THE CRY OF THE MARTYRS

  

In Revelation 6:9-11 is the account of the souls who were killed for their testimony.  The question here is are these martyrs alive or dead.  Many believe these are disembodied spirits are conscious and alive due their crying out.  If this section of scripture is literal then previously in Revelation 5:6 it is literally a slaughtered lamb that opens the fifth seal in Revelation 6:1  And there is literally a white horse whose rider held a bow and a crown was given to him a great sword , then he went out to conquer.  This is followed by three more literal horses of various colors with their riders who in sequence take peace from the earth, cause famine and killing with sword, famine, plague and beasts of the earth.  Then we come to the verses in question, the literal crying our of dead people who want their blood avenged and each receives a white robe but they have no body to put it on because they are disembodied spirits and they are told they must wait until the full number of their fellow saints would be killed as they were.  So then if we assume verses 9 to 11 are literal and not symbolic then we must also assume all the other seals are literal too. 

Revelation is a book that heavily employs symbolism and most people know this but the challenge is to separate the symbolism from reality and this is where for many people it proves to be impossible.  The same can be said of the parable of Lazarus and the rich man that also uses symbolism that is found in the false beliefs of the Pharisees that Jesus was speaking this parable to.  Jesus used their belief of what they considered to be the afterlife against them by giving the reward to Lazarus rather than the rich man. Another example is the transfiguration that Jesus plainly told his disciples was a vision and therefore not real. Did the kingdom of GOD arrive during this event ?  Was Christ glorified before his time as well as Moses and Elijah because Jesus was glorified at his ascension and Moses and Elijah will be at the last day when Jesus returns.

When the spiritually ignorant read scriptures in the Bible that seem to indicate immediate life after death they fall for them and are very willing to abandon the truth of GOD about resurrections from the dead in order to believe in their lie.  They will throw out the plain declarations of the prophets, Jesus and the Apostles about the resurrection of the dead at the return of Jesus in order to cling to their Satan inspired lie.  

Without the Holy Spirit they cannot understand these things so they invent whatever they want that pleases them.  

ARE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS STILL VALID TODAY OR HAS GOD CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT WHAT THE PROPHETS WROTE CONCERNING LIFE DEATH AND RESURRECTION

 There are many scriptures in the Old Testament that plainly say that the dead are not alive and sleep the sleep of death being totally unconscious.  There are some who say these words by the prophets have been changed by GOD and don’t apply to us today and they use the transfiguration, the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, 1 Peter 3:18-21 and others to prove this.  GODS attributes of omnipotence and omniscience should show us that GOD doesn’t need to change HIS mind about anything.  It is necessary to examine what Jesus and the Apostles say about this idea.

2 Peter 3:1-2 “This second epistle beloved I write to you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.  That you be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us Apostles of the Lord and Savior.”

2 Peter 1:19 “And so we have the prophetic word made sure to which you would do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.  Knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation for prophecy never came by the will of man but holy men of GOD spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 1:2 “the gospel HE promised beforehand through HIS prophets in the holy scriptures.”

Ephesians 3:5 “which was not made known in other generations as it has now been revealed by the spirit of GODS holy Apostles and prophets.”

Acts 3:21 “whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things about which GOD spoke by the mouth of all HIS holy prophets since the world began.”

Well, these are only a few scriptures that to me establish the sureness of the testimony of the prophets.  Peter reveals that all the prophets were not speaking to people of their day or for themselves but to the church. 

1 Peter 1:12 “It was revealed to them (the prophets) that they were not serving themselves but you (the church) when they spoke of the things that have now been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things angels desire to look into.”

All the words of the holy prophets are still valid today, even those that describe the state of the dead being that of unconscious nothingness.  That there is no immediate life after death. The truth of GOD had always been in both old and new testaments that the ONLY way to live again after death is by a resurrection from the dead at the return of Christ.  

Any other teachings that contradicts or alters this truth are from Satan.  This lie of Satan is not part of the gospel but of Satans first lie, “You shall not surely die.”  The elect of GOD are to be in agreement on all spiritual things with no divisions among us and all of us speaking the same thing.  Anyone calling themself a brother but thinks there is immediate life after death is a deceived person.  This deceived brother needs to repent and accept the truth if GOD will have mercy on him and grant him repentance. 

 James 5:20 “Let him know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.”  

The brother, more than likely a babe, needs correction from the mature brethren, but if he rejects loving correction then what ?

Romans 16:17 “I urge you brothers and sisters to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.”

Titus 3:10-11 “Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful and self condemned.”

2 John 1:9 “Whoever transgresses and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have GOD but the one who remains in the teaching has both the FATHER and the son.”

1 Timothy 6:3 “If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words even the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and with doctrine conforming to Godliness they are proud knowing nothing but is obsessed with dispute and arguments over words from which come envy, strife, evil suspicions.”

GODS elect will in love try to explain the truth to a confused brother but if that brother refuses to hear and continues his rant about a false belief then it is time to rebuke him.  Titus 3:10 

 Usually a person rebuked is offended and withdraws himself from fellowship rather than realize his error when the  brethren attempt in love to help him see the truth.  This is a sad thing but this person isn’t lost but may have to be in the millennium or second resurrection to see the truth if GOD doesn’t want him now.   If the brother repents and desires to return to fellowship then let him and consider the matter over and done.  

WAS JESUS CHRIST IMMORTAL ?

