NEW HEAVENS & NEW EARTH

Yeshua came first as Servant, and was slain that we might be redeemed by the blood He shed for us. He is now in the heavenlies, and is fulfilling the role of our High Priest, offering the incense of our prayers before the Father. Very soon, however, He will transition into the role of Judge, then finally, He will reign as King. All who have believed upon Yeshua will stand before Him in the heavenlies at the Bema throne, per Romans 14:10, I Corinthians 3:11-15, etc. For this to happen, we must be taken to His heavenly throne found in Revelation 4. We believe this transport occurs at two intervals, which we refer to as the First Fruits Wheat Harvest Rapture, (transporting overcomers prior to the onset of Tribulation), and the Ingathering Wheat Harvest Rapture, (catching up those who are ALIVE and REMAIN, per I Thessalonians 4:17, near the end of Tribulation). At the conclusion of this judgment in the heavenlies, Yeshua returns to Earth to gather the nations and hold the goats and sheep judgment of those who had not yet believed upon Him. We find this event in Matthew 25:31-46. He separates this group into two groups, whom He refers to as goats and sheep. The goats are placed on His left and destined to a place of fire, while those who are called sheep are placed on His right and allowed into the kingdom prepared for them by God. What is meant here by this hellhole on the "left" and this kingdom on the "right"? We hope to answer that soon, but first we will put some background in place.

The word "mystery" appears 27 times in the New Testament alone. God has hidden much in the depths of His Word to us, and challenges His Kings to search out the matter per Proverbs 25:2. I don't know that I qualify as a "King" in His eyes, but I aspire to be counted as such, and I do love a good mystery! So, I'm searching out the matter - line upon line, and precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little per Isaiah 28:10. I'm finding that our Bible has many coded words buried within its depths - codes and keys which most of corporate Christendom has chosen to ignore, possibly to their own peril. A number of scripts have been written within this Christian belief structure, which are called denominational doctrines. The various denominations have all learned well how to circumnavigate the intricate Biblical wording that should raise alarming questions regarding their teachings. Only recently, some small pockets of the faith are beginning to awaken to the need to expand their horizons to include these troubling references in the Word they hold as the source of their ultimate authority. As a result, the whole picture is beginning to emerge for them!

Man has likely searched every square inch of Earth, yet nobody has ever been able to find the flaming sword of the Cherubim who were posted to guard the entrance at the east end of the Garden of Eden. Is paradise in a duplicate solar system in a different dimension? When Adam fell and he was evicted from the Garden, was he in essence evicted from the dimension of paradise to a different dimension where other earths reside? It appears that God has created "portals" which connect these different dimensions. Some would refer to them as wormholes, but we rather feel that portals are God's natural connectors, and wormholes are unnatural openings in the dimensional fabric, caused by fallen angels, etc. Did Noah's Ark cross a dimensional divide? Genesis 7:23 says that every living SUBSTANCE was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, yet the dove produced an olive leaf. Could the world where Noah's Ark came from have been destroyed, and he was sent to this one which had also been flooded, but not entirely destroyed by the flood? There are some interesting factors that indicate that this may indeed be the case.

The Bible mentions multiple worlds and heavens. It appears that in His intricate patterning method, our God created multiples of much of creation. There is a theory which I believe may have some merit, that this world we know as Earth was designed by Him to depict the layout of the cosmos, making key locations here point to heavenly bodies which correlate to those locations. Within our dual tree creation concept, we may find that this theory locks right into place. All that we have here in this present Tree 2 world called Earth may represent a whole galaxy of existence in the Tree 1 version.

Page 59 of a book called Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg tells of seven earths in God's creation, separate from the Paradise of Eden where Adam was formed to till the ground. When Adam fell, he was evicted from this Paradise, and sent to Erez. The seven earths are described, as well as how the interactions of man with these earths occurred. Note that they are all called "earths". Likewise when the Bible refers to "earth", it does not necessarily mean the Earth upon which we now reside.

For quick reference, you will see below an temized illustration which lists these seven earths.

