BIBLE VERSES TO PONDER
(Part 3 of 3)

MILLENNIAL KINGDOM / ETERNAL KINGDOM

We see in this verse that the Son turns the kingdom over to the Father after His work is done, and ALL THINGS have been subdued and made subject to His rule. If we have chosen to rebel against Him, we WILL be made right BY Him in Gehenna in order to be made subject TO HIM. Then shall the Son take His proper place in God's governmental order of Heaven so God may once again be all in all, or one unified Godhead.

The primary Book of Life that is opened here is the Father's Book of Life and relates to the Father's Kingdom, which follows the Millennial Kingdom of the Son. This book reveals whether or not the SPIRIT was ever saved by grace. No name can ever be erased from this book, as we have repeatedly seen that the salvation of the SPIRIT is SECURED upon our initial belief. If our name appears here, we are ASSURED of entrance to the Father's Eternal Kingdom. However, verse 12 mentions that BOOKS were opened. Among these would almost certainly be the Book of Life of the Son that recorded the sanctification process of the SOUL. We might note here that the sea gave up it's dead, as did death and hell. Again we note THREE separate entities, each giving up their dead. If the "White Throne Judgment Seat" is JUST for the non believers, why wouldn't it just say that hell gives up it's dead to be judged? The word "hell" in this Revelation passage is Hades in the Greek. This would be the place of torment for those who had previously died without the saving grace of the Father to redeem their spirits. The word "death" here would likely refer to those who were in Gehenna and had been deemed "dead" at the Bema judgment Seat as it relates to the body and/or the soul. After death and hell give up their dead, they (death and hell without their inhabitants) are thrown into (made a part of) the Lake of Fire. Could this Lake of Fire be the "sea" referenced here? The dead from all three of these abodes will also be brought before the Father at the White Throne Judgment. If everyone who was brought before Him was to be thrown in the Lake of Fire, why wouldn't the Scripture have said, "and ALL were thrown into the Lake of Fire"? It is obvious by the wording of this passage, that SOME who appear before the Father WILL be found in HIS Book of Life, and exempted from the Lake of Fire. Those who never allowed the Father to save their spirit WILL be thrown into the Lake of Fire which is the second death. Those who enter the Father's Kingdom would be judged in accordance with their works per the other books which were open, telling of the history of their soul and body.

Notice that the spirits of this group are condemned to eternity in the Lake of Fire. They are characterized by the term "UNBELIEVING". They had never "believed" unto the salvation of the spirit, thus they were not found in the FATHER'S Book of Life, and would not be allowed into the Father's Kingdom.

The sea (Lake of Fire) seems to be linked here to the old Heaven and Earth. There will not be any such thing associated with the new Heaven and New Earth.

We see here the throne of "GOD AND OF THE LAMB". In the passage of the transfer of the kingdoms in I Corinthians 15:28 we read that this was accomplished "that God may be all in all". At this point, it appears that there is but one throne, and that the Trinity of the Godhead is once again consolidated to rule together at this time. We also see here that the servants of the Lamb shall serve Him and shall see His face. His name shall be in their foreheads as in Revelation 3:12, which applies STRICTLY to THOSE WHO HAVE OVERCOME. We do not see the promise of seeing His face for anyone who was not considered by Him to be His servant!

