AMAZING FACTS: DISTORTIONS and BLUNDERS of MEN' S BIBLE TEACHINGS. PART !

AS FOR ALL OF THIS SERIES, MY THANKS TO AMAZING FACTS HIDDEN TRUTHS.

     DEATH. . . .and . . .  HELL. . .  are with little doubt, two of the most understood topics in the Holy Bible today!
     Both are enshrouded with mystery and corrupted with medieval myths, as well as human deceptions and of course human "Traditions!" This often causes fears and the sense of hopelessness, yet the Bible's real clear on the meanings and purpose of both, but sadly most do not read the Bible, and even most who do, just "Surface-read" without prayers, thus reject it without understanding it.
    This has caused many to go astray, and leave their churches, all without learning the truth that God has given us all!

    PLEASE, BE NOT FOOLED,  what YOU think of GOD, greatly impacts what you believe about death and hell, because most have no idea about the truth of GOD's character. This "Lesson", if you will, will correct some ideas about these two topics.

                    HOW DID MANKIND GET HERE IN FIRST PLACE?

• 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."

Note: To correctly understand what happens at death, we need to be at the beginning, and  how GOD gave life to man in the beginning. As YOU have just read it clearly states God made Adam from dust, the earth's elements, at our dawning day. PLEASE note if does NOT say God gave man a soul, as some think of a soul as an addition to our bodies, but we became a living soul AFTER GOD supplied HIS "Breath of Life", into HIS Creation! Thus we became a living soul, and all life-forms that cam move of their own accord, are by this definition a living soul!

               WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?

• Ecclesiastes 12:7. "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

Note: Who can fail to see, that this is the opposite of our creation? SPIRIT...  in Hebrew-- Ruwach [roo-'akh] Strong' s Concordance # 7307, breath [in this case GOD' s] life, wind.

Thus death is really the reverse of creation, and the body returns to the earth as dust! While the "Breath of Life, returns to HE who created it, whether from a righteous or a wicked person! There is no Biblical mystery about this "spirit" the "Breath of Life" has no life within it, and in no place in the Word of GOD does it say that this has life, or feeling when a person dies. In fact....

• Ecclesiastes 9:5. "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.  Job 27:3  All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; "

Note: this means only the Breath of Life", and as only GOD is the source of life, all life!

                   THEN WHAT IS A "SOUL" AND DOESN'T IT LIVE ON AFTER WE DIE?

• Revelation 16:3. "And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. Ezekiel 18:20  The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

Note:  A soul is a living being--- a combination of two things,: a body plus breath. A soul can NOT exist unless a body and breath are combined. As you can learn for Revelation' s verse above, all life alive is called a soul! GOD tells us that souls are NOT alive at death.Only God has immortality we do not. . . .yet! Therefore there is NO such a thing as a disembodied soul, ghosts, poltergeist [German for ghost], ect! All that is the devil's works! Plus the growing belief in reincarnation is not Biblical but another of Satan's lies.

        THIS MEANS PEOPLE ARE N O T  CONSCIOUS AFTER THEY DIE!

• 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  Ecclesiastes 9:10  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."
• Job 14:12. "So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep."
• Job 14:21. "His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them."
• Psalms 146:4. "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."

Note:  WHY?

• Genesis 3:19. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

             HOW DID THE DEVIL, SATAN, FIRST LIE ABOUT DEATH?

• Genesis 3:4. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"

Note: Satan, speaking through the serpent, told Eve that sin would not bring death. "Ye shall not surely die" he said, even though GOD told both Adam and Eve, that eating the fruit from the ONE forbidden tree, would cause their deaths. The devil is the first one who said man is immortal despite GOD's clear teaching to the contrary, for all flesh, until Jesus returns to gather His just ones.

   Throughout history Satan has worked powerful miracles in the sigh of men, through people who CLAIM to receive their powers from the spirits of the dead.

 

EXAMPLES: Magicians of Egypt; Exodus 7:10-11. "And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments."

The witch of Endor: 1 Samuel 28:3-25 and Daniel 2:2.  Satan will again use sorcery to deceive the world in Revelation 18:23. "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived..