1. EREZ - This is the lowest of the earths, dark & void. When Adam fell from Paradise, he was sent here. He was terrified of the utter darkness. All that could be seen was the sword of light held by the Cherubim which pierced the black darkness.
2. ADAMAH - When Adam repented, he was sent to Adamah, where there was some light and plant growth among thorns. Here Adam bore Cain, Abel, and Seth.
3. ARKA - This was the perpetual domain for the Cainites. When Cain killed Abel, he was sent to Erez. He too repented, and was allowed to go to Arka.
4. GE - This was the location where those who built the Tower of Babel and their descendants were now located. It is not far from Gehenna - close to the flaming fire.
5. NESHIA - This is the land of dwarfs who have no noses and breathe through two holes. They have no memory.
6. ZIAH - Handsome men live here in abundant wealth. These are men of steadfast faith, but they need water. They visit earth on occasion to feast upon our water and food.
7. TEBEL - This is the earth we know, where we now reside.

Genesis 3:23 states:

Ginzberg tells us that when Adam was first expelled from the garden that he was sent to Erez, which is number 1) on our illustration. We see here that it was the lowest of the earths, dark and void, and Adam was terrified of the utter darkness. All that could be seen from his placement there was the sword of light held by the Cherubim which pierced the black darkness. This may actually be the location our Bible calls Outer Darkness.

Then we see on number 2) of this illustration that when Adam repented, he was sent to Adamah where there was some light and plant growth among thorns. Here Adam bore Cain, Abel, and Seth. Genesis 4:13-16 reads:

The first reference which the translators deemed to be "earth" here is actually "Adamah" in the Hebrew. The second is "eretz", a different Hebrew word with a number of potential meanings. One of these meanings is "wilderness" which has definite implications of interdimensional space. Thus we see that he may be saying that God has driven him out from the face of Adamah and he fears that he is destined to be a fugitive and vagabond in the wilderness of interdimensional space where those who find him will kill him. Now a question begs to be asked. If Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel (now dead) were the only four people in existence, exactly who was it that Cain thought might kill him? It appears that indeed there were other people, probably in other realms of existence who interacted in Adamah, making their presence known.

Ginzberg indicates that Cain was first sent to Erez as was Adam. It may actually be in Erez where this plea to God was expressed by Cain. Then he too repented and was then sent to Arka, number 3) on our illustration. It is said to be the perpetual domain for the Cainites (as differentiated from the Canaanites).

Continuing on with the consequences of those who built the tower of Babel in Genesis 11:8-9, we will highlight the text with some alternative meanings for the Hebrew wording of the original text. Here we find:

Ginzberg indicates that when the Lord lifted His hand upon the Babel perpetrators, He drove them into Ge, which is number 4) on our illustration. It is a realm close to the flames of Gehenna. Per other segments of this book, you will find that we acknowledge the reality of a place called Gehenna where the worm doesn't die and the fire isn't quenched. It is spoken of in both the Old and New Testaments. It is very real, and within our cosmos spectrum, the realm of Ge is apparently very close to the flames of Gehenna.

There are three more spheres which Ginzberg discusses. Neshiah is number 5) on our illustration, and is a land of dwarfs who have no noses and breathe through two holes. They have no memory. This sounds strikingly like the image we call to mind when we picture the gray extra terrestrial beings so prevalent today.

He then speaks of Ziah, number 6) on our illustration, where the handsome men live in abundant wealth. They are men of steadfast faith, but they have need of water. They visit Earth at times just to feast upon our food and water. This would align to those of the Nordic ET persuasion.

Tebel (our Earth) is the final domain, number 7) on our illustration, and it is where we now reside. Is it possible that it was the domain where the Reptilians primarily resided, and still do reside?

Likewise, the book Messiah Volume 3 by Avi Ben Mordechai speaks of 7 worlds, and The Secrets of Enoch tells of 10 heavens.

We do not yet have a firm grip on our understanding of multiple dimensions, but it seems that there were gulfs and/or veils established by God to separate these dimensions so that it would be impossible for any life form (spirit or embodied) to go from one to another without God's specific consent or arrangement, just as in the instance of Lazarus and the Rich man (in hell), with a gulf fixed between them so neither could pass over to the other side. Part of this consent and/or arrangement appears to be the allowance of the fallen angels to create "wormholes" in the veil. We must understand, however, that even such wormholes are allowed by God in His strict timetable for the ultimate purpose of the total fulfillment of His prophetic plans. It is possible that the Bermuda Triangle is one of these wormholes, whereby inanimate objects, and even people are pulled through the wormhole into another dimension, possibly never to return to this one until the Lord straightens it all out one day!

