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God, Love, And Science
I’ve read some interesting perspectives on love and reasons for morality written by atheists, agnostics, and others. So, I decided it was time to set the record straight!
Another Resource: The Desire Of Ages
Love is unselfishness. God is love. The Universe was once pure and contained no sin! It will soon be cleansed of all sin and be completely pure once again! The story of yin and yang (the idea that good and evil must exist together) came from Lucifer or Satan and is a lie!
Love does not come from inside a person! Since Adam and Eve, every person is a sinner by nature and cannot naturally love! Human love is inspired by the love of God the Father in sending His Son, Jesus, to pay for our sins! Jesus “became sin for us” and died “the second death” that we deserve—a death without hope!
When Jesus returns to this Earth, it will be a “rescue mission” to save those who love God from the evil people in this world who are persecuting and killing Jesus’ true followers! The brightness of God’s glory will burn up the world as a whole and ALL life forms (except Satan and his angels). But those saved or resurrected will remain alive and be transformed into immortals! The Millennium is NOT spent on Earth, but in Heaven.
"13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 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.
16 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:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thesselonians 4:13-18 KJV
"7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
2 Thessolonians 2:7-10 KJV
The “Wicked” mentioned in verse 8 above is not the same as Satan, mentioned in verse 9. But verse 9 makes it clear that the “Wicked” is “after the working of Satan.” In other words, he works with Satan and has the same principles behind his actions. This description perfectly fits the office of the papacy!
Revelation says that Satan is “bound for a thousand years”! He has nobody to tempt! They are all dead! There is no more life on the Earth! Only in Heaven with the saved, there is life!
"1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."
Revelation 20:1-10 KJV
It will seem like “forever and ever” to the devil and his angels and the most wicked of humans because the fire will not immediately consume them. But they are not tortured literally for all of eternity. But the results of this fire are eternal!
According to the Bible, during the Millennium, the saved will “judge angels”—the evil angels that rebelled against God with Lucifer or Satan. And they will also have a chance to see why some of their loved ones and friends did not make it to Heaven. The Millennium serves two main purposes. It is for the “ratification” of God’s Judgments by His saved or redeemed people! And it serves as a “honeymoon” for the “bride of Christ,” which is His church or the people saved in Heaven!
After the Millennium, there will be a third coming of Jesus back to this Earth! And there will be a resurrection of ALL the wicked who have ever lived since Adam and Eve! The Bible refers to this as the “resurrection of damnation.”
The Bible says that Lucifer will once again deceive these wicked people into believing that they can conquer the Holy City or New Jerusalem that has now landed on the Earth. But as they surround the city, God will show them a video of their past lives and the good and evil angels that tried to influence every decision they made! The Bible says that “every knee shall bow,” and they will confess that God has been more than fair with them!
Then the Bible says that God will perform a “strange act” by raining down fire “out of heaven” to devour all the wicked, including Satan and all of the evil angels! Hell does not exist today, but this will be the Hell that the Bible describes! It will not be underground but on the surface of this Earth! And it will not last forever! It will only do its job of permanently destroying all of the wicked, whether angelic or human! The “effect” of hell will be eternal! An “eternal fire” is a fire that cannot be put out until it has finished its job!
Sodom and Gomorrah are not still burning today, yet the Bible says that God used “eternal fire” to destroy them! So clearly, the word “eternal” does NOT refer to the length of time that the fire burns but to its effectiveness and lasting effects!
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