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We travel in this talk from Eden to Heaven looking at how God's plan for humanity involves the testing of our relationship with our Creator so that we will fully image him as sons and daughters of God, in his restored kingdom. Guardians of the Galaxy
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Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hope for Humanity: God & The World Answer: BROKEN HEARTS
Recap: If NP Evolution is true ( There is no Creator) what is our ( individual & Humanities) destiny?
Why is there pain and suffering in the world?
Everyone acts like DEATH is unnatural
Everyone wants Restoration What Kind of Restoration? Where & When will Restoration Occur?
P. S. In NP Evolution there is no restoration, just the faint hope of survival, but it’s an illusion because of degeneration. - Wk 1
The World / satan’s answer to broken world & broken hearts
Satan’s Lies in Eden - You will be wise: Illumination, You will be as the gods: Immortality, You will know/ declare good and Evil (right and wrong): Rulership, but he never delivers.
The World’s hope / answer
Science/ Fantasy
X-Men - NP Evolution, Nano-technology - fixing our degenerating genome - a long shot
Transgenics - Hybrids - Spider Man etc.- The Alien Gospel
God’s Answer: Heaven’s Restoration - God with us
Word association: Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Physical bodies, earth, ruling, culture, shining, …
Eden to Heaven in Thirty Minutes
(this one supernatural view of Biblical history) I recommend you learn the different views and decide for yourself
God’s Plan: overview A Christmas Story you may have never heard
Creator Yahweh - Godhead: God is perfect relationship, the three in one,
equality with roles of Father, Son and Spirit.
He is the only immortal eternal being without beginning or end – outer-dimensional being, who creates all other dimensions.
1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15-16, Psalm 104:2, 1 John 1:5-7, Colossians 1:16, Revelation 4:8-11, Isaiah 57:15, 46:9-10, 48:3-17, Proverbs 8
○ God creates all beings with the choice to live with Him, to be in His will, or to chose against their Maker, but in so doing facing the consequences of separation from the Source - which is Death. Romans 6:23
Creation of Supernatural/Divine Beings – inter-dimensional beings they belong to the supernatural / elohim realm they have equality with roles. They have a beginning, few have wings.
○ Rulers - thrones: the council, sons of God ( bene ha elohim/elim) watchers, stars
○ Guardians: cherubim, seraphim, archangels
○ Messengers: malachim = Angel
They are God’s heavenly / supernatural / divine family or government.
Daniel 7:9-14, Psalm 29:1-4, 82, 89:6-8, 95:3, 96:4, Isaiah 6:1-4, 14:13, Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:4-7, 15:7-9, Jeremiah 10:11, 23:18, Colossians 1:16, Deuteronomy 32:8-9 & 43, Genesis 6:2-4, Isaiah 14, Gen 6:4, Dan 4:13-23, 2:11,47, 7:10; Job 1:6, 7:20, 38:1-7; Luke 20:35-36, Ps 58:1, 82, 97:7, Deut 10:17, 29:26, 32:8-34; Jer 10:11, Ezekiel 28:2, Gen 10-11; 1 Cor 8:4-6; Rom 8; 1Pet 3:22; Mat 5:9,26:53; Heb 12:22; Gal 3:26, Daniel 2:11, 47, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, Rom 8, 1Pet 3:22
bene elohim / elim (sons of God)
Job 1:6, Job 2:1, Job 38:7, Psalm 29:1, Genesis 6:2, 4
The elohim of Psa 82 are in a council that, according to Psalm 89:5-8, is in the heavens.
Creation of Humanity - Imagers: Guardians of the Garden in Eden.
God has always wanted humanity to be part of this diving council-family, To be his imagers reflecting His glory ruling on Earth and walking with the Word - Emmanuel who is with us.
Adam and Eve have equality with roles.
○ God plans for them:
● Illumination – himself- the Word walking withthem
● Immortality – eating of the tree of life,
● Rulership - dominion mandate -- extend the kingdom of god throughout the earth and beyond as guardians over humanity, animals & nature.
The Shining One: Who is this being? A throne holder, guardian cherub of Eden - Nacash rebels and God allows a test of humanity’s relationship with our creator. he offers shortcuts to God’s promises.
