JEAN'S BIBLE STUDY

Chapter 2:

The Believer’s Judgment

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad – 2Cor 5-10

An angel descended from heaven and escorted Jason into the very presence of God. There was light all around him so bright that he expected it to hurt his eyes, but he was a spirit now. An image of a man who was the very source of the light came into focus and stood next to Jason. All strength left him and he fell at His feet from the weight of sin he had accumulated throughout his life that Jesus was about to expunge (Rev 1,12-19). He saw no one but the Lord Himself. The light that emanated from Him was the essence of truth and love, but there was more than that about Him. Jason was on His face with his arms stretched toward the Lord, his fingers wishing to touch His feet but didn't dare. Just then the Lord touched him, and he suddenly found himself on his feet, the Lord looking him in the eye as He reviewed his life. He was being judged regarding everything he said and did, good and bad (Heb 4-12). The light of Christ shined into Jason like an optomologist studying his retina. Then a great abyss opened below him, which served as a receptacle for his sins. Instead of falling into it, he hovered over it, tethered to Christ. The works that the Lord prepared for Jason (Eph 2-10) the light penetrated and remained within him, but the things he did that brought shame deflected the light. In this way, like circumcision, his sins were cut from him by the Lord’s laser-focus and fell into the abyss. There was potential to become a highly illuminant spirit, except for the sins of his former life that had a dimming effect on his soul. These were the things that Jesus was eliminating, so neither He nor Jason, nor anyone else would have any remembrance of the bad things he had done.

In review of the first part of his life no light entered him at all, because he had not served the Lord until the age of twenty (1The 5-23). When he was ten, his Sunday school teacher made him say the sinner’s prayer, but he didn’t say it from the heart, and he didn’t get saved that day, but ten year later he dedicated his life to the service of Christ when he was twenty, on June 16, 1979; that is when the light started penetrating his spirit. Even then the majority of the light reflected off his sins and the mistakes he made and the carnality he entertained that led him to say and do shameful things even as a Christian. After he got saved, for the next 3½ years he sat at his desk and read his Bible every day, and during that time the light of Christ shined into him and remained, but his college years were a blur. Then he met a girl and fornicated with her, and the light of Christ deflected off him again. He lived as a carnal Christian for years, unfaithful, unholy, unwilling, lost in the world, confused and bearing no fruit at all. He finished school and got a job, but it all fell apart, and his career was over before it started. That is when Jason truly dedicated his life to Jesus.

Jason determined in his heart to create a topical concordance of the New Testament by the Lord's direction, and he left it incubating for ten years before starting by the Lord's direction. When the time was right he sat down and began this enormous project that would fill the next thirty years of his life, holding down various odd jobs along the way. During those thirty years the light of Christ penetrated Jason and remained, his soul beginning to glow brighter, and the Lord smiled at him for the faithfulness he showed. Jason turned this project into a website and posted it on the Internet, and thousands found it and used it to grow in the faith, and many people were turning to Christ because of his work, and the Lord added light to him the more people dedicated their lives to the grace of God through his efforts.

As Jason stood in the Lord's presence, there were many attributes in the light emanating from Christ, the foremost being truth and love, but there were others that were completely foreign and mysterious, such as He was the judge of all creation (Exodus 34-6,7). The Lord remembered everything Jason said and did and He showed Jason every person he hurt intentionally and unintentionally and judged the motives of his heart. Jesus judged him, not to condemn him but to purify him, in hope of rewarding him. He had no idea how long he had been with the Lord this way; it seemed like years, but then it could have been only seconds, or perhaps no time at all, or maybe all three. Time was irrelevant, applying only to things that were destined to perish, but nothing perished in heaven. It seemed as though the Lord took Jason back to a time before the creation when nothing existed, no land features, no people, just he and the Lord. Perhaps they were in some kind of bubble that acted as a barrier to the outside world, from which no one outside had access to what was happening between them. Nothing was possible to know, except that Jason’s life was heavily scrutinized, every stone overturned, looking for every crumb of deceit and extinguished it. Throughout the entire process Jesus never spoke a word to him, yet there was dialog between them from beginning to end, and Jason didn’t remember opening his mouth, though their conversation was thorough and continuous regarding his life in the flesh.

