Christian Clarity Review

February 13, 2008

What happens to you when your flesh dies?

If you have been born again as a new creature in Jesus Christ, you go into the presence of God.

There are some who deny this as anti-Christ does it through them and hope you don’t read your Bible and so won’t know the difference.

Holy Scripture proving new creatures in Jesus Christ indeed go to heaven:

1. We have the witness of God in the Book of Revelation that those slain for Jesus Christ /Word of God are in heaven. To wit, John sees after being caught up into heaven:


Revelation 6:9-11 And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost
thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth? And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled.

Plainly there has yet to be a resurrection and yet they are in heaven. They are not prohibited from being in heaven simply because a general resurrection has not yet taken place ( as is claimed by the arch-heretic dog named N.T. Wright who has many heresies and division of brethren to his credit, not the least “The New Perspective on Paul” wherein he asserts a works-based salvation. What new birth? ) Plainly that their bodies are suffering corruption is not in any way a detriment to the fact of their actual new birth prior to their leaving the flesh and perfection of themselves such that they have a place in heaven before any general resurrection.

It should be noted that free will based theology is all lies. It lead N.T. Wright to “common sense out”, as proving his lack of new birth and the indwelling Spirit of God, to equate the lies of free will theology, wherein there is no new birth on this earth now, but supposedly “will be one later” ( much as the Roman Catholics pretend such that they need a “purgatory” as an inbetween place to “be perfected”.. ) with the actual truth of the Holy Scriptures.

In truth/Jesus Christ, we are born again by hearing the Word of God on this earth while in corrupt flesh. God explicitly says the new birth is of this earth:

John 3:3-12 Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew. The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things! Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness. If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?

As well, God Says we are made new creatures in Jesus Christ by hearing Him as Word:

1 Peter 1:23-25 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God. Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you.

James 1:18 According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.

God also says that new birth makes us new creatures in Jesus Christ:

2 Corinthians 5:16,17 So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

God also Says those born again and are new creatures in Jesus Christ are NOT our flesh:

Romans 8:6-10 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace. Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: and they that are in flesh cannot please God. But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him: but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

Not being of flesh but merely clothed with flesh, no resurrection OF THE FLESH is no impediment to being in heaven after we leave the flesh. But in the new birth, the new birth is a type of resurrection from the dead of spirit.

Anti-Christ through N.T. Wright ( a “bishop” of the Church of England/Episcopalians) has equated those who are in flesh, the non-regenerate ( those not born again and thus those not new creatures in Jesus Christ ) with real Christians as Episcopalians have for some decades now in their multi-cultural milieu of heresy sought to “equate” everything that merely claims to be “a faith” with true Christianity: to equate non-new birth “Christianity” with the standard of non-new birth of all pagan religions. Now it comes to Christian doctrine and they have lost even the ability they at least pretended to once have to distinguish pagan lies from Christian truths. They have spoken truth when they say THEIR definition of a “Christian” as being equal with pagans in all ways will not be in heaven. In that anti-Christ has spoken honestly. His deceit is to claim to be a spokesperson for all ACTUAL Christians who are no longer their flesh and thus need no resurrection to be in heaven with Jesus Christ.

More evidence flesh is not necessary to be resurrected for real new creatures in Jesus Christ to be in heaven and to come and go in and out of heaven for the present: Moses and Elijah stood with Christ and spoke to Him in the presence of John, Peter and James when there had been no resurrection:

Matthew 17:2-5 And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light; and lo, Moses and Elias appeared to them talking with him. And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elias. While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, *This* is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight: hear him.

As well, we also have the witness of God through Paul that Says that for Christians/new creatures in Jesus Christ, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord:

2Corinthians 5:6-10 Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord, (for we walk by faith, not by sight;) we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him. For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.

How then does anti-Christ through the Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright say the body is necessary to be with the Lord such that he bases his pagan lies on a supposed necessity of being in flesh to be in heaven? And how could World Net Daily drink up his evil vomit so readily, as well as adding besides that we have no immortal souls? They are all quite beside themselves in wickedness, seeking to be teachers of what they have not seen or understood, exactly as God has described them:

Colossians 2:18,19 Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

and

Jude 1:10-16 But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, the Lord has come amidst his holy myriads, to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

They will be wishing they had no immortal souls to burn in the lake of fire with forever if God does not grant them grace of repentance and new life in Jesus Christ to which they have already pretended.

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Do not be deceived by the lies sent to deceive pop “Christians” who equate themselves with pagans such that they say there are such things as “other faiths” and “we” collectively with those of “other faiths” all end up the same. It is not as if heaven and sheol/hades prior to the day of judgment will be filled with identical creatures in two different places. New creatures in Jesus Christ will be with Jesus Christ in heaven while non-new creatures in Jesus Christ will be in Sheol/Hades in flames. (Luke 16:22-31 And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame. But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who desire to cross from there pass over unto us. And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father, for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them. But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent. And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.) We will be with the Lord when absent from the body. And we will return to our bodies after God has perfected them and live with Him in the new heavens and new earth:

Luke 23:42,43 And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom. And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Job 19:25-27 And as for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth; And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God; Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: –my reins are consumed within me.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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