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The Watchman - Monday, January 02, 2012
From Here - Back To Eternity
Part 10
HEAVEN
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 EAVEN, what an interesting word. It is used to describe all things not of this earth. The heavens, as in space, the universe; heaven also is the general term to describe our true home, our place of origin, the place where the Creator of all that is dwells, our Father - God, Yahweh.
Though the place where our Creator dwells is not actually called heaven, it is called, Zion, which translated means, fortress or sanctuary of the Most High. Heaven is merely used to equate, not of this earth or extra-terrestrial, in the heavens.
My kingdom is not of this earth, Yahshua stated, "I am from my Father who lives in Heaven" - the King of all that is - who does not live on this earth.
Heaven is taught to be the final reward of every Christian, yet did you know that most Christians do not have the foggiest idea of what this reward is? You would think that those who run the race would like to see the prize, the trophy, the blue ribbon, but for some odd and strange reason, most Christians don't have a clue as to what the prize is for this difficult and trying race.
 Heaven has been presented to us in pagan images as a place in the clouds, where we, as little children, sit around playing a couple of strums repeatedly on harps with halos over our heads, wearing white robes or sheer, chiffon nighties. If that is not a Satanic vision of Heaven - nothing is!
Such a place would bore such heavy duty adventurers as us former earth dwellers to tears, and Yahweh knows it. Satan also knows it. That is why he has presented such utterly ridiculous, non-scriptural images to us, to make HEAVEN appear as some kind of sick fantasy, yet this is the predominant image of heaven in most Christians mind!
You enter contest because you'd like to win the prize, but the prize presented to us for this most important contest is a lie! Who would really desire such a boring, uninteresting prize - to play harps on a cloud as a child for all eternity? No one! So why has mankind been so attracted to going to such an unappealing place as that defined to us as Heaven?
TO AVOID GOING TO HELL!
Heaven - The Lesser Of Two Evils?
Heaven is desired by us Christians only as the lesser of two evils! Burn in hell for all eternity or play harps on clouds as a child for all eternity. Pick one. Well if those are the only two choices, I'll choose the lesser of two evils and choose heaven, says the Christian.
THIS IS WHY MOST CHRISTIANS FEAR DEATH!!! They actually fear the thought of going to Heaven and being eternally bored! Their only consolation being that the didn't go to hell, but Heaven, as we have been taught, though a place where we at least escape the fires of hell, has very little appeal in itself!
Let me say this again: Man only desires Heaven as the lesser of two evils!
This is why most people who profess to believe in God and Heaven are in no hurry to get there. This life on Earth, with all of its hardships, is much more interesting and appealing than sitting on a cloud for all eternity plucking on a harp. Thus, even believers fear death. They fear Eternal Boredom is the reward that Yahweh has waiting for them.
You've witnessed it, Christians fearing death more so than heathens, doing all they can to cling to this earth and this life. If Heaven was such a great place, why is it that even Christians are doing all they can to delay entering into it? Why are so many going through such extreme measures to remain on this vile earth as long as they can? When death truly comes knocking - they are scared out of their minds, just like unbelievers!
Who enters a contest, knowing they have won, then desires that the prize be withheld from them as long as humanly possible?
Who wins a race and ask to put off receiving the prize? Who buys a winning lottery ticket and puts off receiving their prize money!
But this is how the REWARD offered to us from our own Creator is treated, AS A CURSE, not a blessing, as merely the lesser of two evils; to spend eternity bored out of our minds sitting on a cloud playing a harp or to burn in hell for all eternity.
Satan's religious systems, including the highly compromised, pagan version of Christianity of today, as well as supposedly born-again "Chrustations", the self-proclaimed elite-Christians, have all been duped and do the Satanic tap-dance at the first sign of the threat of death! Hook me up! Plug me in! Radiate me! Cut it off! Oppress me! Give me this debilitating sorcery (drug) or that! I WANT TO LIVE! Regardless of the low quality of life I may acquire! I just don't want to die (leave this earth)!
