Therefore, the single question YOU. . . must ask and answer is simply, who is able to give YOU... Eternal Life?
Man. . .Men. . or God's Son, Jesus Christ?
John 14:6."Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
That verse should settle this question, about whose words are most trustworthy, agree?
Yes, most people, sadly even many Christians accept what they have been taught, die and go to heaven, right? Or If one's been evil to hell, right? Funny but even the worst dictators place a person on trial, even if it's only for show, and then sentence them, so who has the Jurisdiction, over our CORPSES, TO SENTENCE THE DEAD TO PUNISHMENT? Do the next two verses sound like our Heavenly Father's just waiting for you and me to make an mistake, so He can Zap us?
John 3:16-17. " For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
Would YOU. . . or COULD YOU.... send your child to die in the place of others? God the Father did!
Acts 2:29. "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day."
Revelation 22:16. "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star"
The last two verses, clearly show David's standing, yet also that he is both dead and still buried, agree?
So, you may ask "Then why is there all this talk by both Clergy and Laypersons, about their dead loved ones being with Jesus in Heaven? Are they and is this but a lie?
John 8:44-45. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."
So, when shall evil be punished?
2 Peter 2:4. "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"
Malachi 4:1-5. "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. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:"
Have we heard or seen Eliyah as yet? NO! Thus there's been no judgments rendered, to anyone living.Thus hell-fires are not yet, NOR ARE THEY ETERNAL EITHER! We shall walk on their ashes, as noted above.See how men lie?
Let's go back to the Holy Bible's first recorded lie, shall we? Men do lie, right?
Genesis 3:4-5. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
Yet, God had very clearly used this tree, as His test of Obedience for our first parents, and they failed.
Genesis 2:16-17. "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die".
All, who can read, shall be able to learn that they believed Satan's lie, that he spoke, by using a serpent, by tempting Eve, by the Lust of the Eyes looked good to eat, Lust of the Flesh, food to eat, even thought they were surrounded by fruit and nuts, plus The Pride of Life, ye shall surely not die you'll be as gods
Genesis 3:5-6. "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
Can you NOT SEE, the foundations of the old, from Babylon, and the old, NEW Age religion in this? "WE R GODS, baloney?" {If any so believe, let them walk on water, as Jesus did!"}
1 Thessalonians 4:14-16. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:"
Again, there is nothing hidden nor difficult in this passage, would you agree? The word sleep is used 54 times in the old, and 19 times in the New Testaments, mostly in place of death. I personally prefer the word sleep, because when we sleep, we have no sense of time, and neither do the dead, but those who sleep in Christ, the very next thing they are aware of is their Savior calling them out of their sleep, and when they are resurrected, the first they see is their Guardian Angel, who will direct them to their family members and to Christ, in the clouds!
But. . .but how can you be sure, this is factual?
OK, IF. . .if YOU. . .accept the fact that God loves each of us, with a love so big and deep, that it surpasses all human understanding, then look at this:
- If your loved ones are in heaven, they should be able to see YOU, now think about all the trails and tribulations YOU have endured, and this your loved ones watched and unable to help, to advise to comfort, and yet this is HEAVEN FOR THEM? How many would have witnessed the horrific crimes perpetrated on loved ones, that they had to watch it in its entirety? Is this Heaven? No my friends, the dead are dead and in the ground, or to ashes.
Psalms 146:2-4 . "While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6. "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."
BUT. . .but what about our souls? OK turn to the making of Adam!
Genesis 2:7. "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Please make note of the fact that man became a living soul, it was NOT SOMETHING ADDED! Thus we have DUST + GOD'S BREATH OF LIFE = LIVING MAN If either one, dust/body or breath of life is removed there's no life, thus death. There's nothing else, no spirit no something ethereal, like smoke that goes on eternally because. . . .
1 Peter 5:10. "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you".
Until Christ' s return, only the members of Heaven's Godhead have eternal life, other than the few mentioned, with Christ' s resurrection, and those who have not tasted death, taken while living, Elijah, Enoch, or as Moses, resurrected. AS yet no other flesh is immortal, not even any parts of any of us!
Job 19:25-26. "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:"
OR: "Well about the absent from the body, present in the Lord?
2 Corinthians 5:8. "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
Right, but "They" always forget the previous verses, don't they?
2 Corinthians 5:1-5. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit"
We, you and I, right now are in these earthly Tabernacles of flesh! We ALL shall so remain until each is called forth unto resurrection, according to our works, either good or evil!
There is NOT ONE WORD, within the Whole of God's Word, about Mary, the woman that birthed Jesus, returning, resurrecting and is now in heaven!. Not even one little hint! Ditto about the change of the Sabbaths, from the 7th day to the 1st day of the week.[This, they even admit] Thus it is deception from the Deceiver who is Satan the Devi, and his allies!
The dead are in their graves, period! If they, as many teach, are in heaven "WHY THE NEED FOR CHRIST TO RETURN TO GATHER ALL, HIS OWN? "
It is for this reason and purpose that I say this, "Never, ever take the words of man, men, not not even this one, for the Word of God, check it out, and learn it for your self!"
Thank YOU!
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