Apostolic Faith

 Study to show yourself approved, by rightly discerning the word of God. It's not given, for private interpretation, nor subject to the will, or opinion of men.

There is a marked difference between the salvation of the soul, by gift of His Holy Spirit for being born again, during the reign of Jesus Christ in His Kingdom from heaven, and the redemption in the body, to immortality, called the consummation of final and universal expression of the Kingdom of God, by the Father.

[1 Cor 15:24]

The Bible consistently distinguishes these realities across both Testaments, but especially in the New Testament’s Apostolic teaching. It presents a clear progression in God’s redemptive plan and mystery unveiled:

(1) Eternal life with Christ, as the present gift of the Holy Spirit and out poured promise of the Father, for Jesus to reproduce many sons and daughters, being born again into His household of faith with a joint share of His inheritance and peace in blessed hope (salvation of the soul, adoption as sons and daughters, beginning now);

(2) The intermediate state for believers who die (souls/spirits perfected and consciously with Christ in heaven, “absent from the body” yet awaiting full redemption in the immortal body);

(3) The current reign of Christ from heaven (the inaugurated Kingdom of promise to immortality, but not-yet-consummated Kingdom of the Father over all, where the family of His good seed grows up in the world, alongside the tares until the end);

And finally:

(4) The full performance of our blessed hope at Christ’s appearing (bodily resurrection of those already ascended, and change in the body to immortality for all who are alive and remain in the earthly body to that moment, where after all the redeemed begin dwelling together in the new heaven and new earth creation, where there is no more death, sorrow, or anything harmful at all forever, conformed to Jesus’ likeness bodily, with God the Father in same Spirit, as our “all in all”).

This framework is not a later invention; it flows directly from revelation given to the prophets, and the "more sure word" manifest and disclosed in Jesus’ parables (Matthew 13), Paul’s letters, Peter’s writings, and the rest of Scripture. It upholds the urgency of every generation while grounding long-term mission and patient endurance to the manifest end of the present heavens and earth environment in totality.

Gen 6:13, Isaiah 51:6, 2 Peter 3

Let's Expand it here:

1. Eternal Life as the Gift of the Holy Spirit: Salvation of the Soul, Sonship Now, Eternal life is not merely future; it begins the moment a person believes. The Holy Spirit regenerates, indwells, and adopts us as God’s children, securing the soul even while the body remains mortal and subject to the mixture in the present age. John 5:24 (Jesus): “Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” (Present possession.)

Romans 8:15–17: “You received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. As his children, we are His heirs.” The Spirit empowers sonship and seals our inheritance.

1 Peter 1:9: “You are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” (Soul salvation as the present outcome of faith.)

John 3:16, 36; 10:28: Eternal life is the gift now, never perishing for those who believe.

This is the “already” of the Kingdom of God's dear Son, we are transferred from darkness into: the soul is saved, empowered for holy living amid tares (Matthew 13), and united to Christ by the Spirit.

Yet we still groan in conflict and struggle against the contradiction present in the mortal body (Romans 8:18–23).

2. The Intermediate State: Souls of Just Men Made Perfect, Absent from the Body of sin, death and conflict. For believers who die before the return, Scripture describes a conscious, perfected existence with Christ, clothed with white robes, disembodied but fully alive, free from sin and the conflicts in the body of death. This is the “souls of just men, made perfect” Hebrews 12:22–23: “You have come to Mount Zion… to the spirits of the righteous made perfect.” (These are believers who have died; their spirits are perfected in holiness, already in the heavenly Jerusalem, beholding the face of Jesus Christ immortal, in the glory of God and clothed with white robes.) 2 Corinthians 5:6–8: “We are confident… and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.” (Paul’s clear preference: immediate presence with Christ upon death.) Philippians 1:23: “I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far.” (Departure = conscious fellowship with Jesus Christ.)

Revelation 6:9–11: “I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God… They called out in a loud voice.” (Disembodied souls, conscious, worshiping, and given white robes while awaiting final justice.)

Luke 23:43 (Jesus to the thief): “Today you will be with me in paradise.” (Immediate, conscious fellowship.)

The body rests in the grave (reserved to Christ's command for resurrection even in death), but the soul/spirit enjoys perfect holiness and truth in the Lord’s presence, even so, this is not the final state. It is “intermediate,” awaiting the resurrection.

The Old Testament hints appear in passages like Daniel 12:2–3 (awakening to everlasting life or contempt) and Ecclesiastes 12:7 (spirit returns to God), but the New Testament fills them with clarity through Christ’s victory.

3. The Reign of Christ from Heaven:

What to Expect in This Age, where Christ is already reigning from heaven enthroned immortal, but His Kingdom operates in “mystery” form during this inter-advent period, exactly as Jesus described in the parables.

We endure mixture, preach the gospel to all nations, and live with holy urgency, knowing the full harvest while happening in part in every generation since the Lord has ascended to His enthronement in heaven, is finalized in the future, and at His appearing to all.

Ephesians 1:20–23; Acts 2:33–36: God “seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms… far above all rule and authority… And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church.” (Present heavenly reign.)

1 Corinthians 15:24–28: “Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” (Christ reigns now from heaven; the last enemy, death over all the rest, is defeated completely only at the end.)

Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43 (tares parable): Good seed sown by the Son of Man grows in the world alongside enemy-sown tares until the harvest at “the end of the age.” Angels, not us, conduct the final separation. Just as occurs in the intermediate.

Colossians 1:13: “He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.” (Present transfer into the Kingdom, yet still opposed by contradictions on earth.)

This is the age that will not pass away until all these things are complete, of patient mission (gospel to all nations, Romans 15:18–21), endurance amid opposition, and Spirit-empowered sonship, while we occupy in mortal body and await in groaning for redemption to immortality.

4. Our Blessed Hope Fulfilled: Redemption of the Body to Immortality, All Redeemed Together, God is our All, and in All. Our “blessed hope” is not the intermediate state or the present reign, it is the final consummation our redemption in the body to immortality in rejoin to Christ in likeness of body with Him: Christ’s appearing, bodily resurrection, glorification, and the new creation where every redeemed person dwells together, fully like Jesus, with God as everything to everyone.Titus 2:13: “While we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.” (Our blessed hope is the visible, glorious return that brings the full expression of salvation, in rejoin of eternal soul to immortal body, both for those who have ascended first without the body, and for those who remain in the earthly body, to be changed in the moment.)

Romans 8:23: “We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, "to wit" the redemption of our bodies.” (Present sonship by the first fruit of the Spirit contrasts with, but seals, and confirms our future bodily redemption to immortality.)

Philippians 3:20–21: “We eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” [Immortal]

1 John 3:2: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” 

1 Corinthians 15:51–54: “We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye… the dead bodies of those ascended before us, will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed [and made Immortal]. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.”

1 Corinthians 15:28: “When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under Him, that God the Father and eternal Spirit, may be all in all.” (Final handover of the Kingdom; no more enemies, no more death, God the Spirit and Father of Jesus Christ, reigns unchallenged as to everything that exists, and infills all of the redeemed and immortal in equal to Jesus.)

Revelation 21:1–4, 22:3–5: “Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth’… God’s dwelling place is now among the people… He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain… They will see His Immortal face… and they will reign for ever and ever.” (All the redeemed in body and soul reunited, with Jesus Christ and one another, to dwell together eternally.)

Old Testament promises of resurrection (Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2–3) and a renewed creation (Isaiah 65:17) find fulfillment here. The final performance of our blessed hope ends the “not yet”: no more tares, no more groaning, full conformity to Christ, and perfected fellowship among all the redeemed.

Amen, God bless the reader with inspiration and understanding, Amen!

