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:
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
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.]
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
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