It is written that those who accept the mark of the beast are of this fearful mind-set - which is actually most of us! We love and cling to this temporal life beyond what is acceptable in the eyes of God!
He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. - John 12:25
Christians Will Even Join The Dark Side
To Prevent Their Death!
 The current war on terror was prefaced by former vice-president and devout Satanist, Dick Cheney, as America having to go to the dark side. While this statement alone should have elicited a no-brainer "Objection!" from Christians, knowing that the term dark side equates to Satanic activity, the vast majority of Christians approved of going on the dark side, if that is what was needed TO KEEP THEM SAFE. In other words, keep them alive! Screw the Bible and screw Yahshua's teachings to the contrary. O' great government, do whatever it takes to keep me and my family safe. BECAUSE WE'RE AFRAID TO DIE! We will sell our souls to the Devil for just one more day of life, all the while proclaiming that they would rather die than reject Yahshua - HELLO - YOU ALREADY HAVE REJECTED YAHSHUA!
Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
- Luke 6:46 KJV
This is also the reason why so many so-called Christians have approved of such absolute atrocious, obviously Satanic and lying behavior from their government - FEAR! And the government (beast) exploits our fear of death to get their illicit and fraudulent, Satanic agendas moved forward. Using such fearful phrases that they know will conjure up in us our primal FEAR - the dark side.
This is absolute nonsense, unbelief and pagan reasoning, according to the teachings of Yahshua.
Christians: Selling Harps, Rapture And Gold, But Not The Kingdom
If we are to go into all the world and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, how can it be done unless we have a vision of what the Kingdom is? What is the Kingdom of Heaven? What salesman can sell a product he knows nothing about - or only has remedial knowledge of? How can a Christian represent that which he himself does not understand?
Oh, there is a gospel being preached in the world, but not the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, but a false gospel of the kingdom of this world and how to get over in it! This false gospel is what is breeding this fear!
We were born into this world to live life to its fullest and enjoy the gifts of the Most High, but not in lieu of the reward that awaits us at its end.
It is written that by the sacrifice of Yahshua, He has removed the sting of death, which sting was the not knowing what was on the other side. He presented to us His Father's Kingdom as our destination; a place where the streets are paved with gold and the lion sits with the lamb, a place so awesome that He stated,
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man - what Yahweh has prepared for those who love Him!"
Yet we have so paganized and oversimplified this great reward to just one, meaningless and enigmatic word - HEAVEN!
In His love for us, knowing our fearful condition and how Satan has made such a spectacle of his one ace in the hole, death, Yahweh has allowed many, many people, men, women and children to experience death, see the reward, the prize of what we call Heaven, then returned them to the earth, causing them to suddenly come back alive, alive with stories of a place beyond our wildest imagination; a place so beautiful that each of these people had a hard time describing what they saw - AND NO ONE SAID THEY SAW PEOPLE ON CLOUDS PLAYING HARPS!
The one thing they all had in common was an extreme desire not to return to this earth. They said they had found their home! One even said they had a literal tantrum when Yahshua said they must return. Another, who had never considered these things, upon their death experience said the best way to describe it is, a realization that Heaven was their real home and this earth experience was like a summer camp away from home with a bunch of kids they can't stand :-)
Is this any different than what Yahshua told us, that this place we call Heaven is our real home? Is that why all of those who experienced death and returned said - they found HOME!
Why did all of these near-death-experiencers feel that they went home upon their physical death, and none desired to return? Why is it that man has such a hard time believing these stories, even though there is hard proof that these people truly did die?
Do you remember what was said to the wicked man who when he died wanted to come back and warn all of his evil friends and family to repent that they would not come to that place of horror known as hell?
There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day. (20) And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores (21) and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.
(22) And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried. (23) And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (24) And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. (25) But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented. (26) And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us; so that they desiring to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass over to us from there.
(27) And he said, I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house, (28) for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (29) Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
(30) And he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go to them from the dead, they would repent. (31) And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.
