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Choices other than His are being allowed to exist and run their course.

Who Demands A Sacrifice?

Even today, after forty years of seeking and following after the Lord, there are times when yielding to him, that an image of him slapping me silly comes to mind. Why? Because I know how imperfect I am. That could be the best thing for my condition! Lol. So I figure, after forty years of reading and studying, etc., that “Christ Crucified” is the appeasement for my own psyche and conscience! The atonement to my own heart. For ultimately we humans are of a very self judgmental heart. Oh the wisdom of God! We are fearfully (awesomely) and wondrously (being) made!

Day Of Atonement

     It will be easier for some during the aionion/eonian correction (kolasis) than it was for some during correction-kolasis that is during “what’s called today”.

    Why? Logic. (Root word of which is Logos.) Jesus said, “ALL those in the tombs will hear His voice and will come forth” (from the graves/tombs) “some in the resurrection of life, and some in the resurrection of judgment” (Jn.5:28-29) which judgment, is “after the thousand years” (Rev.20:5).

     In his explanation of the parable of the sheep and goats, about the goats he said, “these will rise into aionion-kolasis/*agelasting-correction* but the righteous into aionion life” (Mt.25:46). (The believers, both alive, and not alive at His coming, will rise into the millennium.)

     Imagine you never heard about Jesus during your lifetime. Then you rise from your grave/tomb. If it is into the brightness of God’s Presence (Spirit) perhaps initially you may feel fear or be very conscious of your flaws, not yet having them washed away by the reconciliation with God through Jesus. But! Wouldn’t you be happy to find yourself alive?! Loved ones and friends alive.. Then there’s the news and offer of reconciliation! You don’t have to work yourself through the many untruths taught. Nor through the blasphemies upon His character and ability.. And upon Who He Is. The bright Presence, granted, for the hitlers of the world, large and small, may indeed tremble in fear and feel a burning dread. But for others the glow from His being, shall be warm and full of not only peace, but joy. Because thAt’s Who He Is.

     Because of the pattern of the Fall Holy Days - Lev.23:24-44 - I believe “the Judgment” (aionion/eonian correction) shall last five hundred years. And logic suggests to me it will include a Great Review of History - even though it’s the same story over and over, both collectively and individually. Yes, being endowed with the ability to think and reason, one cAn stray away from God - who is Life. And who “is perfect” (Mt.5:48) making imperfect to be not only the opposite of Life, and thus death/nonlife, but a veritable abyss of potential. That abyss is within every wayward heart. But what value is there in including a visible option to stray in Eden, “in the middle of the garden” no less, if it’s not let to run its course?

     Straying from God/Life/Perfection can only ever result in ruin (apocalypse) and ultimately death (which is lack of life, Eccles.10:5,9).

     Hence the remedy and the resurrection (of two occurrences) were built in from the beginning/foundation. Christ Crucified is a strong enough image to ultimately pierce through every guilty conscience and hard, stony, even hating, heart. Oh yes the hitlers may initially experience weeping, gnashing of teeth and deep outer darkness (the setting of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus and of the outside of the vision narrative of Revelation, chapter twenty-two). And don’t you think that’s how it should be?

     But what a traumatic ‘day’! All people rising from all the generations.. So many things to work out and examine. Even those who were preached to by the Lord through Noah while the ark was being prepared - who’s “every thought was only evil” - after perishing in the flood, the next thing they will know, they will be alive again! (1 Pet.3:19-20; 2Pet.2:5)

     After “the Judgment” is a - fiery - ReGenesis, when God “makes all new”. (The word “things” is added to the verse, Rev.21:5, but the word “pas” - “every, all, the whole” is only one word, not two.)

     Again! Much like the “fiery” return/arrival of Jesus when the tares are gathered to a fire - Mt.13:30; Rev.16:14,16; 2Thess.1:7,8 - and then through the fire the wheat rises to meet Him at His coming/appearing. All dross and chaff consumed.. They “will be jewels in the day that He makes up His jewels”. (Malachi 3:17)

     “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until ALL was leavened.” (Mt.13:33, key word 3)

     The three - 1Cor.15:21-28 - “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 BUT each in turn: (1)Christ, the firstfruits (barley harvest); then, (2)when he comes, those who belong to him (wheat harvest). 24 Then the end will come - when - he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet” …so that (3)God may be all in all” (grape harvest, fiery ReGenesis, and the rest of the all, made new).

     And “God will now - tabernacle - with man.” (Rev.21:5) - “The Kingdom” completed.

     “The bear will graze with the cow, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox ..everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fruit tree

and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken/promised.” (Isaiah 11:7; Micah 4:4)

      

     

What Is The Kingdom Jesus Preached?

     This present world of imperfection is teaching us just how impossible - what a disaster - imperfection is. God (surely?) is both life, itself, and he “is perfect”. So imperfection is the opposite of life. And! It’s an abyss of possibilities and potentials. Just look around us and at history.

     But just how are you going to create fully able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact?

     I think it’s not what God created but what He’s creating. And in order to have open eyes and understang of Life from nonlife, etc, we are all experiencing a world and reality of imperfection first hand. I think it’s unavoidable and that God Himself takes responsibility! And! I think those reconciled during “the Judgment” will go through the very same process we are now.. and “we shall” all “be like Christ” - “the lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow.. every one under their own vine and fig/fruit tree(s) and no one will make them afraid.” (Is.11:7; Mic.4:4)

     The ReGenesis that follows the Judgment (age) is the fiery, purifying “putting on immortality” of the rest of God’s children not reconciled during this brief lifetime. I think this end result is the Kingdom Jesus preached.