We may even have a Biblical example of this dimensional shift when we read of the story of Lot. If the demented beings which demanded that the angels be given over to them had been blinded in the sense we know it today, they would have been concerned that they could no longer see at all. However, they were solely focused upon trying to find the door which had suddenly vanished from their sight and their groping hands. Could God have lifted Lot's entire home into a parallel universe momentarily to provide for their escape, and then back into this one? It would seem to be a viable explanation as to why these men could suddenly not find Lot's door and their escape was so easily accomplished.

An internet story I received recently told of a trip of two women traveling through some supposedly stormy conditions. They were listening to the radio and it said that the road they were traveling on, going into the town they were entering, was closed to traffic due to the snow and ice. Yet they were on the road and it was totally clear of any precipitation whatsoever, and there was little to no traffic on this road. The radio reports told of all the accidents on the road, and the inclement conditions which had caused the road closure. Were they smoothly and effortlessly transported by God without their knowledge into a parallel version of Earth where this very same road existed but the climactic conditions were different, then sent back into this one without them ever knowing when it occurred? What other explanation could there be?

We read in the Word about the Bottomless Pit. Is it possible that this is not a place underground in Earth, but rather, a pit in the fabric of dimensionality where God has trapped the entities of evil that will be released in Revelation 17:8?

Leviathan and Behemoth are discussed in The Book of Enoch LX:7-8: "7) ... two monsters (were) parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of waters. 8) But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied a waste wilderness named Duidain on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up ...."

We see here that when the righteous die they are taken back to the garden (Eden - Paradise), just as Lazarus was taken to Paradise. Then there is a wilderness on the EAST side of the garden where Behemoth dwells. Per our previous studies, wilderness can have an interdimensional aspect, indicating that Behemoth may dwell in a dimension near Eden.

It is likely that these two beasts are central to the Tree 2 mirror image of Tree 1. Genesis 4:16 says that Cain was sent to the east of Eden. Then Genesis 3:24 says that when God drove man out of Eden, "He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life." The word "way" here may mean "the portal which leads to" or "means to get to" as we find in many other Biblical references.

Here we see that the Tree of Life remained in the garden of Paradise after man was evicted. The Cherubim were put at the east end of the garden because man was cast out to the East of Eden. Could the East of Eden be WHERE the multiple dimensionalities are found?

What does the Bible mean by the word "beyond"? In Acts 7:43 we find that as a chastisement God says He will send some who have offended Him to a place that is "beyond Babylon". Now if Babylon is a key or code word to describe our current earthly system, just what might this mean? Can the implication be that He will send them beyond or "further than" even the dimensional space of this world into yet another, as He did to Adam when He evicted him from Paradise?

There are references in both the Old and New Testaments to the phrase "beyond Jordan". Could some of these passages which speak of "beyond Jordan" be alluding to veiled references of the catching up of the First Fruits Bride to another dimension?

