Showing posts with label second coming.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label second coming.. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Three Great Bible Prophecies A King to Rule 2 Samuel 7:1-17
When it existed there of old, it was occupied by David and Solomon as the kings of Yahweh over Israel. It was then styled "the throne of Yahweh," and the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel" (1 Chron. xxviii. 5; xxix. 23). By the covenant of the Olahm, or Hidden Period, this throne was established in the family of David. The proof of this is found in numerous places of the Scripture. Thus in 2 Sam. vii. 12-16, the covenant to David reads, "YAHWEH will make for thee a house. When thy days shall be completed, and thou hast slept with thy fathers, I will cause to raise up after thee thy seed who shall proceed out of thy bowels; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom ad-olahm, during the hidden period;" that is, the Millennium. "I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to me for a son; whom, in his being caused to bow down, I will chasten with a sceptre of men, and with stripes from the sons of Adam; but my mercy I will not take from him as that I put away from with Saul, whom I removed from before thee. And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established during the Olahm before thy face; thy throne shall be set up for the Olahm," or the thousand years.
Now when David's days were about completed, he thus expressed himself in reference to this covenant of the throne and kingdom. In 2 Sam. xxiii. 1, it is written: "Now these words of David, the last, are an oracle of David, son of Jesse; even an oracle of the mighty man enthroned, concerning an Anointed One of the Elohim of Jacob; and the pleasant theme of Israel's songs.
"Yahweh's spirit spake by me, and His word was upon my tongue; Elohim of Israel spake to me, and the Rock of Israel discoursed, saying, There shall be a Ruler over mankind, ruling in the righteous precepts of Elohim. And as brightness of morning, He shall rise the Sun of an unclouded dawn, shining forth after rain upon tender grass out of the earth.
"Though my house is not so with AIL, yet He hath appointed for me THE COVENANT OF THE OLAHM, ordered in everything and sure: truly this is all my salvation, and all my delight, though he cause it not to spring forth.
"But the wicked shall be all of them as a thorn-bush to be thrust away; yet without hand shall they be taken; nevertheless A MAN shall smite upon them. He shall be filled with iron and the shaft of a spear; but with fire to burn up while standing, they shall be consumed."
The above testimonies I have translated from the Hebrew. The reader can compare them with the English version, and adopt which he thinks the more intelligible and correct. He will find that both renderings agree in affirming this:
1. That a dynastic house was guaranteed to David;
2. That the kingdom and throne of this dynasty should be established during a future period;
3. That the commencement and duration of that period were hidden from David;
4. That said kingdom and throne should be established by AIL; or, as Daniel says, by "the Eloah of the heavens;"
5. That the occupant of said throne should be a resurrected seed of David and Son of the Deity;
6. That this seed should come to his death by the violence of his enemies; and be pierced with a spear:
7. That the establishment of said kingdom and throne should come to pass after David's sleep with his fathers, and before his face; so that the establishment of the throne and kingdom would be after David's resurrection from among the dead;
8. That this Covenant of the then, and yet, Hidden Period, ordered in all things and sure, contained all that constituted the salvation looked for by David; and in which was his delight;
9. That He who should be at once seed of David and Son of the Deity should be Ruler over mankind, ruling them in righteousness and in glory, when occupying the covenanted throne; and,
10. That he should utterly destroy the power of the wicked.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
Action to Cool Infighting in Tehran. Khamenei Divorces Rev Guards from Nuclear Negotiations, Awards Them Control of Mid East Trouble Spots
Action to Cool Infighting in Tehran. Khamenei Divorces Rev Guards from Nuclear Negotiations, Awards Them Control of Mid East Trouble Spots
Debka 14-Feb-14
Before Iran’s discordant Islamic regime tears itself apart, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is working on a redistribution of tasks and authority for separating the feuding factions and cooling the animosity raging between President Hassan Rouhani’s following (and his sponsor, ex-president and current Expediency Council head, Hashemi Rafsanjani), and the militant camp led the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander, Gen. Ali Jaafari.
