The Real Meaning of Life

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I’m not smart, and I am certainly not an expert and have all the answers about the Bible. I’m new at all of this, not a theologian or had any such training, nor am I a pastor. So when I read scripture, I tried to see the goodness of God so I can share it.

In fact, I once enrolled in an online course called Amazing Disciples, thinking it was a course studying the twelve disciples, and it turned out to be training you how to become a disciple and share the gospel. So, what I’m about to say comes from the impression the Lord gives me and not from some Divine knowledge I have. I’m certainly not a prophet like Isaiah.

It is my impression from scripture, that when Christ comes back, He will resurrect the saved from their sleep, and along with the living saved, will take us (I hope I’m included in “us”) back to Heaven for a thousand years. Those living that are not saved will perish, my belief is that is will be because of the brightness of God’s Glory that they will not be able to withstand. During that thousand years, Satan will be bound and cast into a pit where he will be totally miserable because he no longer has anyone to tempt, no one to draw away from the Lord, no one to torment.

While we’re in Heaven, God will be creating a New Jerusalem and at the end of the thousand years, we will descend from Heaven, settling in Israel. The revelator John describes the new City in detail. And it is at that time that the wicked who still sleep in their graves will be resurrected and there will be a war as they’ll realized they have been deceived by Satan, and they will try to gain entry into the New Jerusalem at which they will not be successful. They will not be successful and will also perish by “fire”, the same “fire” that cleanses the earth and makes it new again, the same “fire” that I believe to be the Glory of God.

That’s what I believe.

That’s what I’ve gotten from New Testament scripture.

And if you’re not totally disgusted with me, think I’m a nut because that is the furthest thing from which you’ve be taught, and if you’re still with me, let me continue.

I get the impression from Isaiah 2, that the first section of the chapter is prophesy of that event.

“2Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning [a]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.”

To me, this is the closest thing to any event in the Bible that I can connect it to. But then again, a lot of Isaiah is symbolic. All I can do is pray for understanding and go by what the Lord has impressed upon me.

Many believe that “Armageddon” will be WW3, or a nuclear war, or something like that that will destroy the earth and mankind. To me, it is the final war, but it’s the war between the wicked who are still of this earth and the righteous who are living in the New Jerusalem.

No, the wicked are not already in hell as there is no hell. No, God doesn’t destroy them by fire; God loves them, mourns for them, laments that Satan was successful at drawing them away so they weren’t prepared for the Glory. They have destroyed themselves, turning their backs from God. And the New Jerusalem and all of it’s inhabitants will glow from the Glory of God. In fact, the Glow will likely be so bright that the wicked may not be able to cast their eyes on it.

I pray you and I are able.