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Title: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: Universalist Catholic on February 04, 2010, 11:28:58 PM
Do we go live in a spiritual rhealm forever, or do we come back to earth to live after the cleansing of fire?

What is this bodily ressurection supposed to be like?
Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: Paul Hazelwood on February 04, 2010, 11:48:49 PM

I do not think the bible goes into much detail about that aspect of our existence because I believe from our realm there is only so much we would understand no matter how in tune spiritually we may be.

For instance,

2C 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

If you look into the greek word for "lawful" here with other translations saying "not allowed"  I think we can get the idea that it is not against the law, but that there is no way to do so in the first place.

I believe the following verse while great to the emotions in and of itself cannot be understood fully.  I do not believe we can comprehend having no pain whatsoever, we can think upon how great it would be however.

Re 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: Dallas on February 06, 2010, 09:02:30 PM
Just walk outside and take a look... we have already gone through it.
Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: willieH on February 07, 2010, 12:37:04 AM
Quote from: Universalist Catholic on February 04, 2010, 11:28:58 PM
Do we go live in a spiritual rhealm forever,

We don't "GO" anywhere...  :mshock:

Earth IS a spiritual entity, and we currently observe that entity with encumbered (and blind) EYES of FLESH...  :idea2:

ALL things are "MADE" by the WORD -- John 1:3 -- the WORD is a SPIRITUAL entity and, ...the WORD does NOT CHANGE -- Heb 13:8 -- so it is our current CARNAL OBSERVATION of "made" that should be called into "SPIRITUAL" question...  :dontknow:

It is my personal observation that because GOD nor His WORD ever "changes" that ALL that is a portion of GOD and His WORD, are REVEALED and NOT "made" as is "conventionally" understood.  IOW all that is "made" was already THERE, just UNREVEALED...

WE are the LIVING KNOWLEDGE of Good and Evil... as LIVES in the HEART of YHVH God -- Gen 3:22

As one studies the WORD of God... things that are ALWAYS present within IT... and might have been "read" a hundred times before... in a moment of enlightenment (twinkling of an EYE), are SEEN, ...and take upon a meaning that was NOT previously KNOWN by the reader! 

This is the process of TRUTH which is CREATING FREEDOM in the heart of the one beholding and seeking in the WORD.   The TRUTH was sitting there in the WORD, ALL ALONG... but was just previously UNREVEALED to the one, who was reading it.  :Chinscratch:

In this life (physical life), we busily make CARNAL observation of the entity [earth]... and because the earth is within GOD, and HE never changes -- Mal 3:6 -- and ALL is within Him -- it is our OBSERVATION of the earth that is lacking vision, not the entity we attempt to [blindly] observe...

Acts 17:28 -- for IN HIM, we live and move and HAVE our BEING...


Quote from: Universalist Catholic on February 04, 2010, 11:28:58 PMor do we come back to earth to live after the cleansing of fire?

The WORD does not relate "PHYSICAL" destinations... It REVEALS SPIRITUAL reality.

This life we live within the PHYSICAL is amidst the -- "CLEANSING FIRE" -- UC...  for the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL (one knowledge) is made KNOWN within our PHYSICAL observation and interaction with IT...  It is within EXPERIENCE that we truly, ...come to KNOW. :nod:

KNOWLEDGE is NOT just "INFORMATION"... it is INFORMATION applied EXPERIENTIALLY that produces KNOWLEDGE...

EXAMPLE --- a woman does not KNOW what having a baby encompasses until she, via EXPERIENCE, ...HAS a BABY...  She can read all the books she can get her hands on, and thereby gain INFORMATION concerning childbirth, but until she EXPERIENCES having a baby (information applied to experience), she does not KNOW ...childbirth!  :mshock:

Same with driving a vehicle (or anything else for that matter)... you can read a 1000 books about driving a vehicle.  But after reading the last one, it does not mean that (after reading all those books), you now ...KNOW how to DRIVE.  :laugh: -- though you have gained INSIGHT to it, ...it is the experience of actually negotiating the vehicle, that is the crowning element of KNOWLEDGE.

Quote from: Universalist Catholic on February 04, 2010, 11:28:58 PMWhat is this bodily ressurection supposed to be like?

"Bodily resurrection" is the RETURN to our ORIGIN -- from this realm...

Luke 15:11-32 -- the "LOST" Son (which includes all of us), RETURNS to the realm from which he emerged from the experience of the -- WASTE of life within his (our) EXPERIENCE of the indulgence (interaction) of EVIL...

We are the BODY of CHRIST, UC... The body (which always IS) is gaining the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL (one by one) -- only KNOWN by (and contained IN) the HEAD (YHVH and His WORD)

IOW -- one by one, we come back to OURSELVES and our PLACE in the BODY of our FATHER, and His SON...

In order to understand this, one must REJECT (die to) the acknowledgement of him/herself (and his/her "physical body")... to gain the SPIRITUAL understanding of who and what one really, IS.  Which is the "BODY" of the WORD, which is CHRIST...  :boyheart:

The "BODY" of CHRIST is a POPULATION...

NOT (as the carnal Christian mind envisions) -- a [divine] arm, [divine] leg, [divine] toenail, [divine] tooth, [divine] mole, [divine] armpit, etc...

The "BODY" of CHRIST, is the ENTITY composed of the HARMONY of ALL... which when COMPLETELY assembled, amount to the TOTAL that LOVE IS...

Another somewhat feeble -- EXAMPLE --

The OCEAN is made of uncountable (seemingly insignificant) drops of water, whom together equal the IMMENSE entity known as the OCEAN... without even ONE of the drops of water, the OCEAN is incomplete, and only a "partial" OCEAN...  Only when the OCEAN contains ALL of its ORIGINAL drops, is it COMPLETE.

...willieH    :HeartThrob:
Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: Beloved Servant on February 07, 2010, 01:01:10 AM

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you...
Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: peacemaker on February 07, 2010, 12:29:05 PM
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"Faith doesn't end with knowledge, but it does begin with experience."
Title: Re: What happens to the Earth after the end times
Post by: Zero7 on February 10, 2010, 10:02:13 PM
WillieH, excellent, excellent post.
Stuff like this keeps me coming back again and again.
:thumbsup: