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● JESUS CHRIST IS NOT EQUAL TO GOD ALMIGHTY (Matthew 24:36). Jesus Christ, the first creation of God, also "King of kings" (Revelation 17:14;  Revelation 19:16), is someone truly special, but he is not equal to God Amighty, the Creator. Jesus himself said: "The Father is greater than I am" (John 14:28). Jesus always spoke of God as someone superior, calling him "my Father" and "my God". Yes, the Creator is HIS GOD. Jesus taught his disciples that the Creator is "MY GOD and YOUR GOD" (John 20:17;  Matthew 27:46). Many scriptures talk about "the God... of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Revelation 1:6;  1 Corinthians 15:24;  2 Corinthians 11:31;  Romans 15:6;  Ephesians 1:3;  2 Corinthians 1:3;  1 Peter 1:3). Even after his resurrection, when he once again was a mighty spirit, he kept calling the Creator his God, saying "my God" (Revelation 3:12;  Revelation 3:1-2). The Bible says that just like the head of a wife is the husband, so God Almighty is the head of Jesus Christ, saying: "The head of the Christ is God", and the Bible says that Jesus is in subjection to God (1 Corinthians 11:3;  1 Corinthians 15:24, 27-28). The Bible does not talk about God and Jesus as equal brothers, but as father and son, and these words alone, father and son, reveal that one is older, the other one younger, one is greater, the other one lesser (John 1:14;  Matthew 11:27). God Almighty, Yehovah (יְהֹוָה), has no equal (Isaiah 40:18;  Psalms 86:8;  Psalms 89:6-7;  Isaiah 46:9-10;  1 Samuel 2:2;  Jeremiah 10:6).

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● JESUS CHRIST BECAME A HEAVENLY KING IN THE YEAR 33. In the year 33, "a cloud caught him up" (Acts 1:9) and he was brought up "before the face of God" (Hebrews 9:12, 24) and "to him there were given rulership, honor, and a kingdom" (Daniel 7:13-14). Yes, in the year 33, God "raised him up from the dead" and "seated him at his right hand" (compare  Matthew 20:21-23) and "subjected all things under his feet", thus giving Jesus authority over everything that is created (Ephesians 1:20-22;  1 Peter 3:22;  1 Corinthians 15:27). "All authority... in heaven and on the earth" was given to Jesus in the year 33, as Jesus himself said after he had died and had been brought back to life (Matthew 28:18). "By subjecting all things to him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him" (Hebrews 2:8). Why is that? Why do we not yet see all things in subjection to him? Because Satan has been ruling this world ever since humans chose to follow Satan (Luke 4:5-6;  John 16:11;  1 John 5:19), and "the appointed time" to end that rulership by hurling Satan and the demons into the abyss has not yet arrived (Matthew 8:29;  Mark 5:7-8;  Luke 8:31). Jesus will not rule the earth and mankind until it is God's appointed time to end the rebellion (Ezekiel 30:3;  Acts 17:31). When "the appointed time" arrives, many things will happen (Revelation 11:18). Jesus is eagerly waiting for 'his enemies to be placed as a stool for his feet' (Hebrews 10:12-13;  1 Corinthians 15:25), including "the last enemy, death" (1 Corinthians 15:26).

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● JESUS CHRIST WAS THE FIRST HUMAN WHO WENT TO SPIRIT WORLD (John 3:13). After he had been killed by the Jews and the Romans (Matthew 27:1-2, 15-31, 35-37, 50;  Acts 2:22-23), God brought him back to life (1 Corinthians 15:1-8;  Acts 10:40;  Acts 13:30-31;  Acts 2:32;  Acts 3:13-15;  Romans 4:24). "He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit" (1 Peter 3:18). He went to spirit world, and he made it possible for others to go there later; he opened up the way, inaugurated the way (Hebrews 10:19-20). He was "a FORERUNNER" whom others would follow (Hebrews 6:17-20).