 

The penalty for our sin is death.  This death is easily proven to be one of a mortal human where the spirit leaves the body, then the body rots to dust and the unconscious spirit returns to GOD.  In order to be the substitute payment for human sin Jesus would have to die in the exact same way as all humans do otherwise the penalty would not be paid .   Jesus took upon himself our death sentence so the death we die Jesus died also.  Just like all human beings the soul of Jesus separated and his spirit went to GOD but his body did not rot or decay and actually healed while dead because after his resurrection he appeared to many and no one seemed shocked by his appearance.  Remember, Jesus was whipped so bad his visage was marred , Isaiah 52:14 , yet after 3 days and 3 nights the FATHER resurrected Jesus and Jesus was alive again, a soul again.  You have to be a soul in order to be alive.  All this information proves that Jesus was not still alive after he died but was indeed dead just as any of us when we die. 

 Humans are mortal and Jesus was human therefore Jesus was mortal.  Humans have a human spirit called the spirit in man and this spirit is what makes us human so if Jesus was human then he had to have a human spirit.  

To live after dying would mean your immortal but scriptures testify humans are mortal. Jesus could only live again after he died because the FATHER resurrected him otherwise Jesus would still be dead and we yet in our sins and condemned to death.  

There are certain scriptures that spiritually ignorant people use to “prove” immediate life after death but these ignorant do not understand these scriptures because they don’t have the Holy Spirit. There are many things ignorant false Churches teach the carnal people who attend them that are lies.  Only the elect of GOD understand spiritual things because they are taught to us by GOD through Jesus. Matthew 13:11 The FATHERS Spirit is able to reveal HIS truth to HIS elect no matter how much unconverted Satanically inspired men have perverted the scriptures.  This is why GODS elect are confident in what they know and believe.  We elect, by the power of the FATHERS Spirit through Jesus, are being taught in the same way as the prophets and Apostles, by divine revelation. The Apostle John recorded this fact in 1 John 2:27  and by Jesus in John 14:13,26  Therefore preachers, ministers, pastors, popes and all human ministries are unnecessary and have been abolished after the death of the Apostle John. Ezekiel 34:10   Jeremiah 23:1   John 10:12-13   Isaiah 56:11 

It is by this connection to GOD through Jesus that we know Jesus was mortal and died exactly the same way we do and was resurrected by the FATHER to life again. Revelation 1:18   If life after death was immediate all humans and the human Jesus would be immortal and the resurrection a lie.  Hebrews 2:17 Jesus had to be created by GOD to be fully human in every physical way.  It should be obvious that spiritually Jesus was far above us because Jesus had a greater anointing of GODS spirit than anyone else has ever had.  

Hebrews 1:9  The GOD of the Elohim Jesus, set Jesus above his companions by anointing Jesus with more the oil of gladness. 

This oil of gladness is referring to the Holy Spirit.

The human spirit of Jesus was incapable of sin therefore his human body was the perfect sacrifice for our sins.  The human spirit of Christ was one with his GOD and this oneness is what we elect of GOD are destined to become.  This acquiring of the state of oneness for the elect happens when we are changed at the return of Jesus in the first resurrection.  Until then we are to bear fruit to GOD by surrendering ourselves to GODS working power of love in us to truly love GOD and neighbor. If we endure to the end of our lives in doing this we will be made immortal and incapable of sin.  

The elect are said to have everlasting life abiding in them which gives the spiritually ignorant the idea we are immoral now.  Everlasting life is a gift from GOD to the elect and is dependent on our surrendering ourselves to GOD and obeying the gospel, growing in grace and knowledge and overcoming.  The elect see GODS promise of immortality as a sure thing because GOD cannot lie therefore we speak of everlasting life as though we already have it when we know it is yet future in the resurrection.  This method of speaking is called prophetic present tense, that is like the way GOD speaks, Romans 4:17 (last part) “calls those things which do not exist as though they do”  It seems that all of GODS people have at times spoken in this way.  The ignorant do not understand these things and in their carnal minds invent the immortal soul lie or some form of instant life after death. 

No human being as two natures unless they are either converted elect with the holy spirt or demonically possessed. If Jesus was created by GOD and was human did Jesus have a nature just like ours ?  When GOD created Adam, Adams nature was innocent and ignorant of sin because he had not yet sinned by eating the forbidden fruit that opened his eyes to understand good and evil.  At his creation Adam could not sin but later became a sinner, this is a change of nature, a nature that all humans now have, the nature of evil acquired from Satan.  Jesus is called the second Adam but Jesus was the messiah who was created by GOD incapable of sin so that the sacrifice of his life would be more than enough to pay for our sins.  The virgin birth separated Jesus from Adam so that Adams sin did not pass on to Jesus.  Jesus and Adam were like brothers because their FATHER was GOD.  The spiritually ignorant think Jesus was dual natured, both GOD and man, but I would ask how many other human beings are the same, are all humans both GOD and man ?  Jesus was indeed 100% human but he was 0% GOD. Jesus had GODS character of love and righteousness but none of GODS attributes of omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient or eternal existence.  If no human is also GOD then Jesus the human was not GOD either.  Jesus was a human man who was totally filled with the spirit of GOD and was especially created by GOD to be the messiah. There was nothing about Jesus  when he was human that was immortal.  

ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT BLOG STATISTICS

 

As of yesterday the only other article that has made it to the all time viewing list was an article by Ray called “Overcoming Sin”.  Today an article by J has joined the list. J’s article Two Different Deaths is now the second article by a contributing author to be on the all time list of articles read.  Congratulations J.  

KEL IS WRONG AGAIN

 Jesus said not to fear him who could destroy the body but rather HIM who can destroy both body and spirit in hell.  Matthew 10:28   Hell in this verse is referring to the lake of fire, the second death. 

