February 22, 2025

Where Have the People Gone? (or a Brief Concept of Christianity)

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The original article is in Russian. It is updated more often. It is better to read it using an online translator. https://teletype.in/@mvrshmvllxw/where-did-the-people-disappear-to

Most importantly! If Jesus has already taken the righteous from the earth - don't despair! You already know why you stayed. Jesus still loves you and longs to take you back to Him! He will take care of you. Pray to Him constantly. Ask for safety, food, salvation. He will give it all.

The tribulation will last 6 or 7 years. Then Jesus will come a second time and send all those who have worshipped the devil and accepted his mark to hell for eternity. And those who died during the tribulation for the name of Jesus will be resurrected and taken to Himself.

You may be able to survive the tribulation. But there will be severe persecution for believing in Jesus. Most of those who believe will be killed. Do not be afraid! Dying for Jesus is your salvation and the way to Heaven! He will forgive you and raise you up.

Jesus will never leave you, but believe, believe Him!

Our Father, who art in heaven.
Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, as it is in heaven and on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and leave us our debts as we leave our debtors;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
As Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Introduction. Could We Be in a Simulation?

Hi. I have spent 10 years researching economics. Certain features of our universe (mathematics, fractals, mathematical infinity, the fact that everything in the universe is created through the limitation of infinity) led me to the thought - could the world be a simulation? Not in the classical sense, as if we were created by more advanced humans on a computer (like a computer game), but in a broader sense - could our world be secondary and have an intelligent design.

The study of quantum physics also led to this idea, since the simulation theory, although not a dominant explanation, is nevertheless capable of revealing the nature of quantum teleportation, wave-particle duality, quantum entanglement, etc.

The first thing I thought about was how God would look like, if we imagined Him from the perspective of a simulation? We will not assume that in the original world there are also people with technologies in which their likeness is simulated, because such an idea will not lead us anywhere.

In this case, who should be the creator of the simulation? It has been 50 years since scientists discovered that our universe had a beginning, and it is 13 billion years old. Until that moment there was neither matter, nor time, nor space. Everything was compressed in a single point, the size of an apple. But in one moment everything appeared. How can this be imagined?

Imagine a computer turned off from the network. It exists in reality. But as soon as you turn it on, a virtual world appears - first the operating system, and then the virtual world, if you run GTA, for example. By analogy with our world, first there must have been only a "computer", and then it began to compute and the virtual world appeared - ours. Thus, the first trait of God in our understanding is that He must be like a computer and able to calculate. And considering the physics of the created world, He must have a single characteristic - infinity. He must be infinite in everything.

But if an infinite God exists, then why did He create us? Here the second trait of God in our understanding appears - He must have a personality. Because only a personality can have desires. Thus, if we tried to imagine God - it would be something infinite, beyond time and space, and with a personality.

Another aspect. If God created the virtual world, then, like a processor on a computer, He must have information not only about every person at every moment in time, but even about any atom. And of course, He must be able to change absolutely everything in the world as He wishes.

By the way, many scientists support the idea that our world at the fundamental level consists of information. This concept is capable of explaining many phenomena: why a quantum particle (for example, a photon) can be both a wave and a particle, why it changes behavior depending on whether a person is observing it, why particles can exchange information at a speed faster than the speed of light, why a particle cannot simultaneously have a coordinate in space and acceleration, why every particle has a position in space with a certain probability, the tunneling effect, what space-time is, etc.

Biblical God

If we accept the existence of God, we can assume that He left us a message. Let's see how God is presented in the Bible.

In Christianity, God has many characteristics, many of which are related to His infinity and transcendence.

  • Infinity: The God of Christianity is considered infinite. This means that He is not limited by space or time. He exists outside of time and space and is not subject to change.
  • Omnipresence: God is present everywhere simultaneously. There is no place where He is not, which emphasizes His infinite presence.
  • Omniscience: God knows everything—past, present, and future. His knowledge has no boundaries, and He is fully aware of everything that happens.
  • Omnipotence: God possesses infinite power and can do everything that is consistent with His nature and will. Nothing is impossible for God.
  • Transcendence and Immanence: God is both transcendent (surpassing all that exists and not limited by the material world) and immanent (present and active in the world).
  • Eternity: God is eternal, meaning He has no beginning and no end. He always exists and is not subject to temporal limitations.
  • Incomprehensibility: Despite God revealing Himself through Holy Scripture and revelations, His essence remains incomprehensible to the human mind. People can know God, but they cannot fully understand or explain Him.

As we can see, the Biblical description fully corresponds to our understanding.

Where is the evidence?

The qualities of God described in the Bible mean nothing. If the Bible is truly God's message, it must describe the creation of the universe—the Big Bang. The Big Bang is a proven theory of the evolution of our universe. Initially, there was a singularity point where everything was compressed. Then it started to expand and grew to the size of our visible universe. What existed before the singularity is unknown to science and probably cannot be known.

The Bible was written at least 2,500 years ago, and probably as long as 4,000 years ago. God could not have recorded quantum theory, the development of photons, etc., through prophets because such words were simply unknown at that time. We understand this. But He could have encoded information about the Big Bang through images known at that time.

I spent a year deeply studying the Big Bang, and when I began to compare it with the Bible, my mind exploded. Yes, my hypothesis was correct. The Big Bang (the evolution of the universe) is indeed encrypted in the Bible.

Here is the full article: https://teletype.in/@mvrshmvllxw/bigbangen

Here I will present only the resulting screenshots. But you can open the article yourself and verify my logic. You will need knowledge of physics. I note that such coincidences cannot exist, and for me, this is proof of the divine origin of the Bible.

Of course, my faith at this moment is based far from this fact alone; I have already received more explicit confirmations, but I will not present them here. You can ask God yourself (but first, you will need to deeply understand God, His thoughts, and actions through reading the Bible, because God will not do what is harmful to you).

Decoding the Big Bang:

By the way, note that the Bible has claimed for 4000 years that our universe has a beginning. Physicists always thought the universe was eternal, and only 50 years ago did they discover that there was indeed a beginning.

The most amazing thing about this table is that in such a translation, the Bible described absolutely all the events of the Big Bang, and even in perfect sequence. Using imagery, of course.

Theory of Evolution

If the Bible describes the evolution of the universe, then it must describe the theory of evolution of living organisms, including humans. And it does, as detailed in the article: https://teletype.in/@mvrshmvllxw/evolution (russian)

Here, I will mention some points. First, it is written that it was not God who produced living organisms, but water, which corresponds to the theory of evolution. Second, the appearance of species of living organisms corresponds to the order in the theory of evolution. Third, the Russian Orthodox Church, for example, has never opposed the theory of evolution and sees no contradictions with the Bible. Besides, humans were originally mortal, otherwise, why would there be a tree of eternal life in the Garden of Eden?