Luke 16:19-31
Notice that this was Lazarus who was allowed to return. As it is written, so it is fulfilled.
Though Yahweh has allowed many to return from the dead and tell exciting stories of their experience, some good and some of the horrors of hell, man does not believe - even when it is a child who tells the very same story of their experience.
Satan does not want man to believe that this place Heaven truly exists, or that hell is a very real place.
He props his agents in the flesh up against those who tell of these experiences because it does damage to his control and power over death, man's most fearful enemy. It removes the power of the sting of terror over death - that is Satan's power. Yet it is written, if we believe, that:
(54) But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory. (55) O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
1 Corinthians 15:54-55
These people have proved that the scriptures are correct, that the grave has no victory at death, that we are still alive - even after our physical body dies!
Many who have had this glorious experience said that they found themselves in a crowd of people looking at some poor victim lying there on the operating table or on the street or wherever the death experience occurred for them, only to realize that that poor victim they were looking at was themselves! But how is that possible, I'm not dead - I'm alive and come to think of it, I'm more alive now then I was when I was in that horrid body, said one person.
O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
Satan HATES THIS! As the fear of death is his weapon of mass destruction of fear and proves that even those who claim to be Christians are still under his control even as the unbelievers, even though they should know better!
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
But No One Wants To Die To Get There
THE RAPTURE appeals to so many because it teaches that those who are raptured will not experience death, yet most of those throughout the years who have believed in the rapture are now ALL DEAD! Their belief in the rapture did not cause them to escape what they feared most - death!
Why do we have such a problem with death and dying? It is all because we have entered a race, a contest, and haven't a clue as to what the prize is.
Some say in a great religious sounding fervor, "I just want to sit at the feet of my precious JESUS!" Just who do they think they're fooling? So you're going to sit at the feet of Yahshua for all eternity, eh? I tell you now - you'll get stepped on, because Yahshua is going to be very, very busy - and so will you be, as kings and priest of the Most High we'll be busy reigning with Him!
Please now, regurgitate all of this religious madness, because that is what it is - sheer and utter madness!
You run a race without knowing anything of the prize. What man travels to a destination without first gathering and reading as much as he can about that destination? Christians do!
Ask any Christian, "What is this place called Heaven that you say you so want to go to? What can you tell me about it?" Most cannot answer. What most will do is build up the image of the alternative, hell, rather than describe Heaven. Hmmm? Then why are you so sure you want to go? Because it is better than going to hell! Wrong answer!
The REAL Heaven
Heaven is a real place, it is a place called, Zion. There are buildings there, blue skies and crystal clear rivers and oceans, mountains, lakes, forests, animals, green grass. In fact, Earth is a type and shadow of Heaven (Zion).
One who was given this Divine Tour said to Yahshua, "Heaven looks a lot like earth, blue skies, green grass and mountains!" To which Yahshua responded, "Earth is my taste, who do you think created it?"
We will not live in Heaven (Zion) for all eternity, so to speak, but Heaven (Zion) will envelop and encompass this earth and this earth will again come under the Kingship of the Most High and shall be changed from mortal to immortal also.
The beauty that is Zion shall encompass this earth, and to visit one would be no different than the other, both sharing the same Divine Ecology and immortal creatures - you and I (hopefully).
For those who leave their mortal bodies before this change of the earth, who have been accepted, go to this place and await the day when they shall again return to this earth in its redeemed and glorified state, a miniaturized mirror image of Zion and the blessedness of an immortal ecology.
Natural disasters will cease because the corrupted geology and ecology which causes them will be healed. Earthquakes will cease, as the broken crust of the earth that was broken at the time of the flood, creating what we call the tectonic plates, shall also be mended. A new Earth shall encompass the old as its reward for enduring thousands of years of abuse!
