Eternity….Heaven…Everlasting Existence…..The Other Side….

How many can say “it is well with my soul?” We have many names for existence beyond this earth, beyond this life as we know it. This thing that we call life…. We work, we accumulate wealth/ things, we drink, we eat, we party, we travel, we see the world, we love, we laugh, we weep, then what??? Some of us are fortunate enough to live around 70-75 years, some much shorter, some longer. And then what?? Life is so short, yet we spend so little time thinking about where we will go after our hearts stop beating and we cease breathing for the final time. And yet, the evidence for an eternal existence is staggering.

God said: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6)

Seek knowledge, for time is short and the times are evil and wicked; just read the headlines, listen to the nightly news…

The words of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Hamashiach), the Jewish Messiah who lived, and breathed, and walked this earth, are true and everlasting. Jesus said some very radical and soul-piercing things, and we should heed His words and listen very carefully. Examine the evidence. Who is this Jesus that claimed to be the Son of God, to be One with God, to be God in the flesh? Is he really who He claimed to be? and if He is, how will this affect your life?. How now will you live?

“Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”(Rev: 19:10b)

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” (John 3:16-17)

John the Baptizer declared when he saw Jesus approaching: “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John: 1:29)..i.e. the sacrificial Lamb that would atone for all the sins of the world.

God, because of his unconditional love for us, sent His Son into the world we call earth, to educate us, warn us, tell us about eternity – (heaven and hell)  , and what we need to do to go to heaven and avoid hell.

THE WORDS OF JESUS:

Jesus answered,”I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:6-7)

Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in Me he does not believe in Me only, but in the One who sent Me. When He looks at Me, He sees the One who sent Me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” (John 12: 44-46)

Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?’ (John 11:25-26)

“Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17:3)

“For I have come down from heaven not to do My will but to do the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of all that He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise Him up at the last day.” (John 6:38-40)

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” (John 8:58)

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me,is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand, and I and the Father are One.” (John 10:27-30)

How many times does Jesus have to say it? He came to earth and lived among us, sacrificed His life and revealed the plan of salvation, so that man is without excuse. Heed His words; heed the warnings: today is the day of salvation, because tomorrow may not come.

“As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.” (Psalm 103: 15-16)

“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of the Lord stands forever.” (1Peter 1:24-25)