Immortality or Resurrection (Updated) - William West (top ten ebook reader .TXT) 📗

/> the heavens (the sky) and the earth will not be after the day of the Lord? THERE IS NO
WAY TO READ THE EARTH WILL BE RESTORED TO BE THE WAY IT WAS
BEFORE ADAM SINNED IN THIS PASSAGE. "DISAPPEAR" "MELT AWAY"
"VANISH" "BE DESTROYED" "BE DISSOLVED" "PASS AWAY" "BURNED
UP" DOES NOT MEAN "BE RESTORED"
If the second coming of Christ is passed and all end time prophecy has been fulfilled
as Realized Eschatology teaches then life will go on forever on the earth as it is now for,
according to them, nothing is said in the Bible about the earth ending, the victory over
death when death will have been abolished, or the end of evil.
The fire is just a literal as the water; if one is figurative language the other must also
be. "By which means [water] the world that them was...perished; but the heavens that
now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire." If the "fire" is
spiritualized to be something other than real fire then the "water" must also be
spiritualized to be something other than real water; therefore, the story of the ark must
also be figurative language; therefore, there were no real ark and no real flood.
Figurative language of the sun, moon and stars being darken or falling from heaven is
used of the fall of Judea [a national judgment] in Jeremiah 4:1-28, and "The sun shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken" [Matthew 24:29]. Compare Matthew 24:29-30 to the fall of Egypt. "And when I
extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with
a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will
darken over you and will set darkness on your land, declares the Lord God. I will also
trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations"
[Ezekiel 32:7-9]. However, Peter speaks of the utter destruction, passing away,
disappearing, disintegrating, being dissolved of "the elements" on the day of the Lord; not
just being darken and not giving their light. He is not using figurative language of the
passing of a nation, but giving a literal description of the earth and the heavens, the same
earth and heavens that He created out of nothing, passing away in one day.
Whichever way you make this [1] a figurative description of the end of a nation, [2] or
a literal description, as a literal description of the end of the heavens and earth in the day
of the Lord, it is a description of the end of something, not the restoring and making
something better. The earth being restored is not in this passage; in it the earth is
destroyed, not restored. THERE IS NOT A WORD ABOUT THE EARTH, ISRAEL, OR
ANYTHING ON THIS EARTH BEING RESTORED AND MADE BETTER IN 2
PETER 3.
"You, Lord, in the beginning did lay the foundation of THE EARTH, AND THE
HEAVENS are the works of your hands: THEY SHALL PERISH; BUT YOU
CONTINUES: and they all shall wax old as does a garment; and as a mantle shall you
roil them up, as a garment, and they shall be changed; but you are the same, and your
years will not come to an end" [Hebrews 1:10-12]. There is no way the writer of Hebrews
could have said any stronger that the Earth, not Israel, will end but Jesus will have no
end. Realized Eschatology says all prophecy has been fulfilled, therefore, according to
them, this has already been fulfilled.
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All ungodly man will be destroyed on the day of the Lord, not just the ungodly Jews
in A. D. 70 when Israel was destroyed. Is there anyone that cannot see that the ungodly
have not yet been destroyed?
Summary: It was the world [kesmos] that was brought into being [“and an earth
compacted out of water and amidst water”] by the word of God [2 Peter 3:5]. It was the
same world [kesmos] that was destroyed by water, all the world, not just one nation that
had not come into exists at the time the world was destroyed [2 Peter 3:6]. It is the world
[kesmos] that now is that is stored up for fire at the Day of Judgment and destruction of
ungodly men [2 Peter 3:7]. The same world [kesmos] (this earth) that was created in 2
Peter 3:5 is the same world that will be destroyed by fire in 2 Peter 3:6. THE FIRE IS
JUST AS LITTERAL AS THE WATER. NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT ISRAEL OR
ABOUT THE END OF AN AGE [ARION] IN 2 PETER 3. IT WAS REAL WATER
THAT FLOATED A REAL BOAT THAT DESTORYED ALL OF THE WORLD
[KESMOS], NOT JUST ONE NATION THAT DID NOT EXIST AT THAT TIME. IT
WILL BE REAL FIRE THAT WILL DESTORY THE WORLD [KESMOS], NOT
JUST THE END OF AN AGE [ARION] FOR ONE NATION.
1 PETER 4:6
“For unto this end was the gospel preached (past tense) even to the dead (present
tense), that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according
to God in the spirit” The question is (1) who were the dead (2) and when was the gospel
preached to them?
