Many years ago when I was first called to read, I came to realize quickly that the prophecies of the Bible would be fulfilled in my lifetime. Actually it was even before I started reading. I wasn’t raised in a religious home. Far from it. Even still I always had something in me that told me what time I was living in. I was at a friend’s restaurant when the Oklahoma City bombing happened in 1995. A great Greek family. The father said “would you look at this ****”?!” Out of my mouth came “yeah, but it’s okay though.” He gave me an odd look to say the least. In response to his look I said “don’t you have the feeling that all of these bad things are building to a climax and that one day something will happen in our lives that will change everything?” Another person in his family said “I do”. Then he gave us both weird looks. At that time I couldn’t even quote John 3:16. I was very biblically illiterate. I was actually a self-professed atheist even though I knew there was a God, who He was, that Jesus was the Messiah, and the Bible was genuinely God’s word. I had no knowledge of the Word, yet I was calm and those words came uncontrollably from my mouth. In a very connective sense, Jesus himself uttered those words. Don’t fear of the things to come because they must happen before he returns.

Soon after reading I found the proof of the things I knew. These weren’t matters of faith for me even before I found my proof. As I read what will happen to our creation, I still couldn’t imagine how it would happen. Just the way people would have to be. That state of panic, fury, and pride to provide a condition for the prophecies to be fulfilled. It’s astonishing if you really think about it. At least it was back in 1996 when I first started reading. Now I look at the great divide and there’s no question the conditions are right just from a humanistic perspective. The rage, hatred, disrespect for fellow men even within our own country paints a picture of inevitability for what’s to come. Just within fifteen years I couldn’t picture how people could be that hateful to not seeing any way out of it. This has to come to a climax.

The nonbelievers who pridely believe that believers are idiots, mentally weak, uneducated, and whatever else comes to their twisted minds show their inability to think independently. The intellectuals who believe that those who want a smaller government are uneducated people that can’t think for themselves also show their lack of education. This is no political blog, but it sadly humors me to know that these great minds have all the history available to them of nations with big governments failing time after time with not one success story, yet they demean these Tea Party people for their apparent lack of education. Who really knows history? Who really is educated? Name one success story of a socialized country. Can’t do it. You can kind of name China, but that’s simply because they have slave labor. Those dumb people that don’t want a big government just don’t know how good it is to have a government take care of them. Please. To those intellectuals, your Utopia will come. When it comes, you probably won’t like it. Just like you, the love of the people of the world will wax cold. And please don’t tell me you’re looking out for disadvantaged people because the intellectuals who belittle Christians and Tea Party people for their beliefs are the most hateful people out there outside of terrorists. Let’s see how they are portrayed by the media for instance. Tea Party people are violent racists, yet there has not been one arrest at a Tea Party event in the country. When some rally or protest happens on the left, there usually are arrests. Many times these events truly become violent, but you see how they are portrayed in the media. The lovers of Mother Earth find anyone despicable that does not buy into global warming, and yet when they rally (also at Obama’s Inauguration) they leave garbage as far as the eye could see. You can find pictures online easily of this. When Tea Party people rally, the place is left clean. That can also be seen easily online. Who really shows love? Who really is capable of violence? Christians or anarchists that want communism? That truly is an oxymoron, but is undeniable.

The wave is coming and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. Don’t you dare say or believe when someone else says that Revelation is merely a warning to humanity that it will happen unless we straighten out. Fools, the lot of them. The Word is etched in stone. Individual souls will make their own decisions, but what is written will happen just as it is written.

Just as the case with any wave, to not be swept away to death one must look to higher ground. One must look to climb. If you are a fairweather Christian or a nonbeliever, then you are a bird with Winter soon coming. Some point soon, it will be too late to fly South. You will be utterly unprepared for what’s to come. That goes for rapture believers as well. You are a wingless bird that believes you will be able to watch the events unfold from the perspective of a great eagle. Try to fly away, Dodo. Nevermind the Word is meant to strengthen for a reason, just try to fly away. When those wings don’t take you to the stratosphere, you will be just as those you look down upon as the heathen. You will be utterly unprepared for the time to come.