Christianity: Introduction

So. We have some evidence in favor of the existence of God. Let's learn about God's plan, which is described in the Bible, and then we can conclude whether the Bible is more like a fairy tale or reality.

Initially, I wanted to write a narrative in biblical order with full quotations. But in that case, the article would be enormous, and because the information would be revealed gradually, important nuances might be lost.

Therefore, I will describe the whole picture at once. And if you are interested, armed with this knowledge, you can independently study the Bible and the works of the Church Fathers.

Christianity: God

We already know that the biblical God is someone infinite and eternal who exists outside our universe and can create virtual worlds.

He also possesses personalities: Father, Son, and Spirit (John 14:9-11). It is important to note that God is "not equal" to a personality. In the case of humans, one personality is one person. With God, it is not so. He is more than a personality. God has three personalities, and from this, there are not three Gods. He is still one. There is one divine nature, and in it, there are three personalities. God the Father is the source of everything. It is from the Father that the Son is "born in eternity." And from the Father proceeds the Holy Spirit.

The Son is not just the second personality of God; the Son is the self-revelation of the Father. They cannot exist without each other. Although power comes from the Father, the Son and the Spirit are just as omnipotent, eternal, and infinite in their nature. Because God’s nature is one and unified. Thus, God the Father expresses Himself in God the Son. In the Bible, the Son is also called the Right Hand of the Father, the Arm of the Father, the Hand of the Father, the Wisdom of the Father, the Angel of the Lord. The Son fully conveys the Father.

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not just personalities but different parts of a single whole. Three hypostases. The Father generates something else but completely identical to Him in the person of the Son and emanates the Holy Spirit. Saints say that man is created in the image of God because man has a spirit, soul, and body. The three personalities dwell in eternal love and glorify each other. Therefore, even if God had not created the world, He would still have infinite glory.

The three personalities also act entirely differently. For example, the Spirit, or Holy Spirit, or Spirit of Truth, instructs a person, leads to repentance, love, goodness, and perfects him. Perhaps the Holy Spirit interacts with a person's spirit, correcting it. The Son interacts with a person, governs the world. He leads a person to the Father. The Father maintains the existence of the world. But, for example, the glory of the Son and the Father is unified and one.

By the way, note that God created the world through the word ("God said let there be light, etc."). These lines again say that the world was created by all the personalities: God the Father conceived, the Son (the Word) created, and the Spirit brought to perfection. Their will is always unified. The will of the Son is always aligned with the will of the Father. Since God is one, when speaking with one personality, you are communicating with all at once.

Christianity: Creation of Angels

In the book of Job 38:4-7, it is mentioned that angels, called "sons of God," rejoiced as they observed the creation of the human world. These lines suggest that angels already existed at the time of the creation of our universe (matter). Angels are essentially spirits, like God. This means they exist on a more fundamental level than our universe, and they are closer to God.

The power of a single angel is enough to completely destroy our universe, as they have full control over matter. Angels appeared to prophets in material form because they are capable of manipulating quantum particles.

Christianity: Free Will

The concept of Christianity is tied to free will and the freedom of choice. But first, it is worth clarifying what good and evil mean in a biblical sense.

Good is everything that is in accordance with God's will. Evil is everything that is against his will. At the same time, God himself is directly good and love. God = love. It should be noted that it cannot be said that evil exists and will exist forever, as well as good. Only good is eternal. And evil arises at the moment of perversion and misapplication of good. Example: is money good or evil? If it is directed to help the sick, it is good, and if it is directed to genocide of people, it is evil. This is the freedom of choice. The choice between good and evil.

And free will is a more specific concept. Free will, in the case of good, is how exactly to help the sick: build a hospital, buy medicine, or fund science and the search for vaccines. In the case of evil, free will also provides room for action: attack another nation or conduct an economic blockade, for example.

Here is a schematic representation with good and evil on the vertical scale:

Christianity: The Problems of Free Will

Free will implies that a free being can do absolutely anything it wants. It can think anything it wants. There should be no restrictions.

Now imagine. You come into existence and see an all-powerful God before you, ready to destroy you as soon as you commit a sin. Will you sin? Obviously not. And not out of your own free will. The presence of an all-powerful God already in itself limits the realization of the will of the created being.

There is another problem. God is love, and He created beings for the purpose of them existing in His love. A being that does not possess freedom is incapable of love. If the attachment and feelings of a being are programmed – it is no longer love, but merely an algorithm.

Herein lies the dilemma: how to create a being capable of love? For in that case, it is impossible to limit its freedom. Even by His presence. And how will a being love the Creator if it does not know the Creator exists?

Christianity: The Freedom of Angels

Do angels have freedom of choice? Yes, definitely, since some of them chose evil and turned into demons. Do angels have free will? No. The Bible states that angels are ministering spirits. All they can do is carry out God's will.

Angels can choose good – and in that case, they will carry out God's will. They can choose evil – and they will be able to do only that which contradicts God's will.

Of course, they possess a certain kind of free will, but it is highly limited. They can choose only how to carry out God's will. They have no will of their own.

Does the aforementioned dilemma arise in the case of angels? No, because their will is highly limited, the presence of God in no way infringes upon their will, and they are left with the choice of good or evil.

Here, I will make a clarification: the choice of spirits (angels or the soul of a person) cannot be changed. A spirit is similar to God – as soon as it chooses a direction, it immediately strives either for the infinite knowledge of good or evil.

Therefore, the change and repentance of demons are no longer possible. The devil can no longer change either; he will only deepen into evil for eternity (since spirits are immortal). That is why he ruins people, because he is incapable of doing anything else.

Christianity: The Freedom of Man

The Bible states that man is the highest creation of God. Why? Because man possesses absolute free will, similar to that of God. But how did God solve the dilemma? By one single option: even though He communicated with the first man, He did not show that He is an almighty God who does not tolerate sin.

That is, for a man to have freedom – he must be born into a world where there is no one watching over him. No judge. No supervision. This is why God created our world through the Big Bang, through evolution. So that man could never prove the existence of God 100%, and his free will would never be limited.

By the way, note that the first man – Adam, or rather the first representative of our species who, through evolution, reached our level, was not immortal. Because in the Bible, besides the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was also the tree of eternal life.

And the Lord God said: Behold, Adam has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—

Therefore, the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

And God left information about Himself and the universe in His book.

Christianity: God's Plan for Man

Why was there a tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden? I won't go into much detail, but as the holy fathers believe, man already knew what good and evil were. So why was there the tree? According to the holy fathers of the Church, and I agree: this tree is the embodiment of God.

God created a being equal to Himself in will. Why? For communion. God created man for Himself, to have eternal communion and dwell in eternal love with him.

But why did God create a material world for man, unlike the angels? Man consists of three elements:

  • Physical body
  • Spirit - the divine source of life
  • Soul - the imprint of our consciousness, like a flash drive with a backup of consciousness

Why is there a material body? There are two reasons.

