Have You Read The End Of The Book?

I have!

And I am going to give away the ending!!

Here is the spoiler :)

Revelation 21

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

(It will come down from heaven to be the  capital of God on the New Earth)

⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.

HEAVEN!!

The Walls, Gates and Foundations:

¹² Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: ¹³ three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
¹⁴ Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

This golden reed is a measure of 12  1/2 ft. long.

The Measurements:

¹⁶ The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. ¹⁷ Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

Twelve thousand furlongs is  1,500 miles square!

A hundred and forty-four cubits is 300 feet at 25 inches per cubit!

Materials In The New Jerusalem:

¹⁸ The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

No natural pearls could possibly be this big! We know that God can make pearls as large as He wants!

The purest gold, transparent gold!! This is a gold unknown to us on this earth!!

The Temple:

²² But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

God and the Lamb will be visibly present among men to meet with them in all places so there will no longer be a building that men need to go to.

The Light Of The New Jerusalem:

²³ The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

This is only referring to the city. There will be light from the sun & planets in the earth outside of the city (Gen. 8:22; Ps. 89:2-3, 29, 35-37; Jer. 31:35-36; Isa. 30:26)

Traffic In The New Jerusalem:

²⁵ Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).

Again, no night in the city, but there will be day & night outside of the city.

²⁷ But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

“Those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” – These people of the New Earth will be saved.

The Rivers, Streets and Fruit of the New Jerusalem:

Revelation 22

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. ² In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

There will be fountains of ‘water of life’! And the preservation of life for all! There will be no healing from disease or sickness, but eternal health and life will come from the leaves of the trees. (21:4; 22:2-5 – Gen. 3:22-24)

Rulers of the New Jerusalem:

³ And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. ⁴ They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵ There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

“The curse” – is reffering to the curse that resulted from Lucifer & Adam's Fall. Things will continue as if these ‘falls’ have never happened! All rebels will be in the Lake of Fire (hell).

And all here will be faithful angels and redeemed man…

All servants of Jesus.

If you don’t like serving Him here on this side – then you won’t like serving Him on the other side :)

 

Eternity’s Past – Part 2

ETERNITY’S PAST – PART 2, LUCIFER’S TIME & FLOOD

I posted "Eternity's Past - Part 1" which was details about BEFORE Adam & Eve. Details about the 6 days of creation and before those 6 days…  Eternity!

Now I want to post about 2 more things:

Lucifer’s time period & the flood of his time, not Noah’s flood.

This info is just as interesting – if not MORE interesting – than the 6 days of creation.

Let’s get started!

LUCIFER

In Ez. 28:11-17, it describes Lucifer before he ‘fell’. He was the anointed cherub or protector of the earth and was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, blameless in all his ways. He ruled the garden of Eden (before Adam). He was created by God and perfect in all his ways up to the time of his fall. These verses give the reason for his ‘fall’ and the result of his fall.

Isa. 14:12-14 states that Lucifer invaded heaven from earth hoping to defeat God and take His kingdom. But Lucifer himself was defeated and his kingdom cursed. Before his defeat he had a throne and therefore a kingdom and subjects to rule over. His kingdom was under the clouds, under the stars, and under heaven – on earth. He weakened the nations over whom he ruled, and he wanted to be like God and take His place in heaven, Lucifer led the invasion of heaven. All of this was before Adam’s day.

We have to acknowledge that Satan’s fall was before Adam’s time because he was already a fallen creature when he came into Adam’s Eden (Gen. 3, 2Cor. 11:3)

Jesus taught the fall of Satan from heaven in Luke 10:18. When did he fall? Before Adam’s time, because he was already a fallen creature when he came into Adam’s Eden. Why did he fall? Because of his pride and wanting to exalt his earthly kingdom above God’s. What was the result of his fall? All of Satan’s earthly subjects as well as over one third of God’s own angels fell with him (Rev. 12:3, 7-12) <---- The dragon is Satan. Then all nations were totally destroyed, along with vegetation, fish, fowls, and animals (2Pet. 3:5-7).

Jer. 4:23-26:

23I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void;
      And the heavens, they had no light.
²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled,
      And all the hills moved back and forth.
²⁵ I beheld, and indeed there was no man,
      And all the birds of the heavens had fled.
²⁶ I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness,
      And all its cities were broken down
      At the presence of the LORD,
      By His fierce anger.

CONTRASTS BETWEEN LUCIFER’S FLOOD & NOAH’S FLOOD

Lucifer’s Flood	Noah’s Flood
Earth made waste	Not made waste
Earth made empty	Not made empty
Earth made totally dark	Not made totally dark
No light from heaven	Light from heaven
No days	Days
All vegetation destroyed	Vegetation left, not destroyed
No continual abating of waters off earth	Continual abating of waters off earth
Waters taken off in one day	Waters taken off in months
Supernatural work of taking waters off	Natural work of taking waters off the earth
God rebuked the waters	No rebuke of waters
Waters hastened away	Waters receded gradually
God set bounds for waters	Bounds already set
All fish destroyed because of sun with-held from earth	No fish destroyed, only land animals – sun not withheld
No fowls left	Fowls saved
No animals left	Animals saved
No  man left	4 men, 4 women saved
No social system left	A social system left
No ark made to save life	An ark made to save life
Cause: fall of Satan	Cause: man’s wickedness and sin of fallen angels
Result: became necessary to make new fish, fowl, land animals, vegetation, and man	Result: no new creations made for all things were saved

{Every single item in this list above has scripture to go along with it, but I didn’t feel like typing & linking it up. So if anyone wants any of those verses, let me know in the comment box below & I will add it}

The flood of Noah lasted over a year, and still vegetation was not destroyed. But in Lucifer’s flood the fruitful place became a wilderness Jer. 4:23-26. New vegetation had to be planted in the 6 days, for the earth was totally desolate (Gen. 1:11-12, 2:5, 8:17) This shows that Lucifer’s flood was on earth longer than Noah’s and, without a doubt, as judgment for a more serious rebellion – a complete rebellion of the “pre-Adamite” world.

{This has nothing to do with eternity’s past, but I’ll say it anyway…}

This is why the rainbow is so important! God put a rainbow in the sky as a promise to Noah to never destroy the earth again with water. The earth had already been destroyed TWICE by flooding! This rainbow was a promise made by God! How awesome is that?!?

Genesis 9:13
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14
Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

Genesis 9:16
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

Amazing!

All of this is amazing! Eternity is amazing! God is amazing!

So amazing we can’t even comprehend His power.

All of this & the world doesn’t see it. They want to make up reasons on how the earth was created.

This is all I have. It’s after midnight here. Maybe tomorrow I will do some editing or add some things. For now, I am beat!

Eternity’s Past – Part 1

Eternity, Before Adam and Eve – Part 1

I have a lot on my mind that I really want to get put down here. I am hoping I can keep some sort of structure here, but somehow I doubt that will happen. There is a chance I will be all over the place, because I am such a random person.

Even if I am all over the place, I hope this is interesting enough to hold your attention for a few minutes. To me, this is one of the most interesting topics to study! I can’t get enough of it.

So let’s get started!

Eternity = The Dateless Past

Eternity.

Before Adam & Eve.

Wow, imagine that! How much time was before Adam & Eve?

We can’t measure eternity, right? But what we do know are some details. So let’s discuss some details. Grab your bible & open to Genesis 1:1.

Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This first verse refers to prior acts of God in some period of time in eternity’s past.  NOT the 6 days of creation. The following verses refer to the earth under the flood (Lucifer's Flood) and judgment (judgment being ‘without form, void, darkness’). Then after that the earth is restored to a second habitable state as before the curse of vs.. 2.

Job 38:4-7 makes it clear that the heavens were created first – how else could the stars have rejoiced when the earth was created? Another verse on this dateless past of eternity before the 6 days of creation - Proverbs 8:22-23.