They reached the end of Jason’s life, and when the Lord was done, Jason was glowing with the glory of God, like Moses who came off the mountain after spending time with the Lord, only Jason’s light would never diminish, and the light that emanated from him was the reward for his service to Christ. It would not be his only reward, though it remained the standard by which all other rewards were measured. His countenance became bright; his spirit filled with light, though nothing like the Lord. When He had finished examining Jason from birth to death, He gave Jason a stone. There was a name written on it, llrtorhlkudf; only he and the Lord knew the meaning of it or could even pronounce it (Rev 2-17). Every one of God’s children had a unique name like this that only he and the Lord knew, depicting the intimate uniqueness of his relationship with the Lord. Each person had something special with God that he could not share with anyone else, and everyone in heaven experienced the same thing. The Lord dismissed Jason to meet his new family that was still growing, consisting of millions of people, and there were still many more on the earth dying in faith and entering heaven, adding to God’s heavenly family.

“Well done, llrtorhlkudf,” Jesus said, “you have been faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter the joy of your Master” (Mat 25,21-23). They hugged and Jesus kissed him, and they talked for what seemed an hour but was probably more like three days, though time does not exist in heaven. It was a rare occasion that Jason would speak face-to-face with the Lord; in his life in the flesh he learned to communicate with the Lord through prayer, and this remained his method of interaction in heaven. Such a personal meeting was something they both cherished and anticipated, becoming the most intimate moment with Christ he would ever have, beginning his relationship with Christ in heaven. Jason’s seventy-two year life in the flesh from birth to death became his critical period, like childhood experiences that would follow him throughout eternity, and the believer’s judgment, his first moments in heaven, acted as a critical flashpoint that would forever paint his perceptions of heaven with the vibrant colors of his primary encounter with God.

So many days in the flesh he wanted to know the presence of God. The world most days had a stranglehold on his faith (Mat 13-17); then the moment finally came, and it proved much greater than he expected. He would never feel more intimate with Christ as the first moments with Him. People fear God’s judgment, but the believers’ judgment was the greatest experience with Christ that he would ever have, in that it set the standard for all interactions with Him in the future. We know how deeply God loves us, yet he judges us without partiality, and now we can trust Him to rightly judge everyone in every circumstance. He judges everything that happens, and He will make things right, turning the good into righteousness and casting our mistakes into the abyss. The Lord cared enough for Jason to remember everything he said and did, rewarding him for the good and forgetting the evil. After Jesus brought up Jason’s sins, neither He nor Jason would remember them again; all those torturous memories were gone, thrown into the pit of forgetfulness, because of his faith in the sacrifice that Jesus made of His flesh 2000 years ago, the Father using that sacrifice to forgive His people who came to Him seeking mercy.

Jesus had to die because God could not simply forgive His creation for sinning against Him; He had to pioneer a way to forgive us, and He did it by judging our sins through His Son Jesus Christ while nailed to the cross. God could not have rewarded Jason for doing good if he were not also capable of evil. Now Jason was free and could stand before the Son of God with a clear conscience, not remembering the sins of his past, forgotten by God and man, as though he had never sinned, yet he would always remember that he was once a sinner, ironically indicated by the rewards that he received, reminding him of the faithfulness He showed the Lord while living in sinful flesh. Jason’s time with the Lord was coming to an end, and he turned to meet the inhabitants of heaven and to be reunited with his family and friends who preceded him to this heavenly place.

The believer’s judgment caused Jason to acquire a few rewards, though he didn’t have a body, because the First Resurrection had not yet occurred. Jesus released him to discover his new friends in the heavenly city that he inherited. His angel, Mendorf, whom God assigned to him from birth, who escorted him to heaven, was the first to meet him after his meeting with the Lord. He said to Jason, “Hey, look at you all spiffed-up; I can hardly recognize you. I’ve only known you with globs of sin hanging off you.” Jason looked at him awkwardly, thinking, ‘Who’s this?’ It felt like Jason was looking at himself in the mirror. Mendorf said, “I’m your angel; I've been following you around all your life, working with the Holy Spirit to keep you on the straight and narrow,” It was a good thing Jason couldn’t remember any of the terrible things he said and did throughout his life, because he now realized that he said and did them right in front of this guy; much worse, he sinned in the presence of God throughout his whole life, and the thought made him cringe.

