Matt 22:29~The great deal of confusion which has amassed from a misconception, and preoccupation with the Messianic Reign of Christ as our final goal is unsurpassed in our generation, and a great stumbling block to understanding the scriptures in the power of God and Jesus' resurrection.
This great misconception is the prime root for the culmination of all confusion called the resurgence of the antichrist kingdom at the end of the age. The abomination that comes from desolation, means the terrible contradiction against God that arises from a rejection of Christ Jesus in His person, Kingdom and Authority in millennial reign over death, hell and the grave, as a transition to the Kingdom of God, where the redeemed of humanity are dwelling bodily in immortality in the same eternal and perfected state in body as the Son of God is now.
While all of the Old testament scriptures look forward to the event of Messianic Reign and the manifestation of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of Christ from heaven is only the beginning of perfection and defines the patience of Christ from heaven as the only immortal man, until He conquers death over all to usher in the finality of the Kingdom of God over all, with all in immortality, forever. 1 Cor 15:24
This is clearly declared by Jesus Christ in person and given in clarity to the Apostles for the building up of the Church in bridal identity while as yet we remain in the weakness of our first nature bodily.
We are all the while being prepared for immortality in body to be joined with Him as He presently is, in the consummation. Groaning to be clothed upon, and yearning with Him, while the patience of Christ awaits and suffers with us, and we with Him, until the greatest number possible for the redeemed of natural born humanity in mortality is harvested to God.
The biblical narrative of Messianic Kingdom is framed in a specified and intergenerational time period called the Millennial Reign of Christ for a validation of expression over many generations in this way. There should be no doubt that Peter is making reference to this truth in his clarity and declaration of Christ in Kingdom from heaven as framed in this specific context of time beginning with His ascension, as a thousand years as a day and a day as a thousand years, defining a limited continuation of the present heavens and earth as enduring until His return, in 2 Peter 3:8, as he also alluded to in the first message recorded of him in the book of Acts 3:21 stating that the heavens must contain Him during His Messianic Reign called the Kingdom of Christ until the restitution, or God gets everything He wanted from the beginning in His eternal plan for redemption in the great harvest and human beings in immortality, together with Jesus, death being conquered over all.
Paul also explains after the duration of Christ in Kingdom from heaven the expected end of which is to fully give to God that harvest and restitution of which He has expected from the beginning in the conquering of death over all. 1 Cor 15:24-28
Jesus as the promised Messiah, has overcome sin, death and the grave through the suffering of death on the cross conquering death, and purging from hell all who believed in Him before His appearing in the flesh, for securement in everlasting life presently gathered in heaven to Him. There are 2 witnesses of this truth one is found on the earth in Matt 27:52,53 and another in Hebrews 12:22,23 from a heavenly view.
Now, that they were in the grave before Jesus descended to them, but no longer are, reveals that they are delivered from death hell and the grave, and secured to immortality in His bosom, but it also demonstrates that hell, at present still remains and some are retained there, past the state of death and this cannot be construed as annihilation as some suppose if there are yet living souls engaged there after death, and after Jesus' visit there.
Further, we can ascertain that some souls remained in hell at Jesus' ascension, and that the numbers of souls being contained there are also being added to by the death of the unredeemed continually until death is conquered completely and hell and the grave is cast into the lake of fire.
We know this because death, hell and the grave are present to the final casting of them into a lake of fire, when at that time there is no longer a necessity for death, hell, and the grave and the souls that are now therein contained and of those being added since then and to that future day, will arise in bodily resurrection to the final judgement according to the scripture in Daniel 12:2 and confirmed in Revelation 20:11-15.
This also greatly refutes an ideology of conditional immortality and annihilation and verifies that those souls who were imprisoned in death, hell and the grave were continued in preservation there, after their death, while the numbers are still increasing. Because there is an end to death, and the grave, there is necessarily an end to the temporal containment of living souls at the ending of death, hell and the grave, because they are bodily resurrected and another place of torments is therefore designed for the eternal body of immortality. If there was no resurrection of the dead from hell, there would be no necessity for a second mention of that truth, nor even mention of an eternal lake of fire to follow, for hell would have been in that case considered to continue forever.
Because if hell was the eternal placement of the unrighteous soul, and the soul was not resurrected to immortality bodily, then there would be no necessity of another location eternal in description spoken of. Even so, if death, hell and the grave are cast into the eternal lake of fire, the contents of living souls in hell could have thus been disposed to the eternal lake of fire without mention of Revelation 20:13-15. Since all who were in death, hell and the grave had died and been consigned there because of lack of representation in Christ, (those who have believed have been caught up to heaven at death) this is called the second death, they must have been necessarily raised to immortality in body to suffer another death. Those who have arisen with Christ in representation, do not suffer the second death.
So it is clear it cannot happen that death, hell and the grave are cast into the lake of fire, until the ending of death over all, and the resurrection of the dead, so there is no more possibility another person could die at all, and since it is also clear that the final disposition of death, hell and the grave are said to have an end, those that were formerly contained there in are raised to immortality to stand before that final disposition of judgement in their resurrected bodies, before being consigned to another design of eternal torment called the lake of fire built for the final disposition of the immortal body of those who have refused salvation through Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ won the victory first for Himself in representation and preparation for the rest, also creating a place of preservation in Heaven with Himself for the souls of just men ready to be made perfect (immortality in body) at the ending of death overall. Hebrews 12:22
God created humanity with a "vision for perfection" in the Garden of Eden, the Garden of beginning was not that very perfection but a vision of that perfection which at first began to be demonstrated by God's care for Adam in the provision of animal sacrifice to sustain human beings in mortality to the Revelation of Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and sum of all perfection.
When God said, Let there be Light, in Gen 1:3, John 1 He affirmed that which He would accomplish through the cross and the resurrection from the dead, at the end of which He is committed to engage with the redeemed of humanity in immortality through Jesus Christ in everlasting habitation.
The scriptures throughout confirm all these things in God's language, purpose and faithfulness in love, declaring the end from the beginning and maintaining a clear consequence not only of death but of a sorer punishment than death for those who ignore such a great salvation. Hebrews 10:29
As Jesus says, those who are there (retained at the time of His 3 day witness in hell, and being deposed to the same at death by His present Kingdom) know already, but they are not allowed to communicate to us the terror of their torment, Luke 16:27-31, Isaiah 38:18 however we who believe, are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses in heaven urging us on, to help us lay hold of the promise of a new heavens and new earth where there is only righteousness through our partnership in Jesus' resurrection, until the redemption of our mortal bodies through His Kingdom and power when He conquers death over all, we are assured of this, by the gift and communion of His Holy Spirit in us. It is the living that have a voice for intercession, and the redeemed who speak for declaration of true hope in eternal life and immortality in fellowship with Christ! ~ James 5:20
May God open the eyes of your understanding! Amen Eph 1:16-23
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