There is room for everyone on this Higher Ground. Room for every soul. The mystery of God finishes at the sounding of the seventh trump, so all will know the right choice to make. Only out of fear and pride will people make the wrong choice. I fear that will take up many millions. When people hunger, their core is exposed. What will they be willing to do to eat? When people are disoriented, their core is exposed. Who will they be willing to listen to when they say they have the answer? When people see the wave coming, their core will be exposed. Who will they be willing to try to bring down with them? Who will they see as the enemy? The prideful intellectuals have made themselves conditioned to listen to certain solutions that will lead them to do terrible things. Just as Jesus said that the sheep know the voice of the shepherd, so do the prideful intellectuals. When they hear something that makes sense to them through their conditioning, they’ll be willing to do anything for the one that says he will take care of them. Nevermind those believers who are mentally weak and uneducated. An intellectual would rather rot in Hell than to be counted worthy with them. Such a sad, sad statement. There is not much that amazes me more than what a person is willing to believe to make themselves seem right. They’ll twist, turn, and nuance everything to the Nth degree to keep themselves from looking in the mirror to see the error of their ways. They’ll find any way to prolong their lives of self-gratification without any sense of having something to answer for. That life is just one big pleasureful merry-go-round. They can’t be told what they are doing is wrong. They can’t listen to with an open ear that the way they are living their lives is wrong. Their ears are only open to their logic where right and wrong have no roles to play. No prophet can set them straight unless they are willing to open their ears. You will see the blindness in their ears. We are at the door. Get ready for the wave.

That is a question that plagues believers and highminded non-believers alike. The traditional teaching is that Satan is somewhere below the Earth’s crust in a place called Hell. This is unequivocally wrong. Where they get this from is that Satan is in the bottomless pit and all the old artwork painting him as a pitchfork wielding creature in desperate need of SPF lotion. One, the bottomless pit hasn’t been opened yet. If it has been, then show it to me. I’d love to see it. When it says “…the Devil has come down unto having great wrath…”, this is something that will happen in the future. To John of Patmos, it was the past tense because he was simply taken into the future and saw and heard those things. It was past tense to him. Not us. Satan is supposed to be there for a thousand years. When did he get out? When did he go in?

The rider of the pale horse is also key with this. The rider of the white horse is the Antichrist human being. He is the Beast, but he simply is a man with the spirit of Satan inside him. The Antichrist human will die in the midst of the Tribulation Period. He will seemingly rise again, but it will not be his human flesh. It will be Satan in his angelic flesh. That is when he is kicked down here. Satan is the rider of the pale horse. He is named Death and Hell will follow him. Hell can’t follow him if it’s already here below our feet and filled with former rock stars.

Let’s also look at the early chapters of Job. Satan was on Earth, just as he was when he tempted Jesus. Read carefully though. Did it sound like Satan was forced upon Earth, or was allowed to move freely? God did have to ask Satan where he was. Satan answered on Earth. Sounds like Satan was allowed to go pretty much where he wanted. He will be forced on Earth at some point in the future. The truth is Hell is with Satan. Wherever Satan is, Hell is with him.

I’m sorry I cannot fully answer the question of where Satan is. The reason for that is it is impossible to answer until he is forced upon Earth after Michael and his angels kick him down here. He is somewhere between the realm of the Holy angels and our world. That is as accurate as I can be. God bless.

I have written many blogs in the past which correct mistranslations in the King James as well as newer translations of the Bible. I have said in the past that the King James is still the best English translated Bible there is, but I have recently come to know the Gideon’s Bible. The language is updated and many of the KJV mistranslations are corrected. Without going back to correct my previous posts, I will now say the Gideon’s Bible is the best English Bible out there. The reason why I don’t want to go back and correct myself is so you know I am still learning myself, since I had not looked into a Gideon’s at that time. I still suggest for all to get a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and use a KJV with it if you want a full, true word of God. The Strong’s traces every word of the KJV back to the original Hebrew and Greek without the influence of men. This is extremely important for the true student.