Gen 3, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, Rev 9:1, 6:13, Eph 3:10,6:12; Luke 21:26, Gen 3:14-15, Revelation 12:3-9, Heb 12:22
○ God’s council / family (supernaturals) has suffered defections. Gen 3, Gen 6, Deut 32
( They also have Free will- choice – love relationship)
○ God allows Supernatural beings to rebel, and test humanity - Eden, Gen 6 incursion, Babel, Israel (OT wars), the Church (persecution- opulence), Revelation’s - Armageddon - God wants relationship, but will test our love, our abiding, and grow us into the image of his son - Jesus.
First Test of Humanity & Rebellion: The fall is (God’s test of relationship/abiding trust) it postpones God’s original plan. God uses/ allows the Nacash to test Adam and Eve (humanity see Job, etc.)
○ We deserve Death, but receive grace, and a path to restoration.
○ God promises restoration through the “seed of the Woman”, who will defeat death, and bring judgment on all evil fallen beings, and a restoration to God’s initial plan.
This is the First Prophecy in the Bible, and it is about Christ and Christmas
Second Test of Humanity: Incursion - Genesis 6
○ Supernatural beings (Sons of God) leave their first estate - habitation, abode and cohabitate with humanity taking wives and fathering offspring during the days of Jared and Enoch. Judgment: these fallen sons of God are imprisoned, for the day of battle - released in a final Armageddon rebellion, all judged and sent to lake of fire - second death.
○ Seed war of races? hybrid versus human Supernatural /human hybrids -Nephilim giants. Their goal is to wipe out humanity and the linage of the messiah
2 Pet 2:4 God did not spare the messengers when they sinned consigned them to Tartarus keeping them for judgment..., Luke 8:30-31 Abyss judgment
Jude v6 The messengers/angels which kept not their first estate/habitation,(sp bodies) He has reserved in chains under darkness till judgment of the great day. 1 Pet 3:19-20, Numb 13:33, Amos 2:9
The Flood Cataclysm of Noah: Rescue and judgment of Humanity -- Supernatural /human hybrids -Nephilim /giants and evil humanity judged, and the righteous believers in Yahweh save through Noah and the Ark. The dead hybrids become disembodied spirits, ghosts, demons, shademe/ shades.
○ Three cataclysms (my scientific and historical deductions)
■ Fountains of the deep burst open - flood event
○ post-flood waterlogged planet - with inland oceans
■ Rapid climate change - Ice age, meteoric bombardment, plate tectonic movement and equalization - plateau and mountain building
■ Rising oceans flood land masses- Black sea and flood costal cities- Days of Peleg
The Babel Rebellion: The people create at tower – a fake mountain - upon which to reach the heavens and attract the gods. Their pyramid is a counterfeit, copy of the mountain of Eden where Gods council met and heaven touched earth. (See ancient cultures and Chinese characters.) God confuses their languages and divides the nations into 70 groups “according to the number of the sons of God”. God gives the nations over to their self- willed desire to NOT follow him; as punishment the nations are “allotted” / given over to lesser elohim rulers - sons of God (counterfeit gods of the nations). They create their own origin stories and mythologies (counterfeit histories). Many become corrupt and are judged, stripped of immortality etc..
Psalm 82, Daniel , Gen 11-12, Deuteronomy 4:19-20, 32:8-9
○ The ice age ends and gives way to cold / warm cycles
○ The earth divided in days of Peleg - either rising ocean levels and settling contents, or people’s dispersion Genesis 11:16-19, Gen 10-11, 1 Chronicles 1
Abraham & Israel: God then raises up a new family ex nihilo – Abraham / Israel.
God promises a land full of giant tribes to Abraham. War of the seeds - OT Wars the seed of the Nacash seeks to destroy God’s chosen seed people and messiah- God fights back (turf- land war)
Gen 12, Exodus 4:22-23, Hosea 11:1, Deut 14:1, Jeremiah 3:19-20, Hosea 1:8-11, Daniel 7:9-10, & 13-18, Job 38:4-7, 1 Kings 22:19, Nehemiah 9:6, Deut 17:2-3, 2 Kings 5:10-19, 1 Samuel 5
The Seed Promise - Emmanuel: God with us. Jesus fulfills all the places Israel failed.
He is tested by the accuser, and he is the son of David –son of Abraham, son of Adam – son of God. He Fulfills the law, and defeats the nacash- accuser and death. He give believing disciples the seed of restoration - the holy spirit.
