Rev 20:7-10, 14-15; Isa 64:6). In other words, those who have risen in the new body at the time of Jesus' Second Coming which is the first resurrection of the martyred righteous and the Tribulation saints, because they have risen in their glorious new body, they cannot die the second death of a living or dead sinner again having won over death and sin forever and ever in Christ Jesus for the Glory of God. Glory!

5) As for the righteous who have lived through the Millennium in their natural flesh and blood body and also those who have followed not the way of sinners born within the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ to reach the end of the Millennium, they both will rise up again in a glorious eternal body in the last resurrection after which Jesus will take these saints along with the immortal saints who have already been resurrected in the first resurrection at that time to live forever and ever with God in to eternity (Rev 20:15; John 11:24; 5:27-29). Because of the "last day" resurrection that happens supernaturally at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ will only be for those whose names are written in the Book of Life, those whose names are searched for in the Book of Life will be to confirm to the unsaved that they were never saved at all even though they worked using even the name of Jesus for their own ends to be fulfilled but never doing the will of God which is to personally believe in Jesus Christ to get saved from sin (Matt 7:21-23; Mark 9:39; Php 3:18-19; John 6:39-40; Rev 20:14-15). Death and Hades being cast in to the lake of fire is what the Bible calls as second death. In other words, those who carry death of separation from God in their spirit, even though will rise up in a body but will be thrown along with "Death and Hades" in to the lake of fire (Rev 20:12-13; 21:27; John 5:29). Hallelujah! 

Thus for the first time in the history of humanity since creation of all humans, by the love, grace and mercies of God, the saints who lived through the Tribulation and have come out alive unscathed to enter the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ in their natural flesh and blood body will live for a thousand years and rule with Jesus Christ in their physical body in this present earth for the Glory of God because of overcoming sin, self and Satan in their lives through the great Tribulation (Rev 20:4-6).

GLORY TO GOD!

Much Blessings....

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Can Tradition And Faith Go Together?

The Tradition We Followed Before Salvation, Can It Be Done To Please God By Faith From Our Heart After We Are Saved?

Question: Believing and trusting God through Jesus Christ, having the living faith of the reality of God keeps His Spirit dwell in us and guide our life, our minds to do what pleases Him. Things done before due to traditions is now done for His glory. I believe whatever we do in righteousness for His glory in mind and heart, I believe God accepts and won't refuse. What we do now is not only because of tradition and practices, it is now done all because of Jesus. With His Spirit's dwelling in man's heart it lightens the mind to do what pleases and glorifies Him. Nothing is wrong. What is you take on it?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

“Commandment,” in the present context, has to do with divine revelation. It is further designated as “the word of God” (Matt. 15:6; cf. Mark 7:13). Some Greek manuscripts have “law” in Matthew 15:6. “Commandment” is the equivalent of law (see Luke 23:56). These terms represent an obligation imposed by God, to which human beings are responsible to willingly accept the suggestion and fulfill it in obedience because of their love towards Him. Violation thereof constitutes “sin” (1 John 3:4).

The term “tradition” renders a Greek word that signifies “instruction that has been handed down.” (Danker, p. 763). The expression may be used in a good sense, equivalent to divine commandment (1 Cor. 11:2; 2 Thes. 2:15; 3:6). In other contexts, it can denote hurtful, human traditions that are condemned (Matt. 15:3; Col. 2:8).

In this latter case, common practices, embalmed by time, become accepted as “the voice of God.” Such “traditions” may become “burdens” (cf. Matt. 23:4), unnecessarily levied upon people, robbing them of legitimate freedom in serving Christ (Acts 15:10-11; Matt 23:4-5).

For example according to Roman Catholicism, “tradition” must assume its rightful place as a source of religious authority, along side of, and actually superior to, the Scriptures.

Here is what the Scripture says regarding this issue, "8 Don't let others spoil your faith and joy with their philosophies [of tradition], their wrong and shallow answers built on men's thoughts and ideas, instead of on what Christ has said. 9 For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; 10 so you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest Ruler, with authority over every other power. 11 When you came to Christ, he set you free from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls. 12 For in baptism you see how your old, evil nature died with him and was buried with him; and then you came up out of death with him into a new life because you trusted the Word of the mighty God who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead in sins, and your sinful desires were not yet cut away. Then he gave you a share in the very life of Christ, for he forgave all your sins, 14 and blotted out the charges proved against you, the list of his commandments which you had not obeyed. He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross. 15 In this way God took away Satan's power to accuse you of sin, and God openly displayed to the whole world Christ's triumph at the cross where your sins were all taken away." (Col 2:8-15, LB).