The Mystery of God's Plan

 The God given and self evident truth in fact is known by all reasonable persons and by reproductive truth, natural descendants of Abraham still exist on earth.

And they are called a remnant, like the extra cloth left over after a preferred garment or robe is formed.

Jesus became manifest bodily through performance of His promise to Abraham through the virgin Mary, traced out through David to confirm God's righteousness in fulfillment of Gen 49:10.

God knew what He meant by what He said to Abraham, and Abraham understood at the mountain, when Isaac was refused, God would provide the Lamb by His own separated Son.

The actual lineage of Jesus is: Reserved by God in the womb of Eve, preserved from dilution by Angels at the flood, and fully manifest forever after in the womb of Mary, birthed into the world in a body like ours to give us a body like His at the consummation!

Believe this eternal truth, teach it and preach it; so the greatest number possible by voluntary solicitation may come to be saved at His command from heaven! Amen!

Thereafter the fulfillment of Gen 49:10, by the bodily manifestation of Jesus, we know there is no more distinction as ordered from heaven, between Jew and Gentile or from God's perspective because He has concluded all created equal in the sin of Adam.

And when He appeared He gave His blood for them first, as well as us.

Those who lived before His manifestation are ascended to where He is now, the souls of just men made perfect after departure from the sinful body, ascended up in harvest to Him who is ruling and reigning over all flesh, irreversible in Kingdom and glory and majesty immortal over the remnant of natural descendants of Abraham, and over all the remnant of all humanity, remained on earth, for equal representation, and redemption of all who believe.

No it doesn't matter for us to vet them, [the political State of Israel] in management of their self defensed land and State, nor for us, or even for them to place any significance on their DNA traced to Abraham, for he had two sons and gave a land of inheritance to both.

They have to work out their own salvation and peace through Jesus Christ the sole inheritor of all God's promise first to Abraham and performed, [He is already with Jesus Christ in the city He sought whose builder and make is God] and to all the remnant and all humanity Amen

They can have a recognized political State and vet their own citizens in any way they please like all other recognized political States do.

We honor them and their historic friendship with God, through the same faith as Abraham if perhaps some of them will be saved through believing in the testimony of Jesus Christ, first manifest and declared among them, remained bodily immortal in His glorious body and God built and chosen throne in heaven.

Not built by human hands.

Are all saved who are born, or naturalized in America a Nation consecrated to the same truths of our preexisting and self expressed God, at foundation of origin?

No, but the foundation in the same truths that lead to Christ is entirely God blessed, and necessary to our more perfect union in civil peace, as a fertile soil for the proliferation of the gospel whereby God calls all men to redemption through His only begotten Son!

The same is true in every other legitimized government formed by freedom to live in voluntary consent, to the same truths, as all other human beings, created equal, and manage prescribed boundaries of corporate defense in friendship with other peaceful States.

Are all the descendants of Abraham saved?

Past is recorded Biblical history of the saved and unsaved. Jesus has made the distinction and the saved are with Him now.

Presently, He is ruling over and drawing all men to Him, and pouring out the promise of the Father to equal sonship with Him, by the gift of His Holy Spirit in confirmation of new birth and new creation in blessed hope of redemption in in the body to immortality at His command! Romans 8:23

Future: Only those who confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that God has raised Him from the dead and placed Him immortal in the throne of His pleasure and choice over all the nations remained on earth, and for as long as the present heavens and earth exist.

Amen Amen

#2Peter3

We Are Created Equal

 God is our creator, we are created equal in His image, and design for us in reproductive truth! We will celebrate the 250th year, of our Declaration in the same truth this year in America. #USA #Happy250thDeclarationDay

He is our God, and savior through Jesus Christ, who is the only uniquely formed Son of God in the flesh, and resurrected immortal, through the reservation of a potential for Him in the womb of Eve while she was a virgin, preserved at the flood in the days of Noah, and made manifest through tracing His majestic birth in the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and David, to Mary His virgin mother, through God's friendship with Abraham.