The most important mistranslation in the KJV is inside the New Testament with the phrase “end of the world”. Only in the NT is that phrase written, and in each case in the original Greek the word there for “world” does not trace back to “κοσμοσ” (cos-mos), which is their word for “world”. Every single instance the original Greek word was actually “αιων” (ahee-own), which is their word for “age”. Not world. In some cases, it can mean world but let’s look at the gospel of Matthew. Four times the phrase “end of the world” shows up, again all were “αιων” in Greek, but other times the word “world” in Matthew cosmos is used. Why would Matthew use different words if he meant the same thing? Answer: he didn’t mean the same thing. He meant “age”, so he used a different Greek word than cosmos. What makes this so important is it shows there is no end of the world. If you look at Matt. 24:3, the disciples ask Jesus for the signs of his return and the end of the age. If you take that to heart and read Revelation 20, then you can make sense of it. When Jesus returns, that ends this age and begins a new age that will last a little over a thousand years. Without knowing Jesus’ return ends this age, Rev. 20 cannot be made sense of. The Gideon’s corrects those mistakes.

In one of the most intriguing mistranslations of the KJV is the craft Ezekiel saw. In the KJV it says the color of it was amber. That is a mistranslation. The Hebrew word there was (khazh-mal), which means “polished spectrum metal with an amber hue”, or beryl. Not a grainy amber color. Given the other descriptions of the craft Ezekiel saw, it could not be anything made of this world at that time. The Gideon’s also corrects this.

Jesus wasn’t our Lord’s real name. Jesus is the English pronunciation of the Greek version of the Hebrew name Yeshua (or Y’shua). Y’shua means “God saved”. If you took Y’shua and directly translated it to English, it would be Joshua. It doesn’t matter so much what you call him, as long as you call him Christ, Saviour, Lord, and the Son of the Living God. His mother Mary is the English version of Maria. Pronounced in their native Aramaic tongue, it would sound like (mah-ree-AH). Maria in Hebrew means “bitter”.

Satan in the Hebrew means “opponent, adversary”, and in some instances can mean “persecute”. Very apt names, which the definitions really mean something. Satan is the opponent and adversary, and has/will persecute(d) our creation. Another very important mistranslation in the KJV is because of an assumption made by men. In Isaiah 14:12, the word “Lucifer” shows up for the only time in the KJV. The original Hebrew word there wasn’t anything near Lucifer at all. The original Hebrew word there was “Helel”. Why change it to Lucifer? Because the Catholic Church, which authored the KJV translated the name into Latin with the Vulgate. Lucifer is a Latin word. Isaiah nor any other OT prophet knew Latin. Helel means “brightness”, while Lucifer means “morningstar”. One must ask, why the huge differences in not only the names but the meanings? Helel/Lucifer is mentioned only one time in the entire Bible, so why only there? It describes how Helel fell. After he fell, God changed his name. He was the morningstar. Now he’s the adversary.

Another important and intriguing mistranslation of the KJV is the word “giants” in Genesis 6:4. The original Hebrew word there was “nephil” (neh-feel), which is their word for “fallen”. This mistranslation also shows up in Numbers 13:33, which also describes them being like grasshoppers. If you look at the plague of the locusts in Revelation 9, their master was Apollyon, which is another name in the Greek for the Devil. These points are significant since it shows who those “giants” really were in Genesis and Numbers. They were the fallen angels. “Nephilim” is the Hebrew word for “fallen angels”. When Helel fell, he took many angels with him. They became known as the “nephil”, and their master is the Devil. The plague of locusts is the plague of the fallen angels. I didn’t look if the Gideon’s corrects this or not.

What too many call the final battle between good and evil before the end of the world, Armageddon has nothing to do with a time. Armageddon is two words put together. There is “har” which means “mountain”, and Megiddo means “a gathering’, but also is in the valley of Jezreel in northern Israel near a mountain. Armageddon means “a gathering near a mountain in Megiddo”. That is where the world will come to meet for battle against Israel and the forces of God. Both the OT and NT speak of Megiddo being the place for the final battle, but as I stated before, not for the end of the world. Armageddon will be fought at the climax of this age, but afterward a new age will begin once Y’shua has returned.

