PAST AND FUTURE
I am eternally grateful to God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ for giving me a clear insight about the past and about the future without which I can not make any sensible plans for the present. Thank you Jesus.
But first, thank you God the Father for taking care of me and my wife and my children. Above all, thank you God for giving me a loving mother who has never stopped caring for us with great love. She followed your example. And I am looking forward to meeting her when Jesus returns. I want to meet her, Jesus, and Jesus' Father, with Your permission. Thank you. Today I want to write a little bit about the past and about the future. Why is knowing the past and the future so important?
Because the decision that we make today is based on the knowledge about all of our past experiences and what we know about the future that we have learned from Him, what Jesus had told us.
And what do we know about the past and the future? It’s all written in the Bible. All we have to do is to read the Bible very carefully.
We know that Jesus’ Father evicted Adam and Eve from their home because they disobeyed Him. That’s how it all began. They lost eternal life. They could no longer eat the fruit from the tree of life and live forever. The story about the Garden of Eden ends there, but the misconception about eternal life continues until today, and beyond, until Jesus returns. God the Father knew that He had to send a human being, His Son, with His genes to convince the world what it must do to get eternal life, peacefully. But the world is not ready for His message, and they killed Him by mistake. Jesus was killed by mistake in a conflict between the Jews and the Gentiles.
Ever since Jesus died on the cross, the Gentiles have celebrated Jesus' death each year because they believe that Jesus' death had paid the sins of Adam and Eve. And that they now can regain eternal life that Adam and Eve had lost. Have they? That was the nonsense of the past.
Now we go to the future when Jesus returns. Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23.
Why did Jesus deny these men and women of great faith admission to the kingdom of heaven? Did Jesus not die on the cross to pay for their sins? Nonsense! Jesus can die a dozen times or more, but if refuse to do the will of Jesus’ Father, if we refuse to do the will of Yahweh, we will be denied admission to heaven again when He returns, just like what happened to Adam and Eve. He will not save us. How do I know that? Look at Adam and Eve. They disobeyed Jesus’ Father. God took salvation away from them for good. These men and women of great faith in Matthew 7:21-23 did the same thing, they did not do the will of Jesus’ Father, and Jesus denied them admission to heaven. Do we know who Jesus' Father is? Do we know what the will of Jesus' Father is? Jesus will forgive the sins of those who do not know what they are doing, like those who hang Him on the cross. They have profited nothing from His death, nothing. How can the world believe that Jesus had died to pay for our sin when He did not? We will have to pay for our sins. In Matthew 5:29-30 Jesus said, "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell."
But first, thank you God the Father for taking care of me and my wife and my children. Above all, thank you God for giving me a loving mother who has never stopped caring for us with great love. She followed your example. And I am looking forward to meeting her when Jesus returns. I want to meet her, Jesus, and Jesus' Father, with Your permission. Thank you. Today I want to write a little bit about the past and about the future. Why is knowing the past and the future so important?
Because the decision that we make today is based on the knowledge about all of our past experiences and what we know about the future that we have learned from Him, what Jesus had told us.
And what do we know about the past and the future? It’s all written in the Bible. All we have to do is to read the Bible very carefully.
We know that Jesus’ Father evicted Adam and Eve from their home because they disobeyed Him. That’s how it all began. They lost eternal life. They could no longer eat the fruit from the tree of life and live forever. The story about the Garden of Eden ends there, but the misconception about eternal life continues until today, and beyond, until Jesus returns. God the Father knew that He had to send a human being, His Son, with His genes to convince the world what it must do to get eternal life, peacefully. But the world is not ready for His message, and they killed Him by mistake. Jesus was killed by mistake in a conflict between the Jews and the Gentiles.
Ever since Jesus died on the cross, the Gentiles have celebrated Jesus' death each year because they believe that Jesus' death had paid the sins of Adam and Eve. And that they now can regain eternal life that Adam and Eve had lost. Have they? That was the nonsense of the past.
Now we go to the future when Jesus returns. Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23.
Why did Jesus deny these men and women of great faith admission to the kingdom of heaven? Did Jesus not die on the cross to pay for their sins? Nonsense! Jesus can die a dozen times or more, but if refuse to do the will of Jesus’ Father, if we refuse to do the will of Yahweh, we will be denied admission to heaven again when He returns, just like what happened to Adam and Eve. He will not save us. How do I know that? Look at Adam and Eve. They disobeyed Jesus’ Father. God took salvation away from them for good. These men and women of great faith in Matthew 7:21-23 did the same thing, they did not do the will of Jesus’ Father, and Jesus denied them admission to heaven. Do we know who Jesus' Father is? Do we know what the will of Jesus' Father is? Jesus will forgive the sins of those who do not know what they are doing, like those who hang Him on the cross. They have profited nothing from His death, nothing. How can the world believe that Jesus had died to pay for our sin when He did not? We will have to pay for our sins. In Matthew 5:29-30 Jesus said, "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell."
Satan will tell us this is an exaggeration or hyperbole. In Matthew 25:30 Jesus said, `And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'" In Matthew 23:33 Jesus said, "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
hkhoe@thexcommandments.com