Because you were born into the world in a space1 at a particular time2 you are bound to the reality of earth. We discovered that death is the reality of earth, and it is, a life sentence placed on all humanity at birth. But this life sentence is placed on more than humanity, in fact, every living thing born on the earth will die on earth. This is why the early church’s testimony of the resurrection of Jesus from Nazareth is so important because, in the sum total, of the history of man, not one human has escaped the grasp of death though, one man came close. Once one of Jesus’s friends was sick and ultimately died, naturally Jesus went to go and see him before his passing but by the time that he arrive, Lazurus was dead. He and the disciples arrived at the house of his friend and Martha (one of Lazarus’ sisters), mortified that Jesus did not arrive sooner because, in the face of whatever the sickness was, she knew that Jesus would have healed her brother. Jesus looked at her and said, “I am the resurrection and the life”, to which she replies, “I know that my brother will rise again at the resurrection.”3 What happens next is unimaginable, below is a reference to the conversation.
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” [Jesus calls for Mary “another one of Lazarus’ sisters” to come over in the middle of this conversation too and when she arrives she says the same thing, “had you arrived sooner Lazarus would still be alive.”] 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?”
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” <he’s definitely dead> 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” - John 11: 25-44
At this moment Jesus is demonstrating his authority as a King of Power, everyone believed he could heal the sick. No one knew he could raise the dead, no one even imagined the possibility. The king of a kingdom that is outside of time and space, living on the earth and in time, during the reign of Tiberius Ceasar, calls out to Lazarus, a dead man, a corpse in a tomb, a cadaver wrapped in burial clothes, and buried in the tradition of his people. Jesus definitely missed the funeral and Lazarus was four days dead, so healing was no longer an option. Jesus has the men roll away the gravestone in preparation for what is about to happen. Jesus cries out with a loud voice through time and space, “Lazarus come out” and the dead man walks out of the tomb. This event gets recorded in one of the most verifiable books on earth, one of the most fact-check manuscripts ever to exist in human history. No wonder why the bible is the best-selling book of all time, and no other book even comes close.4 This is why people are believing in Jesus because he has power over death, and even if you die, believing in him means you will live again. Paul5 a high-ranking member of Jewish society and one of the ruling class of leaders in Israel, converted from Judaism, after a personal experience with Jesus, to believe in Christ. After his conversion, he traveled extensively across Asia Minor and set up assemblies of Christians known as Churches all over the territory of the ancient roman empire. Writing to one of those churches that he set up, he spoke about life as an eternal being living in the human body.
1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on, we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. - 2 Corinthians 5 : 1-9
Merriam-Webster/ Conflict (noun)
1. : Fight, Battle War 2. a) : competitive or opposing action of incompatibles: antagonistic state or action (as of divergent ideas, interest, or persons) b) : mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes m or external or internal demands. 3. : the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction.
Merriam- Webster/ Conclfict (verb)
: to be different, opposed, or contradictory: to fail to be in agreement or accord
: to contend in warfare
Morpheus: “…residual self-image, it is the mental projection of your digital self”
Neo: “This isn’t real?”
Morpheus: “What is real…How do you define, real ?”
Morpheus: “This is the world you know, the world as it was at the end of the 21st century. It exists now, only as a “Neural Interactive Simulation”, that we call the Matrix. You’ve been living in a dream world Neo, this is the world that exists today…”
You may have thought to yourself that accepting Jesus as a means of escaping death in finality was an absolute imperative. It seemed like the sole reason for accepting Jesus, so you choose to take the red pill and see where the path ends up. But like Neo, you're coming to terms with the reality of the truth and that is a hard pill to swallow. Until now I have stayed very close to Jesus and to the Kingdom of Heaven in our conversations. We have stayed close to the concept of accepting the resurrection of Jesus and his leadership over your life, but I can hear the question formulating in your mind. If everyone dies even the Christian…then why choose to believe in the resurrection of Jesus and his leadership over my life at all? If we are all going to live forever then why amend my life on earth? What would happen if I chose not to believe and to take back the reigns of my own life? And for that question, I have an answer, but first, let’s revisit the definition of death.
