THERE REALLY IS A "LIVING HAPPILIY EVER AFTER."

WE, NATURALLY AND LOGICALLY, LOOK AND HOPE FOR A LIFE OF "LIVING HAPPILY FOREVER AFTER..."

Today we enjoy life as never before. We live longer in more comfort and ease of living. Scientific knowledge has provided man abilities unheard of just a century ago. Our knowledge about the working of our physical bodies and physical surroundings, both inner space and outer space, has increased exponentially. Scientific knowledge is enabled medicine to advance the age of man to much older ages. It's as if man was trying to create heaven. Typically, the nonphysical or the spiritual side is left out, at least in the ending. It used to be that fairytales always ended up with the phrase "... and they lived happily ever after", and most of the romantic types of stories always ended with a good feeling of the continuity of a good life continuing on.

But, we are not in heaven, far from it. Despite all of our comforts and conveniences, and wealth, it all ends in sorrow and in death. Like it or not, death is impartial as to how much we have we must live with the knowledge, it will happen, Know how God viewed this: you are already dead without Christ.

Biblical Christianity offers the Christian believer redemption in this life. The same person, John the apostle, who wrote Revelations, also wrote this: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, That Whoever Believes in Him Should Not Perish, but Have Everlasting Life.

For God Did Not Send theSon Into the World to Judge the World: but That the World Should Be Saved through Him.

He Who Believes in Him Is Not Judged. He Who Does Not Believe Has Been Judged Already, Because He Has Not Believed in the Name of the Only Begotten Of God.          John 3:16-18

 

About 20 years later sometime between 85 and 100 A.D., John the apostle also wrote a few letters. John wrote this in 1 John 1:5-10; 2:1:"for this is the message that we have heard from Him and announced to you that God is light and in Him there is no darkness all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light, as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We say that we have not send, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us."

I'm writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sends, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world." 1John 1:5-10; 2:1-2

The Apostle Paul wrote his letters, 25 years or more, before John wrote revelations.

In 58 AD. these statements, he wrote:

"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

"You were dead in your transgressions in the and circumcision of your flesh. He(Christ) made you alive together with him having given all of our transgressions having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us in which was hostile to us. And he is taken out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."

Colossians 3:13-14

Wouldn't it be great if we could just say they lived happily ever after -- meaning the absence of tragic circumstances ending in death-- like in the fairytales.  Our God tells us in Revelations us with no holds barred the way life really is, with churches needing to repent and the world going through a terrible calamity like the Great Tribultion,

but there really is a "lived happily everafter", at the end.

 The book of Revelation is usually thought of as a book of doom and gloom, and things that make us not want to read it. This is too bad, because there's a promise right at the start : "Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it for the time is near.  Revelations 1:3

REMEMBER, AT THE END, THERE REALLY IS A "LIVING HAPPILIY EVER AFTER."