Understand the basics of faith, tradition and faith cannot go together because traditions actually nullifies the power of the Word of God which gives us faith (Mark 7:9-13). You should choose to throw away the dead works of tradition in order to really grow spiritually and please God in the finished work of Christ (Heb 6:1), God is pleased only by the works which you do by faith which He has prepared beforehand for you to do after your salvation which you received by believing in Jesus (Eph 2:10; Heb 11:6). Jesus did in his earthly life, works which pleased the Father God in heaven, even though most of the works that he did was not the ministry work which He did only for 3 years, but before that for 30 long years he pleased the father perfectly (Matt 3:17). Many of these works were simple reading of the Word of God (Luke 4:16-21), meditating upon it (Luke 2:46-47), praying to the Father and doing his daily household chores of day to day life and obedience to his earthly father and mother even though he was the Creator of all mankind (Luke 2:49, 51-52). The works of ministry which he did was only three and half years, yet the miracles, signs and wonders of God revealed through Him were innumerable (Acts 10:38; John 14:11; 21:25). Likewise God is more concerned about who we are in our faith than what we do for Him.

So empty philosophies and tradition especially the one which I point to like what Roman Catholic churches and others like it promote against the Word of God cannot bring more faith, but only more disobedience, blindness and deceit upon the soul of all those who follow it, and as a result more darkness comes to the life of those who do not choose to positively stand against the traditions of men. But those who choose to stand with the Word of God to throw away the traditions no matter what it costs will be blessed at the end of it all. God is calling you to come out of tradition and worship Him in spirit and in truth, the kind of worshipers He is seeking for (Rev 18:4; John 4:23-24). Those who are saved and remain within those churches against the will of God will not lose their salvation which has come to them not by their works of any kind, but by the faith God has given them through hearing the Word of God from their heart which released his heavenly grace upon their soul to save them from sin (Eph 2:4-9).

But Satan will destroy the soul-life of those who follow men's tradition in a earthly way, and he will keep them in bondage to sin and slavery through his evil power to afflict them (1 Peter 2:11-12), to make them lose the eternal reward and be miserable enough to let go of the great riches of God's abundant life in this earthly life which in turn becomes a investment in to the eternal riches of heaven which makes them rich in the life to come (Rev 3:11; Col 2:18).

God will never force his will upon those who choose otherwise thinking that they are wiser than God, it is a cowardliness of heart which is engineered by Satan and his demons that makes them allow the thoughts of tradition to fill their minds rather than taking them captive to the obedience of Christ according to the instruction given in the Word of God (Rev 21:8; 2 Cor 10:4-5). The obedience that is willing and voluntary to God and His Word is what pleases God and makes the sacrifice of ours acceptable to God (Rom 12:1-2). Tradition cannot please God instead it makes God angry because it makes his children to waste their time to do dead works instead of the ordained work which He has pre-planned for every one of them beforehand (Heb 9:14). One has to repudiate his “dead works” and count them “loss” to find salvation in Christ first and thereafter find their reward in Christ through faith after their salvation (Php 3:4-9).

Dead works are not only unacceptable to God, but an evil substitute for the faith He desires to grow day by day until their training school of the Spirit ends in this life, so that they can come before God on the day of Bema Judgment of Christ and receive the reward for the good works done in this life (Heb 11:6; Rom 14:10; 1 Cor 3:12-15; 2 Cor 5:9-11). The good works of the unbeliever becomes a filthy rags of worthless dead works that cannot be able to save his soul (Psa 49:7-8; Isa 57:12; 64:6), as well as the good works of the believers apart from Christ's own works which He initiates in them to turn them to His own likeness becomes a dead works with no reward for now and for eternity (Rom 8:28-30; Php 2:13).

So tradition in itself is neither evil nor good but can be a deception of Satan to keep people's focus away from God and His will on earth (Matt 6:9-13), as it is a waste of time and has no spiritual value to benefit a human being in the light of eternity.

Every mind of people which is set on human tradition is against the Word of God, and without doubt they are on the pathway of decay spiritually day by day. Our living God never accepts whatever we do for Him with or without our heart, instead he blesses only those who keep His commandments with all their heart without any tradition added to it, so that our sacrifice we do is not outside of His will but rather in His will and in His prescribed way of faith (Rom 14:23). The best sacrifice we can make in our New Testament times is to give our body as a living sacrifice by denying our self, taking up our cross and following Jesus day after day which is holy, acceptable to God as a reasonable service we do for His infinite love, mercy and grace shown towards us in Christ Jesus (Luke 9:23-26; Rom 12:1-2; 8:31-32).

