JEAN'S BIBLE STUDY

Chapter 10:

500 Billion AD

Ayin and Chath, the new Adam and Eve, conceived and bore children, and their children matured and had families, and so did their children; and since no one ever died, their numbers grew exponentially (Daniel 7-27). Jason normally didn’t speak face to face with Jesus but communed with Him in prayer; however, Jason became anxious and wanted to talk to Him in person, and so he got in line. It took years before he was finally able to talk to the Lord, for the line was very long, filled with people who lacked rewards, who never committed their lives to the faith in their former lives, but were complacent and believed only enough to squeeze through the pearly gates. Now most of them regretted it because of what they had seen in other people, who dedicated their lives to Christ and received many rewards, such as teleportation, and they developed a personal relationship with God through prayer in their former lives that transferred to their life in eternity; they inherited a mansion compared to their bungalow, and the bodies of the diligent brightly shined compared to their puny lumens. Most of all, those who dedicated themselves to the faith inherited God’s authority and had a close standing with the Lord. Jason talked with the people in line, and they told him some of the things that Jesus had told them that amazed Jason, and they exchanged stories from their former lives that they recalled, and he told them some of the places he had been, things he had seen and experienced, various planets and galaxies he had visited. They were amazed at the things they were open to learn and explore, had they only committed their lives to the faith.

Finally, it was Jason’s turn to talk one on one with the Creator of the universe, the lover of man's soul. Jesus said to Him, “Jason, what’s on your mind that you must talk to Me in person?” Jason stood beside His chair with his arm on the rest and the Lord’s hand on his. Jason looked at Him with panic in his eyes that he couldn’t hide, “Lord, the people are multiplying so fast, we will never be able to keep up with them. This is going to get away from us, I know, and if the people rebel, we won’t be able to stop them, and it will end in a worse catastrophe than in our previous life! How are we to manage so many people [Job 11-7]? We are not in any way prepared for this” (2Chronicles 2-6). Jesus’ smile widened, “As much as it seems we may lose control, we won't. These people are not going to form a rebellion and storm the city and try to take over My throne, because they can’t; they don’t know how. Yes, if these people were under a curse as in your former life, then you would have legitimate concern, but these people are not under any curse. They are part of a blessed creation that My Father inhabits and controls, down to the atomic level (Jeremiah 23-24). Even the material that composes their bodies is blessed, much more their souls. Does that ease your troubled heart?” Jason just looked at Him, not fully convinced.

“You are thinking about things as they were before My Father and I made all things new, the former things have passed away. Death died. Sin died. These people are not capable of doing evil. They wouldn’t know how to form a rebellion and try to remove Me from My throne; such things are incomprehensible to them; they wouldn’t even want to do anything like that. They do good by nature, and evil is beyond their comprehension, so you don’t have to worry. These people listen to their governors and to their kings. All we have to do is direct their kings, and they will direct the people for us.” Jason’s nerves began to settle, “Is that your plan?” Jesus answered, “Yes, that is it in a nutshell.” Jason said, “That might work” Jesus chuckled, “My Father and I have been thinking about this from eternity past; you can believe it.”

Jason said, “I do believe.” Jesus said, “I know you do; you proved that to Me many times when there was ample opportunity to doubt. You believe in Me and My Father, and you believe in all that is good and right, so don’t worry about losing control. You will see; we will build a kingdom together and make our Father proud, a kingdom that delights in Him and makes the Father proud.” Jason said, “Well, I better get going, there’s a lot of people behind me who are waiting to see you.” Jesus said, “I’m in no hurry, and neither are they, and neither should you. There is always a long line, and I spend as much time with each person as they need and answer all their questions. No one is in a hurry; no one is getting tired of waiting; no one is butting in line.” Jason said, “If I see anybody butting in line, I’ll let you know.” Jesus answered, “You do that.” Jesus kissed him and sent him on his way, and he went directly to his friends and told them about the whole conversation.

Every week Jesus assembled His people, the residents of the New Jerusalem and had progress meetings. He spoke the word of God to them, and divulged the Father’s purpose regarding His kingdom, and had open discussions and answered questions, aired thoughts and testimonials. During one of these meetings, after so many trillions of people were born into God’s kingdom, having migrated from the earth to various planets and solar systems throughout the galaxy, Troas raised his hand. Jesus motioned him to the front and stood next to Jesus, “Lord, why are you making so many people? I thought a couple hundred billion would be enough, but they just keep reproducing, and it seems there is no end in sight, and it is a little intimidating, because God has called us to manage them all.” Jesus answered, “That’s right, My son, there is no end to the number of people that my Father wants in His kingdom, and there will be no end to the increase of His government, of whom you are constituents. You have raised many among them to govern their own people.” Jesus turned to the assembly and said, “You who are a finite people, whom My Father carefully chose from the world in your former lives; you have become magistrates of an infinite kingdom and have in turn chosen many of its people to become governors and kings of nations and emperors of solar systems and galaxies. I want you to understand My Father’s purpose, and I want you to adopt My Father’s heart as you raise many more into places of great authority.”

