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Quote:Although these sinners probably won't change their ways, accepting Jesus into their lives is a good start.
And what makes you think that the unrepentant sinners are ever going to accept Jesus into their lives?
Quote:However, this starts to fall apart when you read the surrounding passages, and understand who it is that Jesus is talking to.
Jesus is talking to his disciples starting from Matthew 24: 1; to Matthew 25; 31; and Jesus is referring to the evolving spirit in mankind who is born into the spiritual world when the body in which he developed died, shortly after the great Sabbath of one thousand years had finished, "The Son of Man" who is the MOST HIGH intellect to have evolved in the creation, which creation is the invisible LOGOS God, made manifest.
The time Jesus is referring to in Matthew, is after the thousand years rule of Jesus, when the earth is incinerated by heavenly fire and all physical life forms on this planet are destroyed and the oceans have evaporated, that the "Son of Man" sits in his throne and divides the righteous from the unrepentant wicked.
As revealed in Revelation 21: 1-8; Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished. And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: “Now God's home is with human beings! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared.”
Then the one who sits on the throne said, “And now I make all things new!” He also said to me, “Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.” And he said, “It is done! I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end. To anyone who is thirsty I will give the right to drink from the spring of the water of life without paying for it. Those who win the victory will receive this from me: I will be their God, and they will be my children. 8But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practise magic, those who worship idols, and all liars — the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
And as we have all sinned and must pay the death penalty for the sins of our flesh, then we, the disembodied minds/spirit will go off into Judgement, so too, "The Son of Man" around 2,000 years ago, paid the penalty for the sins of the body in which he developed, when he descended from his heights in time and entered the body of Jesus as he came up out of the baptismal waters, who he chose as his heir and successor, as the heavenly voice was heard to say; "You are my Son (My heir and successor) this day I have begotten thee.
It was there in the body of Jesus that the Lord was treated with outrage and hung upon a tree, and when the veil of that temple -body was torn, the spirit of the Lord was poured forth as fire on the heads of those who had believed his words as spoken through his chosen heir, the man Jesus.
While on the cross, when Jesus gave up the spirit, crying; My God, my God why have you abandoned me, the Lord God our saviour who could not actually die, ceased to be an individual entity, by releasing all the spirits of the righteous who had been gathered to him, whose graves were opened then, but it was three days later that they came out of their graves and entered the city and showed themselves as the risen body of our redeemer, whose head was now Jesus.
The author of the book of Hebrews once said; “The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things; it is only a faint outline of the good things to come. The same sacrifices are offered for ever, year after year. How can the Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make perfect the people who come to God? If the people worshipping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop. As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year after year to remind people of their sins. For the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.
For this reason, when the anointed one was about to come into the world, he said to God: “You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me. (That body was the man Jesus) You are not pleased with animals burnt whole on the altar or with sacrifices to take away sins. Then I said, ‘Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.’ ”
It was not Jesus who died on the cross, it was our Lord God and saviour, The Son of Man, who chose Jesus to sit in his throne for the 3 days or rather the three periods of one thousand years that he had to remain within the inner dimension until he ‘The Son of Man’ would be born with the death of the sinful mother body in which he develops. This is why, 2000 years ago. Jesus was chosen as his heir, to sit in his throne until the close of the great Sabbath of one thousand years, which is about to begin.
Did Jesus really die on the cross, and does it really matter if he didn’t? For the death of a man can only pay the blood price for the life of that man, and we know it was the spiritual Son of man who laid his life down for the sins of the body in which he develops.
Crucifixion resulted in death through anyone of two ways. one way was hypovolemic shock, which can cause fluid to gather in the area around the heart. This is called pericardial effusion..
Another way that death would occur during crucifixion was due to asphyxiation, which occurs when the person is unable to breathe in enough oxygen to survive.
The victim’s weight was inhibiting him to breath and he had to keep pulling himself up with his hands which were nailed to the wooden beam, or pushing up with his feet which were also nailed to the stake.
Eventually, he would no longer be able to push up and due to the lack of Oxygen would pass out and die.
There are those who believe that Jesus did not die, but was unconscious when the Roman soldier came to check. The other two who were crucified with Jesus, were still trying to push themselves up in their attempt to breath, so their legs were broken, and no longer able to breath they died within minutes, but the guard believing that the unconscious Jesus was dead, didn’t bother to break his legs, but instead, shoved a spear into his side, most likely under his ribs, which ruptured the pericardial sack, releasing the water with the blood that was still flowing through his body.
John the beloved disciple was still there and later recorded the fact that both blood and water flowed from the body of Jesus. Shortly after that, Joseph and Nicodemus took the body down and buried it in the cave just as the sun was setting on Wednesday afternoon.
How long after the heart stops beating does the blood stop flowing? It only takes three to four minutes for the person to become brain dead due to a lack of oxygen.
But, as said previously, it doesn’t matter that he didn’t die, because his death could not pay the blood price for the human race.
He had to convince his disciples who thought that he was a ghost, that he was not a spiritual being and that he was still a human of flesh and blood, by eating the food they offered him, but we also know that he was later translated as were Enoch and Elijah, and ascended to the heavenly throne of our Father.