I hope this post not only gives you a new insight on the written Word, but also inspires you to get a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance since it will open your eyes. It doesn’t preach. It doesn’t have any link to a denomination. All it does is trace the words back to the original languages for a pure word of God without the influence of men. If you truly want to learn, a Strong’s is a must.

Many people think that Revelation is the hardest set of chapters to understand in the entire Bible. Actually that is untrue. To understand to its fullest extent, Romans 11 is by far the hardest because in order to understand it, you must get to the end of nearly every mystery of God to recognize it’s all really written there in Romans 11. There is no way to fully understand Romans 11 to its full extent by reading it until after you’ve understood what we’re all doing here. Why are we in this human flesh. Why God gave us instincts and then made laws to go against them. Why Jesus is the foundation of this age. How old our souls really are. And finally, who Ba’al truly was. Faith is a work. Showing faith is a good work. Being unfaithful is a bad work. The election of grace were not chosen for any work they’ve done in this life, therefore there must be more to the picture to Ba’al than most know. Refer all those with Jeremiah 1:5 and see what you come up with. It also shows that they did not show their faith in this life, or else it would be called “the election of work”, not grace. How can a person that has lived be referred to as “reserved” from God’s point of view? There is Elijah and Enoch, who never died for God took them, but that’s just two men. Those 7000 did not show their faith in this life. That is why Paul stated on his own to clarify afterward that grace is grace. Not work. The election of grace were chosen before this age started. Again, use Jeremiah 1:5 as a reference. Some people even say that no one is allowed to understand Revelation. Apocalypse means “reveal”, so why would it be called “revelation” if you couldn’t understand it? Here is the most comprehensive blog I’ve written about Revelation.

Jesus speaks against five of the seven churches of Christ. One of those churches he speaks against he threatens to remove altogether. That is the church of Ephesus. How that will be done is it will cease from being a Christian church and turn into the synagogue of Satan. The only two he finds no fault in are the churches of Philadelphia and Smyrna. These churches don’t exist yet. Why I know that is the churches that were established in those two places weren’t new types of churches. The church of Philadelphia will ONLY be attended by the election of grace. Only they will not be here during the hour of temptation. The church of Smyrna will be the most faithful church outside of the church of Philadelphia, and will have great faith that the doctrine of the elect is true.

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are these: the white horse, the black horse, the red horse, and the pale horse. The rider of the white horse is the Beast. The Beast is the Antichrist human being. A human with the spirit of Satan inside him. He will go forth conquering the world peacefully coming to “save the day”. The rider of the black horse had a pair of balances in his hand. A voice was heard saying “a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny; see you hurt not the oil and the wine.” This is a plague of great economic woe. A penny is what we would term as a poor working man’s daily wage, as was written in Matthew 20. What it basically says is that it would take a good portion of a working man’s daily wage to be able to buy a loaf of bread. Before thinking this is impossible, think of when the Soviet Union fell. People were lining up to pay the equivilant to $20 for a loaf of bread. Where it says “see you hurt not the oil and the wine” could really have been written anywhere in Revelation. If the price on everything goes up, then so would actual oil and wine, right? Why it’s there is so it gets you to ask “what does that mean then?” What do you do with oil besides cook with it, religiously speaking? You anoint with it. What happens to grape juice during the process of fermentation? Not only does it turn into alcohol, but the impurities come out. What it really says is “see you hurt not the anointed and the pure”. Before casting that doctrine away, consider Psalm 105:15 which says “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Looks like an exact match to me. The rider of the red horse is really like Murphy’s Law. What can go wrong will go wrong. War, famine, pestilence will be more widespread than perhaps ever before in our age. The rider of the red horse really envelopes much of what is continued in Revelation. The rider of the pale horse is Satan himself. The Antichrist human will die in the midst of the Tribulation Period. He will seemingly rise three days later, but it will not be him. It will be Satan in his angelic flesh. Satan’s name is Death, and Hell will follow him.