God’s kingdom restored 70 disciples are sent out to call the nations back to God Luke 11 - Believers are Daniel’s mountain and tree.
The Church inherits the status of and promises to Israel– in Jesus – Christians are the new sons of God. Gal 6:16. The seed becomes the Bride- tree, just as we are seeds becoming restored “sons/ children” of God.
1 Peter 5:7-9; 2 Corinthians 2:11; James 4:7
○ The kingdom suffers violence the accuser of the believers - persecution war of Christ followers.
○ The revealing of the sons of God. Humanity will become “divine”/ image of Christ- Spirit empowered - of the supernatural realm (“like Him-Jesus”) at death / glorification and rule with Christ at his coming. 1 John 3 – our final state?
○ Restored humanity, restored earth, restored universe, restored destiny.
John 1:12, 8:44-45, Galatians 3:26-29, 6:16, Daniel 7, 1John 3, Romans 8:14-23, 1 Corrinthians 15, Zechariah 14, Joel 3:9-12, Isaiah 24:21-22, Matthew 24:29-31
Christ’s return - Armageddon Battle: Another test of Humanity. There is a supernatural and human war against God and his children- the cumulating event. This plan to re-institute redeemed humanity to “divine” ruler-ship status will be opposed by the fallen sons of God (imprisoned Gen 6 - Watchers- Book of Enoch) and their spiritual leader (Satan) and their own god-man-king (Antichrist)
○ As “sons of God” we are called to overcome evil & the evil ones, character growth into image of Christ, this explains God’s allowed existence and use of evil beings.
○ Christ reigns on earth with believers - last test of Believer’s stewardship - Millennium - Satan is released to a final testing of humanity.
Daniel 11:40-45, Revelation 7, 36:6-18, 39:2, &13-14, 13:1, Isaiah 14:6, 24:21-22, Job 26:5-6, Luke 8, Ezekiel 32:27
New Heavens and Earth: restored and reunited as God dwells with man. God’s story and restored family take on his original purpose of dominion over the universe, as king, servant rulers and caretakers of God’s creation. The real story begins…
○ Walk with Jesus in God’s presence - illumination
○ Spirit empowered bodies - immortality
○ Exercising kingdom dominion on earth and the universe as guardians of the galaxy - Rulership
Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Is 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” -- the things God has prepared for those who love him- 10 But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Hebrews 12:27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken--that is, created things--so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
Isaiah 66:22 “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.
Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Judgment of supernaturals and their everlasting destruction before humanity
Eze 28:18-19; Rev 2:11, 20:6,14, 21:8; Matt 7:13, 10:28; Rom 9:22; James 4:12; Ps 92:7; Is 38:17; 2Thes 1:9; 2Pet 2:12, 3:7; Rev 17:8,11; Acts 3:23; Heb 10:39 (Note) The order of above events are under debate & question.
I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle/dwellling of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. Revelation 21:1-4
Ezekiel 37:27 Leviticus 26:11 Exodus 29:45 Exodus 25:8
Q&A - Last words and split into groups
Heaven: Living out Restoration in God’s Kingdom
What Will Heaven: God with us on a restored earth, in a restored universe, with restored bodies be like?
What we do in Life ( this life) echoes in eternity” Rewards, stewardship, and being fully human as imagers in relationship with our Creator.
Our Goal is not heaven. Or goal is God, for with him is heaven in all its restoration
Seeing Heaven from Eden Lost
What will a restored Human - you - be like? Spirit em-powered, culture, abilities etc.
What will a restored Earth be like? environment, animals, universe
What does restoration look like now, in my life today?
Live for the greater story - your God given story. The kingdom of God, a calling to be imagers reflecting our creator as guardians of the galaxy.
Q&A - application and questions
Does Satan/ The World ever make good on their promises?
How could a better understanding of Restoration / Heaven help you today?
● with life’s challenges?
● relationship with and trusting God?
● dealing with pain, suffering and broken hearts?
Take it to God - Prayer Relationship
Thank God for not leaving us in separation and death on our own.
Take some time to dream/ read and build your life on God’s restoring relationship with you.
How can a restored view of heaven help you read the Bible, pray and walk with God, fight sin, help you love, and give you hope?