The city was 1500 miles in length, width and height (Rev 21-16), and in the middle on the bottom floor stood God’s throne. There was a clearing around the throne a radius of five hundred miles where people stood and worshipped God, yet the grass was not trampled nor given way to hard-packed dirt. There was still another 250 miles to the perimeter of the city, where streets of gold were laid in fields of flowering grass. There were flowers everywhere that bloomed in every imaginable color, and trees grew trunks two-hundred feet thick with exotic plant-life and vines spreading between the trees and through the branches that connected all the trees together. Some trees grew so tall that climbing them offered access to the next floor. There were little undiscovered nooks in trees and landscapes that a person could find and call his own, where he could go and be alone if he wanted, before descending to the first floor and worshipping God and fellowshipping with the brethren. Trees were rooted in every story, growing two and three stories high, establishing an entire ecosystem in a state of equilibrium that could be found nowhere else in God’s expansive universe. It didn’t feed on itself to survive; nothing died to offer its nutrients to other life forms like on earth, but all life rejoiced with God, angels and man, joining in a perpetual celebration. Everything worshipped God; even the grass waved in the breeze seemingly in concert with the ethereal music.

Houses of every size, color and design were nestled among the foliage with trails cut through the vegetation, leading to adjacent houses, and people used the footpaths to visit one another in their homes. There were large animals and small ones that moved freely through the city, people’s pet dogs and cats from their former lives were there, and they too rejoiced in God’s presence. It was a veritable paradise. Overhead were many floors, giving the sense of being in a lavish skyscraper. Each floor was ten miles high, giving the city 145 floors, the first floor being fifty miles high to accommodate God’s throne. All the floors of the city floated on top of the previous one, held in place by God Himself.    

Mendorf introduced Jason to his wife, his mother and father, his brother, his grandmother and many other relatives. Jason was glad they made it to this awesome place, fulfilling the promise in Scripture, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Act 16-31). They were together again, and they talked and laughed about many things that happened in their former lives. Behind them were relatives he didn’t know, who had lived decades and centuries before him, and they were all coming to know each other, telling their stories and learning about each other and how they lived in their respective generations. Then Jeanie emerged from the crowd with a big smile on her face and stood in front of Jason, and they just looked at each other for what seemed a lifetime; then they embraced. His first reunion with his sister was euphoric. She died when she was only nine years old, and Jason was ten. They laughed and cried tears of joy. The second he laid eyes on her he knew they would be best friends forever. Whatever plans God had prepared for them they would do together.

Jason and Jeanie talked for a long time. Jason informed her on the details of his life, and Jeanie debriefed him on her life in heaven. He said, “It appears you got the better deal coming here early.” This made her giggle, and she couldn’t stop, and that made Jason start laughing, and they both fell on the ground laughing uncontrollably from joy of being together again in this wonderful place, knowing that the lover of their souls was watching over them like a shepherd with His sheep. Eventually they returned to their feet, and Jason tagged her saying “You’re ‘it’”, and they ran through fields of flowers chasing each other. They fell on the ground in a vast field of purple hyacinths still laughing, then sat Indian style and talked for hours about anything that came to mind. Jason said, “I can’t tell you how glad I am to see you again.” Jeanie cut in, “Did you know I often watched you? (Heb 12-1). I prayed for you too, but our prayers up here are not as strong as they were in our former lives. God honored our prayers when we lived in those days more than He honors them now, because it doesn’t take faith to believe in Him anymore,” she said pointing in the Lord’s direction. “I prayed for you anyway that your faith would not fail and that you would come home to heaven and meet my friends and enjoy our lives together again, only this time forever.” Jason said, “I can’t wait!” “Wait for what?” she said, her whole being mystified by such a comment. Jason repeated, “I can’t wait for life to begin.” There was silence, and then she said with a hint of hysteria in her voice, “Life has begun; look around you!” There was so much beauty all around him, Jason was still in disbelief; he hadn't yet wrapped his head around the fact that he was in heaven, talking to his sister, and she would never leave him again. It was just as the Bible said, and just as he believed this endless day would come.

Jason said, “I read the Bible so many times, I wore it out.” Jeanie said, “I know; I often watched you, and I often watched Jesus watching you, and Mendorf. Jason continued, "Those were special times when He placed His hand on my head while I was reading my Bible. He was repairing my mind, reshaping me to His will, so I could understand what I was reading and what He would tell me later. I felt His hand on me. It felt like warm oil running through my hair. It was a miracle, and I looked forward to telling you about it.” Jeanie said, “Okay, I am listening.” “I never felt anything like it, and it happened so many times, when I first got saved, and then ten years later. I knew it was God touching me. He was helping me to believe in Him.” Jeanie said, “Yes, it was truly a miracle." There is no jealousy in heaven.