First. Just as the human soul dwells in his physical body, so can God dwell within man. God's plan was for man to become the fourth hypostasis of God. The fourth person of God. Man was to remain his own person while being united with God. God would dwell in man, and man in God. Eternal communion between God and man, eternal love.

Remember what God consists of? He has His own "body" (something infinite, divine nature), and within it dwell three persons. God loved His creation so much (even before the moment of creation) that He wanted man to dwell in His body. This very idea shows how much God loves people and wants to be together.

But there is a nuance, God did not take His place in man because of the fall. And since fallen angels are also spirits, they too can unite with man and even create thoughts in the mind (a thought is the beginning of an idea, man can accept it and develop the idea, or he can reject it), as man's thoughts have a material nature – they arise due to real neural connections, impulses, and hormones.

Christianity: The Catastrophe

According to the plan, man was supposed to love God and choose good, and then unite with Him by partaking of the tree's fruit. Instead, man violated God's will, treated God as a mechanism obligated to make him divine, refused to repent, and due to shame, wanted not to see God. And God disappeared.

I will not describe the process of the fall in detail; the explanations are available from the holy fathers.

Christianity: The Consequences of the Catastrophe

First, because man did not partake of the tree of life, he remained mortal (though the soul is still immortal). Furthermore, man fell into sin. Instead of studying the paths of good and reuniting with God, he departed from God's will, and thus, from good.

Remember the image.

If a man had chosen goodness and united with God, their choice would have been realized, and they would have only had the good freedom of will. But, the person fell into sin.

But then why, unlike angels, did a person not endlessly deepen into evil, but is capable of repenting and becoming good? Because they have a material body. This is the second reason why matter was created for a person. The consciousness of angels is in their spirit. The consciousness of a person is in the material body, in the brain. And the brain is controlled by neural connections and hormones. That is why a person is capable of changing. The spirit is immutable and eternal, but matter is perishable and subject to change.

But a person is mortal. They die. And their immutable soul goes to... hell. Since the fall, all people have become sinful. Absolutely everyone. After death, the soul goes to God. And what should God do with it? God is not only absolute love, He is also justice. He must punish for sin. And since the soul is eternal and immutable, it must be punished forever. Even for a minor sin that happened once in life. Because it cannot change, and therefore will sin forever.

That is why God created hell. Hell is a place where there is no apparent presence of God. Souls are simply in waiting there. The human soul does not have the ability to act like angels, it can only see, hear, feel, and nothing more. Until Jesus, absolutely all the dead ended up in hell. No matter how good and righteous a person was during their life.

And why can't God just destroy souls? Because God does not have time, and therefore He is immutable, and any of His decisions have an eternal nature. For the righteous, this is good news - saved people will live forever, God will never destroy them because He is tired of people.

Christianity: Salvation

People die, their souls go to hell. Clearly not God's design. So how to fix the situation? God the Son (the second person of God) incarnates into a human. Jesus is born.

  1. God himself creates a body for Jesus (born of the spirit), which means it is righteous, not sinful like ours.
  2. Jesus lives an absolutely righteous life, overcoming all temptations of the devil.
  3. He takes the punishment for sins (being both absolutely righteous God and an absolutely righteous human, he undeservedly endures humiliation and death, and since he is God - his righteousness is infinite, and therefore it can serve as payment for any human sin).
  4. And most importantly, he resurrects, ensuring that absolutely every person will resurrect in their physical body at the end of times.

Christianity: The Mechanism of Salvation

Now let's go into more detail about what kind of salvation God offers. But first, a small digression. Why does God appear only to the righteous? Remember the condition of free will? A person should not know about the existence of the judge. And the righteous person not only believes in God 100%, but also completely fulfills the will of God. Therefore, when God appears, the will of the righteous person will not be violated; it will remain free.

The same applies to healings. What is the condition for God to heal you from diseases? Faith. If you do not believe - your healing will give you knowledge about God, and therefore will violate your freedom. But if you believe 100%, this knowledge will not violate your freedom, because you already have knowledge about God.

By the way, that's why the human body is so "perishable" - it is easy to die, there are many diseases, and life is short. This is so that a person thinks about another world and seeks God. There is simply no other tool except sorrow. No one will ever think about the existence of God if they live forever and without diseases.

So, when you believe in God 100%, you give God the opportunity to act, because His actions no longer violate your freedom. By the way, remember that God is eternal, which means He cannot violate His own rules; He cannot violate a person's freedom, no matter how much He desires to.

Now to the mechanism: to be saved and enter paradise, you need to believe that Jesus is the incarnate Son of God (both God and Man simultaneously), that He paid for your sins, and that He will resurrect you on the last day, give you His righteousness, and justify you before the Father on Judgment Day.

Now for more details: First, you need to be baptized. In this sacrament, the third person of God - the Holy Spirit - is united with you. He drives out the devil from you and takes his place.

Second, you need to repent. Remember all your sins, be ashamed of yourself, and most importantly - change. You must stop sinning. Here is an important note. You should not fight sins with your own strength. You need to ask God for help. However, it is also important to take action yourself. If you ask God for help but do not fight sin yourself, there will be no help. Because your actions express your choice - to continue sinning. But if you fight but fall, God will help you.

Third: Observance of the commandments. There are three types:

  1. Love God above all. God loves you as His only son (daughter), and you should respond in the same way. You should not place money, spouse, children, or entertainment above God.
  2. Love people. Do not judge, steal, kill, help those in need, etc.
  3. Specific commandments related to the structure of the divine order. For example, the sin of fornication (no relations outside of marriage, no marrying after divorce).

If you violate these commandments, you need to repent and correct yourself. But it is also important not to arbitrarily make the commandments stricter. For example, is drinking whiskey a sin? No, not at all. Drinking every day and being dependent on it is absolutely a sin. Is smoking marijuana a sin? For medical purposes - no, and so on.

All these actions are aimed at one thing - you align your will with God's will, meaning you renounce sin and allow Jesus to resurrect you on the last day. If you die with faith in Jesus, God cleanses you of sins, and after death you go to heaven, to God, not to hell, and your soul is filled with strength, allowing you to act in heaven.

And now the most important thing. As I said, on the last day, absolutely all people will be resurrected in physical bodies. The bodies will be reassembled from atoms, and the soul will return to them. They will be physical but immortal. For example, you will be able to eat and drink, but also fly, teleport, and so on. Bodies like Jesus'. And since these bodies will be eternal, their free choice will be fixed just like that of angels.

Those who did not accept Jesus and did not follow the commandments will be resurrected in their sinful bodies. And since, at the end of time, God will reveal Himself and be present everywhere, and since God is absolute justice, sinners will eternally experience God's wrath. God will have no choice but to place them in the fiery Gehenna, where they will suffer eternally not only from punishment for their sins but also from regret for not repenting and not receiving what the righteous have.