DEBKA Weekly’s exclusive Iranian sources have obtained exclusive access to Khamenei's four-part blueprint and the policy redistribution it heralds:
1. He has persuaded the Revolutionary Guards chiefs to stand aside from the international negotiations Iran is conducting with the P5+1 (the five UN Security Council members plus Germany) by offering them the following commitments:
a). No restrictions on 5-percent uranium enrichment.
b). The heavy water reactor under construction in Arak will not be converted to a light water reactor, as demanded by the US, but built as planned for plutonium production.
c) The Fordo underground uranium enrichment plant will continue functioning and America’s demand for its shutdown rejected.
d) Iran’s missile development and production will not be interrupted. It will be financed from Revolutionary Guards funds rather than the state.
e) Iran’s clandestine nuclear facilities will not be exposed to the IAEA and all data about these hidden sites kept secret from the IAEA.
f) The IAEA will continue to be denied direct access to personnel employed in Iran’s military nuclear program.
The IRGC given authority over Mid East trouble spots
2. The IRGC’s business empire will remain independent and outside the realm of state interference. This leaves the Guards in undisputed control of the lucrative import and export of oil and its distillates, as well as other profitable import-export trades.
3. The IRGC – and especially its external operational and intelligence arm, the Al Qods Brigades, are granted full control over national strategic military and diplomatic policy-making for Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. President Rouhani and his foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif will have no standing in Tehran’s decisions in these foreign areas of operation.
4. At the same time, the IRGC is excluded from Iran’s delicate relations in the Gulf region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Turkey, Egypt and Afghanistan.
In practical terms, Khamenei, Rouhani, Rafsanjani and Jaafari have struck a deal which puts in the hands of the extremist Revolutionary Guards the task of cementing Iran’s military and political influence and asserting its will in strife-ridden Iraq, Syria and Lebanon on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, as well as the Palestinians - hence, Israel.
The affairs of those trouble spots are handed over to the extremist Revolutionary Guards leadership as its exclusive domain, with no look-in permitted by the Rouhani government.
Al Qods chief scraps Lebanese unity accord
The Obama administration trusted in nuclear diplomacy for an open door to Tehran’s cooperation in reaching peaceful resolutions of the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts. The US now finds itself having to contend instead with a two-headed, radicalized regime in Tehran, preoccupied with internal dissent rather than external coexistence.
And the IRGC is a fast mover in its newly-assigned terrain.
As debkafile’s military sources first revealed Monday, Feb. 10, the Guards military command has ordered the Lebanese Hizballah to deepen its military involvement in Syria. Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani took responsibility for executing this order and managing its repercussions on Lebanon’s domestic stability and the Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel.
The immediate outcome was the scrapping of the national unity government pact in Beirut shortly after it was brokered by Foreign Minister Zarif during his mid-January visit to Beirut. This deal raised hopes for an end to the government crisis plaguing Lebanon for more than a year - until this week, when Gen. Soleimani instructed Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah to pull out.
The Zarif arrangement would have granted the Shiite bloc 9 ministers in the new government – parity with the Sunni-led March 14 Coalition, and more than the six placed at the discretion of President Michel Suleiman. The Iranian general’s action put paid to Lebanon’s hope of stable government in the foreseeable future, betokening the turbulence promised the region by Khamenei’s redistribution of national tasks.
Debka 14-Feb-14
Before Iran’s discordant Islamic regime tears itself apart, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is working on a redistribution of tasks and authority for separating the feuding factions and cooling the animosity raging between President Hassan Rouhani’s following (and his sponsor, ex-president and current Expediency Council head, Hashemi Rafsanjani), and the militant camp led the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander, Gen. Ali Jaafari.
DEBKA Weekly’s exclusive Iranian sources have obtained exclusive access to Khamenei's four-part blueprint and the policy redistribution it heralds:
1. He has persuaded the Revolutionary Guards chiefs to stand aside from the international negotiations Iran is conducting with the P5+1 (the five UN Security Council members plus Germany) by offering them the following commitments:
a). No restrictions on 5-percent uranium enrichment.
b). The heavy water reactor under construction in Arak will not be converted to a light water reactor, as demanded by the US, but built as planned for plutonium production.
c) The Fordo underground uranium enrichment plant will continue functioning and America’s demand for its shutdown rejected.
d) Iran’s missile development and production will not be interrupted. It will be financed from Revolutionary Guards funds rather than the state.
e) Iran’s clandestine nuclear facilities will not be exposed to the IAEA and all data about these hidden sites kept secret from the IAEA.
f) The IAEA will continue to be denied direct access to personnel employed in Iran’s military nuclear program.
The IRGC given authority over Mid East trouble spots
2. The IRGC’s business empire will remain independent and outside the realm of state interference. This leaves the Guards in undisputed control of the lucrative import and export of oil and its distillates, as well as other profitable import-export trades.
