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1- Love in pain

19 He comes to Hades putting on a cursed flesh

by aparke 2023. 12. 25.

1.      Cross

    The Second Person in the Trinity comes to Hades putting on the cursed flesh.

A.      The ground was cursed because of the 1st Adam's sin.

 God predetermined to complete creation[1] through the cross[2] and began creation.[3] The Second Person in the Trinity becomes a creature and takes the cross. God becomes a creature and inherits space-time. God becomes a creature and perfects the free will of creatures.

 The LORD Jesus comes as the Last Adam after the 1st Adam sinned. The LORD Jesus comes as an adam after the ground was cursed. The LORD Jesus puts on the cursed flesh and comes under the influence of sin. The LORD Jesus puts on the cursed flesh and keeps the commandments.[4] The LORD Jesus puts on the cursed flesh and overcomes sin and death.[5] The LORD Jesus becomes the example of overcoming sin and death for adam who puts on the cursed flesh.[6]

 It is the beginning of creation that God creates the very existence of creatures.[7] God gives free will to creatures[8] and perfects that free will.[9] It is the completion of creation that God annihilates the possibility to sin in creatures.[10] Until God annihilates sin in space-time[11], space-time are still imperfect.[12]

 

Gen.3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

   Because of adam's sin, the ground was cursed. Because of adam's sin, the body was cursed.[13] Thorns and thistles rise from the cursed ground. The lust of flesh rises from the cursed flesh.[14] If a person inherited the flesh of adam who sinned, even if he/she has never sinned, the lust of flesh rises from his/her flesh.[15]

   'The lust of flesh' and 'sin' are different things. The lust of flesh drives adam to sin.[16] But the lust of flesh itself is not sin. It became very difficult for adam not to sin because of the flesh in which the lust of flesh rises. Because it was cursed, adam's flesh would grow old and return to dust. Even if he/she does never sin in his/her life, adam's flesh grows old and returns to dust.

   The lust of flesh is not sin. However, adam cannot overcome the lust of flesh in his/her own strength.[17] Therefore, adam is bound to sin in the end because of his/her lust of flesh.[18] Adam is not born a sinner, but adam cannot avoid becoming a sinner because he/she himself/herself cannot overcome the lust of flesh.[19] Adam is not born a sinner, but when adam is born, he/she necessarily becomes a sinner.[20] Adam can overcome sin only by the help of God the Holy Spirit.[21]

   The wages of sin is death.[22] There is a 1st death and a 2nd death. The 1st death includes the being-forsaken death[23] and the earthen death.[24] The being-forsaken death is to be forsaken by God and to be cut off from God.[25] The earthen death is that the cursed flesh grows old and returns to dust. In other words, the 1st death is the death of being cut off from God because of sin.[26]

   Life is to be connected to God.[27] Eternal life is to be connected to God eternally.[28] When a creature is connected to God, it lives.[29] When a creature is connected to God forever, it lives forever.[30] The 1st death, the being-forsaken death, is the severing of this connection.[31] The 2nd death, the lake of fire, is the permanent severing of this connection. If we don't get out of the 1st death quickly[32], we will eventually enter the 2nd death.[33]

   The return of the cursed flesh to dust is also included in the 1st death. However, even though we wear flesh that will return to dust, if we receive the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the LORD Jesus, we are the living, not the dead.[34] We may suffer the earthen death[35], but not the being-forsaken death. We may suffer the earthen death, but not the 2nd death.[36]

   The 1st death includes the being-forsaken death and the earthen death. The 2nd death is the death of eternal abandonment.[37] Those whose sins are forgiven, may suffer the earthen death, but not the being-forsaken death. If we avoid the being-forsaken death, we can also avoid the eternal being-forsaken death.[38] If we avoid the 1st death, we can also avoid the 2nd death.[39] The 2nd death is the lake of fire which is being forever forsaken and being completely burned. If we stay in the forgiveness of our sins to the end[40], we can also avoid the lake of fire.[41]

   The ground, the flesh, is cursed. [①Thorns and thistles, the lust of flesh, came to rise from the flesh. ②The flesh came to grow old and return to dust.] If we wear the dust-flesh, we must suffer these 2 consequences as they are, even if we do not sin. The LORD Jesus also put on the same flesh as we put on.[42] Even in the flesh of the LORD Jesus, the lust of flesh arose. The flesh of the LORD Jesus was also growing old and returning to dust.[43] Therefore, the LORD Jesus can be our example.

   If the LORD Jesus had not put on the same flesh as we put on, the LORD Jesus could not have been an example for us to keep the commandments. If the LORD Jesus had not put on the same flesh as we put on, even though the LORD Jesus commanded us to keep the commandments, we would have doubts about His commands. It is different for the one who keeps the commandments to command us to keep them, and for the one who does not keep the commandments to command us to keep them. If we do not realize that the LORD Jesus is the one who keeps the commandments, we will not be able to obey the commands of the LORD Jesus willingly.

   The LORD Jesus was forsaken by God the Father in our place on the cross.[44] The LORD Jesus suffered the being-forsaken death and the earthen death on the cross. But even if the LORD Jesus had not died on the cross, the LORD Jesus would have had to suffer the earthen death someday. Because the LORD Jesus also put on the same flesh as we put on.[45] Of course, since the LORD Jesus was sinless, He would have been resurrected soon.[46]

   The word of God surely comes true. God's word that the flesh will return to dust, surely comes true. Moses whose strength was not gone, had to die at the age of 120.[47] The LORD Jesus also put on the same flesh as we put on. Even if the LORD Jesus had not died on the cross, the flesh of the LORD Jesus would also have to return to dust someday. Of course, since the LORD Jesus was sinless, He would have immediately been resurrected with a spiritual body.[48]

   Since the ground is cursed, thorns and thistles, the lust of flesh, rise from the flesh. Since the flesh is cursed, it ages and returns to dust. If the LORD Jesus had not put on the flesh in which the lust of flesh arose, we could not have been sure that the LORD Jesus was the one who keeps the commandments. If the LORD Jesus had commanded us to overcome sin even though He did not feel the temptation of sin, we would have doubted the command of the LORD Jesus. Because we are fighting fiercely against the temptation of sin.[49] But the LORD Jesus put on the same flesh as we put on and overcame sin and death.[50]

Gen.3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

   The meaning that life could only be sustained by the sweat of one's face, means that life could only be sustained by fighting a painful battle against sin. After sinning, humans came under the influence of sin.[51] After sinning, the lust of flesh constantly rose up in the human flesh.[52] Therefore, humans have to fight hard against the lust of flesh in order not to sin.[53]

   The fact remains the same that a creature cannot keep the commandments on its own strength either before it sins or after it has sinned.[54] The commandments of love are what we can keep, only when we receive grace from God who commanded us to keep them.[55] The commandments of love are what we can obey, only when we love God.[56] Only by God's grace can creatures submit to God's rule[57] and keep God's commandments.[58]

   Before he sinned, Adam could come to God without breaking a sweat.[59] After sinning, adam must weed out the thorns and thistles that come up from his/her cursed flesh so that he/she can bear the fruit of righteousness.[60] Therefore, after sinning, it became more difficult for adam to approach God.[61] The meaning that we can eat bread only by the sweat of our face, means that we have to fight fiercely against the lust of flesh to keep the seed of the word.[62] In order to overcome the lust of flesh, adam must constantly seek God's help.[63] To keep the commandments, adam must take up his/her cross daily and follow the LORD Jesus.[64]

   Those who wear the cursed flesh[65], that is, the body of death, will surely die once, even if their sins are forgiven.[66] Of course, there will be exceptional cases of transformation in the twinkling of an eye.[67] Those who wear the body of death, even if they have never sinned, must return to dust once. The Last Adam also put on the body of death just like us. Even the Last Adam, had He not died on the cross, He would have died in the end, though He would have resurrected soon, having conquered death.