We shall build houses, farm and do much of what we do even today, with our imaginations and creative powers fully restored. The universe will no longer be off-limits and many, if they so desire, will travel to the farthest reaches of it. An adventure so epic that it would take more than an eternity to discover all of the joys, pleasures and resources in which to further our creative and imaginative abilities that have been created by our Father. Truly eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the imagination of mankind what Yahweh has prepared for those who love Him.
Now if we are to run this race, enter this contest, let us see what the prize is that awaits us - in truth. Believe me, it is much more exciting than the boring Satanic vision of angels in white robes playing on harps on clouds for all eternity!
For all that we suffer now, cannot be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us at that time. Therefore, do not fear death, as Yahshua has removed the sting of it - it is nothing, at least for those who have repented and do all that they can to walk uprightly before the Most High.
But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which Yahweh has prepared for those who love Him."
1 Corinthians 2:9
Though there are numerous accounts and most of them are totally in agreement with each other, even those from children, I will share this account with you, like a travel brochure on our final destination. A place we call - Heaven:
... Soon our eyes were drawn to the east, for a small black cloud had appeared, about half as large as a man's hand, which we all knew was the sign of the Son of man.
We all in solemn silence gazed on the cloud as it drew nearer and became lighter, glorious, and still more glorious, till it was a great white cloud.
The bottom appeared like fire; a rainbow was over the cloud, while around it were ten thousand angels, singing a most lovely song; and upon it sat the Son of man. His hair was white and curly and lay on His shoulders; and upon His head were many crowns. His feet had the appearance of fire; in His right hand was a sharp sickle; in His left, a silver trumpet. His eyes were as flame of fire, which searched His children through and through.
Then all faces gathered paleness, and those that God had rejected gathered blackness. Then we all cried out, "Who shall be able to stand? Is my robe spotless?"
Then the angels ceased to sing, and there was some time of awful silence, when Yahshua spoke:
"Those who have clean hands and pure hearts shall be able to stand; My grace is sufficient for you."
At this our faces lighted up, and joy filled every heart. And the angels struck a note higher and sang again, while the clouds drew still nearer the earth.
Then Yahshua's silver trumpet sounded, as He descended on the cloud, wrapped in flames of fire. He gazed on the graves of the sleeping saints, then raised His eyes and hands to heaven, and cried, "Awake! awake! awake! ye that sleep in the dust, and arise."
Then there was a mighty earthquake. The graves opened, and the dead came up clothed with immortality.
The 144,000 shouted, "Alleluia!" as they recognized their friends who had been torn from them by death, and in the same moment we were changed and caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.
We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass, when Yahshua brought the crowns, and with His own right hand placed them on our heads. He gave us harps of gold and palms of victory. Here on the sea of glass the 144,000 stood in a perfect square.
Some of them had very bright crowns, others not so bright. Some crowns appeared heavy with stars, while others had but few. All were perfectly satisfied with their crowns. And they were all clothed with a glorious white mantle from their shoulders to their feet.
Angels were all about us as we marched over the sea of glass to the gate of the city. Yahshua raised His mighty, glorious arm, laid hold of the pearly gate, swung it back on its glittering hinges and said to us, "you have washed your robes in my blood, stood stiffly for My truth, enter in." We all marched in and felt that we had a perfect right in the city.
Here we saw the tree of life and the throne of Yahweh. Out of the throne came a pure river of water, and on either side of the river was the tree of life. On one side of the river was a trunk of a tree, and a trunk on the other side of the river, both of pure, transparent gold.
At first I thought I saw two trees. I looked again, and saw that they were united at the top in one tree. So it was the tree of life on either side of the river of life. Its branches bowed to the place where we stood, and the fruit was glorious; it looked like gold mixed with silver.
We all went under the tree and sat down to look at the glory of the place...We tried to call up our greatest trials (while on earth), but they looked so small compared with the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory that surrounded us that we could not speak them out, and we all cried out, "Alleluia, heaven is cheap enough!" and we touched our glorious harps and made heaven's arches ring.
