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

Zion's Eschatology

 Zion’s Valley of Decision Eschatology

Core Tenets:

1. Mount Zion as the New Jerusalem:

• The “true mountain of the Lord” is Mount Zion, the New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Galatians 4:26, “the Jerusalem above… mother of us all”), comprising the Church—believers filled with the Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:6; John 16:13).

• Christ is enthroned immortally in His heavenly, eternal city, post-resurrection and ascension (1 Corinthians 15:20–25; Matthew 28:18; Daniel 7:13–14). Earthly Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives are typological shadows of this immortal, spiritual reality, not requiring an earthly fulfillment in a mortal or ethnically diverse context.

2. Valley of Decision:

• Zechariah 14:4–5’s splitting of the Mount of Olives reflects the spiritual reality of the crucifixion earthquake (Matthew 27:51), creating a “valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4), an extension of heaven and earth in nature providing a new context and space where humanity chooses salvation through faith in Christ, as the only escape from death, hell, and the grave (John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 15:55–57).

• The valley represents a decision point: where believers ascend in the Spirit and truth, “north” to Christ in the body of His immortality in the New Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 5:8; John 14:2–3), joining Him in the Spirit, while rejectors remain to the “south,” still undecided in their mortal state or worse decent at physical death, to hell, (Luke 19:14, “we will not have this man to rule over us” John 8 "if you don't believe I am He you will die in your sins).

3. Separation of Sins:

• The east-west splitting (Zechariah 14:4) reflects the spiritual truth of Christ’s work at the cross, separating sins “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12). This division, initiated at the crucifixion, establishes the Church (Mount Zion) in blessed hope of a promised, end with Christ forever at the change to immortality, first enjoyed at present by spiritual translation into the Kingdom of Christ ruling and reigning irreversibly immortal from heaven in tangible expression of physicality, and distinct from those remaining undecided or opposed in mortality on earth.

4. Christ’s Immortal Reign:

• Christ reigns immortally from heaven (Acts 3:21, “heaven must receive him until the time for restoring all things” ie redemption of the body), with universal dominion (1 Corinthians 15:25; Matthew 28:18). His reign is spiritual (through the Holy Spirit, Zechariah 14:8; John 7:38–39) eternal, and physically expressed in His immortality of body, not requiring an earthly throne of expression in a mortal environment for subjection to human or ethnic validation.

• The Spiritual truth of his reign, as it exists now, culminates in the universal transition and transformation to immortality, not merely a further earthly extension of mortality as it presently exists according to His patience, to satisfy a human-originated distinction of expression. His promised salvation of redemption in the body to immortality is one promise to all people, from the beginning in Adam, to the end at His appearing. (1 Cor 15:22, 26)

5. Second Coming and Transformation:

• At Christ’s return, all living believers are transformed into immortality without dying in the body (1 Corinthians 15:51-54, “changed in the twinkling of an eye”; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). The unrighteous, unable to survive "as in the days of Noah", when the heavens and earth flee away and are folded up like a garment, passing away with a great noise and melting with a fervent heat (Revelation 6:15-17), face a secondary resurrection for judgment (Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29). Everything that God has said will happen has happened as He intended it to happen from the beginning to the end, a new creation world without end, built for the body immortal in His own likeness, bodily and image eternal, remain forever, and ever, Amen. (Revelation 21:5)

• No earthly valley or earthquake is needed, as transformation to immortality fulfills a need for physical escape, rendering an earth-bound millennium with extended reproduction in the body of mortality unnecessary and biblically impossible.

6. New Heaven and Earth:

• Christ’s return fulfills God’s eternal purpose (Acts 3:21), defeating death (1 Corinthians 15:26) and handing the Kingdom to the Father (15:24). The new heaven and earth (Revelation 21:1–3) manifest in transitiion from the New Jerusalem in heaven, where Christ and the redeemed dwell now Himself alone immortal, likened to a wedding party, before the consummation, and eternal placement in the new heaven and new earth where there is only righteousness, peace with God, and communion with Christ in the likeness of immortality bodily forever. (Revelation 19:7–9; 21:2).

• God becomes our “all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:28), with no further need for dominion, as sin and mortality are fully swallowed up by immortality in the eternal state of final consummation.

7. Escape from Death:

• The righteous “flee” death’s captivity (Zechariah 14:5) through faith, joining Christ in the Spirit at death (2 Corinthians 5:8) and Immortal at his return (1 Corinthians 15:51–54). Old Testament saints were freed at the crucifixion/resurrection (Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 27:52,53), ascending “north” to the New Jerusalem.