Those who followed the commandments and believed will be resurrected in the body of Jesus. Outwardly - in their own, but it will be a new body created by Jesus. Their will shall forever remain righteous. There will never be sin in them. Their bodies are united with the Holy Spirit and with Jesus, and therefore they will be eternally united with God. And since God is love, and He is infinite, and therefore His love is infinite, the righteous will eternally deepen in God's love. And material blessings in heaven will be abundant. God will fulfill all desires because He loves people, and there will be no sin.

The main element of salvation is the righteous body of Jesus, which has no sinful will. From your body, you will never be able to remove sin. That is, you can become righteous only if Jesus gives you a corrected body. And for this, you need to show will, refuse sin; Jesus will not save you forcibly, He cannot violate your will, which you show by your actions.

The Great Tribulation

The Great Tribulation is the final 7 years of the world's existence before Jesus returns. Before it begins, the rapture of the church will occur a short time beforehand—all believers in Jesus will be instantly transported to heaven, and their bodies will change into eternal ones. At that same moment, all righteous souls in heaven will gain their physical, immortal bodies. This is mentioned in three Gospels. For 7 years, believers and Jesus will celebrate the reunion of God and man.

Meanwhile, on Earth, there will be tribulation—a time of suffering and God's wrath upon people for their sins. To put it briefly, after the rapture, there will be panic and a world war. Catastrophes will occur, a meteor will arrive, and nuclear war will break out. Under the pretext of establishing peace, the Antichrist—the opposite of Jesus, the incarnate devil—will come to power. He will unite the whole world, stop the war, but will demand worship as God. All who agree will receive a mark, and their will will be enslaved. Those who refuse and confess faith in Jesus will be beheaded. The only way to enter heaven will be to constantly pray to God for forgiveness, prove their faith, and ultimately accept death from the Antichrist for their faith in Jesus. All who die for the name of Jesus will be resurrected immediately after the seven years of tribulation in incorruptible bodies. Before the end of the tribulation, the Antichrist will gather an army and go to war against Israel. Israel will repent, accept Jesus as God, and then Jesus will return to Earth with the righteous and destroy all sinners on Earth. Their souls and the devil will be sent to hell for 1000 years.

After the Great Tribulation (7 years), Jesus will establish His kingdom on Earth, which will last for 1000 years. The resurrected righteous will rule over cities. Those righteous who survived during the Great Tribulation (who will be very few) will remain mortal and will bear children. There will be no sin on Earth during this time.

After the 1000-year kingdom, Jesus will resurrect all sinners in their physical bodies and release the devil. Sinners will once again rise up against God, and some of the people born during the 1000-year kingdom will also side with the devil. This time, God the Father will finally send all resurrected sinners and fallen angels into the fiery Gehenna for eternal torment, and He will create a new universe for the righteous. The old heaven will merge with the new one. In heaven, there will be a city called New Jerusalem, which will be incredibly beautiful. God has already prepared a dream home there for each believer in Him.

When will the Rapture occur? The Prophecy about Israel

The Bible contains numerous prophecies that come true precisely, even if they were predicted 3000 years in advance. For example, in the Old Testament, the exact year of Jesus's first coming was predicted 2500 years before it happened.

But now let's turn to the prophecy about the restoration of the state of Israel.

Then lie on your left side and bear the sin of the house of Israel. You shall bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. I have assigned you 390 days, a day for each year of their sin. After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. This is the length of the punishment I have decreed for Judah. Ezekiel 4:4-6

If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. Leviticus 26:18

In these verses, we see that God will punish Israel for 430 years (390+40). And if Israel does not repent from idolatry, the punishment will be multiplied by 7 times. Now let's calculate, we know from history that the beginning of Israel's captivity was in 606 BC, and the end was in 536 BC in the month of Nisan. So, Israel was in captivity for 70 years (there is also a prophecy about this).

This was the first punishment. But Israel did not repent after the captivity. Therefore, God renewed the punishment, and Israel did not gain independence. So, when will the punishment end? Let's calculate. God promised 430 years. Israel was in captivity for 70 years, so 430-70=390 years remain. We multiply this by 7 = 2520 years. Considering that in the Bible a year = 360 days, when converted to our format (365 + leap year) we get 2483.8 years. Adding this date to the end date of Israel's captivity (considering the zero year) we get 1948—the date of the founding of the state of Israel. Thus, the year of Israel's independence was predicted more than 2500 years in advance...

By the way, the prophecy about the formation of Israel in one day is contained in the book of Isaiah, 66:8:

Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.

And so it happened, in 1948, at the Yalta Conference, a decision was made to give the Jews a state.

When will the Rapture happen? The Parable of Jesus

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. (Matthew 24:32-35)

Throughout the Bible, the fig tree is referred to as Israel. Even a few verses earlier, Jesus said that God cursed the fig tree, so there is no doubt about it. When the fig tree sprouts leaves, it is not difficult to guess that this is referring to the flourishing of Israel, which began in 1948.

There is also a line stating that this generation will not pass until all things happen. In Psalm 89 (in some translations Psalm 90), verse 10:

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they be eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

1948 + 70 or 80 = 2018 or 2028. I remind you that we are talking about the Second Coming of Jesus, which will be at the end of the seven-year tribulation. Therefore, 7 years before this date, the rapture of the righteous to heaven should happen. So, if we add 80 years, we get the year 2028 for the Second Coming, then the rapture should be in 2021. But it did not happen. Why? Because this parable only gives an approximate date. Moreover, Jesus gave the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom did not wait when the bridegroom was delayed. But how to find out the exact year?

When will the Rapture happen? The exact year.

Who is the progenitor of Israel in the Bible?

Israel comes from Jacob, who was the third patriarch in the Bible, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the grandson of Abraham. After Jacob wrestled with an angel and received the name Israel, his 12 sons became the ancestors of the 12 tribes of Israel.

What do we know from Jacob's biography? He got married at the age of 77. And now we need to make a connection: the Bible calls the moment of the reunion of God and man a wedding. The bridegroom is Jesus, the bride is his church. These are the images used. 1948 + 77 = 2025 - the year of the Rapture of the church to heaven.

Are there more confirmations? In the Old Testament, it is written in several places that Jesus (the Messiah) will return for the church after two days (a day for a thousand years). According to most historians, Jesus was crucified in the year 32. Again, we get 32 + 2000 = 2032 for the return and 2025 for the Rapture, accordingly. There are also several verses which state that the world is given 6000 years. According to the Hebrew calendar, it is now the year 5785. However, it is possible that it is actually 5995, because, according to calculations related to Jesus, the Jews lost 210 years. In this case, 6 years remain until the end of the world. This option is also possible because there is a prophecy that the tribulation will be shortened to 6 years instead of 7.

Moreover, there is also the typology of the Rapture of the church.