Here we find evidence that the LAMB'S Book of Life would have been one of the books which were opened at the White Throne Judgment Seat. We see in verses 25-26 that the gates of the New Jerusalem will be open at all times, but here we see that some who are in the Eternal Kingdom will not be allowed to go through them. In other text of Revelation we find the parallel between the Bride of Christ and the New Jerusalem. We see also that God is present in New Jerusalem. Here we need to differentiate between the Wife and the Bride. In Biblical terms, the Wife is one who is betrothed. It takes a decree of divorce to do away with one who is betrothed, even if the wedding is never consummated. This is what Joseph thought to do with Mary when he found her to be with child. He "was minded to put her away privily" (or divorce her). Though they were only betrothed at this point, she was legally his "wife". One can be a Wife eternally, and never be a Bride, as one can only become a Bride through intimate consummation of marriage. Though the consummation of the Bride with Yeshua should not be contemplated or equated on a sexual level as we know consummation to be in our earthly plane of existence, some type of intimate interaction may occur exclusively with the Bride. It is probable that many will never have this intimacy with the Lamb, because they never developed an intimate relationship with Him here when they had the chance. He will accept them as Wife, but not as Bride. Again, we should mention that the HEAVENLY tabernacle will be patterned after the Tabernacle/Temples of the Old Testament. A study of the format of these Old Testament Tabernacle/Temples is extremely interesting. They consisted of three compartments; the Holy of Holies, the Inner Court, and the Outer Court. We find that the glory of God is located in the Holy of Holies. A high standard of Holiness was required for presence in the Holy of Holies. It is probable that only those who never had to endure Gehenna in order to become fit for the Eternal Kingdom will be allowed in the Holy of Holies portion of the Heavenly Tabernacle, which would be the city of New Jerusalem itself, where the Lamb resides. Revelation 19: 8 indicates that our garments will be the "righteousness of the saints". Certainly those who have produced the holy righteousness of the fruit of the Spirit while they walked the earth will be of a finer and fancier appearance than those who had not. Those with this special style of gown will be blessed to become the Bride and will abide WITH Him in a mansion within this holy city, as they were willing to abide IN Him when they were here. Only the high priests were able to enter this portion of the Tabernacle/Temples in the Old Testament, and we find in Hosea 4:6, (which relates also to the "church") that those who have rejected God's knowledge will be rejected, that they shall NOT be PRIESTS to Him. They will not be able to be with Him in the Holy of Holies, because they have rejected the knowledge that would enable them to abide with Him when they had the chance. Surrounding the city would be the Inner Court of the Tabernacle, where those who had finally been purified in Outer Darkness without having to lose their garments (souls) would be able to go. These garments would be plain but white. The purification process they endured in Outer Darkness will whiten their gowns, but they will have no evidence of the holy righteousness of the fruit of the Spirit because their purification was not accomplished through yielding WHILE THEY WALKED THE EARTH. Thus, they would be able to look into the city of New Jerusalem, but unable to enter into it. Those who were only counted as "His citizens" in Luke 19:14, and were never "His servants" would have endured Gehenna, where their soul would have been destroyed (per Matthew 10:28). They would no longer have any garments, and would be naked in their eternal home (Revelation 16:15). They would be restricted to the Outer Court of the Tabernacle, and could not even see into the holy city of New Jerusalem. Indeed some drawings of the Tabernacle show the Leper's quarters to be in the Outer Court.

We see here that those who were unjust (their spirits were never justified by the Father through Belief) will remain unjustified, as they endure the Lake of Fire. Those who were filthy will be seen as filthy still. They endured Gehenna, where their sins were atoned, and they were able to enter the Father's Kingdom, but they will always be SEEN as filthy because they will be naked, having lost their soul (garment) in Gehenna. They will be limited to quarters in the Outer Court of the Tabernacle. Those who were righteous will be seen as righteous still. They will have endured Outer Darkness, where they came to terms with God, and the leprosy in their garments was cleansed unto a form of righteousness, and they have white garments throughout the Father's Kingdom. Their new-found righteousness will be seen in their garments, and they will be able to live in the Inner Court of the Heavenly Tabernacle, but unable to enter the gates into the holy city of the Holy of Holies. Those who were seen as holy will be seen as holy still. Their adorned gowns will give them access to the holy city of the New Jerusalem, (the Holy of Holies of the Heavenly Tabernacle).

CHALLENGE TO ABIDE

Anytime we find "He that has ears to hear, let him hear", we need to take heed!!! Yeshua is desperately trying to get us to open our spiritual ears to His deeper spiritual truth. We need to see that the salt here is the "Believer". Upon our initial Belief, we become salt. This occurs through the circumcision of the spirit, and we are to continue to grow in Christ, retaining our savor, and using it to season the world around us, sharing with them the life we find in our Lord. If, however, we choose to live in our own self-will, we lose the savor we had upon our Belief, and we become useless to God. In this condition, we cannot help the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom (the land), but we are not yet in bad enough condition for Gehenna (the dunghill was associated with the Valley of Hinnom, i.e. Gehenna), but only for Outer Darkness (where men are cast out).