According to Kel there is no human spirit but the spirit in us is GODS spirit.  Would GOD destroy HIMSELF in hell ?  All humans have a human spirit and GODS spirit bears witness with our human spirit. Romans 8:16   If man is made in the image and likeness of GOD then just what is there about humans that is this image and likeness ?  There are only two parts that make a soul, the dust or body and the breath or spirit.  Which  one of these could be said to be in GODS image and likeness ?  John 4:24 declares that GOD is spirit and we humans have a spirit therefore it is the human spirit that is in GODS image and likeness.  What part of a human enters the kingdom of GOD ?  Is it our body or our spirit ?  Hebrews 12:23 “the spirits of just men made perfect”

Scripture does say there is a spirit in man and that this human spirit is our mind, our thoughts and intents and is our connection to GOD.  Job 32:8  1 Corinthians 2:11-12   Romans 8:16  Kel says humans are not a spirit but only living dust and Kel confidently says, “GOD said so”, and his statement is false because GOD said we are a living soul, not living dust.  Well, dust isn’t living its animated by the human spirit, Jesus said it is the spirit that gives life the body profits nothing.  John 6:63  

 To be alive means to be aware and conscious and able to function in a body.  The human spirit at death is not destroyed but enters a state of unconsciousness and unawareness until the resurrection.  Since the body of dust that Kel says is living dust is not alive of itself then Kels living dust is an oxymoron as well as a corruption of scripture. Dust is matter and matter has no life at all.  The human body only appears to be living because of the presence of the human spirit.  James said the body without the spirit is dead.  

When GOD formed Adams body there was no life in that dust.  The human spirit, the breath of life, was required to give the body the appearance of life.  Notice the life is in the breath, GOD doesn’t breathe therefore this is not GODS spirit that makes the soul alive, it is a spirit designed by GOD requiring breath.  The souls of human beings are kept alive by breath, Genesis 7:22   Isaiah 2:22   Job 27:3 but this verse is better translated “the breath from GOD is in my nostrils”  because remember GOD doesn’t breathe.  Acts 17:25 “GOD gives to all life and breath”  Zechariah 12:1 “and forms the spirit of man within him.” A spirit that is not GODS spirit but a spirit designed by GOD requiring breath to be alive, to be a soul. Remember that even lower animals require a spirit that isn’t GODS spirit. Kel said that if humans were a spirit we would be immortal but in this statement Kel is obviously ignorant of just what a soul is and how GOD designed the soul, the body of dust and a spirit of breath created for each kind, Genesis 1:25 “And GOD made the beast of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind and GOD saw that it was good.”

Now Kels teaching is absolutely wrong.  All humans are a spirit in a mortal body. The body suffers corruption and cannot enter the kingdom of GOD.  1 Corinthians 15:39-49   GODS saints will receive a spirit body and this is what makes them immortal because the human spirit by itself is not immortal but as stated before at death becomes unconscious and unaware which is not what life is.  This unconscious human spirit needs a body that is incorruptible, a spirit body, in order to become immortal.  This mortal must put on immortality. This corruption must put on incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:35-49  read these verses carefully.

Even animals are souls requiring the breath of life to be alive.  Each animal has a spirit that is programmed by GOD to match the animal. Each animal’s spirit is unique to its body, each after its own kind.  GOD is the creator of all spirits and each spirit has its own body. The lower animals operate purely on instinct, a preprogrammed behavior GOD placed in them.  Horses don’t climb trees, cats don’t chase cars, elephants don’t fly and no other animal except man can build a spacecraft to travel to the moon and back.  At death the animal spirit along with its body is destroyed but a human spirit that was created by GOD to have the potential of a relationship with GOD is preserved in a dormant state until a resurrection from the dead.  The other animals do not have this potential.  Kel used a flashlight to demonstrate that humans are living dust but in his explanation he fails to see that what makes the flashlight shine is spirit not dust. It is also true that when the batteries are removed from the flashlight that neither flashlight or batteries can do anything thus showing their is no immediate life after death. The saints need a new flashlight, a new spirit body that their human spirit can dwell in. 

Kel, you do a decent job in proving the trinity is a lie but in almost everything else you say you are wrong. You fancy yourself to be a biblical expert but in reality are a novice at best.  I credit your biblical ignorance to your working alone in your studies of scripture and have no one to challenge you, no one to say, “hey Kel but what about this ?”  This is a very serious handicap that leads you to error in your conclusions.  You are only one witness in yourself and the word of one witness is useless and worthless, Deuteronomy 19:15  for in a multitude of counselors there is safety, Proverbs 11:14,  and in two or three witnesses is a matter established.  

DOES IRAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ?

 

There is an unconfirmed report that Iran may have nuclear weapons and may test one in the near future. It is speculated that possibly North Korea may have given Iran these weapons.  A CIA analyst appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitanos podcast “Judging Freedom” and made the comment that Iran now has nuclear weapons and intends to test one.  If this information is true it may well explain the reason why president Trump is seeking peace. Trump doesn’t want a nuclear war in the Middle East.  Recently Trump went ballistic on Netanyahu for planning to invade Beirut Lebanon to attack Hezbollah that has been attacking northern Israel. I thought this to be rather strange and I also thought it strange that Trump has not finished off Iran now that they have been extremely weakened by the U.S. and Israel.  Without a regime change in Iran  the problem in the Middle East will will never be resolved.  It is a well known fact that Iran has never honored any agreements they have entered into. There is a scripture that applies to these Iranian people that describes them and all Islamic people.

Genesis 16:12 “He shall be a wild man, his hand shall be against every man and every man’s hand will be against him, and he will live in defiance of all his brothers.”