Abraham, being old and desiring his son Isaac to marry a worthy woman, called his faithful servant, likely Eliezer. He asked him to go to his homeland and find a bride for Isaac from his relatives. The servant swore to carry out this mission.

Traditionally, it is considered that in this story Abraham symbolizes God the Father, Isaac symbolizes the Son, Eliezer symbolizes the Holy Spirit, and the wife (Rebekah) symbolizes the church.

And now the attention-grabbing part: When did Isaac get married? In 2025 BC...

Of course, this isn't 100% information, but there are enough hints pointing to 2025. Personally, I believe that the Rapture will occur within 10 years with a 100% probability, and 90% that it will happen precisely in 2025.

When will the Rapture occur? Month.

Suppose we know the year. But how do we determine the month? Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour, but He didn't mention the year or the month. Let's refer to His quote:

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. (Matthew 24:32-35)

So, when does the fig tree sprout leaves? March-April. Sometimes February-May. That's our range. Considering that tribulation should begin either on 1 Nisan (a Jewish month) or 10 Nisan, it is likely that the Rapture will occur a week or so earlier, i.e., around mid-March.

Can we confirm this hypothesis? Jesus also said:

Don't you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

The harvest is the Rapture. Gathering the harvest. It should occur 4 months earlier. Which harvest should we refer to?

I am the true vine, and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

When do they harvest grapes in Israel? They start in July and continue until December. July minus 4 months = March.

Thus, we get the Rapture in March 2025. But this is not definite information. It could be in October during the harvest festival, or maybe not this year at all. But the most likely date is indicated.

My opinion based on other factors is as follows: 80% - from February 28 to March 31, 5% - in the summer, 15% - September - October.

Additional signs

I won't describe everything. Just a few.

For when they say, 'peace and safety,' then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Peace and safety is the main goal of the UN, so this phrase has been spoken from the podium for 70 years. Trump also tweeted this phrase in February at the start of negotiations. Now, everyone is talking about peace concerning the war in Ukraine.

Another interesting point. The English Bible was written 400 years ago. In the verses that speak of the church's rapture at the last trumpet, the "trumpet sound" is translated as "trump." So, literally, the rapture will happen at the last Trump (and he is serving his last term).

Can the Bible predict a specific person? Yes, it has already predicted Cyrus, who did a lot for Israel. Incidentally, his biography is similar to Trump's. Trump also helps Israel, for example, he recognized Jerusalem as its capital. Because of this, in 2017, Israel even issued a coin depicting Cyrus and Trump together! Another hint.

Eclipse. In 2017, there was a sign in the sky described in the Revelation of John.

Revelation 12:1-2: "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth."

It happens only once every 7,000 years. For more details, google it yourself. From this year, the 7 years of grace (warning) have begun, which precede the 7 years of tribulation.

There are many other hints that the time of tribulation is approaching, but I will not mention them as they do not provide an exact date (the four horsemen of the apocalypse, wars, communism, the Catholic Church, Islam, neuralink, cryptocurrency, technological singularity, AI, all of which are somehow predicted in the Bible).

What will be in Paradise?

Because your will will be purely righteous, there will be no sin in it, so it will not be contrary to God's will. And God will allow you to fulfill all your desires. Complete freedom of creation. It is written in the Gospel that believers will become kings like God. Literally, man will become God. No one will reign over man.

But, God only by grace, i.e., all Power and Glory comes exclusively from God the Father. In paradise, all will serve one another. But that doesn't mean anyone will be a slave. Even God will serve his children (the righteous). This is universal love, where each one will first care for the other.

The main activity in heaven is to glorify God. But this does not mean that you will stand with a candle and sing church songs all eternity. This concept is much broader. A person can glorify God with almost anything. For example, a scientist, having discovered a new quantum particle on Earth, can praise the wisdom and creativity of God, thus glorifying Him.

There will also be constant communication with God. Everyone on the level of thoughts will be able to communicate with Him. And since God is infinite, his love and wisdom is infinite. The righteous person, recognizing God more, will be able to feel God's greater love. There will be inequality in this. He who has achieved more in knowing God on earth will be able to absorb more of God's love.

Paradise itself is infinite, as is its structure. Therefore, man will be able to explore paradise forever, and for example, he will be able to travel forever. Paradise consists of fantastically beautiful scenery.

Everyone will have a dream home in the city of New Jerusalem. The city is beautiful, made of stones and gold, and God is the sun. Jesus has already prepared a home for everyone that people can only dream about. God knows man's taste better than man himself, so everyone will be delighted. But it is worth considering that the houses will be different depending on how much a person has advanced in the knowledge of love and God during his life.

The clothing will consist of the Glory of God, will be given at the moment of rapture or resurrection. It will be exclusively white. But different, it will reflect the merit of the person in life.

It will never be boring. People will be different, there will remain your character, which was in life, but without sin. There will be talents. If you were a good singer on earth, in heaven your ability to sing will be multiplied.

You will be able to eat fruits and sweets. But the body will not need food, because the source of life will be God alone. And such a life will never end, even after billions of years, and the meaning will never be lost, because the meaning is only in God, and God is infinite.

If your relatives and friends are in heaven - you will be able to communicate with them, even hug them. There will be no more marriage. But the level of relationship, the love that was between certain people will remain, and even multiply. It will be a new level of divine love. It is written in the Bible that man will “grow weary” of God's love.

Repentance

Let me remind you of the mechanism of repentance. The point is not to say, “God, forgive me.” Remember why sinners will forever experience the wrath of God? Because they will forever remain infected with sin. The punishment is eternal because their sin is eternal.

Therefore, if you want to go to heaven, you must get rid of sin forever. And that is only possible with the help of God. That is why it is more correct to say not “God, forgive me”, but “God, I repent of my sins, I don't want to be a sinner, I want to change, I want to get rid of sin, but I don't have strength, man is not capable of it. I ask You to heal me”.

Do you understand? You have to express your will to get rid of sin. Therefore, repentance in words alone will have no effect unless you make your own efforts to change your soul. Your will must be directed against sin, then God will have no hindrance to transform your body at the resurrection or rapture into a righteous body that is free from sin.

How does one gain humility? Introduction

To become righteous you must not be proud of yourself. You can only be proud of God and his works. Pride is the most difficult sin, no man on earth is able to get rid of it completely. All Glory belongs to God alone. Therefore, only God can glorify man. The righteous, literally, will be clothed in the Glory of God. Glory is not only figurative, in the Bible it is tangible. If a mortal sees the Glory of God, he will die instantly. If he sees a small portion, he will immediately fall to his knees and weep.

The problem is that a righteous man should be glorified, his garment should consist of glory. But when man is proud of himself, he denies the Glory of God and tries to create his own. But man's glory is only an illusion of pride, there really is no glory. The result is that man denies God's Glory, but has none of his own, and remains naked. And without the garment of glory one cannot become righteous. Because righteousness is material and takes the form of glory. And a man goes to hell for eternal torment.

