Resurrection and ascension

(9) Resurrection and ascension 『That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.』(Romans10:9) Salvation is the condition that Jesus must be my master. Jesus stayed in this world for 40 days after the resurrection and he ascended to the kingdom of God. Before Jesus was died, he said that I will be raised to life on the third day.『The chief priests and the Pharisees remembered the words of Jesus. "We remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.'』(Matthew 27:63) So they made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard. Jesus did not show peoples the appearance of resurrection except with his disciples and a few people. No one believed the resurrection until Jesus appeared. A angel appear to Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others and he said that Jesus was resurrected. Women told this to the apostles. But the apostles did not believe the women, because women's words seemed to them like nonsense. Today, church people believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Resurrection is a fact that human thought can not understand. But if you believe in the resurrection, you will be resurrected now. But Life seems to have nothing to do with resurrection. If you believe in the resurrection, you must believe that you are born as a new creature. therefore the oldself(soul) must be die. It is only knowledge that believing in the resurrection without dying the mind that love this world. 『We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.』(Romans 6:3)『Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.』 Galatians 5:24) 『Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"』(John 11:25-26) 『For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.』(Colossians 3:3) 『And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.』(Ephesians2:6 )Anyone who believes the resurrection exist in this earth, but the Bible say that God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him(spiritual body) in the heavenly. This word means ascension. It means to be one as the ascended Jesus.『So those who believe in the resurrection gain authority to become children of God. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.』(John 1:12) (The last days and Judgment of God) The end includes the end of the personal and universal things. The end of personal means the death of the body. Those who believe that the body of the past is stuck and dead as like a shell, in other words, those who believes in the resurrection of a new body return to the kingdom of God. But those who do not believe in Jesus' resurrection go in to the resurrection of judgment.『and come out those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.』(John 5:29) The Bible say the end of the world.『And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.』(Matthew 24:14) The Bible say that many false Christs appear at the end. People's faith is disappear, people's minds become corrupted, the natural ecosystem is destroyed, the order of life is disturbed and there will be an uproar like war. Suddenly the day come. At that time God threw Satan into the Abyss for a thousand years, the real Christ returns to this world. Christ will rule the world for a thousand years. The Bible describes that it is the recovery of Israel.(It is different from Israel's independence in 1948). When a thousand years pass, God let Satan be released from the abyss for little while. Satan will deceive the world again. There are not sins during the millennium of Jesus' reign. sin will arise when satan deceives the world again. It is proved that sin is caused by Satan. God will judge Satan and devil(ghosts) and humans who worshiped satan at the end of the world. After God's judgment, the material world will disappear since the purpose of creation has been achieved.『By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.』(2 Peter 3:7) New heaven and new earth appear again when the material world disappear. The new heavens and the new earth means the kingdom of God.『as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.』(2 Peter 3:12 -13)

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