   Those who receive the forgiveness of sins and keep the commandments, are guiltless.[68] If there is no sin, death has no dominion over him/her.[69] Thus he/she overcomes death and is resurrected.[70] He/She who submits to God the Holy Spirit, even though he/she has suffered the earthen death, he/she is alive.[71] He/She will come out to the resurrection of life.[72] Considering the case of Moses[73], it is probable that when the LORD Jesus put on the body of death, though He aged[74], but His strength was not gone.

Rev.21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.

Rev.21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

   [new heaven and new earth[75] = paradise[76] = 1000-year kingdom[77] = 7th 1000-year[78]]

   [new Jerusalem[79] = garden of Eden[80] = most holy place[81]]

   God says there will be no more death in the new heaven and new earth. This is because the free will of righteous creatures was perfected through the 1st resurrection. It is because the truthfulness of the commandments was proved by the appointed number of martyr witnesses who overcame death and were resurrected or transformed. However, there is Satan's delusion at the end of the 1000-year kingdom. The wicked who are deceived by Satan and attack new Jerusalem, will be burned by fire from heaven. At the end of the 1000-year kingdom, the wicked who are deceived by Satan, die. After that comes the great white throne judgment. The 2nd death still remains.[82] At that time, all criminals in space-time are thrown into the lake of fire. But the free will of righteous creatures has already been perfected. They don't die again.

Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

Rom.8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Rom.8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Rom.8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Is.65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.

Is.65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

Is.65:21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

Is.65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Is.65:23

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.

Is.65:24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Is.65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.

   Death entered the earth through Adam's sin.[83] Looking at the restored paradise, the 1000-year kingdom, before Adam sinned, creatures under Adam's rule would not have died either.[84] Adam, however, became a slave to sin[85] and was brought under death.[86] Because of his sin, Adam lost the limited temporary vicarious management proxy over the earth which was entrusted to him. Adam failed to keep the creatures entrusted to him. The vicarious management proxy over the earth was passed to Satan who is stronger than Adam.[87] Although they all are the same slaves of sin, Satan is stronger than adam. Adam himself/herself cannot overcome Satan unless he/she obeys God.[88]

   Satan now came to rule the earth under God's control.[89] The earth came under the rule of the jungle.[90] Since the ground was cursed, death would come to earthen creatures too.[91] When the appointed number of martyr witnesses is completed, the 1st resurrection takes place.[92] When the number of the firstfruits, the sons of God, is completed, the 1st resurrection takes place.[93] The LORD Jesus will come again and entrust dominion anew to the martyr witnesses.[94] The LORD Jesus will entrust dominion anew to the firstfruits, the sons of God, the royal priesthood.[95] The LORD Jesus will end the rule of the jungle and rule the 1000-year kingdom with the commandments of love.[96] In the 1000-year kingdom, that is, the new heaven and new earth, living creatures will not decay.

Gal.3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

   Adam sinned and suffered the 1st death.[97] If we stay under the 1st death, we will eventually suffer the 2nd death.[98] Adam also had to suffer the 2nd death, but the LORD Jesus suffered the 1st death instead of adam.[99] The Son took the curse that adam should have suffered in place of adam and was forsaken by God the Father in place of adam.[100] Adam received the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the Son and became able to escape the 2nd death.[101]

   The 1st death is to be cut off from God the Father.[102] The 2nd death is to be cut off from God the Father forever.[103] Only those who stay in the 1st death, will suffer the 2nd death. Those who are connected to God the Father, are freed from the 1st death. Therefore, they do not suffer the 2nd death. Adam who came under the 1st death, had to reach the 2nd death.[104] However, the Son suffered the 1st death in place of adam.[105] The Son was forsaken by God the Father in place of adam.[106] Therefore, adam, having received the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the Son, escapes the 1st death. Because adam, having received the forgiveness of sins, escapes the 1st death, he/she also escapes the 2nd death. But those who reject the Son[107], remain under the 1st death[108] and will eventually be thrown into the 2nd death.[109]

Gen.2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

   God already knew that Adam would die after eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.[110] The Second Person in the Trinity already predetermined to take the sins of the dead adam and be forsaken by the First Person in the Trinity in place of adam.[111] God already predetermined to complete creation through His cross.[112]

   God the Holy Spirit comes into the blood that the LORD Jesus shed.[113] By the power of God the Holy Spirit, adam keeps the commandments.[114] By the power of God the Holy Spirit, adam proves the truthfulness of the commandments.[115] By the power of God the Holy Spirit, adam escapes the 1st and the 2nd deaths.[116]

1Cor.15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1Cor.15:46 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

1Cor.15:47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

   The 1st Adam became a living soul.[117] The Last Adam is the One who came as the life-giving Spirit. The soul is in the blood of the body.[118] I don't know if the soul is made of dust. Since the beasts, the souls, also came from the earth[119], it is possible that adam's soul was also made of the earth. (There may be a view that the soul of the beast is not made of dust. There may also be a view that the beast also has a spirit.[120]) Adam is a soul. What adam thinks of as 'I', is adam's soul.[121] In other words, adam's free will is in adam's soul.[122] Adam's substance is adam's soul. If adam's soul was made of dust, then adam's substance would be dust.

   But in adam's body, there is not only adam's soul but also adam's spirit.[123] Since the free will is in adam's soul, adam's soul determines whether he/she will sin or not.[124] Adam's soul uses adam's body to sin, so adam's soul and body are thrown into the lake of fire.[125] There is a word that an angel who is a spirit[126] is thrown into the lake of fire[127], but there is no word that adam's spirit is thrown into the lake of fire. Adam's spirit is probably not involved in sin.[128] Then adam's spirit would not have adam's free will. Adam's soul may be dust, but adam's spirit is most likely not dust.

   The 1st Adam became a living soul. The Last Adam is the One who came as the life-giving Spirit. The 1st Adam was of the dust of the earth. The Last Adam is from heaven. Whether the soul is made of dust or not, the home of the 1st Adam is Hades. The home of the Last Adam is heaven. The 1st Adam was created in Hades. The Last Adam who was with the First Person in the Trinity[129], came into space-time through the Third Person in the Trinity.[130]

   In my opinion, each spirit seems to connect each soul to God. It seems that a soul is connected to God only when its spirit is activated. If so, a soul whose spirit has not been activated toward God would be a dead soul[131], and only a soul whose spirit has been activated toward God would be a living soul.

   Anyway, the Last Adam pours out the Spirit of God on the 1st adam who had become a dead soul, and makes the 1st adam a living soul.[132] This Spirit of God poured out by the Last Adam, is the word[133], the truth.[134]

Gen.1:24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures(nehfesh:soul) after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.

Gen.2:19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

   Beasts are made of the earth too. Since a beast has no free will to respond to the commandments, a beast has no concept of sin.[135] However, since the ground was cursed, beasts made of the ground were also brought under the rule of the jungle. Since the ground was cursed, beasts made of the ground also came to be returned to the ground.

Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

   Cursed is the ground, so that thorns and thistles come up from the flesh of the beasts too. The flesh of the beasts also came under the rule of the jungle. The ground and the earthen flesh, entrusted to adam, deviated from the rule of love and came under the rule of force. Adam who had ruled the earth with the commandments of love, fell, and the flesh made of the earth came under the influence of Satan who oppresses them with violence.[136]

Is.11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

Is.11:7 The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Is.11:8 The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

Is.11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

   In the 1000-year kingdom, beasts will also be restored to their original nature. It certainly does not mean that a beast will put on a spiritual body. But it will be delivered from the bondage of decay.[137] Because of adam's sin, the earth, the earthen flesh, was cursed to give forth thorns and thistles, the lust of flesh. Because of adam's sin, the flesh came to grow old and eventually return to dust.

   In the 1000-year kingdom, it is speculated that the earthen flesh will probably return to their state before being cursed. Just as thorns and thistles did not come up from the ground before the ground was cursed, so thorns and thistles will not come up from the ground of the 1000-year kingdom. From the flesh of the 1000-year kingdom, the lust of flesh will not rise. Just as the flesh did not return to dust before the ground was cursed, the flesh of the 1000-year kingdom will neither age nor decay nor return to dust.

   Since Satan fraudswarms are imprisoned in the abyss, there is no Satan's delusion in the 1000-year kingdom. There is no crime because there is no Satan's delusion. Since there is no crime, there is no curse for 1000 years.[138] Until Satan is briefly released at the end of the 1000 years, there will be a rule of love by the commandments. Beasts, too, will be freed from the rule of the jungle.[139]

Rom.6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Rom.6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

   The wages of sin is death. The death spoken of here refers to the 1st death, but even more so to the 2nd death. The opposite of eternal life is the 2nd death, the lake of fire.[140] If we continue to stay in a state of being cut off from God[141], we will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire and cut off from God forever.[142] However, those who repent are connected to the life of God.[143] Even if we have suffered the 1st death, those who repent will not suffer the 2nd death. Those who receive the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the LORD Jesus and receive God the Holy Spirit, will not suffer the 2nd death.[144] They live forever because they keep the commandments of love.[145]

Rom.8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Rom.8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom.8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Rom.8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Rom.8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Rom.8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom.8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Gal.5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

   Cursed is the ground, so that thorns and thistles grow out of it. The lust of flesh came to come up from the earth, from the flesh.[146] Thus, the flesh became the sinful flesh. The LORD Jesus inherited the sinful flesh from Mary. The LORD Jesus overcame sin and death in the sinful flesh.[147] We who are in the sinful flesh, can also overcome sin and death.

   This does not mean that adam is born with sin. It means that adam is born with the lust of flesh. Because the human body has already been cursed, even if we have never sinned in our lives, we will surely return to dust.[148] If we wear the cursed flesh, it's harder not to sin than if we don't wear it.[149] Because the lust of flesh rises from the flesh.[150]

   Even if there is no lust of flesh, a creature cannot keep the commandments in its own strength.[151] The commandments are kept by grace.[152] The commandments are kept by love.[153] The commandments are kept through God the Holy Spirit.[154] The LORD Jesus, the Word, also overcame sin and death[155] through the power of God the Holy Spirit.[156]

   The LORD Jesus was fully human. The LORD Jesus put on the same flesh as we put on and underwent the same temptations as we undergo.[157] The LORD Jesus overcame sin and death on the same conditions as we do. Therefore, we can be sure of the truthfulness of the commandments. We too can overcome sin and death by imitating the LORD Jesus.[158] The one who keeps the commandments, commands us to keep the commandments.[159] Therefore, we can trust the One who commands us to keep the commandments. We can willingly submit to the LORD Jesus.

   The LORD Jesus never sinned.[160] However, even in the flesh of the LORD Jesus, aging was going on.[161] Even if the LORD Jesus had not died on the cross, the LORD Jesus would have died someday. Of course, since the LORD Jesus did not sin, He would have been resurrected soon after.

   Death takes hold of sin.[162] If there is no sin, death cannot hold.[163] The LORD Jesus proved sinless by His resurrection.[164] Even though we wear the cursed flesh, if we obey God the Holy Spirit, we can overcome the lust of flesh.[165] If we overcome sin, we will not be held by death.[166] If we are not held by death, we will be resurrected or transformed into a spiritual body.[167] Death is also a creature.[168] But the LORD Jesus is God the Creator who is upholding even that death.[169]

   Death is the wages of sin.[170] We cannot die without sin. Without sin, a soul cannot be forsaken by God.[171] However, since the flesh has already been cursed, even if we do not sin, our flesh will return to dust. Sin and the lust of flesh are different things. The lust of flesh is not sin.[172] We are not a sinner since we were conceived. We are not a sinner from birth. Even though we have the lust of flesh, if we do not sin, our soul is not forsaken. The LORD Jesus was conceived with the same flesh like ours, but without sin. From the flesh of the LORD Jesus, the same lust of flesh as ours arose, but the LORD Jesus did not sin.[173]

   The LORD Jesus did not sin. He therefore could not die. Therefore, He was resurrected. By His resurrection, the LORD Jesus proved that He was without sin. The LORD Jesus proved that He had kept the commandments by being resurrected. The LORD Jesus proved the truthfulness of the commandments through His resurrection.

   The LORD Jesus suffered all the same temptations that we suffer. But the LORD Jesus did not sin. The LORD Jesus has no sin. It is impossible for the LORD Jesus to sin.[174] The LORD Jesus bore our sins on our behalf. The LORD Jesus took on the curse of our sins instead of us.[175] The LORD Jesus was forsaken by God the Father in place of us.[176]

   The sinful flesh longs for comfort and pleasure even in violation of the commandments.[177] The mind of the flesh cannot submit to the commandments.[178] Because of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ who dwells in our flesh, we are able to keep the commandments. We must put to death the mind of the flesh through the Spirit so that we can keep the commandments. Only by keeping the commandments can we avoid being thrown into the lake of fire. The cursed flesh will only grow old and eventually return to dust.

Heb.9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Heb.9:28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

   Cursed flesh grow old and return to dust. Even if we do not sin in the future, the curse we have already received will not disappear. The curse of the flesh does not disappear until God removes the curse.[179] The one who cursed and the one who can remove the curse is only God. Until his/her resurrection or transformation, adam cannot avoid aging and earthen death.

   We prove that we have kept the commandments through our resurrection or transformation. We prove that we have overcome sin through our resurrection or transformation. But even though he/she is the righteous to be resurrected, he/she cannot escape aging and earthen death.[180] Aging and earthen death are not proof that he/she has sinned. Aging and earthen death are only proof that he/she is a descendant of Adam who sinned.