Recently writers have been referring to a concept known as "zero point". In an interview with Leading Edge Newspaper, zero point advocate Gregg Braden indicates that the magnetic field of Earth fluctuates over time and is now in a rapid state of decline. It seems that the high end of the scale was reached about 2000 years ago - (just about the time Yeshua was here), and it is now at the other end of the spectrum. At some point just prior to the bottoming out of the fluctuation, (or so the concept concludes) a pole shift must occur. He stresses that this does not mean that Earth will flip up side down, but rather that the magnetic poles of Earth will rotate 180 degrees. Others, such as remote viewer Ed Dames, who also portend this shift in our magnetic field, have cited catastrophic global climactic effects such as winds which exceed 200 miles per hour for days, earthquakes, tidal waves, etc. Many people would perish in this type of an event. Mr. Braden does not speculate on those effects, but instead focuses upon the emotional effects of the change. He stipulates that our memory patterns, sense of time, and immune systems are all heavily impacted by the magnetic field of our planet. Right now we are troubled by those events of our past, we feel that time is speeding up and we can't keep up, and our immune systems are being "taxed to the max". Is it possible that once this change has occurred, we will return to a state of calm mind, peace with time and nature, and good healthy immune systems once again? New Age refers to this time as the Age of Aquarius. However, the Bible seems to point to these same characteristics during the Millennial Kingdom. The speculation follows that this would be the transition to a new age in a fifth dimensional existence. Could the timing for this event find us back in the Garden of Eden for the Millennial reign of Christ? When we look at the conditions of that time frame, they are much akin to that which we would imagine the Garden of Eden to have been! It is speculated that the transition could take a period of time to be accomplished. Possibly seven years or so? If the transition is to BEGIN with the pole shift and the horrific events spelled out in Revelation, could it culminate in the new dimension of Paradise or Garden of Eden for the Millennial reign of Christ? Could this be the birthing of a new age? If so, could some event trigger this pole shift?

Sumerian records refer to a 12th planet. Included in that number are the nine planets we know today and the sun and the moon, plus one additional celestial body which they called Nibiru which means "planet of the crossing". Today we know it as Planet X, the X being the symbol of the crossing. It seems, according to Sumerian writings, that it not only crossed the path of our planet, but that in one visit it made contact with our planet in a very unpleasant manner, knocking a chunk out of planet Earth, and unleashing violent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami activity, and changes in our climate.

There is some controversy over whether or not Planet X is real and could be a threat again. To address this question, we look first to NASA. As long ago as 1982 they made a public acknowledgment that indeed there was "some kind of mystery object ... far beyond the outermost planets". The following year a man who was an IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) scientist from Jet Propulsion Laboratory spoke to the staff of the Washington Post. He acknowledged the existence of the planet and also confirmed the projected time frame for its next visit. He indicated that the probable reason why the public had not been formally notified was the potential for panic over unavoidable circumstances. The Vatican Observatory is even one of the many observatories which have verified the existence of this planet.

If the speculations regarding Planet X are invalid, then maybe life will go on for a bit longer as we know it now. However, if this is so, then the New York Times, the Washington Post, NASA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have all been deceived, and even the IRAS space satellite has been sending back pictures of something that really wasn't there.

The other possibility is that there is something there, but that it is really harmless to us. We can hope for that, but the Word of God Himself indicates that such things are scheduled at some time to happen. We will just have to see if the set time is come.

We will soon know, for if it is a threat to planet Earth, it will become increasingly obvious. As it draws nearer, our climactic changes will be alarming. Even a near brush will cause upheaval of the electromagnetic field of Earth as it is comes into the near proximity of this gigantic heavenly body. Though unprecedented damage could occur from the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves which will be happening globally, somehow the fear generated by these events will probable be almost secondary to the traumatic and pervasive phenomena which mankind has never witnessed before. The consequences of the increasing approach would be tremendous atmospheric changes with drastic temperature fluctuations, tumultuous noise, horrific storms with intense winds, and lightning bolts flashing from this planet to our own, unlike anything we have ever witnessed.

It is times like these that Luke seems to be referring to in 21:25-28 when he said:

The previous verses, beginning with verse 8 tell of the events that lead up to this time. They read much like today's headlines. Among them are wars and commotions, nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, fearful sights and great signs from heaven, persecutions, families betraying their loved ones, and Jerusalem compassed about with armies. It seems that this event is the culmination of these signs, and it is interesting that Luke inextricably links it with our "redemption". Keep this in mind as we will touch on it again just a bit later.

The Indians are fascinated by the four elements of nature, these being water, wind, earth, and fire. Four is the number of creation. Is it possible that each of these represent the conclusion of an earth age? Maybe we could say, "Two down and two to go!"

