The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Seventeen

As you continue reading through the daily posts I hope you can see that I allow Scripture to fill in the story. I do not want you to read my opinions or ideas. My mission is to get you to read Scripture and maybe, through an entertaining storyline, better understand God’s Word.

Romans 6:1-14 N.L.T.

Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more kindness and forgiveness? 2 Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? 3 Or have you forgotten that when we became Christians and were baptized to become one with Christ Jesus, we died with him? 4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

5 Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised as he was. 6 Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. 8 And since we died with Christ, we know we will also share his new life. 9 We are sure of this because Christ rose from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 10 He died once to defeat sin, and now he lives for the glory of God. 11 So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus.

12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become a tool of wickedness, to be used for sinning. Instead, give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you are no longer subject to the law, which enslaves you to sin. Instead, you are free by God’s grace.

This passage tells us that we have received a new life. The old life based on the planet earth, bound to time and space, led and directed by the self-spirit, has been awakened to a new reality.

This new awakening allows us to begin living with a new understanding of everything. We will begin to see that everything has become new and different. What we thought was real before our awakening has lost its shine and now we’re set on living life in a totally new way.

This new life is based on our being awakened to the eternal realm. Everything in our life is now seen through eyes that have been awakened to the greater truth and an eternal understanding.

Romans 12:1-2 N.L.T.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

As you can see we are no longer conforming to this world. We have been separated apart by our knowledge of eternity. We are now living life according to the will of God no longer according to our own will in this world.

Not just that but God has given us His Spirit to dwell in us and make us to become new creatures.

Revelation 21:5-8 N.L.T.

5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making all things new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of the water of life without charge! 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. 8 But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars—their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Once we have experienced the second birth we will not have to endure the second death. Those who have only been born physically will not only die physically but they will experience the second death or eternal separation from God.

Those who have been born again or have been awakened to the eternal realm of God have inherited eternal life through the work of God’s Son Jesus Christ.

I can’t hardly wait for tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Sixteen

Yesterday we ended with the following passage of Scripture…

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 N.I.V.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

As you know we have journeyed through the Stargate with eternity set upon our hearts.

We are now residing in the realm of time which is encompassed by the realm of eternity.

We have searched and sought out to find the truth and have found that it is available to us through a relationship with God the Creator.

This relationship was made possible by His Son, Jesus, coming into our realm and purchasing us back to Himself with His own shed blood.

Now that we can come back into communication with the Creator God, who resides on the other side of the Stargate, we are told that He can send us a Helper, Counselor, Comforter, a Spirit of Truth that will live in us. This indwelling Spirit will empower us to have life in two realms, eternity and time, at the same time.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 N.I.V.

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

This form of godliness is what earth dwellers call religion. It’s an earth based way of making people good and right and hopefully acceptable to God if there really happens to be one.

This is not very powerful. People will only get involved in religion if they see that it is good for them or it works for them to get what they desire.

This Christianity thing is not a religion but a point in time and space where a person comes to realize the truth of God’s realm and desires to be a part of it. They want to have this eternal power that helps them to live life as God has designed instead of living the self life blind to the reality of eternity.

The Christian has been awakened and wants to know and understand the greater truth.

Colossians 1:13-14 N.L.T.

13 For he has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. 14 God has purchased our freedom with his blood and has forgiven all our sins.

1 John 4:4 N.C.V.

4 My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.

Romans 8:9-10 N.L.T.

9 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.) 10 Since Christ lives within you, even though your body will die because of sin, your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God.

1 Timothy 2:5-6 N.L.T.

5 For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is the man Christ Jesus. 6 He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message that God gave to the world at the proper time.

Ephesians 1:7 N.L.T.

7 He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven.

1 Corinthians 1:30 N.L.T.

30 God alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Christ to be wisdom itself. He is the one who made us acceptable to God. He made us pure and holy, and he gave himself to purchase our freedom.

Ephesians 1:14 N.L.T.

14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.

I hope these passages have helped you to better see what is happening to you as you journey in this realm of time and space.

I’ll be back tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Fifteen

If you think things have been a little strange and maybe even a bit difficult when trying to bring the realms of time and eternity together on this side of the Stargate, what you are about to read in these last few sessions is going to stretch your mental reasoning to it’s Outer Limits.