Note: the Voice of the Bridegroom  is Christ's voice, the bride is His Just ones. Sorcery is a supernatural agency of the dead. So posing as godly loved ones who have died, Bible Prophets, or even apostles, or one's loved ones, Satan and his demonic angels will deceive millions. Those who believe the dead are still alive, in any form will most assuredly be deceived!

• 2 Corinthians 11:1. " For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."

Note (J.B.)  If you have doubts we are near to the return of Christ, ask your selves why, "WHY all these T.V. programs, Movies, and books about Speaking to the dead?  Why all these wispy images of Mary? Why all those bleeding, crying pure blood stone or wood carvings? All  by Satan' s works. Please THINK!

BUT. . .don't all people go to heaven and bad people go to hell as soon as they die?

• John 5:28-29. "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
• 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. Acts 2:3. " For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,"
• Job 17:13. "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
• 2 Peter 2:9. "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"
• Matthew 13:38-42 . "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;  And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Note: (J.B) Man' s legal system does not punish [usually] without a trail-judgement, and GOD will never do so either, and so far only the dead have been judged, while the living are still building their characters, for good or for evil!  Which is why I say,"Repent and seek forgiveness, today, as tomorrow may not be ours, and we can't ask for forgiveness from the grave nor repent  of our sins, can we, our reward or sentence is fixed at our death?"

• Job 21:30-32. "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb."
• John 12:47-48. "And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day"
• John 11:11-14."These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead."  [Please read the rest of this event}

Note Please stop and think about this. Would GOD punish a person before judgment?  Or would he burn a petty thief who died 5,000 years ago, and have him burn longer than the mass murderer who died but a few months ago?????? Remember the Ten Commandments ARE a reflection of God's character, and righteousness!

            BUT, WHAT ABOUT THE THIEF ON THE CROSS IN LUKE 23:43?

• Luke 23:43  And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• Luke 23:43  And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today,  shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Note: the old manuscripts did NOT have any punctuation, nor chapters , nor verses, all this came during the Middle Ages. Does this not remind one of this telegram: 

Wife: Found lovely dress, $5,000.00

Husband's reply NO cost to high.

She though OH, he loves me very much, and bought the dress.

When she got home she learned about the missing comma NO, cost to high!

Note: Jesus did ascend to heaven, having died on Friday mid day, Sabbath-ed -Rested in the tomb, until the First day of the week Sunday before sunrise. HE told Mary...

• John 20:17. "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God."

AFTER THE RESURRECTION, WILL THE WICKED ENTER THE LAKE OF FIRE, BODILY?

• Matthew 5:29-30. "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."

Note: (J.B) At the Resurrections [there are two, first for all the just, 2nd for all the evil ones] the Just will arise with a glorified body just as Christ's, mature and youthful, but the unjust will arise in the same shape and the same ills that they died with! For all who think in terms of forever punishments, read.....

• Malachi 4:3. "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."

Note (J.B.) How long does it take for a body to be reduced to ashes in a cremation? Only a few hours!  Not even Satan can come back from ashes!

WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE'S ONE AND ONLY USE?

• Revelation 21:8. "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore-mongers, 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."

Note: The Bible is clear, the wicked are totally destroyed in the fire, which shall be on this earth, as to destroy all remnants of man's previous existence and to make earth pure again from human pollution!

• 1 Timothy 6:15-16."Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen."
• Romans 6:23."For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

NOTE (J.B.) We either accept Jesus, who paid this sin debt, or we shall die for our sins ourselves! So all who cling to sin, shall be burned up with their sins!

• "DESTRUCTION"   Job 21:30. SHALL PERISH  Psalm 37:20. "BURN UP" Malachi 4:1.

Note: The Bible does speak to the wicked who will receive their just rewards.. some greater than others, based upon their works.. Satan will have all sins,. for all times, placed upon his shoulders...

• Revelation 22:12. "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be"
• .Matthew 16:27. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."
• Luke 12:47-48. "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

Note: But they do not live forever in misery!

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