Troas was still standing at Jesus’ side while He was speaking and tugged on Jesus’ garment for His attention. He turned and Troas continued, “…but why does God want so many people?” Troas was struggling with the concepts of infinity and eternity, no more than the rest of us; he was just more outspoken about it. Jesus resumed, “God has lived from eternity past; and He will live in eternity future. There is no end to God regarding eternity and infinity. The Father wants an infinite number of people in his kingdom, because He Himself is infinite.” Troas fell on his knees, saying, “Lord, how can this be?” Jesus said, “Because He is God.” Troas still on His knees said, “But Lord, how can He even account for so many people, and how could He possibly enjoy them all?” Jesus said to Him, “The Father dwells in you, doesn’t He?” “Yes, Lord, He does.” “And doesn’t He dwell in Rebecca over there and Carmen and Devin,” pointing to them. “Yes, Lord” Jesus continued, “The Father dwells as much in them as He does in you. How much of God dwells in you, Troas?” “All of Him?” “That’s right, all of Him, now think about that.”

“When the number of people in His kingdom approaches infinity, will they all have an infinitesimal amount of the Father dwelling in them, or will they all possess the Father in His entirety?” Troas answered, “Entirety?” Jesus said, “That’s right, the Father dwells in you, not in part but in whole, and He dwells in each of you the same," pointing to the audience. He can partition Himself an infinite number of times, and each segment contains God in His entirety. He knows everything about you; he knows what you’re thinking and why you are thinking it and how you arrived at your conclusions. He feels every emotion you feel and takes on your perspective and views your world through your eyes, and He does this with every person, and He continues directing you toward His own perspective, so that you may understand Him in Spirit and truth, and He is doing this to each person in this assembly, accounting for billions of people. He takes on your perspective and understands everything about you, how you view the world, and He takes great pleasure in it.”

“What He likes most is that everyone individually is coming to a corporate conclusion regarding the truth, and this establishes unity.” Jesus added the exclamation point, “I perfectly maintain the Father’s perspective, and all of you are coming into agreement with Me, thus you are adopting the Father’s perspective.” Jesus said these words in 538 billion AD; after all this time the people of heaven are still learning about God. They enjoyed chasing the asymptote of knowledge and perfection without ever achieving it. When they think they are closing on it, Jesus will throw them another curve and tell them something else about God they didn't know or even imagined. Jesus continued speaking, “The Father takes great joy in seeing the world through your eyes. He treasures your process of discovery, adopting your finite viewpoint, and in this way He guides you closer to His understanding of the truth. Does anyone know why He does this?” Many hands went up and many theories were proposed, but Jesus explained why each answer was insufficient, so He told them plainly, “God knows everything… so living vicariously through you is how He can discover things. If God never created man in His own image to possess and live through you, he would live in His own world with no surprises. Therefore, God has created you and your brethren for the sake of His omniscience that He might live through you, just as you live through Him. This way He can learn things, solve problems and enjoy life the way you do in the finite realm.”

Rayneer raised his hand, and the Lord invited him to the front to ask his question, “Lord, many of my friends and I have been wondering about something for a long time but were afraid to ask; but now that the subject has sort-a come up, I think this would be a good time to ask.” The Lord said, “What is on your mind, son?” “You were talking about the Father being omniscient; are you omniscient too?” Jesus answered, “What did I say in your word? ‘If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said `I am going to my Father;` for the Father is greater than I’ [Jn 14-28]. You are a Son of God, but I am the Son of God. I existed before you; I existed before anything; I have existed from eternity past with My Father. One of the main differences between you and Me is the Holy Spirit. You have a unique soul, and the Holy Spirit has come to dwell in you, and the two have become one spirit (1Cor 6-16,17). However, My soul is the Holy Spirit (Mat 1,18-21), who is also the soul of My Father, who inhabits the physical universe, all the way down to the atomic level. Do you remember that in your former lives the creation was under a curse? My Father withdrew His soul from the creation and poverty rushed in to fill the void, which is the curse.

You are My children; your numbers are finite, but those who live outside the city walls, who are multiplying into infinity, these are My Father’s children. The Father knows what’s happening on the planet serrif, a planet in a solar system in a galaxy 650 trillion light-years from here. He knows all the animals and watches the plants grow; He knows every atom in the universe; He inhabits them all and directs them. Everything exists and fulfills its purpose through Him. I know everything about you and your brethren, but My Father knows everything about everything. I am His mouthpiece; I am the manifestation of the Father to His creation. The consists of faith. Just as your faith is based on knowledge, His faith is also based on knowledge. Your knowledge is finite and so is your faith; His knowledge is infinite and so is His faith. This is why He has called you to believe in Him, that you might be children of the Most High (Mat 5-45). After the meeting the people dispersed into groups to talk about the subjects that Jesus discussed, though many remained with the Lord and continued asking Him questions about the Father.