3. The IRGC – and especially its external operational and intelligence arm, the Al Qods Brigades, are granted full control over national strategic military and diplomatic policy-making for Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. President Rouhani and his foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif will have no standing in Tehran’s decisions in these foreign areas of operation.
4. At the same time, the IRGC is excluded from Iran’s delicate relations in the Gulf region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Turkey, Egypt and Afghanistan.
In practical terms, Khamenei, Rouhani, Rafsanjani and Jaafari have struck a deal which puts in the hands of the extremist Revolutionary Guards the task of cementing Iran’s military and political influence and asserting its will in strife-ridden Iraq, Syria and Lebanon on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, as well as the Palestinians - hence, Israel.
The affairs of those trouble spots are handed over to the extremist Revolutionary Guards leadership as its exclusive domain, with no look-in permitted by the Rouhani government.
Al Qods chief scraps Lebanese unity accord
The Obama administration trusted in nuclear diplomacy for an open door to Tehran’s cooperation in reaching peaceful resolutions of the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts. The US now finds itself having to contend instead with a two-headed, radicalized regime in Tehran, preoccupied with internal dissent rather than external coexistence.
And the IRGC is a fast mover in its newly-assigned terrain.
As debkafile’s military sources first revealed Monday, Feb. 10, the Guards military command has ordered the Lebanese Hizballah to deepen its military involvement in Syria. Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani took responsibility for executing this order and managing its repercussions on Lebanon’s domestic stability and the Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel.
The immediate outcome was the scrapping of the national unity government pact in Beirut shortly after it was brokered by Foreign Minister Zarif during his mid-January visit to Beirut. This deal raised hopes for an end to the government crisis plaguing Lebanon for more than a year - until this week, when Gen. Soleimani instructed Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah to pull out.
The Zarif arrangement would have granted the Shiite bloc 9 ministers in the new government – parity with the Sunni-led March 14 Coalition, and more than the six placed at the discretion of President Michel Suleiman. The Iranian general’s action put paid to Lebanon’s hope of stable government in the foreseeable future, betokening the turbulence promised the region by Khamenei’s redistribution of national tasks.
Riyadh Marshals Its Assets Vs Iran. Saudis Procure a Pakistani Nuclear Shield & Troops, also Indian and Japanese Fleets
Riyadh Marshals Its Assets Vs Iran. Saudis Procure a Pakistani Nuclear Shield & Troops, also Indian and Japanese Fleets
Debka 14-Feb-14
The Saudis are preparing to greet Barack Obama’s visit to Riyadh in the last week of March (as yet unannounced) with a formidable display of their military independence of the United States and its policies – especial with regard to Iran.
They are in the throes of a rush job in the short time remaining for clinching long-range military deals with Pakistan, India and Japan, DEBKA Weekly’s military and intelligence sources reveal. Saudi rulers are eager to show the US president that the kingdom’s traditional military alliance with Washington, dating back to the mid-20th century, has been overtaken by solid new partnerships.
The linchpin is the Saudi-Pakistani pact. Its details were finally processed during the visit to Riyadh of Pakistan’s Chief o Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif.
The last touches and signatures will be applied when Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, deputy premier and minister of defense, travels to Islamabad over the coming weekend.
Our sources say that King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have already seen and approved the final draft of the agreements.
They cover the following points:
1. Pakistan will make nuclear weapons available to Saudi Arabia. They will be deployed in both countries and held ready logistically and operationally for instant use in any contingency that may arise.
2. These preparations will entail the presence of Pakistani military forces in Saudi Arabia and Saudi units in Pakistan to secure the nuclear weapons and use them as needed.
3. Pakistan is to sell the kingdom a fleet of fighter planes and bombers together with rockets, such as the Shaheen 11, which are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
Saudi pilots have been trained to carry out such missions. To be on the safe side, Pakistani air crews and officers will be attached to Saudi squadrons and missile batteries.
4. Two armored Pakistani divisions will be posted in Saudi Arabia’s coastal oil regions for defense against a potential Iranian invasion or terrorist strikes and subversion staged by Iranian or pro-Iranian saboteurs drawn from the local Shiite community.
Pakistan’s objection to Obama’s policies generates partnership with Saudis
This wouldn’t be the first time the Pakistani military is imported to the oil kingdom.
In 1979, thousands of Pakistani troops poured into the country to bolster Saudi security when Iranian Islamist revolutionaries overthrew the Shah. Riyadh is estimated to have since invested hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize Pakistan’s nuclear strike force, culminating in a successful A-bomb test in 1996.
