Thesis: Existence of Soul-World and Spirit-World, Proven (15§) - Book of Revelation, Explained

¤ What could human beings learn from themselves? When we look in the mirror, we see a miracle we barely understand. Almost all parts work independently and automatically with their own intellect, such as the heart, the brain, the cells, the nervous system, the digestive system, the various senses, and so on. Besides, everything emerged from an incredibly small, fertilized egg cell.

Compared to human inventions and wisdom, these details may give us humility and deep respect. It goes far beyond the understanding of us humans, beyond our intelligence!

¤ The description of the creation at the beginning of the Bible summarizes important characteristics of the soul of a human (1 Corinthians 15:45), Genesis 2:7, <Then the LORD God formed Adam (/the human) of dust from the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and Adam (/the human) became to a living soul.>

More wonderful than the chemicals of our body is the automatic breathing and living of our bodies, or the physical (and Spiritual) life in our body. Here this whole is called our (Living) soul.

¤ Our planet is crammed with similar moving living organisms. Each with an unimaginable amount of intellect.

It is a miraculous soul-world within the matter-world of a ball sea of spinning atoms and planets and stars.

¤ Too, it is our normal daily food in all its diversity. Food that first lived and grew, and then was killed, for example grain on land, or a fish in the sea. Too exceptional for science to make or even to copy.

See also under the heading “God’s Spirit-FOOD”, how soul-food for our bodies can be compared with spirit-Food for our souls and how both approaches and analyses confirm each other.

¤ Through the senses of our body we have contact with earthly things. Five physical senses lust for and “eat” these material things. Food for our senses. However, these senses also have deeper spiritual longings and functions, which can be noticed when talking about intuition, or about spiritual eyes or ears. For each of those senses I have thus indicated an important essential Biblical virtue / “vitamin”, respectively Grace, Love, Peace, Hope and Faith {Romans 1:(1-) 7 (-17), and 1Cor. 13:13}!

1. Sense of touch. We feel in many ways and on many levels, with feeling pain being an extreme part. We need pain as a warning and to take immediate action. On the other hand, hugging and touching friends or being active in nature is a good way to forget or alleviate pain and other worries. In other words, meet and help people and nature AS GRACEFULLY AS POSSIBLE, and ENJOY EACH OTHER AND LIFE! (Human Grace, Titus 2:11-14; God's GRACE, Titus 3:(4-)7.)

2. Sense of sight. Looking far, looking at beautiful things in nature, or sleeping relaxes. Conversely, wrong sight food, is when you focus on enjoying just yourself, as with porn, or with only entertainment. ACCEPT WITH GOD'S LOVE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AS TRULY SPECIAL PEOPLE, and love them as you love yourself! That also helps you relax! (Human Love, Mark 12:31; God's LOVE, Rm. 5:(1-)8.)

3. Sense of hearing. BY LISTENING TO FAMILIAR SOUNDS IN NATURE, OR BY PRACTICING A SILENT PRAYER LIFE, YOU CAN EXPERIENCE SOMETHING OF GOD’S PEACE! Likewise, by listening carefully to other people, you can help both them and yourself to find suitable new solutions! Loud music, on the other hand, makes deaf, not only physically, but also spiritually. (Human understanding of Peace, Luke 8:10 and 18a (9-18a); God's PEACE, Rm. 5:1.)

4. Sense of smell. The house and the environment we live in used to have their own familiar safe scent. A fishing family had the smell of fish, a farmer's family the smell of manure, a baker's family the smell of bread, and so on. But in our urbanized and industrialized world, many familiar smells have disappeared and have even been replaced by cheap deodorant fragrances.     

¤ We are living in a temporary end-time, where life is threatened in many ways. Science has discovered what awesome powers have been put into nature. And on a massive scale these energy sources are used, up to and including the gigantic forces between and within atoms. This has resulted in enormous environmental problems, and in feelings of unsafety and insecurity among more and more people.