Now, Jason was not yet elected to become mentor of a city, for there were many other people who were far more faithful in their former lives, hence they were far more gifted with the ability to rule and were successively chosen to a growing hierarchy of authority, and Jason was still waiting his turn. He didn’t have to make himself available; he could be reached anywhere at any time, so he went exploring. All his concerns were quieted, so he went adventuring with some of his friends while waiting for the call. They explored distant galaxies, visiting planets that would one day be inhabited by man. Jason said to his friends, “Let’s see if we can find the edge of the universe.” “That sounds like a harebrained idea to me,” said Rahmad. “So, you’re out?” asked Jason. “No, I guess I’ll go with you, but I don’t expect we’ll find it. You heard the Lord; the Father is infinite and we’re not.” “I know,” said Jason, “but what do we have to lose? It’ll be fun!” They all agreed and put their minds together and focused on what they thought should be the edge of the universe and disappeared and reappeared on a spot near a galaxy where they thought should be the edge of the universe. Jason said, this must be the last galaxy, but his friend, Alvaro, pointed further into space and said, “Look, see that fuzzy dot over there; that’s a galaxy, and there’s one over there, and over there.” They saw other galaxies still further, and so they ventured to what they perceived to be the farthest visible galaxy; and when they got there, they saw other galaxies beyond it. They did this umpteen times until they gave up and just stood there, floating in space near a galaxy, discussing what to do.

Rahmad said, “I think we have only found the limit of our own notion of infinity. God has his own idea of infinity, who is infinitely greater than us. He is looking at us right now; He knows that we are here. We are miniscule specks somewhere in the vastness of space, yet He knows where we are and what we’re thinking and cares about us in ways we can’t understand. His notion of infinity is endless; we’re never going to find the edge. This is foolishness; we could keep reaching further into space, but we will never find the end of it.” Jason conceded, “Well, I guess this was an exercise in futility. Let’s tell the Lord what we tried to do; I want to hear His reaction.” Right there in deep space they had a prayer meeting, and the Lord told them, “You must have known you would never find the end of creation.” Alvaro added that he didn’t think they would find it, that it was Jason’s idea. Jesus asked them, “How close do you think you got to the edge of the universe?” Jason sheepishly answered, “Not very.” Jesus then said, “If you draw a line to represent infinity and then put a dot to represent your location on that line, you would have to place the dot at the very beginning. You were no closer to the edge of the universe than you were at home with Me.”       

Cambrian suggested, “Now that we’re here, let’s go to this galaxy, pointing at the closest one, and look for planets and see what’s living on them, so they drew closer to the galaxy and began to see stars with planets revolving around them. They went to some of the planets, and each had different life forms on them that lived in harmony with the environment and with other plants and animals but no people. Some planets had oceans, some didn’t, and all were filled with rivers and steams, and it rained over the land and watered the living things. Everywhere they went they found happy planets with different life forms flourishing on them, readying themselves for man to turn them into little garden paradises. Jason and his friends had built-in beacons that led them straight back to the Holy City, so they couldn’t get lost in space. They returned to the New Jerusalem and talked to all their friends about some of their adventures, what the Lord told them, their explorations and findings, and they laughed at them for thinking they could find the end of infinity. Jason and those who were with him laughed about it too, because they didn’t really believe what they were doing; they just wanted to see what would happen if they tried.

Eventually Jason got the call and reported to a man named Golan, who would forever be his superior officer. The hierarchy that God was building among His people, or perhaps better stated, that the people were building among themselves through Christ, was a structure of authority that would never be amended throughout eternity, but would remain as it was initially constructed. Golan said, “I have a city for you to manage” (Lk 19-16,17). Jason eagerly accepted the assignment, though nervous; he wondered if things would go better than the Millennium, and he wondered if he would have any free time to frolic through the galaxies as he had the habit of doing. Golan gave him the coordinance to the city that he was to manage, about a quarter of the way around the earth, west by north-west, about a million miles from the Holy City as the crow flies (the New Earth was a little over four and a quarter million miles in circumference). He found Nancy his wife from his former life and Jeanie his sister and invited them to come with him, and so they went there together and met the people of their city. He introduced Jeanie and himself to the people, and told them that he would be their mentor, saying, “I will guide you into the understanding and wisdom of God, and I will lead you into ways that are good and right, and if you have any questions about anything, you can come to me any time, and I will do what I can to help,” and the people readily accepted him.

