I am always making mistakes.
I do believe those who go with the Lord have a conscious spirit and as I Pet.3:18-20
Every man has a LIVING SOUL.
Once a LIVING SOUL has been in a body,
And DEPARTS out of the body (when the body becomes physically dead)
That LIVING SOUL, is still living, whether (TODAY) WITH God in Heaven, or WITHOUT GOD in Hell.
clearly shows us God can make alive those spirits who were disobedient.
Those "spirits", are LIVING SOULS.
Spirit is God. Life is God. Souls have life, because they have Gods Breath in them,
(Whether or not the Living soul is in the body)
As David declared if he can make his bed in Sheol God is there, It sounds like something is going on down under or where ever spirit that a disobedient are?
Everyone has been disobedient.
Disobedience does not DETERMINE, who is and who is not saved.
It is BELIEF in the Word of God, that DETERMINES who is and who is not saved.
Even men WHO ARE saved, at times are disobedient.
David, Believed, but was at times disobedient. Same with other Believing and Faithful men....Moses, Jacob, etc.
Living Men have to deal with the worldly consequences of their disobedience.
Yet that does not minimize their Belief and Faithfulness, or Saving, or being WITH the Lord, that the Lord has bless them to be WITH Him forever.
David was an OT man. When OT men physically died. Their Living Soul went to hell.
IN HELL was a division.
One side of comfort, paradise, where the Tree of Life, moved from the Garden, to Hell. Was present, sustaining, the Faithful.
The Other side of hell was torment, complete separation from God, the tree of Life, and comfort.
NT men, or otherwise, Living souls of men, whose bodies have died....
Who believe in the Word of God, now such living souls, go directly to God, where the Tree of Life, is now, and sustains them.
Those who did/do not believe in the Word of God,
Still go to hell, separated from Gods Word, which IS their torment.
Men's Living souls of believers, NO LONGER, must go to hell and WAIT. Their WAIT is over.
Their WAITING in hell, was WAITING for HE who is FIRST IN ALL THINGS. He whose is FIRST, is The Word of God, ie named Jesus.
When Jesus' body was dead and buried in a cave.
"HIS" living soul went to Hell. Preached to those in "PRISON". Ie the SAVED LIVING SOULS, who could not LEAVE Hell (ie inprisioned), UNTIL Jesus Living soul LEFT.
Those believing Living Souls, the Tree of Life, all went to Heaven, and Now WAIT THERE, in Paradise. They are now WAITING for the Day the Son of Man descends from Heaven to the Clouds, and CALLS his Church to Him, to glorifies their body's, and impart their saved living souls, and quickened spirits, into their body's, that their conversion is complete, and they can now SEE their Lord, as HE IS.
When all is accomplished ON the Earth, and darkness is OVERCOME, ON the Earth, then shall Christ's Kingdom be revealed, and the Tree of Life, present IN HIS Kingdom, along with ALL WHO believed and became converted.
I believe God is omnipresent and where ever God is something amazing is happening
God is everywhere. But he is not seen.
Even today, IN HELL, the living souls of men, who rejected Him, such souls have Life from God IN THOSE SOULS, but they are separated from God. They are separated from the Tree of Life. Life will be departed from their souls, and return to God. Their body's and souls destroyed, and remembered no more.
Ps 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. KJV
Yes God is everywhere. But that is not the same as God is WITH everyone, because He is not WITH, those WHO rejected Him during their OWN lifetime, when their OWN life, was ALIVE, in their OWN BLOOD, which is the LIFE of the Body.
"Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls were saved by water." (I Pet.3:18-20).
Jesus IS the Word of God.
Christ IS the Power of God.
A man, in his own natural Life (which is His blood) WHO believes IN, (his natural hearts thoughts) IN the WORD of God, shall be saved, and Forever with the Word of God, and sustained in life, BY the Word of God, fed by the Tree of Life, ie the WORD of God forever.
Yes, Noah and His family WERE SAVED, from destruction upon the earth.
The Earth was "CLEANSED" with WATER, in the same way, men were Cleansed being baptized in water......the earth, and the men....waiting for the Cleansing with Jesus' PURE BLOOD.
As in the day of Noah, so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man.
Noah was risen UP above the face of the Water, while the Water was cleansing, destroying things on the Earth.
When the Son of Man, descends from Heaven, UP to the clouds, Above the earth, He shall call HIS CHURCH, body's of men, who in their own blood life, trusted to Believe in the Word of God.
They shall have their body's glorified, BY He who IS LIGHT, and BE ABOVE the earth, while the earth is "PURIFIED" with FIRE.
Just as men who rejected the WORD of God, shall forever have their body's and soul's PURIFIED with Fire.
God Bless,
SBC