Can you tell me how the144,000 ‘anointed’ sons of God figures into your hypothesis?
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Yes. They (144000) help remove death, by divine covenant to do so.
“no one needs life after death”, when I said this, I meant as a teaching of the immortal soul, it is not needed or valid in God’s purpose for humans, it will be remedied by resurrection, and a new life, potentially everlasting.
Death is only a limitation in earthly human “life”. Death is not systemic to heaven, Satan has been removed, and is in the earth’s vicinity, earth is where death is the problem to be solved as God said he would (Rev21:3,4).
Since Adam, death is systemic to earthly man, and by several promises by God, death MUST be removed in the earthly realm, which will take time, the removal of Satan, the reparation of what is causing death here in the earthly flesh, and the application of that reality, and the way to achieve, but the only one capable, God, through his chosen Last Adam, Jesus.
The 144000 partake of blood (life), and body (perfection) as a symbol I noted there. They do need that blood to enter heaven, by faith and forgiveness, but they do NOT need for a priest, he has perfected them instantly in the first resurrection, nor a body literally, because “flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom.”
So why do they partake? Because they will BE the priesthood, and they will APPLY the body, to the only realm which needs it, planet earth’s humans, during the 1000 year reign, upon the second, or general resurrection to the earthly realm, when “death and hades” are to be emptied.
God must fulfill promises made here on earth as well, to those like Abraham, who were NOT in the New Covenant agreement, which is a legal contract.
It requires a choosing, vow and dedication, and performance of the law and policies to the best of imperfect human abilities by faith acquiring undeserved kindness, eg, no willful sin and falling away, by the 144000 who are in that contract with God, with Christ as mediator, for a purpose to benefit earth, and restore everlasting life potential to obedient humans.
It takes time. The Adamic death we think is permanent, is not permanent at all. Resurrection is guaranteed:
(1 John 2:2) . . .And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins (144000), yet not for ours only but also for the whole world’s (Adamic sinners to be cleansed).
(Acts 17:30-31) . . .True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”
In this 1000 year process, God’s will on earth, as it is in heaven, will be completed to sinless deathlessness, or everlasting life, and a restored 1 on 1 relationship with God Almighty, with no mediatorial service required, the end of that Kingdom mission.
(1 Corinthians 15:24-28)
. . .Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power.
25 For he must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet.
26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. (Heb2:14)
27 For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him.
28 But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.
(Hebrews 2:14-15)
. . .Therefore, since the “young children” are sharers of blood and flesh, he also similarly partook of the same things, that through his death he might bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil;
15 and [that] he might emancipate all those who for fear of death were subject to slavery all through their lives.
So death is temporary.
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