We are cautioned here to live life in such a manner that we will receive full reward. Evidence of the proper lifestyle to achieve this end is TEMPERANCE in ALL things. We must bring your body into subjection of temperance so we will not lose our prize (GOOD reward) of the entrance to the Millennial Kingdom, even when we have tried to help others see the need to do so. All Believers are subject to being "castaway" when they stand before the Son, as Paul well understood. If HE felt in danger of such fate, how much more should we respect the danger and strive to achieve the temperance he spoke of here!

Here we see the various traits of the Fruit of the Spirit. The order of these traits seems to be somewhat progressive, ending with temperance. Indeed temperance appears to be the culmination of the sum total of these traits. Maybe that is why Paul so stressed it!

For the one who intently studies the "Kingdom of Heaven", it will become apparent that it is the Millennial Kingdom. Thus Yeshua, Himself says here that not everyone who refers to Him as Lord (who is a Believer) will enter this kingdom, but only those that DO the will of the Father. Many will complain that they have been Believers, and have spoken in His name, cast out devils, etc., but He will say He never KNEW them because they did NOT follow the intent of His Word, choosing instead to work iniquity. The term "knew" here implies intimacy. This was never developed in such a Believer, because they did NOT ABIDE IN HIM!. In the Greek, the term "iniquity" implies "not having, knowing, or acknowledging the law". When we serve "self" instead of "God", He sees us as workers of "iniquity".

Yeshua speaks here to Believers, as non Believers are not branches; (they have never been grafted in as branches of the Olive tree of God). Just as He abides in us through the Holy Spirit, we are to abide in Him by allowing the Holy Spirit to conform us! As we do so we bear the fruit OF the Spirit. If we choose to quench the Holy Spirit instead of yielding, we are seen as NOT abiding in Christ, and we cannot bear the fruit of the Spirit, so we are withered, cast off, and thrown into the fire and burned in Gehenna!!!

No condemnation lies ahead for the one which is ABIDING IN Christ; i.e. the one who walks in accordance to the direction of the Holy Spirit rather than after the things of the flesh or the world. Thus the law (mandate of God) of abiding in Christ by the direction of the Holy Spirit in conformity to Christ Yeshua frees us from the law of death of the soul due to the sin of transgression. The Old Testament indicates two types of covenants between God and man. One was conditional and the other was not. They were shadows of the covenant relationship He would have with the "church". The covenant relationship with God to our spirit is UNCONDITIONAL, but His covenant relationship to our body and soul IS CONDITIONAL. That is why Yeshua said in Matthew 5:17 that He came not "to DESTROY THE LAW, or the "prophets:". He said that instead He had come "to FULFILL" THEM. We are not to ignore the law because we have received grace. Though we do not have to adhere to every letter of it, the Holy Spirit convicts our hearts as we fall into transgression of it, and we need to make adjustment to embrace it. Indeed it is our direction manual towards achieving the CONDITIONAL salvation of the SOUL.

As we walk by the direction of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit within us, we find the intended fellowship with God and mankind, and we experience the continuous cleansing from our sin. As long as we walk the face of this Earth, we cannot be without fault and falling short of our intended purposes, but we are cleansed as we choose the power and direction of the Holy Spirit over our own self-will. When we realize our shortcomings and disobedience, we must confess them (which includes deciding to turn from them), and we will be continually cleansed from our unrighteousness, and seen as righteous in the eyes of God.

We are intended to reason together about the deeper truth of God as Paul did with the Bereans. As we do so we will begin to see the means by which we are to be "saved". It is interesting to note here that crimson is the color of old blood, while scarlet is the color of new blood. There seems to be significance to the double statement here. When we are brought into the fold of Believers, the blood of God permanently covers our spirit, and we are considered to be as wool. Hosea 2:9 assures us that Ysehua will "return ... and will recover my wool ...." (Accordingly, EVERY Believer must be taken into the heavenly realm by way of physical death or rapture to stand before the Bema Seat of Judgment PRIOR to the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom). As our spiritual walk progresses, this blood covering of the spirit develops the crimson tone, of blood previously applied. The dual reference to purification here, however, relates to the scarlet coloration. This would relate to the continuous application of blood to the door-posts of the heart (i.e. the soul). As this application is consistently new and fresh, the coloration retains a scarlet coloration. We are told in this verse that the scarlet coloration (the continuous application of blood to the soul) will make us white as snow. This white coloration applies to the garments (soul) as we find in Revelation 19:8 where the marriage of the Lamb is discussed. It is said there that her garments will be "clean and white". Thus we see the necessity of keeping the application of blood to the soul in current scarlet status, to be seen by God as white.