5. The Saudi and Pakistani military have scheduled high-frequency war games.
6. They agree to coordinate their policies on Afghanistan as US forces prepare to draw down in 2014 after 13 years and the Taliban is poised to stage a comeback in Kabul.
For the Pakistani prime minister, the decision to hitch his Afghanistan policy to a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia instead of with Iran, is a historical breakaway from its normal traditions, DEBKA Weekly’s sources say
In addition to Saudi Arabia’s financial largesse, Islamabad is drawn to Riyadh by their shared differences with the Obama administration over its approach to the Taliban.
Both the Pakistanis and Saudis view with extreme distrust the secret talks afoot between American and the Taliban representatives, especially since Iranian emissaries have been co-opted. The Obama administration’s keenness on bolstering Iran’s standing in Afghanistan is far from the liking of both Riyadh and Islamabad.
Riyadh to borrow naval strength from India, Japan
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which have joined forces for a military front to counter the burgeoning US-Iranian alliance in the Gulf, have now opened a second front against the joint US-Iranian strategy for Afghanistan.
In recent weeks DEBKA Weekly’s sources report intense Saudi lobbying of the powers-that-be in New Delhi and Tokyo with offers to post their naval forces at Saudi coastal bases in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea to beef up the defenses of their oil routes against the powerful Iranian navy.
Tuesday, Feb. 11, Revolutionary Guards Navy Commander Ali Fadayi sent chills up American and Saudi spines when he bragged that the (the Americans) “cannot hide in the sea since the entire Middle East region, Western Europe, the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz are monitored by us.”
Our military sources report the Saudis in advanced negotiations with New Delhi for posting an Indian naval force to the King Abdulaziz Naval base near the large Saudi oil terminals at Ras Tanur.
With Tokyo, they are discussing a Japanese naval force for deployment in the Gulf and the Red Sea. Before going into practicalities with New Delhi, the Saudis checked with Islamabad to see if there would be any objection to an Indian military presence in Saudi Arabia alongside Pakistani forces.
Islamabad replied with an assurance: No, there is no objection!
Debka 14-Feb-14
The Saudis are preparing to greet Barack Obama’s visit to Riyadh in the last week of March (as yet unannounced) with a formidable display of their military independence of the United States and its policies – especial with regard to Iran.
They are in the throes of a rush job in the short time remaining for clinching long-range military deals with Pakistan, India and Japan, DEBKA Weekly’s military and intelligence sources reveal. Saudi rulers are eager to show the US president that the kingdom’s traditional military alliance with Washington, dating back to the mid-20th century, has been overtaken by solid new partnerships.
The linchpin is the Saudi-Pakistani pact. Its details were finally processed during the visit to Riyadh of Pakistan’s Chief o Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif.
The last touches and signatures will be applied when Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, deputy premier and minister of defense, travels to Islamabad over the coming weekend.
Our sources say that King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have already seen and approved the final draft of the agreements.
They cover the following points:
1. Pakistan will make nuclear weapons available to Saudi Arabia. They will be deployed in both countries and held ready logistically and operationally for instant use in any contingency that may arise.
2. These preparations will entail the presence of Pakistani military forces in Saudi Arabia and Saudi units in Pakistan to secure the nuclear weapons and use them as needed.
3. Pakistan is to sell the kingdom a fleet of fighter planes and bombers together with rockets, such as the Shaheen 11, which are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
Saudi pilots have been trained to carry out such missions. To be on the safe side, Pakistani air crews and officers will be attached to Saudi squadrons and missile batteries.
4. Two armored Pakistani divisions will be posted in Saudi Arabia’s coastal oil regions for defense against a potential Iranian invasion or terrorist strikes and subversion staged by Iranian or pro-Iranian saboteurs drawn from the local Shiite community.
Pakistan’s objection to Obama’s policies generates partnership with Saudis
This wouldn’t be the first time the Pakistani military is imported to the oil kingdom.
In 1979, thousands of Pakistani troops poured into the country to bolster Saudi security when Iranian Islamist revolutionaries overthrew the Shah. Riyadh is estimated to have since invested hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize Pakistan’s nuclear strike force, culminating in a successful A-bomb test in 1996.
5. The Saudi and Pakistani military have scheduled high-frequency war games.
6. They agree to coordinate their policies on Afghanistan as US forces prepare to draw down in 2014 after 13 years and the Taliban is poised to stage a comeback in Kabul.
