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Knowing the “Who, When, What, Where, Why, And How” of All Human Life Enables you to Make the Wise Life Decisions Required for Complete Success!

Ultimate knowledge can only be found in the Holy Bible; it alone, was written by inspiration from God, the only true reality.

In my last four essays, using the Bible as my source, specifically Romans Chapters 5,6,7,and 8, I have provided you with the information needed to fully understand the five “W’s” and one “H” of life.

Your happiness and success in life are guaranteed by God if you faithfully follow and apply the information provided in those chapters.

As one created in the image of God, one who will live forever, you fully understand this mortal life is only the beginning of an adventure which will last for all eternity, do you not? You know that mortal death is not the beginning of oblivion for you but the transition to a new reality wherein you will reap the benefits or the judgments you have created for yourself by the decisions you have made during your brief time of mortality.

During your mortal life, you have only one totally critical decision to make and that is to either receive Jesus Christ as your very own personal Savior or to reject God’s offer of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. The ramifications of your decision have an eternal impact on what happens to you after the brief period of your mortality is over.

The First New Reality

For all those who wisely choose salvation by faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, the new reality is glorious indeed. At the time of transition, the saved Christian goes into the presence of their Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 it is written:

5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, ³ if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴ For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

⁶ So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. ⁷ For we walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸ We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Historically this has been an individual process as each person who has been born again by faith in Jesus Christ is transitioned home to be with the Lord. God has appointed a time when the entire body of believers who remain will be called home, both physically and spiritually, at the end of the Church Age along with all who have died as born again Christians and be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven and eternally enjoy the New Heaven and the New Earth as a member of God’s family!

The Second New Reality

For all those who foolishly rejected Jesus Christ as Savior, things are grim indeed! At the point of transition, the rejector goes to a place of torments where they will await the “Great White Throne” judgment. The Bible tells us this judgment will take place at the end of the Millennial Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ which lasts for 1,000 years.

This judgment is described in Revelation 20:11-15 where it is written:

“¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Like Adam before you, everyone today is faced with one decision; whereas Adam’s decision was based on a negative do not, yours is based on a positive believe; believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your very own personal Savior and avoid the judgment that is surely coming for all who don’t!

If you receive Jesus Christ as Savior, your life is a resounding success regardless of anything else!