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● JESUS CHRIST IS GOD'S ANOINTED ONE (Luke 2:9-11, 16-17;  Acts 10:38;  Acts 4:26-27). The Greek Scriptures of the Bible (New Testament) show clearly that the Messianic prophecies were fulfilled in him (Matthew 11:2-5;  John 20:30-31). The word "MESSIAH" comes from the Hebrew word 4899 Mashiaḥ, and the word "CHRIST" comes from the Greek word 5547 Khristos. Both words mean "ANOINTED ONE". Anointed one is someone who is appointed by God to a special position. In ancient days, those people were anointed who received an appointment from God to be either prophets or priests or kings. Jesus Christ was anointed by God to be both PROPHET (John 6:14;  Luke 24:19  see also  Deuteronomy 18:17-19) and PRIEST (Hebrews 5:4-6;  Hebrews 7:21-26) and KING (Luke 1:32-33;  Matthew 21:1-5;  Luke 19:37-40). Anointing oil was sometimes used in anointing in ancient days (1 Samuel 16:1, 6-13) but Jesus was anointed with holy spirit (Luke 3:21-22;  John 1:32-34;  Acts 10:38).

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● JESUS' NAME. The Hebrew name that was given to him when he was born as a human is YEHOSHUA (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ), or YESHUA (יֵשׁוּעַ) for short. This Hebrew name means "Yehovah Is Salvation" (Matthew 1:21). Joshua and Jesus have different names in English, but in Hebrew these both names are Yehoshua, and in Greek these both names are Iésous. The Greek 2424 IESOUS corresponds to the Hebrew 3091 YEHOSHUA (as you can see from Hebrews 4:8, and from Numbers 13:16 in the Greek Septuagint in which the Greek Iésous was used to translate the Hebrew Yehoshua).

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● JESUS CHRIST LIVED AS A SPIRIT BEFORE HE LIVED AS A HUMAN (John 6:38, 62;  John 17:4-5). Jesus Christ was the first creation of God (Colossians 1:15;  Revelation 3:14;  Proverbs 8:22, 30-31). Yes, Colossians 1:15 calls Jesus "firstborn", "the firstborn of all creation". He is here listed among the creation as THE FIRST CREATION (like in Revelation 1:5 and Colossians 1:18 he is listed among the resurrected ones as the first resurrected one to heaven). Hebrews 1:6 says that Jesus is GOD'S FIRSTBORN, "HIS FIRSTBORN". This Greek adjective 4416 prototokos "firstborn" is made of two Greek words 4413 prótos "first" + 5088 tiktó "to beget, be born, produce", so it literally means "first-begotten, first-born, first-produced". So, Jesus was born, he has a beginning. Like any firstborn, he is the first one produced by someone who existed before him (compare Hebrews 11:28). He is GOD'S FIRSTBORN, "HIS FIRSTBORN", as Hebrews 1:6 made clear. Romans 8:29 says that Jesus was to become "THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BROTHERS", yes, "brothers", and Hebrews 2:11 confirms that they all "stem from one" (see also  Romans 8:17). He was the firstborn among many brothers also in the beginning, before the earth existed, when "all the sons of God" were created (Job 38:4, 7). Colossians 1:15 continues: "He is the image of the invisible God." He is having God's likeness, reflecting his qualities and personality (compare  Genesis 1:27;  Genesis 5:1), like any son may closely resemble his father in various ways, be the image of his father, having his likeness (Genesis 5:3). Jesus is the exact representation of the very being of his Father (Hebrews 1:3). The Bible says that Jesus is "the only-begotten Son of God" (John 1:14;  John 3:18). The Word "only-begotten" is the Greek adjective 3439 monogenés "only begotten, the only member of a kin or kind". See how this Greek word is used in the following scriptures:  Luke 7:12;  Luke 8:42;  Luke 9:38;  Hebrews 11:17. What does it mean that Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God? Let us consider Abraham and his son Isaac. Isaac, too, was an "only-begotten" son, "the only member of a kin or kind", in Greek monogenés (Hebrews 11:17). But Isaac was not Abraham's only son, he also had an older son, Ishmael, and Abraham still had both of these sons when he himself died (Genesis 16:15-16;  Genesis 21:5;  Genesis 25:9). Yet, Isaac was THE ONLY OF HIS KIND, in Greek monogenés (Genesis 17:15-17, 19;  Genesis 18:10-15;  Genesis 21:1-3;  Galatians 4:22-23). Similarly, Jesus is not God's only son (Job 38:7;  Psalm 89:6;  Genesis 6:2;  Job 1:6;  Job 2:1), yet Jesus is THE ONLY OF HIS KIND, in Greek monogenés. He is the first creation, and he is the only creation that God created alone. God created everything else with him; they worked together like any father and son (John 1:2-3;  Colossians 1:16;  Hebrews 1:1-2;  1 Corinthians 8:6). Yet, the Father, Yehovah God, is the Creator, for everything was created because of his will and out of his energy; he is to receive the worship and praise of those who were created (Revelation 4:11;  Isaiah 40:26). So, Jesus lived as a spirit. Then the life of this unique Son was transferred from heaven to the womb of Mary, and thus he was born as a human (Luke 1:30-31, 34-35;  Matthew 1:18-20). Since he did not receive his life from a human father, but his life was transferred from heaven by means of holy spirit, he was born without inherited sin (Hebrews 4:15;  1 John 3:5).

