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priest, but
will He be our high priest after the judgment when there is no sin and therefore, no need
for a priest? "And did make us kings and priests" [Revelation 1:6]. Those in Christ now
reign as kings and priests. "For you were slain, and did purchase unto God with your
blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and made them to be unto
our God a kingdom and priests; and THEY REIGN UPON THE EARTH" [Revelation
5:9-10]. ALL CHRISTIANS ARE NOW KINGS AND PRIESTS BUT WILL
CHRISTIANS BE KINGS AND PRIESTS AFTER THE JUDGMENT WHEN THEY
ARE NOT "UPON THE EARTH"? Will there be any need for priests in Heaven? Christ
will be our Lord in Heaven, but maybe not our high priest. Christian now reign as kings
and priests unto the ages of ages, but whatever we will be in Heaven, it does not look as
if there will be any need for priests. In this age, those in Christ have Him as their light
[John 8:12; 9:5; 11:10; 12:36] and He shines the same always. There is no nighttime
when He shines less. THE REIGN OF THOSE IN CHRIST AS KINGS AND PRIESTS
"UNTO THE AGES OF THE AGES" WILL BE OVER WHEN THEIR ETERNAL LIFE
IN HEAVEN BEGINS IN THE AGES OF AGES. They shall reign UNTO the ages of
[the] ages (22:5) "Unto the ages" is before the harvest at the end of this age [Matthew
12:36-43]. It is before the time many believe Hell will begin. It is NOW.
A THIRD VIEW: Most likely the right one. This passage is symbolic, not to be taken
literally. The first two views both make the wording be literal, but just as most of this
book is in symbols, this may also be symbols and no more to be taken literality than a
woman arrayed with the sun [Revelation 12:1] or any of the other symbols in the book.
• Whatever view of this passage you may take, Christians will be "in the ages to
come" after this age has ended [Ephesians 2:6-7].
That aion means forever when it is used with reference to the life of the believer, and
that it takes on a meaning of unlimited time that is totally different than its meaning is
without precedent with any other word. I understand that this dual definition came about
by learned and faithful believers trying to explain some difficult passages, but it seems to
me that it makes more problems than it helps. If God in His revelation to us used a word
to sometimes mean a limited time with a beginning and an end and at other times used
the same word to mean an unlimited time without beginning or end no one could know
what He said to us, could not know when this word was limited and when it was
unlimited without an inspired person to tell us.
It is obvious that forever or eternal with the meaning that eternal has today is a total
mistranslation. Three days [Jonah 2:6] or a lifetime [Exodus 21:6] is not eternally.
Whatever view you take, this is in a book of symbols that are difficult to understand
and it is unwise to base any doctrine on the interpretation of symbols, and less than
unwise to make the interpretation of symbols over rule the plain statements of the Bible.
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“If aion sometimes means a limited and sometimes an, unlimited time, then we need a pope, or a
church, or human tradition to tell us what it means in each case, and divine inspiration vanishes,
and is replaced by corrupt human mentality.” Unsearchable Riches, Volume 27, Page 175.
ETERNAL
[1] ETERNAL [Aionios] LIFE: About 43 times to the life Christ promised to those who
obey Him. "In the world [age - aion] to come eternal [aionios] life [zoee]" Mark 19:30.
"What shall I do to inherit eternal [aionios] life?" Luke 18:18. "In hope of eternal
[aionios] life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the age [aion] began." Titus
1:2. Also in Matthew 19:16; 25:46; Mark 10:17; 10:30; Luke 10:25; 18:30; John 3:5;
3:16; 3:36; 4:14; 4:36 5:24; 5:39; 6:27; 6:40; 6:47; 6:54; 6:58; 17:2; 17:3; Acts 13:46;
Romans 2:7; 5:21; 6:22; 6:23; Galatians 6:8; 1 Timothy 1:16; 6:12; 6:19; Titus 3:7; 1
John 1:2; 2:25; 3:15; 5:11; 5:13; 5:20; Jude 21.
Related terms [other ways of saying eternal life].
1. "Everlasting [aionios] HABITATIONS" [Luke 16:9; Hebrews 9:15].
2. "Everlasting [aionios] CONSOLATION" [2 Thessalonians 2:16].
3. "Eternal [aionios] INHERITANCE" [Hebrews 9:15].
4. "An eternal [aionios] WEIGHT OF GLORY" [2 Corinthians 4:16].
5. "A BUILDING FROM GOD, A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, eternal
[aionios], in the heavens" [2 Corinthians 5:1].
[2] ETERNAL GOD: (1) "Everlasting [aionios] God" [Romans 16:25]. (2) "Power
everlasting"[aionios] [1 Timothy 6:16]. (3) "Called us unto His eternal [aionios] glory"
[1 Peter 5:10].
There are other words that teach an endless duration that are applied to God and
the saved that are never applied to the lost.
TO GOD:
1. Romans 1:23 "The glory of the INCORRUPTIBLE [aphthartos] God."
2. 1 Timothy 6:16 "Who only has IMMORTALITY [athanasin]."
3. Romans 1:20 "Even his EVERLASTING [aidios] power and divinity."
4. 1 Timothy 1:17 "Now unto the King eternal IMMORTAL [aphtharsia], invisible,
the only God."
TO CHRIST:
1. 2 Timothy 1:10 "Who [Christ] abolished death, AND BROUGHT LIFE AND
IMMORTALITY [aphtharsia] TO LIGHT"
2. Hebrews 7:3 “Abides a priest CONTINUALLY (dieenekes).” “But he, when he
had offered one sacrifice for sins FOR EVER (dieenekes), sat down on the right
hand of God” [Hebrews 10:12]. “For by one offering he has perfected FOR
EVER (dieenekes) them that are sanctified” [Hebrews 10:14].
