Earth 5.0, The Final Version (Poem)

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Come along Friends, let’s try to imagine,

Life on Earth as The Lord God envisioned,

At the start of mankind’s seventh age:

Pre-flood, Post-flood, Post-cross, (that’s the Church Age),

Tribulation, Millennial Reign, (that’s when Jesus will return),

Post-Millennial Reign, Eternity, the 7 ages I discern.

When time is over, and forever has begun,

The former Earth is gone, there is a brand new one!

Solar systems blackholes and galaxies …dissolved!

And like a scroll that’s rolled, the universe …convolved!

There’s a moon, but no sun, no stars in the skies!

The Lord is THE LIGHT, the forever ‘Sonrise’. ¹

There...

The New Jerusalem is on a high mountain,

In splendid details, John wrote in Revelation.

The sides and height of this city are the same!

On gemstone foundations are the Apostles’ names.

There, Jesus is The Lord, on God’s Throne as King.

In this world He’s The LIGHT, forever GLOWING. ²

Around the mountain, all across the terrain,

North, south, east and west, all the land is a plain!

There’re no seas or oceans anywhere I look.

There is just one river, with streams creeks and brooks.

And the source of that river is very well known.

As I learned in the rapture, it flows from His Throne!!! ³

All across this new world, this is what I see:

Two groups of people, here in eternity.

Folks God created, even those never born,

Are here and alive, in their ‘forever form’!

Saints from all ages are here in new nations,

Each one performing assigned righteous passions. ⁴

But there’s a dark place, and to great depths it extends.

And from deep down within, eternal smoke ascends!

The stench is sooo pungent, it’s like sulfur on fire,

Like what I imagine, from a funeral pyre. 

To see what is burning, I move close to the edge.

Folks who’re more brave I am go out on the ledge!

Arghhhh!!!

When to the edge of the abyss, at last I arrive,

I see the corpses of dead folks, who are yet alive!

For all eternity, they all will survive,

Deep in the lake of fire, their ‘worm’ never dies! 

There’s not one of these folks, who have on their foreheads,

The mark of The Lord, so they’re not His, it is said. ⁵

So who are these folks, down in this vast pit?

They’re demons made human, and folks they tricked.

They all joined together, in sin’s muck and mire, thick.

Refusing to repent, it was Jesus they ticked!

They rejected the price He paid for their sin.

They spurned The Father’s Christ, now they’re …with their kin. ⁶

Most of the folks to whom in life I had witnessed,

In Christ had no interest, not even the slightest.

Standing there, though tears I tried to cry,

I couldn’t, not even one, and here’s why:

Jesus wiped away all our tears, just like He said.

Thus, no sorrow for folks who, …in hell, ‘made their beds’. ⁷

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¹ Convolve – to roll up or coil. See: Isaiah 34:4, 66:23, 2 Peter 3:10-13, Hebrews 1:10. For my understanding of previous versions of Earth (1 - 4), see: Anti-Christ: Summary Review (Part 5)

² See: Revelation 21:10 - 23 and 22:1-3 NB: One Throne of God (Spirit) and Jesus (human), proving they are One.  During both the Millennial Reign age and throughout eternity, a remnant of Jews will embrace Jesus as The Messiah and God.

³ See: Zechariah 14:10 (Millennial Reign) and Revelation 22:1 (new Earth). I intuit both in The Millennial Reign of Christ, and also on the brand new Earth The Lord promises to create, all the land could be one plain, except Jerusalem will be high and lifted up. If so, several aspects (not all) of The Millennial Reign may be a foretaste of the new, eternal Earth. See also: Global Earthquake (Series)

⁴ See: Revelation 2, 3, 20:11-15 and 21:24. ‘Never born’ refers to babies who were conceived, but never born. 

⁵ See: Isaiah 66:24, Mark 9:44-48, Revelation 3:12, 14:9-11 and 22:4. Four times, very clearly, as if to ensure we get the message, The Lord iterates His point, 'their worm never dies' warning, in Isaiah 66: 22-24 and in Mark 9:42-48. There are some wild interpretations of the concept, ‘their worm does not die’. Try to interpret it in light of Job 25:6, Psalm 22:6 and Isaiah 41:14. I seriously doubt The Lord is signifying there will be immortal worms in hell! Rather, I believe He is inferring people in hell will be immortal beings, fully able to perceive, and to feel pains, pangs and eternal regrets for their earthly, God-rejecting lifestyles … forever.