We see here confirmation that the one who covers his sins (trespasses) rather than confessing them will not prosper (receive the mercy of the Son at Bema), whereas the one who DOES confess (thus forsake) these trespasses SHALL receive the Son's mercy at this time.

This passage tells of A GENERATION (it is OUR GENERATION) that dishonors their parents, and are seen as being pure by THEIR standards. He warns us that they are seen as defiled in their filthiness by GOD'S STANDARDS! They are a perverse and unlawful generation.

We are to keep His commandments in order for our soul to be saved at Bema. Only if He sees it as undefiled, will we be allowed to KEEP IT. If it is seen as defiled, it will be severed from the spirit, and will die (be destroyed in Gehenna).

Those are deemed as blessed who keep His ways, and hear and follow instructions. They are seen as wise. They hear Him, and watch daily by conforming the gates of the mind (bringing every though into the obedience of Yeshua). They are seen as waiting at the posts of His doors (His doors are seen here to be the renewed spirit where He resides, and the portals of these doors is the door posts of the heart, i.e. the soul). We are seen as waiting in proper cut condition because these souls have been anointed by the shed blood of the Son as we are told to do. By finding HIS WAY, and renewing the soul to align with the new Spirit within us, we bring His life to the soul, and it is saved at Bema instead of being severed off and destroyed in Gehenna. By walking in HIM, we obtain his favor (mercy), and are spared. HOWEVER, the one that sinned against HIM by walking in self-will has wronged his own soul, and has chosen death of the soul in Gehenna over His life of the soul that could have been granted to him at Bema.

Wisdom is of the Lord, and we are cautioned here to obtain it. If we ignore the wisdom He $offers us, and have scorn towards GOD'S TOTAL TRUTH as it is revealed in His Word, we alone will bear the penalty for it!

We do not want to fail to see the vision of His total Truth for us, and His will for our lives. Those who fail to see it will lose their souls at Bema. However, the one who sees His total Truth, and thus keeps His law, is happy and has abundant life (both in this world and in the kingdoms that follow it)!

Now we should note that the rest for the Believer is the Millennial Kingdom which correlates to the seventh day (the Sabbath) in eschatology. Therefore, we are to exhort (challenge) one another daily to prepare ourselves to be found in proper condition to be allowed into this kingdom. We must do so while we are still here and can still improve our walk with Christ. If we do not work on our walk, we see here that we can be hardened through the deceit of sin. We are admonished again that we must LABOR at our alignment with Christ in order to enter into this kingdom!

We are told here to BUY (purchase) TRUTH, WISDOM, INSTRUCTION and UNDERSTANDING, and never to SELL it. How do we purchase it? We do so by embracing it and allowing it to become a part of our life. Selling it, on the other hand would be to reject it, and put Self-will back into the position of authority in our life. Please note, that we can purchase these things, THEN SELL THEM. We are cautioned FIRST to PURCHASE them, then to be sure we KEEP THEM (i.e. CONTINUE to APPLY them as authority over our self-will)!

We should take an inward look unto our souls in order to prevent the loss of our works through the fire at Bema; so we might receive the full reward which is to be given to the one who WALKS BY THE SPIRIT WITHIN HIM. Believers who have transgressed against God and chosen NOT to ABIDE IN HIM and HIS DOCTRINE (i.e. total Truth) are seen at the Bema seat as being without God. Their souls are not bonded to the Holy Spirit within them in alignment with God's will. Therefore, they do not show the works OF GOD, the manifestation of Christ through their souls, and have not embraced and applied the blood of the Son who died for them. However, the one whose soul is seen as white and undefiled is 'Seen to have not only the Father (which we are joined to upon our initial Belief), but ALSO THE SON, as we are seen to be in his image, and under His conformity!

