He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which no one can find out the (את) work which God does from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
Life is forever with and in Me. In Me, it has no beginning and no end. I made you in My image and likeness. Death was never to be part of your existence, but the wages of sin is death and sin brought death into the world but it never touched My Kingdom. But it has filled the earth with corruption so that at some point in its life cycle all life dies upon the earth. But that does not mean it is the end of it. Your spirit and your soul are eternal.
Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:6-7.
What is eternal life? I tell you that you find eternal life in Jesus. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which you must be saved. Acts 4:12. He is the only one that was qualified to take away your sins by giving His eternal life in the flesh for the eternal life that you lost. He satisfied divine justice and took the sentence of eternal death off all those who are in Him.
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-13.
When I speak of the promise I made of eternal life, and that, even after you sinned and lost it, you find that life in Jesus, I am speaking of eternal life with Me in My Kingdom. And the only way to be with Me is through Jesus, for until the sin is removed from you, sin ends in death. Sin cannot dwell with pure Love. Love does not tolerate sin. It cannot, there is no agreement between Love and sin.
If you are not with Me by being in Jesus, i.e., you enter Covenant with Him and He has made Covenant with Me as your representative so that being in Him you are in Covenant with Me, what you have is eternal death. And there is a tremendous difference between eternal life and eternal death, but both are forever. Once you are locked into one or the other by the choice you have made during this life, and this happens when you depart from your life as you know it now on earth, at that point it cannot be altered.
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55:6-7.
It is so simple to have eternal life, why would you not come to Jesus to have that life?
“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; or with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:8-13.
If you call on the Name of Jesus with faith you will be saved. But to call you need to know. And that is why I tell you to be My witnesses to others, ambassadors for My Kingdom, leading others to be reconciled with Me through Jesus. You have good news to share, never be ashamed or embarrassed for you are offering the world the best investment opportunity that was ever offered.
But when you think about it, you who are reading this, I got the message to you, and you believed. I am able to make My Salvation known one way or another to those who are open to Me. There are those who I can trust to lead others to Me, those who will be about Kingdom business.
When Cornelius began on the path of seeking Me, I sent an angel to tell him to go get Peter, and I told Peter, who could hear from Me directly by My Spirit in him, to go with no fear to the house of Cornelius and share the good news of Jesus. And he did and the gentiles came into the church.
When Lydia was seeking Me, I sent Paul to Macedonia and he went right to the place where she was and she started a church in her home.
When Paul and Silas got unjustly thrown in jail in Philippi, every prisoner in that jail was saved when they experienced the miracle of singing praise at midnight when all their chains fell off and the prison gates swung open. No one left, they all stayed to hear the good news and the generous church of Philippi was born. And the jailer and his household got saved as well.
It may look like things are going wrong, and the devil is doing his best to make it so, but if you love Me and are following My call, I will get you in the right place at the right time to promote you and the Kingdom. Just like I did with Jacob’s son Joseph. It looked like everything had gone wrong, the devil piled on one adversity after another for 13 years, but I was making all things work together for good for him and for the nation and for My people Israel, but above all Joseph was gaining experience and growing in his relationship with Me. He learned how to hear and act upon My Word, how to run agricultural land and produce the maximum, and how to govern a prison full of diverse prisoners, and that gave him the wisdom to run a nation and feed that nation and the neighboring ones in the time of a severe famine. He made My Kingdom shine in an otherwise hopeless situation. Even Pharaoh attributed Joseph’s wisdom to My Spirit being with him. And Joseph always gave the credit to Me. He knew how to lean on Me. He was connected and by that connection could work independently. I could trust him, and he trusted Me. And that is when eternity visits the temporal and turns it around from lack to abundance, from sickness to health, and from ashes to beauty. And Joseph knew how to forgive and leave justice to Me so that he could go forward free from the offense and bitterness that would have kept him from fulfilling his dreams.
Every day you have decisions to make that are preparing you for eternal life. Before you in the world today are live and death, blessing and cursing, love and hate, and forgiveness or unforgiveness. You choose which you are going to follow, but please choose life so that you and your descendants may live with Me forever.
When you die, whether you will go to eternal life or eternal death is determined by one thing alone: what you did about Jesus. If you received Him as Lord and believed I raised Him from the dead (which means that the punishment due to your sins has been fully satisfied in Him and that your debt has been paid in full), you have been made righteous in Him and are saved forever. Your name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which is the roll call, the membership list, for the Kingdom of Heaven and your entrance is assured and fully provided for. You then face the judgment seat of Christ whereby you are rewarded for the good you have done in the body.
If you have rejected Jesus and hardened your heart against Me and My Word, you are still in your sins and you will go with the master, the “god” you have served and carried out his word, i.e., the devil, to the fire prepared for him and his angels since the foundation of the world. Where the worm (of guilt) dies not and the fire (of remorse) is never extinguished. It is a place of torment, which continues the torment that the unsaved have in their souls during life. There is no peace for the wicked.
I do not want you to go there into the outer darkness of the continuum. I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. I made you to be with Me forever. I made you in My image though when you were born again by a lie from life to death that image in you was turned away from Me and covered over like a smoldering wick. You have to be devoid of even one glimmer of true love to go to eternal death. If I can just find one ray of love in a soul, I can save them. If anyone loves Me, he is known by Me. 1 Corinthians 8:3.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7.
There are some who have gone so far away from Me into the darkness of lies, hate, gluttony, and sensuality that they are devoid of love. They have let themselves be taken over by the devil, he has entered their hearts and destroyed what was there at that was noble and good. And in the last battle, they side with him against Me.
And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:9-15.
This is serious. This is your eternity. There is so much more to show you. So keep on with Me and we will continue in our next Life Lesson. Just know, I will do everything and anything to save you. I gave you My Son, will I not give you all things with Him?
Pray for souls, your prayers can bring about their salvation. For when you pray according to My Will, I hear you, and when you know I heard you, you know that what you asked Me for is yours. It is My Will that all people be saved and come to know the truth. Have you prayed for that on a regular basis? I will reward you, for that authorizes Me to save them. Pray My Will be done in you and others too. My Will for you is good, pleasing, and perfect. If you could just realize the precious plans, the wonderful, amazing plans, I have for you, you would be seeking to do My Will with all your heart.
I love you. Do not neglect so great a salvation. Seek Me while it is still the age of grace, for the time will come when the door has shut. You want your lamp to be burning brightly. The anointing is My love poured in your heart. And that is joy.