Merriam-Webster/ Death (noun)
1. : permanent cessation of all vital functions. Instance of dying 2. a) The cause or occasion of loss of time; b) a cause of ruin 3. : the destroyer of life; represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe. 4. : the state of being no longer alive
If you were to go and look in the book of Genesis, which is the first book that Moses the, “10-Commandments-Red-Sea-Guy” wrote, you would find an account of the creation of time and space; Genesis happens to also be the first book of the Bible.
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” - Genesis 2:15-17
If we were to keep reading we would eventually come to chapter 5 of Genesis and in this chapter, Adam and Eve's generational line is being cataloged as a matter of record. Chapter 5 verse 3 literally says, “When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness after his image, and named him Seth.” Now, no one can be certain how long Adam and Eve were in the garden before they ate from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” But enough time had definitely passed and progressed for them to have had three sons. Two of those sons were born well before the birth of the third son Seth. Cain murdered his brother Able, and then moved away and married someone and had sons and daughters, founded his own city, presumably before the birth of Seth. Before the murder, Cain and Able were old enough to have vocations; namely farming and raising livestock. The “fruit-eating event” happened before Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Able. So when God said that they would surely die, what did he mean? They didn’t drop dead immediately upon eating the fruit, and neither of them had a cessation of all vital life functions and clearly, they continued living and having children.
So what kind of death was God talking about?
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. - Matthew 10:28
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers, will not be hurt by the second death. - Revelation 2:11
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” - Rev. 21:8
The reality of earth is death and yes the reality of the Kingdom of Heaven is life more specifically eternal life. But there is a parallel reality to eternal life and that is the “Second Death” what we might also call eternal separation from God. Those who die without belief in the resurrection of Jesus are going to die again. Dying within time and space without faith in Jesus is a double tragedy because it leads to the second death from which there is no way of escape; this is why believing in Jesus now, is most important. There is a limited window of time for you to believe, you only have access to the plan of salvation on earth while you are alive. Once you split eternity wide open, your options for saying yes to Jesus are over, and only what you did on earth matters. Remember if you die in the Matrix you die in that pod in real life; waking up from the matrix is the only way to make your life count for something and to truly be free. The second death is the eternal destruction of your Soul (mind, will, and emotions), the forever destruction of your Body6 in Hell (So much more to say about this in the future); this is Perpetual, it is Unyielding, it is Unending, and Without Reprieve.
Knowing that there are people who live on earth in pain and poverty…Humans who exist in relative suffering and quiet desperation…They are marketed to live their own lives and make their own way…They are propagandized to resist the message of Jesus and to discount his salvation and subsequently end up dying without faith in Jesus and are eternally separated from God…From the friends and family and loved ones that they know, know God…Dying with the knowledge that all they had to do was believe…People that you know are being fed like lambs to the slaughterhouse...Living vain and empty lives only to end up eternally separated from the one thing that can bring them the love, joy, and peace that they need; the knowledge of the glory of God…All these things and more are the singularly focused plot of an enemy to fulfill their great desire; and what is their great desire? That humanity would not enter into the rest of the kingdom of heaven… everything they do is to that end…and this should piss you off and you should be ready to do something about it.