1. You see, God first judged mankind with destruction by water, i.e. the flood in the days of Noah. Maybe at this point in time, Noah's Ark transcended the veil and went from Adamah to Tebel. But maybe this wasn't God's only judgment so far!
2. We note that Rabbinical references indicate that a hot wind destroyed the tower of Babel. Josephus concurs, as well as the Talmud and the Epic of Gilgamesh, where this wind is cited as being a world wide hurricane wind of sorts, and it is said that this wind ended an age and started a new age. Maybe at this time, most of mankind remained in Tebel, but those who had built the tower were exiled to Ge, where they and their descendants would be confined.
3. Maybe we are about to see the upheaval of Earth as the very integrity of her electromagnetic field is jeopardized by the approach of Planet X.
4. Then later in II Peter we see that Earth is consumed in yet another judgment at the end of the Millennial Age but this time it occurs by fire.

Now let's look back to our list of occurrences just prior to this event in the Luke 21 passage. We are definitely in a period of wars and commotions (or as Matthew puts it - rumors of wars). We also see that formal nations are in conflict with one another now, as well as ruling factions which do not have the formal designations of nations, but rather possibly kingdoms, such as the PLO and various other Arabic constituencies, as well as uprisings by many other non national entities in numerous locations worldwide. In past months, the number of earthquakes on a global scale has been mind-boggling, and reports of famines and pestilences continue to plague headline news.

It seems that God has also designed harbingers in the sky for our observation. On March 23, 1997 fearful sights and great signs from heaven took on a whole new meaning. It was the third blood red moon in about a year. The first of these three red moons occurred on Passover, then the second one followed six months later on the eve of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, and the third occurred During Purim. This in itself would have been enough, but there was yet another sign. On its very closest pass by Earth ever, making it the most easily seen that it would ever be to our generation, comet Hale-Bopp was seen in the same night sky that Purim night, accentuated by the blood red moon over Israel. Since that time, the signs continue to proliferate. There are so many, that it becomes hard to follow all of them, and one tends to shrug them off as nothing, but they are important. I truly believe that these events were the beginning of God's wake up call. We must never grow cynical toward the signs that He so carefully engineers to alert us to the nearness of the onset of Tribulation and the catching up of His Bride!

Just prior to what might be the upheaval of Earth due to Planet X, there appears to be a time of intense persecution in Israel when even family members will hand over their loved ones to save themselves. It is at this time that Jerusalem will be encompassed by armies. We saw this occur in our generation also, when the Nazi armies tore the heart out of the Jewish people, and this generation has not passed. There are still holocaust survivors alive today. All of these incidents have already occurred in our lifetime. There may, however, be a reoccurrence of this last horror soon as the Arabic forces surround Israel and apply a tourniquet squeeze upon her. She is already surrounded by their hostile forces, and the Middle East cauldron is about to boil over.

At this juncture, we need to recall that the forces which are involved in these wars may not all be earthly ones. Isaiah speaks of a heavenly army of sorts in 13:3-5 which reads:

This is in conjunction with a day when verse 10 tells us:

He then continues:

A few chapters later in Isaiah 24:20, He speaks of Earth reeling to and fro like a drunkard, and BEING REMOVED!

Do you recall the childhood story of Chicken Little exclaiming that "the sky is falling"? What mind would have conceived this type of story, or possibly what EVENT would have triggered the creation of this tale? A writing by the name of Kalevala tells of us of a time gone by when THE SUN AND MOON BOTH DISAPPEARED for a time due to the upheaval of the cosmos, resulting in the dropping of the atmosphere to the ground. At this time, many of humanity expired. Could the sky at one time have fallen in one part of our globe, a shadow of things to come when the judgment of God via Earth changes will once again cause this type of chaos, but on a much broader and more horrific worldwide scale? Note that the sun and moon disappeared for a time during this "falling of the sky". In the latter fulfillment of the previous shadow will God literally cause Earth to revolt against her inhabitants, bringing about earthquakes which will literally "vomit up" those who have so flagrantly turned their backs on the ways of God? In Leviticus 18:28 we see that this is possible. Will this devastation once again be coupled with the disappearance of the sun and the moon for a time?

Psalm 68:8 even relates about a time when:

Not too much is mentioned in the Exodus passage of chapter 19, but it is possible this is the time frame for this Psalm 68 event. In Exodus we find the people below mount Sinai when the presence of the Lord came down, and the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder. In verses 18 and 19 of this chapter, the people were so terrified that they pleaded with Moses not to let God talk directly to them lest they be killed. It was a time of glory mixed with a time of awe and fear.