The firstborn Son of God, and author of Immortality, capable of reproducing after His only begotten kind, sons and daughters, in the family and household of faith, with expectation and blessed hope of salvation, at the redemption of the body to immortality.

God revealed that neither of Abraham's natural born sons, nor any other of his natural descendants, could qualify as the Lamb of God, on the mountain when Abraham tried to offer Isaac to fulfill it.

The Angel of the Lord said, "don't harm the Lad", and God blessed him in friendship, through the Ram God provided for Himself.

Thereby revealing, all men are created equal through the reproductive truth established in Adam, and God would provide our deliverer through a virgin woman, to introduce eternal life in communion with His Spirit, and blessed hope of redemption in our body to immortality at the consummation. "if it was another way, I would have told you!"

Abraham, his descendants, and all men being created equal, are saved through being born again into an equal share of inheritance as sons and daughters, in likeness to, and from Jesus Christ alone, through His bloodshed for us, and His out poured gift upon all flesh, from His sole inheritance of the promise of the Father, invested in Him, by His Spirit without measure, and immutable word of His testimony given from heaven.

The same Spirit and testimony, poured into our hearts by faith, so we may grow up and mature, in the nurture of His Holy Spirit, poured out upon each member of His household called by Him, with His own bodily formed mouth as indicated in Isaiah 62:2, the Church, and performed in Matt 16, and gifted in measure, calling and election, according to His will, into the kind of friendship, faithfulness and loyalty, by which Abraham was built a household and family name of equal embrace by Him.

"Don't let your hearts be troubled, you believe in God, [who created you equal] believe also in Me!" Who is the only begotten Lamb of God, reserved from the beginning an equal body with you, in Eve, and exalted immortal seated in heaven, making intercession, for your salvation in the equal body with Me, at the end! Amen!

False Religion Of Islam

 Islam is a false religion created by a false prophet.

The liberation of Iran from the Mullahs is a good thing.

The defense of Iran, Israel, and America against violence by death chanting Mullahs is a good thing.

All people have the same opportunity to believe in Jesus Christ by voluntary solicitation!

Israel as a political State should be able to exist as a defensive homeland for the remnant of the naturally reproduced, Jewish people, by whatever subscription they choose for vetting their own citizens. Remnant, as I am using it is biblical phrase, meaning those left over after the Lord has become manifest to all human beings and all nations created equal just as He preordained, and revealed He would do. Gen 49:10

After God's demand to trace lineage from Eve, to manifestation in Mary, Jesus Christ as God's only begotten Son, has now been witnessed and fulfilled, by His first chronological appearing in majestic revealing to them the Jew first, and then the rest, just as He promised! Isaiah 49:6

There is no more necessity as given from heaven, to trace their lineage or validate by DNA as Abraham's children in the nature of reproduction, for Abraham himself, derives his lineage from Adam.

And the seed of promise given to Him, through friendship and faith, is manifest in God's Son, not his own in nature. Isaac was saved in the same moment, by the Ram of God, as Abraham rejoiced to see His salvation when the Angel said, "do not harm the lad'.

Support for the equal preservation of the political State of Israel, does not equate to support for a false religion and strong delusion that yields to hatred against Jesus Christ installed immortal irreversible in His Kingdom and throne of glory in heaven!

But rather an affirmation that the greatest number of people possible from all Nations held in equal on earth, might come into His glorious Kingdom and salvation by voluntary solicitation, through the preaching of the gospel, before the consummation.

Gen 6:13, 1 Peter 1:16-21, 2 Peter 3.

Don't be willingly ignorant that a thousand years is as a day, and a day as a thousand years to Him who is seated Immortal and indestructible enthroned in heaven as built by God for Him, and that throne accepted above all others, by His choice made in the Garden, rather than any present in that day, or designed in the future, as an earthly throne built by men.