We are going to explore what it would be like to have the Spirit of God, the Creator who lives outside of time, come into our realm and live in or possess human beings.

I know this sounds a bit unrealistic but most of our science fiction stories, horror movies as well as many mysteries deal with aliens or spirit beings living in humans and prompting them to follow their way.

This is not an uncommon theme in our world today so as the Stargate series changes to “Stargate: The Outer Limits” you should not be surprised.

John 14:17

“He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.”

When Jesus made this statement He was declaring that the Holy Spirit was and is a person. And since this person is made up of His Holy Spirit it is Him. That makes the Holy Spirit God or one of the three parts of the Godhead.

Here’s the really amazing part about what Jesus said. This Person, the Holy Spirit, will come to you and live in you.

Now that’s amazing!

See, a Christian is actually a Christ-In-You! Jesus Christ, by way of His Holy Spirit, can indwell your being.

We think about spirit possession as something from wild, spooky movies and stories.

What if I told you that you could be possessed by a Spirit of Holiness?

Your body is driven by an inner spirit. This spirit controls your soul which is your mind, will, emotions and personality. Underlying your soul is a spirit. The natural spirit of a human is set on self.

Everything about a human, before submitting to God the Creator, is all about self.

Now, don’t get your conscience confused with the Holy Spirit. The human conscience is controlled by a person’s personal beliefs and moral codes. As I wrote in an earlier post people will act out according to what they believe in their inner most being. A person will follow their personal moral code.

The conscience allows a person to follow their personal moral code.

If a person’s personal moral code doesn’t match up with what God desires, it doesn’t really matter to the person until their conscience is bothered by truth. The Greater Truth is the truth that God calls us to.

Man’s natural spirit is a spirit of self. When this natural spirit drives the soul the human body can be an agent for good or an agent for evil and ultimately a weapon of mass destruction. Satan’s job of possessing humans for evil intent is not very difficult.

Jesus, on the other hand, will not possess without permission. We humans must allow the Lord to come into our lives. We must die to the self spirit and accept Jesus’ Holy Spirit to indwell us and drive our souls.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 N.I.V.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

This is where I will stop for today.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Fourteen

Today I want to look at the bodies that we live in while residing on this planet.

One of the dangers of living on this planet is the suits we are given when entering this realm. They do not last. They have no guarantees and it seems like they are all flawed. It’s almost like the suits were predetermined to wear out. It’s almost like we’re supposed to die so we can escape this realm.

Psalm 139:16

16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

Matthew 10:28-31

28 “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 What is the price of two sparrows—one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. 30 And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

We learned back in part 3 that we were living souls before we were birthed into this realm. Before we entered into this realm of time and space God had planted knowledge of eternity upon our hearts. With this in mind we need to understand that God knows our lives. He knows the beginning from the end. He knows the days and hours of our lives.

We have also learned through this study that we are eternal beings. We have had to grasp the reality of death. We are all going to die. We are all going to face judgment and we will all live eternally somewhere.

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 3 For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. 4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. 5 God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.
6 So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 7 For we live by believing and not by seeing. 8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. 10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.

According to Paul’s teaching we should desire to be out of these temporary bodies that are deteriorating. We should be looking forward to the day when we can slip on our new bodies. We should be anxiously awaiting our trip back through the Stargate and into the presence of our Creator God.

The suits we presently live in here on earth are very strong and yet they can be pretty fragile also. They can be broken. Some breakage can be repaired by the suit itself (pretty amazing) or it can be repaired by those who are trained to work on the suits. Some breakage is beyond repair and can actually cause the body to die which is not a bad thing since those who die will be released back through the Stargate.

The only down side to dying is not everyone who dies has been reawakened to the reality of God, His Son and the way back home. Due to this, some deaths are very tragic.

The tragedy is not that a person’s body dies and their soul departs this realm. The tragedy is that not all souls have come to life in God through His Son.

Those who have not been born again and raised to new life will be shut out of God’s heavenly kingdom. This is not due to what they have done but what they have not come to know and believe. See, we all act out according to what we really believe.

With eternity planted upon our hearts we should be seeking with all of our heart to come to know and understand what this is all about.

That’s enough for today.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Thirteen

Revelation 12:11

11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

Back in Part 11 we ended on the subject of blood. In the passage from Revelation the enemy was overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the person’s testimony.