   The ground was cursed because of Adam's sin. The curse of the ground caused Adam to grow old and return to dust. Therefore, aging and earthen death must also be the result of the 1st death. But the earthen death is not true death. True death is to be forsaken by God. True death is to be cut off from God. Even though he died of old age, Abraham is in God.[181] However, even though he is still alive and rampant, Satan is the one forsaken by God.[182]

   The only basis for determining whether he/she is alive or dead, is God.[183] It is only God who decides whether to resurrect him/her to live or to resurrect him/her to burn.[184] He/She is dead when God says he/she is dead, and is alive when God says he/she is alive.[185] A creature exists only for God.[186] A creature that is not needed by God, is dead.[187] Only a creature needed by God, is alive.[188]

   A creature that will be thrown into the lake of fire anyway is dead, even though it has not yet been thrown into the lake of fire.[189] A creature that will live forever is alive even though it is already sleeping in the grave.[190] No matter how strong and glorious in the eyes of a creature, a criminal will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire.[191] No matter how strong or glorious a criminal is, he/she is dead.[192] It's just garbage to be burned anyway.[193] Only the creatures that will live forever, have meaning.[194]

1Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

1Cor.15:49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

1Cor.15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

   Those who obey God, are not cut off from God even though their flesh returns to dust. They are alive. For the living, therefore, death of the flesh is only sleep.[195] The 1st death is to be forsaken by God.[196] Although aging and earthen death are the result of sin, the true death is to be forsaken by God. There are people whose flesh has already returned to dust but are not dead[197], and there are people whose flesh is alive but are already dead.[198]

   God cursed the ground to make Adam realize that he was cut off from God and died. Adam sees his dying soul through his dying flesh. Adam sees his dying soul through his flesh returning to dust. Adam sees his decaying soul through decaying creatures. Seeing his flesh dying, adam's soul goes to God to live.

 

 