As we develop the concept of God's judgment through the use of Earth changes to begin another new age, it is noteworthy that some cultures refer to the use of the term "suns" as being synonymous with the term "ages". It is said that after each worldwide judgment, another sun ruled. I have learned that there is usually a degree of validity to these old fables. It is just that we do not understand them in the proper perspective to accept their reality. When we are able to adjust our scope just a bit, we can usually get a much clearer focus. Could it be that there are different suns in the different dimensional settings of heavens and earths - i.e. new heavens and new earths, virtually identical, but with subtle changes in the intricacies of these multiple creations? Let's expand upon this concept just a bit.

Let's consider for a moment that Revelation 1:20 says that the seven stars are angels. Likewise, Jude speaks of the fallen angels who are chained under darkness unto the judgment of the great day in verse 6, whom he refers to as stars in verse 13. Our planets are often called wandering stars. Even Yeshua was called the bright morning star. Our star of the morning is what we know as the sun. There is much significance to this correlation.

I have always been intrigued by Malachi 4:2. It states:

Here it speaks of Yeshua as the SUN of righteousness - not the SON of righteousness. What could be meant by this? Could it be indicating that the Son is as the new Sun for the Millennial age? Indeed Revelation 21:23 says that the new Jerusalem of the Eternal Kingdom has no need of the sun, for the glory of God lightens it, and the LAMB IS THE LIGHT THEREOF. Thus we see that His light will also be sufficient for the Millennial reign as the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The stars have fallen and the hosts of heaven are no longer there. Instead we have a new sun, the light of Yeshua the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS in the new dimension of the Millennial Reign.

Isaiah 65:17 says:

The time frame for this appears to be during the Millennial reign. Remember now, that we said that the memory is integrated with the magnetic field of our planet. Maybe the portion of the memory that recalls all the bad aspects of this world will be gone when we enter the new dimension of the Millennial reign. This new heavens and new earth of the Millennial Kingdom will be drastically different than what we know today. Geographically and structurally I believe that it will be virtually identical to all that exists here today, only maybe on a somewhat larger scale. Yeshua will then proceed to complete His judgment, cleanse the temple mount, and construct the temple for His reign.

Then at the end of chapter 66 we find that everyone is to come to Jerusalem where Yeshua reigns and worship before Him. As they are coming to worship him, they will:

Verse 24 speaks of a place where the worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched. We know from the New Testament passage of Mark 9:43-48 that this is the hell hole referred to as Gehenna in the Greek (as opposed to other references to hell which are "hades" in the Greek). When we spoke of the goats and sheep judgment, we mentioned the goats being sent to the hell hole at the "left", and the sheep being allowed to enter the kingdom to the "right". Is it possible that these places are in two different dimensions, and that those who are in Paradise can see into the next wherein Gehenna burns, just as Lazarus could see into the hell where the rich man resided, and the rich man could see Lazarus? I believe that Gehenna will burn within this dimension. It is the valley of slaughter where the carcasses of many of those who have grieved God will be cast. In the physical layout of Jerusalem, Gehenna lies very near the Temple Mount and the Mount of Olives. Again, this may fit well with our blueprint of the cosmos concept.

The word study helps listed below apply to this passage. We read in Ezekiel 26:20:

• bring thee down (Strongs #3381 - "yarad" - means "cast down" "to the boundary")
• descend (Strongs #3381 - "yarad" - means "cast down" "to the boundary")
• pit (Strongs #953 - "bowr" - means "pit", "dungeon", "prison")
• people (Strongs #5971 - "am" - means "group of people" from Strongs #6004 - "amam" - means "dim, hide, [and per Zodhiates - losing brightness to lose the glowing shining feature of gold, hard, difficult for someone to solve]")
• of old time (Strongs #5769 - "olam" - means "concealed", "from the vanishing point", "from the beginning of time and the world")
• the low parts (Strongs #8482 - "tachtiy" - means "depths", "nether part")
• of the earth (Strongs #776 - "eritz" - can mean "wilderness"),
• places desolate (Strongs #2723 - "chorbah" - means "decayed place", "desolation", "destruction", "waste")
• of old (Strongs #5769 - "olam" - means "concealed", "from the vanishing point", "from the beginning of time and the world")
• go down (Strongs #3381 - "yarad" - means "cast down" "to the boundary")
• pit (Strongs #953 - "bowr" - means "pit", "dungeon", "prison")
• inhabited (Strongs #3427 - "yashab" - means - "settle", "marry", "keep house")
• set - (Strongs #5414 "nathan" - means "heal", "deliver up")
• glory - (Strongs #6643 - means "splendor", "beautiful", "pleasant")