This blood, that defeats the enemy, is the only offering the Creator God accepts as an atonement or covering for our sins of unbelief in Him, His realm and His Son.

We must offer a blood sacrifice to be allowed back through the Stargate and into the presence of God.

Hebrews 9:22b

For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

In this world or realm of time and space there are many religions. Many people believe that there are many paths that will lead a person to God. The problem with falling into the trap of believing in many ways is that God has made only one way back to Him and His realm.

The many ways puts us in a position of choosing a path that satisfies self. God is the one who must be satisfied. He is the one who is the Creator. He is the one who is calling us back home. He is the one who has provided a way to get back to Him through His Son.

Why would we think that there were many ways to choose from when the Creator God says this is the way?

God’s way is the narrowest and most exclusive way compared to all the other religions. This is not due to the people who believe in God’s way excluding others. The exclusivity is due to God calling people to accept the one and only way back to Him, which is through the blood sacrifice that He has provided at the cross with the crucifixion of His Son Jesus.

Many people, religious or not, try to use this exclusivity against God. They try to paint God as narrow minded and bigoted due to His exclusivity. They try to declare that a kind and loving God would accept anyone. This is not true because God has planted eternity in our hearts. He has revealed Himself to us through the prophets, apostles and their writings. He sent His Son to show us the way. And now we declare that He doesn’t love us.

God’s way has to be exclusive because there is no possible way to reconcile different beliefs with God’s requirement of His Son’s blood as the only acceptable atonement for the sin of humans.

If I were to tell you that there is only one way to get to my house, and there is no other way to get there, and you decided you could find it by going another way, do you think you would ever get there?

If you have been reading through this series you should be seeing by now that our enemy is crafty. He uses false prophets to deceive us. He wants us so attached to this world and its ways that we will miss the Stargate and end up without ever knowing or accepting the greater truth.

See you back here tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Twelve

Before we go any deeper into this radical understanding I need to tell you some things that will help you.

Being a resident of two separate but intertwined realms at the same time is very interesting. It can be rather hard for the outsider to understand. But it makes sense of everything for those who grasp this knowledge.

I want you to think about living in a foreign country.

If you were to reside in a foreign country as a representative of your home land, you would have to learn to live in the foreign nation while still being a resident of your home land.

If you were on a mission to this foreign country to teach and instruct people about your home land, you would need to work hard to make those around you understand your land.

If you were trying to get them to convert from that which they know and understand and become a resident of your nation, you may find them to ignore you completely. You may end up being tagged as a rebel or an invader. You might find that the people you’re trying to reach will think you are pretty arrogant for thinking they should leave their nation for yours.

Now imagine being a resident of another realm and trying to make the people of this realm aware of the other realm all the while trying to get them to convert and become a part of the foreign realm.
Along with this challenge, imagine what it would be like to try to awaken people to the King of all things and His kingdom which cannot be seen but rules over the world in which we presently live.

This is what I am trying to accomplish though these writings.

I want you to know the Creator God. I want you to understand the eternal realm. I want you to understand how you can reside in this realm. I want you to know that there are rules and ways that govern this realm. I want you to know how you can see this realm. I want you to receive the power to live in this realm even though you reside here in this world. I want you to grasp the greater truth that will set you free from the bondage of this realm of time.

I am using a Science Fiction sub-plot to make you aware that this is possible.

Most people today see all religions as the same. I will agree up to a certain point. But what I am trying to awaken you to is not a religion that can be entered into to discipline you to a better way of living on this planet. What I am trying to make you aware of is a reality of another realm of existence that encompasses the one you presently live in. This all encompassing realm has a King. Even though most believe this world is all there is, it is not!

We will all stand to be judged by the King of all things. He is going to decide your future existence, the one that you will slide into after your body dies and you are released out of time and into eternity, based upon your knowledge and understanding of His all encompassing realm.

I don’t want people missing this knowledge. I want everyone I know to be awakened to this greater truth. I want people to know how they can be awakened from their state of deadness to the eternal realm and become alive to the reality of eternity.

Trust me when I tell you that once you come alive to this new understanding it will be like you have been born again. You will hunger and thirst for all the knowledge about this eternal realm that you can acquire. You are going to desire with all your heart to know the King and communicate with Him. You are going to become so excited about this reality that you are going to want to tell others about it.