Though Mark 12:30 tells us that we must "LOVE the Lord thy God with all thy heart (spirit), and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength (body)", we see here that we are to WORSHIP Him with our renewed SPIRIT, in accordance with the total TRUTH of His Word. In fact worshipping Him with our soul appears to be seen as an abomination of sorts to God. Hosea 9:4 says that Ephraim "shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto Him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul SHALL NOT COME INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD"! Now the TRIBE of Ephraim is one of the twelve tribes of Judah, and is physically Hebrew. However, it was predominantly descendants of Ephraim who mixed their blood with the Gentile nations, and this mixed offspring has formed the primary populace of the "church" today. Thus we find the HOUSE of Ephraim, as differentiated from the TRIBE of Ephraim. It is often taught today that the HOUSE of Ephraim is Israel, but this is a confusion between the TRIBE and the HOUSE. The word "house" in the original Hebrew carries the connotation of "family and temple". It is a group of people which God sees as being united under a particular "spiritual" banner. Please note that Hosea 5:5 lists the houses of Ephraim, Israel, and Judah as three separate and exclusive entities. The HOUSE of Ephraim is spiritually significant as today's "CHURCH" in some portions of Scripture. The spirit can embrace God with love and adoration without "feeling" or showing excessive emotion. Emotion is closely related to the soul, rather than to the spirit, and can create a false sense of a softened heart and closeness to God while the inner heart actually remains hardened, and the attitude after the "emotion" wears off will remain unchanged. It seems that these "emotional swings" can actually create an even harder inner heart through allowing a "false sense of security" in the Believer's appraisal of the nearness in his relationship with God! We MUST be aware that the seat of human emotions is the most easily manipulated part of our being, and is often the entry gate for deceptive spiritual interaction! Because much of the so-called "worship" today is "experiential" and produces arousal of the emotions of the soul, we need to consider this text carefully. The wine offering that this passage says Ephraim WON'T make is the treading down of the soul (self-will) of the Believer to produce fruit of the vine (wine) in accordance with the Truth of God's Word and the renewed spirit within. Instead they will offer the unacceptable bread of the enraptured experiential soulical worship which will NOT be in accordance with the acceptable guidelines of God's total Truth. This passage further cautions that those who participate in such soulical forms of worship will be seen as polluted, the worship they offer will be rejected, and they will be exempted from the house (family/temple) of the Lord (presumably until such pollution is purified in Outer Darkness or Gehenna). May we all seriously consider the form of worship in which we participate, whether it would arouse the soulical emotion (experiential in nature), or whether it stems from the fruit of the Spirit, being of a TEMPERATE nature, flowing from the renewed spirit in accordance with God's total Truth. Some "churches" (and those who worship within them) which claim to be "ALIVE" because of the emotional feeling that comes over them may be Sardisian in nature (Revelation 3:1), and found to be "DEAD" in the eyes of God. Then others which are thought to be "DEAD" due to their temperate style of worship may be very much "ALIVE" from HIS perspective! Those whom Yeshua sees as dead in Revelation 3 are told to repent and watch or He will come upon them as a thief. Only a few of these people of Sardisian nature will repent and be found with undefiled garments of white per verse 4.

"Faith" as is used in Scripture is a much misunderstood term. It is often equated with "belief". It is true that in some references, they are virtually equal, but in others "faith" continues far beyond the point where "belief" ends. "Belief" indicates taking something to heart in such a way that it makes a difference in the life of the person. This is the entirety of "belief", but only the first phase of "faith". Throughout Romans we find that we are sanctified and justified by "faith". If "faith" here was merely "belief", why would James tell us that without works it was DEAD? Thus we see the complexity of faith. Maybe Ephesians 2:8 will shed some light. Here we find that we are saved by grace THROUGH FAITH. We learned that grace (being different from mercy) redeemed or saved our spirit as a free gift upon our initial "belief". However, we realize that salvation of the SOUL occurs through the yielded walk as we "abide in Christ"! If the extension of the meaning of "FAITH" is the YIELDED WALK of the Believer, we could also see in Romans 2:8 the salvation of the SOUL THROUGH FAITH (i.e. such a WALK). Thus the spirit is saved BY GRACE, and the soul is saved THROUGH FAITH (the yielded walk of the Believer). Now we can understand James 2:26 a bit better. We see that AS IT RELATES TO THE SOUL, faith (initial "belief") without works (the walk) is dead (of no merit). Maybe that is why Paul was able to say in II Timothy 4:7 just before he died, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Perhaps that is also why the Lord Himself questioned in Luke 18:8 whether He would even "find faith on the earth" when He returns. A word study of the word "faith" will present some remarkable proof that it only begins with "belief". We should note that one of the aspects of the fruit of the Spirit is "faith". Obviously this cannot be limited to "belief", as our "belief" came before we received the Holy Spirit, thus we could not yet have begun to develop His fruit. We should remember that I Peter 1:69 spoke of the trials of faith which would produce unspeakable joy and full glory, receiving the END of your faith, even the SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS. Thus we see that the end of "faith" is the completion of the yielded walk of the Believer which achieves the salvation of the soul.