3. Hebrews 7:16 "After the power of an ENDLESS (akatalutos-indissoluble) LIFE."
4. Hebrews 7:24 “Because He (Christ) abides forever (pantote), holds His
priesthood permanently.”
TO MAN:
1. 1 Corinthians 9:25 "Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown: but we an
INCORRUPTIBLE [aphthartos]."
2. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in INCORRUPTION [aphtharsia]; it is sown in dishonor;
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it is raised in GLORY; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in POWER; is sown a
natural body; it is raised a SPIRITUAL BODY."
3. 1 Corinthians 15:52-54 "For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
INCORRUPTIBLE [aphthartos], and we shall be changed. For this corruptible
must put on INCORRUPTION [aphtharsia], and this mortal must put on
IMMORTALITY [athanasia]. But, when this corruptible shall have put on
IMMORTALITY [athanasia] then shall come to pass the saying that is written,
DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY."
4. 1 Peter 1:3-4 "Begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, unto AN INHERITANCE (aphtharton) INCORRUPTIBLE
[aphthartos], AND UNDEFILED, AND THAT FADES NOT AWAY,
RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU."
5. 1 Peter 5:4 “And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, you shall receive
the crown of glory that fades not away.”
6. Romans 2:7 "To them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and
INCORRUPTION [aththarsia], eternal life."
7. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall
ALWAYS (pantote) be with the Lord.” “Seeing he (Christ) EVER (pantote)
lives” [Hebrews 7:25].
8. Ephesians 2:6-7 “And raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: THAT IN THE AGES (aions) TO COME he
might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus”
CHAPTER NINE
UNIVERSALIST - The "age lasting" Hell
Universalist (sometimes called "Restoration" and "Unitarian Universalist") believes
that all will end up saved. They believe no one will end up in Hell, that it is not possible
for anyone, the worst person that ever lived, to not go to Heaven. Whether death is death
or if death is only separation, they believe no one will die or be forever separated from
God; therefore, there is no death, no wages of sin, no second death after the Judgment
Day. There seems to be some who believe in a universal salvation mixed in many
denominations, also there are Universalist groups like the "Tentmakers" with the one
thing all have in common is the belief in universal salvation. There seems to be two kinds
of Universalist. [1] Some who do not believe in any kind of Hell and that all sins are paid
in full in this lifetime. [2] Some who believe there will be a Hell but a very different Hell
than the Protestant versions for it will last only for an "age," and will be more of a
disciplinary character than punishment. Both destroy the character of the sinner and turns
them into them saints.
They do much writing to prove the word that is translated everlasting, eternal, forever,
age, and world in the King James Version, is from the Greek word "aion," which means
"age." In Matthew 24:3 the King James Version says, "end of the world," but the New
King James Version, New American Standard Version, New International Version and
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many more say "end of the age." They have written hundreds of pages to prove that
"aion" means "age," and their purpose was to prove that Hell will last for only an age.
They may be right in their translation of aion to mean age, but not one of the repeatedly
times "aion" is used says anything about Hell, aion (age) is not used in the same passage
with any of the four words translated Hell in the King James Version.
Without proving there is a Hell, and without "age lasting" (aion) being used with any
word translated Hell, they make Hell be "age lasting," with a beginning and ending but
not everlasting.
They have immortal souls in their "age lasting" Hell without proving all the lost will
be immortal and will live forever after the judgment.
They believe all those in the age lasting Hell will be saved when the age is over.
Although Universalist have told me they do not believe in the soul being immortal they
believe that no one will ever be destroyed, that all will sooner or later end up in Heaven; I
can not see how all would not be immortal from the day of their birth if no one will ever
be destroyed, if no one will ever really be dead.
THEIR BIG PROBLEMS FOR UNIVERSALISM TO BE TRUE
THEY MUST PROVE
[1] IMMORTALITY: THAT THE LOST HAVE A SOUL THAT IS NOW
IMMORTAL OR THE LOST WILL ALL BE MADE IMMORTAL AFTER DEATH,
this immaterial part of a person cannot die and will outlast the "age lasting" Hell. To
have never ending life is as immortal as immortal can be. IF NO ONE WILL EVER
DIE AND ALL WILL LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN, HOW COULD ALL NOT
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE? HOW MUCH MORE IMMORTAL COULD A PERSON
BE?
[2] THE DEATH PRNALTY: THAT THERE IS NO DEATH, those who do not
believe on Christ will not perish but will have eternal life the same as those who do
believe [John 3:16].
[3] HELL: THAT THERE IS A HELL even if it is only "age lasting" and will be more
of a disciplinary character or “attitude adjustments” than punishment.
[1] IMMORTALITY
UNIVERSALIST MUST PROVE THAT ALL MEN NOW HAVE AN
IMMATERIAL PART THAT IF IS NOT NOW IMMORTAL IT WILL BE MADE
IMMORTAL IN ALL MANKIND AFTER THE “ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT;”
THAT IF ALL ARE NOW IMMORTAL THEN ALL WITH BE GIVEN
IMMORTALTUY: In the "Debate on the Destiny of the Wicked" between George T.
Carpenter of the church of Christ and John Hughes of the Universalist Church, 1875,
Hughes says, "The soul, the principle of animal life. The spirit, the 'inward man,' the real
man, to