THE PLACE OF REST AND PEACE

   Have you considered where you shall rest with God during the eighth eternal "day?" The Apostle John did, and I have as well. My resting place will be the Promise Land, and those without the Promise shall never rest! Just where will that be?

KEY VERSES” ²⁴ Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. (1 John 2:24-25)

  What we “heard from the beginning”  let is “abide in you.” What was it that mankind heard in the beginning? The Voice of God saying, “I created the heaven and the earth.” We heard that God is the Creator. To deny that is to deny God for that is what gods are known for. If truly God, then only one God is needed to generate every thing from no thing.

  God created Paradise for mankind. There was no death in Paradise. Death was not in the Garden of Eden, but beyond Eden. Also written, “Ye shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” Jesus was there in the beginning., and all things were made by Jesus. (John 1:1-3). You shall continue in that belief and abide in that truth. Apparently, some were denying that Jesus IS God and that He created all things, or possibly, they were denying the creation!

  Why is that imperative doctrine? If God is to recreate, He must have created in the beginning. He created all things in the beginning, and in the end what was first generated will be regenerated.

  The authorship of the Johannian letters has been questioned. There is continuity in the gospel of John, the epistles of John, and the Revelation of John. Those John’s were surely the same John because the message is contiguous in all that canon.

  John, the son of Zebedee, was the apostle who knew the spiritual Jesus more than any of the others. John plainly understood that carnate Jesus was the same incarnate Jesus, and that the Holy Ghost is the “Ghost” of Jesus who experienced death on the Holy Cross. John also knew that the Tree of Life IS God, IS Jesus, and IS the Holy Ghost.

  (For that claim see https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-mysteryand-low-hanging-fruit.html).

  The apostle John surely wrote the First Epistle of John. That is surely evident in how well he knew the beginning and the ending, and that he wrote of that in his first letter. John was consistent from beginning to end. Who better to warn about another gospel than John who knew the truth about Jesus?

  The key verses are about the “promise.” Not “promises” but “promise” in the singular. That “promise” from the last key verse is “eternal life.” That was what was promised in the beginning.

  Where? “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen 3:15). “Thee” is the Serpent. “The woman” is Eve. “Thy seed” is the seed of the Serpent. “Her seed” is Jesus. Jesus shall bruise “thy head,” referring to the Serpent’s head. Continuing, “Thou” refers to the Serpent and “His heel” refers to Jesus.

  That may not seem clear, but I wrote the book, The Skull of Adam, about that one verse. It is THE PROMISE. Adam was the son of the Serpent and Jesus the Son of God. If, as they claim, Shem buried Adam’s bones beneath Golgotha — the place of Adam’s skull — then the head of Adam bruised the heel of Jesus when he set foot on Calvary. (Today there is a site on Calvary that is the cave wherein Adam is alleged to have been buried.)

  That promise is that Jesus would step on original sin in the bones of Adam. Why is that significant? Adam would be redeemed in 5-1/2 days or 5500 years, according to the Books of Adam and Eve. Thus, Jesus stepping on the head of sin in Adam would provide eternal life to Adam and his kind — all mankind because Adam means “man.”

  John was indicating that THE PROMISE had been fulfilled… the promise of eternal life. With that background the Edenic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, and the Jesuit Covenants were all the same PROMISE in different times. (Jesuit is not the branch of Catholicism but the Covenant of Grace.)

  What was THE PROMISE? Eternal life! Where would that PROMISE be? Back in Paradise. John knew the location of that place, to wit: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Rev 21:1-2).

  John knew the whereabouts of heaven. He knew that THE PROMISED LAND was the land of Canaan. He knew that there would be a new heaven and a new earth, replacing what was created in the beginning!

  His first epistle revealed that PROMISE. God was beginning the preparation of His Bride (Jerusalem) for her husband (Jesus). Jerusalem means “foundation of peace.” New Jerusalem is where peace can be found. Jesus came to bring “peace on Earth and goodwill toward men” (Luke 2:14) but that would come after the divisiveness ends (Luke 12:51) and then the Heaven and Earth will be cleansed by fie and regenerated!

  Not only did John understand that, but Abraham and Moses did as well:

And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. (Exod 12:25) and Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. (Deut 6:3)

  “Land” therein means the place Israel which at that time was the expanded Kingdom of David. David’s Kingdom was God’s Kingdom, and as the son of David, Jesus was legitimate heir to that Kingdom. As heir, He shall burn it down and resurrect that Kingdom and the Great City of Jerusalem will be the City of God after the “harlot Babylon” has repented of her harlotry. The Bride of Jesus will be like His ancestor, Rahab the harlot, whose name even means “a great expanse of land” (Wikipedia; “Rahab”).

  Rahab is symbolic of Jerusalem. Just as God restored her, God will restore the harlot Jerusalem from her previous example, the harlot Babylon.

  Abraham knew that the Promise Land was more than Israel, but Paradise resurrected for those who are resurrected. Just as sinners shall be regenerated back to their original generation, with eternal glorified flesh, their place will be prepared for them as well; no longer a mere Garden for two, but a Great Land with a Great City for many!

  Abraham and John had bright eyes that goes with their bright natures. They both saw through the sea of glass, saw the cherubim guarding the Way to the Tree of Life, and saw Jesus on God’s Throne (Rev 4:6). Abraham knew that the Land PROMISED by God to His seed would be the heavenly “land.” God would again recreate some thing from no thing after the heaven and earth were destroyed.

  The Harbinger offered two outcomes: Consider Jonathan Cahn’s key verse: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones” (Isa 9:10a). Mankind would endeavor to build back better with “hewn stones.” God always dictated that Abraham build altars of unhewn stone. Why? If Abraham hewed the stones, the improvement would be by him. That would be offensive to God.

  Otherwise, God would hew the stones Himself. In reference to the Temple that had fallen down, God will build back better. He will hew “Lively Stones” (Christians) for His Temple (1 Per 2:5) — for the pillars of His Bride the Church (Rev 3:12).  Likewise, the Garden Paradise was a sort of “Temple” with its canopy of trees symbolic of Tabernacle worship. He would build the Garden back better, as a Great City!

  Abraham knew the real PROMISE. The Hebrew people did not, and Jews to this day still think that God was referring to LAND rather than eternal peace. John knew differently as well. He took the time to set straight those antichrists who failed to trust the Messiah for His PROMISE.

  Have you considered the blessing of Jesus: “The meek shall inherit the earth.” That “earth” is in small letters for a reason. It is not PROMISED “land” on planet Earth but PROMISED eternal existence in the heavenly realm in “earth” — when God again creates physical substance from supernatural substance.

Where will Christians spend eternity? In the land they love so well, but in another realm it seems. Heaven is not on Earth but shall be in a newly created “land” which will certainly replace the earth.

(picture credit: aisrael.com; "Jerusalem")

Note: the Mosque will be burned down and a Temple will replace it.