The passage of this context refers to fornication. We see throughout God's Word that fornication can be spiritual. We receive God as our HUSBAND through betrothal when we first "believe" and the Holy Spirit circumcises our heart. We should note here that the one who commits fornication will be delivered in the name of and through the power of Yeshua unto SATAN for the destruction of the FLESH that the SPIRIT will be salvaged in the day of redemption. We learned that the Holy Spirit has sealed the spirit of the Believer (wife) unto the day of redemption, but it must be in proper condition to enter the Eternal Kingdom. The spirit of such a backslider may have to be severed from the soul and flesh, and the offending soul and flesh destroyed in Gehenna in order for the spirit to be seen as pure (longer attached or bound to leprosy that could not be cleansed). Remember that the spirit must be pure when it enters the Father's Kingdom, because the Father cannot be in the presence of any form of sin.

When we yield to the wisdom of God, we shall be glorified in the Millennial and Eternal Kingdoms, but if we reject His wisdom, we are considered to be fools, and we will suffer much shame.

If one Believer helps draw another Believer out of a backsliden condition back into the ABIDING life, we see that the Believer who extended the helping hand saved his fellow Believer's soul from death, and has put away a great many sins of trespass by doing so.

The righteous fruit of the Spirit when it is manifested through a Believer is a tree of abundant life. Thus the one that helps a fellow Believer achieve such a life is seen as a winner of souls and is wise.

The House of Israel here may encompass ALL of the "elect", Hebrew and Gentile alike. Again, House means family/temple, a spiritual banner which covers a people. Some of the prophets split this family tree down into Ephraim, Israel, and Judah, and others included all under the banner of the House of Israel. The context should always be considered. However, the probability that this includes the "church" should cause us to take heed to the potential that failure to warn of the coming judgment could put our soul in jeopardy. Ezekiel is ONLY assured of the deliverance of his soul if he is found faithful to warn his fellow "elect" of the judgment ahead. Our duty is before us!

We are forewarned to take seriously what the Word of God tells us. Whereas all else is tentative, the total Truth He gave us in His Word is eternal. We must be sure to hear it, rightly divide it (II Timothy 2:15), and embrace it fully.

The Greek for the word "quickly" used here means indicates "suddenly" and "without delay". When He chooses to send for his Bride to meet Him in the air, it will be immediate, and to many it will be unexpected. He will not delay further, regardless of who is ready and who is not. He will simply take home the ones who ARE READY, and for the rest, it will be too late. We will be rewarded (positively OR negatively) according to our work (the condition of our soul). our bodies (vessels) are filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit per Matthew 24:4, and our souls are seen as undefiled, we will be rewarded by being taken home to avoid the Tribulation Period to be unleashed upon the earth. If we are NOT filled and undefiled, we will be rewarded with the penalty of having to remain behind to endure this terrible period of time. Which of us will be ready?

Elsewhere we are told to be sober and alert to the signs of the times. We are NOT to ignore them. Surely they are being fulfilled NOW before our very eyes. There is nothing to my knowledge that would prevent His IMMEDIATE return. We are admonished here to WATCH (i.e. be aware of the lateness of the prophetic hour), and to pray always (i.e. without ceasing as we find in I Thessalonians 5:17, which is accomplished through ABIDING IN HIM). By doing these two things, we will be found worthy to: 1) escape the Tribulation to come upon the Earth in the rapture (salvation of the body), and receive MERCY when we stand before the Son at Bema (salvation of the soul). Shouldn't we be about this process?