Many people are concerned about what happens
after death. Some say death is the absolute end of
life, therefore, they live a life without fear of
consequences. Others say that after death there will
be a coming judgment for which people must prepare
by living properly now.
There Will Be
Judgment and Life after Death
The Bible tells us that God exists and a life other
than our physical, tangible realm of here and now
also exists. What we can see is temporal and is
created by God, whom we cannot see. It is the
eternal and invisible God who, for a purpose,
created what is visible, including the earth, the
trees, the animals, and human beings. Just as God is
in the realm of eternity, so the life after death
determined by the coming judgment of God is also
after this presently visible realm.
Two Main Types of Life after Death
1) Those who fulfill God's purpose of creation, that is, those who believe that Christ died for their sins and resurrected for their justification and who take God in as life to become one with Him, will be with God, one with God, and ruling with God over the whole earth. This is the best possible thing that can happen to someone after death.
2) Those who are without God today will be apart from the loving God for eternity. They will suffer pain in the lake of fire, being burnt together with Satan (the devil) and his fallen angels. The lake of fire was not prepared for man but for Satan and his angels. However, all mankind became one with Satan as a result of the fall of Adam. Because some do not turn back to God in spite of many warnings and opportunities, God will have to give them up to spend eternity with Satan and share in his torment. This is the worst type of life after death. We hope that as many as possible will turn to God and be spared, especially you who are reading this.
The Deciding Factor
for which Type You'll Have
In
order to live a life that will prepare us to face
the coming judgment, we must first find out what
will be rewarded and what will be disapproved. Many
people have the misconception that a person who does
good deeds while living on earth will go to heaven,
whereas a person who does evil things will go to
hell. This concept is not according to the Bible. If
you read the two types of life after death
carefully, you will see something different. The
deciding factor for what one's life will be like for
eternity is not one's behavior while on earth but
rather whether or not one has believed Christ's
death and resurrection and received God as life.
Man's Problem
Although man was created by God to contain Him, man
was still given the choice to take God as life or to
take Satan. Man chose to take Satan, who then
entered man and became the sinful nature in man. Man
became a sinner in his constitution and full of sins
in his actions. There is now an element within man
which loves unrighteousness and hates righteousness,
which loves sin and darkness and hates light. All
that God desired man to be, man is not. Man without
God remains in sin and is dead in his spirit, the
very part of man which was created to contact and
contain God. If man does not repent, man is doomed
to remain with Satan for eternity.
God's Salvation
But God, who is rich in mercy because of His great
love with which He loves man, is not willing to see
His created man become a victim of Satan and end up
in the lake of fire with Satan. It is this love
which motivated God to become a man to join in with
victimized humanity, to die as the perfect
substitute to rescue man from destruction. He then
resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit to give
life to all who would believe and receive Him.
When you receive Him into you, He will bring
the life of God into you. God will be your life and
be one with you. Then you must allow Him to grow in
you to fill your whole being. This will deliver you
from the Satanic nature that has been in you since
your birth. The more He grows in you, the more
you'll be free from Satan's tyranny. You will love
as God loves. You will be righteous as God is
righteous. You will express all God's divine
attributes, such as love, light, holiness,
righteousness, kindness, etc. After living with God,
in God, and one with God on the earth, you will
certainly be approved at the judgment. You will
definitely have a life with God, because you already
will have been enjoying His eternal life during this
physical life.
If you have not yet turned back to God and
received His life through Jesus Christ, your life is
still filled with Satan, and you are condemned
already. It does not matter how much good you try to
do, you will never be that good. You may be
righteous sometimes, but not all the time. You may
show love to all people, but you may actually hate
some of them secretly inside your heart. This is not
because you have no desire to be an upright person,
but because you lack the empowering of the divine
life. God is God and Satan is Satan. If you have
Satan but not God, you can never be perfect in this
life, and you will definitely be in the lake of fire
with Satan after the judgment. If you have God
living inside of you, you may be as perfect as God
in this life, and you will definitely be with God
and one with God eternally. What you need is to
receive Jesus by calling on His name and admitting
to Him that you are a sinner and that you need Him
as your salvation.
Pray this way: "O Lord Jesus, I know that You have created me. I know that I have sin and do not have Your life. I believe that You died for me. Lord Jesus, come into me to be my life. I want to be with You now and forever." Then you need to read the Bible and pray every day and meet with believers in oneness so that you may grow up into Him and be built with God's people. By this, you will be assured of your destiny.
Bible Verses for Your Reading:
2 Corinthians 4:18 The things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Ephesians 3:9,11 They may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things... According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Colossians 1:16 Because in Him all things were created... the visible and the invisible,
1 Timothy 1:17 The King of the ages,... invisible, the only God
Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is reserved for men to die once, and after this comes judgment,
John 3:16-18 Every one who believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life... he who does not believe has been condemned already,
Romans 5:8 But God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 4:25 Who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification.
1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has the life
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
Revelation 22:5,7 The Lord God will shine upon them; and they will reign forever and ever. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him, and he will be a son to Me.
John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.
Ephesians 2:12 You were... apart from Christ, ...having no hope and without God in the world.
Matthew 25:41 Go away from Me... into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Romans 1:28 They did not approve of holding God in their full knowledge, God gave them up
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 You turned... to serve a living and true God and await His Son... who delivers us from the wrath which is coming.
Genesis 2:9 The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life
Romans 5:19 Through the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners,
Romans 7:20 If what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it out but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.
John 3:19 This is the condemnation, that the light has come... and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that every one who believes into Me would not remain in darkness.
Ephesians 2:1-5 And you, though dead in your offenses and sins... we also all conducted ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh... and were by nature children of wrath... but God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has suffered once for sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God
Romans 5:18 As it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men.
1 Corinthians 15:45 The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
John 7:39 This He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive
1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has the life
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow...
Ephesians 4:15 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers.
Mark 10:18 No one is good except One God.
Romans 3:10 There is none righteous, not even one
Philippians 4:13 I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me.
Matthew 5:48 You therefore shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Romans 10:13 Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 2:38 Repent and... baptized upon the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.