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● DEATH THAT RESULTS FROM INHERITED SIN WILL BE NO MORE (Revelation 21:3-4). When the symbolic Grave of mankind (Sheol, Hades) has been emptied, death and this Grave will cease to exist (Revelation 20:13-14). The Douay-Rheims Bible and King James Version and some other Bible translations say in Revelation 20:13-14 that "hell" will be emptied and "hell" will cease to exist, because they translate the Hebrew word 7585 SHEOL and the Greek word 86 HADES "hell". But these two words, Sheol and Hades, should either be left untranslated or be translated "Grave", for they simply mean "Grave", the symbolic place where all humans have gone throughout history (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, 10 "Sheol"). Both good people and bad people have gone to Sheol, Hades, "hell". Consider the following scriptures:  Genesis 37:35 says: "I will go down to Sheol ("hell") to my son, mourning." This scripture talks about Jacob and Joseph who both were good people and blessed by God. Job 14:13 says that Job, who was God's trusted servant (Job 1:8), wanted to have relief in Sheol, "hell", from his terrible pains and sufferings, which makes clear that Sheol, "hell", is a place of rest. Psalm 16:10 says that King David, who was 'a man agreeable to God's heart' (Acts 13:22), was to go to Sheol, "hell". In addition, David said these words prophetically about the Messiah, so also the Messiah was to be in Sheol, Hades, "hell" (Acts 2:25-31 "Hades"). Therefore, Sheol, Hades, "hell", is not a place where only bad people have gone, but also all good people have gone there throughout history. It is the symbolic Grave of mankind, the Grave that will be emptied soon.

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● ALL MANKIND WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. People who have not existed even for thousands of years will come back to life. Even those imperfect sons of Adam whom God himself has executed will be brought back to life, for the Bible says that they went to Sheol, Hades, the common grave of mankind (Numbers 16:26-33), and the Bible says that Sheol, Hades, Grave will be emptied, 'death will give up the dead in it' (Revelation 20:13). There will be a heavenly resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:50-53) and there will be an earthly resurrection (Ezekiel 37:1-6, 12-14  compare  John 11:38-39, 43-44). The heavenly resurrection is the resurrection of those whom God has declared righteous for life on the basis of Jesus' ransom sacrifice and their faith (Romans 5:17-19;  Romans 1:16-17;  Galatians 3:11), thus the Bible calls it the resurrection of the righteous and the resurrection of life, whereas the earthly resurrection is the resurrection of those whom God has not yet declared righteous for life, thus the Bible calls it the resurrection of the unrighteous and the resurrection of judgment (Acts 24:15;  John 5:28-29). All mankind will be restored from death to life. Those who will live as humans, the Creator will re-create them by forming them from clay, just like he created the first human by forming him from clay (Genesis 2:7;  Job 33:6). All genetic information of every person who has lived, and their personality, their memories, everything, is in the Creator's limitless memory. He will re-create every human body with the genetic information and personality and memory of a person who lived. Those who will live as spirits, they too will be the persons who lived. "All the prophets" will be "in the Kingdom of the heavens", in heaven (Luke 13:28-29;  Matthew 8:11  see also  Revelation 11:18).