He will never do that. He does not desire, nor accept a throne built by men on earth for Him, except as being acknowledged as He is and where He is enthroned, and celebrated, by those who have gone up before us, and in dwelling together with us in the same Spirit of His testimony in the midst of our praises.

In the new heaven and earth coming after, there is no more wars, or death at all forever! Read all about it in #1Cor15

#TheGospelOfJesusChrist

#ConsummationOfRedemptionInTheBodyToImmortality #ImmortalityInUniversalExpression #WithChristForeverImmortal #GodBlessTheChurchSameGodBlessAmerica

The God Head of Jesus Christ

 Great is the mystery 1 Timothy 3:16 an expanded view:

God is the preexisting, invisible uncreated and self existing eternal glory, creator of all things, and of humanity in the design of His choice, the invisible Spirit who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, at the beginning, and gave humanity form, breath, and a body for life.

Him who is, and was creator, making Himself known to humanity from the beginning, and through all that He had created in His own image and likeness of expression as He would express Himself in a body of likeness to us, having first made us in the image of His own preordained manifestation bodily in Jesus Christ.

God who is our creator in reproductive truth, is The Spirit, and the Word, and the Truth, who Fathered and made His Son, manifest in the body of Jesus Christ, formed in Mary's womb while she was a virgin, in separate from the sperm of men in reproduction after Adam, God's first and only begotten as a Son, given sole, and exclusive inheritance of His Holy Spirit without measure, endowed with the power of resurrrection, to bodily immortality by God the creator of all humanity who is that uncreated Glory, the invisible Spirit of eternal life and blessing of specific person hood in the body of Jesus Christ, reigning from heaven.

At what time, God our creator, became a Father to Jesus Christ, His Son became the sole inheritor of all that He had created by the same Spirit and eternal truth made manifest in His singular person.

Now God is that Spirit, the invisible Spirit manifest bodily in Jesus Christ: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [as poured down from heaven in the promise of the Father, to bring many sons into His glory] there is liberty to become co heirs with Christ.

2 Cor 3:18 a paraphrase:

So we all, who believe and receive His testimony and Holy Spirit, being out poured on all flesh, from His exalted position immortal enthroned, to fill us, whosoever of us, calls upon His name as the only begotten Son of God, with open face beholding as in a reflection, with the eyes of our understanding, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image as adopted sons and daughters, from glory to glory, even as by the same eternal Spirit of the Lord, in blessed hope, of being changed to the same individual body of redemption comparable to His own immortal body, in the universal expression of immortality when He comes off His mercy seat, and is revealed in His sovereignty over all that He Himself has created, to command it, at the consummation.

1 Cor 15:26-28

The Spirit of the Father, is dwelling without measure in the firstborn Son, one Spirit and one body immortal in eternal truth and singular person of Godhead, and we who have received the same Spirit in truth and testimony, will be changed into His likeness, at our change to immortality, and God the Spirit, will be our all, and in all to dwell with Jesus Christ in a new heaven and new earth built for the body of His express image and eternal life manifest in us as rejoined to Him, and redeemed in the body to immortality, just as He is now.

The Israel of God

 The Israel of God by Dave Thomas, a messenger and witness of the testimony of Christ.

Jesus Christ is the Seed of the woman alone (Gen 3:15), not the seed of the man, nor derived from the ethnically separated unto Him by faith for making His identity known to all.

We derive from Him, He did not derive from Abraham or anyone else of us.

That's why He abolished all lines of distinction among men.

He is “that Holy One” who is born, not of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, nor of the ethnic distinction He Himself created, but of God who is the creator of all (John 1:13; Luke 1:35).

He is the Second Adam, the Last Adam immortal (1 Cor 15:45–47), who starts a new, [born again by His new creation Spirit lineage of] humanity, not continuing the old condemned lineage.

Note: The saved from the former lineage of distinction through Abraham are already with Him where He is ruling over all the remnant remained on earth.

