The Next Life

Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author   Close Window

Before you read this I ask two things, first please go into your prayer area and seek God to ensure He is with you as you read this study, second keep an open mind. There may possibly be some new concepts for you to grasp.

If for any reason you disagree please do not write me to change my mind, many have tried and I have a firm assurance from my father that has settled inside me. I ask as with any study if there is a problem go to God, not just His word (bible), but to God Himself and seek the answers. If He tells you I am wrong, pray for me and move on. The prayer will do more than your words. But if I am right, seek God's help in understanding.

Based on the title you know this study deals with the next life. We are promised a next life, we are even told after we are saved we are a new creature in Christ.

I am going to help solidify that the next life is not just real, but how you can understand it for yourself short of dying.

It's impossible to remember what it was like in the womb of your mother, but for fun try this. Close your eyes for a few minutes and think about it. Pause…

1. Was it dark?

2. Possibly some light came through?

3. Heard noises?

Maybe you were able to get a small idea of what it is like for a baby in the womb.

A baby in the womb lives in a small place. As far as he/she knows it is the whole universe because this small cramped area is all that the baby has to base life on. Also the baby lives in water, attached to the umbilical cord to be fed. So life in the womb is as alien from this life as this life is to the next.

Let's see some similarities

1. Both have a set time to be in their world. In the womb a baby is usually 7 to 9 months. After birth averages 70 years. Both seem forever at times and at other times too short. We fight to stay in our worlds. The baby in the womb does not come out without a little fight (some mothers would say a major fight). Then we fight to stay in this life
2. Babies can hear noises, talking, singing, or laughter from inside the womb. The baby obviously does not understand this but feels comfort from the familiar sounds.

In this life we also get little signs of the next life. We hear things and while sometimes we understand them, sometimes we don't. We see things, glimpses of light, or other unexplainable things. Our father in heaven is always trying to comunicate with us but while we can't always comprehend the message we are always comforted.

3. Whether we are in the womb or in this life, we think that the universe we are in at the time is all there is.
4. The first birth is to determine sex, the second is to determine location of eternity spent, saved vs. not saved. In so many words, a form of determining spiritual types.
5. A baby in the womb is living in a totally different life than out here. We do not live in water. This life to the next is as radical as the womb to this life. The next life's colors are so bright, clear and beautiful that they sing out onto God, His praises.
6. Whether you believe or not does not matter. I believe based on what I have seen, and learned of the next life. Yes, I have seen it for a short time.
7. The first life is the flesh (flesh is formed). The second life is the life of the soul (saved or lost). The last is the spirit (we spend eternity in the new heaven and earth or eternity in hell).

The new earth is at least as big as our sun or roughly 10 million times the size of our present earth. Now before you try to contact me and let me know that there is no new earth, that it is just this earth, read very carefully in Revelation. Translate it from Greek to English and you will see there is a new, not old, redone earth. And as far as the size, that does not take a rocket scientist to figure out. If all remains the same, and I see no indication it will not, the new earth size is based on the size of the New Jerusalem vs. the old.

Remember there was a flood and before the flood the earth was in a ball of water. Water circled the earth like the different atmospheres did and do. I believe before the flood there were no great seas, that there were only streams and great rivers. After the flood (which took 40 days and nights) took 7 months and 17 days for any land to re-appear. So what was seen, as coastal lines after the flood most likely were hundreds maybe even thousands of miles from the old. The old remains in the depths of our current seas.

Genesis 8

1. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cMattle that was with him in the Mark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth and subsided the waters.
2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4. And the Mark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

The point is the first cycle is in water, and the second was meant to be in a form of water. This water kept the temperature about the same all around the earth. Think about the magnetic field, the oxygen levels the colors and no seasons. In the beginning in Genesis 2 we are told the water came up not down to water plants, flowers and so on.

Genesis 2

5.

|3605| And every

|7880| shrub of

|7704| the field

|2962| not yet

|1961| it was

|0776| on the earth

|3605| and every

|6212| plant of

|7704| the field

|2962| not yet

|6779| it had sprung up,

|3588| because

|3808| not

|4305| had rain sent

|3068| Yahweh

|0430| God

|5921| on

|0776| the earth,

|0120| and a man

|0369| was not

|5647| to till

|0853| -

|0125| the ground

God had not had rain of any type come upon the earth yet.

6.

|0108| and a mist

|5927| went up

|4480| from

|0776| the earth

|8248| and watered

|0853| -

|3605| all

|6440| the surface of

|0125| the ground.

Strong's Ref. # 108

Romanized 'ed

Pronounced ade

from the same as HSN0181 (in the sense of enveloping); a fog:

KJV--mist, vapor.

All that they had was a mist or vapor like a fog to water all that needed watering.

I am sure if you take some time to think about it there are other similarities you can come up with.

Enough in this area, I just stirred up a whole bee's nest of discussions.

The whole point of this study is to show the differences and similarities between the 3 life cycles we go through. Also remember the number stands for unity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost).

So by now you should understand, you are conceived (male/female) then reborn and are saved, or not reborn and lost, then the third and final stage is where you end up for all of eternity.

I ask that any who have read this that feel they need to change and except God into their life to now pray. Ask God for forgiveness, and forgive all you need to forgive, and ask Jesus into your heart and allow Him to be your total Lord and Savior in all areas of your life. Send us an email to let us know you have dedicated your life to the Lord. Romans 10:9-10

Any of you who want to re-dedicate your life, pray the above prayer and send us an email to let us know you have re-dedicated your life to the Lord.

This bible study was written (used by God to be the pen and no more) by Pastor J.R. and Barbara Wilhite, with contributions from Pastor S. Fuentes.

God Bless You as you hear His words and follow His leading.

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