With Yahshua at our head we all descended from the city down to this earth, on a great and mighty mountain, which could not bear Yahshua up, and it parted asunder, and there was a mighty plain. Then we looked up and saw the great city, with twelve foundations, and twelve gates, three on each side, and an angel at each gate. We all cried out, "The city, the great city, it's coming, it's coming down from Yahweh out of heaven," and it came and settled on the place where we stood.
Then we began to look at the glorious things outside of the city. There I saw most glorious houses, that had the appearance of silver, supported by four pillars set with pearls most glorious to behold. There were to be inhabited by the saints. In each was a golden shelf. I saw many of the saints go into houses, take off their glittering crowns and lay them on the shelf, then go out into the field by the houses to do something with the earth; not as we have to do with the earth here; no, no.
A glorious light shone all about their heads, and they were continually shouting and offering praises to God.
I saw another field full of all kinds of flowers, and as I plucked them, I cried out, "They will never fade." Next I saw a field of tall grass, most glorious to behold; it was living green and had a reflection of silver and gold, as it waved proudly to the glory of King Yahshua.
Then we entered a field full of all kinds of beasts -- the lion, the lamb, the leopard, and the wolf, all together in perfect union. We passed through the midst of them, and they followed peaceable after. Then we entered a wood, not like the dark woods we have here; no, no; but light, and all over glorious; the branches of the trees waved to and fro, and we all cried out, "We will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods." We passed through the woods, for we were on our way to Mount Zion.
As we were traveling along, we met a company who also were gazing at the glories of the place. I noticed red as a border on their garments; their crowns were brilliant; their robes were pure white. As we greeted them, I asked Yahshua who they were. He said they were martyrs that had been slain for Him. With them was an innumerable company of little ones; they also had a hem of red on their garments.
Mount Zion was just before us, and on the mount was a glorious temple, and about it were seven other mountains, on which grew roses and lilies. And I saw the little ones climb, or, if they chose, use their little wings and fly (remember: Eye hath not seen...) , to the top of the mountains and pluck the never-fading flowers. There were all kinds of trees around the temple to beautify the place: the box, the pine, the fir, the oil, the myrtle, the pomegranate, and the fig tree bowed down with the weight of its timely figs -- these made the place all over glorious.
As we were about to enter the holy temple, Yahshua raised His lovely voice and said, "Only the 144,000 enter this place," and we shouted, "Alleluia."
This temple was supported by seven pillars, all of transparent gold, set in pearls most glorious. The wonderful things I saw there I cannot describe.
Oh that I could talk in the language of Canaan, then could I tell a little of the glory of the better world. I saw there tables of stone in which the names of the 144,000 were engraved in letters of gold.
After we beheld the glory of the temple, we went out, and Yahshua left us and went into the city. Soon we heard His lovely voice again, saying, "Come, my people, you have come out of great tribulation, and done My will; suffered for Me; come in to supper, for I will gird Myself, and serve you." We shouted, "Alleluia! glory!" and entered into the city.
And I saw a table of pure silver; it was many miles in length, yet our eyes could extend over it. I saw the fruit of the tree of life, the manna, almonds, figs, pomegranates, grapes, and many other kinds of fruit.
I asked Yahshua to let me eat of the fruit. He said, "Now now. Those who eat o the fruit of this land go back to earth no more. But in a little while, if faithful, you shall both eat of the fruit of the tree of life and drink of the water of the fountain." And He said, "You must go back to earth again and relate to others what I have revealed to you."
Then an angel bore me gently down to this dark world. Sometimes I think I can stay here no longer; all things of earth look so dreary. I feel very lonely here, for I have seen a better land. Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and be at rest! |
Here we get a better picture, in language closer to our time, of what heaven is like. The landscape, the personality of the animals, the fact that there are animals and children in heaven, there are rewards. There is music, art, study, food, all kinds of things that we enjoy here on earth but without the limitations that we currently face.
Hopefully, I will see you there. Whatever the cost - it is cheap enough! Now you have heard and read - the true GOOD NEWS of the Kingdom. |