One of them, Adrian, asked Jason, “Have you really seen God.” Jason was drawn to the boy’s innocence, held him to his breast and kissed him and said, “Yes, and He has a Son, who is just like us. He is very beautiful and kind; you would love Him. I can take you to see Him. God the Father is like us too, but there are other things about Him that are not like us. He lives is smoke and fire." "He does what?" Adrian quickly asked. "That must be strange." "Yes He is a little strange, but He is more like us than He is unlike us, if that helps." Adrian asked, “What kind of body does He have?” Jason said, “He appears human-like, similar to His Son, and he also has angelic qualities, but He looks different to every person, based on what is in his heart" (Psalm 18-25,26). The Son emulates His character [Jn 14-9], but there is more to the Father than all these. We are told that the Father consists of faith. These are things that are slowly coming to light.” “God is made of faith?” Adrian asked, puzzled, “What does that mean?” Jason admitted, “I don’t really know; we are still learning about the Father, but so far He is an abrupt mystery to us all.” “Who is Jesus?” “That is the name of His Son; He has flesh and bone like we do, but He is not entirely like us either, for together the Father and the Son created the heavens and the earth about six hundred billion years ago, through one Spirit that they share together, who dwells in us too.” Adrian asked, “God’s Spirit dwells in you; how does that feel?” “It makes me feel close to Him no matter where I am.” “How long is eight hundred billion years?” Jason answered, “It seems like a long time, but compared to eternity it is just a drop in the bucket. It will take an eternity to come to know the Father, and even then we won’t know everything about Him. There are things about Him that will forever remain incomprehensible. We can relate to God only in ways that we can relate to Jesus, but beyond that our knowledge is minimal, and for this we worship Him. Adrian, you seem full of questions about God; do you want to see Him?” “Yes!,” he said excitedly. “Usually we only take kings and magistrates to see Him, but in your case I will make an exception.”

They all held hands and dematerialized and reanimated in the New Jerusalem about a mile from His throne. “Wow, how did you do that?” Adrian asked, mystified by both the ride and its destination. Adrian looked around totally astounded by the architecture and beauty of heaven. They walked up the street called Straight, and the River of Life was flowing through the middle of it, with the tree of life growing on either side of the river (Rev 22,1-5). Jason spoke to Adrian and said, “Feel free to pick a fruit off the tree and eat; it is for you” (Rev 22-14). Adrian picked what seemed to be a pear and took a bite, and a moment later a sense of calm swept over him in powerful waves of peace overtaking his mind and soul. He turned and looked at Jason, “…That is how I feel all the time,” Jason said; “The fruit prepares you to meet Jesus, who is the God of peace.” They walked up the steps to Jesus’ side, and he introduced Adrian to Jesus, “This is your Creator.” “Hello Adrian, I am honored to meet you; I want you to be your city’s mayor.” “You do?” Adrian said! “Yes, and when your city grows beyond its limits, you can be governor of the state, and as it grows you can become king of your country, and when you move to your own planet, you can be its magistrate and rule your people with a gentle hand, because you sought My face.” Jesus took him in his arms and kissed him and blessed him. Adrian said, “My Lord, you are so much more than I expected, and you have a beautiful city, made of transparent stone that glitters, and You are it’s diamond, cut perfectly to emanate your glory throughout your heavenly kingdom” (Rev 21,23-26).

Jesus replied, “My servant Jason will take care of you; I tested him thoroughly in his former life and found him faithful. He failed many tests and often sinned in his former life, but he persevered seeking release from his various bondages that tried to take him from Me. Little by little, one by one, his fetters fell off his hands and feet, so he could go where I called him and do what I asked [Exodus 23-30]. He fulfilled the majority of his calling, striving to accomplish all that I set for him to do.” Adrian asked, “What is bondage and sin, and what do you mean by 'former life'?” Jesus replied, “Your mentor, Jason, died, and I brought him back to life." "Died, what is that?" Jesus answered, "His body quit living and the former earth reclaimed it, though his soul was unharmed, and so I gave him a new body, using what remained of his old one." These are things you will never experience, and for this reason you cannot understand them. Suffice to say, sin displeases My Father. Instead of judging Jason, My Father sent Me to deliver him and his brethren from their enemies, who were also enemies of My Father. They tortured Me and killed Me, and three days later My Father raised Me from the dead. From that day I commanded my brethren to proclaim liberty to all who would believe in Me for the forgiveness of sin and for the hope of eternal life. Everyone who lives here has accepted My blood sacrifice as full pardon for their sins and has escaped the sentence of eternal damnation in the Lake of Fire. Trust Jason as you would Me, for he learned obedience through the things he suffered, in order to be a better servant to you and Me [Heb 5,7-9]. If I can trust him, so can you. Adrian said, “I didn’t understand most of what you said. What is the Lake of Fire?” “Jason will show you; it is a place where everyone went who rejected Me and rejected what I represent. What you don’t know my servant Jason will teach you.”

