The Great Ribulation

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and cursing are everlasting. The terminal generation
of Israel did not understand the threat to them.
They ignored John’s baptism. They did not take
baptism seriously as a permanent (eternal) covenant
sign. They did not heed John’s warning of the
supreme ability of the One who followed him to impose
the baptism of permanent consuming fire.
Thus, when they crucified Christ, they sealed their
fate. The day of the Lord came in 70 A.D. and visibly
destroyed the Temple and its animal sacrifices. The
final day of the Lord will come and institute the only
sactice that in principle God ever honored: true,
complete, and permanent judgment.
Is God’s blessing ultimate? Yes: the resurrection
of the blemish-ffee bodies of saints to be merged with
their souls newly released from heaven, and their
post-judgment transfer to their new permanent environment:
the perfected New Heaven and New
Earth. Is God’s cursing ultimate? Yes: the resurrection
the blemish-free bodies of dead sinners to be
merged with their souls newly released from hell,
and their post-judgment transfer to their new permanent
environment: the lake of fire. God curses
them with perfect resurrected bodies to serve as eternal
stubble, that they may endure eternal agony in
the lake of fire.
Covenantal death is permanent, after the death
of the body. Covenantal death is as permanent as the
covenant itself. Therefore,
if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better
for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with