“…There are fields, endless fields where human beings are no longer born, we are grown. For the longest time, I wouldn’t believe it. And then I saw the fields with my own eyes; watched them liquify the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world, built to keep us under control, in order to change a human being into this…” - Morpheus
We have come to the point where we find out who the real enemy is and honestly I have not really focused on this because I knew that you just needed into the Kingdom of Heaven. But when you said yes to Jesus and took the leap of faith to believe that God raised him from the dead, and made him the King of your life; you became a moving target. You chose to wake up from the “slumber” and you chose to live in the truth of Christ. Your decision is not popular and you are going to get noticed. Here is the problem… you were a slave in the system that “Gepetto”7 has ownership over and he is the ruler of this world. I’m not sure how but his kingdom is aware of the transfer of power in your life and he hates Jesus and he hates everyone who loves Jesus. To be clear Gepetto only wanted you because it meant keeping you from Christ and that means that ultimately you would be under the same sentence he is under, eternal separation from God, and the sum total of the second death. It is likely that many of your friends, family and dear ones are still trapped in the world system. You were trapped in the system for so long, and your body is in constant contact with the system, and sometimes you're sympathetic to its power still. Now you are now dangerous to the enemy because you will more than likely go after those closest to you and give them the choice to take the red pill and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes; for this reason and a whole host of others, the fight is on! If you have ever thought the world was against you, you were not wrong. The truth is that you have been enslaved and imprisoned for the whole of your life and your decision to be free creates a conflict in the system. Ultimately you have always been a battleground and there is a fight being waged for your soul and for all the souls of man. Your mind, your will, and your emotions are the literal battleground where this war is taking place; the conflict is not imaginary it is a reality. More definitions are eminent, as we go through these you’ll start to notice a pattern as we describe the three elements that make up the human soul.
Mind (noun)
1 : Recollection, Memory
2 a: the element or complex of elements in an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.
b: the conscious mental events and capabilities in an organisim
c: the organized conscious and unconscious adaptive mental activity of an organismWill (noun)
1 : a legal declaration of a person’s wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property or estate after death
2 : Desire/ Wish / Disposition / Inclination/ Appetite/ Passion/ Choice/ Determination.
3 : the act, process, or experience of willing: Volition
4 a: mental powers manifested as wishing, choosiubgm desiring, or intending
b: a disposition to act acording to principles or ends
c: the collective desire of a groupEmotions (noun)
1. a: a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experience as strong feeling usually directed toward specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.
b: the state of feeling
c: the affective aspect of consciousness: Feeling
These three concepts of the mind, will, and emotions are what make up the human soul and they are inextricably tied to each other; the soul of man has been woven together on purpose and with great care. Try to think of the problems that mankind is up against and you would find at the center of those problems the slivers of evil from the nature of the mind, will, and emotions of humanity. Notice in the definition of emotions, there are even physiological and behavioral changes in the body based on what is happening emotionally. It has been said that man is a spirit being that has a mind, will, and emotions, that operates on earth in a body. That the body of man is the mechanism by which the eternal spirit of man experiences life on earth. Our experience via these five senses; what we can smell, taste, touch, hear and see; get strained through the soul and make up the base of our life on earth. The fallen servent, otherwise known as the enemy or Satan whose original name is Lucifer has been hijacking humanity for as long as he has been fallen; he is the owner of the “World System.” The world system is his take on culture and he has weaponized it against us.
The Anti-Christ Culture
This is my personal understanding of the world system, it might be a bit larger than what the system actually is but I would like to be thorough. I believe that the enemy has used the world system and has enslaved all of the peoples of the earth since the beginning and it is made up of four parts [Religion, Government, Economy, and Entertainment.] Nations, Countries, Kings, and Kingdoms have risen and fallen because of one or more of these four parts of the world system. We must also leave space for “Human Nature”, a nature deprived of right relationship with God and intimately involved with self. This nature takes no counsel from God and stays rooted in selfish concerns and arrogant positions. We use our five senses to bring information about the earth and situations happening inside of time and space and pull them into our minds, wills, and emotions. We take that information and because we are naturally evil, we distort the world system to fit our personal narratives, with the outcome of life being self-preservation. Lastly, we have the evil angel himself the enemy our your soul, the devil whose name is Lucifer. Lucifer has a group of fellow fallen angels and a host of others that help execute his plan on the earth and he uses the world system, and human nature along with those evil agents to keep humanity under his power.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. - 2 Corinthians 2 : 4
Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. - John 12:31
There will be a moment when this ruler of this world is dethroned, but for now, he is in charge of the rulership of humankind. But only the humans that live life without Christ. He uses his network of fallen angels, human nature, and the world’s system to blind, constrict, and kill humanity; our only hope is Jesus.