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● IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTACT THOSE WHO NO LONGER EXIST. Those who try to communicate with the dead who no longer exist are actually communicating with Satan and the demons. All spirits have lived longer than the earth has existed (Job 38:4, 7), and thus they have seen each and every human. They know how each human talked and acted, and what he looked like. They know what each human said and did, their whole life. It is easy for Satan and the demons to copy what they have observed and to pretend to be dead humans. The Creator has said that those who try to contact the dead or who practice any other form of spiritism are detestable to him (Deuteronomy 18:9-12). Spiritism includes, for example, occultism, consulting mediums, Ouija boards, voodoo,  sorcery, divination (for example, astrology, the use of tarot cards, crystal gazing, palmistry, and the search for omens or signs), magic, fetishism, binding with spells, hypnotism, yoga, water dowsing, the New Age movement (Mind Body Spirit), telepathy and other forms of esp, and claimed communication with the dead. Anyone practicing spiritism, or viewing it for entertainment, should stop immediately. The only one who is to be contacted in the spirit world is the Creator. You can contact him by praying to him (Psalm 65:2;  Psalm 145:18), using his personal name Yehovah (Proverbs 18:10:  Psalm 91:14-15;  Psalm 9:10), and by studying his written Word, the Bible, which he gave us to give us knowledge about him, and about everything that he has made, and about the past and the future, and to answer our most important questions. If you try to contact the spirit world in any other way, or pray to other spirits, you will contact the evil spirits who are enemies of the Creator and enemies of mankind.

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● THOSE WHO HAVE DIED NO LONGER EXIST. The Creator made the first humans and animals out of dust, out of clay (Genesis 2:7;  Job 33:6). When animals die, they return to dust, to non-existence, and when people die, they return to dust, to non-existence (Genesis 3:19;  Ecclesiastes 3:19-20;  Ecclesiastes 9:2-3). In the Bible, the Hebrew noun 5315 NEFESH and the Greek noun 5590 PSYKHE that are usually translated "soul" mean "a living being, breathing creature". These two words do not mean a part of human, but the whole human as a living being that becomes tired, thirsty, hungry, etc. (Proverbs 25:25;  Psalm 107:9;  Proverbs 6:30 "to fill his soul when he is hungry"). These two words are often used in poetic language, just like "kidneys" and "heart" (Proverbs 23:15-16). In some scriptures these two words mean "life", life as a creature (Genesis 9:3-4;  Leviticus 17:11;  Leviticus 17:14;  Deuteronomy 12:23;  Job 33:18;  John 15:13;  Matthew 2:13, 20;  John 10:11, 15, 17). The Creator made humans to be living souls, living beings (Genesis 2:7), and he made animals to be living souls, living beings (Genesis 1:20, 24, 30;  Genesis 2:19;  Proverbs 12:10;  Numbers 31:28). Animal souls die, return to non-existence (Leviticus 24:18;  Revelation 16:3), and human souls die, return to non-existence (Ezekiel 18:4;  Judges 16:29-30 "let my soul die with the Philistines";  Numbers 35:11, 15, 30-31;  Joshua 20:9;  Numbers 19:13;  Mark 3:4;  James 5:20). Death is non-existence, but the Bible compares death to sleep (John 11:11-14), for God can awaken the dead, bring them back to existence (John 11:24).

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● DEATH IS NOT PART OF GOD'S PURPOSE. There was no death in the beginning (Genesis 2:15-17). Death came through sin, through disobedience, rebellion, through the sin of the first man (Romans 5:12). The situation in the garden of Eden can be likened to a situation where there are high-voltage cables, or somethig else, with a sign: "Don't Touch. It Kills!" God had said: "Don't Touch. It Kills!" But then "the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth" (Revelation 12:7-9) spoke through a serpent, saying that God's word is not true, they would not die, they would be like God, so they don't need God, and then the first humans did what Satan told them to do (Genesis 3:1-6). It was like those first humans had eaten poison that damaged their body. When Adam's children were born, they inherited sin from Adam, the defect that Adam acquired through disobedience. Inherited sin is like an inherited illness that has 100% infection rate and 100% mortality rate. "Death spread to all men."

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● THIS WORLD IS RULED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT, SATAN, NOT THE CREATOR (Luke 4:5-6;  1 John 5:19). The first humans, Adam and Eve, turned their back on their Creator and chose to follow Satan, thus Satan became "the ruler of this world" (John 16:11) and "the god of this age" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

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● SOME OF THE SPIRITS REBELLED AGAINST THE CREATOR. The Creator did not make his spirit sons machines that do not have their own will, but gave them a free will, the freedom to make choices. Some of those spirit sons misused their free will and rebelled against their Creator. One of those rebellious spirit sons is called Satan (Job 1:6;  Job 2:1;  Revelation 12:7-9). The Hebrew name 7854 SATAN (הַשָּׂטָן) means "the Adversary, the Resister". This name was given to him when he rebelled, just like the names of some humans were changed when the situation called for a change of name (Genesis 17:5, 15;  Genesis 32:27-28). The Greek name 1228 DIABOLOS, which means "the Slanderer, the False Accuser", is another name that he has received (in English Bibles "the Devil"). The spirits who have rebelled are called "demons" (1 Corinthians 10:19-21), and Satan became "the ruler of the demons" (Matthew 9:34). So, evil spirits are not dead humans, but God's spirit sons who rebelled.