       What is the scope of the curse declared on the ground?
Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Gen.3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
Gen.3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
 Because of Adam's sin, the ground was cursed. Thorns and thistles came to grow out of the cursed ground. The lust of flesh arose from the cursed flesh. The lust of flesh arose from all creatures made of the earth.[199] Adam's flesh came to grow old and return to dust. All living creatures made of the earth, came to grow old and return to earth.[200]
 Satan eats dust all the days of his life.[201] Satan rules the earth.[202] Satan rules the flesh.[203] Because God has cursed the ground, the lust of flesh rises from the flesh.[204] Satan rules over that flesh from which lust of flesh rises.[205] [View1: God brings forth] There may be a view that because God brings forth thorns and thistles from the earth, Satan uses the curse to rule the earth. [View2: Satan brings forth] There may be a view that Satan directly brings forth thorns and thistles from the ground under God's permission, because God cursed the ground.
 Whether God Himself brings forth thorns and thistles from the ground, or whether Satan has been permitted by God to bring forth thorns and thistles from the ground, thorns and thistles came to grow from the ground. The lust of flesh came to rise from the flesh.[206] Satan uses the lust of flesh to make adam sin.[207] Satan deceives adam and makes him/her a slave to sin.[208] Satan turns adam into dust and eats adam.[209]
 Just because someone is born with a flesh in which the lust of flesh rises, does not make him/her a criminal. Humans are not born sinners. The LORD Jesus was not born a sinner. But humans cannot overcome the lust of flesh by their own strength.[210] Humans cannot overcome Satan's delusion by their own strength. Therefore, humans inevitably come to sin.[211] The LORD Jesus has bought even our flesh from which the lust of flesh rises, with His own blood.[212]
 Adam became a slave to sin.[213] Adam lost the limited temporary vicarious management proxy over the earth which had been entrusted to him.[214] Satan now rules the earth.[215] The rule of the commandments is over.[216] The oppression of violence began.[217] Earthen creatures now came to come under the rule of the jungle.[218] Now the strong prey on the weak. Adam sold the dominion entrusted to him, to sin.[219] Adam failed to keep his neighbors he should have kept.
 Adam is dead. Adam was a living soul who received breath of life. Adam sinned, and now Adam became a dead soul.[220] Adam who became a dead soul, now became dust.[221] Satan now eats dust.[222] [View1: The breath of life = Spirit] [Neshama = Spirit] There may be a view that the breath of life that was breathed into Adam, was Adam's spirit or God's Spirit. [View2: The breath of life ≠ Spirit] [Neshama Spirit] There may also be a view that Ruach is a spirit, and Neshama is not a spirit.
View1: The curse of the ground is that the ground produces thorns and thistles. View2: The curse of the ground is that the ground produces thorns and thistles, and earthen flesh returns to earth.
[The curse of the ground = The lust of flesh]
=Only the growth of thorns and thistles is a curse. Only the lust of flesh is a curse. It is not a curse for earthen flesh to return to earth.
=Before the ground was cursed, creatures had grown old and were returning to earth.
[The curse of the ground = The lust of flesh + The earthen death]
=The earthen flesh, from which the lust of flesh rises, returns to earth after growing old. The rising of the lust of flesh, growing old, and returning to earth are all one curse.
=Because the ground was cursed, creatures came to grow old and to return to earth.
Premise1: The substance of the breath of life that was breathed into Adam, is God the Holy Spirit.
Premise2: When God the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we can overcome our lust of flesh.
Premise3: In the process of returning to earth, the flesh ages.
 The returning of the earthen flesh to earth, is not the result of the curse. Creatures had been returning to earth even before the ground was cursed.
 Adam, too, should have returned to dust. But the breath of life was breathed into Adam. Because of the breath of life, Adam was able to avoid returning to dust. As long as there is the breath of life in the flesh, the flesh does not age and does not return to dust. But without the breath of life, the flesh grows old and returns to dust.
 Because Adam sinned, the breath of life departed from Adam. Therefore, Adam also came to return to dust. Adam did not come to return to dust because the ground was cursed. Originally, the earthen flesh was supposed to return to earth.
 If Adam had produced offspring before he sinned, the flesh of those offspring would also have returned to dust. In order for Adam's offspring not to return to dust, the breath of life would have had to be breathed into them.
 The returning of dust to dust is not a curse, so it is not something to be restored. Even in the 1000-year kingdom, creatures will still return to earth. In order not to return to dust, we must receive the breath of life or put on a spiritual body.
* When the 'breath of life' leaves, we age and then suffer the earthen death.
Question
 The substance of the breath of life, is God the Holy Spirit. The LORD Jesus was always filled with God the Holy Spirit. Didn't it say that as long as there is the breath of life, the flesh does not age and does not return to dust? But why was aging progressing in the flesh of the LORD Jesus?
 Before Adam sinned, no flesh returned to earth. Neither the animals nor the plants would have died. However, after Adam sinned, the earthen flesh came to grow old and to return to earth. Adam brought death into other flesh, such as animals and plants.
 If Adam had produced his descendants before he sinned, the flesh of those descendants would not have returned to dust. This is because they would have inherited the body before it was cursed and went bad.
 If the LORD Jesus had come before Adam sinned, the body of the LORD Jesus would not have returned to dust either.
 Because of Adam's sin, the earth entrusted to Adam was cursed. The earth came under the rule of Satan. Since Adam was cut off from God, the earth entrusted to Adam was also cut off from God.
 After the ground was cursed, it is not only the flesh of those who have sinned that will return to dust. Even if we do not sin, our earthen flesh will return to dust. Because the ground itself was cursed. Therefore, the flesh of the LORD Jesus was also returning to dust.
 In the 1000-year kingdom, there will be no Satan or curse for 1000 years. In the 1000-year kingdom, there will be no delusion, lust of flesh, or aging for 1000 years. The earthen flesh of living creatures will also be delivered from the bondage of decay.
* The 'breath of life' has nothing to do with aging or earthen death.
Heb.9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
 The return of the earthen flesh to the earth, was already determined even before Adam sinned. Flesh of creatures were already returning to dust even before Adam sinned. Only Adam and Eve did not return to dust. After they sinned, Adam and Eve, like other creatures, came to return to dust.  After sinning, Adam came to return to dust. Before Adam sinned, he had no concept of death. Therefore, he had no concept of judgment. Only after Adam sinned, did Adam came to have the concept of judgment.
 Death comes because of sin. Unless he sinned, Adam could not die. Before he sinned, Adam could not return to dust.
Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
Rom.8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Rom.8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Rom.8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
 Even before Adam sinned, he could not put on the body of resurrection or transformation. Likewise, other creatures could not have been delivered from the bondage of decay. Even before Adam sinned, living creatures would have decayed and returned to earth.
 The meaning that it will be delivered from the bondage of decay here, means that the lust of flesh will no longer come up. The meaning of being delivered from the bondage of decay, does not mean that the earthen flesh will not return to earth.
 The original word for decay is 'fthorah', which means 'decay, corruption, destruction, perishing'. The rising of the lust of flesh can also be seen as decay of the flesh. The meaning that it will be delivered from the bondage of decay, means that it will be delivered from the lust of flesh.
 Even before Adam sinned, living creatures were returning to earth. Even in the 1000-year kingdom, the earthen flesh will still return to earth. In the 1000-year kingdom, only the body of those who are resurrected or transformed, is not earth. The flesh of the rest are all earth. Therefore, only the body of the firstfruits will not return to earth. All other bodies will return to earth.
 The curse of the ground means only thorns and thistles. The curse of the flesh means only the lust of flesh. The returning of the earthen flesh to earth, has nothing to do with the curse.
 In the 1000-year kingdom, the people's flesh are dust. Therefore, the people will return to dust. Still, the people will live close to 1000 years, just like people before the Flood.
 The people before the Flood lived close to 1000 years even though they were committing crimes. In the 1000-year kingdom, there is no crime until Satan is released. Even people who committed crimes lived close to 1000 years, but people who do not commit crimes cannot fail to live 1000 years.
 Even though they live for 1000 years, their flesh are dust. They will eventually return to dust. They will live a long time, but they will not live forever. Living long and living forever are two different things.
 After Adam sinned, living creatures became enslaved to decay. Before Adam sinned, living creatures did not decay and did not return to earth.
 The sons of God are the firstfruits and the saints who are resurrected or transformed. When the sons of God are revealed, the living creatures will also become incorruptible. It doesn't mean that creatures will wear the flesh of resurrection or transformation. It means that the curse of the ground will come to an end. When the curse of the ground is over, the earthen flesh will no longer return to earth. Perhaps the state will be similar to that before Adam sinned?
 The curse of the ground ends in the 1000-year kingdom. Therefore, living creatures will not grow old, decay, or return to earth. Since creatures don't die, people probably won't even eat meat. There will be no dropping or wilting of leaves.
Zech.8:3 Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
Zech.8:4 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
Zech.8:5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets." 
 In the 1000-year kingdom, the priests who wear the body of resurrection or transformation, do not age and do not return to dust. Because the body of priests is not dust. But the flesh of people is dust. The people will grow old and eventually return to dust.
 The returning of earthen flesh to earth is not the result of the curse. Even in the 1000-year kingdom, earth will still return to earth. People will grow old. Therefore, the old people will take the staff.
 In the 1000-year kingdom, not only the priests but also the people do not return to dust. Because the curse of the ground is over. It was the result of the curse that the earthen flesh returned to earth. Since the curse is over, the earthen flesh no longer returns to dust. Creatures also will not return to earth.
 Both people and creatures do not grow old and do not return to earth. The meaning that the old people held the staff here, would mean that they lived a long time, not that they became weak. They took up the staff to show authority, not because they became weak.
Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.
Rev.21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
 The word that there will be no more death, is only applicable to the martyr witnesses who come out to the 1st resurrection. In the 1000-year kingdom, the people are wearing the flesh of dust. Thus, people grow old and return to dust. At the end of the 1000 years, Satan will be released. The people who have been deceived by Satan, will suffer both the 1st and the 2nd death.  The meaning of making all things new, means making them completely free from sin. However, at the end of the 1000-year kingdom, Satan is briefly released. At that time, most of the people will be deceived. The deceived people will die. Until then, the people will neither grow old nor return to dust.
John8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
 It is not because the earth was cursed that the earthen flesh returned to earth. Even before Adam sinned, the earthen flesh had returned to earth. Because the breath of life breathed into Adam, he did not return to dust. But Adam sinned, and the breath of life left him. Because the breath of life left him, Adam's flesh came to return to dust.
Question
 The substance of the breath of life is God the Holy Spirit. The LORD Jesus was filled with God the Holy Spirit. The flesh of Adam and the LORD Jesus, is dust. If Adam's flesh could avoid returning to dust because of the breath of life, shouldn't the flesh of the LORD Jesus also not return to dust? But why was the flesh of the LORD Jesus aging?
 Due to sin, the earthen flesh was cursed and came to return to earth. Aging is the process by which the earthen flesh returns to earth. Before the earthen flesh was cursed, the earthen flesh would not have aged. Aging is a result of the curse.
 The lust of flesh rises from the earthen flesh and the earthen flesh returns to earth, because the earth is cursed. It is also the result of the curse that the earthen flesh grows old and returns to earth.
 The earthen flesh, from which the lust of flesh rises, grows old. The old earthen flesh returns to earth. The lust of flesh, aging, and the earthen death, all are one curse.
 Why does even the earthen flesh of every living creature also return to earth just because Adam sinned? Why does Adam's sin cause pain to other living creatures?
 Perhaps it is because Adam was entrusted with the vicarious management proxy over the earth. Since Adam sinned and died, it seems that death also came to the earth entrusted to Adam.
 Adam became a slave to sin and was put to death. Thus, Adam became a slave of Satan who had the power of death. Since Adam became a slave of Satan, Satan also came to rule over the earth that had been entrusted to Adam.
 The earth reflects the heart of those who rule it. The earth ruled through the commandments by Adam, must have been beautiful. But the earth is now under the control of Satan. Now thorns and thistles grow from the ground. Now earthen creatures decay.
Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
Rev.20:8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev.20:9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.
 In new Jerusalem there is the tree of life. Only the martyr witnesses who come out to the 1st resurrection, can enter new Jerusalem. The people cannot enter the new Jerusalem.
 The body of the priests is not dust. Therefore, priests do not return to dust. The flesh of the people are dust. Therefore, people return to dust. Priests do not die, but people die. There is a possibility that Satan will use this to deceive the people.
 Perhaps Satan may deceive the people with the tree of life. Stiring up the people by saying that they can live forever only by eating the fruit of the tree of life. Perhaps Satan deceives people by saying that only the priests do not die because only the priests eat the fruit of the tree of life.
 The earthen death is the returning of the earthen flesh to earth. In the 1000-year kingdom, the earthen death itself may not disappear. Even though there would be no returning to earth due to aging, there would be death of the earthen flesh.
 There is no love without death. True love is revealed in the face of death. If there were no death, one would not be able to risk death in order to obey God.
 At the end of the 1000-year kingdom, there is Satan's deception. Most of the people will be deceived. The deceived people will attack the new Jerusalem. Then there will be saints who stand on God's side. Their choice is meaningful because they risked their lives for the LORD Jesus.
 The 1st Adam had no lust of flesh. The people of the 1000-year kingdom will have no lust of flesh. Just as Satan deceived the 1st Adam, Satan will also deceive the people. Just as the 1st Adam was deceived even though he had no lust of flesh, the people will be deceived even though they will have no lust of flesh.
Is.65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Is.65:18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Is.65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
Is.65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
Is.65:21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Is.65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Is.65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
Is.65:24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Is.65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh. 
 Even in the 1000-year kingdom, there is obviously a lifespan. The martyr witnesses who come out to the 1st resurrection, cannot have a lifespan because they will live forever. But people have a lifespan. People will grow old and return to dust.
 The 1000-year kingdom where Satan is imprisoned in the abyss, is a world without disease or disaster. If death occurs before the age of 100, it is probably for some reason.
Question
 When we get old, we die from disease. If there is no disease or disaster, how can the earthen flesh return to earth?
 Judging from the word that there will be people who will die at the age of 100, it seems that there will be people who die among the people. Because the curse of the earth is over, the earthen flesh no longer returns to earth. There must be a reason why they die.
Rom.5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
 In the 1000-year kingdom, the priests do not return to dust. Because their body is not dust. But the people's flesh is still dust. People will grow old and return to dust.
Question
 This view now holds that Adam's flesh did not return to dust because of the breath of life. Does adam who did not return to dust in the garden of Eden, return to dust in the 1000-year kingdom? Does a human being who did not return to dust before he/she sinned, return to dust in the 1000-year kingdom even though he/she does not sin?
 