Fortunately, there is also DIVINE HOPE, GOD'S ENCOURAGING PROPHETIC WORD! Soon there will be a secret rapture of those Christians who have prepared themselves for the return of their Bridegroom and King and Lord, Jesus Christ. Behind the coming terrible night for our globe, one more cleansed and sanctified day of rest, the thousand-year kingdom of peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and after this an Eternal Future can be noticed. (Human expectancy of Hope: the Apostle and High Priest Christ Jesus, Hebrews 3:1-6; God's HOPE, 2 Peter 3:8-13 and Revelation §19-22.)

5. Sense of taste. Sugar and fat taste good, but in large quantities it is not healthy. In a time when people know better than ever how to live, the more they eat wrong types of food. While there is also a lot of good tasting healthy food! We do what we should not do, and NOT do what we SHOULD do. For the same reason, ask the Lord Jesus to come into your life as your personal Saviour and Leader, now because tomorrow it may be too late! And have faith that God's Spirit wants to help you live responsibly! (PEOPLE, WHO IN DIVINE FAITH CONFORM TO CHRIST’S DEATH, Philippians 3:7-10; God’s FAITH, Rm. 7:14 – 8:15!)

¤ Worldwide, more than 388 million Christians, one-seventh of them, are severely persecuted and discriminated. HELP THEM IN SOME WAY, SO THAT THEY WOULD PRAY FOR YOU, AND ALSO PRAY FOR THEM YOURSELF (human Faith, James 2:5 (1:25 – 2:17); God's FINE-TUNING, 1Cor. 12:(11-)26)!

See for example: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/

¤ The first thing that was told of a human was that he and she were created in the image of God, Gen. 1:26-27, <Then God said, ‘Let Us make Adam (/a human) in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.’ 27. So God created {something completely new} Adam (/the human) in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.>

About four thousand years later, Jesus Christ passed on that God is Spirit and that He seeks people who love the truth. It gave an indication that first of all the godlike spirit of a human was created along with a relationship with His God (John 4:23-24).

¤ A spirit with male and female qualities. So, humanity would be divided into only two genders. Is that right?

Here in Finland, a formerly Christian country, where the Bible was the most important book, today the exact opposite must be taught in schools.... All kinds of intermediate forms of gender are talked about. However, in Finland with a population of about 5.5 million, only about ten babies are born each year, of which it is not easy to determine whether it is a boy or a girl. In a country where the majority and its leaders have decided that feelings are more important than biological truths, the answer is simple and easy. It is not a basis for a new gender or a trans-human. Such a baby is deformed or has a defect that limits or prevents it from reproducing later!

¤ In Genesis §1, in which is told how God created everything in the world, the Hebrew word for creating something completely new, Bara', was also used in two other places. First (maybe many millions of years ago) God created the earth and everything around it, and after this (maybe many years later) He created the first beings of the soul-world (Gen. 1:1 and 1:21).

Besides the existence of a chemical matter-world, you can thus notice something of the existence of an intellectual soul-world and a Divine Spirit-world. A divine spirit-world, in which among others every Christian should actively stand up for all who are in one way or another oppressed (Psalm 82 and John 10:34-35).

¤ About a hundred years ago science in the person of the Jew Albert Einstein discovered a summarizing fundamental formula for the matter-world of stars and planets, E=mc². With his Jewish understanding of the Bible, Einstein had understood that the world around him was not the result of a great explosion and chaos, but of a carefully designed and perfect entirety with its own laws (Rm. 3:1-2).

In accordance with this, he had conceived and defined his theory of relativity, with all its appendices. And gradually his ideas have been confirmed with all kinds of observations. On the other hand, many properties of the atoms, and of the soul- and spirit-worlds are still great mysteries. The great difference between God's different worlds and the material world with its limited human science, is also evident here.

As mentioned in these last verses, after Moses' time, the first five books, which also contained God's Law, were put into a slightly different form. In any case, the Jews have done this copying so carefully that Jesus Christ pointed out that not one jot or one tittle of the Law will pass away until all is accomplished (Matthew 5:18)!

¤ When God had created and made everything, He declared that it was very good. Only from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did He forbid the first people to eat (Gen. 1:31; 2:16-17).