The Lord continued speaking to Adrian, “When Jason died, he came directly into My presence in this place, which is all he ever wanted. Adrian asked, “You mentioned death earlier; can you elaborate on it?” Jesus said, “It is nothing you need to know. Death is the end of life” Adrian’s curiosity pushed him forward, “His life ended? But he is standing right here.” Jesus said, “His old body died, so I gave him a new one that cannot die.” “Wow!” Adrian finally said, satisfied, “this is a lot to absorb.” “The day of his death was the day that he sought more than any other day, that he might finally be free of weakness and constant warring against need and want and the perpetual struggle of temptation. Adrian quipped, “I don’t know what any of that means.” Jesus answered, “Yes, I know, but you seem like such a curious fellow, I thought I would tell you anyway. When I made him no longer capable of sin, he kissed My feet in gratitude. Jason will lead you in paths of righteousness for My name’s sake, even as I have led him. Listen to Jason as you would Me” Adrian fell on his face and worshipped God saying, “The servant of the Lord, may it be done according to your word.” Jason and Jeanie fell on their faces next to him, worshipping God together, saying the same thing. The Lord gave Adrian to Jason and Jeanie, and they bowed before their King. Jason said to Adrian, “Stay at my house for a while; I don’t want to send you home right away; I want you to stay here and enjoy the New Jerusalem, make friends and participate in the annual celebration at the end of the year, which is in a few months. You can go home after that and tell all your friends and family back home about your many experiences in the Holy City. You know how to find my house; make yourself comfortable.

Jason and Jeanie acted as mentors together for the city that was assigned to Jason, until Jeanie was finally called to manage her own city. The only reason Jason was called before Jeanie was that she only lived nine years and didn’t have time or opportunity to accumulate rewards, but what little time she had she achieved much by her bravery and faithfulness in the face of death. She influenced Jason to become a Christian as he watched her suffer alone by faith in Jesus Christ, as an inoperable brain tumor took away her life. In nine years she amassed more rewards than many inhabitants of heaven who lived a full life and never dedicated their lives to Jesus, who were still waiting to be called. Eventually Jeanie got the call; Caroline who was to be her superior officer said to Jeanie, “I have a city for you to manage; I want you to go there and choose someone to be mayor, and as your city grows into a state and into a country, you will continue to work with this person, promoting him to governor of the state, and eventually president of his country. Guide him to develop a virtuous government that will practice the ways of God.” Jeanie saw how it worked with Jason, so she went to the city and spent time with the people before she decided on someone who was highly zealous for the Lord.

She asked Toby, “Would you like to meet the King of creation?” He answered excitedly, “You can do that?” Jeanie said, “Yes, I can make that happen.” She took him as her guest to the New Jerusalem to meet Jesus. As mayor of his town, he was mesmerized by the grandeur of the Holy City. Instead of getting in line and waiting their turn, she ushered him directly to the throne of Christ and introduced him to Jesus saying, “My Lord, this is Toby, he is going to be mayor of his town that You gave me to manage” (Lk 19,12-27). Jesus took Toby and sat him on His lap and said, “Well Toby, you have quite a mentor to help you in your new job as mayor of your town, are you excited?” “Very much, Sir,” he said looking into His gleaming face. “You have a bright future ahead of you. Any time you want to come see Me again, just let Jeanie know and she will escort you through the city. I think you will make a good mayor.” “Thank you sir,” Toby said, “I'll do my best.” “That’s all I could ever ask.” Jesus gave him a big hug and a kiss and gave him back to Jeanie, “You made a wise choice of Toby,” “Thank you my Lord,” she said, bowing low with Toby in her hand. “We will spend much time together and prepare him for his governing role to the people” “My Father is pleased,” Jesus said, causing Jeanie to smile ear to ear. Jeanie mentored Toby, teaching him about the things of God, which came naturally to him, because he didn’t have an evil nature, for God had overcome the curse. Earth was repopulated, and since the solar system had already been colonized, the need to travel earth’s galaxy had come. Toby’s city grew to become a state and then a country; and when it came time to disperse the countries throughout the solar system, he became magistrate of a planet, and eventually he ruled over a solar system of his own, and Jeanie continued to mentor him. 

All the cities of the earth quickly grew in population because no one ever died. States were formed, and countries were declared, until earth had four trillion people living on it. The earth had exceeded its ability to house the people living there, which meant they needed to migrate to other planets.” The people’s technology has kept up with their population growth to the point of being able to travel between planets in their solar system, but they had not perfected interstellar travel. By the time they start colonizing other galaxies they will have pushed their space vehicles beyond the light barrier. It was 800 billion AD; man had developed massive space ships that could transport a hundred thousand people. Their maximum speed was about 500 Thousand miles an hour, which was fast enough to travel between planets within their solar system; but if they went any faster, the first pebble they encountered would tear a hole through their spaceship without a debris shield. They had hundreds of these spaceships lined up to take the people to their new homes. Earth's solar system had sixteen sister planets, and man would inhabit them all by the time this migration was finished, which would buy them another 50 thousand years to perfect intergalactic travel.

The people were both excited and sad to leave the only home they ever knew, and they were especially sad to leave the planet that hosted the Holy City, but it was necessary. Every country will have their own planet, and two people: Yeled and Ishshah will stay behind to repopulate the earth.” The earth was vacated, except for these two people who stood before Isabella. Every country went to their designated planet, and so they filled up the earth’s solar system and would one day proceed to the next star, for every star had at least two habitable planets, and there were no planets in God’s creation that was not habitable. The people developed a sophisticated communication systems between the planets, creating bus-ships that traveled between the planets to visit friends and relatives; and ultimately they invented intergalactic spaceships that could travel between galaxies.