It looks as though "eretz" here means "wilderneses" as we discussed earlier. It is possible that the "pit" is actually a chasm in the fabric of dimensionality where God will imprison entities of evil for a time, and may be the abode we know as Gehenna, which is a place of waste and destruction, a type of garbage dump where things are consumed in flames.

Allow me to paraphrase now, substituting some of the other appropriate Hebrew definitions for the words found in the original text. It could be saying: "When I shall cast thee down to the bottom with those being cast down into the dungeon, with the ones who have lost their shining (though difficult to be understood), who are from the beginning of time and the world, and shall put them in the depths or nether parts of the wilderness into decayed places of desolation, waste, and destruction, concealed from the beginning of time and the world, with those who are cast down to the dungeon, that thou not be able to marry, settle, and set up housekeeping in the land of the living, THEN I will heal and deliver up those who retained their splendor, beauty, and pleasantness into the LAND OF THE LIVING."

Here we have the goats being sent to Gehenna (the Pit), or "Land of the Dead" on the one side of the divide, and the worthy elect being taken to the Millennial Kingdom or "Land of the Living" on the other.

In Isaiah 14:15-20 God promises Lucifer that he will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. He says that he will be looked upon (probably when men look down upon the carcasses in Gehenna), and those who see him will say: "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?".

Cain and Abel both offered sacrifices, but Abel's was sufficient and Cain's was not. Abel's acceptable sacrifice represented life, as it foreshadowed the blood shed by Christ. Cain's offering contained no blood, and represented the manner in which man would try to present his works as an offering in replacement of the blood of Christ. Our works are to be a sacrifice unto God, but in CONJUNCTION WITH the blood of Christ. In fact, if we do not live for Christ, we may be seen as trampling under foot the blood by which we were sanctified, and we may lose the atonement for our souls which was offered through His blood (Hebrews 10:26-31). We are told in Romans 12:1 to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God. It is stressed here that to do so is considered to be our REASONABLE SERVICE to God. The following verse tells us how to accomplish this. We are to be sure we do not become conformed to the world, but we must be TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MINDS. Thus we are conformed to His image, and will be an ACCEPTABLE LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, unto Him. If we fail to do so, we might find that our sacrifice falls short of God's expectation - into the unacceptable range as did Cain's sacrifice. Only after our minds are fully renewed will we be allowed to eat from the Tree of Life.

In The Book of Enoch XXV:4-5 we read of the Tree of Life: "4) And as for this fragrant tree, no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgment, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. 5) Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King."

This great judgment would be the White Throne Judgment to determine who can enter into the Father's Kingdom and who will be cast into the Lake of Fire for consummation for ever (which means to the end of the age) - that being the Father's Kingdom Age). Ultimately this Tree of Life will be transplanted into the holy place, the Temple of the Lord, the Eternal King, ABOVE the final Divide for eternity.

I believe that all of this is firmly charted on a timetable of God's choosing. It was built into the master plan of the ages, and the very nature He created will be responsible for a majority of the activity to come. It was perfectly timed to the most minute detail in order to assure that it would unfold without flaw. But where are we on that timetable.

The heavens foretell the catching up of the Bride, and they have given us some marvelous indications that it is about time for her translation and the judgment of Earth. Regarding this timing, Helen Steiner Rice writes the following:

God's heavens are dotted with uncounted jewels,
For joy without measure is one of God's rules
His hand is so generous, His heart is so great,
He comes not too soon, and He comes not too late.

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