Key Texts:

• Zechariah 14:4–5: Splitting reflects the spiritual reality of crucifixion; the valley is a decision space on the ground.

• Psalm 23:4: Valley of the shadow of death as a decision point.

• Psalm 103:12: Sins separated east from west.

• 1 Corinthians 15:20–28, 51–54: Christ’s reign and transformation to immortality.

• Acts 3:21: Christ in heaven until restoration, according to God's original intention.

• Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Galatians 4:26: New Jerusalem as Mount Zion.

• John 14:2-3; 2 Corinthians 5:8: Believers join Christ first in the Spirit and then in the body of immortality.

Distinctive Emphasis:

• Mortality cannot persist after Christ’s return, as his immortal reign (Acts 3:21) and transformation of believers into a universal expression of immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-54) eliminate it; all mortality is consumed by immortality. An earthly millennium with mortal humans in reproduction contradicts the spiritual truth of Christ’s eternal glory in Spirit, and in truth of His bodily reign immortal from heaven for voluntary solicitation to salvation, which culminates in the consummation of immortality over the rest, for dwelling together forever, in the new heaven and earth where God is our “all in all.”

Comparison to Major Christian Eschatological Views

Aspect	Zion’s Valley of Decision Eschatology	Premillennialism (Historic)	Premillennialism (Dispensational)	Postmillennialism	Amillennialism	Preterism (Partial)	Bickle/IHOPKC (Apostolic Premillennialism)
Zechariah 14:4–5	Spiritual and manifest bodily at the end: Crucifixion earthquake; valley as decision space (Psalm 23:4); believers ascend north to join Jesus in the New Jerusalem. No earthly valley at the second coming; transformation to immortality resolves. (1 Corinthians 15:51–54).	Earthly: Second coming; Mount of Olives splits for physical escape during tribulation.	Earthly: Second coming; valley for escape; Israel’s restoration.	Spiritual: Christ’s victory through the Church; no earthly valley.	Spiritual: Fulfilled in the first coming or Church age; spiritual victory.	Spiritual: Fulfilled in 70 CE or the first coming.	Earthly: Second coming; physical valley for escape during tribulation.
Mount Zion	New Jerusalem (Church); eternal, Jesus enthroned, immortal reality; earthly Jerusalem as shadow (Galatians 4:26).	Church and Israel; earthly in millennium with mortals.	Primarily Israel; earthly in millennium with mortals.	Church; spiritual reign in the gospel age.	Church; heavenly Jerusalem, spiritual now.	Church or historical Jerusalem (70 CE).	Church as Bride; earthly Zion in the millennium with mortals.
Second Coming	Transforms believers to immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-54); judges unrighteous; no earthly escape or mortal millennium needed; fulfills Acts 3:21.	Post-tribulation; earthly return; millennium with mortals follows.	Pre-trib rapture; earthly return; millennium with mortals.	After the gospel age, spiritual triumph.	Ends Church age; final judgment; no earthly millennium.	Future return; most prophecies fulfilled in 70 CE.	Post-trib; Church endures tribulation; earthly millennium with mortals.
Resurrection	First: Believers ascend at death (2 Corinthians 5:8) and are immortalized at His return (1 Corinthians 15:51–54); second: Judgment (Revelation 20:11–15). Mortality ends at His return.	First: Believers at return; second: Judgment post-millennium; mortals persist.	First: Pre-trib rapture; second: Judgment; mortals in the millennium.	General resurrection at return; mortals in the gospel age.	General resurrection at return; no mortal phase.	Spiritual resurrection in 70 CE; final at His return.	First: Believers at return; second: Judgment; mortals in the millennium.
Kingdom	Present: Christ reigns immortally from heaven (Acts 3:21); eternal: New Jerusalem (Revelation 21). No earthly mortal millennium.	Present and future: Earthly millennium with mortals.	Future: Earthly millennium with Israel and mortals.	Present: Gospel creates a mortal golden age.	Present: Church age; spiritual reign.	Present: Church age; 70 CE fulfillment.	Present: Church prays for an earthly millennial reign with mortals.
Living Waters (Zechariah 14:8)	Holy Spirit now (John 7:38–39); eternal in New Jerusalem Immortality when He comes (Revelation 22:1).	Earthly and spiritual in the millennium with mortals.	Earthly in a millennium; Israel’s restoration.	Spiritual: Gospel spreads in mortal age.	Spiritual: Church age.	Spiritual: Post-70 CE Church.	Spiritual now; earthly in the millennium.
Division	Crucifixion splits believers (north, in Spirit and truth of the New Jerusalem) from rejectors (south, mortal valley); Psalm 103:12.	Future tribulation divides believers and nations; mortals persist.	Tribulation divides Israel and nations; mortals in the millennium.	Gospel divides believers and unbelievers in mortal age.	First coming divides humanity; spiritual now.	70 CE divides old/new covenant.	Tribulation divides Church and Antichrist’s system; mortals persist.
Acts 3:21	Christ remains in heaven until restoration; no earthly mortal throne needed; universal immortality at His return.	Christ returns for the earthly millennium with mortals.	Christ returns post-rapture for the earthly millennium.	Christ’s reign through the Church precedes the return.	Christ reigns spiritually now; returns for judgment.	Restoration partially in 70 CE; return future.	Christ returns for the earthly millennium after the tribulation.
Mortality Post-Return	Impossible; He commands a universal expression of immortality at His return (1 Corinthians 15:51-54); new heaven/earth (Revelation 21).	Mortals persist in a millennium (Isaiah 65:20).	Mortals in the millennium; Israel’s restoration.	Mortals in the gospel age before return.	No mortal phase post-return; eternal state.	No mortal phase post-70 CE; eternal state.	Mortals in the millennium; Church endures tribulation.