For the Pakistani prime minister, the decision to hitch his Afghanistan policy to a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia instead of with Iran, is a historical breakaway from its normal traditions, DEBKA Weekly’s sources say
In addition to Saudi Arabia’s financial largesse, Islamabad is drawn to Riyadh by their shared differences with the Obama administration over its approach to the Taliban.
Both the Pakistanis and Saudis view with extreme distrust the secret talks afoot between American and the Taliban representatives, especially since Iranian emissaries have been co-opted. The Obama administration’s keenness on bolstering Iran’s standing in Afghanistan is far from the liking of both Riyadh and Islamabad.
Riyadh to borrow naval strength from India, Japan
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which have joined forces for a military front to counter the burgeoning US-Iranian alliance in the Gulf, have now opened a second front against the joint US-Iranian strategy for Afghanistan.
In recent weeks DEBKA Weekly’s sources report intense Saudi lobbying of the powers-that-be in New Delhi and Tokyo with offers to post their naval forces at Saudi coastal bases in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea to beef up the defenses of their oil routes against the powerful Iranian navy.
Tuesday, Feb. 11, Revolutionary Guards Navy Commander Ali Fadayi sent chills up American and Saudi spines when he bragged that the (the Americans) “cannot hide in the sea since the entire Middle East region, Western Europe, the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz are monitored by us.”
Our military sources report the Saudis in advanced negotiations with New Delhi for posting an Indian naval force to the King Abdulaziz Naval base near the large Saudi oil terminals at Ras Tanur.
With Tokyo, they are discussing a Japanese naval force for deployment in the Gulf and the Red Sea. Before going into practicalities with New Delhi, the Saudis checked with Islamabad to see if there would be any objection to an Indian military presence in Saudi Arabia alongside Pakistani forces.
Islamabad replied with an assurance: No, there is no objection!
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Jordan Ready To Host US To Train Iraqi Troops On Its Territory
Jordan Ready To Host US To Train Iraqi Troops On Its Territory
Agence France-Presse 19-Jan-14
Jordan is ready to host a US training program for Iraqi troops to help counter a resurgence of al-Qaida-linked militants in its neighbor, a minister said in remarks published Sunday.
His comments come as Iraqi forces are locked in battles with anti-government militants who have gained ground in Anbar province west of Baghdad amid a spike in violence across the country.
“Jordan welcomes positively the US request to train Iraqi forces on its territory,” Information Minister Mohammed Momani said, in statement carried in the government newspaper Al-Rai.
“This project is part of permanent cooperation between Jordan, Iraq and the United States to fight against terrorism in the region.”
On Friday a US defense official told AFP that Washington was waiting for an agreement with Jordan or another country to go ahead with the training program.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has asked the United States to help the army fight against Islamist extremists, blamed for a spiral of deadly attacks in recent months.
And on Saturday the White House said that Vice President Joe Biden had spoken to Maliki to discuss Washington’s support for Iraq’s fight against jihadists.
“The two leaders agreed on the importance of the Iraqi government’s continued outreach to local and tribal leaders in Anbar province,” the White House said.
Maliki said in an interview published Thursday in The Washington Post that he specifically needed US “counter-terrorism” training.
Asked if US trainers would come to Iraq, the prime minister said: “Yes, bringing Americans to Iraq, or Iraqi soldiers could go to Jordan and train.”
The US defense official said Washington was preparing to ship “several thousand” M-16 and M-4 assault rifles as well as ammunition to Iraq, after having already provided missiles to Maliki’s government.
The training was “likely” to go ahead because both Baghdad and Washington support the idea, he added.
But US officials have said no US troops would be redeployed in Iraq.
The United States led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, toppling Saddam Hussein. American troops withdrew from the country in 2011 after failing to reach a deal with Baghdad providing legal safeguards for US forces.
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Bible Prophecy Teaching The Divine Nature of Immortality
1. To whom does the Bible apply the term "immortal"?
ANSWER: To God "The King eternal, IMMORTAL, invisible, the only wise God" (1 Tim. 1:17).
2. Does not the Bible allow that man is immortal as well?
ANSWER: No; it says God alone is immortal. "The King of kings, and Lord of lords: WHO ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY" (1 Tim. 6:16).
3. Does it never apply the term "immortal" to man?
ANSWER: Never. On the contrary, it speaks of ,"mortal man" (Job 4:17).
4. Is man entirely cut off from immortality then?
ANSWER: No; but it is a thing he has to seek for in order to obtain it. "By patient continuance in well doing SEEK for glory and honour and immortality" (Rom. 2:7).