The harlot is the revived Roman Empire. The Beast will come from the revived Roman Empire as is written in Daniel 4 and 7. The fourth empire to come will break up and reform. That empire was the Roman Empire. The revival of the Roman Empire will start with ten nations. The eleventh will be the one where the Antichrist will come from. If we are in the last days, the revived Roman Empire could only be the European Union. The EU’s eleventh nation was either Portugal or Spain since they came in at the same time. If the EU is this revival, then the Antichrist will come from Spain or Portugal. This is how the Beast will ride the harlot for a period of time. They will put him in power.

Much of what is written in Revelation is written somewhere in the Old Testament in the books of the prophets, especially Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the minor prophets. For example, Revelation 18 goes directly with Jeremiah 50-51. Part of the reason why Revelation is so difficult is because it’s so concise. In the older prophetical books, the prophecies are written in greater detail and length. John of Patmos couldn’t do that or Revelation would be one huge book. Also nothing in Revelation has happened yet. Don’t let anyone fool you otherwise. Reveal… do you reveal the past or the future? The reason why most of it is written in the past tense is because John of Patmos was taken to the future, so to him it was the past. Not our past. Just his. When he says that he saw those things, it’s because he saw those things. The last few chapters of Revelation deal with what’s written in Ezekiel 40-48, which deals with the next age and beyond. As is written in the original Greek, when Jesus returns that ends this age. Not the world. Revelation 20 describes life in the next age after his return, as does Ezekiel 40-48. Pay close attention to the temple to come. As is written in Ezekiel 44:25, the dead are held inside the temple. What temple made of men ever held anything that could be termed as “the dead”? Revelation 20 says the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished, which Satan will be released to tempt the world once again.

When Satan is kicked down to Earth, he comes with those aligned with him. The fallen angels are the plague of locusts that will have power to torment men for five months, outside those with the seal of God in their foreheads (the 144,000 Jews). Their master is Apollyon, which is another name for the Devil. Those five months will be the last five months, and will be known as the hour of temptation. How they will torment men will be to spiritually torment men. It will be the sounding of the seventh and last trump that the mystery of God will be finished. All will know who God is. They’ll also know Jesus is the Messiah. They’ll know the Bible is genuinely God’s word. They’ll know who Satan is. Even with knowing all of that and the mystery being finished, men will still fail to a great extent. Every human weakness will be magnified by the plagues, and Satan with his fallen angels will play on those weaknesses brilliantly. Even though men will know it will be wrong, to seemingly save their lives they will lose them by failing God. That will fulfill a prophecy Jesus made that those who will seek to save their lives will lose it, and those who will lose it for his name’s sake will find life everlasting. The plague of the locusts really is about testing one’s resolve and will to hold onto what is right when it will be so difficult to do so. The stronger your faith, the easier it will be. Paul said it best when he said in Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” “Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” If you hold onto that, you’ll be fine if we are in the last days. If you’re flight be in winter, meaning too late (a reference when birds fly south), then it’s going to be incredibly difficult. If you are with child and give suck in those days, meaning you are still eating the food of babes instead of eating the word of God as an adult, then it will be most difficult for you.

Imagine that, even knowing what to do and what not to do many men will still fail even knowing their souls are on the line. I think it says everything about men, especially highminded Bill Maher-types that it will take the seventh trump before the mystery of God is finished for them. Not any of the other plagues before it coming true like it is written, or the prophets doing miraculous things is good enough for them. It will take the last trump for them. And with them in mind, when it is all over the Song of Moses will be sung which in part shows how the highminded were the real fools. Only a real fool will call a faithful Christian a fool but not consider the Lord that put this creation upon the Earth. The Song of Moses is very apt for the end. I hope you have learned something here. God bless.

There are many instances in the OT that can be interpreted that say God will bring His people back to the land of their fathers. Some can interpret that as something that already happened when they were captive in Babylon. There are some things however that cannot be argued against about the people of Israel rightfully having that land, which I will get to.