I pray God help you to overcome all deception and come out of traditions and concentrate on the Word of God and prayer to God directly by faith in Jesus name for Him to fulfill His pre-planned work for you in your life for the Glory of God, so that you will be peaceful and joyful for the rest of your eternity. Man's religion is not worth a dime or paisa, if not for the relationship with God that comes to be the main focus of it in the way He requires through faith which comes through the Word of God. Praise the Lord!

Much Blessings.....



"Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man." — Joyce Meyer

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Will The Wicked Soul Cease To Exist In Eternity Or Be Burnt To Ashes?

Is The Human Soul Mortal Or Immortal?

Question: Is the human soul mortal or immortal? Will the wicked soul cease to exist in eternity or be burnt to ashes?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

First of all we must understand that all humans are eternal spirit, having a conscious soul and living in a temporal body of flesh.

God created man in his own image which implies unlike human image of our forefather Adam we carry (Gen 5:1-2, 3), God's "own image" is his character, His His holiness, His eternality and His immortality and the power of free will (Jam 1:12-16), which is the spiritual image of Him like He is within the Trinity with the ability to have fellowship and share love among one another as eternal being (Gen 1:27). The spirit, soul and body was made perfect by God with no blemish in it in the beginning of time, but as humankind fell in to sin and rebellion because of his disobedience, his body came in to a state of constant deterioration leading to death and his soul got filled with a rebellion sin nature with out God's guidance and willing submission to Him in love and finally his spirit was darkened to spiritual death due to a separate conscience being formed without the light of God's voice shining and responding back from heaven within it to rule the soul and body in prosperity and peace of heaven (1 John 3:20-21). Conscience is the one way light of God shining from heaven which can be made to get darkened as the widow is slowly closed by human free will that chooses to remain in the darkness rather than in the light of God (John 3:18-19).   

Once man dies whether saved or not, God's word plainly says, "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." (Eccl 12:7). In other words, every spirit of human is kept under the jurisdiction of God, who judges all humans based on the spirit content within them which is like a black box of reality that cannot be erased (1 Cor 4:5).

Will A Loving God Make Unsaved Wicked Suffer Before The Eyes Of The Righteous For Eternity Ahead? 

When we say a loving God, we should also not forget the very Scripture that also says, a God of judgment who is just in all His ways who is "The LORD, ...the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation" on earth and eternal death of burning unquenchable fire where worm never dies and torment without God's presence never ceases forever and ever (Exo 34:6; Mark 9:42-48; 2 Thess 1:9-10).

Revelation 21:8 says, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

The above verse is a wonderful Scripture that shows that the immortal unsaved soul never dies and will suffer torment for eternity in hell fire (Rev 21:8).

The Bible also says that the first death is physical and temporal which Jesus spoke about  in Matt 10:28, and in the same verse he has also has spoken about the rights of God to punish any unsaved human for eternal death which John the Revelator calls it as "second death" which the Bible explains itself as "the lake which burns with fire and brimstone" (Rev 20:14; 21:8). We know after the White Throne Judgment this above described wicked beings and unsaved souls who were kept in Hades prison cell until then being judged and thrown in to "the lake of [eternal] fire" where they inhabit and live there forever in a condemned state of sin of self and Satan (Rev 20:11-15; John 8:44; Eph 2:1-2). The Bible can explain itself clearly than we can by our own words, just we need to connect the puzzles of Scripture to Scripture in context for the Glory of God (Isa 28:10-11).

Praise the Lord!

Soul Sleep Or After Death In Hades Prison Waiting For White Throne Judgment And Gehenna Forever And Ever?

"Soul Sleep," also known as the doctrine of "Conditional Immortality," is primarily taught by Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists. To be more exact, Jehovah's Witnesses teach "soul annihilation." This refers to the belief that when we die, the soul ceases to exist. At the future resurrection, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the souls of the redeemed will be recreated.