 Adam sinned and was cut off from God. Now, because all sin like Adam, all are cut off from God.
 Because of Adam's sin, the ground was cursed. In the earthen flesh, the lust of flesh rises, and the earthen flesh grows old and returns to earth. The earthen flesh that did not return to earth, came to return to earth due to the curse.
 Adam became a slave to sin. Adam lost the vicarious management proxy entrusted to him. Adam became a slave of Satan. Now Satan rules. The ground is now strongly affected by sin. Because Satan rules the cursed ground, it has now turned into a world where it is very difficult not to sin.
 The curse of the ground ends in the 1000-year kingdom. Therefore, the earthen flesh no longer returns to earth. Creatures made of the earth no longer decay.
1Cor.15:21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
1Cor.15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 
 In the 1000-year kingdom, only priests wear new body. The flesh of the people is still dust. Therefore, the people will still return to dust. Creatures will still decay and return to earth.  The curse of the ground ends in the 1000-year kingdom. The earthen flesh no longer ages and does not return to earth. For 1000 years, creatures made of the earth neither decay nor die.
In the 1000 year kingdom, the people
get old and weak and eventually return to dust. do not grow old and do not return to dust.


 The lust of flesh rises from the cursed flesh.[223] When God the Holy Spirit comes upon us, the desire to love God and our neighbors rises.[224] Even when God the Holy Spirit comes, the lust of flesh does not disappear.[225] Even though the desire of God the Holy Spirit overcomes the lust of flesh, the lust of flesh does not disappear.[226] Because the desire of God the Holy Spirit overcomes the lust of flesh, we come to overcome sin.[227] But even so, the lust of flesh does not go away.[228] We overcome the lust of flesh with the help of God the Holy Spirit.[229] If God the Holy Spirit does not help us, we will not be able to overcome the lust of flesh.[230]
 God breathed into Adam the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. When the breath of life departed from adam, adam became a dead soul.[231] Even if God breathes the breath of life into adam again, the lust of flesh does not disappear from adam. The curse of the ground has nothing to do with the breath of life. Adam overcomes the lust of flesh through the breath of life, but the lust of flesh does not disappear even though adam receives the breath of life. The ground is cursed, and the lust of flesh rises. When the curse of the ground is over, the lust of flesh will also end. When we receive the breath of life, we can overcome our lust of flesh, but the lust of flesh itself disappears only when the curse of the ground is over.[232]
  I think this view is correct.
           

 

       Does the lust of flesh rise from the body of the people in the 1000-year kingdom?
Premise: Assume that both people and creatures are wearing the flesh made of the earth.
 The people did not pass the test of verification. People cannot yet put on a spiritual body.[233] Therefore, the body of the people would be dust.[234] For 1000 years, there is no delusion of Satan.[235] The people do not sin[236] for 1000 years.[237] Then, is the curse of the ground over in the 1000-year kingdom?[238] Do thorns and thistles no longer grow out of the ground? Doesn't the lust of flesh come up any more in the earthen flesh?
View 1: The lust of flesh rises. View 2: The lust of flesh does not rise.
 There is no other word in the bible about adam's body, other than the spiritual body and the soulish body. The soulish body has lust of flesh, but the spiritual body has no lust of flesh. If we do not wear a spiritual body, we will still have the lust of flesh. If we are not resurrected or transformed, we will still have the lust of flesh. The people are still wearing a soulish body. Therefore, the lust of flesh will still rise in the flesh of the people.
 When we put on a spiritual body, the lust of flesh is over. When we put on the body of resurrection or transformation, the lust of flesh ends. When we are resurrected or transformed, the curse of the ground ends. If we could not resurrected or transformed, the curse remains the same. The people were not resurrected or transformed. Therefore, the curse remains on the people. The people still have the lust of flesh.
 If the lust of flesh does not rise in the flesh of the people, the people will not be deceived. But when Satan is released, most of the people are deceived. It must be because the people still have the lust of flesh. It must be because the lust of flesh still rises from the flesh of the people. For the people, the curse of the ground has not yet ended.
 The people must be wearing the soulish body. However, the body that the 1st Adam wore was also the soulish body. Before sinning, the 1st Adam had no lust of flesh. The lust of flesh began to rise only after the 1st Adam sinned. This is because the ground was cursed only after the 1st Adam sinned.
 Just as the 1st Adam had no lust of flesh, the people will have no lust of flesh. The 1st Adam wore the soulish body with no lust of flesh. The people will also wear the soulish body with no lust of flesh.
 The curse is over. No more thorns and thistles grow out of the ground. The lust of flesh no longer rises from the body. The lust of flesh does not rise even in living creatures. All flesh are delivered from the bondage of decay.[239]
 Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to become like God. The one who appeared to Eve as God at this time, must have been an angel. This is because it was before God came as a creature. Perhaps Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, to become like an angel. However, Eve who ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, could not become like an angel. Rather, the martyr witnesses who rejected the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, become like angels.[240]
 Adam must have had a body free of lust of flesh. Yet, Adam sinned. The people will also put on a body that has no lust of flesh. Yet the people will sin.[241]
 There is no sin for 1000 years. Therefore, there is no curse. However, at the end of the 1000-year kingdom, the people sin. After the people have sinned, it is possible that the ground will be cursed again.
  I support this view.

 

 

B.       The LORD Jesus puts on the cursed flesh.

Heb.2:16 For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

Heb.2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Heb.2:18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

   God judges sin in space-time through His cross.[242] The Second Person in the Trinity can take the cross because He became a man.[243] Because He became a man, the Second Person in the Trinity can judge sin.[244] If the Second Person in the Trinity had come as an angel to Hades, He would not have been able to take the cross. If the Second Person in the Trinity would come as an angel, He would have predetermined to complete creation in a different process than now, and after that He would have begun creation. God is upholding the present space-time as a structure perfected through His cross.[245]

   From the human point of view, it is humans who know humans best. He who knows humans best, can best intercede for humans.[246] Only humans can know things of humans like humans.[247] Only humans can feel the temptations that humans are subjected to.[248] We can be patient with sins of humans for a long time when we know the things of humans like humans. Therefore, the Second Person in the Trinity becomes a human being in order to best intercede for humans. The Second Person in the Trinity becomes a man so that He becomes the High Priest for humans.