Going Further
notes, handouts, resources The Supernaturals, Noah: shadows of future past on YouTube
Do something - Engaging others: Get them lost - Hopeless
Dreambuild together, encourage each other Heb. 3:13, 1Thess. 5:1,
Heb 10:25 do not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
The Hope for Humanity: God & The World Answer: BROKEN HEARTS
Recap: If NP Evolution is true ( There is no Creator) what is our ( individual & Humanities) destiny?
Why is there pain and suffering in the world?
Everyone acts like DEATH is unnatural
Everyone wants Restoration What Kind of Restoration? Where & When will Restoration Occur?
P. S. In NP Evolution there is no restoration, just the faint hope of survival, but it’s an illusion because of degeneration. - Wk 1
The World / satan’s answer to broken world & broken hearts
Satan’s Lies in Eden - You will be wise: Illumination, You will be as the gods: Immortality, You will know/ declare good and Evil (right and wrong): Rulership, but he never delivers.
The World’s hope / answer
Science/ Fantasy
X-Men - NP Evolution, Nano-technology - fixing our degenerating genome - a long shot
Transgenics - Hybrids - Spider Man etc.- The Alien Gospel
God’s Answer: Heaven’s Restoration - God with us
Word association: Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Physical bodies, earth, ruling, culture, shining, …
Eden to Heaven in Thirty Minutes
(this one supernatural view of Biblical history) I recommend you learn the different views and decide for yourself
God’s Plan: overview A Christmas Story you may have never heard
Creator Yahweh - Godhead: God is perfect relationship, the three in one,
equality with roles of Father, Son and Spirit.
He is the only immortal eternal being without beginning or end – outer-dimensional being, who creates all other dimensions.
1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15-16, Psalm 104:2, 1 John 1:5-7, Colossians 1:16, Revelation 4:8-11, Isaiah 57:15, 46:9-10, 48:3-17, Proverbs 8
○ God creates all beings with the choice to live with Him, to be in His will, or to chose against their Maker, but in so doing facing the consequences of separation from the Source - which is Death. Romans 6:23
Creation of Supernatural/Divine Beings – inter-dimensional beings they belong to the supernatural / elohim realm they have equality with roles. They have a beginning, few have wings.
○ Rulers - thrones: the council, sons of God ( bene ha elohim/elim) watchers, stars
○ Guardians: cherubim, seraphim, archangels
○ Messengers: malachim = Angel
They are God’s heavenly / supernatural / divine family or government.
Daniel 7:9-14, Psalm 29:1-4, 82, 89:6-8, 95:3, 96:4, Isaiah 6:1-4, 14:13, Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:4-7, 15:7-9, Jeremiah 10:11, 23:18, Colossians 1:16, Deuteronomy 32:8-9 & 43, Genesis 6:2-4, Isaiah 14, Gen 6:4, Dan 4:13-23, 2:11,47, 7:10; Job 1:6, 7:20, 38:1-7; Luke 20:35-36, Ps 58:1, 82, 97:7, Deut 10:17, 29:26, 32:8-34; Jer 10:11, Ezekiel 28:2, Gen 10-11; 1 Cor 8:4-6; Rom 8; 1Pet 3:22; Mat 5:9,26:53; Heb 12:22; Gal 3:26, Daniel 2:11, 47, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, Rom 8, 1Pet 3:22
bene elohim / elim (sons of God)
Job 1:6, Job 2:1, Job 38:7, Psalm 29:1, Genesis 6:2, 4
The elohim of Psa 82 are in a council that, according to Psalm 89:5-8, is in the heavens.
Creation of Humanity - Imagers: Guardians of the Garden in Eden.
God has always wanted humanity to be part of this diving council-family, To be his imagers reflecting His glory ruling on Earth and walking with the Word - Emmanuel who is with us.
Adam and Eve have equality with roles.
○ God plans for them:
● Illumination – himself- the Word walking withthem
● Immortality – eating of the tree of life,
● Rulership - dominion mandate -- extend the kingdom of god throughout the earth and beyond as guardians over humanity, animals & nature.
The Shining One: Who is this being? A throne holder, guardian cherub of Eden - Nacash rebels and God allows a test of humanity’s relationship with our creator. he offers shortcuts to God’s promises.
