Season 3 Podcast 240 What is Real, Pt 9, Ariel G, "The Resurrection & The Judgment." Assumptions 68-74.
“What is Real, Pt 9, Ariel G, The Resurrection & Judgment, Assumptions 68 -74.”
In this podcast we shall address the resurrection and judgment. For a judgment to be made there must be standards of judgment. For rewards to be given, there must be standards for rewards. The purpose of the Holy Scriptures is to outline those standards. God is never arbitrary either in blessings or cursing, either in good or evil, either in punishment or reward, either in heaven or hell. If God were arbitrary in judgment, then what is the purpose of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers? What is the purpose of law? What is the purpose of scriptures?
With God everything is predicated upon law, even blessings. The two great celestial laws are the law of justice and the law of mercy. The law of justice is the supreme law that governs all other laws whether in the spiritual world or in the natural world. Only in perfect justice is there safety. The law of mercy satisfies the law of justice. Mercy was only necessary because a law was broken beginning with the fall. Because a law was broken justice barred everyone outside the law from entering into the presence of God. Physical and spiritual death were the consequences of the fall of Adam and Eve. Christ overcame spiritual death with the atonement in the Garden of Gethsemane. He overcame physical death on the cross and in the tomb. Nothing less than the blood of Christ was necessary to satisfy the law of justice. Christ shed his blood both in the Garden of Gethsemane where he bled at every pour and on the cross where they drove nails into his hands and feet. Without the shedding of the blood of Christ, there could be no atonement for nothing less than the sacrifice of the Son of God could satisfy the law of justice. Even God the Father could not rescind the law of justice to save his Son from offering his life as a sacrifice.
In Matthew it is recorded:
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
The Father could not remove the cup without condemning all his children to hell forever. Of course, Christ understood that, but in his prayer, he wanted to teach us that even the Father could not violate the law of justice even to save his only begotten Son from agony. Twice Christ asked the Father to remove the cup. Twice the Father refused. However, the law of justice placed conditions upon the law of mercy. The purpose of the Holy scriptures is to define those conditions. It is the conditions oh the law of mercy that give us agency. Everyone will be resurrected; however, not everyone will receive the same glory in the resurrection. There are conditions for the resurrection and conditions for the final judgment. That is at the very heart of Christianity.
1 Corinthians 15
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Assumption 68: There are three heavens or kingdoms, one that shines like the sun called celestial bodies; another that shines like the moon called terrestrial bodies; and another that shines like the stars.
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