If you are not born again by His Spirit and holding to His testimony in the truth.

You are none of His and still in your sins from Adam, like all the rest who refuse to honor Him for who He is.

All ethnicity of humanity derive from Adam, only one man Jesus Christ derives from God the Father, the name of His only begotten Son, the only savior separated from the lineage of Adam, and every diversity of ethnicity.

Every human being in every subsequent generation from His appearing in the flesh, must be born again to derive and inherit the same Spirit and testimony of salvation in blessed hope of rejoin to Him at the redemption of the body to immortality when the Son of God appears to all.

#1Cor15v26

Amen, Amen, Father of Glory shining eternal in the face of Jesus Christ Immortal, irreversible in Kingdom and Majesty from heaven, where You are enthroned in Him!

Let the reader understand and agree with Your immutable majesty in self evident truth and self expression bodily!

Live birthed for this purpose, for redemption of all who believe in the same way as Abraham himself, believed and Isaac together when they beheld Your glory in a figure as the Ram provided for the offering of His faith eternal and let many sons and daughters be added to Your household of faith in the same Spirit and the same truth, for Your testimony oh Lord is the Spirit of prophecy.

Now as Peter declared we who believe in You as You have revealed of Yourself and become manifest in the body, have a "more sure word" of the same prophecy by which You declared that You would do all theses things.

Let the day star arise in many hearts as they consider this, and pay attention to all that You have done, are doing, and ever will be doing just as You promised to make us Your people, sons and daughters, of the same faith as Abraham who saw Your glory and rejoiced to see Your day, we who are sealed by Your Holy Spirit in first fruit witness, and testimony in blessed hope of our change at Your appearing to all, will be clothed upon with the body of immortality like Your own, whether we have ascended first at the separation from our body, or remained alive by Your Spirit in the body, at the final adoption and consummation. Amen! Amen!

One Like The Son of God Part 3

 The eternal purpose of God, as revealed from the beginning, is to dwell forever with His beloved Son — who is the resurrection and the immortal expression of the Father bodily — and with redeemed of humanity raised to bodily immortality in likeness to Him, in a new heaven and new earth where death is no more. This is the highest good God could achieve through creating mankind in His image: in bringing forward the voluntary conformity of many sons to the likeness of His one and only uniquely begotten eternal Son, to the everlasting praise of the glory of His eternal grace and sovereignty. 

Peter uses Gen 6:13 to reference the "reservation" of the present heavens and earth for destruction by fire, when God took the breath away from all the rest by water, as God spoke to Noah about, in two distinct statements, first in verse 7, notice the difference when He said, "I will destroy them from the face of the earth" in a "type" cast universal destruction of the wicked, defined more clearly in preordained and final manifestation when He says in the second statement "I will destroy them, along with the earth" as explained in detail here in 2 Peter 3 as that which some are "willingly ignorant of". 

Regarding this, preservation of the present heaven and earth environment continuing as it was from the beginning at the flood, let's say it loud and clear that God restarted the population of humanity as originally created in the Garden, through Noah and his family. So that He could bring His beloved Son into the world through the unadulterated lineage of Eve traced out and made manifest in Mary. In this way, The Lord Jesus Christ sat prophetically enthroned at the flood. 

The Nephilim were destroyed and the angels who had cohabited with women, perverting the DNA of humanity before the flood, were reserved in chains until the final judgement. God put an end to that; there is no more lineage remained of the Nephilim. Period. And the angels that broke away from God's command, and sinned in that regard are reserved in chains until the final judgement. The giants that were later reported were of natural descent from Noah's son Ham. Not the progeny of hybrids by disobedient Angels as was the case before the flood.

Pray with me "God give us an understanding", as we read, and discover the truth, how great both the freedom and eternal responsibility, and blessed hope, that is given to men through the manifestation and revelation of Jesus Christ.

This is an exploration of history, and autobiographical review of Him who was preordained to come, and made manifest in His bodily person as the savior of all humanity, especially of those who believe to the saving of the soul, and redemption in the body to immortality. 