Jesus stepped off His throne and walked through the great city, conversing with His people along the way, and he stepped onto the New Earth and came to the couple who were elected to repopulate the planet that hosted the city of the great King, and they had the attention of all heaven. Jesus said to them, “The first couple was Adam and Eve, who were the parents of all you see standing here, but your parents are Ayin and Chath. Isabella and I have worked directly with them as their children populated the earth, and we will work directly with you for the same purpose: to instruct you in all the ways of God and to always have your children’s best interests at heart. When you do this, all will go well, and we are confident you will follow our instruction. Do you see all these people surrounding you? They are here to see that you succeed in everything you do; and as your kingdom grows, they will assign mayors and governors, kings and magistrates from among your descendants, and they will teach your children the ways of righteousness, which is already in your nature to follow, that you may not act on impulse or greed.” Yeled asked, “What is impulse, greed?” Jesus answered, “It is when you do things with no one in mind but yourself. All the people around you know about these things by experience and know how it hurts people and tears families apart, very destructive.”                            

People on every planet were distinct from all other people in race, appearance, color and language, determined by environmental factors, just as happened on the old earth; and just like then, man did not evolve to a higher or lower order but remained human. When a people or a tribe or country became isolated over long periods, they adapted to their environment, which invariably altered their appearance and culture in various ways and for the same reason they adopted new languages. Whatever language they used didn’t matter to the saints, for they could read their minds, and they could speak in their own language, having an affinity to pick-up new languages very quickly.

Within four hundred billion years, earth’s galaxy was filled with people on every planet; and once the galaxy was filled, God purposed that the people should stop reproducing. However, the earth continued to be an incubating planet that worked to colonize galaxies. Man was re-created in 500 Billion AD, so that in one trillion AD, man had already colonized and filled earth's galaxy, numbering 25 quintillion people (a number with eighteen zeros in it). About then the Lord had a meeting with His people, speaking from His throne, “Things are going well; My Father is pleased, except that people in other galaxies, who were not born on earth or visited the Holy City, are starting to worship things other than God. They are looking for God in all the wrong places, and they don’t know how to find Him, so we need to go to every planet and bring their magistrates home to visit our fair city. We need to fill the earth with magistrates to live in homes already prepared for them, that each may get a chance to see the Holy City and personally talk with Me, that they may go home and tell their people about the earth and about the New Jerusalem and report what they see and hear. It will be up to you to wean them from their idolatrous ways before they ever step foot in this city. You will speak to them about your experiences that you learned in your former life regarding idolatry.”

The saints who were complacent in their former lives and squeezed through the pearly gates were eventually called to manage a city that grew in number to colonize planets. They developed various skills and were eventually able to teleport, but it took billions of years before they were able to master the many skills that others received at the First Resurrection. They managed cities, while their brethren who dedicated themselves to the faith in their former lives managed solar systems and eventually galaxies, and when the “ungifted” managed galaxies, their brethren were managing galaxy clusters and quadrants, some consisting of tens of thousands of galaxies. There were as many galaxies in the universe as there were stars, if that were possible, for man is not permitted to understand infinity, but God knows the last galaxy of His universe. At the end of eternity all the saints have equal authority, for they will all manage an infinite number of people, and Christ is the head of them, and the Father is the head of Christ (1Cor 15,24-28; Jn 14-20).

Eventually Jeanie and Jason combined their galaxies into a quadrant and managed them together. This is how Jeanie and Jason teamed up again, and they remained together throughout eternity, mentoring adjudicators of entire galaxy quadrants. Eventually they grew to combine quadrants to become managers of entire stellar regions with quintillions of people in their care. Jason took forty-five adjudicators of galaxies at a time and returned to the New Jerusalem to be guests at his house. Over a cup of tea they had conversations about Jesus and discussed how things were going in their respective regions of the universe, and discussed some of the problems and situations they encountered. They talked about the people in their care and ironed out issues and made plans for the future, and then went and stood around God’s throne and joined in the chorus of worship. The best way to understand God is to worship Him. 

The saints fetched the magistrates of every planet in their respective galaxies and brought them to the earth to see Jesus in the New Jerusalem. They received temporary housing in the cities that were built on the earth billions of years in the past, yet the houses still looked new and needed no repairs. The earth became a planet for kings, who all waited their turn to enter the New Jerusalem to meet Jesus, their Creator. While they were waiting, the saints assembled kings in large buildings that resembled mega-churches and preached to them about their experiences and told them about lessons they learned in their former lives regarding God’s grace, mercy and justice. They preached against idolatry, telling them that Jesus and His Father was the true God, and that they should worship Him only and that no object of worship was acceptable to Him. The New Earth held four trillion magistrates; this represented about twenty galaxies; the rest of the universe was still uninhabited.          