   Of course, this is from a human point of view. God does not have to become a human to know the things of humans.[249] It is God who is upholding not only the human spirit, soul and body, but also everything related to humans.[250] It is God who is upholding space-time as a structure that humans feel that way in the midst of temptation. God already knows all the thoughts and deeds of the past, present and future that humans would choose, even before He began creation.[251]

   The meaning that the Second Person in the Trinity became a human being to know the things of humans, does not mean that if God did not become a human being, He would not know the things of humans. Would the One who created and is upholding humans, not know the limitations and characteristics of humans?[252] But from the human point of view, it is humans who know humans best. The Second Person in the Trinity becomes a man, so that God makes humans can understand that God knows humans well.[253] Now humans cannot think that God cannot understand humans. Because God Himself became a human being in person.[254]

   God becomes a creature and judges creatures. God becomes a creature and saves creatures. Therefore, creatures know that God understands them well. Even without becoming a creature, God already knows everything. But a creature that sees only what is seen, cannot be sure of that fact. From the point of view of a creature, the words spoken by the creature next to it are more realistic. To a creature, the words that the same creature as itself speaks by setting an example, touch the creature more deeply. Because God is everywhere, He is present with all creatures.[255] But to a creature, God is the One who is present in a world unknown to the creature.[256] Until a creature comes to know God truly[257], the creature feels closer to its neighbor than to God.[258]

   The LORD Jesus is God. The LORD Jesus is also a human being. Since the LORD Jesus is both God and man, the LORD Jesus can be the Mediator between God and humans.[259] In a narrow sense, the LORD Jesus is the Mediator who connects sinned humans to God. In a broad sense, the LORD Jesus is the Mediator who connects all creatures to God.[260] The LORD Jesus is God the Creator, and He is also a creature. Therefore, the LORD Jesus becomes the Mediator who connects God the Creator and creatures.

   In order for a creature to come to God, sin in the creature must be annihilated.[261] In order for space-time to come to God, sin in space-time must be annihilated.[262] In order to annihilate sin in space-time, the Second Person in the Trinity became a creature.[263] When sin is completely annihilated in space-time, creation becomes completed.[264] A creature that can sin at any time, is not yet completed. In order for a creature to come to God, it must become impossible to sin.[265]

   In order for a creature to come to God, the possibility to sin must be annihilated in the creature. The Second Person in the Trinity became a creature in order to annihilate the possibility to sin in creatures. The Second Person in the Trinity became a creature in order to save creatures from the possibility to sin. Therefore, God expresses His name to creatures as 'Jesus'.[266] God expresses His name to creatures as 'The Existing One is salvation'.

   If the LORD Jesus had not had the lust of cursed flesh, the LORD Jesus would not have been tempted. If the LORD Jesus had not been tempted, the LORD Jesus would not have suffered. If the LORD Jesus had not suffered, the LORD Jesus could not have given us an example of overcoming suffering.[267] If the LORD Jesus had not been our example, we could not follow the example of the LORD Jesus to go to God the Father.

Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Heb.5:8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Heb.5:9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Heb.5:10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

   The meaning that the LORD Jesus learned obedience through suffering, was only true when the LORD Jesus was a human being. The LORD Jesus is originally the God who did not need to learn anything.[268] The LORD Jesus is the God who is present in every moment and every place at the same time[269], upholding every moment and every place at the same time.[270] But the LORD Jesus is expressing Himself as a creature in space-time.[271] To us who only exist in space-time[272], the LORD Jesus is God who became a creature.[273]

   Being a creature, the LORD Jesus, as a man, must fulfill the will of God the Father. Since humans have the cursed flesh, it is difficult for humans to control the lust of flesh[274] except through hardships.[275] Therefore, in order for the LORD Jesus to obey God the Father as a human being, the LORD Jesus also had to offer up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears.[276] As long as the LORD Jesus put on the cursed flesh, the LORD Jesus must also endure sufferings.

 

C.       The LORD Jesus becomes an adam and takes the cross.

Ps.22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Ps.22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Ps.22:7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Ps.22:8 "He trusts in Yahweh; Let him deliver him; Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."

Ps.22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

Ps.22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Ps.22:16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.

Ps.22:17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Ps.22:18 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Is.53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.

Matt.26:38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

Mark14:33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly alarmed and distressed.

Mark14:34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."

Luke22:44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

John11:35 Jesus wept.

Luke10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

John2:14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

John2:15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.

   As a human being, the LORD Jesus experienced the same pain that we experience. The LORD Jesus suffered as a human being. The LORD Jesus also wept as a human being. The LORD Jesus was also pleased as a human being. The LORD Jesus was also angry as a human being.

Heb.4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

1Pet.2:22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."

1Pet.2:23 Who, when he was reviled, didn't revile back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

2Cor.5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1John3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

Heb.7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

John8:46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Heb.2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Heb.2:16 For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

   The LORD Jesus is fully human. As a human being, the LORD Jesus was tempted just like other human beings. But the LORD Jesus does not sin.

James1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

1Cor.15:55 "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

1Cor.15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Acts2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Rom.6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Heb.2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Heb.2:16 For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

   As a human being, the LORD Jesus perfectly kept the commandments. Death takes hold of the sin of breaking the commandments. Without sin, death cannot hold. By perfectly keeping the commandments, the LORD Jesus overcame death and was resurrected. Because the LORD Jesus set the example of overcoming sin, so now we too can overcome sin.[277] Because the LORD Jesus set the example of overcoming death, so now we too can overcome death.[278] If we take up our cross and follow the LORD Jesus, we too can overcome death.[279] If we obey the LORD Jesus unto death, we too can overcome death.[280] If we obey God the Holy Spirit even to death, we too can overcome death.[281] Therefore, we are no longer afraid of death.[282] Because even if we die, we will be resurrected anyway.[283]

To the saints, the earthen death of the earthen flesh, is but sleep.[284] The earthen death is fake death.[285] Real death is separation from God.[286] If we fear fake death, we will face real death. If we fear real death, we overcome fake death.[287] If we take up our cross and die fake death, we will not die real death.[288] If we die on the cross, we will not be thrown into the lake of fire.[289] If we die with the cross, we will reach true freedom, that is, eternal life.[290] But without death, there is no resurrection.[291]



[1] 1Cor.2:6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds to our glory, which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

[2] Eph.1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

[3] Eph.3:9 and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

[4] Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

[5] Acts2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

[6] 1Pet.2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps, who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." Who, when he was reviled, didn't revile back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

[7] Is.40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

[8] Job1:8 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil." Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

[9] Ezek.18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

[10] Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

[11] 1Cor.15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

[12] Acts3:21 whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from ancient times.

[13] Rom.7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[14] Gal.5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

[15] Gen.4:6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

[16] Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

[17] Rom.3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

[18] Gal.5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

[19] Rom.3:9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one."

[20] Eccles.7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

[21] Rom.8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

[22] Rom.6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[23] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience;

[24] Gen.3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

[25] Matt.27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

[26] Eph.4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

[27] John6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

[28] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

[29] John6:48 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

[30] 1John5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

[31] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

[32] 2Chr.36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem. Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy. Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

[33] Is.22:12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

[34] John5:25 Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

[35] 1Thess.4:13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

[36] Matt.22:31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

[37] Job20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment? Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds, Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.