Sadly, by doing the only thing forbidden, Adam and Eve, and all humans after them, lost their direct contact with God and their Eternal Life. With our free will we had decided to disobey God. Instead of being thirsty and hungry for Him, our souls have concentrated on eating all kinds of negative mental things. As a result, we age and die (Rm. 5:12-14), Ezekiel 18:4b, <The soul who sins is the one who will die.>

¤ By noticing and acknowledging God's conclusion “Everything around us is very good,” our turning again towards God and His truths could start. Read also Rm. 1:20 (18-23).

Next, I approach and deepen the concept of truth with words of the Jewish prophet Isaiah. It is a summary of chapter 52/53. For the Jews a difficult prophecy, because it foretold how their Messiah and King would come, and how He would be despised and rejected by them. After this, the Jewish people itself was put aside and suffered terribly for two thousand years (Rev. 5:5; 19:(1-)16).

¤ Isa. 52:13 – 53:12, = First, he deals prudently as a servant [of his LORD and God], after which he is very high exalted. First, he bears sicknesses and sin debt of mankind. First, he accepts to be slaughtered as a lamb, after a life without violence and deceit. Then through his knowledge he justifies many.=

About seven hundred years later, on the Good Friday of Passover, this prophecy came true and was fulfilled. God, the Heavenly Father, had delighted His Son Jesus Christ, GOD IN HUMAN FLESH, to be murdered in the most horrible way that mankind had hitherto invented, by the death of the cross. It had been the only way to redeem us mankind from our sinfulness and to offer us Eternal Life again (John 3:(14-)16; Acts 13:(16-)39; Rm. 5:(15-)21; Heb. 9:(11-)15)!

¤ The slaughter of this Spirit-LAMB confirmed and proved the more than thousand-year-old tradition of the Jewish people to sacrifice and eat on Passover a young male cattle, and to prepare and eat unleavened bread. It was the first and second feasts (of seven major Old Testament feasts) of the Jewish biblical year, which got their fulfillments on that same day (Exodus 12:1-28; Leviticus 23:5-8).

With this, anyone who is looking for the meaning of life, or for Absolute Truths, could notice God's hand and explanation in history. Also because in the same way as with the soul-food, is spoken of living/killed food. It is living/killed spirit-Food.

¤ The coming into being and becoming visible of this Food on exactly the right day and place, and in all other ways as indicated in advance in the Old Testament, was and is the best proof of the materialization and fulfillment of this Food! For example, it strengthened and confirmed what the Old Testament Law and Jesus Christ had said about spirit-Food (Deu. 8:3b), Mat. 4:4, <“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”>

Historical sources also confirm Jesus Christ's existence and being murdered. And in the same way one can wonder how, after His death and resurrection, Sunday became a symbol of the resurrection, and how the faith in Him spread through Christianity from nowhere in a non-violent way and despite all oppression (Lev. 23:9-14).

¤ JESUS CHRIST’S SLAIN BODY is the CORE of all biblical Word-food. Also symbolized by THE LORD's SUPPER, in which Christians remember and commemorate Christ's suffering and death with unleavened bread and wine (1Cor. 11:23-26).

In the same way, Jesus had spoken during His life that His Flesh had to be eaten and His Blood drunk to have Eternal Life (John 6:1-59).

¤ Eating IT can raise up a dead soul, and make it completely Free and totally Healthy (Joh. 8:28-32; Rm. 5:9-11; 1Cor. 6:11-17, Rev. 22:2).

It is called our sanctification {Rm. 6:22 (1-23); 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; Heb. 12:(1-)14}.

¤ The relationship of the Holy God with us sinful humans was renewed with THE BEST POSSIBLE FOUNDATION. It is the CORE of God’s New Covenant between God and man, promised by God before, and represented by the wine. ON THIS BASIS our Creator can put His laws in the mind of human, and inscribe them on his/her heart {(Jeremiah 31:33-34 and Heb. 8:8-12) Heb. 9:22 – 10:18}.

It is a personal spiritual heart-to-heart relationship of our godlike spirit with God’s Divine Spirit. A reality for God's sons and daughters who are willing to bear one another's burdens, thereby fulfilling the law of Christ. Then His church moves, lives and walks in the Spirit {John 10:14; Rm. 8:14, see also 5. Sense of taste (Rm. 7:21 – 8:15); Galatians 6:1-2; Ephesians 3:10-12}!