They walked into the city that was made of crystal clear jasper, and everything glowed from the inside-out, because of one man, Jesus Christ, whose radiance lit up the entire city, so much that its inhabitants who also had a glow appeared not to shine at all. Groups of one million gathered around the throne and worshipped God and witnessed the people and angels worshipping God and saw the majestic cherubim and seraphim falling down and worshipping God saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, Almighty, who was, who is and who is to come.” Magistrates of planets were astounded at the glory of Christ, and at the majestic beings worshipping Him, who appeared glorious themselves, yet they worshipped the only true God, who alone is worthy. Once they had a chance to meet the Lord and speak with Him and asked Him questions, they returned to their home planets and spoke to their people and told them that they met God and that all their idols were mere figments of the imagination, and that they should not worship them. The kings reported in great detail about the greatness of God, how much He deserves to be worshipped and that God was offended by their idolatry, and so all the people destroyed their idols by the word of the King and worshipped God of all creation instead.

After hundreds of trillions of years, it was no longer magistrates of planets that were invited to see the King but adjudicators of whole galaxy clusters came to see the Holy City and witnessed the glory of God. Trillions of adjudicators visited the earth at a time, every one representing entire galaxy quadrants, yet the universe was still mostly vacant. If God created only one person, the universe would be more than zero percent occupied, but now that there were quintillions of people, the percentage had not changed in regard to God’s infinite universe. It will never be filled. The kings returned and told their respective galaxies about the true God, and nobody set up another idol but worshipped God alone.      

Jesus said, “The Father is greater than I” (Jn 14-28). Jesus also said, “For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great” (Lk 9-48). Putting these together, the Father has more authority than the son, but the Son is a greater servant, and the net result is equality. Also it says in 1Cor 15,24-28, “Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For, ‘He put all things in subjection under his feet.’ But when he says, ‘All things are put in subjection,’ it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.” This passage shows the creation being forcibly subjected to the Father through the Son, with the Son Himself willingly submitted to Him. It shows the Son under authority of the Father. Jesus has a finite number of people, while the Father has an infinite number of people; this is in proportion to their prominence within the trinity. The Father is infinite, and His people will also reproduce to infinity, as they reach the end of eternity, which they will never attain. Even reproducing on an exponential scale, they will never reach infinity, no matter how much time they’re given. They will come close to it, like approaching an asymptote, which is defined as impossible to reach. For this reason we say that God’s creation can never be greater than Himself, in that He resides at the end of both eternity and infinity, and His creation aspires to join Him there and cannot; this too pleases God.

There was an ending ceremony for each battery of adjudicators visiting the New Jerusalem; Jesus stood from His throne and led the people outside the city limits to a giant hole in the earth, the great abyss, and everyone gathered around it. Jesus asked those in attendance, “Do you know what this is and who is down there?” and all the visitors shook their heads. “At the bottom of this pit are the souls of the damned, who refused to worship and obey God. For this reason they are suffering the eternal flames in the Lake of Fire.” Smoke rose from the pit continually and the smell was that of every unclean and wicked thing. The great abyss represents everything that is filthy and disgusting, blasphemous, hateful and unbelieving. Everything that hates God is thrown into it, separated from His presence and from the glory of His power. Jesus said, “They are people who were once related to My chosen ones, whom you see standing with Me now; I raised them from the dead and gave them new bodies to be My Father’s worshippers, because they believed in Me through their word. They are blessed of My Father, and they are eternally grateful that they are not suffering in the flames of eternal destruction.” One of the many visitors to the Holy City, raised his hand, “Are you going to throw us in there?” Jesus answered, “No, no, My Father has made you differently from the people who live with Me. As you can see, they may be of every race and color, but they have only one creed; they all worship the one true God; and the one thing that makes them different from other people is that they know about good and evil, whereas you do not. Therefore, you could never do anything to deserve such a fate as those in the pit. I showed you the abyss so when you return to your people, you will teach them about God’s justice. Those who refuse to worship Him become monsters who have no place in His kingdom.”

Everyone had a chance to hug the railing and stare into the abyss and see the Lake of Fire and all the people suffering. “It is important that you see this,” Jason said to Adrian; “It’s God’s judgment on the wicked. This is how seriously He feels about rebellion, and it is important for you to know about it, though you are incapable of rebelling to the point of warranting this kind of judgment. Adrian asked, “Why am I incapable of rebellion?” Jason answered, “Because God never gave you a commandment to break [Rom 5-13]. If you go home and start beating on your friends, it wouldn’t be a sin that leads to the Lake of Fire, because God never commanded you not to beat your friends. However, doing things like that defiles your conscience and will make you feel weak and physically ill. God has given you this as a way of leading you toward what is good and right and away from evil. Have you ever felt weak and sick?” Adrian confessed, “When I was young, I wanted a toy that my friend was playing with, so I took it from him, and it made me feel sick to my stomach and I had a headache that whole day.” Jason comforted him, “There is nothing to tempt you to rebel; you do what is good and right by nature, and the things you do below standard is not a sin against God but against your conscience.

