Heaven And Hell Are Results, Not Destinations
Heaven (and hell) are not end goals, but rather, minute by minute results. The moments of your day, your thoughts and actions, are either worth preserving/SAVED (heaven – gold, silver, precious stones), or destroying/BURNED (hell – wood, hay, straw).
It is not often I give mr paul credit, but one task of the disinformation agent is to be the re-enforcer of what the one being overthrown already said, or some revelation illuminating further what had already been revealed, thereby giving credit and believability of the con man.
But this time, it is paul helping us to better understand what Jesus said.
The Parable of the Net
Mat 13:47 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. 48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
We read this that it is talking about individual people. It never occurs to us to take it that both of these entities are present within each one of us, like this:
1 Cor 3:11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
The good fish are the gold, silver and precious stones that we have the OPPORTUNITY to grow each and every day.
The bad fish are the wood, hay and straw that we settle for in the days of our life. THAT is what is burned up in the fires of hell forever and ever, OUR BAD DEEDS!!!!!! NOT the person. It is a way of CLEANSING us, so that we will be restored to our original estate – pure and white as snow, after our loving Daddy gets us ready for some “classwork” in heaven, and get you ready for an even more successful (gold, silver, precious stones) trip back to earth.
The Day
The day you turn 80 years old, it will be your 29,200th day on this earth. Take away the first 10 years, while you were waking up out of the Theta brain wave state we are born into, and you are left with 25,500 days of being fully awake and being you, making decisions and living your life.
Here in Corinthians, Paul seems to indicate that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE DAYS will be tested with fire, at the end of your days.
If what you built remains, you get to keep the reward that passes successfully through the fire.
So what are the gold, silver and precious stones that successfully pass through the fire?
Paul, again, nails it: Gal 5:22,23 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Action is the key!! James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
As you go through the hours of your day, you have the opportunity to express this “fruit of the Spirit”, which would appear to qualify for “being saved” or preserved through the fire.
Conversely, the times you operate in the “fruit of the flesh”, it is doomed to eternal destruction by the fire.
Gal 5:19-21 the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like.
Eze 18:20 The soul who sins shall die.
We KNOW bodies die. The Bible says that SOULS DIE – the part of them that are not Gold, Silver and Precious Stones. But spirit is eternal. Spirit is immortal. Spirits can not die. Once He births one, it is here for good, because it is His own child.
It is your ACTIONS, as preserved in your soul garment/recording device, that are doomed to be destroyed by the fires of “hell”, NOT THE SPIRIT BEING. Your spirit is eternal, and Jesus begot you, so nothing could ever come between His love for you, and you!! Nothing. Ever!!
THE DOCTRINE AND CONCEPT OF SIN
SIN has two basic meanings:
- Pollution / Dirt / Filth
- Immaturity / Rebellion
Here Is Pollution:Â
Leviticus 18:24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.
Eze 18:20 The soul who sins shall die. The parts of your soul that you made with wood, hay and straw, saved up in there, will be burned (1 Cor 3:10-15).
Remember as a child, in the morning your mother would dress you in a clean, fresh set of clothes. Then you were sent out to play, all day and all evening. By the end of the day your looked like a great big mess. So what did mom do? Did she begin TORTURING YOU for the mess you got yourself into? No. She lovingly CLEANS YOU OFF with a warm bath and soft towel and fresh jammies!! And she takes your soiled outer garments (clothes) and then washes them so they will be ready for another grueling day of play tomorrow.
Jesus gave you the rock and roll body you are currently cruising around in. He “sent you out for the day to play” for your 80 years life span. When it is time to “clean up”, then Daddy Jesus runs your outer garment – your SOUL GARMENT – and He lovingly washes it clean with FIRE. The fire burns away the dirt and leaves the beautiful treasures found during the day (lifetime) of play (learning lessons).
Here Is Immaturity / Rebellion:
Deuteronomy 21:18 If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them.
Proverbs 22:15Â Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
Remember that as a spirit being, you, like all of us, on earth as it is in heaven, were born at a VERY EARLY AGE!! Growth and maturity TAKE TIME. Fortunately Father Jesus is in no rush and has absolutely ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD for you to grow up into maturity. The Sin of Immaturity will be solved over time.