⁶ See: The Goshen Effect (Series), especially Part 5

⁷ Since the word, hell, is not found in The Book of Revelation, here it refers to the lake of fire that burns eternally with sulfur. See: Psalm 116:8, Isaiah 25:8, Jeremiah 31:16, Ezekiel 24:15-16 (The Lord’s pattern established), and finally Revelation 21:4

Lake of Fire: Where? When?

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NB: Did you know the word, 'hell' is not found in The Book of Revelation?!

  

Echoing across all the ages of mankind,

Ponderings, wonderings and questionings:

Is the lake of fire real, a metaphor, a paradigm?

Doubters may ask, ‘Why all the quibbling?!’ ¹

Is it…

Somewhere on or deep inside the Earth?

Or perhaps somewhere in outer space?

A destination for folks who’re cursed?

‘Hey, we heard God was a God of GRACE!’ ²

Here’s a key point I cannot overstate,

About how to read The Bible, strategically:

With The Mind of Christ let us satiate,

Then connect dots between verses, concomitantly. ³

To the key question, ‘Is that lake real?’,

I answer, ‘It isn’t, at least not yet!’

This is what The Bible reveals:

That doesn’t mean about it we shouldn’t fret!

To the questions, ‘So when, and where will it be?’,

This is what two key Bible verses reveal:

It’ll open for business in eternity,

When Earth is replaced with its …version ideal.

Breaking that down…

The lake will be wherever The Lord designates,

On the new Earth noted in Revelation 21,

Somewhere outside New Jerusalem’s pearl gates.

It’s His place for unrepentant folks and lying demons.

In his closing, Isaiah gives a gruesome hint,

That the lake of eternal fire will be …an open pit,

Where righteous saints can clearly see, no need to squint,

Corpses of folks who’re still alive - body, soul and spirit!

This is what The Holy Bible declares:

The only way to avoid a hellish destination,

Is repentance of your sinful affairs,

And avail yourself of The Lord’s plan of salvation.

The full price of your sins, He has paid in full,

When on a rough cross, He bled to death.

God’s ‘sacrificial lamb’ for your acquittal,

So you can avoid that lake's fiery depths!

With predictions of this place, you’re now acquainted,

And how to avoid it, you’re now well-informed.

To you, this time to decide is allotted. ⁴

My prayer…

May your decision, with wisdom be adorned.

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¹ Paradigm - a typical or representative instance or example of something.

  Quibbling - raising concerns about a trivial matter

² He is, indeed. But folks who accentuate The Lord God as only Love and Grace, are in for a real shock when He introduces Himself as Judge Potentiate and Ultimate.

³ Concomitant - existing or occurring with something else, as a related feature. For example, connect the dots between Revelation 22:15 and Isaiah 66:24, both of which obviously occur ON the new Earth, and both refer to the residents of the lake of eternal fire ON the new Earth! 

⁴ Within ‘the parentheses’ of your life…

Anti-Christ: Summary Review (Part 5)

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Having covered some basic questions and issues related to the anti-Christ, I remain curious as to why his short governing rule on Earth is necessary? Why does it factor so prominently in The Lord’s multi-millennial strategic plan for humanity?

 

I perceive a pattern across The Lord’s multi-millennial strategy for humans and Earth. Broad though His timelines may be, this six-point conceptual pattern is both clear and easy to understand:

 

1. From all of humanity, The Lord intends to 'harvest’ a tested, proven, righteous remnant to whom He will show everlasting Grace and Mercy as ‘like-angel’, immortal beings (not angels, but likely non-sexual) who will reside with Him on a brand new Earth, with a new moon in a brand new heavens alt-universe). The Bible attests the ‘heavens’ as we currently know them are temporary, just like all currently physical things. They all shall be replaced. Imagine that! That’s easy for Him Who created and upholds everything by His Word, per Genesis 1, Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1. (See also: Isaiah 65, 2 Peter 3 and Revelation 21)

The Bible reveals seven ‘ages’ of and for humanity: 

    (a) pre-flood, (b) post-flood/pre-cross, (c) post-cross (now), (d) tribulation period, 

    (e) Millennial Reign, (f) post-Millennial Reign, and (g) eternity.

