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THE EARTHLY INHERITANCE SERIES of BIBLE SUBJECTS

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Various Bible study guides in subjects pertaining to

New Earth prophecy, as taught by Paul Phelps. 

 

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD,

they shall inherit the earth.      Psalm 37:9

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GENDER is FOREVER

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This is a question and answer exchange about the continuity

of gender.  Will there be male and female in the new world? 

 

An informational essay by Paul Phelps. 

After several years of study this writing was completed in 2006. 

 

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This question came by Email from an unknown person. 

This is the question and my reply. 

Bible topic by Paul Phelps

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Questioner:

Jesus' reply to the Sadducees (Luke 20:27-40) is that there will not be marriage,
sex or children in the new world.  But other Bible verses seem to say otherwise. 
Philosophically speaking, the neutering of humans to devoid them of sex seems
to contradict God's word.  If he made it and it is good, why would he destroy it? 
 

My answer:

The New Earth is the answer.  A New Heaven and a New Earth is promised but
Church teachings say little about New Earth inheritance.  Church teachings are
focused only on heaven and a New Earth is ignored (see the other study guides
for the topics ‘Resurrection of the Righteous’ and ‘Earthly Inheritance’).  A list of
Scriptures for eternal continuance of earthly procreation includes the following:
Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6; Deut. 7:9; Psalm 102:28; 103:17-18; Eze. 37:25-26; 47:22;
Isaiah 54:3; 54:13-14; 59:21; 60:21-22; 65:23; 66:22. 

 

Satan took many angels with him in his revolt and there is a need to repopulate
heaven with trustworthy people
so the Church call to heaven was introduced. 
The
saints of heaven inherit spiritual bodies but humanity will always be earthy. 
Sex is for earth-type bodies; sex and family life will remain on earth as created. 
 

Questioner:

That still leaves a problem.  Although there is gender and sex in the New Earth
for people of another age, the Church-age saints will still be neutered.  They do
not get an opportunity to return and have a wife, husband, sex, kids, family, etc. 
In other words, Church-age saints are neutered.  Your essays are fine for some,
but how can Church-age believers be resurrected in earth if spiritual existence
is not what they want.  Your reply doesn’t solve the problem, it merely limits it. 
 

My answer:

The essay ‘Heaven and Earth’ offers a wider view of the two programmes having
a parallel existence in the New covenant.  The total focus of the Church age is on
the
heavenly call but God reads our hearts.  Believers whose desires are earthly
do not have the Spiritual new birth of heaven.  The New covenant earthly hope is
another programme of God; it is open but running minimised in the background
(in computer terminology).  You must click on it to bring it into view

 

The “Bride of Christ” call is heavenly and in this call there is no male or female,
Jew or Greek, bond or free.  Human attributes cannot exist in heavenly bodies. 
The two kinds of believers of heaven and earth are typified in Elijah and Elisha. 
Both of them were God’s servants
alive at the same time, but with two different
destinies from the start.  Elijah went to heaven but Elisha remained on the earth,
and both were God’s righteous servants

 

My explanation:

God wants to repopulate heaven.  But not all Christian believers fit into this call
because many of them do not want heaven.  Christians accept the heavenly call
because they see no other choice
but many of them do not truly want heaven. 
Jesus said: "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt. 22:14).  God calls many
but relatively only a few of those called are chosen for heaven.  Those who prefer
earthly life and are living uprightly by conscience will inherit the renewed earth. 

 

This subject is sensitive for Christians but the reality is that sexual reproduction
cannot exist in the spirit realm.  This is the reason sex is suppressed in Church
teaching.  God needs heaven to be repopulated and the Church call to heaven
is the only good way of doing it (he has decided against creating more angels). 
 

The call to heaven requires agreement.  God decides our destiny according to
our heart; he knows the calling to heaven cannot be given to those whose desire
is for earth.  Life in the New Earth is the predestined plan of God for the world. 

 


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