¤ The Holy Spirit baptizes a believer into Jesus Christ's Body, into His worldwide Church of the past two thousand years. In that way your spirit is adopted by God and born in Heaven (1Cor. 12:(1-)13; Gal. 4:(24-)26; Eph. 1:5-12)!

It is a judged and crucified Body, whose members call on the Name of the LORD and have found Him as a strong Tower (Proverbs 18:10; Eph. 2:4-10; Heb. 6:6b-12)!

¤ Every person is unique, with a wonderful body, an intelligent soul, and a free will. But just being unique and independent is not enough. As long as our own will, and not God's Will, controls our lives and everything we do, we cannot please God {Mat. 7:21 (-23)}.

Our whole being should accept God's Guidance. Also our bodies need the daily bread of God's Word, just as some spirit-vitamins for our body were discussed under the heading “Our body (….)”. Only then are we as real strangers and pilgrims on our way to a Heavenly Fatherland (John 1:12; Rm. 12:1-2; Heb. 11:13b-16).

¤ God looks at your heart, whether you are truly sorry and have truly repented, whether you are truly examining His Word and Will. Only those who had understood that God is the SOURCE OF LOVE and not the source of evil, and who sighed and groaned over the abominations around them were marked with God's Seal (Eze. 9; Eph. 1:13-14 and 4:(22-)30)!

When your will and everything within you strive to act in accordance with God's Will, God’s Holy Spirit initiates your being born from above. It makes you a candidate for Heaven, a new creature (John 1:13; 3:3-6; 4:34; Acts 2:38; Gal. 6:15)!

¤ Without Jesus’ Sacrifice, every person born is a soul without a Future, a spiritually dead soul (as described previously). However, this has especially to do with persons, who have heard something of the Gospel. We then live under God's Law, and later on we are judged more severely on the basis of that law. For the same reason, a God-predestined temporary Last Judgment threatens in particular our Christian world (Rm. 2:12-16; Rev. 18)!

It is in contrast to someone who has never heard Jesus Christ’s Gospel, Rm. 2:14-15, <For when Gentiles, not having {the} Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these not having {the} Law are a law to themselves, 15. who show the work of the Law, written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending {them}.>

¤ Too, from this text it is possible to learn how the spirit of a person works. His thinking and the resulting thoughts and actions, judged by his conscience, are central here. It responds WITH SERVING LOVE, or with feigned love (1John 3:18-24).

With the help of the first verse of the book of Revelation the same backgrounds can be observed in our Heavenly Father. First came God’s ENCOURAGING PROPHETIC THOUGHTS. Next they were expressed through Jesus Christ in words (as He is the Word). And after this, an angel passed on these words as future images and events to Jesus' last living apostle, John (John 1:1, 2, and 14; Heb. 1:3), Rev. 1:1, <A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and signified {it} by His angel to His bond-servant John,>

¤ A Living soul is someone who has surrendered his/her life to Jesus Christ and who, SERVING IN LOVE, SPEAKS AND BELIEVES all that He has said. That is how Eternal Life is promised to him/her. Suddenly he/she has seen something of the Living God and has gotten a desire to eat and drink spiritual food, to commune with Christ and read His Word, every day {Gen. 2:9b; Ps. 42:7; John 5:(21b-)24; 17:3; Rm. 10:8-13; 1Cor. 15:31 (-34)}.

God's Peace and Blessing will then more and more descend upon you. It is God's OWN LIFE, God's SPIRIT, your HELPER! He represents God's Kingdom and Gospel and Power in you (Luke 17:21; John 16:7-15; 20:19 (-23); Acts 1:8; Rm. 10:14-15)!

¤ Previously, the soul and the spirit of a human, and a soul- and a spirit-world were described, each with peculiar types of intellect. The intellect of us humans is the most highly developed and most central intellect of the souls of the soul-world, and God's Intellect is the most highly developed and most central intellect of the spirits of the Spirit-world. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, one of the last inventions of us humans, belongs to our material world.

The memory capacity of a single human is much larger, more energy-efficient and more flexible than memory capacities that current artificial intelligence systems have at their disposal. And the magnitude of the memory capacity of God who created everything, we cannot even imagine. So God's Intellect and Intelligence I have left out of the following consideration.