Two views on who the dead were that the Gospel was preached to.
[1] Christians that had died at the time Peter was writing this. They were alive in the flesh
at the time the gospel was preached to them and they believed but were dead at the time
Peter wrote this. See 1 Corinthians 15:12-28.
[2] Those who “were dead in your trespasses and sins” [Ephesians 2:1] before the
gospel was preached to them. The Gospel was preached to them when they were
dead through their trespasses and sins (past tense) so that they may live.
• “And you did he make alive, when you were dead through your trespasses
and sins” [Ephesians 2:1].
• “He that hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has eternal life, and has
passed out of death into life” [John 5:24].
Nothing is said about any preaching to any one after they were physically dead or to
spirits. The Gospel is preached to save; Peter is not saying salvation is being offered to
anyone after they are dead.
NO PLACE FOR A RESURECTION
OF THE UNJUST IN THE A. D. 70 TEACHING
Most who believe the A. D. 70 teaching believe the just dead of the Old Testament
was resurrected in A. D. 70 and the saved who have died after that time go to Heaven at
the moment of death, but I have not found where they believe any unjust have been or
will be resurrected form the dead for judgment; no place for the second death after the
resurrection in there teaching; no place for a judgment that comes to them after death.
• "There shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust" [Acts 24:15]
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• "He has appointed a day in which he will judge the world" [Acts 17:31]. Not only
the just and not only Israel, but in the same day Christ is going to judge the entire
world. That day has not yet come.
• "If so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that
afflict you, and to you that are afflicted rest with us, AT THE REVELATION OF
THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
RENDERING VENGEANCE TO THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD, AND TO
THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS WHO
SHALL SUFFER PUNISHMENT, EVEN ETERNAL DESTRUCTION from
the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, WHEN HE SHALL COME
TO BE GLORIFIED IN HIS SAINTS, and marveled at in all them that believe
(because our testimony unto you was believed) IN THAT DAY" [2 Thessalonians
1:6-10].
• "He that rejects me, and receives not my sayings, has one that judges him: the
word that I speak, the same shall judge him in the last day" [John 12:48].
• "Do not marvel at this; for THE HOUR IS COMING, IN WHICH ALL WHO
ARE IN THE TOMBS SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE AND SHALL COME
FORTH; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that
have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment" [John 5:28-29]. The
judgment is clearly said to take place after the resurrection, not at death.
• “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, WHO IS TO
JUDGE the living and the dead” [2 Timothy 4:1].
• “Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead” [1
Peter 4:5]. The dead had not been judged but were still to be judged (future tense)
they were not already judged at the moment of death and transition from this
world to Heaven or Hell.
• "For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God" [Romans 14:10].
• "For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each
one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he had done,
whether it be good or bad" [2 Corinthians 5:10]. The Corinthians that had fallen
asleep in Christ [1 Corinthians 15:20], the just and the unjust must be resurrected
to stand before the judgment seat. That there was such a resurrection and
judgment in A. D. 70 is pure fiction; there is nothing about it in the Bible.
• "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day
of' Judgment" [Matthew 12:36].
• "He that rejects me and receives not my words has one that judges him. The word
that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" [John 12:48].
• "God now commands all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a
day in the which He will judge the world by righteousness by that man whom he
has ordained, whereof he has given assurance unto all men in that he has raised
him from the dead" [Acts 17:30-31].
• “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there
no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment
and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE
ADVERSARIES. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy
on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you
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think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has
regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and
has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, ‘VENGEANCE IS
MINE, I WILL REPAY’ and again, ‘THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.’ It
is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God” [Hebrews 10:26-31].
• 2 Peter 3 (see notes above on 2 Peter 3)
THE RESURRECTION ON THE LAST DAY
THE DAY OF THE LORD
All this in one day, the day Christ comes, the day of the Lord.
• The second coming of Christ [2 Peter 3:10].
• The resurrection and judgment of the righteous [Acts 24:15; John 5:28-29; 6:40-
41].
• The resurrection and judgment of the wicked [John 12:48].
• The final judgment [Acts 17:31; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10].
• The total destruction of the earth and the heavens that were made from nothing
and will return to nothing [2 Peter 3:7-11].
• The total destruction of the lost [2 Peter 2:12; 3:7].
• The second death [Revelation 2:11].
• Death will be abolished [1 Corinthians 15:24-16].
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