Gen 3, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, Rev 9:1, 6:13, Eph 3:10,6:12; Luke 21:26, Gen 3:14-15, Revelation 12:3-9, Heb 12:22
○ God’s council / family (supernaturals) has suffered defections. Gen 3, Gen 6, Deut 32
( They also have Free will- choice – love relationship)
○ God allows Supernatural beings to rebel, and test humanity - Eden, Gen 6 incursion, Babel, Israel (OT wars), the Church (persecution- opulence), Revelation’s - Armageddon - God wants relationship, but will test our love, our abiding, and grow us into the image of his son - Jesus.
First Test of Humanity & Rebellion: The fall is (God’s test of relationship/abiding trust) it postpones God’s original plan. God uses/ allows the Nacash to test Adam and Eve (humanity see Job, etc.)
○ We deserve Death, but receive grace, and a path to restoration.
○ God promises restoration through the “seed of the Woman”, who will defeat death, and bring judgment on all evil fallen beings, and a restoration to God’s initial plan.
This is the First Prophecy in the Bible, and it is about Christ and Christmas
Second Test of Humanity: Incursion - Genesis 6
○ Supernatural beings (Sons of God) leave their first estate - habitation, abode and cohabitate with humanity taking wives and fathering offspring during the days of Jared and Enoch. Judgment: these fallen sons of God are imprisoned, for the day of battle - released in a final Armageddon rebellion, all judged and sent to lake of fire - second death.
○ Seed war of races? hybrid versus human Supernatural /human hybrids -Nephilim giants. Their goal is to wipe out humanity and the linage of the messiah
2 Pet 2:4 God did not spare the messengers when they sinned consigned them to Tartarus keeping them for judgment..., Luke 8:30-31 Abyss judgment
Jude v6 The messengers/angels which kept not their first estate/habitation,(sp bodies) He has reserved in chains under darkness till judgment of the great day. 1 Pet 3:19-20, Numb 13:33, Amos 2:9
The Flood Cataclysm of Noah: Rescue and judgment of Humanity -- Supernatural /human hybrids -Nephilim /giants and evil humanity judged, and the righteous believers in Yahweh save through Noah and the Ark. The dead hybrids become disembodied spirits, ghosts, demons, shademe/ shades.
○ Three cataclysms (my scientific and historical deductions)
■ Fountains of the deep burst open - flood event
○ post-flood waterlogged planet - with inland oceans
■ Rapid climate change - Ice age, meteoric bombardment, plate tectonic movement and equalization - plateau and mountain building
■ Rising oceans flood land masses- Black sea and flood costal cities- Days of Peleg
The Babel Rebellion: The people create at tower – a fake mountain - upon which to reach the heavens and attract the gods. Their pyramid is a counterfeit, copy of the mountain of Eden where Gods council met and heaven touched earth. (See ancient cultures and Chinese characters.) God confuses their languages and divides the nations into 70 groups “according to the number of the sons of God”. God gives the nations over to their self- willed desire to NOT follow him; as punishment the nations are “allotted” / given over to lesser elohim rulers - sons of God (counterfeit gods of the nations). They create their own origin stories and mythologies (counterfeit histories). Many become corrupt and are judged, stripped of immortality etc..
Psalm 82, Daniel , Gen 11-12, Deuteronomy 4:19-20, 32:8-9
○ The ice age ends and gives way to cold / warm cycles
○ The earth divided in days of Peleg - either rising ocean levels and settling contents, or people’s dispersion Genesis 11:16-19, Gen 10-11, 1 Chronicles 1
Abraham & Israel: God then raises up a new family ex nihilo – Abraham / Israel.
God promises a land full of giant tribes to Abraham. War of the seeds - OT Wars the seed of the Nacash seeks to destroy God’s chosen seed people and messiah- God fights back (turf- land war)
Gen 12, Exodus 4:22-23, Hosea 11:1, Deut 14:1, Jeremiah 3:19-20, Hosea 1:8-11, Daniel 7:9-10, & 13-18, Job 38:4-7, 1 Kings 22:19, Nehemiah 9:6, Deut 17:2-3, 2 Kings 5:10-19, 1 Samuel 5
The Seed Promise - Emmanuel: God with us. Jesus fulfills all the places Israel failed.
He is tested by the accuser, and he is the son of David –son of Abraham, son of Adam – son of God. He Fulfills the law, and defeats the nacash- accuser and death. He give believing disciples the seed of restoration - the holy spirit.
God’s kingdom restored 70 disciples are sent out to call the nations back to God Luke 11 - Believers are Daniel’s mountain and tree.