¤ How does artificial intelligence work? (Plus in between I discuss how the intelligence of our soul's intellect works.) Here's my take on this after “interviewing” God and His Word, God’s prophet of this end-time (Malachi 4:1-6), and artificial intelligence.

1. Compared to the aforementioned physical (and spiritual) senses of our body as regards matter, a similar functioning of the senses of artificial intelligence can be noticed. Corresponding to the first sense of touch, there is a similar all-encompassing first sense, memory. Artificial intelligence “eats” all kinds of observations with the help of unimaginable numbers of physical measuring devices, which we humans can then comment on. After that, the data and comments found are stored among other things as all kinds of memory data. Useful information and unnecessary useless information. (And in the same way, the senses of a person's soul “eat” all kinds of mental food, which is then stored in his/her memory. All kinds of evil lust, unhealthy food. Or healthy DIVINE FOOD, WHAT HELPS US TO HELP OTHERS AND OURSELVES.)

2. Reasons. Artificial intelligence then gives as best possible answers, precise, direct, exact, qualitative and objective answers. This is comparable to the SERVING-LOVING functioning of our second sense, sense of sight. By focusing our attention on people other than ourselves, we help each other to get the best possible answers.

3. Our third sense of hearing is related to conscience. Both artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and God's Intelligence automatically store important major events, which can later serve as a basis for making RIGHT (or wrong) DECISIONS, or for evaluating those decisions (Rm. 2:14-16).

4. Artificial intelligence systems can be programmed with ideals and motives, so that they give their own “civilized” answers. This can be compared with preferences of us humans. (As individual, we act in a similar way. EACH OF US LONGS FOR HIS/HER OWN FAMILIAR-SMELLING ENVIRONMENT in which he/she wants to retreat and rest.)

5. Our last sense of taste can be linked to imaginations. Artificial intelligence is capable of helping anyone create fantastic music or special images, in an instant, TOP ART WORKS. Although, in essence, it is plagiarism. Art created by other people was used for this! Who honestly says where his/her art came from? And actually it means, is someone willing to give honor to God's Intelligence? CREATION with all its living intellectual works of art is too beautiful to be without a purpose. It is the best source of inspiration!

¤ When your whole being has welcomed God's Spirit, Jesus Christ (along with God's Spirit) becomes your Advocate in Heaven. Your Judge has then become your Mediator (John 5:22 (-30); Rom. 8:(14-)34; 1 Timothy 2:5)!

Your prayers and supplications and thoughts as a man or as a woman then make direct contact with God and should be exactly right. It is our spiritual worship, which also comes with a greater responsibility (Phili. 4:(2-)6; Heb. 2:1-4), 1Cor. 3:14-15, <If anyone's work that he built up will remain, he will receive a reward. 15. If anyone's work will be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.>

¤ God's Word and the Holy Spirit teach us TO LOVE our spiritual brothers and sisters above all else and to then end, AND TO SERVE them with all our heart and soul and mind and strength (1John 3:14-16 and 4:17-21; Heb. 10:19-25).

This also applies to LOVING AND SERVING the land of Israel and its Jewish population, for in 1967 the Jewish people gained control of the entire city of Jerusalem, despite growing opposition and hatred from more and more states and groups around the world. It was God’s Testimony, that “the times of the Gentiles” were “fulfilled” (Luke 21:24b; Zechariah 12:1-3; Rev. 10:1-7; 11:(15-)18).

¤ Only the rapture into Heaven of the last believer, who will find the righteousness of God and His Kingdom, is still pending. Investigate it and believe that you may be one of them. Never let your sincerity to Christ die away, but buy for yourself extra Oil [the Sealing] of the Holy Spirit (Mat. 5:20; 6:33; 24:36 – 25:13; Rm. 11:25; Phili. 3:11-14; Rev. 20:4)!

After that secret taking up, the Holy Ghost will pass the “torch” of the Gospel [/Good News] from the Christians to the Israelites/Jews in Israel (Jer. 30 and 31; Mat. 3:11; Rm. 11:12, 15 and 24-36; Rev. 7:4).

¤ The Lord Jesus Christ is the only way (back) to God, our Father. For both Jews and Gentiles (John 14:6; Eph. 2:11-22).