With such a GRAND, multi-millennial strategic plan, The Lord harvests ‘saints fruits’ from five of the first six ages for our seventh age. During the current third age of humanity, the term ‘born-again’ is applied to His saints. It could only be applied after Christ’s crucifixion, having fully paid the price for our sins, opening ‘the gates of Heaven’ for our access as full citizens. Following His death, He reportedly preached His Gospel to the imprisoned, immortal twins souls/spirits of dead saints (people who had died in faith re. Him, the unseen God), from the first two ages of history, and then ‘led captivity captive’ (i.e., resurrected these saints in their immortal bodies, and led them to Heaven, possibly on the new, eternal Earth). Thus, He fulfilled an ancient prophecy in Psalm 68:18. As proof of this, I intuit He allowed ALL of these Old Testament (first and second ages) saints to be physically resurrected and raptured, worldwide, with some being seen in and around Jerusalem! (Matthew 27:52-53); then He gave unique gifts to His newly born Church. (Ephesians 4:8). 

NB. Clearly, saints from these two ages were not only buried in and around Jerusalem, but across a much wider area. Moreover, the global flood at the end of the 1st age of history, likely disturbed every grave on Earth! I imagine this vast group included Adam, Eve, and first age patriarchs. But we only have a three-verse recorded reference to this broader, historical event. There apparently is no other record of this magnificent event! It seems to me The Lord intends His 'thinking, believers' to interpret and understand these three verses in light and context of His confirmed GRAND strategy. Rather, some believers prefer to nit-pick, and myopically focus on the transcribed words and verses of the only record of these events, even to the point of imagining verse 52 signifies those saints hung around in their graves for a few days, waiting for Jesus to be resurrected! How absolutely ludicrous. To these folks I say, link the first part of verse 52 to verse 51, and the second part of verse 52 to verse 53. Then read the passage ...strategically, with The Mind of Christ.

 

2. I've pondered whether His intent might possibly correlate in some mysterious manner (directly or indirectly) with the 1/3 of His holy angels who became devils and demons during Lucifer’s attempted coup d’etat in Heaven, possibly long before the creation of man, since satan was represented in The Garden of Eden. (See: Lost Angels Now for Like-Angels)

We know angels were created to serve The Holy Trinity and mankind, and mankind was created, not a little below angels (as is erroneously understood and written in several versions of The Bible), but a little lower than God/The Godhead. (Psalms 8:5, AMP and YLT versions) I believe this hierarchal relationship will likely continue throughout eternity. So clearly, we are not intended to replace fallen angels (devils). As far as we know, The Lord never invited angels to be seated with Him on His and The Father's Throne!!!!!!! But to us who are redeemed in Him, spiritually speaking, we are doing exactly that NOW! See: Ye Are gods (Series)

 

3. The Lord strategically allowed both the angels and mankind to have and express ‘free will’, and a major proportion of both groups expressed it in the form of rebellion against Him.

The rebellious angelic group is called demons and devils. The rebellious mankind group is called unrepentant sinners. In The Lord’s strategic plan, they both will share the exact same eternal judgment – in the lake of fire for eternity as immortal, tripartite (spirit, soul, body), non-sexual beings. See: The Lake of Fire: A Preview (Series)

 

4. Both of these rebellious groups serve a clear, necessary purpose in The Lord’s strategic plan, namely as resistance factors in saints’ testing and proving processes. A short poem conveys this point:

Fish in a tank, shipped coast to coast.

None were dead, but they were...almost.

Then, when shipped with some predator companions,

Most arrived alive, as fit as champions!

 

5. Since the majority of humans in each age of humanity has rebelled against The Lord, by the end of each age, their (unrepentant sinners) numbers and their sinfulness become overwhelming for Earth to bear.

 

Recall, Earth is a living entity, likely having ‘spirit’, not just some inanimate object for humans to exploit to the max. Yet that is exactly what we have done. Any study of The Bible reveals what The Lord thinks of Earth in the manner He speaks to/about ‘her’. It’s interesting to see how some versions of The Bible are inconsistent in how He refers to Earth as her vs. it. See: Genesis 4:11-12, Leviticus 26, Numbers 16:30, Deuteronomy 32:22, 2 Chronicles 36, Job 9:6 and Isaiah 13:13 in the KJV and several other versions.

 

6. At the crescendos of overwhelming sin burden, The Lord unleashes His harsh, global judgments, then restored Earth’s damages created by sinfulness. It appears such restorations will have occurred several times over the course of His multi-millennial strategy. [See the Gap Theory below.] 

NB: These global judgments of various kinds are what He uses to trigger transition to the subsequent age! (See: Ages Transition Global Judgments (Poem)) 

First restoration: Many Bible students ponder, ‘If The Lord created all things in their perfect form, what likely happened between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 to make the originally perfect Earth to become empty, dark and without form? Does ‘empty’ infer emptied, and if so, of what or whom? The ‘Gap Theory’ posits, between Genesis 1:1-2, Earth may have experienced the full impactful force and fury of demons (sinful angels who rebelled against The Lord) who were reportedly cast down to Earth following their attempted coup in Heaven. (See: Revelation 12:12, Luke 10:18, Ezekiel 28:12-17 and Isaiah 14:12-17) Their lightning-like fall across the universe likely represented the first stains and impacts of sinfulness in The Lord’s perfect, physical creation. If so, might the rest of Genesis 1 and 2 be The Lord’s first restoration of Earth following an overwhelming burden of wickedness excommunicated from Heaven?? Perhaps so. At the end of the Genesis restoration, The Lord declared all things as ‘VERY GOOD!’ (Genesis 1:31) I read this to mean perfected, once again. Read it as you will.

 

Second restoration: By the end of mankind’s first millennium on Earth, the reported level of human sinfulness had reached an overwhelming level, likely augmented by some demons who ‘left their proper domain, became human, married women’, and thus corrupted our race. See: Humans’ DNA Hacked (Poem) In response, The Lord fingered only Noah as righteous, and sent a global flood to wipe out all except this righteous man and seven sinners, his family and the animal remnant with them in the ark. Recall: Noah’s family was not declared to be ‘righteous’. The Lord is always strategic in leaving a remnant of sinners to facilitate re-population of humans across the Earth! After the global flood, Earth was PRISTINE and sin-free, except for Noah’s family members.

 

Third restoration: By the end of this current age, the Church Age, the predicted level of human sinfulness will once again reach an overwhelming level, possibly triggered by:

• the sheer overpopulation of Earth by (mostly sinful) humans (are we there yet?);
• the sheer magnitude of our technological progress and prowess, providing inordinate ways and means to increase sinfulness (are we there yet??); and
• the predicted significant ‘falling away from the faith’ (apostasy) among both formerly authentic, as well as openly inauthentic (fake ‘CINOs’) Christians (are we there yet???) (See: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 and Revelation 3:14-22. See also: Laodicean Lackadaisicalness (Series), Christianesque (Poem), and Audacious Christians (Series), especially Part 2).

Within this dreadful context, the true Church of born-again, tested, proven saints will be raptured (our Goshen-type effect), then the anti-Christ will be revealed. He will come to power by intrigue, then quickly rise to power as ‘the spiritual son of satan’, with his personal prophet (prime minister?), plus 7-10 closely allied national leaders across the world. They will have access to every technological advancement available to mankind, including artificial intelligence, capable of knowing and learning from the FULL spectrum of human history! Scary?? In inordinate, evil ways, the anti-Christ will mimic Jesus as The Son of God, and will receive miracle-working powers from satan. But keep in mind, all that satan is, has and does is strategically allowed by Jesus, Lord of ALL creation, with the objective of testing, proving and demonstrating who will and will not become His saints, even those who will be martyred! 

 

Repeating His pattern, The Lord will ‘harvest’  dead and alive saints who will have been tested and proven during the anti-Christ’s rule, including the great tribulation - the fourth age of humanity. (See: Fresh Troops, Incoming (Poem) and also Audacious Cristians (Poem, Part-2)) The Lord and His saints from the first four ages of history will return to Earth to end the 1st War of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14:12), and the age-ending Armageddon War. (See: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel), He will once again be strategic in leaving a remnant of sinners to facilitate re-population of humans across the Earth during His Millennial Reign. (See: Humans, Rare on the Earth (Series)) Too many Bible teachers and Christians confuse the mention of ‘saints’ and ‘the elect’ in Revelation and in Matthew 24. Their errant teachings and beliefs reflect a lack of strategic perception of The Lord’s multi-millennial, seven ages plan for humanity and the Earth. One pastor in Tucson emphatically told his Bible study class, ‘There will be NO millennial reign!!!’ See: Valleys Between the Peaks (Poem)) These teachers also seriously discount The Lord’s promised, protective ‘Goshen-type’ effect for His saints in this current age. See: Goshen Effect (Series) After having released His most harsh judgments ever on sinful, God-rejecting mankind, The Lord will once again RESTORE EARTH PHYSICALLY, then remain here with His glorified, immortal saints for a full millennium to ‘police’ and ensure/force righteousness across the planet! Isaiah predicts our combined GLORY LIGHT will outshine the light of the sun and the moon! Imagine that! See: Imminent Eminence (Poem). During The Millennial Reign, satan’s kingdom on and above Earth, will be locked away in a bottomless pit. (Revelation 20: 1-3)

