New Heaven and New Earth

I believe the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace from Daniel, Chapter 3, happened as a prophecy of the transition from this heaven and earth to the new heaven and earth.

Luke 3:16-17  John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

Malachi 4:1-3  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

II Peter 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

II Peter 3:10-13  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Daniel 3:25  He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Daniel 3:27  And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

Revelation 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 20:13-15  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:7-8  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Daniel 3:22  Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Science says that the universe was created with a "big bang", meaning an explosion where everything was on fire. The Bible says that God is going to create a new heaven and a new earth by fire. Anyone who isn't resurrected as a spiritual being will be burned up. The reason this world was first created physical and not spiritual is because God is sorting out people of faith from everyone else. Who you need to put your faith in is Jesus. That day of fire is coming.

I Corinthians 15:42-50  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Supernatural

The universe is supernatural. It was created from another dimension, a spiritual dimension called heaven. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light, in every wavelength of the spectrum: some we can see with our eyes, some we can only detect with specific instruments, and some we may have not even yet discovered.

Atoms are light. Light is the energy that powers the creation. All matter is made of atoms. All matter is light. But matter itself isn't alive. Life is also supernatural.

The spark of life is spirit. And that Spirit is God. Without spirit, they will never produce life in a laboratory. They are missing the main ingredient. Even if they could produce life in a laboratory, with already existing ingredients, it would still be intelligent design.

Tesla

I read an article in the 1980s about how Nicola Tesla theorized that you could control the weather with elf (extremely low frequency) radio waves. He said you could create low pressure cells which are the beginning of hurricanes. You could use these same radio waves to heat up an area of ocean like microwave ovens do to food, creating el niño and la niña weather patterns. He said you could also steer hurricanes by deflection, by setting up other pressure cells to bump them around like a pool ball. You could create droughts and floods with pressure cells by using them to block the movement of weather patterns, causing it to rain constantly in one spot until it becomes flooded, or cause a drought by blocking the rain from coming into an area. He said you could trigger earthquakes or volcanoes by sending elf waves into the magma of the earth. That was over a hundred years ago. Rekcon they have developed any of these capabilities, and would they ever be evil enough to use them?

The alternative is that you caused it: by driving too much, using too much electricity, and eating too many hamburgers. But if someone did want to scare you into believing man made climate change is the cause of it, weather modification would be an effective way to do it. It gives them plausible deniability.

But if you want to control it, to go where it will do the most damage, you do need the technology. No, you don't need "technology" to make it happen, but you do need technology to make it do what you want it to do. They get the benefit of "order out of chaos" or "ordo ab chao". It is a political strategy of mass psychology called Hegelian dialectic. It is the real power of world government. Who controls perception, controls the world.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Edward Bernays "Propaganda" 1928

Complacency

Revelation 6:8  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 6:8 is a statistic. It has been extant all along. One fourth of people who die, die of these causes: wars and violence, starvation, and disease. The beasts of the earth are despotic governments. Revelation 6:8 is simply stating that the cause of death for 25% of people are these. The scripture doesn't specify what it means by "death." One hundred percent of people die by death. So it must mean something like plague. It isn't something that hasn't happened yet. It is what we live and die with everyday.

The white horse is false christianity. Jesus said, "Many will come in My name and will deceive many. Even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know it is the last time." This has been happening all along. We haven't been waiting for it to come. The red horse is war. We have had wars and rumors of war all along. It never stops. The black horse is famine. The "oil and the wine" shows that while part of the world is hungry, others have plenty. The martyrdom of the saints has been going on since the stoning of Stephen. Jesus said, "In the world you will have tribulation. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." The first five seals of Revelation is simply the state of the world that we live in. The sixth seal is what comes as a thief in the night and begins the day of the Lord.

Matthew 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Joel 2:31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

Revelation 6:12-13  ¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; ¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

2 Peter 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

This is why the day of the Lord is like the days of Noah and Lot. People go about their daily lives as if this is all normal, which it is. We become complacent to it, until the flood comes. That is what it means when people are saying "peace and safety." It is referring to complacency, then sudden destruction comes. Saying, "peace and safety" is the same as, "where is the promise of His coming?" Peace and safety, the thief in the night, the foolish virgins are all referring to the complacency of people living their daily lives as if all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

2 Peter 3:3-7  ³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. ⁵For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: ⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: ⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Matthew 24:38-39  ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Let's stop using the term, "the rapture," and just use the Biblical term of "the first resurrection." But even so, the scripture doesn't say there is a time called "the tribulation." It says there will be great tribulation. It is simply a description of the circumstances of the time. We are already in tribulation and have been all along. Jesus said, "In the world you will have tribulation. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Tribulation isn't something that is about to happen, or in the future as people have often imagined it. We have been living in it all along. It just becomes more intense toward the end.

We know exactly when the first resurrection will happen.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ⁵¹Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed, ⁵²In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

The seventh trump is the last trump. That is no coincidence. Everything up until the seventh trumpet will happen first.

Revelation 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

Revelation 11:14-19  ¹⁴The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. ¹⁵And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. ¹⁶And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, ¹⁷Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. ¹⁸And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. ¹⁹And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Yes, these things increase over time, like the birth pangs of a pregnant woman. But the woman has been pregnant since Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father. We know this for certain by the fifth seal, martyrdom. It begins with saints who were already martyred and continues through all of the saints who would be martyred until Jesus' return.

Revelation 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Revelation 1:19  Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

"Hereafter" means from now on. Here = now, after = future.

1 John 2:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

John wasn't wrong about this. We have been wrong about this. The last days have been two.

Hosea 6:1-3  ¹Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. ²After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. ³Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

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