And now why all glory belongs exclusively to God. God is infinite, so his love, justice, righteousness and glory are infinite. And man is finite, he is not capable of having, for example, infinite love. Man can eternally develop, eternally immerse to deeper levels of God's love, but he is not able to have his infinity. In principle, we can finish here, but let us also clarify the difference in the affairs of God and man.

When you begin to feel proud of yourself, or think you are worthy, consider this. God has existed forever, even before the creation of our universe. How long have you existed, 30 years? Etc.

God created space, time, matter, viruses, bacteria, the evolution of living organisms, human consciousness, light, sound waves, nature, etc. And since God exists outside of time, He has already provided for everything in advance. Therefore, if you think that the iPhone was created by man, you are wrong. God originally designed the universe so that man could create the iPhone. And so it is with any creation of man. God created all of man's future technology before the beginning of time. That is God's design.

Do you like Smeshariki? It has beautiful nature - God created it. Beautiful colors, animals in the form of balls - God created all this before the beginning of time, and mathematics, and geometry, and images. And then set the universe in motion in such a way that all this became possible. Man is not capable of creating anything fundamentally new. For example, can you imagine 5D space? That's why only God has true creativity. And man was created to enjoy what God provides.

How do you find humility? Freedom of choice

But what is much more important is the destiny of man. To begin with, let's designate that God has several ways of ruling the world. The first is the initial conditions of the creation of the universe. The initial conditions are such that, for example, the Earth came into existence with intelligent life. God through the initial conditions can also control the destiny of man. For example, to select parameters so that a certain person was born with certain talents, or with hereditary disease, or died in infancy. Because before creating the universe, God had already thought over each person and saw his destiny.

Let me remind you that since God is outside of time, He sees the whole time, the past and the future at the same time. And since He has an infinite mind, He can, even without knowing the future, but knowing man, predict man's choice and actions in a certain situation.

The second is man's thoughts. God can instill thoughts in man, and man can reject it or develop it into a thought.

The third is direct influence on substances. Our world consists of quantum particles. And quantum particles have absolute randomness. Therefore, if God will directly control quantum particles, then man will not be able to detect it in any way, and therefore man's will will not be violated.

Now remember the purpose of our universe is for man to find God and be delivered from sin. The only way that man can be made wise is through tribulation. It is only in suffering that man begins to seek God. And God created man to be together with God for eternity. A separate world and the scarcity of God was necessary because of the dilemma of free will. But God never leaves man, He wants every man to repent of his sins and come to God, to Paradise. That is why God never lets each person's life go to waste.

Yes, man has freedom and makes choices all the time. Man makes his own decisions. Man builds his own life. But the consequences of his choices are always controlled by God. He can allow events to unfold the way man wants them to. He may not. And so He completely controls the destiny of man.


God continually gives man a choice of paths that will lead him to heaven. Man almost always resists and goes his own way. Then God offers the next option, taking into account man's actions, and then another one. And so it goes on throughout life. Therefore, if you have achieved something, it may not even be about money or fame, but, for example, you have done a lot of good deeds and charity, it is only because God has led you on this path. You accepted it, but not from the first time. Maybe from the hundredth, or from the thousandth. That is why there is nothing to be proud of, you did not choose the best way that God prepared for you, you did not do what God wanted you to do. Man is not able to follow the absolutely righteous path.

And vice versa, if you have done nothing in life. But if you proudly think that if you had a little more time, or a little more luck, or even if only one situation had turned out differently, you would have become a billionaire, a virtuous man, and a preacher, you are again mistaken. You don't need to fantasize about your abilities and your missed past. Because God knows best how to guide you to heaven. Your current situation is the best option possible given your choices that can lead you to heaven. There is no need to be deluded. For example, if you had the opportunity to become a crypto-billionaire but you didn't, it's because you would have done worse for your soul on such a path. You need to think about your current situation and what God wants you to do.

Of course, God can allow people to fall into sin. For example, if it will eventually lead a person to peace. Or God can give many benefits on the Earth to sinners, because He knows that they will go to hell, they will never repent, and so He gives them joy here, at least that kind of joy.

How do you gain humility before other people?

To get to heaven you have to become like God. And God is love. And love is when you put the interests of others above your own. Therefore, it is forbidden for a Christian to condemn other people, to think badly of them, to denounce them, etc. A righteous person should have only goodness and joy towards others in his thoughts.

How to achieve this? There is only one option - you need to go deep into the knowledge of your soul. Your personality. And when in the bottomless abyss of your mind you will find out how much sin has penetrated you. That you cannot become righteous for a minute, then looking at other people you will not see their sins significant. And even more so when you know your own sins, they will seem righteous and good people to you.

But here it is important not to fall into despair. It is necessary to remember that God came to Earth not to condemn, but to save. Realizing your sins is useful so that you do not think yourself worthy of heaven. But you should not despair either. You need to gather up all your sins and come to Jesus in prayer, asking Him to heal you. That's the point. If you come to God with pride of how much good you have done, God will not be able to heal you, because you think you are righteous, you do not want to change, you think you are worthy.

And if you say to God: here I am, I have done nothing good, I am not capable of becoming righteous, here is my pile of terrible sins, and these sins are all I have. Then by your free choice you will give God the opportunity to heal you, to make you righteous, and to glorify you with the infinite glory of God

How do you get closer to God?

I will write very briefly, you can think about the depth of it yourself.

1) Realize that only God can fulfill all your desires. It is not only about physical possibility, but also about the fact that only God can make anything perfect, and only God knows your tastes and desires better than you do.

2) All glory belongs to God. Already wrote about this above.

3) All power is from God alone. I wrote about that too. It is about the fact that without God you are incapable of anything. No sin to overcome, no Bible to understand, no business to build - all only by the power of God, He controls everything.

4) The unworthiness of heaven. Are you worthy to have an all-powerful infinitely holy God fulfill your desires?

5) The separation of sin and man. When you look at a man - imagine his soul - a pure white pure righteous angel, which is trapped in a corrupt sinful body. The pure soul has no strength to resist the fallen body, the soul has surrendered. All bad deeds are the result of the sinful body winning. The soul is held hostage by it. The sin of another person should cause you to sympathize, not condemn.

6) Individuality. Remember that all people are different. And that's a good thing (when it's not about sin).

7) A person is the protagonist of his world. When you interact with other people - imagine that you are entering his world. And because of respect, you should leave the main role to the master of this world. So even if you want to point out a sin - you should do it not with pride, to mark yourself, but so, imperceptibly, so that the person thinks that he himself understood everything. So it is with other things. Help to improve the other person's world, to bring love and joy into it.

8) Remember that in general everyone is in God's world. So always remember the main role of God, and that you must fulfill his rules, since you are in his world. And the main role to give only to God, to glorify Him.