Analysis:

• Amillennialism (Closest Alignment):

• Similarities: My view aligns with amillennialism’s spiritual interpretation of Zechariah 14:4–5, seeing the crucifixion/resurrection as establishing the spiritual reality of the New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22) and Christ’s immortal reign from heaven (Acts 3:21). The rejection of an earthly millennium with mortals, emphasizing immediate transformation to immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51–54), is a key shared tenet.

• Differences: My “valley of decision” (Psalm 23:4) and north-south division (believers join Christ immortal in the New Jerusalem, while rejectors remain in mortal valley) is unique, providing a distinct framework for the crucifixion’s spiritual impact. Amillennialism doesn’t emphasize this division as explicitly.

• Partial Preterism:

• Similarities: The spiritual interpretation of the crucifixion as fulfilling Zechariah 14 and the view of earthly Jerusalem as a shadow align with preterism’s focus on first-century events. The emphasis on the New Jerusalem’s spiritual reality resonates.

• Differences: I stress a future second coming with immediate transformation to immortality, rejecting extended mortality, while preterism focuses on 70 CE fulfillments and a less defined transformation.

• Postmillennialism:

• Similarities: My view shares postmillennialism’s optimism about Christ’s current reign and the Spirit’s work (living waters, Zechariah 14:8).

• Differences: I reject a post-return mortal golden age, insisting on an immediate universal expression of immortality at the second coming (1 Corinthians 15:51-54), obsoleting an earthly phase.

• Premillennialism (Historic/Dispensational):

• Differences: Both expect an earthly Zechariah 14:4 (valley, earthquake) and a millennium with mortals (Isaiah 65:20), which I acknowledge as biblically impossible due to Christ’s immortal reign and transformation of the rest when He comes (1 Corinthians 15:51–54). My spiritual view prioritizes the eternal New Jerusalem over an earthly kingdom.

• Similarities: Both acknowledge Christ’s universal reign and a future return, but I emphasize heaven’s preeminence (Acts 3:21) and the universal expression of immortality as God's original intention for the final end.

• Bickle/IHOPKC (Apostolic Premillennialism):

• Differences: Bickle insists on an earthly Zechariah 14:4–5 (physical valley, tribulation escape) and a millennium with mortals, which I reject as incompatible with Christ’s immortal reign and universal command at His appearing. His focus on the necessity of Jesus enthroned on earth in compatibility with mortality contrasts with my emphasis on immediate transformation to immortality, for the redemption of the body to immortality, and universal destruction of the rest.

• Similarities: Both see the Church as Mount Zion (spiritually) and Christ’s current reign, but my view prioritizes the eternal state and universal expression of immortality over a temporary earthly kingdom.

Unique Aspects:

• The “valley of decision” (Psalm 23:4) as a spiritual space for choosing salvation, tied to Zechariah 14:4’s splitting, is distinctive.

• The north-south division (believers ascending to Christ immortal in the New Jerusalem, rejectors remaining in mortal valley) integrates Psalm 103:12 uniquely.