Be careful with this new information. Most of the people you know are not ready to be unplugged from their present world. They think this is all there is and they will begin to think you have lost your mind. They will even be ready to fight against this idea because they don’t want there to be anything but what they see. They are blind to the greater truth and are following the prince and power of this dark world.

Many people find it more comforting to be in this prison of time than to think there is a King of a higher realm that they are accountable to.

But for those of you who have expanded your reality to include eternity you know what I am trying to say. You know from deep within that this is true. You are longing for the day when you can be released from your bodily prison and be present with the Lord.

I will get back on the story track tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Eleven

Yesterday we established that God is going to separate those who come to know Him through His Son from those who will not. Those who know Him will ascend through the Stargate to spend eternity with Him while the others will be cast into a fiery lake with the devil for eternity.

Luke 16:22-26

22 “Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with Lazarus at his side.

24 “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.

25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. No one can cross over to you from here, and no one can cross over to us from there.’”

This is a story Jesus used during His time on earth to let us know that this separation is a reality.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

7 And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power. 10 When he comes on that day, he will receive glory from his holy people—praise from all who believe. And this includes you, for you believed what we told you about him.

Matthew 13:49-50

49 That is the way it will be at the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked people from the righteous, 50 throwing the wicked into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:31-33

31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.

Matthew 3:12

12 He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.

This concept of eternal separation is a major teaching point of Jesus.

For those who think Jesus is nothing more than a good teacher should pay attention to what He is trying to teach. For those who know Him as Lord we need to be prepared for the day when this separation begins.

Revelation 20:11-15

11 And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide. 12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds. 14 Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. 15 And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
How does one get their name in this Book of Life?

Revelation 3:5

5 All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.

According to this passage you must be victorious to have your name in the Book of Life. Victorious over what?

Revelation 13:8

8 And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made—the Book that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered.

According to this we need to be victorious over the beast. The beast is the devil, Satan, Lucifer, the prince and power of the air, the ruler of this dark realm, the accuser, our adversary, the crafty one who disguises himself as an angel of light. Are you starting to see that we have a rather formidable enemy to overcome?

Revelation 17:8

8 The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.

In all good Science Fiction stories the enemy or evil one always seems to rise up for one last battle. We must remember how he was defeated the first time.

Revelation 12:11

11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

See you tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Ten

I promised I would look deeper into the separation from God.

Many people have a difficult time grasping the reality of an eternal separation from God.

Many people believe that a kind and loving God should accept everyone with no exceptions.

Here we must understand that there was a point in eternity in which a war broke out.

Lucifer, who was a high ranking angel, deceived around a third of the angelic beings to revolt against God. The reason for this revolt had to do with Lucifer trying to raise himself up to the level of God.

Isaiah 14:12-15

12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 13 For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. 14 I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’ 15 Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.

Revelation 12:7-11

7 Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. 8 And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. 9 This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.

10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,
“It has come at last—salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth—
the one who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

Now, this heavenly war, that was brought on by a rebellion, led God to remove all those who were against Him. Some people may have a problem with this but if you were a King of your own kingdom, and you wanted it to be pure and holy, you would do the same.

God then punished these angelic beings by throwing them out of heaven and placing them upon the earth.

The earth was now a temporary holding cell for the angels who had rebelled against God. They were now prisoners of time and at the end of time they will be thrown into a fiery lake for all eternity.

Revelation 20:10

10 Then the devil, who had deceived them, was thrown into the fiery lake of burning sulfur, joining the beast and the false prophet. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

God has created this earthly realm as a place for human kind. Once Satan was sent to this planet in all of his craftiness, he turned Adam and Eve, the first humans, from God. But God had already planned to use the earth as a place to separate those who would turn to Him from those who would follow Satan and their self-will.

I known this sounds pretty extreme. But you must remember that we came into this realm with knowledge of eternity planted upon our hearts. Adam and Eve had a very close and personal relationship with God. They will be the first to pass their knowledge of God to the next generation.

Always remember that the eternal knowledge, that was given to us before we were born, needs to be acknowledged. We need to seek out and search for a deeper understanding of this eternal awareness. We need to find teachers that will help us know the greater truth.