9) Universal Joy. Your biggest dream should be that all people live in love and joy.

10) Forget about your personality. At this stage, try to forget about yourself, stop evaluating yourself, stop comparing yourself with someone else, in order to overcome pride. The less pride - the more love.

11) Beauty of people. Find beauty in people, both physical and mental.

12) Rejoice that God exists, He loves you, and eternal life awaits you.

Islam

Islam strongly resembles a religion founded by the devil to destroy people. It is most likely that Islam will become the dominant religion during the tribulation, which is why Christians will be killed because it says so in the koran.

1) At the time of Jesus there was a sect of Gnostics who fled to Arabia. They denied that Jesus was God. Muhammad had studied the Bible since he was a child. But here's the problem, in his area he simply couldn't encounter real Christians and the gospel, and instead studied heresy.

2) Muslims claim that the Bible is distorted because it says that the prophets did sin. For example Noah when he got off the box got drunk and fell asleep naked. Yes, the Bible states that only God is holy and no man is sinless, the prophets are no exception. There is no contradiction here.

3) The Quran was written 700 years after Jesus.

4) The Quran states that Jesus is only a prophet, not God. He wasn't killed on the cross, God took him away and discreetly substituted a robber in his place.

5) Islam forces belief in the prophet Muhammad on pain of death by beheading.

Behold your Lord has inspired the angels: “I am with you. Strengthen those who believe! But I will strike terror into the hearts of those who do not believe. Cut off their heads and chop off all their fingers.”

This is because they opposed Allah and His Messenger. And if anyone opposes Allah and His Messenger, for Allah is severe in punishment.

Qur'an 8:12-13

6) The angel Jibrail appeared to Muhammad at the age of 8, opened his chest, ripped out his heart, threw out a clot of blood, washed everything and brought it back. And said it was part of shaitan.

7) At age 20, he begins to seclude himself in a cave in prayer to God.

8) At age 25 he marries a 40 year old woman. At the same time he begins to study the gospel. Perhaps the Gospel of Matthew was prevalent there during this period.

9) When his wife dies, he marries many more times. His youngest wife was 6 years old, she began marital duty at age 9 (confirmed by many Islamic historians and theologians).

10) At the age of 40, Allah, through an angel, calls Muhammad to become a prophet.

11) Muhammad felt fear and terror at every encounter with the angel. He even hid from him at home. At first he himself thought that the devil had appeared to him, but his wife convinced him that he was a prophet.

12) After that Muhammad moved to Mecca. Up to this point he had lived a peaceful life. But now he says that Allah allowed him to fight for the spread of Islam.

13) The Quran confirms that Prophet Isa (Jesus) performed miracles. But there is no mention of Muhammad's miracles.

14) The Quran says that the confirmation that Muhammad is a prophet is the Quran itself. Therefore, Muhammad does not need to perform miracles.

15) Muhammad's teachings changed throughout his life. For example, at first there was no mandatory requirement to pray 5 times a day.

16) Muhammad had more than 20 wives.

17) Shia Muslims can marry for a certain amount of time - 5 years or 2 hours. Legalized prostitution. Husband is obliged to pay money according to the contract.

18) Attitude towards women:

And those women whose disobedience you fear, exhort them, shun them in the marriage bed, and beat them.

Qur'an 4:34

19) Divorce is normal in Islam. But only on the husband's initiation.

20) It is written in the Koran to kill infidels if they do not pay tribute:

Fight those of the people of the Scripture who believe neither in Allah nor in the Last Day, who do not consider forbidden what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, who do not practice the true religion until they pay their own tribute, remaining humiliated.

Qur'an 9:29

O those who have believed! Fight against the unbelievers who are near you. And let them be convinced of your severity. And know that Allah is with the God-fearing.

Qur'an 9:123

Those who fight against Allah and His Messenger and seek to create wickedness in the earth shall be killed or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off crosswise or be expelled from the land as a recompense. This will be a disgrace to them in this world, and great torment is in store for them in the Hereafter.

Qur'an 5:33

21) Jihad. Allah rewards paradise for killing infidels. Jihad is a 100% way to enter Islamic paradise. The real purpose of jihad is looting. Wars in the territory of Islam have hardly ever stopped.

22) After infidels are killed, their wives can be made concubines.

23) Muslims consider the Gospel of Barnabas to be true. Which they themselves invented. It says that Jesus is not God and did not die.

24) The Koran is considered sacred and eternal, which has always been with God. Muslims deify the book.

25) Islamic paradise is a guria to copulate with forever. And a bottomless stomach so that one can eat endlessly. That's not a joke.

God's plan

The glory of God

When Jesus was on earth - His glory was hidden as He embraced humility. But when He returns as God.....

Matthew 25:31: “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.”

So glory is part of the divine nature. That which distinguishes God from creation.

Jesus says, “All things are mine and yours are mine” (John 17:10)

The glory of Jesus is not something separate from the glory of the Father, but an inseparable part of the overall divine nature.

John 17:5 Jesus prays, “And now glorify me, O Father, with your own glory, which I had with you before the world existed.”

That is, if Jesus proceeds from the Father (not born, but eternally proceeds as the second hypostasis), then glory is part of the one divine nature. Divine glory is the manifestation of His perfection, majesty, holiness, and goodness. It is often associated with His presence, His acts and revelations, causing awe, admiration and reverence.

That is, glory is the praise of God's attributes: infinite wisdom, love, perfection, holiness. Glory is the praise of the divine nature.

The source of glory


We know that the three hypostases of God are equal:They are all holy, infinite, perfect, all possessing free will. Yet they are also one. The freedom of Jesus (God the Son) is written about:

John 6:38 says, “For I did not come down from heaven to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”


And They are in eternity continually praising each other. God the Father praises the Son for His perfection, the Son praises the Father. That is, they give each other glory.
Why glory?Because the infinite personality has everything, it has everything in itself.But glory is the recognition of perfection by another personality. Glory comes from outside.Therefore, another personality of God can only give glory.
And since all the personalities of God are of one nature, they are all one infinity, and therefore the glory they give is infinite. Therefore, God is infinite not only in himself, but his glory, the recognition of his perfection by other persons, is also infinite.

Harmony


As you can see, God's personalities only give and take nothing away.
But this is only part of the harmony.If the hypostases are equal, why do the Son and the Spirit proceed from the Father?Because They fulfill different functions: God the Father conceives, God the Son creates, God the Spirit perfects.
Why did the personalities divide the functions?What would happen if each free personality conceived?There will be various ideas that precede creation. What would happen if each personality created in its own way?There will be uncoordinated thoughts and actions in God.Chaos.

And since everything is thought out by the Father and embodied by the Son, they do not interrupt each other with their free will, but create a harmonious existence instead of chaos.

The love of God

God is love and has the fullness of love in himself.
The Father loves the Son and the Spirit, the Spirit and the Son love the Father. And how do we understand what love is?Love can be for oneself, or it can be for another person.