Let’s thank Him right now.” Jeanie agreed, so they held hands there in the field of flowers and gave thanks to God. Jason prayed, “Thank you Lord that you led Jeanie to pray for her whole family on her deathbed that we would find this place.” Jeanie added, “Thank you God for you’re healing touch in Jason’s life, and thank you for relentlessly hunting Jason, until You found him and captured him and made him Your own.” God was looking over them in the field, watching their conversation and imbibing their comradery. They felt His presence binding them together. Jason longed for heaven in his former life but never on his best day did he imagine it would be this wonderful. The Lord spoke to them, “You have a close friendship; you will have other friends just as close, though it will take time, and you have all the time in eternity. Relationships are what matter. You will grow very close to many people. More friends will be added to your life until eventually everyone who lives here will be your friend, and you will be just as close to them as you are to each other right now, only you two will be closer still. The love you have for each other, I also have for you, more than you know." They got up and walked to a clearing, where Jeanie introduced Jason to some of her friends.

She took him by the hand with her angel and led them on a tour through a small segment of the city with his angel, Mendorf, and they circled around and snagged Nancy and her angel, Jason's wife from his previous life with her angel, and they all went to visit their new houses. She and Nancy talked the whole way, leaving opportunity for Jason and Mendorf to get to know each other a little better, or perhaps better stated, for Jason to learn more about Mendorf, since he already knew Jason from birth. They talked about angels in general, for Jason was curious what they had to go through in order to shine as brightly as they did. Jason asked him, "How was it for you angels, did you have a former life like we did?" Mendorf answered, "No, not in the sense that you mean, we all view our lives in terms of before and after." That gave room for Jason to ask, "Before and after what?" "Our lives," Mendorf continued, "were different before Lucifer fell into sin and took a third of the angels with him" (Rev 12-3,4). "It was the most difficult time of our lives, but it was probably nothing compared to what you had to face throughout your lives, having never seen the Lord, but you believed in Him (1Pet 1,6-9); that was very impressive. Jason answered, "It had its moments, but we had the Holy Spirit to constantly remind us of our faith in Christ, that we were not wrong to believe in Him. The thing that got me through many an ordeal was that neither the world, the flesh nor the devil would have led us to believe in Jesus if it weren't true. Instead, these forces would have led us to believe in things that were evil, selfish and maniacal. 

"Interesting" Mendorf replied, "but we had previously known the presence of God before we were tested, which gave us great advantage, compared to you, who had never known the presence of the Lord, but it also meant greater condemnation for those who rebelled. Did you know that man was salvageable for this very reason, that none of you had ever seen the Lord?" Jason asked, "What do you mean?" Mendorf continued, "The fact that you had never seen Him face-to-face or from a distance meant that God could save you from your sins through faith in Him. This is why He never revealed Himself to you, because if He did and you had looked upon His glory and then rejected Him, you would have become unsalvageable." "Wow, that's profound; how did you know that?" Mendorf answered, "Because that is what happened to Lucifer and his angels. Once they made the final decision to take a stab at God's throne and actually followed through with their plans, God placed His curse on them, and there was never an option placed on the table for their redemption. Rather, the opportunity for repentance was given before they followed through with their conspiracy." 

Jason asked, "Was his temptation to rebel intoxicating?" "Well, you know Satan," Mendorf answered. "He was a cherub the greatest angel that God had ever made, and He never replaced him. He outshined everyone, and the entire universe belonged to him, and he delegated all God's authority to the angels below him; he was literally in charge of everything; this was the deception. It was very hard to believe that someone so beautiful and powerful could go awry and even lie to us, but the things He told us we now understand to be the height of blasphemy. He tried to tell us that God was evil, and at the time his reasoning seemed very convincing, though now I see that He was just jealous and blowing hot air." "God is evil?" Jason asked, "How was he able to dress that up, and what did He offer to those who followed him?" Mendorf said, "This is where his rhetoric became cloudy. What he was saying wasn't believable, but how he said it was very enticing, and he convinced millions of us to follow him." "Well, I'm glad you didn't, Mendorf." "So am I," He said, as they walked through a menagerie of flowers, their fragrances becoming a little fresher as he thought about the decision he could have made that would have ended his life in paradise and earned him a place in hell.

