The Mysteries of God
Good morning Bro. Troy,
I am over joyed by your newfound walk with the Lord. I always knew you were a good brother, but I also knew that you still had some growing to do. However, I could sense you had a good heart and one day God would reveal Himself to you even the more and brother He is doing it.
The Lord led me to write this letter to you after reading your post this morning on Facebook. Your posts revealed that God is beginning to share His mysteries with you. This is not uncommon for the Bible states the Lord reveals His secrets unto His servants. Yes, you are a servant of the Lord now and He will open your understanding of His will in ways that you never imagine possible.
When I was saved back in 1994, the Church talked about Heaven and Hell all of the time. The Great White Throne Judgement that is found in Revelations 20:11-15 where it states all of mankind, good and bad, will stand before God and will have to give an account for themselves for the deeds they performed while they lived on earth.
This is what Revelation 20:12 is referring to when it says the books were opened. The "books" contain every deed, good and bad that we have done. This is the second resurrection. After the deeds were read and before the individual is sentenced to Heaven or Hell, the Bible says that ANOTHER BOOK was opened it is the BOOK OF LIFE. And verse 15 instrtucts us that if a person's name is not written in the BOOK OF LIFE they were eternally placed into the lake of fire aka Hell.
So when you came this morning with what you had to say about 3 degrees of God's glory it was a little foreign to me because the traditional church did not explain it like this, so I began to research it and I dicovered this not a new doctrine, but God has opened up our understanding even more corncerning the endtimes.
The tradional view only saw two degrees of God's Glory, Heaven or Hell. For years the Jehovah Witnesses have been preaching about God's Kingdom here on earth, which is the third degree of God's Glory, but True Christians rejected their theology because they do not recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God. So the devil has used the JW organization as one of his tools to cause people to miss God. That's why there are a host of false religions out there to cause people to miss God. They use some Truth and they use some lies.
So yes, you are correct, there is going to be a general resurrection of all flesh and they wiil be assigned to: (1) Heaven (2) Heaven on Earth (3) Hell. However, if we try to explain this to the average person, they will think we have lost our mind! Therefore I don't go that deep, I just deal with Eternal Life or Death.
Also, my focus is not on the second resurrection. In fact, all Born Again Believers will be resurrected in the first resurrection I Corinthian 15:51. You see the first resurrection takes place before the Return of Christ. That's where we are now. We are at the end of the Age of Grace and the Age of the Messiah is about to begin.
I wrote a book about 5 years ago entitled, "The Best Is Yet To Come." I will give you a copy. Have a Blessed Day!