Mortals Cannot Inherit the Imperishable: Heavenly Kingdom
Thinking how could Adam and the people after him lived for so long to 900+ years old when they weren't allowed to eat from the tree of life is still beyond the grasp of our natural mind yet we still know that He is the Creator of mysteries.
Genesis 6: 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years (120 years old)”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God (angels) went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.
For some who haven't seen the holy book, in these verses we can see that though the early humans were only eating from the "tree of knowledge of good & evil" yet they lived long years, not until humans together with angels became so fleshy desiring evils all the time, that the Maker called them mortals, that in which He considered to let them live only up to 120 years old.
As we can see here, God called them mortals. Is that what we have read? The Lord called 120 years old as mortals for they were cursed before & flesh & wickedness reigned over them. I think it was in Galatians where the works of the weak flesh are listed, those that cannot inherit the kingdom of life & bound in the power of "second death/firey lake".
Also by just reading today I noticed that verse "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever for they are mortal..."
900+ years old is not forever with the Lord before (I can call them immortals with that age now🤣. Knowing that they are not yet eating from the tree of life back then & Paul called the first Adam seeds as natural: mortal which cannot inherit the kingdom of God) and here we are reaching 70 yrs old being preach today that our Father in heaven is communing with us forever? But how? So now it's possible to have more years using the eternal union.
Alright so the tree of life in the east of the garden of Eden was closed that time and mysteriousy opened in Christ, in this realm, the Creator Spirit breathes in us and contends with us forever. This east side is really a wonder for me, a different spiritual place for different creatures-co creators where the revelations of all revelations are coming. The same 3rd heaven John of Revelation saw is connected to the east of the garden, because there's the way to the tree of life. Would that the same new earth Christ is talking about, that kingdom on earth as it is in heaven that is not just reigning afterlife but here with you in the now, now, now. That which was closed but was part of the whole Eden they had lived on for hundred of years & in which Adam was removed thus wasn't able to inherit it & not until Christ'.
MORTALS (NATURAL) CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM
This is another open secret revelation Paul had written. The tree of life is a mystery. In John's Revelation "God said He will dwell with His children and they will be His people" and many verses about inheriting the heavenly kingdom in the new earth+heaven (plus the Lord also promised He will not destroy again the whole world in flood or water).
This indicates that in the now, in the present although they are in the natural bodies will have spiritual bodies that inherit the kingdom. Again it's not the natural or mortal that inherits that heavenly kingdom but the Spirit in them, in us, that Christ in us in this physical "As 1 Corinthians 15:49 said, And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man."
"The natural is the kingdom of death", The spiritual is the kingdom of life.
Being in the kingdom of life, the mortal will be clothed of immortality, the perishable of imperishable. You inherit the kingdom of God by His Spirit that is living in you. Death has been swallowed up by life in victory, the natural has been swallowed up of eternity in Christ Jesus.
The tree of life is so so so deep. Us contending with the Father and His eternal Kingdom of life. Now let's see what will it differ over Adams seeds that lived 500-900 years 😂.
1 Corinthians 15
42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.Source
Did these verses also whack your neurons? The other day I had a hard time sleeping learning that Noah had his children around 500 years old.
Be reign by life. Be in the kingdom of life.
Here's cheering immortality in your natural bodies & on your inheritance,
Super Julalaine💜
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