God sent forth His prophets, namely Isaiah and Jeremiah to warn the people of Israel to stop their sin of unfaithfulness and repent or else they will be taken away. He also threatened in the minor prophets that He will pour out a new spirit amongst the Gentiles, which will provoke them to jealousy. The people of Israel heard not any of His warnings and so they were taken to Babylon. They did return, but when God sent His Messiah, Israel heard him not. The Gentiles turned their ear to Christ with a new spirit. Israel was blinded to an extent, but with a promise that He will pour His spirit back onto them before the end.

One verse that cannot be argued against was spoken by Jesus himself. Luke 21:24 says in the last days, Jerusalem will be trodden down of the Gentiles until the Gentiles times be fulfilled. If you believe in Jesus, you aimless Christians that don’t believe that land belongs to the Jews, then explain that verse from the lips of Jesus? Not only does Israel belong to the Jews, but so does Jerusalem specifically. That is significant since Israel and Jerusalem weren’t established Jewish territories at the same time. Israel became a nation once again held by the Jews in 1948, after 2500 years. Jerusalem was taken by the Jews in the Six Day War in 1967. A Gentile is anyone non-Jewish, so I don’t want to hear from some Christians that Israel now really means Christian. G-E-N-T-I-L-E.

Another thing that’s written is Revelation 12:24 that Satan will come after the woman that beared the man child. The man child of course is Jesus. The woman was Mary, a Jew. I know some from the Catholic Church with their ego thinks that means it’s THE CHURCH Satan is going to go after. What egos. No, Satan will go after the Jews and he will go after them in Israel. How has not any of these great theologians from either of these churches and denominations seemingly not take into account the battle of Armageddon on this subject? Armageddon has to do with a place, not a time. Armageddon comes from the word “Megiddo”. Megiddo is in the valley of Jezreel in northern Israel. The world will come and meet for war at Megiddo. It is written this will be done, right? Why? That’s where the Jews are. That’s where Israel is. Is the Catholic Church in Megiddo? Get it? Just that alone should shoot down any thought that Mary means the Catholic Church.

Just because God made a long lasting but temporary separation of His people (and they will always be His people), it doesn’t mean that He gave that land to anyone else. It doesn’t say anywhere that Arabs can come in and take over the land. As a matter of fact, God made a law for the Jews to not give any of their inheritance to any other nation because God has already given them their lot. The Arabs had their lot, which dwarfs Israel. But because they saw Jerusalem as one of their fifty holy sites, they decided to come in since there were not nearly as many Jews there as was before. The Jews being destined to take back their land and the Arabs coming into a land that wasn’t theirs is what is causing all of the problems. But, perhaps too that was already destined to happen.

If any Christian does not believe that Israel does not belong to the Jews, then their Christian faith is in dire straits. If you cannot read Luke 21:24, Revelation 12: 14, and Revelation 16:12-16 … particularly Luke 21:24 since it’s Jesus’ own words, and not take to heart that land belongs to the Jews, then your faith can be taken away by very weak means. For those that look at the Jews and think they still have something coming for any particular reason, then look in the mirror. Perhaps you’ll be one of those zombies coming after the woman that beared the man child in Megiddo.

This is a question many have. Are there UFO”s written about in the Bible? Actually there are many instances where one can not only say “yes”, but really do point that there are UFO’s in the Bible.

It is written there will be a war in heaven between Michael and his angels against Satan and his fallen angels. After this future war, Satan will be kicked down to Earth. How does that happen? How do angels travel? How will this war be fought? How will Jesus return with his saints to Earth at the end of this age?

When Moses and the Israelites traveled through the wilderness for forty years, God traveled with them in a cloud. Moses saw a burning bush that didn’t consume the bush. Something like that also happened with a craft Ezekiel saw. And what about this craft he saw? The color was amber. The original Hebrew word there for “amber” is pronounced (khash-MAL), which doesn’t mean like a grainy amber color. It really means bronze or polished spectrum metal with an amber hue. It’s shape was the same no matter the viewpoint and traveled by fire.

There are two men who have never died. In looking in Genesis 5 where the generations from Adam to Seth on and on and on, it shows everyone lived to such an age and then died except for one. That one was Enoch. It says Enoch had sons and daughters and lived to such an age but he was not for God took him. Elijah was taken up by a whirlwind into heaven. These will be the two witnesses written of in Revelation that will die and stay in the streets for three days. The third day their bodies will be taken up into heaven. When Jesus was on Earth, God came from a cloud saying “this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased”. Elijah and Moses spoke with Jesus while on Earth as well.

I think with everything that is written, the Bible definitely points out that there are things God and angels alike travel in. These definitely at the very least show the possibility of UFO’s. Are there little green men in these UFO’s? No. Angels? Yes.

In the "sermon on the mount", Jesus refers to the kingdom of heaven and what it takes to get there. He says that it’s harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. The eye of a needle was actually a nickname for one of the entrances into Jerusalem’s temple walls, but nevertheless he says through God all is possible. That right there should tell people willing to look that there might be a difference between the kingdom of heaven and everlasting life. If one goes to Jesus, rich or not, they will have everlasting life. Nowhere does it say you have to believe upon Jesus to get into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus explains what it takes to get there in the sermon on the mount. Men with their incompetence refused to look into that there was possibly a difference between everlasting life and the kingdom of heaven, even though Jesus did say that heaven and Earth shall pass away. In place there will be a new heaven and a new Earth. Jesus also said in his father's house there are many mansions. That word "mansions" in the original Greek is the word "μονη" (moh-nee), which really means a residence or resting place. Heaven as it stands now is just a temporary holding place for those who've lived their lives honorably, including those who believed in our Messiah. Knowing there is a difference between everlasting life and the kingdom of heaven will answer that question that atheists and doubters love to bring up, “if no one has ever heard of Jesus, why can’t they get into heaven?”

In order to achieve everlasting life, one must go through Jesus. God will not judge against those who are not held accountable for what they don’t know. If they live their lives the way Jesus described in the sermon on the mount, even if they never heard of him, they will get to the kingdom of heaven after their death. There will be a time for them to make that choice in the future, which I will get to later. Those who have lived their lives wickedly will not get into the kingdom of heaven, but at some point in the future can find themselves making the right choice and achieving everlasting life after they have learned their lesson. They are the ones who are called "the dead" in Revelation 20 who live not again until the thousand years are done. Every single time when the term "everlasting life" is mentioned, it talks about believing upon our Lord. So why the difference in what it takes to get to the kingdom of heaven and what it takes to achieve everlasting life? Because it's two different things.

There is another age after this one, as I’ve written many times before. When Jesus returns, as is written in the original Greek, he will end this age. Not the world. In Matthew when it speaks of the end of the world, in each instance that word in the original Greek wasn’t “cosmos”. It was “αιων” (ahee-OWN), which is their word for age. There are times in Matthew when the word “world” is cosmos in the original Greek, but when it speaks of the end of the world, it’s always “αιων”, so there's a reason why he used different words despite the translation of the KJV. Without the knowledge that Jesus' return only ends this age, Revelation 20 cannot be made sense of. Keeping in mind that when Jesus returns he ends this age, go read Revelation 20 again and you will get a very new sense of it. The correct sense I am hoping  

It will be then when those who haven’t made a choice or those who’ve made the wrong choice will have to make it. The ones who made the wrong choice or lived their lives wickedly will not live again until the thousand years are fulfilled. They are called “the dead”. Satan will be loosened from his bottomless pit prison and will try to deceive the world once again. Those he deceives then will lose their last chance at showing their faith to God. Everyone will know the right choice, but as is written even at the end of this age the mystery of God will be finished at the blowing of the seventh trump and still many will fall. It will be the same case at the end of the next and last age.

Now when someone mocks you for your beliefs or genuinely asks you that question about those who never had a chance to choose Jesus as the Christ how they will get to heaven, now you have your answer. Traditional teaching has failed at this probably as much as they’ve failed at anything else about God’s word. It’s amazing how many of them have refused to ask such a simple question, “is there a difference between the kingdom of heaven and everlasting life?” Without ideological blinders, you can now see there truly is a difference between the two.