1 John 2:21-23

21 So I am writing to you not because you don’t know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and lies. 22 And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. 23 Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

The Apostle John lets us in on how God decides who shall be saved and who will be punished along with the devil and all his angels.

I better stop here and dig deeper tomorrow.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Nine

Today we are going to look at the concept of death.

One of the greatest struggles I’m having here is trying to explain to people that this is not my home. I have traveled to this realm of time and I am just visiting as I search for my exit back to the Father.

I have come to learn, from some of my fellow travelers to this planet, that the only way to leave this planet is through a process they call death. Death is where I will be released from my body. My body is like a very advanced space suit. I received this body when I crossed over from eternity to time and I must have it to survive on this planet.

I am told that once my body dies my inner being is released from my body and it’s able to exit the Stargate back into eternity where my future destination will be determined for me by the God of all creation who actually knew me before I journeyed through the Stargate into this realm.

I know it all sounds pretty complex and in reality it is. We are living in two separate realms at the same time. One is hidden and the other one seems to possess us.

Hebrews 9:27-28

27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Christ died once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.

The Scripture tells us that we are going to experience death. After we die and are separated from these bodies comes our judgment.

How will we be judged?

Romans 5:20-21

20 God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. 21 So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We are going to be judged upon our knowledge of as well as our faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:24-25

25 For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. 26 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Death is the last enemy because it is actually the vehicle by which we are released from these bodies and transported back to the Father to face our judgment.

When you see death as a vehicle of transportation instead of an end of all things you will be better prepared for your final journey.

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

From what I have learned, the Creator God, our eternal Father, sent His only Son through the Stargate around 2000 years ago. He sent His Son to show the inhabitants how they could be assured of a future existence with Him.

According to the book called the Holy Bible, if you do not accept the Son’s way back you will be separated from the Creator God for all eternity and suffer punishment and torment for as long as eternity shall last.

Like I said in the last post, it will be like being lost between realms without any gates opened to allow us passage to another realm.

As you can tell I’m looking into this idea at the present time. I want to know more about the Son of God and the way back to the Creator God. I don’t want to miss the way back home and my deep set knowledge keeps telling this is the true way.

Stayed tuned for tomorrow’s blog.

The Christian Sci-Fi: Part Eight

Welcome back for a deeper dive into the reality of eternal life.

Titus 3:4-8

4 But—“When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, 5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. 6 He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 Because of his grace he declared us righteous and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.” 8 This is a trustworthy saying, and I want you to insist on these teachings so that all who trust in God will devote themselves to doing good. These teachings are good and beneficial for everyone.

The Apostle Paul continues to build our confidence that we have eternal life in Jesus Christ.

Now there are some who think that since we have eternal life we can live however we desire. Why not enjoy the world of sin and then slip into eternal life at death?

The problem with this is that eternal life is not something that starts at death but at the awakening to your present eternal reality.

Hebrews 5:7-9

7 While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God. 8 Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. 9 In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him.

This changes the picture a bit.

We are to be living an obedient eternal life right now. We don’t slip out of time and into eternity. We live in eternity and within the eternal realm is located our realm of time.

This is the greater truth that has been hidden in our hearts from the beginning.

1 Peter 5:8-11

8 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. 9 Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your Christian brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kind of suffering you are.
10 In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation. 11 All power to him forever! Amen.

The realm of time is like a learning institution. We enter into the institution and we travel through the required courses until we have gained the knowledge and understanding that is required to graduate and move onto our next realm. If we are not awakened to eternity we will not gain the needed knowledge to enter the next realm. We will leave this one and be left out of the next one lost for all eternity.

It would be like stepping through the Stargate without a gate being open to us on the other side. We would be stuck between realms and lost.

The Stargate that opens the next realm is our faith, trust and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 6:11-21

11 But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you, which you have confessed so well before many witnesses. 13 And I charge you before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you obey this command without wavering. Then no one can find fault with you from now until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 15 For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords. 16 He alone can never die, and he lives in light so brilliant that no human can approach him. No human eye has ever seen him, nor ever will. All honor and power to him forever! Amen.

17 Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. 18 Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. 19 By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they may experience true life.

20 Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge. 21 Some people have wandered from the faith by following such foolishness.

May God’s grace be with you all.

We are not finished yet. Hope to see you tomorrow.