Now here are some interesting facts: 2 very important words that make all the difference in the world!

Hebrew word “bara” = to CREATE (for the first time out of nothing) - to bring into being (Hebrews 11:3). This word is used 7 times in Genesis 1-2. All other places the words “made” and “make” are used, showing that God’s 6 days of work was reconstructive work.

• In Genesis 1:1 – the universe is brought into existence
• In Genesis 1:21 – sea creatures are created
• In Genesis 1:27 – man is created.

The word “bara” is used for the introduction of 3 great things:

• the world of matter
• natural life (all living creatures) 
• spiritual life represented by man

Hebrew word “asah” = made, make, to make out of already existing material. It is the opposite of “bara” (to create).

“Asah” occurs 2633 times in scripture and it is translated:

• “make” or “made” 653 times
• “do” 1333 times
• “wrought” 52 times
• “execute” 48 times
• “prepare” 37 times
• “work” 29 times
• and various other ways

So when scripture says “in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth” it is referring to their restoration after Lucifer’s flood (after the curse of Gen. 1:2) and not to their original creation in the beginning (eternity).

Now, another very important word!

“Let” is used 14 times in Genesis chpt. 1 and 1497 times in the rest of the bible.

This word is expressing “permission” and “purpose” in connection with already existing things. The light, firmament, waters, earth, darkness and all other things mentioned here were already in existence. The purpose of their existence had been annulled because of sin in Lucifer’s time. {Jer. 4:23-26, 2 Pet. 3:5-7} God simply commands these things to function properly again {as they did all through Lucifer’s time} according to their purpose. In the restoration to perfection, God merely speaks commands. He commands the sun to give light again {Gen. 1:3}. In Gen. 1:4, He commands the sun, moon and stars to divide the day and night forever {w/out a daily command}.

In the creation of beasts and man, their bodies were formed but their life was created. Man was a work of God, not of molecules and monkeys. Big difference in these two words!

Another couple of interesting facts:

In Gen. 1:28 God commanded Adam to “replenish” the earth. REplenish! Fill it AGAIN! This proves that the earth had been filled before this. God gave the same command to Noah after the second universal flood in Gen. 9:1.

In Genesis 1:2 – the word ‘was’ is from the verb ‘to become’, not the verb ‘to be’, which shows that the earth became waste & empty since it’s original creation in the beginning.

This sums up Part 1 of “Eternity – Before Adam and Eve”. This is the part about the creation. In Part 2 I want to discuss Lucifer’s flood in detail. Hopefully I can get this out tomorrow!

So please come back to read Part 2 :)

Life With Him

This is a verse that I would have my little one’s in Sunday School memorize. They were pre & kinder’s. Very easy verse & very important to know!


Romans 10:9 (New International Version)

"That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

So basically… similar to the famous John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. Of course everyone knows this one.

The jist of it all? If you have faith that Jesus is The Only Son of God, He died for your sins, and He rose on the 3rd day… you are saved eternally. You will spend your eternal life with God in heaven.

Life With Him

Luke 9:26 (New International Version)


If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Are we ashamed of Jesus (the Son of Man)? On judgment day when we stand in ‘that line’ on the other side… will He be ashamed of us? Will he accept us in? Or were we too ashamed of Him here on this side?

Life With Him

James 4:14 (New Century Version)


"But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away."

This is so true. I have seen so much life end in the past year or two. Life that was taken MUCH TOO SOON. So many died of cancer, accidents, unknown heart problems. Young people that had so many years left in them.

This makes me think of Shannyn. Shannyn is Mike’s daughter who passed when she was 3. She passed back in 2002. She would have been one month older than my daughter Emma. Emma is 11. I can’t imagine having Shannyn right now. I can’t imagine what she would be like. We named Gracie after her. “Gracie Shannyn”

God has a day for us. We don’t know when that day will be. There is nothing written in stone that says we are going to live to be 80 years old. Our day to end our life here & start our life in eternity may be tomorrow. Are we prepared for eternity?