 

Fourth restoration: At the end of The Millennial Reign of Christ with His accumulated saints (from the first, second, third and fourth ages of history), satan’s kingdom will be released again upon Earth, after having been locked away during Christ’s reign. Why? Per the well-established pattern, devils and demons will be needed to trigger ‘resistance’ (temptations, deceptions and trials, etc.) to the predicted LARGE population of long-living humans (as hinted in Isaiah 11 and 65) who will have been born during The Millennial Reign, folks who will not have known demons or devils. Imagine that! (See: Salvation in the Millennium? (Series)) From this post-Millennial Reign population - the sixth age of humanity (and final one on this current version of Earth), more people will become saints when they are successfully tested and proven for righteousness, just as saints from prior ages will have been.  

NB: Recall, it is critically necessary to correlate the word, 'saints', across the pages of The Bible, to the respective age in which The Bible uses this term, otherwise, confusion will result! So, if indeed there will be no salvation (as we currently know it) during The Millennial Reign, then there will be no people becoming saints during that age. I surmise they will become saints during the post-Millennial Reign (6th) age, when satan’s kingdom is released. These are the saints who are noted in Revelation 20:7-10. 

NB: It is interesting to note the saints from the first three ages of humanity are not mentioned in The Book of Revelation between chapters 3 and 20. We will clearly be included in Christ’s Millennial Reign, according to Zechariah 14:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 4:14 and 2 Thessalonians 1:10, and will be an aspect of Christ’s GLORY noted in Matthew 24:30. Otherwise, we will be part of the saints mentioned in Revelation 22:1-5, and in the references to ‘nations’ in Revelation 21 and 22. Understanding this strategic point is absolutely critical!!!   
 

>>Read The Bible, NoT as a religious book, 

but with your HIGHEST, STRATEGIC MIND, 

The Mind of Christ <<

  

Revelation 20 indicates saints from the post-Millennial Reign age will be harvested in The Great White Throne Judgment process! I always thought this process would be only for all sinners, yet The Lord must have a strategic reason for consulting His Book of [Eternal] Life at that time! (Revelation 20:12) I surmise He may then identify and sift out those people who will have become saints during the post-Millennial Reign (6th) age. Otherwise, the Great White Throne process will judge every human who will have ever been conceived, who will have reached The Lord’s 'age of accountability' (knowing right from wrong), and who were not previously ‘tested, proven and harvested’. They will be judged for their sinful rejection of The Lord’s salvation Grace, and then will be cast into the eternal lake of fire on the BRAND NEW EARTH (Heaven!), along with every devil and demon who recruited them for company therein, with hell, and with death. The Bible indicates, both groups will be forever alive and immortal in tripartite form (spirit, soul, body), likely asexual beings, not just in spirit form. (See: The Goshen Effect, Grand Finale (Poem, Part 5) See also: Hell, A Preview (Series) and Earth’s Next Versions (Series). What do you believe re. the embryos who were not born?

Revelation 21 and 22 paint the picture of an BRAND NEW EARTH, MOON AND HEAVENS, the principal point of which will be a BRAND NEW JERUSALEM wherein only righteousness dwells. (Question: If only righteousness is allowed in The New Jerusalem, what might be outside this city, somewhere on this new planet?? See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series) Search for the words, nations and outside, in Revelation 21 and 22. Also, see The Lord’s incredible prediction in Isaiah 66:24, exposited in Seeing Each Others’ Rewards (Poem).

 

Friends, in this series, I sincerely hope and trust you might perceive the purpose, patterns and perfection of The Lord’s declared multi-millennial strategic plan for humanity and the Earth, and especially why it includes satan and his son, the anti-Christ.