In contrast, those in the Lake of Fire directly rebelled against God by living in a way that communicated they didn’t believe in Him. Although death was always hovering over them, they concluded that God did not exist, and they loved to believe it, so God gave them a world without God, but without His blessing. They had the world, the flesh and the devil against them, and they surrendered to their power, instead of surrendering to Christ and letting Him guide them through the maze of fleshly impulses and false knowledge. They never repented or changed their minds or wanted to serve Him or be His children.” Adrian asked, “Why were they like this; you people are so happy here. Didn’t their sin make them feel sick?” Jason answered, “No, not like it does you. It was a completely different world then; we didn’t have many of the advantages that you have, because God did not dwell in the old creation like He dwells in this one.

Adrian asked, “Wouldn’t those in the Lake of Fire be happier if they were here?” Jason answered, “You just hit upon the mystery of lawlessness.” "What's that?" Adrian asked. Jason answered, "If I could tell you, it wouldn’t be a mystery! It will remain a mystery to us forever, even though we participated in that realm and partook of its darkness. Jesus understands it, but we don’t. The concept completely evades us, like the meaning of sin evades you. It’s even a mystery to those in hell. Nobody understands it but God alone.” Adrian entreated Jason, “Try to explain the mystery of lawless; though you don’t understand it, you obviously know more about it than I do.” Jason said, “Well, the only thing I can say is that whatever rebels against God becomes His opposite; that is how He made the creation” Adrian said, “Okay, I can accept that; where then did sin come from in the first place,” Jason answered, “His name was Lucifer. He was the greatest created being in all the universe many eons ago, long before God made man, and He created Lucifer without sin, but God gave him a commandment; He said, 'The entire creation is yours to do as you please, but you must not seek My throne, for the day that you extend your hand to it, you will surely die.’ You can imagine what he did.

“Lucifer became jealous of Jesus' authority and surmised Him to be kind, generous and loving, and he erroneously interpreted that as weakness, and he thought to himself, ‘I think I can take Him.’ One day he amassed a third of the heavenly angels and led a coup against Jesus’ throne (Rev 12,7-11). He wanted God's authority; basically, he wanted to be God, having become proud in heart to think he could take Jesus’ place.” Adrian interjected, “I don’t think anybody could take His place.” Jason asserted, “You’re absolutely right, Adrian, but Lucifer tried anyway, and he was cast to the earth, not this earth but the old one. Then he made man and planted a garden and put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of it and told the man that He could eat from any tree but not this tree, for in the day that he eats of it, he will surely die. God tested man like he tested Lucifer; the Father even tested His own Son, allowed Him to be brutally murdered. Then after, He forgave man for his sins who believed in Jesus' blood sacrifice; and after he raised them from the dead, He gave them His very throne that He withheld from Lucifer.” Adrian went, “Wooo!”

Jason said, “When you go home, tell all your friends about this, for these stories will be told throughout the universe forever." Adrian suggested, "If man took the fruit that God told them not to eat, they would also tried to take God’s throne, just like Lucifer did." Jason added, "Yes, this began a creation ago, and everybody who has followed Satan is in the Lake of Fire that was originally made for the devil and his angels. They all committed the same sin. God gave man His throne, but He wanted them to have it on His terms, not on theirs. Now that man was tested and was given God’s throne, we have become magistrates, judges and teachers of the new creation, of you, Adrian.” He bowed before Jason, and Jason took him by the shoulders and lifted him back to his feet saying, “Don’t bow to me but to your God and my God.

“I was lost in sin and Jesus saved me; I was just a worm, a monster, a helpless germ squirming in my sin when Jesus found me [Ezekiel 16], and He cleaned me up and gave everything I have, including this body that no longer wants to sin against Him. He trusted me when I couldn’t trust myself. He wrote my name in the Lamb's Book of Life, made me a resident of the New Jerusalem, the most beautiful city in all creation; there is no better place than right here; this is my home, and I am a member of the most blessed people God has ever made. I believed in Him when common sense told me not to, at a time when He was apparently absent and all the signs pointed in the opposite direction. I’m so proud to be a child of God; He gave me a purpose and a mansion to entertain my guests, like you Adrian. You should be proud too, for He has chosen you to be a great leader of your people.” Adrian said, “But I’m not like you, and I can’t live here with you.” Jason said, “No, but you are blessed to see God’s face. I wanted to see Him so many times in the days of my former life and never saw Him, but you have seen the Lord and have talked with Him” (Lk 10-24).

Jason returned Adrian to his people, telling him, “If you ever have a question or a problem or if you just want to talk, you only need to pray to the Father, and He will hear you and contact me and I will drop whatever I am doing and come. I am here for you; I have dedicated my life to your welfare.” They embraced, and Jason returned Adrian to his people and came home to the Holy City and entered the continuous chorus of worship, joyful that he has a new friend and finally has a ministry and was looking to the future of God’s growing kingdom.

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