Now think about it, why does the Son, with fullness of free will, obey the Father completely willingly? Because he knows that the Father first conceives what the Son desires.This is the love of the Father.In what does the Son's love consist?He embodies the Father's ideas as the Father would have wanted.The Holy Spirit brings to perfection what the Father intended, etc.

I.e., the love of one person for another is when a person puts his own interests second by first considering the desires of the other. Why is this possible in God? Because:

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself. The Father being in Me, He does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; but if not so, believe me according to the works themselves.”

That is, since God is omnipresent and one, one person sees the totality of the essence of another, all his thoughts and desires.

But does God have self-love?

“But the second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself.”


God is telling us that before we can learn to love others, we must learn to love ourselves. And what does it mean to love ourselves?

The eternal unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit implies that God is fully satisfied in His nature and needs nothing from outside Himself to be the fullness of love.

Love of self is an aspect of His perfection, but it always manifests itself as a generous, giving love expressed in the relationship of the Trinity and in the care of creation.
That is, self-love is the redoubling of one's needs and the fulfillment of one's desires.That is why God does not need love, but is love.Because He has no needs, He has everything in Himself.That is, love is the fulfillment of the needs and desires of another person.But not only that.

Now let us remember that God is not only love, but also justice. Justice is an aspect of God's love for Himself. But what is God's first priority? If there were justice (self-love), then all people would already be in hell at the time of the fall into sin.

But God tolerates people's sin and saves them.
I.e. God's love is first of all selfless doubling of the needs of others, but in a way that does not contradict one's own desires.It is about divine love, not human love.Love flows from the functions that the individual fulfills.

That is, God's love, like glory, is a unifying concept.Glory charaterizes the relation of personality to God. And love is the relation of God to the person.

The Father loves the Son by conceiving what the Son desires. The Son loves the Father by the fact that he does the will of the Father, i.e., he submits his will completely. The Spirit loves the Father because it brings to perfection what the Father intends.

I.e., God's love between his personalities is the fulfillment of the desires of the other personality, the fullness of trust between the personalities.

God's love for Himself - harmony as the highest goal, impatience with sin, i.e., violation of harmony.

God's love for man is sympathy (God's ability to feel absolutely what man feels), to put man's desires in the foreground (but with harmony in mind).

Now, to summarize, love is a type of relationship to another person where you only give. You give glory, will, material goods, etc. And sin is a violation of harmony when someone starts to take away.

Not to take, but to take from another person. Take away fame, will, money, mood, life, etc. In each case, the logic of sin may be more complicated, but it will boil down to one personality taking from another (person or God).

That being said, it is important to consider that God is infinite love, as He can give infinitely. God is the absolute of love.

Human love

Man is finite, he has a limit to what he can give.
And the extent to which a person panders to his own interests, to another person, is the extent of man's love. Unlike God, the power of man's love is always limited by both the capacity and the own line that man draws.

John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

The fullness of love available to man in life is to so neglect one's own interests for the sake of another that one not only gives up all possessions, time and energy, but life itself. Life is the maximum that man has; no wealth can compare with it.

Resources are not the only limitation of human love. God, being omnipresent, sees the full depth of his personalities. So it is with man, God sees man from the inside out, so He can completely put Himself in man's shoes. Because of this, God knows perfectly what man wants and can give it to him. Of course, subject to the laws of harmony. That is, because of absolute omniscience, God also possesses absolute love.

Man, on the other hand, is not able to understand another person, because he communicates with him only through speech. This means that man is not only unable to know the needs of another person, but also to fulfill them.

Thus, man's love for man is the exalting of the other's needs and desires over one's own, but with consideration of harmony (God's laws). Again, love is when a person gives. The highest love of man for man is possible only through the fulfillment of God's will.

Man's love to God - trust in God, fulfillment of His will (commandments - love for neighbor).

The salvation of man

If love is harmony between existing individuals.
Sin is its violation. The fall into sin occurred at the moment when man began not to give and receive from God, but to take away by his own hand. Man's love for God was violated.

But Jesus, incarnated as a man, not only fulfilled all the will of God, completely renouncing sin and trusting Him, but also lost suffering and gave His life. That is, Jesus not only restored the love between man and God, but also perfected it through his death. He gave himself completely.

Because of this, Jesus' human nature became deified because it began to harmonize with God.

Deification of man

It follows from the Bible that God's plan is to have eternal fellowship with man.
This is possible only if man becomes His fourth hypostasis.

God could not unite with man because human nature was out of harmony because of sin. Jesus corrected man. But why, then, will not all men go to Paradise?

First, Jesus' deified body, which He can give to any person upon request, is made up of divine Glory. Man's new body is only a piece of divine Glory. But even if God's glory is limited, it is still holy. Therefore, the new Borg nature of man is not capable of taking from another person, it is not capable of sinning.

And man at the same time has free will, which God cannot violate. And if God forcibly gives the holy body to a sinner - it will be a violation of free will, because it limits the ability to sin.

The only way to receive the holy body is to first renounce sin, by free will, to change one's thinking.

But that is not all. The moment God gives man a divine body, He literally glorifies man with His glory. And only God's perfect qualities that lead to harmony are worthy of glory. Therefore, people will have different glory in Paradise - the one who has done more good will have more divine nature. And it is worth considering that life in Paradise is endless love, so people's glory will increase infinitely, thus a person will be closer to God all eternity.

The functions of a human

Let us not forget that the persons of God have their own functions.
It is logical that man, if he wants to join the Trinity, must also fulfill his functions.

The Trinity continually glorifies each other. Therefore, man must also glorify God. Moreover, God has everything, so He can give man infinity of material values. But man has nothing in himself, he does not have his own glory. Therefore, the only thing that man can give to God is to give glory.

Next, let us remember that God the Father conceives, the Son incarnates, the Spirit perfects. If the Son and the Spirit gave their will completely to the Father, then man must do the same. Man will never lose his free will, but he must independently maximize only the will of God the Father. And this will bring endless joy to man, because the Father first takes into account the desires of other individuals. And given that God is infinite and knows your personality from the inside out - His will will will design the fulfillment of your desires in ways you could not even dream of.

Next. Remember that man is reunited with God through the body of Jesus.
We can assume that man will also have the functions of God the Son, i.e., to create. Of course, with Jesus' power, not his own. And the Holy Spirit will bring man's creation to perfection. All this will bring absolute joy to man. That is why we must learn to follow the Father's will in everything.

Hell

What happens in hell? Earth is like a testing ground to see who will choose what type of relationship with others - whether they will give more or take more. And God is justice, so those who have not gotten rid of sin will reap their rewards forever. God will do to them as they do to others. He will take away forever.

What's to take away if a man has nothing of his own? Well, for example, peace of mind, a sense of security. I mean, cause suffering, just like they did.