Jeanie and Nancy giggled and skipped along the way on walkways made of gold bricks that mocked the greedy, with fragrant fields of flowers growing on either side. Everyone in the group followed her to her house, and they visited each room and then returned to the foyer in amazement. Jason said, “How did you get such a big house?” Jeanie answered, “I don’t know; He just gave it to me; that’s all; I didn’t ask for it.” Jason suggested, “Why don’t we ask Him right now together?” She agreed, and so they all sat Indian style in the middle of the foyer and held hands and prayed, “Lord, why did you give Jeanie such a big house when so many houses around her are only half the size and owned by people who lived a full life and had ten times the opportunity to store up treasures in heaven?” The Lord answered, “She suffered alone and maintained faith throughout her illness until death, relying heavily on Me.” It was so easy to hear God’s voice now that the distractions of the world, the flesh and the devil had been removed.

Jason said to Jeanie through tears, “I am sorry I wasn’t able to help you through your ordeal.” Jeanie answered, “Don’t worry; the Lord told me all about your situation, how you were not allowed to comfort me in my time of trouble. I was curious about it too at the time, why you and Fred acted so distant and seemingly indifferent in my despair and never tried to show me any affection, but made me suffer alone. The only people who believed with me were my Sunday school teacher and some of her students, but they were not family and I didn’t see them very often. They prayed for me and I felt their prayers, and it helped.” Mom and dad helped too, and showed they cared and tried to comfort me, but they couldn’t do anything for me spiritually in regard to my faith, because they didn’t believe in Jesus, and it broke my heart, especially mom. They cried and sat with me in my hospital room, but they couldn’t comfort me in a way regarding my hope of coming to this wonderful place.

They were with me, yet I had to believe in God alone. Mom actually discouraged me from believing in Jesus. In the midst of my suffering she asked why I still believed in God, and I had to tell her that Jesus didn’t do this to me; it wasn’t His fault; instead, He is the one helping me through it. Mother just shook her head in disbelief and said, “If He cared about you, He would do something about this and heal your cancer.” Jeanie told her, “He does care about me, mom, and when this is over, I’m going to heaven and live with Him, and I will always be with Him after that, and He will never let anything bad happen to me again. He does care about me, mom.” She just shook her head, looked at her daughter and said, “I don’t believe it.” Young and impressionable, this was a discouragement to Jeanie in her suffering. She was like Job; added to her physical trauma was her own mother, who persecuted her for believing in Jesus, yet she clung to her faith.

Combined with inoperable brain cancer and an immovable faith in Jesus Christ, she had an express ticket to heaven, where she would have a better life, though she had to sacrifice this one to get there. She set it in her mind that this is the way it would be; nobody would make her stop believing in Jesus. All the forces of the curse worked against her faith while she lay dying. She accepted her circumstances and believed in God alone. She said to her friends, “This must be the reason I have such a big house." Jason added, "I guess it’s the Lord’s way of expressing His gratitude for believing in Him. It must also be the reason your spirit glows so brightly.” He asked, “What are you going to do with this great big house?” “That I don’t know,” she said with curiosity splashed on her face. They all wept and laughed with a mixture of grief and joy about death that took her young life, yet she lives, and now she is in paradise with the lover of her soul, where no evil can touch her again.

Jason told her, “You know, you’re the reason I’m here; the witness of your faith inspired me to give my heart to Jesus; he called me to Himself through the memory of your undying faith. He pursued me with a tenacity that refused to give up. He stalked me, chased me down like a lion with a gazelle. It was a ten-year hunt, until I finally surrendered and He possessed me for love’s sake; it was a profound moment. I’m sure he did it to honor your prayers. When I found myself on my knees giving my heart to Jesus, the rest of my life was His to do as He pleased. Surrendering to Him was something I had to do; I couldn’t resist Him anymore; I didn’t have the strength or the will to go on rebelling. He put it in my heart to want Him, and it was all because of your prayers.” They wept again with joy, and she said, “It was my dying prayer that my whole family would come with me to this place, and we would all be united again here.” Jason said, “I can attest that the Lord heard your prayers; He would not take ‘no’ for an answer.” They closed the door behind them, and as they were leaving Jeanie said, “What am I going to do with this house? I almost never come here. Let’s go see Nancy's house now.”

They walked a few doors down and in front of her stood an edifice bigger than any house she ever imagined owning. Nancy just stood there, her angel pointing and explaining that it belonged to her, still on the path, her mouth open mumbling to herself, "It's so big." Eventually she spoke to the group, "I don't understand why God gave me such a big house?" Her angel, Solarryn, answered, "Oh, that's easy, the Lord honored your giving spirit." "Giving? He thought I was generous?" "Why wouldn't He," Solarryn answered, "you gave to just about every charity on the planet, and when someone was in need, you were quick to help him in any way you could." They entered through the front door and rifled through all the rooms. Nancy was dumbfounded with everyone else in the group about their house, that it was bigger than they expected and that it was nothing they really needed, being that no one spent much time there with so many activities happening in the city everywhere. People were always throwing parties, and many spent much of their time migrating from party to party, connecting with new acquaintances and making more friends and learning about some of their experiences from their past life. Everyone had stories to tell.