This scripture is about Abrahams son Ishmael that he had with Hagar the the servant of Sarah Abrahams wife.  Ishmael is the father of todays Arab people and from whom the Islamic people came to be. These people have a very violent history and have attacked many nations including their own people.  The Arab form of Islam differs from that of Iran that is ancient Persia.  Iran believes that the 12th Imam, Muhammad Al Mahdi, who has been in hiding since 868 AD, will return an lead Iran to world domination at a time of great upheaval. This current war is believed by these Iranian leaders to culminate in the arrival of this Mahdi.  This particular sect of Islam is extremely dangerous and fits very well with Genesis 16:12   President Trump knows all of this yet is desperate for peace.  If Trump knows that Iran has nuclear weapons he would not want Israel to know this because Israel would destroy Iran with their own nuclear weapons.  Israel is well aware that they would be Irans first target so they would strike first to avoid being nuked. Can’t say as I would blame them.  This is all of course speculation but if Iran does test detonate a nuclear bomb I look for Israel to destroy Iran.  Then all hell will break loose in the Middle East.  

Zechariah 14:13 “It shall come to pass in that day that a great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor and raise his hand against his neighbors hand.” 

Isaiah 19:2 “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian, brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom.”

Haggai 2:22 “I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders, horses and their riders will fall each by the sword of his brother.” 

The victory of Israel over Iran will fill all the hearts of all the people with fear. Israel will by the man of sin revive the old covenant and form a union with ten nations; 5 from the east and 5 from the west of once was the Roman Empire.  Israel will become the foremost nation on earth and it will be thought by them that this man of sin is their messiah. The covenant made will be for 7 years, the first 3 1/2  a false millennium the last 3 1/2 the great tribulation. 

There are articles on this blog that better explain these things.  As with all prophecy we see through a glass darkly but as time moves forward we will see more.  I caution all readers to not become to engrossed in prophetic events because of this reason. It may not come to pas exactly as we now believe or even at a time we may think.  

DID JESUS AFTER HE DIED PREACH TO THE DEAD SPIRITS IN PRISON WHO WERE LIVING IN NOAHS DAY ?

 

Jesus preached to the spirits of living people in his day, not to dead people in Noah’s day. Noah, a preacher of righteousness, preached to the spirits in prison in his day.

Isaiah 61:1 “The spirit of YAHWEH is upon me (Jesus) because YAHWEH has anointed me (Jesus) to proclaim the gospel to the poor. YAHWEH has sent me (Jesus) to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives (those in a spiritual prison) and release from darkness for the prisoners.”

Isaiah 49:9 “To say to the prisoners, come out and to those in darkness show yourselves….”

Isaiah 42:7 “To open the eyes of the blind, to free captives from the prison and to release those who sit in darkness from the prison house.”

Luke 4:20 “Then he (Jesus) rolled up the scroll and returned it to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began to say to them, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

Acts 10:38 “How GOD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil because GOD was with him.”

Noah preached to living people in his day who were also spirits imprisoned by Satan. Noah was a preacher of righteousness.

2 Peter 2:5 “If GOD did not spare the ancient world when HE brought the flood on its ungodly people but  saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.” 

Genesis 6:9 “This is the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man blameless in his time ; Noah walked with GOD.”

Hebrews 11:7 “By faith, Noah, when warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”

It took 120 years to build the ark and during that time GOD waited patiently while Noah preached righteousness to the people to see if any would repent but none did. Only Noah and his family were saved. 

Jesus Christ preached to the spirits in prison quoting Isaiah 61:1 to them.  During all of his 3 1/2 years of preaching only 120 people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.  

In these verses of 1 Peter 3:18-20 there is an error in punctuation. After Jesus died, 3 days and nights later, Jesus was made alive by the spirit of GOD.  In his ministry he preached the gospel to the imprisoned spirits, living people of his day, by the same spirit that raised him from the dead. Notice that the spirits of some who were formerly disobedient of which only 120 obeyed and right after the word disobedient there should be a period.  Now Peter is comparing the preaching of Jesus to the preaching of Noah to show how baptism in water was like the water that saved Noah. Paul does a similar thing in 1 Corinthians 10:2  showing the shadow of the law compared to the light of Christ.

Immortality was withheld from humanity after Adam sinned.  A human life is just like that of any other animal, as one dies so does the other. Ecclesiastes 3:19  This truth is still with us today.  No murderer has everlasting life abiding in them.  1 John 3:15   

The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of receiving everlasting life when Jesus returns.  John 6:40,44,54 all these verses say the resurrection happens at the last day when this mortal must put on immortality.  We do not have immortality now or when we die but only at the resurrection in the last day. 

GODS truth, HIS doctrine, never changes.  Certain people read 1 Peter 3:18-20 and conclude that after we die or Jesus died they were still alive and conscious as a disembodied spirit. This idea violates the gospel message and is a deception of Satan. 

1 Corinthians 15:13-18  “If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even Christ has Been resurrected.  If Christ has not been resurrected our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that we are found to be false witnesses about GOD for we have testified about GOD that HE resurrected Christ from the dead. But if HE did not resurrect Christ then the dead are not resurrected from the dead for if then the dead are not resurrected then Christ has not been resurrected either.  And if Christ has not been resurrected your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.  Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.”

Do you not see that the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, that is making the dead alive again, is the hope of both the living and the dead ?  Paul says plainly that the dead in Christ, those who have fallen asleep, would be lost if there is no resurrection from the dead.  The word lost in verse 18 is Strongs article G622 and it means, to destroy fully or permanent absolute destruction or utterly perish.  The phrase “fallen asleep” is Strongs article G2837 and describes the peaceful death of the elect of GOD where sleep is used as a metaphor for death.  Therefore prior to the resurrection the elect are sleeping in death, totally unaware and unconscious.  There are no exceptions to this doctrine as even Christ had to be resurrected from the dead just as those who are asleep in death must be also.  This is the truth of GOD and anything that contradicts this truth is a lie. Immediate life after death is a lie.  Satans first lie was that humans do not surely die and people who believe this lie believe in immediate life after death. You are an imprisoned spirit awaiting the sentence of death and held in a spiritual prison with no way of escape.  The message of the gospel is the hope that even if dead you can be resurrected from the dead to immortality in the kingdom of GOD. 