Reviewing at the same time the fate of those who refuse His solicitation to voluntary salvation during the only remaining period given by Him, during His reign from heaven for calling upon His name and being born again by His Spirit in acceptance of the truth as He reveals it about Himself, and from His own person, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily immortal.

In the case of the obstinately unreasonable and wicked, Psalm 21:9 makes a bold statement: You will make them burn like a fiery furnace...at the time of your [2nd] appearance. Most of the Old Testament scripture makes reference to the truth of the final situation in the manifestation of bodily immortality, or of the resurrected state of final adjudication at the rejoin with the body of God's original intention for us, as it will be commanded in universal expression at the end of Christ's reign from heaven as set apart and exalted first born immortal. 

Remember:

The eternal purpose of God, as revealed from the beginning, is to dwell forever with His beloved Son — who is the resurrection and the immortal expression of the Father bodily — and with redeemed of humanity raised to bodily immortality in likeness to Him, in a new heaven and new earth where death is no more. This is the highest good God could achieve through creating mankind in His image: in bringing forward the voluntary conformity of many sons to the likeness of His one and only uniquely begotten eternal Son, to the everlasting praise of the glory of His eternal grace and sovereignty. 

This Statement, succinctly captures:

• The Father’s ultimate goal (eternal mutual indwelling)

• The absolute centrality and deity of the Son (“the resurrection and immortal expression of the Father” echoes John 1:18; 11:25; 14:9; Col 1:15; 1 Tim 6:16)

• The redemption and glorification of the many sons (Rom 8:23, 29; Heb 2:10)

• The final state of communion with the Father (Rev 21–22)
• Bodily resurrection and situation of immortality for the redeemed (1 Cor 15:42–54; Phil 3:21)
• Free, voluntary love and likeness (Rom 8:29; Eph 1:4–6)
• The supremacy of grace (Eph 2:7)

In this way, Adam and all his progeny were preordained to life and immortality by redemption in Christ through voluntary solicitation; it is plainly revealed and reasonably understood that he was not immortal in his body but earthy at his creation, and subjected to temptation. God breathed into him a living soul, but immortality required eating from the tree of life.

He had not yet eaten from the tree of life and immortality, that was in the Garden, when and at such time after his sin, he was, clothed with God's righteousness to deliver his living soul from death, and preserve his body in God's blessing for exit out of the Garden to be "fruitful and multiply". 

We see that the very reason he could not remain in the Garden in God's reflection of Gen 3:22 is that he might eat from the tree of life and immortality unworthily, rather than by the gift and invitation of reconciliation through Jesus Christ after His introduction into the world. 

His temptation to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an introduction of responsibility to the sovereignty of God's commandments, as a preordained subjection to vanity, by the presence of the serpent in the Garden. Romans 8:20

The serpent is not ignorant. He is revealing that he knows exactly what the Tree of Life is for. 
He is saying, in effect:
“You are not yet fully immortal. God has kept you in a state where you could not become His equal — truly immortal AND autonomous — but He is jealously guarding that privilege for Himself. Eat from this tree instead, and you can seize divinity on your own terms, without needing Him or His Tree of Life.”

However, the death of the body is subjugated to God's sovereignty, for the number of years given for voluntary solicitation to reconciliation with God, and redemption through Christ. 

[Reduced to a standard of 120 years at the flood.]

The serpent, is a fallen creature possessing super-human but not divine knowledge, he did not miscalculate; he knowingly lied. 
He understood perfectly that disobedience would bring death to both soul and body by refusing a reverential relationship with God, and severing access to the Tree of Life. His temptation was the same lie he believed of himself: that self inspired autonomy could replace dependence on God and yield a higher form of life in satisfaction of self desire — a lie that the promised Seed has now eternally crushed.”
Nothing in the biblical teaching about the survival of the soul after physical death, or about the second death, weakens or alters this statement.