Anti-Christ: Not Who! Why? (Poem, Part 4)

See the series here

For Christ’s born-again saints, who the anti-Christ might be,

Should be a subject about which we are worry-free!

Likewise, any concerns at all about his ‘mark of the beast’,

Should never be given a foothold to steal our peace!

The only reason saints might be concerned with such, I suspect,

Is not knowing, understanding or believing The Lord’s text,

Or being uninformed about The Lord’s Goshen Effects,

His ‘Egypt-previewed’ plans, His preferred peoples to protect. ¹

Some of us apparently may be somewhat confused,

About the word, saints, in Revelation that is used.

Failing to discern the ‘seven ages of humanity’, 

They may believe saints in Revelation, are us, presently. ²

Lack of study, improper teachings, and hearsay,

Are always guaranteed, The Lord’s Truth to betray.

So for now, let’s put these aside, and focus on His ‘why?’

‘Why the anti-Christ’, since his time seems to be very nigh.

Let’s put on our strategic-thinking caps, and The Mind of Christ,

To perceive His multi-millennial strategic plan, sliced.

Along the way, some other issues may become clear,

As into the distant past and near future, we peer.

The Lord designed His creation, physical,

Based on His ‘seed, time and harvest’ principle. 

Within this context, everything, bar nothing,

Begins as a seed, His ‘instructions coding’.

But don’t think of seeds as only those that are physical!

Seeds may also be spiritual or conceptual,

Including words, thoughts, ideas and deeds,

They all produce assigned fruits to meet some needs.

Within this construct, The Lord introduced resistance,

Some kind of pressure seeds need, to meet their assignments,

Producing their intended fruits or results.

Overcoming resistance is difficult. ³

As the final and highest part of His creation,

Mankind is The Lord’s highest, strategic seed, bar none,

The intended ‘fruits’ of which are praise and glory, mutual,

From humans who’ll become immortal, whom He calls ‘like angels’. ⁴

In Heaven…

Lucifer and his angel cohorts attempted a coup,

And from Heaven they were excommunicated. Adieu!!!

On Earth…

They landed here as a devilish crew,

Where everything right(eous) they overthrew! ⁵

Thus, as resistance in The Lord’s strategic plan,

They serve His ‘seed, time and harvest’ design’s demand!

Next, let’s apply this to the anti-Christ,

To understand this strategic plan slice…

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¹ See: Anti-Christ: Not Who! When? (Poem, Part 1) and also The Goshen Effect (Series)

² The Bible reveals seven ‘ages’ of and for humanity: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation period, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. With such a GRAND, multi-millennial strategic plan, The Lord harvests ‘saints fruits’ from five of the first six ages for our seventh age. Ponder that… See Part 5. I do not perceive there might be salvations in The Millennial Reign age, as we currently know salvation. For an in-depth explanation, please see: Salvation in the Millennium (Series).

³ See: You Almighty (Poem)

⁴ This does not mean we will become angels! See: Lost Angels Not for Like-Angels. Contrary to popular beliefs, seeded by some errant Bible translations, mankind was not created a little below the angels, but a little below The Godhead (The Holy Trinity). Why only a few Bible translations got this critical point correct is a mystery, but it reportedly relates to King Janes’ translators being too shy to include this unbelievable point in their reports to the king! Incredible, if true! Angels were created to serve The Godhead and mankind, as we join them in serving Jesus, The Lord God. Period. See also: Ye Are gods (Series)

⁵ See: Which Bible Books to Read First (Q&A)

Global Earthquake Confirmed (Poem)

See the series here

Students of The Holy Bible, The Mind of Christ,

Learn the gravity of prophecies written thrice.

Understanding key aspects of what’s on His Mind,

Is intended to help us, with Him to align. ¹

And when more than three times some key points are affirmed,

Perceive by exclamation points, they are CONFIRMED!!!

That is when, to the world, He is is signaling,

Precepts about which folks …should be trembling!!!

A  massive, global earthquake is on Earth’s horizon,

As affirmed and confirmed in 13 prophetic mentions,

Across both the Old and New Testaments,

Impacting all islands and continents. ²

Planned to occur near the end of the great tribulation,

It'll signal the end of the first promise land invasion,

And the beginning of The Lord’s Millennial reign.

That’s when survivors are forced into His ‘righteousness lane’.

