The Mystery of God
Then the angel that I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and took a vow in the name of God, who lives forever and ever, who created heaven, earth, and the sea, and everything in them. The angel said, “There will be no more delay! But when the seventh angel blows his trumpet, then God will accomplish his secret plan, as he announced to his servants, the prophets.”
(Revelation 10:5-7) Good News Translation
If all of the impurity and corruption has been disposed of in the lake of fire in outer darkness then the center of creation is free for God to inhabit with his people: those who chose him because they had free will.
How could the mystery of God be finished? By the fulfillment of the purpose for which creation was made.
The purpose of creation is to bring about the permanent physical separation of light from darkness, day from night, good from evil.
– The Purpose of Creation
At the end of the Millennial Kingdom several things take place:
- Satan is cast into the lake of fire,
- Earth and heaven fled away,
- The final judgment,
- Death and hell cast into the lake of fire,
- Anyone not listed in the book of life cast into the lake of fire.
Satan and the Lake of Fire
We have speculatively identified the planet Venus as the lake of fire. It’s been cooking its mixture of fire and brimstone for this specific purpose: it will be the final repository for all of the impurity and corruption of creation, the majority of which had accumulated around the gravitational singularity at the center of the Earth.
Earth and Heaven Fled Away
Earth and heaven fled away? We can understand this as the Earth and what’s left of the heavens are vaporized. The elements themselves will melt with fervent heat means that the physical matter of the universe will dissolve into its sub-atomic components.
They spread out over the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people and the city that he loves. But fire came down from heaven and destroyed them.
(Revelation 20:9) Good News Translation
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish. Since all these things will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God, as you wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon—the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat. But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.
(2 Peter 3:10-13) Good News Translation
And let’s not forget testable hypothesis 22
Predictive Testable Hypothesis 22
- IF the Holy Spirit is the power of God to inspire human writers,
- AND the physics of the universe has been written in scripture so that it’s
- obvious and
- invisible,
- AND the physics of the universe has been written in scripture so that it’s
- THEN phrases or words that look like chemistry, physics, biology or geology should be treated as if they are chemistry, physics, biology or geology,
- AND the science will be congruent with the scriptural context.
The elements melt with fervent heat. Heaven dissolves. The peer review propaganda machine is hard at work getting everybody ready for this. Here are a couple of breathless terror-inducing headlines which, when you read more than a paragraph, go on to dismiss themselves as so unlikely as to be irrelevant. But the seed has been planted in your mind.
- We’d only have 15 minutes of notice if a space storm were to hit
- 15 MIN APOCALYPSE Devastating space storms could strike Earth at any time and we’d only have 15 mins notice
Final Judgment
Souls who are in hell because they rejected Jesus Christ will be judged.
Death and Hell are Cast into the Lake of Fire
Hell is temporary, the lake of fire is permanent. It’s similar in concept to someone who gets arrested for a crime. The arresting officer takes them to the local lock up, jail or some kind of holding facility. That’s hell. When a judge or magistrate is available they review the charges and render a judgment on the appropriate outcome. It might be prison. That’s the lake of fire.
Anyone not Listed in the Book of Life is Cast into the Lake of Fire.
This is the outcome. The lake of fire is a permanent solution to the storage of the impurity and corruption of creation. It will be sent drifting off into outer darkness.
I assure you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of heaven. But those who should be in the Kingdom will be thrown out into the darkness, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.”
(Matthew 8:11-12) Good News Translation
The mystery of God is finished. However, we’ve been given some tantalizing clues about what the next world will be like, and that’s what we’ll consider in the daily devotional for December.
Read through the Bible in a year
| Reading plan | November 30 | |
| Linear | Ephesians 4-6 | |
| Chronological | 1 Corinthians 5-8 |
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