• Rejecting an earthly millennium with extended mortality, insisting on immediate transformation to immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-54), at His appearing, sets my view apart from premillennialism and aligns with amillennialism’s eternal focus with more clarity of the combination of Spiritual truth, with the resurrected and enthroned physicality of Jesus, Immortal and irreversible in His Kingdom, without necessity of condescension to the opinions of men, or demands of ethnicity.

Zechariah 14:4–5 in my Perspective

Interpretation:

• Crucifixion/Resurrection:

• The splitting of the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4) reflects the spiritual reality of the crucifixion earthquake (Matthew 27:51), separating sins “east from west” (Psalm 103:12) and creating a spiritual “valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4) for decision.

• Believers choose faith, “fleeing” death to ascend “north” to Christ enthroned, immortal in the eternal city of the New Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 5:8; John 14:2–3; Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 27:52–53). Rejectors remain “south” in mortality (Luke 19:14).

• The Church, as Mount Zion, is established as the eternal communion of the same Spirit in trust with the immortal reality of Jesus Christ, in blessed hope of bodily redemption at the consummation (Hebrews 12:22; Galatians 4:26).

• Second Coming:

• No earthly valley or earthquake is needed, as living believers are transformed into the greater body of immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-54; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). The unrighteous facing judgment (Revelation 20:11-15) are unable to survive Christ’s immortal entrance (Revelation 6:15-17) and the destruction of the earthly environment.

• Christ’s presence, immortal where He is, makes the eternal city of Jerusalem “new” (Revelation 21:2), and His return fulfills Acts 3:21’s restoration of the eternal state of humanity to universal expression in immortality; His return is not for an intermediate initiation of an earthly mortal kingdom, He could have done that any time He wanted, if He had wanted to.

• Immortality vs. Mortality:

• Mortality cannot persist post-return, as Christ’s immortal reign (Acts 3:21) and transformation (1 Corinthians 15:51–54) eliminate it. The new heaven and earth (Revelation 21:1–3) make manifest the eternal nature of the New Jerusalem, not an earthly millennium with mortals.

Supporting Texts:

• Zechariah 14:4–5: Splitting reflects the spiritual reality of crucifixion; the valley is a decision space.

• Psalm 23:4; Psalm 103:12: Valley as decision; sins separated.

• 1 Corinthians 15:20–28, 51–54: Christ’s reign and universal transformation to immortality.

• Acts 3:21: Christ in heaven until restoration.

• Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2; Galatians 4:26: New Jerusalem as Mount Zion.

• John 14:2-3; 2 Corinthians 5:8: Believers join Christ first in the Spirit and then bodily in immortality.

Challenges:

• Earthly Imagery: Zechariah 14:4-5’s description of the Mount of Olives splitting into a physical valley, compared to Uzziah’s earthquake (Amos 1:1), suggests to some an earthly event. My spiritual interpretation reframes this as the crucifixion’s impact.

• Context: Zechariah 14:2–9 (nations gathered, cosmic changes, and universal messianic reign) points to an apocalyptic event, not fully observable at the crucifixion. My view aligns with the eternal state and immortal exaltation of Jesus Christ, eclipsing a misperceived earthly phase.

• North-South Division: The supposed geographical split (north-south, 14:4) isn’t carnally observed as being believers vs. rejectors, and requires a spiritual interpretation, based on the truth of Christ's rule and reign immortal from heaven.

Conclusion

Zion’s Eschatology presents a profound spiritual interpretation of Zechariah 14:4–5, viewing the crucifixion earthquake as creating a spiritual valley of decision (Psalm 23:4), where believers ascend “north” to join the immortal King in the New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22) while rejectors and those in the valley of decision remain “south” in mortality (Psalm 103:12; Luke 19:14). Christ’s immortal reign from heaven (Acts 3:21) eliminates the need for an earthly, mortal millennium, with his second coming transforming believers into immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51–54) and ushering in the new heaven and earth (Revelation 21:1–3), where God is our “all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:28). 

This aligns closely with amillennialism’s spiritual truth focus and rejection of an earthbound expression of the millennium. Still, my unique “valley of decision” among other nuances and north-south division distinguishes it. 

Unlike premillennialism (including Bickle’s), which expects an earthly Zechariah 14:4 and a millennium with Jesus dwelling on earth, among mortals, my view prioritizes the eternal New Jerusalem where Jesus Christ is reigning now, highly exalted and separate from mortals, in His physical body of Immortality, and acknowledges the biblical impossibility of extending mortality after Christ’s 2nd coming.