Earth quaking…

In Israel, anti-Christ armies will meltdown,

And every mountain, hill and wall will then fall down,

Filling in valleys until all the land is a plain.

But Jerusalem will be a highly raised terrain. ³

Earth shaking…

And with the whole world rocking and reeling,

No wall anywhere will be left standing.

Across the Earth, all steep places shall fall,

As she hears and obeys The Lord’s ‘shake’ call!

Search for commentaries on the significance of this,

There is one, key perspective you might very likely miss.

There’s confusion about which of these points prophetical,

Are spiritual, metaphorical or physical!

Many Bible prophecies tie folks up in knots,

When, between key points, they fail to connect the dots.

As between all The Lord’s ’shake the Earth’ prophecies,

We connect strategic dots, I’ll share what I ‘see’. 

Isaiah ‘saw’ global leveling of valleys, mountains and hills.

There’re many views, but only one correlates to, and would fulfill,

What Ezekiel ‘saw’ at the end of the first invasion:

At The Lord’s fury, all mountains and steep places cast down!

Except…

Jerusalem is raised up in Israel, then a plain!

These views suggest all but one place on Earth will be a plain!

Could this hint at a lesson that Nimrod once learned,

The same by which, today, Afghanistan is ‘burned’?  ⁴

Lesson: Governance is enhanced, in a plain’s broad expanse! 

The Lord says, ‘once again’ He’ll shake Earth to move out of her place.

So He’s done this before! In the flood were continents displaced??

Could this be The Lord’s complex strategy,

To reshape Earth’s total topography?? ⁵

Continents united…?

One language selected…?

Folks in a plain, the world over…!

And for a while, a lot fewer…! ⁶

Earth, shaken out of her ‘now’ place…?

Returning to her ‘prior’ base…?

Tribulation is over and folks are glad…!

One king, as Adam and Nimrod’s subjects had…! ⁷

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¹ In reiterating key prophecies, The Lord apparently practices His key principle iterated in these verses: Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15, Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1 and Hebrews 10:28.

² See: Isaiah 2:19;21, 13:13, 24:19-20; Ezekiel 38:19-20; Haggai 2:6-7& 22; Matthew 24:7-8, 29-30; Mark 13:8-9, 24-25; Luke 21:10-11, 25-28; Hebrews 12:25-26; and Revelation 16:17-18. Ponder this: the number, 13, never refers to anything considered good. 

A key point in understanding Bible prophecies is to study them in context of how they reinforce each other to discern which points are metaphorical versus physical. So much of  The Bible is metaphorical in The Lord’s endeavor to explain spiritual things to us who are corporeal. Thus, we may easily miss His points when He’s really speaking of physical things.  The fact that, in the same verse, Ezekiel 38:20 mentions mountains, steep places and walls being thrown down, seems to eliminate the interpretation that the words, mountains and hills, refer to human governance institutions, as they do in many other Bible verses. I believe this verse is not metaphorical, but refers to the physical reshaping of the topography of Israel, and Earth, writ large. Yet many, if not most, Bible commentators omit to make this link. Consider the many references in The Bible to hills and mountains ‘melting’ in the presence of The Lord, obviously referring to the Earth quaking, not a spiritual or metaphorical phenomenon.

³ See: Zechariah 14:10-12

⁴ See: Genesis 10:8-12 and 11:2. Nimrod was king over several cities. Afghanistan’s difficult mountainous topography, ethnic complexity, and tribal and local loyalties produce enduring political fragmentation.

⁵ Some scientists and Bible scholars understand Earth was one land mass. Some Bible scholars understand the worst ever earthquake, promised in Isaiah 13:13 and Haggai 2:6, might rejoin all continents and eliminate all mountains and valleys, physically. This plausible notion indicates the purpose of mountains might be to make room for flood waters, especially since there is no mention of oceans in the first 6 chapters (pre-flood) of Genesis.  I find it insightful that there are 7 continents separating the floodwaters. Biblically, the number, 7, is significant from several perspectives.

⁶ See: Zephaniah 3:9 (re. one language) and Isaiah 13:12 (very sparse human population). The Book of Revelation is also very clear on the devastating impacts tribulation plagues will have on the populations of human, animal and sea creatures. Read it often and be blessed per Revelation 22:7.

⁷ Before Adam and Eve sinned, The Lord was effectively Adam’s ‘king’. Prior base refers to pre-flood and pre-Tower of Babel.