Jesus taught that His teachings would return a harvest of 30, 60 and 100 Fold, NOT HEAVEN AND HELL!!!.
I recommend a movie from the 1980’s that is a great intro to the topic of the afterlife, immediately after we leave here and arrive there. It is called “Defending Your Life“. A super fun, very entertaining and enlightening little film that hits on many actual truths – as I perceive them to be.
Russell Dibird
Yes indeed. And another synchronicity eh??? for this coincides with what I sent you in response yesterday…
***Yes ACTION is THE key period! To know is good, to DO is better. And, to that effect, I have always been cautioned in certain “situations”, as others have.. “‘Tis far better to have never known at all than to know and not DO.” For, once we do know, we are responsible to act upon such knowledge… This cannot be stressed enough!!! Everybody want the romantic adventure of “seeking the truth,” yet whom will act according to it!?!?!? Whom, I ask???
*** Indeed our actions are preserved in our soul garment… In certain parlance this is called the Sacred Chalice of Experience, or Life… For all that we experience is condensed into a single drop each incarnation, which we take with us forevermore inn our chalice… Naught else can come with us into the eternal… What we do has everlasting effects, what we learn we know forever; what we are verily changes with each incarnation, in the physical sense only… Yes… well received sir…
***Yes, spiritual “age” (and I say that term apprehensively: “age” for this does not apply to the spirit which is eternal, nor does it bear any relation to things Divine, which have always been, are, and will be, etc..) is very different than physical age. It can require eons or seconds for a spirit to “mature”…. this is so…
You bring many valid and pertinent points forward and into clarity in this chapter. Again, I would suggest that you give EXTERNAL evidence and applicable advice on how to be in accord with Divine Law and still live a “normal” life in today’s world. Many people will, at least I think, become bogged down with too many Bible quotes upon this as if its being beat into them… I agree with all you have said, for the most part. What I mean here is to offer perspective… If one were to read this it may come off as accusatory, or implicative… They may then go from Bible quote to quote and feel more and more guilt, resentment, etc., etc., etc., negative reactions and such… That serves a purpose too, but I take your goal here to be the clarification and teaching of Gods Laws, yes??? In that case, perhaps offer intermittent practical advice, perspective, even personal experiences to support the biblical material??? Your point is already proven… Now how about demonstration??? WITHOUT emotional resistances… Today people are inherently averse to change, progress, and anyt9ng else which require real WORK, LEARNING, and developments… The very word “law” repells most, does it not??? Today’s Pop culture and all…. No good… Thus, we must be able to speak to a multilevel audience, of varying attention spans, and variable interests… And I see YOU have the ability to do this… I urge you to do so!
Good Morning Herbert 🙂
> And another synchronicity eh??
Yes, this is very fun 🙂 Thank you ~
> once we do know, we are responsible to act upon such knowledge… This cannot be stressed enough!!!
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
I think the caveat to your point is things that STICK IN YOUR MIND is what you are responsible for, because my “QUOTABLE QUOTE” for all time:
The BIGGEST PROBLEM with the being human is that – we forget.
We forget little things, we forget BIG things!! I guess, to some degree, it is a blessing AND a curse. A blessing because every day you can start all over from scratch, forget everything (drugs, etc?), then you can have childlike curiosity. But it can not graduate because it is not built upon a previous foundation, so no progress, just a fun time.
THE KEY is when you hear a couple of words, or a phrase or a thought/idea that first raises curiosity, curiosity causes investigation, when investigation resonates, then it is committed to being “held onto”, then repeating it makes it a part of the man.
Again, the trick is taking those ideas that “stuck” and converting a certain percentage of them into gold, silver & ps. – the “condensed drop” as you put it below.
In my mind, using the 30, 60, 100 model of step by step, day by day, foundation upon foundation to move to an upward goal is really quite brilliant as a model for us children to come towards Dad. Therefore, it becomes incumbent upon Him to bring to mind the things that you need, when you need it.
Matthew 10:19 At that time you will be given what to say,
> For all that we experience is condensed into a single drop each incarnation, which we take with us forevermore inn our chalice… Naught else can come with us into the eternal… What we do has everlasting effects, what we learn we know forever; what we are verily changes with each incarnation,
Yes, well said!! Change in our MIND comes quickly and easily. Change in our HEART is wrought out over decades and lifetimes.