Millions of professing Christians believe they
will go to heaven when they die and experience
eternal retirement.
And yet, the Savior of the world stated a very
different future for faithful Christians in His
Sermon on the Mount.
He stated in Matthew 5:5...
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the
earth.” Will you go to Heaven or will you inherit
the Earth?
On today’s program we'll discuss that vital
question, and the answer from your Bible will
surprise you.
We'll also be offering you an inspiring free study
guide that answers in depth the question: “What
Happens When You Die?”
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The question of life after death is one of the most
controversial questions in the world.
But your Bible gives plain answers to those
questions.
There is really good news for the future of faithful
Christians, and great hope for those considered
spiritually lost.
You need to know the truth from your own Bible.
You need to know your potential future, and
where it will be: In Heaven, Hell, or on a
glorious and restored earth?
Stay tuned!
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One of the most fundamental questions of
life is: What happens when you die?
Will you go to Heaven?
Or will you go to Hell?
Or, will you simply remain dead in the grave until
the Resurrection?
Pew Research surveyed Americans on their belief
in heaven or hell.
“Nearly three-quarters of U.S.
adults say they believe in heaven.... Roughly a
quarter of all U.S.
adults (26%) say that they do not believe in heaven
or hell, including 7% who say they do believe in
some kind of afterlife and 17% who do not believe in
any afterlife at all”.
My friends, what is the truth?
Your Bible gives solid answers to the questions
of life and death.
What does the Bible say about the afterlife?
How does it answer the question, “Will you go to
Heaven or will you inherit the Earth?”
On today’s program we'll discuss the Bible’s answer
to that question, and we'll be offering you an
inspiring free study guide titled What Happens When
You Die?
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Jesus taught us to pray, “Your Kingdom come" in
Matthew 6:10. My friends, why do we pray
every day, “Your Kingdom come?”
Because the world is suffering from the sins of
mankind.
In the 20th century, we experienced World War I
and World War II.
Millions also suffered from wars in Korea,
Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, and other regions
around the world.
Right now, in the 21st century, according to the
Council on Foreign Relations conflict tracker,
more than two dozen civil-war-type conflicts
are raging around the world, on five of the
seven continents.
Modern warfare, from the two Gulf wars in the
Middle East to the recent clashes in Ukraine, uses
the latest military technology with smart
bombs, guided missiles, and space communications.
Jesus said that there would be Great
Tribulation.
And He said, “... unless those days were shortened,
no flesh would be saved."
That’s in Matthew 24:22.
But Christ will intervene at His Second Coming.
We pray for God’s Kingdom to come, to stop mankind’s
war-like nature.
Current military trends, unless God intervenes,
will eventually lead to total annihilation, or
cosmocide.
Thankfully, God has a plan to save mankind.
That plan includes an awesome future for
faithful Christians.
And where will that future take place?
Where will faithful Christians be?
In Heaven?
Or on Earth?
Turn in your Bible to Revelation 5:10, “And have
made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall
reign [Where?] on the earth.”
What an awe-inspiring verse.
Notice two points.
One: Faithful Christians are called to become kings
and priests.
They will assist the King of kings in ushering
lasting peace.
And where will they reign?
In heaven?
No, on earth.
“We shall reign on the earth.”
Yes, my friends, the meek shall inherit the earth.
The Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of God, will
reign on earth.
That’s why we pray, “Your Kingdom come.” If you have
your Bible, turn to one of the most basic scriptures
in the New Testament, Matthew 5, what is often
called “The Sermon on the Mount.” Be sure to
carefully read all three chapters: Matthew 5, 6,
and 7.
Let’s read Matthew 5:1.
“And seeing the multitudes, He went up on
a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples
came to Him.
Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be
comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the
earth.’”
Notice: Did Jesus say the poor in spirit would go to heaven for
eternity, while the meek would inherit the earth?
No.
What Jesus did say, was that the poor in spirit
would be blessed with the Kingdom of heaven.
Let’s understand, my friends, the Kingdom of
Heaven is coming to earth when Christ returns.
That is when the saved inherit the Kingdom.
That’s the time when Christ will tell His
faithful servants, “Come, you blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.” That’s in Matthew 25:34.
The King of kings will rule planet Earth, and all
nations will come up to Jerusalem to learn the way
to peace.
Notice this inspiring prophecy in Zechariah 14.
The whole earth will learn to observe the same
biblical festivals that Jesus and the Apostles
observed.
Zechariah 14:16, “And it shall come to pass that
everyone who is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to
worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.” Yes, my friends, every
nation on earth will worship the King.
And when will that take place?
And when will faithful dead Christians inherit
the Kingdom?
The great resurrection of faithful Christians takes
place at Christ’s return as it tells us in
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
My friends, I hope that most of you will desire to seek
that promise of life after death.
The greatest goal of a Christian is to seek first
the Kingdom of God and His righteousness as Jesus
stated in Matthew 6:33.
Yes, there is life after death, but not until you
are resurrected.
Ecclesiastes 9:5, “For the living know that they will
die; but the dead know nothing....”
My friends, when you die, you remain dead until one
of the general resurrections.
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In the first part of our program, we saw that the
Kingdom of God, also called the Kingdom of
Heaven, will come to earth when Jesus the Savior
returns.
Yes, the meek shall inherit the earth as He
said.
Jesus Christ will rule all nations as King of kings
and Lord of lords.
Faithful Christians will assist Him ruling over
the nations.
My friends, God is calling many individuals to serve
Him and His Work, to prepare to serve in His
coming Kingdom as kings and priests.
Let’s read that in Revelation 20:6,
“Blessed and holy is he who has part in
the first resurrection.
Over such the second death has no power, but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with Him a thousand years.” There are many
scriptures in your Bible describing Christ’s
world-ruling kingdom.
Turn to Daniel 7.
The setting here in Daniel 7 is end-time prophecy.
“But the saints of the Most High shall receive
the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even
forever and ever.”
Yes, the saints, all faithful Christians, will
rule with Jesus Christ when He returns.
A Kingdom can be described with four basic elements.
A kingdom has a ruler, territory, subjects, and
laws.
The ruler of the Kingdom of God on earth will be
Jesus Christ as King of Kings.
And the glorified saints of God will assist Him as
kings and priests.
But what territory will the kingdom rule over?
The territory of the Kingdom will be planet
earth.
We've already seen that the saints will rule on
the earth--Revelation 5:10--and that all nations will go up to
Jerusalem to worship the King and to observe the
Feast of Tabernacles, Zechariah 14:16.
But where will the King of kings rule?
And where will He dwell?
Turn in your Bible to Zechariah 8:3, “Thus says
the LORD: ‘I will return to Zion, and dwell in the
midst of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the
Mountain of the LORD of hosts, the Holy
Mountain.’” Jesus Christ will dwell in Jerusalem.
He says, “I will return to Zion, and dwell in the
midst of Jerusalem.” In fact, the city will have
another name.
The very last verse in the book of Ezekiel--Ezekiel 48:35,
states, “the name of the city from that day
shall be: THE LORD IS THERE.” The name of the
city in Hebrew is Yahweh Shama.
The territory of God’s Kingdom when Christ
returns will be planet Earth.
And who will be the subjects of that Kingdom?
All the nations of planet Earth will be subjects in
that kingdom.
As it tells in Zechariah 14:9, “And the LORD shall
be King over all the earth.” The subjects
living under the rulership of Christ, will be
physical human beings, the nations of planet Earth.
Again, consider that a kingdom has four basic
elements: A kingdom has a ruler, territory,
subjects, and laws.
Now, what laws will govern in the Kingdom?
The prophet Isaiah gives an inspiring vision of
Tomorrow’s World.
Isaiah 2:2, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter
days that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be
established on the top of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow to it.”
Yes, the Kingdom of God will rule over all nations.
Isaiah 2:3, “Many people shall come and say, ‘Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to
the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us
His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.’ For
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.” Yes, God’s laws will be
taught and administered from Jerusalem.
Not man’s often contradictory and unjust
laws.
Jesus taught us to keep the Ten Commandments.
Remember Matthew 19:17.
Jesus said, “But if you want to enter into life,
keep the commandments.” Jesus then stated several
of the Ten Commandments.
He also magnified the commandments in the Sermon
on the Mount.
He actually made them more binding.
We need to observe them in the spirit, not just in
the letter.
And what will God’s government produce?
Isaiah 2:4, “He shall judge between the nations,
and rebuke many people; they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war
anymore.” My friends, that is the “gospel,” the good
news of the Kingdom of God.
Yet, how many professing Christians really
understand?
And when will you inherit the Kingdom if you are a
faithful Christian?
Millions believe they go to the place of their
reward when they die.
But is that true?
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When you read the history of the true Christian
Church, what do you find?
You see a major emphasis on seeking a resurrection
from the dead.
One example is the Apostle Paul’s passionate desire
of a future resurrection from the dead.
Turn to Acts 23 in your Bible.
The Apostle Paul was confronted by the
Jerusalem Sanhedrin.
And what did he say?
Acts 23:6, “But when Paul perceived that one part
were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried
out in the council, ‘Men and brethren, I am a
Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the
hope and resurrection of the dead I am being
judged!'"
Paul was being judged.
Yet he did not yet have immortal life.
Let’s understand.
We do not already have immortality.
It is a gift from God.
Read Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.” That's the King James Version. Notice that the
scripture does not state, “The wages of sin is immortal life
in hell-fire.” The wages of sin is not immortal life,
but death: the absence of life.
If you already have an immortal soul, if you
already have eternal life, you don't need it as a
gift from God.
My friends, a soul can die.
The prophet Ezekiel tells us in Ezekiel 18:4,
“The soul who sins shall die.” The Hebrew word for soul
is “nephesh” which means physical or natural life.
And the same word “nephesh” also refers to
animal life in Genesis 1:21.
Now, what does the New Testament tell us about
souls?
Turn in your Bible to Matthew 10:28 where Jesus
is speaking.
Matthew 10:28, “And do not fear those who kill the
body but cannot kill the soul.
But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul
and body in hell” or Gehenna fire.
Do you believe your Bible?
Do you believe what Jesus said?
God is able to destroy--yes, destroy--both
soul and body in Gehenna.
Now, the Bible does teach us there is a human
spirit, the spirit in man mentioned in 1 Corinthians
2:11, for example.
But it is not an immortal soul.
There are many other scriptures to demonstrate
that one does not have an immortal soul.
As God inspired the prophet Ezekiel to state,
“The soul who sins shall die.” Evangelist Gerald
Weston explains the pagan origin of the immortal
soul doctrine in his telecast, “Do You Have an
Immortal Soul?”
Just access the inspiring program on our website at
TomorrowsWorld.org.
My friends, your Bible reveals three general
resurrections from the dead, of thousands,
millions, and billions of people.
The first resurrection is described in your Bible
primarily in two chapters: 1 Corinthians 15 and
1 Thessalonians 4.
Who will be in the first resurrection?
Those who are faithful Christians.
The Apostle John describes their future: “And they
lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand
years...
This is the first resurrection.” That’s in
Revelation 20:4-5.
The first resurrection from the dead is to
immortal life.
This is the resurrection that takes place when
Christ returns.
God will give faithful Christians the awesome
gift of eternal, immortal life at that time.
Faithful saints and Christians who died are
waiting in their graves for the First
Resurrection.
But, what will happen to the billions of humans who
have died but never accepted Christianity?
Are they burning in hell right now?
No!
Your Bible teaches that everyone who has died,
with the exception of Jesus Christ, is still
dead.
Those people who never had their minds opened to true
Christianity will be in the White Throne Judgment.
They will be in the second resurrection.
This is a resurrection to a lifetime of judgment,
and it’s a resurrection to physical life.
When will this Second Resurrection take place?
Revelation 19 describes the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ.
He will not be alone when He comes back to this
earth.
Revelation 20:4, “And I saw thrones, and they sat
on them, and judgment was committed to them.
Then I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word
of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his
image, and had not received his mark on their
foreheads or on their hands.
And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand
years.” Then we read a parenthetical statement:
“But the rest of the dead [listen to this] did not
live again until the thousand years were
finished.” If they did not live again for a thousand
years, they remained dead all that time.
Who are the “rest of the dead”?
People still in their graves who are not in the
First Resurrection.
And when does this Second Resurrection take place?
When the thousand years are finished, as we read
in Revelation 20:5.
Now turn to Revelation 20:11, “Then I saw a great
white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face
the earth and the heaven fled away.
And there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before
God [This is the second resurrection, a
resurrection to physical life, not immortal life],
and books were opened.
And another book was opened, which is the Book
of Life.
And the dead were judged according to their works,
by the things which were written in the books.”
Revelation 20:11-12.
The Greek word for “books” is “biblia.” The good news
is that the books, or the Bible, will be opened to
the understanding of the masses for the first time.
The Book of Life is finally opened to those
resurrected in the White Throne Judgment, as we see
in Revelation 20:12.
This will be their first opportunity to properly
learn the truth.
This is not a second chance as some may like to
call it.
All human beings will be held accountable for their
actions and thoughts.
But this will be the first time for many to see
their sins.
They’ll have the opportunity to repent of
their sins, and accept Jesus Christ as their
Savior.
In the White Throne Judgment, billions will be
resurrected to physical life, and for the first
time will have their minds opened to the Bible and
the awesome reality of God’s truth.
After all who've lived have received their
opportunity for salvation, the unrepentant will be
burned up forever, extinguished in the Lake
of Fire.
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As we've seen on today’s program, God has an
awesome plan for faithful Christians, and He also
has a future resurrection for all who never had an
opportunity to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.
My friends, you should look forward to inheriting
the earth, to inheriting salvation as it states in
Hebrews 1:14, to inheriting eternal life as
it states in Matthew 19:29, and to inherit “all
things” as it states in Revelation 21:7.
We've also seen on today’s program, no one is now
suffering in a mythical ever-burning hellfire.
Everyone who has ever lived and died is still
dead.
They are totally unconscious and feel no
passing of time.
All who are dead will be resurrected to one of the
three resurrections.
My friends, as we've seen, the First Resurrection
takes place at Christ’s Second Coming.
That hasn't happened yet.
Will you be in that resurrection?
If you genuinely belong to Jesus Christ at that time,
you will be in the First Resurrection.
It's called a “better resurrection” in Hebrews 11:35.
Why?
Because it’s a resurrection to eternal
life and immortality.
Those who are in the first resurrection will become
the Bride of Christ.
The parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25
warns all of us to be ready for Christ’s return and
the marriage of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:7 shows that the true Church of God,
the wife of Christ, indeed has been faithful in her
preparation for the coming Kingdom of God.
“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him
glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His
wife has made herself ready.” We asked at the
beginning of the program, will you go to heaven?
The Bible makes it very plain, as we have seen,
that our eternal reward will be here on earth.
But as shocking as it may be to some of you, when
Christ returns to meet genuine Christians rising
up to the clouds in the first resurrection, He
takes them to the great wedding before the throne
of God in heaven.
Revelation 15:1-2.
They are there for a short period of time when the
seven last plagues are poured out and return with
Him on white horses to conquer the nations and
inherit the earth.
Our free study guide gives you more of the exciting
details.
Be sure to read the section on “The Marriage
of the Lamb” starting on page 22.
My friends, Your Father in heaven loves you and wants
you to be part of His Family.
He will raise the dead in Christ to glory and
immortality.
And He plans for billions of spiritually-blinded
human beings to learn His way in the White Throne
Judgment.
All deceased human beings who have ever lived are
still asleep in their graves, as it tells us in
1 Thessalonians 4:13-15.
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