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● GOD MADE THE SPIRITS BEFORE HE MADE THE EARTH; these countless spirit persons are called "sons of God" (Job 38:4, 7). So, angels are not dead humans. They are a life-form higher than humans (Hebrews 2:6-7). God is called the Father because he is the Creator (Isaiah 64:8). Those whom he has 'created, formed, and made' are called his sons, his children (Isaiah 43:6-7).

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● THE BIBLE CONTAINS SPECIFIC PROPHECIES THAT WERE FULFILLED. Compare God's ability to foretell things (Isaiah 46:9-10; Numbers 23:19) with humans ability to foretell things (Proverbs 27:1;  James 4:13-14). *EXAMPLE:* Isaiah 21:2, 5, 9;  Isaiah 44:26–45:1. The prophecy foretold that ancient Babylon would be conquered, and that Medes and Elamites would play their part in this, and that the nobles would eat and drink at that very time, and that the river would be dried up, and that the city gates would be left open, and that the conquerer's name would be Cyrus, and that this Cyrus would free Jewish captives and support the reconstruction of their holy temple! That prophecy was fulfilled some 200 years later, in 539 B.C.E. (Daniel 5:1-6, 17, 25-28, 30-31;  Daniel 6:28;  Ezra 1:1-3). Babylon was conquered by the combined forces of Medes, Persians, and Elamites, and King Cyrus the Persian (Daniel 10:1) made a Mede named Darius king over the Chaldeans (Daniel 9:1), that is why Babylon was called "the kingdom of Darius" and "the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian" (Daniel 6:28). *EXAMPLE:* 1 Kings 13:1-2. The prophecy foretold the exact name and specific ancestry and specific deeds! That prophecy was fulfilled some 300 years later (2 Kings 22:1-2;  2 Kings 23:15-17). So, we can trust what the Bible says about the future! (Titus 1:2)

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● THE BIBLE AGREES WITH TODAY'S SCIENCE. Consider the following things: ¤  The universe had a beginning (Genesis 1:1). ¤  All matter is concentrated energy - the material universe is made out of energy, out of Creator's limitless energy (Isaiah 40:26). ¤  The number of stars (Genesis 22:17). ¤  There are physical laws governing the heavens and the Earth (Job 38:33;  Jeremiah 31:35;  Jeremiah 33:25). ¤  The Earth is suspended in empty space (Job 26:7 the Hebrew word literally means "without anything"). ¤  The Earth is round, or spherical (Isaiah 40:22 the Hebrew word may be rendered "sphere", or "circle"). ¤  The order of creation, including animal life (Genesis 1). ¤  The water cycle (Job 36:26-28;  Ecclesiastes 1:7;  Amos 5:8). ¤  The mountains rise and fall, and today’s mountains have been under ancient seas (Psalm 104:6, 8). ¤  All the peoples of the earth have a common origin - human beings of all nations are descendants of the same first man (Acts 17:26). ¤  The migration of birds (Jeremiah 8:7). ¤  Sanitation (Deuteronomy 23:13;  Leviticus 11:27, 28, 32, 33). ¤  The practice of quarantine (Leviticus 13:1-5, 46). ¤  Our physical health is affected by our emotional state (Proverbs 14:30;  Proverbs 17:22). ¤  The circulation of the blood (Ecclesiastes 12:6). ¤  Living things come forth "according to their kinds" (Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25). ¤  The composition of living things - the origin of the chemical elements that make up living organisms (Genesis 2:7;  Genesis 3:19;  Job 33:6). ¤  DNA (Psalm 139:16).

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● THE BIBLE CONTAINS ACCURATE HISTORY (Luke 2:1–3;  Luke 3:1-3;  Matthew 1:1-17). What does it tell about the accuracy of the history in the Bible that the writers recorded even their own failings and those of their nation? For example, the serious mistakes of King David were not covered over but were written down - and that while David was still ruling as king! (2 Samuel 11:2-9, 14-15, 26-27;  2 Samuel 12:9-14). The Bible reveals thousands of years of human history; the history that is recorded in the Bible goes back to the vey beginning (Genesis 1:1;  Genesis 2:4;  Genesis 5:1-2).