Seventh-day Adventists teach true "soul sleep," meaning after death believers are not conscious of anything and their souls become completely inert or lose the ability to move until the time of the final resurrection of the dead. During this period of soul sleep, the soul resides in the memory of God.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 12:7 are also verses used to defend the doctrine of soul sleep. I explain the lack of truth in the above deceit saying, the dead know nothing in their dead body, because the the spirit along with the soul will return to God who gave it, who receives it in the New Jerusalem if they are saved or will dump them in Hades which is a temporary prison of soul torment until the white throne judgment comes if they are unsaved (2 Cor 5:8; Heb 4:12; Rev 6:9-11; Luke 16:22-23; 23:43; John 11:25-26; 1 Pet 3:18-19).

Soul in hell is not burnt because it is not material but rather spiritual entity, in Mark Gospel Jesus clearly says, "Their worm does not die and the fire in not quenched" (Mark 9:44, 46, 48) these are not talking about saved but rather the unsaved who does not die but suffer the worm and fire of hell eternally. When God judges the body, it dies and returns to dust. But when God judges the Soul, it is not destroyed literally but it is tormented to death in hell fire as it is a spiritual component to which it is attached which becomes separated from God's goodness for eternity ahead (Matt 10:28).

If the soul is destroyed in to ashes as people like to read in to Scripture, why should the rich man be tormented in Hades prison immediately after his physical death (Luke 16:23)? The same man according to the Scripture will again be judged during the White Throne Judgment where he will be judged and condemned eternally to burn in fire (Rev 20:11-15). We will see the wicked burn eternally in hell fire (Isa 66:24; 14:16-17). Praise the Lord!

We know clearly from the following Scriptures that there cannot be any so called "soul-sleep" or "Conditional Immortality" which are all baloney, except the truth that the spirit of humans are kept by God in his control after their earthly exit due to death, to make them live or die according to the choice they have taken when they were alive for some to get saved and reconciled back to God to be raptured back to life, or many others who chose to stay in rebellion of sin and disobedience who will be kept in the prison of condemnation ready for the White Throne Judgment during which they will be resurrected back to death of separation from God for eternity ahead. Daniel 12:2 says, “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.” Similarly, Jesus Himself said that the wicked “will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life” (Matthew 25:46). Thus the Bible clearly confirms a conscious soul, whether saved or unsaved which will live forever and ever with God or with Satan and his demons in hell fire after the White Throne Judgment which will happen at the end of the Millennial rule of Jesus as the King over all the earth.

Earthly And Eternal Judgment, Don't Mix The Two? 

When people quote Malachi 4:1 which says, "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch" to justify soul sleep or conditional immortality, they must nor forget that this is an earthly judgment for the Israelites and is not talking about eternal judgment of souls. How do we know for sure? Because the Bible also speaks about the eternal Branch supernaturally coming out of Israel in spite of the judgment that came upon them which made them all a stubble (Zech 6:12). That eternal Branch is the Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah of the world who now have taken the reign of authority over the entire universe to judge the Israelites in a earthly way and but also all the people of the world in a eternal way too (John 3:18).

Hell was first made for Satan and his demonic demons first, and those humans who accompany them by doing their own will instead of God's will for their lives will end up in hell fire along with them where God will restrain himself from his goodness for eternity ahead according to their ill and wishes. Does Satan die in hell fire...? The answer is a clear no, so does likewise those who followed him on earth (Matt 25:41, 46).

Sodom and Gomorrah is an earthly judgment and is not an eternal judgment. So we cannot compare the earthly with the heavenly saying, that those who died have become dust and ashes. Every man dies once and is judged by God eternally once (Heb 9:27). Eternally the intensity of the fire will be different for different people, God does not unjustly judge all sinners the same way because all have not sinned the same way but in different degrees and therefore the punishment in the eternal fire and its intensity of torment and suffering also will be at different level according to their works whether good or bad (Matt 18:34; Luke 12:44-48; Rev 20:12-13, 14-15).

There are earthly reality as well as eternal heavenly reality. The physical comes first, and then the spiritual and eternal takes over us whether we like it or not (1 Cor 15:45-49). We as humans are created in the image of God, which is an eternal image that has been replicated in us, so we will live forever, the righteous in heaven with God and the unrighteous without God in hell which is Gehenna in Greek where a unquenchable fire that will continue burning and it is a place where the worm does not die and the fire in never quenched for eternity. If the worms in hell fire does not die, then what it is living for except to torment the wicked soul? Unless the wicked soul lives forever, what is the use of Jesus saying the worms does not die? After the White Throne judgment, all wicked will be thrown in to Gehenna to burn and be tormented in various degrees forever and ever (Luke 12:47-48).

Where Did Enoch And Elijah Go? 