5. Is, then, the doctrine of immortality taught by the Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and others, a mistaken doctrine?
ANSWER: It must be so: "Jesus Christ ... brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" by "abolishing death" in his own person by resurrection (2 Tim 1:10).
6. May not the doctrine of philosophers and the doctrine of Christ have been the same, though taught at different times?
ANSWER: They are not the same: they differ on all points. The philosophers, like the Sadducees (Luke 20:27), denied the resurrection. Paul says the wisdom of the philosophers was "foolishness" in God's estimation (1 Cor. 3:19, 20). It led to the Corinthian denial of resurrection (1 Cor. 15). Paul told believers to "beware" of philosophy (Col. 2:8), which he speaks of as "vain deceit" and "babblings" (1 Tim. 6:20).
7. Wherein does Christ's doctrine differ from the doctrine of the philosophers?
ANSWER: Christ teaches that men have no immortality in themselves (John 6:53); that they are mortal men -- men in whom death works as a law of their being because of sin (Rom. 5:12; 7:24; 2 Cor. 1:9); and that only those who believe and obey him will receive immortality (John 8:12, 24, 10:27, 28).
8. Can you express it more shortly, and in Bible terms?
ANSWER: Yes; "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord " (Rom. 6:23).
9. Is immortality received in the present state of existence then?
ANSWER: No; it is conferred at the return of Christ: "When the Son of Man shall come in his glory . . . the righteous (shall go) into life eternal" (Matt. 25:31, 46). "At the last trump. . . . this mortal shall put on immortality" (1 Cor. 15:53). "Those that have done good ... shall come forth ... to the resurrection of life" (John 5:29). "Those that are accounted worthy ... shall not die any more" (Luke 20:35, 36).
10. What becomes of them meantime?
ANSWER: If they die, they "sleep in the dust of the earth" (Dan. 12:2). They are "THE DEAD in Christ" (1 Thess. 4:16).
11. Do you mean to say there is no consciousness in the death state?
ANSWER: Yes. The Bible explicitly declares it. "In death, there is no remembrance of Thee" (Psa. 6:5). "THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING" (Eccl. 9:5).
12. What becomes of the unjust?
ANSWER: They also sleep in the dust; but at the resurrection, they come forth to condemnation (John 5:29).
13. Is there a resurrection of the unjust as well?
ANSWER: Yes. "There shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust" (Acts 24:15).
14. What is the difference between them in that case?
ANSWER: There is a great difference. They will "all appear before the judgment seat of Christ" to receive in body, according to what they have done (2 Cor. 5:10). While the righteous will enter an immortal state, the unjust will suffer "indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish" (Rom. 2:8-9), and disappear finally in the corruption of the "second death" -- or death a second time (Gal. 6:8; 2 Pet. 2:12; Rev. 21:8). "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever . . . But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off" (Psa. 37:29-38; 2 Thess. 1-8).
15. Is there not a single passage in the Bible that declares that men will not die?
ANSWER: Yes; there is one: "Ye shall not surely die" (Gen. 3:4) but the author of the saying was the serpent, who was a liar (2 Cor. 11:3).
Bible Prophecy Teaching The Destiny of the Wicked
The Destiny of the Wicked
So far as the wicked are concerned, we have already established that they cannot possibly exist after death, suffering eternal torment and misery. The following passages are a selection from many:
"The wicked shall perish . . . they shall consume away" (Psalm37:20).
"He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish" (Psalm 49:19,20).
"The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it" (Proverbs 2:22).
"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish" (Isaiah 26:14).
"They shall be punished with everlasting destruction" (2 Thessalonians 1:9).
The final punishment of the wicked is therefore annihilation, perpetual death, cut off from the land of the living for ever. This is fitting and appropriate in the light of our understanding of Bible teaching concerning life and death, "for the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
So far as the wicked are concerned, we have already established that they cannot possibly exist after death, suffering eternal torment and misery. The following passages are a selection from many:
"The wicked shall perish . . . they shall consume away" (Psalm37:20).
"He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish" (Psalm 49:19,20).
"The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it" (Proverbs 2:22).
"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish" (Isaiah 26:14).
"They shall be punished with everlasting destruction" (2 Thessalonians 1:9).
The final punishment of the wicked is therefore annihilation, perpetual death, cut off from the land of the living for ever. This is fitting and appropriate in the light of our understanding of Bible teaching concerning life and death, "for the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
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