WHY DOES THE HUMAN SPIRIT LEAVE THE BODY AND WHAT HAPPENS TO IT ?

 

Why does the human spirit, the breath of life, leave the body ?  The human body is composed of matter, the dust of the ground.  Dust has no life in it.  The human spirit animates the body or gives the appearance of life as long as the spirit is in the body.  James said,

 “As the body without the spirit is dead” James 2:26 

 The human spirit was designed by GOD to need a body because without a body the spirit cannot function in any way.  The human spirit operates through the brain, which is the interface between our spirit and our body.  Our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are transmitted from the body through the brain to our spirit and visa versa .  If any of these 5 senses is destroyed then our spirit no longer has that sense.  If your eyes are put out you no longer see because that sense no longer transmits the information through the brain to your spirit.  The same is true for all of the other senses.  A dead person has no senses at all, have you ever seen a dead person do anything ?  Your human spirit is what keeps the body functioning but if your body becomes too severely damaged the spirit can no longer keep the body functioning and leaves the body to go back to GOD.  

Ecclesiastes 12:7 “and the spirit returns to GOD who gave it.” 

This disembodied spirit cannot function without the body just as the body cannot function without the spirit.  In the first resurrection this disembodied spirit is joined to a spirit body and you are alive again forever.  The Genesis account in chapter 1 verse 27 says GOD created man in HIS own image, 

“So GOD created man in HIS own image.”

 So, what is GODS image, likeness or form.  The Hebrew word for image is Strongs article H6754 “Tselem” it means a phantom, illusion, representative figure, vain show.  Therefore a human is a poor or incomplete copy of GODS image.  GODS image is spirit. 

 John 4:24 “GOD is spirit”

GOD is not flesh and blood but we humans have a spirit and this is how we are in GODS image.  GOD is not dust with a spirit, HE is totally spirit and that is what the potential for humanity is, to become spirit as GOD is spirit.  GOD requires no breath of life as we do and neither do the angels.  This body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD. 

 1 Corinthians 15:50 “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD”

Therefore if our body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom then what part of us does ?  The human spirit inherits the kingdom of GOD.  It’s the spirits of just men made perfect not their fleshly body.  

Hebrews 12:23 “To the general assembly and church of the first born which are written in heaven and to GOD the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect.”

Many people do not understand any of this.  There are various beliefs as to what happens after we die.  The truth about death is that there is no life of any kind after death except a resurrection from the dead at the return of Christ.  Scripture says we must be changed,

 1 Corinthians 15:51 “Listen, I will tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep (die) but we will all be changed….” 

Changed in what way ? We are changed from flesh to spirit.  If this fleshly body we have is destroyed we have another body composed of spirit that at the resurrection of the dead when Jesus returns is joined with our human spirit that went back to GOD when we died. Our spirit is unconscious until placed into the spirit body. There is a natural body of flesh and there is a spirit body. 

 1 Corinthians 15:44 “it is sown a natural body, it is resurrected a spiritual body.” 

 This is when we will truly be in GODS image.  There are people that say Jesus today in heaven is glorified flesh, but how does scripture describe Jesus? 

 1 Corinthians 15:45 “the last Adam became a life giving spirit.”  

Scripture also says this,

 1 John 3:2 “we know when Christ appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 

 2 Corinthians 3:18 “And we all with unveiled faces contemplate the Lords glory are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory…”   

Romans 8:29 “Those who GOD for new HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS son …”.

   So then, if Jesus is a life giving spirit now and we are going to be changed to be like him in the resurrection at his return then we are going to become spirit beings.  Until that day comes if we are dead we are totally unconscious and unaware but once our human spirit is placed into that spirit body we will live again forever.  

BROTHER KEL IS WRONG WHEN HE SAYS THAT HUMANS ARE NOTHING BUT LIVING DUST AND WE ARE NOT SPIRIT

 “What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness? Psalm 30:9  Dust cannot do anything.  

Ephesians 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.  Your human spirit is your mind, it is the real you.  The dust is only the temporary earthen vessel in which the treasure of your knowledge of GODS truth is stored in your human spirit.

  2 Corinthians 4:6-7

 . 6  For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you.  Romans 1:9

 But it is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding. Job 32:8

Here Job says that the human spirit is our understanding, therefore our consciousness and knowledge as long as we have a body to function in.

Paul said the same thing.  1 Corinthians 2:11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?

 Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. Psalm 32:2

Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being. 

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit (not dust) that we are God’s children.  Romans 8:16

 

“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.  Job 7:11

  Then Mary said:“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! Luke 1:46-47

Even Jesus had a human spirit.

Luke 23:46 Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, "Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit." ...

All human beings have a human spirit. Dust has no mind, cannot think, cannot sin. It is the human spirit that sins.  Dust cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD.  Even sin is not of the dust but of the defiled human spirit. The man who was committing adultery with his fathers wife, what did Paul say ? To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Corinthians 5:5

This spirit Paul refers to is the human spirit. The human spirit lives in a temporary dwelling or house or tent. 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an everlasting house in heaven, not built by human hands.

2 Peter 1:13-14
I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body, / because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

The outer self is the dust, the human spirit is the inner self, the real person.

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

This is what I have been trying to show you. A human being is not just "living dust" as Kel says. A human being is a spirit in a mortal body of dust. This human spirit is the real us.  Life is not in dust or the fleshly body, John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.

