Most Christians think that God is trying to save the whole of humanity in this time and age. If that being the case, Satan certainly has the upper hand as most of the world's population has yet to obtain salvation let alone understand the truth of what life and death is all about and why we are place here on planet earth!
But an all wise and powerful God can make no mistake when the salvation of mankind is concern. He will not leave such important matter to man to determine the eternal destiny of precious billions of souls who had walked the earth! He has worked out His Master Plan of salvation for all human beings who had ever lived. This Master Plan is all detailed in the seven annual Sabbaths and Festivals recorded for us in Leviticus chapter 23.
Traditional Christianity mistook that the observance of these laws and Holy Days are just part of Jewish customs and traditions and simply ignore them. Some even assume that observing such laws and celebration is nothing more than "Judaizing " and going back to Old Testament laws and commandments which were "nailed to the cross". The truth is man's dogma has been nailed to the cross, not God's laws and commandments as these are eternal and unchangeable. Those customs and practices not required are specifically mentioned such as slaughtering of animal sacrifices and circumcision.
Passover - Jesus Christ is our "Passover Lamb" - 1 Corinthians 5:7. He died for our sin so that we can have forgiveness from God through the shed blood and death of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. Only when one has his/her sins forgiven can one be born again into the kingdom of God.
The Days of Unleavened Bread - The seven-day of festival is to celebrate the removal of the 'leaven' of pride, vanity and the way of sin from the life of a true follower of Christ - 1 Corinthians 5:8. There has to be genuine change through repentance of our sins and not follow the ways of the world with values propagated from the kingdom of darkness - Ephesians 2:2.
Those who understand that to inherit the coming kingdom of God, one has to live according to the laws governing the kingdom - the give way of life instead of this world's value system of the get way of life. It is the way of give, give, give and forgives instead of get, get, get and then forgets!
The Feast of Firstfruits - This is also known as Pentecost, the day when Jesus Christ started His church in A.D. 31. On that day, God gave His Holy Spirit to all whom He has called and obeyed (Acts 5:32), effectively endowing them with power and authority from on high to do the works of God. They are commanded to come out of this world Babylonian's false religious system (Revelation 18:4) and the pagan ways of this present evil age (Galatians 1:4) to be members of the true church of God (Colossians 1:18).
A true believer is one who has the Holy Spirit actively at work in Him to develop the righteous character, correct understanding of the truth and not be adulterated by false doctrine (Revelation 14: 4 - they are 'spiritual virgins').
Such spirit-begotten sons and daughters (the firstfruits) will be raised immortal at the first resurrection as kings and priests (teachers) when Jesus Christ returns (Revelation 5:10) to assist King Jesus in helping the rest of humanity to realize their incredible and awesome potential!
The Feast of Trumpets - This is a picture of the time when Jesus Christ will return as the King of kings and Lord of lords to establish the kingdom of God over all the earth (Psalms 67:4; Daniel 7:14, 18, 22, 27; Revelation: 2:26-27, 5:10, 11:15, 19:16). For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11).
Together with His resurrected saints, they will execute judgment on all ungodly deeds and words done and spoken against Him - Jude 14-15. These saints and potential immortal spirit beings are now being tested and tried - for judgment must begin at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17). The Apostle Paul exhorts that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God - Acts 14:22.
The Day of Atonement - Satan has been the architect of all sins and wickedness in the high places throughout the history of mankind. On this Day, all the collective sin of mankind will be placed on this originator of sin and cast into the bottomless pit. Finally, man will be at one with his maker and be ruled under the peaceful dominion of God's supergovernment.
The Feast of Tabernacles - This feast celebrates the coming 1,000 year Reign of Christ on earth. It is indeed the wonderful world to come (Hebrews 2:5) and a world without end (Ephesians 3:21) with lasting peace, prosperity and progress when Satan and his demons were incarcerated. The world will be restored to paradise as it was first meant to be at the Garden of Eden.
The Last Great Day - God will bring back to life all human beings who had died, no matter what their age, circumstances and religious affiliation when they died (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Revelation 20:12-13; Isaiah 65:17-25). All mankind then will experience one hundred years of living experience (Isaiah 65:20) without Satan and his demons to learn Godly character and reject the carnal nature in order to submit to God's will and government. Billions who will be called later will have the opportunity to qualify to inherit the kingdom of God as immortal spirit beings. Those who are called now will assist the rest of humanity in the process of learning and growing (Micah 4:5) - they have their work cut out for them!