Nancy said, "Now lets go see Jason's house." They walked past fields of flowers on a road consisting of gold bricks. Nancy asked him, “How did your judgment go; it looks like the Lord let you keep a lot of your memories, more than most people, evidenced by the radiance of your spirit.” Jason replied, “It was scary at first; I was afraid He wouldn’t let me stay here; the abyss suddenly appeared below me, and all my sins fell into it, and I thought He would let me fall into it [Micah 7-19], but as my judgment proceeded I began to realize that He had accepted me, and then I settled down and the whole experience became very pleasant as He honored me for the things I did in His name.” Mendorf had been following them, probably by habit and said, “That is not the only honor you will receive for your service to Him; He intends to honor you publicly; that’s how He does everything, in the eyes of all” (Jn 18,19-24). Jason answered, “I’m glad He made me forget some of my bad memories, all the ones that made me afraid and cowardly, things that were wrong and sinful.” Mendorf answered, “Right, those things have no place here. I don’t remember them either.” Jason was finally able to look Mendorf in the eye.

They kept walking and met other angels and people along the way, and they stopped and talked to them and caught up with the scuttlebutt on the street about what they thought the Lord was doing on earth. They entered a residential neighborhood as they continued talking, and Jason didn’t particularly notice where they were going, being engrossed in conversation, until Mendorf abruptly stopped and looked to his left and waited for Jason to finish his thought. There was silence between them as Mendorf waited for curiosity to build in Jason enough to ask why they stopped. The verse in Scripture slowly floated to the surface, “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places” (Jn 14-2). Jason sheepishly asked, “Is that my house?” Mendorf answered, “There it is.” “Are you kidding? This is my house? Mendorf said, “Everyone’s house reflects the size of each person’s heart after judgment and their dedication to Christ that they showed in their former lives.” “Wow! Let’s go see what it looks like inside.” Jason tripped on the curb in his tunnel vision to touch the doorknob of his new house, the souls of his feet flashed behind him, “Hey, it’s not locked!” “Funny,” said Mendorf with a grin as he glanced at Jeanie and Nancy, noting their satirical expressions, following Jason up the hill to the entrance.

He walked into the front door of the house and immediately a gorgeous foyer welcomed him with a picture window that let in light from the city originating from Christ. There were two sets of stairs off the foyer: one on the left, and one directly ahead of him. Each staircase led to different floors, and on the right was a hallway leading to the rooms of the first floor. Halfway down the hall opened to a large kitchen with all the amenities, and another hall extended to the back of the kitchen, leading to more living quarters, and the hall in back reached to the end and T’d into another hall, linking more rooms to the back of the house. He discovered a similar configuration on the second and third floors, only minus the kitchen. Jason counted the rooms, forty-five in total, all furnished with everything in its place. “What am I going to do with this?” Jason asked. Mendorf, knowing God a lot longer said, “All will be revealed in its time. The Lord must have a purpose for it, or He wouldn’t have given it to you.” Jason just shrugged, “I guess.”

They returned to the first floor and Jason went alone to the first room off the foyer and chose it as his room, opened the top drawer of the dresser and placed his only possession into it, the white stone the Lord gave him at the believer’s judgment, closed the drawer and returned to the company of Jeanie and Mendorf, who together walked out the front door and teleported (Heb 11-5) to the center of the city where everyone was worshipping God and joined the chorus. While they worshipped God, a thought came to Jason: other than his house that he didn’t really need or expect to ever use, he didn’t own anything. Jason owned more in his former life, but he didn’t need anything. He was conflicted, suddenly realizing his abject poverty, yet innately feeling in ownership of all things, owning nothing and everything at the same time (2Cor 6,8-10). They talked to some of Jeanie's friends and they were all scratching their heads about why God gave them such large houses, when they didn’t need them. They came together in prayer and asked the Lord about why they inherited such big houses, and He answered them, “all will be revealed in its time.” Jason quipped, “Hey, that’s what Mendorf my angel said. Boy, He must know the Lord really well.”

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