The Church inherits the status of and promises to Israel– in Jesus – Christians are the new sons of God. Gal 6:16. The seed becomes the Bride- tree, just as we are seeds becoming restored “sons/ children” of God.
1 Peter 5:7-9; 2 Corinthians 2:11; James 4:7
○ The kingdom suffers violence the accuser of the believers - persecution war of Christ followers.
○ The revealing of the sons of God. Humanity will become “divine”/ image of Christ- Spirit empowered - of the supernatural realm (“like Him-Jesus”) at death / glorification and rule with Christ at his coming. 1 John 3 – our final state?
○ Restored humanity, restored earth, restored universe, restored destiny.
John 1:12, 8:44-45, Galatians 3:26-29, 6:16, Daniel 7, 1John 3, Romans 8:14-23, 1 Corrinthians 15, Zechariah 14, Joel 3:9-12, Isaiah 24:21-22, Matthew 24:29-31
Christ’s return - Armageddon Battle: Another test of Humanity. There is a supernatural and human war against God and his children- the cumulating event. This plan to re-institute redeemed humanity to “divine” ruler-ship status will be opposed by the fallen sons of God (imprisoned Gen 6 - Watchers- Book of Enoch) and their spiritual leader (Satan) and their own god-man-king (Antichrist)
○ As “sons of God” we are called to overcome evil & the evil ones, character growth into image of Christ, this explains God’s allowed existence and use of evil beings.
○ Christ reigns on earth with believers - last test of Believer’s stewardship - Millennium - Satan is released to a final testing of humanity.
Daniel 11:40-45, Revelation 7, 36:6-18, 39:2, &13-14, 13:1, Isaiah 14:6, 24:21-22, Job 26:5-6, Luke 8, Ezekiel 32:27
New Heavens and Earth: restored and reunited as God dwells with man. God’s story and restored family take on his original purpose of dominion over the universe, as king, servant rulers and caretakers of God’s creation. The real story begins…
○ Walk with Jesus in God’s presence - illumination
○ Spirit empowered bodies - immortality
○ Exercising kingdom dominion on earth and the universe as guardians of the galaxy - Rulership
Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Is 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” -- the things God has prepared for those who love him- 10 But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Hebrews 12:27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken--that is, created things--so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
Isaiah 66:22 “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.
Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Judgment of supernaturals and their everlasting destruction before humanity
Eze 28:18-19; Rev 2:11, 20:6,14, 21:8; Matt 7:13, 10:28; Rom 9:22; James 4:12; Ps 92:7; Is 38:17; 2Thes 1:9; 2Pet 2:12, 3:7; Rev 17:8,11; Acts 3:23; Heb 10:39 (Note) The order of above events are under debate & question.
I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle/dwellling of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. Revelation 21:1-4
Ezekiel 37:27 Leviticus 26:11 Exodus 29:45 Exodus 25:8
Q&A - Last words and split into groups
Heaven: Living out Restoration in God’s Kingdom
What Will Heaven: God with us on a restored earth, in a restored universe, with restored bodies be like?
What we do in Life ( this life) echoes in eternity” Rewards, stewardship, and being fully human as imagers in relationship with our Creator.
Our Goal is not heaven. Or goal is God, for with him is heaven in all its restoration
Seeing Heaven from Eden Lost
What will a restored Human - you - be like? Spirit em-powered, culture, abilities etc.
What will a restored Earth be like? environment, animals, universe
What does restoration look like now, in my life today?
Live for the greater story - your God given story. The kingdom of God, a calling to be imagers reflecting our creator as guardians of the galaxy.
Q&A - application and questions
Does Satan/ The World ever make good on their promises?
How could a better understanding of Restoration / Heaven help you today?
● with life’s challenges?
● relationship with and trusting God?
● dealing with pain, suffering and broken hearts?
Take it to God - Prayer Relationship
Thank God for not leaving us in separation and death on our own.
Take some time to dream/ read and build your life on God’s restoring relationship with you.
How can a restored view of heaven help you read the Bible, pray and walk with God, fight sin, help you love, and give you hope?
Going Further
notes, handouts, resources The Supernaturals, Noah: shadows of future past on YouTube
Do something - Engaging others: Get them lost - Hopeless
Dreambuild together, encourage each other Heb. 3:13, 1Thess. 5:1,
Heb 10:25 do not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.