Billions of people who have died but had never made a decision to accept Jesus Christ as Savior are not burning in hell-fire. The wages of sin is death, not eternal life in hell! All who are dead stays dead, for the soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18: 4 & 20). The next second of their consciousness is when they are resurrected to life - regardless of how long they had been dead - even if they had been dead for thousands of years! For there shall be a resurrection both of the just (saved) and unjust (unsaved) - Acts 24:15.
Regardless of whether they are saved or not, ALL will hear His (Jesus) voice from the grave - John 5:28. The only difference is that all who are called before the end of the church age will be in the first resurrection and the rest of humanity in the second resurrection (Revelation 20:4-5). The first resurrection (a better resurrection - Hebrews 11: 35) will occur when Christ returns to establish His Reign on earth for a thousand years and the second resurrection will occur towards the end of the millennial age.
No one is burning eternally in hell. But a time will come (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3:17) when all who have been shown the truth refused to abide by the ways of God the Father and Jesus Christ will be burned up in the 'lake of fire' and end up as stubble and ashes as if they have never been (Malachi 4:1-3). There is no possibility of resurrection as the soul is destroyed in total annihilation known as the 'second death' (Revelation 20:6). A merciful God will put them out of misery for good! Man can kill the body but only the Almighty God has the power to destroy the soul of man (Matthew 10:28).
The patriarch Job knew full well that in death there is no knowledge of the passage of time and indeed knows nothing (Psalm 6:5; Ecclesiastes 9:5) when he said - all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come (Job 14:14) - change into immortal spirit being when born again at the first resurrection. King David also understood when he penned Psalm 17:15 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake (from the grave), with thy (Jesus) likeness - ( see 1 John 3:2). The Archangel Michael told prophet Daniel that 'for thou shall rest (sleep peacefully in the grave), and stand in thy lot at the end of the days (when Jesus Christ returns as the King of kings and Lord of lords to reign on earth) - Daniel 12:13.
But an all wise and powerful God can make no mistake when the salvation of mankind is concern. He will not leave such important matter to man to determine the eternal destiny of precious billions of souls who had walked the earth! He has worked out His Master Plan of salvation for all human beings who had ever lived. This Master Plan is all detailed in the seven annual Sabbaths and Festivals recorded for us in Leviticus chapter 23.
Traditional Christianity mistook that the observance of these laws and Holy Days are just part of Jewish customs and traditions and simply ignore them. Some even assume that observing such laws and celebration is nothing more than "Judaizing " and going back to Old Testament laws and commandments which were "nailed to the cross". The truth is man's dogma has been nailed to the cross, not God's laws and commandments as these are eternal and unchangeable. Those customs and practices not required are specifically mentioned such as slaughtering of animal sacrifices and circumcision.
Passover - Jesus Christ is our "Passover Lamb" - 1 Corinthians 5:7. He died for our sin so that we can have forgiveness from God through the shed blood and death of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. Only when one has his/her sins forgiven can one be born again into the kingdom of God.
The Days of Unleavened Bread - The seven-day of festival is to celebrate the removal of the 'leaven' of pride, vanity and the way of sin from the life of a true follower of Christ - 1 Corinthians 5:8. There has to be genuine change through repentance of our sins and not follow the ways of the world with values propagated from the kingdom of darkness - Ephesians 2:2.
Those who understand that to inherit the coming kingdom of God, one has to live according to the laws governing the kingdom - the give way of life instead of this world's value system of the get way of life. It is the way of give, give, give and forgives instead of get, get, get and then forgets!
The Feast of Firstfruits - This is also known as Pentecost, the day when Jesus Christ started His church in A.D. 31. On that day, God gave His Holy Spirit to all whom He has called and obeyed (Acts 5:32), effectively endowing them with power and authority from on high to do the works of God. They are commanded to come out of this world Babylonian's false religious system (Revelation 18:4) and the pagan ways of this present evil age (Galatians 1:4) to be members of the true church of God (Colossians 1:18).