[38] Ezek.18:30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

[39] Rev.20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[40] Heb.3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

[41] 1Pet.1:9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

[42] Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

[43] John8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

[44] Is.53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

[45] Heb.4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

[46] Acts2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

[47] Deut.34:7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

[48] 1Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural(psookheekos:soulish) body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

[49] Heb.12:3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

[50] 1Pet.2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps, who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." Who, when he was reviled, didn't revile back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

[51] Rom.5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

[52] Rom.7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[53] Rom.8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

[54] Gen.20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.

[55] 1Cor.15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

[56] John14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

[57] Eph.2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.

[58] 1John5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

[59] Gen.2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

[60] Hos.10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

[61] Matt.13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times, some sixty, some thirty."

[62] Gal.5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit. Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

[63] Gal.5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

[64] Luke9:23 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

[65] Rom.7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[66] Heb.9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

[67] 1Cor.15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

[68] Luke7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little." He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

[69] Rom.6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

[70] 1Cor.15:54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

[71] John5:29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

[72] Rom.8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

[73] Deut.34:7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

[74] John8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

[75] Is.65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

  Rev.21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

[76] Rev.2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

  Gen.2:8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  Rev.22:2 in the midst of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

  Luke23:43 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

  2Cor.12:1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows), how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

[77] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

[78] Gen.2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

  2Pet.3:8 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[79] Rev.22:1 He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

[80] Gen.3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

[81] Ex.25:20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

[82] Rev.20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[83] Rom.5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

[84] Gen.2:19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

[85] John8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

[86] Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

[87] Luke4:5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."

[88] Matt.12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come on you.

[89] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

[90] Hos.4:1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land. There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.

[91] Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

[92] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.

[93] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

[94] Rev.20:4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.

[95] Rev.20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

[96] Rom.13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

[97] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience;

[98] Rev.20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[99] Is.53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

[100] Matt.27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

[101] John8:10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

[102] Hos.4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.

[103] Is.22:12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

[104] Rev.3:1 "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.

[105] 1John4:9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

[106] Eph.5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

[107] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

[108] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

[109] Matt.25:41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

[110] Ps.139:16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.

[111] Eph.1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

[112] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

[113] Acts2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

[114] Ezek.36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

[115] Rom.8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

[116] 1John3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

[117] Gen.2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

[118] Lev.17:11 For the life(nehfesh:soul) of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life(nehfesh:soul).

[119] Gen.1:24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures(nehfesh:soul) after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.

[120] Eccles.3:19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  Ps.104:29 You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

[121] Matt.16:25 For whoever desires to save his life(psookhay:soul) will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

[122] 1Pet.1:9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

[123] Dan.2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

[124] Ezek.18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

[125] Matt.10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

[126] Heb.1:14 Aren't they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

[127] Matt.25:41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

[128] Rom.8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

[129] 1John1:2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

[130] Matt.1:20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

[131] Gen.6:3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

[132] Acts2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: 'It will be in the last days, says God, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

[133] John5:25 Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

  John6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

  Rom.8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

[134] John15:26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

[135] Jude1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

[136] Gen.3:14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

[137] Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

[138] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

[139] Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

[140] Rev.20:14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[141] Eph.4:18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

[142] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

[143] 1John5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

[144] Acts2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

[145] John6:48 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."

[146] Gal.5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

[147] Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

[148] Heb.9:27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

  Gen.3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

[149] Rom.7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[150] Gal.5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

[151] Is.14:13 You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

[152] Eph.2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.

[153] John14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

[154] Rom.5:5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

[155] John3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

[156] Matt.1:20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

[157] Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham. Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

[158] 1Pet.2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps, who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." Who, when he was reviled, didn't revile back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

[159] John13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

[160] Heb.4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

[161] John8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

[162] 1Cor.15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

[163] Acts2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

[164] 1Cor.15:54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

[165] Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

[166] Rom.6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

[167] 1Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural(psookheekos:soulish) body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

[168] Rom.8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[169] Col.1:16 For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

[170] Rom.6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[171] Is.53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

[172] Gen.4:7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

[173] Luke22:44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

[174] 2Cor.5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God

[175] Gal.3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

[176] Is.53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

[177] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

[178] Matt.15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

[179] Rev.22:3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

[180] John8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

[181] Matt.22:31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

[182] Rev.3:1 "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

[183] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

[184] John5:22 For neither does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

[185] Rev.20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[186] Col.1:16 For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

[187] Prov.16:4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end -- Yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

[188] Rom.9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

[189] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

[190] 1Thess.4:13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

[191] Ezek.28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the emerald, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was in you; in the day that you were created they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

[192] Rev.20:10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

[193] Job20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment? Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds, Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.

[194] Is.29:7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.

[195] Matt.22:31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

[196] Luke15:24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to be merry.

[197] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

[198] 1Tim.5:6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

[199] Eccles.3:18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

[200] Rom.8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

[201] Gen.3:14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

[202] 1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

[203] Gal.5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

[204] Rom.7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[205] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

[206] Rom.8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

[207] James1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

[208] 2Thess.2:9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[209] Eph.4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

[210] Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

[211] Rom.3:9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one."

[212] 1Cor.6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

[213] John8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

[214] John12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

[215] Luke4:5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

[216] Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

[217] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

[218] Hos.4:1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land. There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.

[219] Is.50:1 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

[220] Rom.7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

[221] Ps.49:10 For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, And their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

[222] Ps.17:14 From men by your hand, Yahweh, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, And they store up wealth for their children.

[223] Rom.7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

[224] Rom.5:5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

[225] Rom.8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

[226] Rom.8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

[227] Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

[228] Gal.3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

[229] Rom.7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

[230] Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

[231] Gen.6:2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

[232] Rev.22:3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

[233] Luke20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

[234] 1Cor.15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural(psookheekos:soulish) body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

[235] Rev.20:1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

[236] Zech.13:1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.' One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'

[237] Is.2:2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations, And will decide concerning many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.

[238] Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

[239] Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

  Rom.8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

[240] Mark12:25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

[241] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

[242] John12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

[243] Phil.2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

[244] John5:27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

[245] Eph.1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

[246] Heb.4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

[247] 1Cor.2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

[248] Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

[249] Ps.139:1 Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. This knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty. I can't attain it.

[250] Acts17:27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

[251] Ps.139:16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.

[252] Job34:21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings. There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.

[253] 1John1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

[254] John1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

[255] Jer.23:23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

[256] Job11:7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are high as heaven. What can you do? Deeper than Sheol: what can you know?

[257] Ps.73:25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

[258] Ex.5:2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

[259] 1Tim.2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

[260] Col.1:19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

[261] Ps.66:18 If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened.

[262] 1Cor.15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

[263] 1John3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

[264] Gen.2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

[265] Job2:3 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause." Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life. But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

[266] Matt.1:21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

[267] 1Pet.2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps, who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." Who, when he was reviled, didn't revile back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

[268] 1John3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

[269] Col.3:11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

[270] Col.1:16 For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

[271] 1John5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

[272] John14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him." Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

[273] John1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

[274] Ps.119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

[275] Heb.12:10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

[276] Luke22:44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

[277] Rom.6:3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

[278] Rom.8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

[279] Matt.16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any man desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

[280] Phil.2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

[281] Rom.8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

[282] Heb.13:6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

[283] 1Thess.4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore comfort one another with these words.

[284] John11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

[285] Luke12:4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom you shall fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

[286] Rev.20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[287] Heb.11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

[288] Matt.10:37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

[289] Rev.2:10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.

[290] John8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

[291] 1Cor.15:36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared