“TAKE ANOTHER LOOK” W1S173 (08-05-20) Revelation 20:13-15
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Revelation 20:13-15 (NKJV) “13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death {translators agree this should be translated as, death, the lake of fire}. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”
● One of the reasons why people have a tendency to believe in a literal version of the religious disasters from the book of Revelation, is because of this self-imposed, separation mindset that mankind has believed in. Listen, we are not separated from God, not now, and not ever.
● To feel some type of need to “get right with God,” is clear evidence that mankind still believes that they are separated from God, and need to get connected back to Him. However, the very implication of the words “reconciled” or “reconnected” means that mankind was connected to God, but now must be RE-connected.
● So, according to Colossians 1:21, notice the place where mankind was separated in? It was in his mind, and from that place, mankind lived in the “shadows of evil thoughts and actions.”
● Remember that the theology of mankind holds to three-distinct experiences or levels which are the sea, earth, and heaven. In reverse order, the “heaven” realm always speaks of the fullness of Father’s mind that mankind was created to operate from. The “earth” realm speaks of that middle ground where mankind walks in carnality, while attempting to gain a heavenly minded perspective. But the “sea” realm has always spoke of the realm where mankind operates from as completely controlled by the human-experience from a place of no spiritual mindedness at all.
● In this series on the book of Revelation, the “sea” realm is that which mankind lives by the “soul control” of what is believed to be “human-nature” where carnally minded man often believes that there is no escape from, except in heaven or hell, followed by some eternal judgment. And this is what we have been seeing in the past few verses of what translators and publishers determined to be a great white throne judgment.
● What I do believe in is the reign of the many-membered body of the One, Eternal Christ in a unified effort of walking according to our created status forever, from the beginning, until now, and always. I believe that just because the thinking of mankind got off track from Father’s original plan DID NOT change anything.
● Revelation 20:13 (AMP) says, “And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades (the realm of the dead) surrendered the dead who were in them; and they were judged and sentenced, everyone according to their deeds.”
● As it happened in the resurrection of the Eternal Christ which was symbolic of mankind being raised up to our rightful mind, or thinking, even now the day will arrive when the finished work will fully manifest within all mankind, and that is when “the sea” will once and for all, fully “give up the dead” which is those who have not yet awakened to the truth of who they are in the Eternal Christ.
● Those who are presently in a “lost state of mind,” and even those who feel as if they are in a literal hell in this life, the scripture said that even “death and Hades surrendered the dead who were in them. Now, as they were “judged and sentenced, everyone according to their deeds,” we are not judged according to our works, but according to the actions of the Eternal Christ. Mankind did not sacrifice anything for us to be brought back to our God-mind, but it was all Christ in us, the hope of glory.
● So, if “death and Hades” surrender those who have fallen into the Adam-sleep, and if “Hades” is defined as the realm of death, then what does it mean? The Greek word for hell as used in the New Testament is the Greek word, hadēs {pronounced, hä’–dāyce} meaning, unseen, or the place (state) of departed souls. The biblical usage of the word “Hades” comes from the idea of the Greek god Pluto, or the god of the lower regions.
● Now, on a personal note, I do not believe that it was ever Father’s will for us to cease to exist in any realm we are sent into. Therefore, since people are awakening to the unveiled revelation of truth every day, it is also time for us to stop believing in the death of the physical body. I hope you were enlightened and inspired to “dig deep into the well of the Father’s mind within,” as you watch this video lesson!