A true believer is one who has the Holy Spirit actively at work in Him to develop the righteous character, correct understanding of the truth and not be adulterated by false doctrine (Revelation 14: 4 - they are 'spiritual virgins').
Such spirit-begotten sons and daughters (the firstfruits) will be raised immortal at the first resurrection as kings and priests (teachers) when Jesus Christ returns (Revelation 5:10) to assist King Jesus in helping the rest of humanity to realize their incredible and awesome potential!
The Feast of Trumpets - This is a picture of the time when Jesus Christ will return as the King of kings and Lord of lords to establish the kingdom of God over all the earth (Psalms 67:4; Daniel 7:14, 18, 22, 27; Revelation: 2:26-27, 5:10, 11:15, 19:16). For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11).
Together with His resurrected saints, they will execute judgment on all ungodly deeds and words done and spoken against Him - Jude 14-15. These saints and potential immortal spirit beings are now being tested and tried - for judgment must begin at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17). The Apostle Paul exhorts that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God - Acts 14:22.
The Day of Atonement - Satan has been the architect of all sins and wickedness in the high places throughout the history of mankind. On this Day, all the collective sin of mankind will be placed on this originator of sin and cast into the bottomless pit. Finally, man will be at one with his maker and be ruled under the peaceful dominion of God's supergovernment.
The Feast of Tabernacles - This feast celebrates the coming 1,000 year Reign of Christ on earth. It is indeed the wonderful world to come (Hebrews 2:5) and a world without end (Ephesians 3:21) with lasting peace, prosperity and progress when Satan and his demons were incarcerated. The world will be restored to paradise as it was first meant to be at the Garden of Eden.
The Last Great Day - God will bring back to life all human beings who had died, no matter what their age, circumstances and religious affiliation when they died (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Revelation 20:12-13; Isaiah 65:17-25). All mankind then will experience one hundred years of living experience (Isaiah 65:20) without Satan and his demons to learn Godly character and reject the carnal nature in order to submit to God's will and government. Billions who will be called later will have the opportunity to qualify to inherit the kingdom of God as immortal spirit beings. Those who are called now will assist the rest of humanity in the process of learning and growing (Micah 4:5) - they have their work cut out for them!
Billions of people who have died but had never made a decision to accept Jesus Christ as Savior are not burning in hell-fire. The wages of sin is death, not eternal life in hell! All who are dead stays dead, for the soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18: 4 & 20). The next second of their consciousness is when they are resurrected to life - regardless of how long they had been dead - even if they had been dead for thousands of years! For there shall be a resurrection both of the just (saved) and unjust (unsaved) - Acts 24:15.
Regardless of whether they are saved or not, ALL will hear His (Jesus) voice from the grave - John 5:28. The only difference is that all who are called before the end of the church age will be in the first resurrection and the rest of humanity in the second resurrection (Revelation 20:4-5). The first resurrection (a better resurrection - Hebrews 11: 35) will occur when Christ returns to establish His Reign on earth for a thousand years and the second resurrection will occur towards the end of the millennial age.
No one is burning eternally in hell. But a time will come (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3:17) when all who have been shown the truth refused to abide by the ways of God the Father and Jesus Christ will be burned up in the 'lake of fire' and end up as stubble and ashes as if they have never been (Malachi 4:1-3). There is no possibility of resurrection as the soul is destroyed in total annihilation known as the 'second death' (Revelation 20:6). A merciful God will put them out of misery for good! Man can kill the body but only the Almighty God has the power to destroy the soul of man (Matthew 10:28).
The patriarch Job knew full well that in death there is no knowledge of the passage of time and indeed knows nothing (Psalm 6:5; Ecclesiastes 9:5) when he said - all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come (Job 14:14) - change into immortal spirit being when born again at the first resurrection. King David also understood when he penned Psalm 17:15 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake (from the grave), with thy (Jesus) likeness - ( see 1 John 3:2). The Archangel Michael told prophet Daniel that 'for thou shall rest (sleep peacefully in the grave), and stand in thy lot at the end of the days (when Jesus Christ returns as the King of kings and Lord of lords to reign on earth) - Daniel 12:13.
