Kingdom Come

Death is the biggest crisis we’ll face in life. The most important information, guiding our values and behaviors during our lifetime, is what happens after this lifetime.

Since science does not have the tools to explore this condition, any information about this is typically delegated to religion. But there are over 4,000 religions in the world offering hope for a quality of spiritual existence after death of the body, severely limiting the credibility of any one of them.

As there is no consistency in the multiple religions or even denominations of religions claiming to be  based on the same source, this study does not include religious beliefs. This blog-book investigates the claims of the source document, not religions or religious leaders spinning off from the sourcebook.

It is a fact that the Bible is the single most trusted collection of revelation of spirituality, history, future predictions including the end of the world, and life after death. Despite massive culture shifts from hunter-gatherer to high tech societies it has remained relevant over the past 3,500 years since Moses compiled even more ancient documents into the multi-national Hebrew Torah, developed into the monotheistic faiths of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

I did not set out to prove or disprove the Bible. I just wanted to satisfy myself that my decisions about it were informed, not contaminated by dogmatic religious beliefs or rejected due to religious corruption.

The Bible’s evidentiary value should be judged in the same manner as that of any other ancient document. There are three tests to determine whether any ancient document can be trusted as history:

Bibliographic Test. How many different copies exist, and how much time elapsed between the original writing and the first available copy?…

In most cases, relatively few copies of ancient documents exist, and in all but two cases the copies were made over 1000 years after the original. Only three ancient works have a significant number of copies ranging from 193 of Sophocles to 643 of Homer’s Iliad.

The New Testament, by comparison, is supported by over 24,000 different copies, the earliest of which was made only 25 years after the original. The New Testament has more bibliographic support than any other historical document of its time..

Internal Test of truth. Does the document contradict itself?

The Bible was written by numerous people over a period of about 1,500 years…the integrity I found, from cover to cover, through all the years and all the writers…continues to amaze me and convince me that the Bible cannot have been written by humans on their own. Further study began to reveal patterns beneath patterns in the text…The Bible is remarkably different from other books and writings that claim to be holy or inspired…

The gospels are extremely consistent with one another by ancient standards, which are the only standards by which it is fair to evaluate them…written by one careful historian (Luke) and three different eyewitnesses to the events (Matthew, Peter with Mark transcribing, and John).

External Test of truth. Does the document contradict external sources of historical or archaeological fact?

The more overlap there is with other documents written during the same time period, the more authentic a record is considered to be. Over the years, archaeologists have successfully used the Bible to guide them to excavation sites.

One expert documented 39 ancient sources that corroborate more than one hundred facts concerning Jesus’ life, teachings, crucifixion and resurrection…

Defining religion and science as contrary to each other handicaps our understanding of both. We need all the knowledge and wisdom we can get.

God reveals himself in Nature.

“In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1)

To modern physicists’ knowledge, time is not infinite, it had a beginning. Likewise, matter and energy in the closed system of the universe is finite.

“God / elohim / powers / i.e. supreme holder of all powers created the heaven and the earth…and the Spirit of God moved upon the [sur]face of the waters. And God said, Let there be…and there was…” (Genesis 1)

The science of physics is all about striving to understand energy, which it admits it is too complicated for humanity’s limited tools to measure in all its dimensions. 

In physics, infinite quantities cannot be used in an experiment or observation. Ergo, science believes Einstein’s infinite Force / c² acting upon e-mc² as a revelation, i.e. in the realm of religion. 

This same infinite Force outside of finite space-time demonstrated purposeful intelligence of Personhood when establishing the Laws of Physics maintaining the universe.

“And the LORD / YHVH / Infinite One said unto Moses…I will proclaim the name / identity / attributes of the LORD before thee…The LORD / Infinite One, The LORD God / Infinitly Powerful One, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;” (Exodus 33:19, 34:6-7)

Scientists once thought that space and time were separate. Einstein however established that space and time were inextricably linked, once again validating the biblical model of physics.

“And the angel [in heaven] which I saw stand upon the sea / waters and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware that

• there should be time no longer…
• the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” (Revelation 10:5-7, 21:1)

This is also exactly what happens to the life energy in the organized functional closed system of energy of our body when we pass away.  Scientifically our active life energy can only be converted to potential energy in the ground, perfectly described by Job in the oldest book in the Bible (predating Genesis by author).

 “now shall I sleep in the dust;” (Job 7:21)

But, scientifically inquiring, where does this energy go when the whole universe of time-space-matter ends?

The scientific answer is found in Einstein’s revelatory equation E=mc². Each segment of life energy is bound to the Force that initially converted part of its infinity into finite mass and energy and holds the totality in itself as c²= E/m. More simply put as “the spirit / energy shall return unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

The same Infinite Power that with intellect and purpose set in motion the Laws of Physics to maintain the universe also determines its outcome.

If we want to be informed about how it all ends, no other religious documents match the detail provided in the Bible about the end of this world, and of each individual life, nor the amount of legally admissible eyewitness testimony.

The word “signified” sémainó in Greek, means to give a sign / sēmeíon to confirm, corroborate or authenticate the veracity of a message, often with a seal from a signet ring on the wax sealing a document.

How was the person of Jesus Christ the seal of approval of this revelation to John?

The text gives the answer. “Who / John bare record

• of the word / sound energy of God,
• and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
• and of all things that he saw.“

John could authenticate that the immortal being he saw was Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, because he had personally witnessed Jesus Christ transformed from mortal to immortal after he had been definitely killed, guarded in a tomb for three days, then risen again into a hyperdimensional body.

The veracity of John’s Revelation is irrevocably established by John’s testimony in the Gospel of John and the preceding messages of God’s prophets since the beginning of time. To deny it is sheer rejection of every established criteria of truth.

• Who – ““I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it…And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God…who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he…come near to you to judgment,”
• What – “and the books were opened…and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” (Revelation 20:11-15)
• When – Trumpet calls are a universal signal to battle (Revelation 8-10). The Bible’s prophecy of the end of the world through warfare has been validated by Robert Oppenheimer, the maker of the atomic bomb – “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”.
• Where – in heaven populated only by hyperdimensional beings
• How – “Then…a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name / titles / attributes [of Creator, Sustainer of Life, Judge]…And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day…[I] discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.” (Malachi 3)

“all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly…the day that cometh shall burn them up…hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched..And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire…And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” ( (Malachi 4:1, Mark 9:43-48, Revelation 20:10-15)

But unto you that fear my name – YHVH, Creator – shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.“ (Malachi 4:1-2)

Consignment to eternal fire is not cruel and unusual punishment by a jealous God, but the only possible option for humans created with free will who choose to rejection unity with the only source of infinite life energy.

It’s science – energy can never be destroyed.