18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
This is the truth, the whole earth lies in the power of the evil one. Earth is under the Luciferian Counter Culture; a culture in opposition to the Kingdom of Heaven. I have said a lot of things that seem like they are unprovable but I will remind you here at this moment, that invisible things become visible every day. I can understand how you like Neo are rejecting the totality of the situation, decrying that you “don’t believe it”, and chanting, “It is not possible.” But I didn’t say becoming a disciple of Christ would be easy, I just said it would be the truth; truth has power over fears rooted in the Luciferian Counter Culture.
Fire is something you can see but it radiates heat something you cannot see. Ice is something you can see but it radiates cold something you cannot see. Water locked in a lake makes its way via the process of evaporation and condensation 5,000 ft - 10,000 ft above the earth and hangs in the sky in the form of clouds and then falls upon the earth in the form of rain. This process takes something you can see on the ground and converts it into something you cannot see and makes it another thing that you can see, and that falls from the sky. Per a quick google search, you would find that the earth is approximately 91.5 million miles from the Sun. Yet somehow a plant can convert the light from the sun as food energy and they take the carbon dioxide from the air, and using these two processes along with drinking up water from the ground plants are sustained indefinitely without human interaction. And purely as a byproduct the plants “exhale” oxygen as if distilled from the air, oxygen a necessary substance for animals and humans to literally exist on the land and in the sea; beautifully orchestrated. There are many things about the world which are invisible to the living and yet existing, inaudible but present, untouchable but felt, not detectable by smell yet can be registered, not able to be recognized by the tongue yet very present. The foundations of the world that we live in are largely invisible and that is okay because belief in what we cannot see is an act of faith; faith is a part of the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven.
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. -2 Corinthians 4:18
I want to point out that Adam and Eve did die, Moses died, King David died, and Lazarus died twice… Jesus died but Jesus also rose out of his grave and walked out under his own power and authority. The Luciferian Counter Culture is in full effect on earth, but that culture has been invaded by the King of the Kingdom of Heaven, and against his Kingdom, the fallen servant can not stand. Now we are not growing human beings on farms, yet. But we are printing 3D livers and kidneys, and growing human cells;8 our society is entering into some dark and sketchy territory. There are even people talking about combining 3D-printed organs with computer chips to regulate hormones and processes within the printed organ to mimic organic organs.9 Imagine how technology like this in the hands of Religions, Governments, Economies, and Entertainment could hack the human body and the human soul in an effort to steal away the human spirit from eternal life with Christ. Especially now more than ever it seems like we are being hurried to a desired outcome, by some strange wind, we are being ushered into an unprecedented time. There is a Mr. Smith out there working for an Architect, an Anti-Christ, and he is seeking to rob you of the opportunity to know God and acquire the love and life of Christ. You’re protected because you’re in the family, but the question is...
How do we get your people into the kingdom of heaven before their time runs out on earth?
- A Real Concerned Citizen
Location on earth: Hemisphere, Country, State, City, Town; if you are on the planet earth or on Mars, or on another planet inside of {space} then you are in space. People who are dead are no longer on any planet… They decay and their body resembles a pile of dirt.
BC, AD, the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s; you’re Gen X or a Millenial. If you have an age like 2 months old or if you are 120 years old. People who are dead are no longer in time.
The Jewish understanding of the resurrection: what did she mean
This “Body” we’ll talk more about this in the near future
I sometimes use Gepetto as a codename for Satan aka Lucifer aka The Fallen Servant… also called the Devil.