They are now with God standing before the thrown of God as olive trees waiting to come back to earth to prophecy and bring judgment for three and half years during the time of Great Tribulation of earth which is the second half of the Daniel's 70th week (Zech 4:11-14; Rev 11:1-6). They will die once and will return back to heaven to fulfill the Word of God (Heb 9:27). 

God Controls The Dead As Well As The World That Is Physically Alive

Spiritist mediums do not communicate with the dead. Instead, they communicate with demon spirits who imitate those who have died (2 Cor 11:14).

Beside this we see in the Bible says, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,” (Heb 9:27). Here the Greek word that is used for ‘judgment’ is ‘krisis’ which when translated gives us the meaning such as damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment. And it also means sundering and separation. So according to the Bible a soul will go to the separated place of Sheol where the wicked souls of men are kept under sentence of condemnation. The Greek word for Hebrew word ‘sheol’ is ‘Hades’. Both mean the same here. This is what Jesus also affirmed in the real life story of ‘The Rich Man and Lazarus’ that happened in the Old Testament times. After he died his soul did not remain in the earth or in some other place to be consulted with, but was in torment in Hades (Luke 16:19-31; 2 Peter 2:17). The one difference that has happened in the New Testament is that the place where the righteous souls of men who were kept on the other side, with a great gulf between the wicked souls and righteous ones, were emptied when Jesus came to Sheol after His death on the cross and preached the gospel and took them to heaven with their resurrected bodies (1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:6; Eph 4:8-10; Matt 27:52-53). But the wicked souls are still in torment, in the section where the wicked souls are kept for the final white throne Judgment. And still now the wicked souls of men are kept there after their death.

And God also says in his word “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezek 18:4). In the book of Ecclesiastes this is confirmed, when the Bible says, “Then [after one dies] the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it” (Eccl 12:7). And also Jesus affirmed this saying, “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed [(i.e.) earthly judgment], has power to cast into hell [(i.e.) heavenly eternal judgment]; yes, I say to you, fear Him!” (Luke 12:4-5). From this above verse we can clearly understand that Satan has no right over any soul, whether wicked or righteous after death. Only God has the absolute right over the soul of every one after their physical death, so only He [i.e. Jesus] teaches every man to fear God. Satan has only rights to steal, kill, and destroy as God's servant when He chooses to execute his judgment upon the body of any man physically because of sin in the flesh (John 10:10; Rom 7:17). But Satan cannot do this to believers (Rom 6:22), if only they will stand on the promises of redemption that Jesus Christ has achieved for them. In Deut 18:11, a necromancer is explained as ‘one who calls up the dead.’ Here a person who calls up the dead does not mean that he is calling up a dead spirit of a man. The Hebrew word that is used here for the ‘one who calls up the dead’ is ‘darash’ which means ‘to consult, enquire of, seek of heathen gods, necromancers, to seek deity in prayer and worship [i.e. heathen deities]’. It does not in any way convey the meaning of inquiring a dead spirit of man.

Imagine a person being inhabited by a demon for years. On his death, this demon roams around in a disembodied state looking for another person who will not resist his efforts to gain entrance. This demon knows many intimate things that happened in the life of the departed person. If some medium is willing to communicate with this familiar spirit, naturally the spirit can stimulate the dead person and fool the assembled gullible gathering.

Many people also have misconceptions about haunted houses. Some think that the ghosts of departed people live in such houses, but it is not true. [Demons haunt houses and can cause thumps and bangs at any time of the night or day.]

Be Saved To Regain Friendship Back With God!

Above all we have discussed, the most important thing to know and understand is that the soul is not only immortal and cannot be separated from the spirit which returns to the control of God after our physical death, the ticking time that goes on in our life should be used to seek God now and find Him (Acts 17:26-27). The body returns to the dust which it has come from, but the spirit returns to God, so now is the time of salvation for us to get saved from sin, self and Satan. Make sure that your immortal soul first get saved from sin by believing in Jesus Christ (John 3:16), so that a new spirit creation can come in to activity to help you have friendship with God forever and ever (2 Cor 5:17; Jam 2:23).

I pray that the Lord might open our eyes to give a deeper revelation of ourselves from His Word so that the spirit and soul component can be separated for the Glory of God to lead a Spirit-led life to please God and bring the soul in subjection to the authority of the Word of God which is God Himself speaking to us His instruction to please Him through it. The body should be able to be controlled by the soul, so that a God glorifying life can be lived on earth for the Glory of God and at the same time collect treasure in heaven for eternity ahead in our after life.

Much Blessings.....

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