Kel understands that the soul is the union of dust and breath or body and spirit but where he goes wrong is in crediting the dust with what is the function of the spirit.   In this Kel is thinking physically or carnally. Consider the story of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4:16 “Let his mind change from that of a human And let an animal’s mind be given to him, And let seven periods of time pass over him. The mind or heart is the spirit of man. We need to have the mind of Christ in us, that is the way Christ thought which guided everything he said and did.

Nebuchadnezzars body remained the same, it was his spirit that was changed from that of a human to an animal.  This shows that it is the spirit of any animal including the animal man that makes them what they are, not their bodies. The mind is the spirit of man or animal. The reverse of this would be when Balaams donkey spoke to him in Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

In the first resurrection the saints will be spirit beings as their unconscious spirit that went back to GOD at death is put into a spirit body and then the saints are immortal, this is how this mortal must put on immortality, 

1 Corinthians 15:50-53

50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

Take note, if the dust is still in the ground, and Kel says we are nothing but dust, then the above scripture would be wrong. Kel is the one who is wrong. Paul said in this same chapter that there is a spirit body, Paul also said that if this earthly body is destroyed we have another body in heaven for us, a spirit body. Peter said his earthly tent laid aside.  

What further proof do you need ?     

 

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THE TRANSFIGURATION

 

The transfiguration begins in Matthew 16:28 “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the son of man coming in his kingdom.” 

Then 6 days later Jesus took Peter, James and John up a high mountain and there Jesus was transfigured before them.  Then appeared before them Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus.  Matthew 17:1-3

Some say this is proof that the dead are conscious and alive and could engage in conversation with Jesus.  This event was actually the continuation of the comment made by Jesus in Matthew 16:28   This was a vision of Jesus in his kingdom as Matthew 17:9  plainly says. “Do not tell anyone about this vision…”

As you should know the kingdom did not arrive.  The transfiguration was a vision of the kingdom and you should also know that the first resurrection takes place at the arrival of the kingdom.  Therefore in this vision Moses and Elijah have been resurrected from the dead and glorified.  The idea they were dead but yet conscious is grossly inaccurate and displays a serious lack of spiritual understanding.  The division between chapters 16 and 17 tends to give the false impression that the last verse in chapter 16 has nothing to do with the events in chapter 17 when read by a someone attempting to prove immediate life after death.   This is very common among carnal thinkers.  For those intent on believing in the lie of immediate life after death this explanation of the transfiguration will not be accepted.  For GODS elect this is the true explanation as the spirit of the FATHER has revealed to us. There is no life, no consciousness after death and the only way to be conscious and alive again is by a resurrection from the dead.  This is the true doctrine of GOD.

 Hebrews 6:2 “of the doctrine of baptisms, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and everlasting judgment.”

Strongs Concordance article G1322 “didache” means teaching, doctrine or instruction.  

There is no amount of proof I can give that will convince anyone that what I have written here is true, only the FATHER can do that.  

MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR

 

TO ALL OF YOU WHO READ THIS BLOG. 

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THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL

 

Currently in this evil world Satan and the demons rule the Earth.  Satan is the Elohim or god of this world and the demons under him have been given rulership over assigned parts of the Earth.  GOD ALMIGHTY permits this because Adam chose Satan over GOD.  Remember that Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of Earth because GOD had given them to Satan and he could give them to whoever he wanted.  This Satanic rule of the Earth changes when Jesus returns.  The kingdoms of this world then will belong to Jesus and the elect saints of GOD.  Each saint will be given rulership over a part of the Earth the size of which is determined on how many talents they have gained which is symbolic of how well they submitted their life to GOD and Christ while yet still human.  Paul compared this to one star differing in glory from another.  Some saints will have more glory than others in the resurrection.  The more a person has diligently sought GOD the greater is the reward, the glory. The saints in that day will become the Elohim, the gods of this world.  Jesus quoted scripture saying, “I said you are gods”, and another scripture says that GOD is the GOD of gods.  Jesus as a human was an Elohim, a god.  This fact is why we worship Jesus, not as GOD, but as a god, an Elohim and the worship of Jesus is not the worship of GOD, it is the worship of the messiah the son of GOD.  There are different types of worship but the greatest is the worship of GOD.  Worship is made in accordance to the one being worshipped, we do not worship Jesus in the same way as we worship GOD. 

With this in mind, the people we will rule and teach in the millennium will worship us as gods, as the Elohim, not as GOD.  The prophet Micah wrote about this.  The incredible human potential is to become one of these Elohim, a son of the living GOD. Are we not being transformed now to be in the image of Christ who was the image of GOD ?  This is what Jesus was as a man on Earth. This is what our hope is about, what the promise is about as today we are only heirs not yet inheritors of these things.  The timing of the receipt of all these things is at the return of Jesus Christ but until that last day we are dead, not alive, and need to be made alive again and this is by a resurrection.  Until that day comes we have none of these things.  

Now, if the carnal world believes other things than what I described above then those things are lies.  The general rule of the spirit is, that whatever the carnal world believes is an abomination to GOD. Therefore look at what they teach and believe knowing that none of it is true.  If you have ever learned anything learn this.  Do not look for truth where there is none or life where there is none but look at spiritual things wherein are both. 

It is written that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered into our minds what GOD has prepared for the saints. To us, the true church of the elect of GOD have been given the mysteries of the kingdom of GOD, but they have not been given to this carnal world.  If , you In anything believe , is the same as the carnal world then you are deceived.  Are you not the one who is supposed to know the mysteries that is impossible for them to know ?  Then you need to examine yourself to see if you are indeed in the faith or not.  Humble yourself, repent, ask for forgiveness and correction and GOD will receive you.  A broken spirit and contrite heart GOD will not despise.  

THE DRAGON THE ANTICHRIST AND THE TEN KINGS

 

In a previous article I made a comment about the spirit beings that inhabit the spirit realm.  In a search of all the scriptures up to the ascension of Christ there were only two kinds of spirits in the heavenly realm; angels and GOD ALMIGHTY.  No other spirit beings are ever mentioned.  Therefore, if Jesus preexisted he had to be one of these two. Either Jesus was an angel or he was GOD.  From these two possibilities come the Jehovahs Witnesses idea that Jesus preexisted as the arch angel Michael or the Trinitarian or binary idea that Jesus was GOD.  Both of these ideas are incorrect.  This blog presents Jesus as the messiah and son of GOD who was totally human and was created by GOD in the womb of Mary.  Jesus was not immortal because he died.  Up until the time Jesus ascended to his GOD and FATHER Jesus was human. At some point during his ascension Jesus was changed into an immortal spirit being.  Jesus is no longer a human being.  Jesus was the first human to experience this change and as such Jesus is the beginning of the true creation of GOD. We elect saints in the resurrection also become immortal spirit beings in the resurrection at the return of Christ.  The scriptures tell the saints that they are a new creation in Christ looking forward to this first resurrection.  The physical creation we are in now was only the beginning of this process , the place where GOD gets the raw material to complete HIS creation of the spirits of just men made perfect.  Jesus is the first born of many brethren, the beginning of GODS true creation.  Even as a human Jesus was not of this creation, he was what Adam should have been but failed to be.  Adams FATHER was GOD and Jesus’s FATHER was GOD.  There are other brothers that have a “similar” situation in scriptures that compare to Adam and Jesus; Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Esau and Jacob and the 11 brothers and Joseph.  Of these brothers the first born was never the heir until Jesus and Jesus became the heir of everything GOD created.  There is also the idea of a brother raising up seed to his dead brother as Jesus raised up seed for Adam because Adam died in sin.  Eve became the church, the bride of Christ.  As in Adam all die but in Christ shall all be made alive.  

When Jesus ascended to GOD he became a spirit being and is no longer a human being.  This is how Jesus is the beginning of the creation of GOD, not the physical creation but the spiritual creation.  

Now, I just received a revelation.  The antichrist is a man in league with Satan.  The antichrist imitates Christ and gets all his power from the dragon, Satan.  The antichrist has people worshiping a strange god that his fathers didn’t know. 

Daniel 11:38-39  But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver with precious stones and pleasant things.  He will attack the strongest fortresses with help from a strange god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him(the strange god). He will make them rulers over many people and will divide the land for a price. 

You see how that the antichrist imitates Christ while Satan imitates GOD.  Who did Lucifer and his angels attempt to dethrone, was it not GOD, it wasn’t Christ was it ?  Satan doesn’t want to be Christ, he wants to be GOD.  Isaiah 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high.

Satan has the same goal in Revelation as he did in Isaiah.  Satan uses a man who he backs up the way GOD used a man (Jesus) who HE backed up. 

Revelation 13:4  People worshiped the dragon (Satan) who gave authority to the beast (antichrist) and they worshipped the beast saying, who is like the beast ? Who is able to make war with him ?  

Psalm 81:9  There shall be no strange god be in thee, neither shall thou worship any strange god.

The faithful allies of Satan that receive land from the antichrist may well be the ten kings who receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

In the real plan of GOD doesn’t GOD give authority to Jesus and under Jesus are not other kings appointed to rule the Earth ?  Satan is copying GODS plan.  Just as we rule as kings with Jesus these ten kings rule as kings with the beast, the antichrist. The Dragon, the antichrist and the 10 kings are a false image of GOD, Christ and the saints. Just as GOD ordained the saints rule and reign with Jesus the Dragon ordains the 10 kings will rule and reign with antichrist.

This is all I have for now but I am sure more revelation will come.  

ANTHONY AND THE ATHEIST

 

Recently I was on a web site of a man who was formerly a minister in a “Christian” church.  Upon discovering the truth that there is no immediate life after death and the truth about a resurrection from the dead this man became an atheist. This man denied the existence of GOD because of the lies of men like his former self. This man used scripture in his article to prove the resurrection of the dead at the return of Jesus Christ and that the dead have no consciousness until resurrected.  He had learned a biblical truth but failed to realize the significance of it.  Instead he placed the blame for the lies on GOD rather than the Satanically Inspired men who preached them.  His conclusion is obviously false.  He has exchanged one lie for another.  On his site he welcomes other atheists to join in on his blasphemy.  This is a common occurrence with atheists who happen to stumble on some biblical truth that contradicts current teachings in false Christianity.  There are yet others, who upon discovering a truth, use it as the foundation for their own ministry like Anthony Buzzard does.  Anthony Buzzard has several truths but mixes them with outright lies thus rendering everything he preaches a lie because no lie is of the truth.  The difference between this atheist and Anthony Buzzard is that the atheist gave up on GOD totally while Anthony did not.  The atheist at least gave up on lying about GOD while Anthony did not.  Wow, what a confusing mess.  I know people that have fallen for the lies of worldly preachers, preachers like this former atheist.  They are all ministers of Satan.  Even this atheist is still a minister of Satan.  Thankfully neither this atheist or Anthony Buzzard are converted men and are without the Holy Spirit because their spiritual ignorance spares them from the unpardonable sin. An atheist cannot grow in spiritual grace and knowledge and neither does Anthony.  It seems that both of these men, even while having drastic differences, arrive at the same result.  Neither one of them has GOD and Christ because both have succumbed to the influence of Satan. This is the world we saints live in today without being a part of it.  When you think about it both Anthony and the atheist must have faith to believe what they believe even though they both believe in lies.  

COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM

 

There is a lot of discussion today about communism and socialism.  I find it odd that there seems to be much debate over the differences between the two.  I have studied both of these political ideas and find significant differences in them.  Socialism is in effect the ownership of everything by the state with an elite class ruling over everyone else.  It is more like a totalitarian dictatorship whereas true communism involves ownership of all things equally shared by all in a classless society.

 In my view there has never been a true communist nation in all of history.  All past and current nations described as being communist are in reality socialist dictatorships.  Here in the U.S. there is a move or change of thought by many to accept socialism and abandon capitalism.  It is a proven historical fact that socialism has never worked as it always seems to develop into a cruel dictatorship.  Examples of this are the former Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba and China.  Each of these nations are popularly labeled as communist but in reality are far away from what communism is.  Socialism makes promises to the public that seem to good to be true because they are.  Those who push socialism present it as making everyone equal under the benevolent rule of an trusted elite.  The idea at first seems very appealing but the eventual reality is far from all the promises of those who push the idea. 

Ignorance is the problem along with lazy people who want to live the good life without working.  The problem is that the things desired must somehow be produced and provided and it turns out that these things are produced by the duped masses to benefit the elite ruling class. 

 In the U.S. today the movement toward socialism is growing and if it succeeds it will be the destruction of the nation.  To return to the former politics of capitalism and the rights under the constitution would require the shedding of much blood.  It seems that over time with the passing of generations people forget the lessons of history and are doomed to repeat them.

  In truth most humans are stupid and none of them have the intelligence to govern themselves.  History is a record of human failure to govern themselves and they fail time after time.  The only true answer to this hopeless situation is the kingdom of GOD.  

REVELATION 8:3-4 REVELATION 5:8 PSALM 141:2 REVELATION 6:9-10 ACTS 10:4 LUKE 1:10

Revelation 8:3-4   And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given to him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Revelation 5:8   Each had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. 

Revelation 6:9-10   And when the Lamb opened the 5th seal I saw under the altar the (spirits see Strongs G5590) of those who had been slain because of the word of GOD and for the testimony they had upheld.  And they cried out in a loud voice, how long oh Lord holy and true until you judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood ?  

Now, many people think this crying out of the saints from under the altar were actually living dead people, if that makes any sense.  It specifically says it was the prayers of these martyrs, prayers made while they were still alive.  Psalm 115:17  Psalm 6:5   Isaiah 38:18-19  These prayers are incense before GOD.  

Psalm 141:2  May my prayer be set before you like incense, May the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. 

This is showing us that GOD was about to answer their prayers.  In the next verse, verse 11 these martyrs are given white robes and that they wait in death a little longer until the number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters in Christ, were killed as they were.  These others are the Laodiceans who must give their lives as martyrs to receive salvation in the kingdom.  Revelation 7:9-14 is the account of the Laodicean martyrdom.  Revelation 19:8 tells us that white robes or linen symbolizes the righteousness of the saints.  Isaiah 61:10 confirms this.  I have proven in other articles that sleep is used as a metaphor for death because in normal sleep you are unconscious and unaware and you need to wake up to rejoin the conscious and aware, to live again after dying you are alive and aware again only by a resurrection at the return of Jesus.  

I have been writing a lot on this subject of life and death because I was unaware of certain people I know that believe in the lie of immediate life after death.  The resurrection is a church doctrine, see Hebrews 6:2, and never changes until the time far in the future where death is cast into the lake of fire.  

I have presented on this blog overwhelming spiritual proof that our only hope to live again after we die is by a resurrection at Christs return.   GOD reveals truth and truth is doctrine that is the same, GOD doesn’t keep changing doctrine, we should know this.  When Adam sinned the tree of life that gave immortality was shut off from humanity and is not opened again until Revelation 22:14  Revelation 2:7  The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 describes the second resurrection when all of the house of Israel will live again.  

R E S U R R EC T I O N

 

 

 Resurrection
occurs 41 times in 40 verses in the KJV.

 

 Mat 22:23

The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

 

 Mat 22:28

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

 

 Mat 22:30

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

 

 Mat 22:31

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

 

 Mat 27:53

And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

 

 Mar 12:18

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

 

 Mar 12:23

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

 

 Luk 14:14

And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

 

 Luk 20:27

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

 

 Luk 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

 

 Luk 20:35

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

 

 Luk 20:36

Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

 

 Jhn 5:29

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

 

 Jhn 11:24

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

 

 Jhn 11:25

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

 

 Act 1:22

Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

 

 Act 2:31

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

 

 Act 4:2

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

 

 Act 4:33

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

 

 Act 17:18

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

 

 Act 17:32

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

 

 Act 23:6

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

 

 Act 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

 

 Act 24:15

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

 

 Act 24:21

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

 

 Rom 1:4

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

 

 Rom 6:5

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

 

 1Co 15:12

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

 

 1Co 15:13

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

 

 1Co 15:21

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

 

 1Co 15:42

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

 

 Phl 3:10

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

 

 Phl 3:11

if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

 

 2Ti 2:18

Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

 

 Heb 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

 

 Heb 11:35

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

 

 1Pe 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

 

 1Pe 3:21

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 

 Rev 20:5

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

 

 Rev 20:6

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.

 Resurrection means to be raised to life again after being dead.  This means that in death there is no life.  The resurrection proves that immediate life after death is a lie.  The resurrection is doctrine, Hebrews 6:2   Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

The resurrection to life happens at the last day, the return of Christ. John 6:39  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

Anyone who thinks that life after death is immediate is deceived.