The serpent knew exactly what God had said (“dying you shall die” = spiritual separation immediately + loss of access to the Tree of Life → eventual physical death).
He contradicted it deliberately and with full malice.
He was not ignorant, guessing, or honestly mistaken.So this statement is not only accurate — it is necessary in order to remain faithful to the text of Genesis 3 and to the consistent portrait of Satan throughout Scripture.
Angels, including the serpent/Satan, are created spirit and/or material beings who possess a real but derived existence — not self-existent or self-derived, autonomy, but that only which is granted and sustained by God alone in sovereign oversight from the moment of their creation to the determination of their final end.

Jesus said, you will never die meaning in the eternally living soul, then He also said, I am the resurrection and the life meaning that we will each be clothed upon with a resurrected or changed body. It is His Glory to consummate all things, to bring everything that exists into the final form of which God ever preordained and intended to do from the beginning through a voluntary solicitation to salvation before His sovereignty of final command. 

So we understand when Jesus said, even if you die, yet shall you live, we know that the soul survives death, and the body of every believer included in His household, will be changed immortal at His appearing.

Be faithful and loyal to the end, eternal life, and immortality with Christ in the subsequent Kingdom of God, is an eternal reward to those who diligently seek Him. 1 Cor 15:24

Finally Again: 

The eternal purpose of God, as revealed from the beginning, is to dwell forever with His beloved Son — who is the resurrection and the immortal expression of the Father bodily — and with redeemed of humanity raised to bodily immortality in likeness to Him, in a new heaven and new earth where death is no more. This is the highest good God could achieve through creating mankind in His image: in bringing forward the voluntary conformity of many sons to the likeness of His one and only uniquely begotten eternal Son, to the everlasting praise of the glory of His eternal grace and sovereignty. 

Becoming more and more like Jesus must become our life long pursuit, as Paul the Apostle encourages us to press on leaving that which is behind to apprehend that very thing that He has apprehended us for still yet ahead of us. 

By believing the one who so loved us that He became one with us in the body of our likeness, so we could become one with Him in the body of immortality, forever! So why wait any longer to begin, or take the next step of faith?

If it was possible for the 7th man from Adam, to become so Christ like, in pleasing God, that he never died, and Elijah was ascended to Holy preservation in the same Spirit of Christ, from his generation forward to his present estate in heaven with Him where He is, then let us believe because the Son of God has made Himself known and ascended irreversible and immortal to where He is now reserving a place for us with Himself, we might also attain to the greater things He has preordained for us to walk in, embracing an instant expectation for ascension to join Him where He is after our separation from the body by death or by enduring to the full performance of our blessed hope at the change to immortality when He commands it at the consummation!

We should never despise our own God given and heaven breathed identity, and prepared salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, building us up in our most holy faith and producing His eternal and ever blessed testimony in us and through us, nor yield to a temptation to appropriate the already won victories or identities of those who have gone before us, nor entertain for any reason anyone who does.

But rather to fully become through His invested Spirit and measure of calling and election over each of us, from heaven, one like the Son of God.

God bless you, and thank you for reading, praying and believing with me, that our God is a consuming fire, eternally faithful and capable of leading us guiding us and fulfilling every good promise made to us, with a yes and amen from heaven.

Father of glory, fully invested without measure in the body of Jesus Christ, irreversibly immortal and glorified bodily enthroned in heaven, thank you for filling us with Your Holy Spirit in wisdom and revelation, confirm again in this moment Your jealousy over each of us, today as whoever is reading this and praying this prayer with me, may be joined together You, and with me, in the same Spirit and the same truth! 

Be glorified in our lives, and sustain us in Your love, continue to teach us and prepare the way before us until we who are seated with You in heavenly places through Your intercession for us, now, will be changed into Your likeness from glory to glory, and altogether bodily at Your command.

Amen! 1 Cor 1:10