(The text previously published here on the physical future of mankind is still *HERE*. In this document below, an attempt is now made to analyze the spiritual development and future of believers on the basis of the statements of the Bible.)
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The presence of GodIt is incredible. In the whole of human history there are several hundred billion people who
did not recognize in their own lifetime that man was created immortal and that they had eternal life. It doesn’t
matter whether they led a life that was good or evil, we are all immortal. The only difference is in the place where
we will spend our eternal life! – There are no "gods". Just as there is only one sun and one moon shining
on this world, there is only one single God who created it all! If you seek him, then he will let himself be found!! – Do not believe anyone who invites you to come to a church, a mosque,
a gathering or anywhere else to find God. You can only reach this one single living God in a private one-to-one conversation. If you find a quiet time
to go into a small room and close the door behind you, and sit down and call to your God – who is also the Spirit – in your mind, and if God
recognizes that you are ready to speak honestly in truth and justice, you will surely receive a response. – With the appearance on the planet of the son of this one and only
living God and his sentencing to death by Jewish Scribes, God restricted communication with mankind. It is no longer the crowds of people in temples, churches and parishes who can count on the presence of God; it is now only each individual person who is prepared in spirit and in truth to worship this God and speak to him that God will visit in spirit.
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The Old Covenant was material, tangible: God’s words on tablets of stone.
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God’s call to the nations.«Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
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The Temple of God.After the Exodus, during the wilderness wanderings, God instructed the Israelites to make a "tent of meeting" (tabernacle). There they were to place the "ark of the testimony" in the rearmost part of the tent and put a curtain in front of it, so that this area was separated from the front part. (Ex 26:31-34). If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. Jh 14,15 "If you love me, keep my commands. 14,16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – 14,17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 14,18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. That God and his Son come to us and take up residence with us is at first glance astonishing and somewhat incomprehensible. But if one knows the biblical background, one can recognize the full reality of this statement.
Jn 4,23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 4,24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Jn 4,23-24; As the Son of God tells us here, God, the Father, is spirit. And this now is not to be understood "symbolically", but literally! Not only is it true that God is spirit, but the mode of existence of all creatures in the heavenly dimension of God – including that of already resurrected human beings (1Cor 15:44) – is of a genderless spiritual nature. However, according to Scripture, they also possess the ability to appear in physical, human form (Lk 24:36-39; Rev 20:6) and to disappear (Lk 24:31; Jn 3:8). (See also Discourse 85: "True and false rebirth.".) A
s we can see from many biblical statements, communication between God and His Son always took place on a spiritual level. God is in the spirit of the Son, and what the Son speaks is God’s word. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? Jn 14,10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. 14,11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Jn 14,10-11; It is therefore obvious that it is in the nature of spiritual beings to incorporate themselves both in the spirit of a human being and in other spiritual beings. They are non-material in their spiritual form and can merge into each other, as when, on the material plane, one empties a glass of water into another glass of water, and both waters become one (consider the Trinity and Rev 3:21, where all [billions!!] sit with the Lord on his – ONE – throne!). Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1Cor 3,16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 3,17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 1Cor 3,16-17; Here, however, it must be pointed out that the presence of God in our spirit does not express itself with "jumping, dancing, laughing, crying, rolling on the ground" and such other well-known phenomena. This is not the presence of God, but these people are possessed by demons, the angels of Satan, who were thrown down to earth after the lost battle in heaven two thousand years ago. (See also Youtube-video: "Astronaut John Glenn speaks of ’myriads of stars.‘") The spirit of God in our spirit is almost imperceptible. We recognize it only afterwards, when we see that we have – almost against our will – displayed a behavior pleasing to God. When we ourselves are amazed at how seemingly difficult problems can suddenly be solved. For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." 2Cor 6,14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 6,15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 6,16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols?
Therefore, in biblical Christianity, communication between God and the child of God does not take place with prayers that are mindlessly rattled off, but directly and personally. God is our Father, we are his children, so we do in fact behave as children should behave towards a beloved father. Love for God, dear brothers and sisters, still needs to be explained to mankind. They have heard enough about loving their neighbor in the last two thousand years. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room and pray to your Father who is in secret. Mt 6,5 When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners (or in front of the Catholic idol altars ["Mary" and the cult of the dead "saints"] and the Jewish "Wailing Wall"! / FH), so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. Mt 6,5;
Mt 6,6 But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door (Mt 10:21-22; Mk 13:12-13;) and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. 6,7 And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. 6,8 So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Mt 6,6-8; So we are not supposed to "use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do" but then what are we supposed to do? – We are to talk to God. In our spirit, where his spirit is, if we are children of God. There is no need for any external "signs". These are used only by the hypocrites to impress the ungodly. Our conversation with God takes place in a spiritual way. And even if perhaps billions of people speak to God at the same time, the omnipotence of God and His grace make it possible for Him to be present and listening for each one of His children in their spirit. And so we have what many of us never had on earth: a beloved and loving, absolutely righteous Father. He will never separate from us, and if we do not separate from Him of our own free will, He will be our beloved and loving Father for all eternity. Amen. (See also Discourse 85: "True and false Rebirth.".) (See also Discourse 1042: "The battle in heaven.".) From child of man to child of GodThe development of a child of God is in every way comparable to that of a human child. Just as the egg in the female body is the beginning of existence for a human child, so the spirit in the human brain is the starting point for the child of God (Jn 6:63). God will give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Rom 8,11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.. Rom 8,11; And then – only then – the children of God, having been born again of the Spirit in the resurrection, will have reached that state of being which the Lord prophesies to us in Jn 3,8, which is the state of being enjoyed by God, the angels and the Lord himself after his resurrection and in which He was able to walk through closed doors and through walls (Jn 20:26): "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of spirit is spirit. And that, now, is also the form of existence – namely as spiritual beings – of which the Lord promises us in Jh 3:3 that this is the way we can enter the kingdom of God (heaven). Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
If one of my readers should be able to refute this interpretation based ontheeBible – and only the Bible – please, he or she is cordially requested to contact me by e-mail. Thanks a lot.Bible – and only the Bible – please, he or she is cordially requested to contact me by e-mail. Thanks a lot. (office@immanuel.at) (Answers: "Where does it say in the Bible that man is a spirit being? / Comment MK, 00, 2023-06-06) But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God Jn1,6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1,7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 1,8 was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 1,9
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. ,10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 1,11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 1,12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
1,13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. Jn 1,6-13; Before his death our Lord Jesus Christ addressed the following prayer to the Father for all those who would come to believe in him: The prayer of Jesus for all human beings who believe in him. Jn 17,1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 17,2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. 17,3 This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.17,4 I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 17,5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. MAKE HEAVEN MATTER 1) The Greek word is anagegennēmenoi = rebegotten, as also in 1Ptr 1,23 (not "reborn"!!) – after fertilization, spiritually begotten again through the word of God.(See also Discourse 85: True and false rebirth.) The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. |
Rabbi ChofetzA visitor came to Rabbi Chaim Chofetz one day to ask his advice. When the man saw that the rabbi’s apartment consisted of a tiny room with only a couch, a table with a chair and a row of books, he asked the rabbi in amazement, "Master, where do you have your furniture and household goods?" |
(See also Table 02 : The World Empires in the Bible.")
(See also Table 14: The Great Tribulation – classified by events.)