Greetings,

Thank you so much, and I really enjoyed your writings…… and you are truly gifted!

The thought of all people being saved, the Jews and the Gentiles, thrilled my heart! My only question is regarding those that are mentioned as the seed of Satan. And, Jesus said that Judas (the betrayer) was a devil. How did Satan get seed?

I know you are busy, swamped, and any comment would be great! If not, I understand!

I pray for a hedge of protection over you and your family! May God bless you indeed!

In Christ’s mighty Name, I pray, Amen!

Thank you,

C____

Hi again C____,

The “seed of the serpent” and “of your father the devil” are spiritual statements which have nothing to do with spirits having sex with women. All men are “in Adam.”

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Eve is the mother of “all living.”

Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Being the “seed of the serpent” has to do with “who you yield yourselves to obey.” Christ admits that the Jews of His day were “Abraham’s seed,” yet in the same breath, He tells them that “Ye are of your father the Devil.”

Joh 8:30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

There is a world of difference between “believing on Christ” and “continuing in His Word.” As it is to this day, it is “those… which believe on Christ” who still seek to kill God’s elect. As you become aware of God’s Truth, as you stand for God’s Truth, you will find that you, too, will be persecuted for doing good:

2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Now let’s continue on with what Christ said of “those Jews which believed on Him:“

Joh 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Joh 8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Joh 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Joh 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Joh 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [ even] God.
Joh 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye can not hear my word.
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

What makes one a son of the devil has nothing to do with physical begetting or physical birth. It was “Abraham’s seed” who Christ says are “of their father the devil.” What made them “of their father the devil? “Ye do the deeds of your father.” And again: “the lusts of your father ye will do.” That is what constitutes the “seed of the serpent” and makes one “of your father the devil.” Being “the seed of the woman” or “of Abraham” likewise has to do with “doing the works of Abraham.” It is all spiritual. It has nothing to do with physical descent. All are of Adam, and Eve is the mother of all living.

Be sure to read the letter already posted entitled Fallen Angels, Spirits In Prison, and The Woman And Manchild of Rev 12.

And another letter on this subject is entitled Why Cain’s Offering Was Not Accepted.

I hope this answers your question.

Mike

Hello Mike!!

Hope all is good!! Please answer a few questions when you get a chance.

Explain the sons of God and the daughters of men in Gen.6.

Thank you, Mike!!

J____

Hi J____,

Go to Archive 3 and read the very first letter entitled Fallen Angels, Spirits In Prison, And The Woman And Manchild Of Rev 12. This letter will answer answer your first question.

Your second question is:

Also, when death and hell are cast into the lake of fire… Hell is the imperceptible? And death will be no more. So God does away with both of them. What does this mean?

What this means is that all men of all time are given life after they have endured the ‘lake of fire.’ For more on exactly what the lake of fire is, please read:

An Infant Being 100 Years Old (New Heaven and New Earth)… Lake Of Fire Revealed In Genesis

Lake Of Fire In Genesis

If these letters do not satisfy your questions, let me know.

Mike

J____ wrote:

Mike! Thank you!!!

Can you answer these questions for me with the shortest and best explanation. I would greatly appreciate it!!

– Are heaven and hell physical places? yes or no

No.

-If no, what brings you to that conclusion?

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

– How does one get saved from their sins?

By being drug to God, by the sovereign work of God.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [ Greek- drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

What happens to me if I do not accept Jesus into my life?

You will come up in the “great white throne judgment” to be cast into God’s purifying ‘lake of fire.’ Once this fire purifies you, you will enter into God’s rest, which is Christ.

– Will I go to/ burn in hell for this non- acceptance?

You will indeed have all the “wood, hay and stubble” burned out of you. This is accomplished in what is figuratively called a lake of fire.

– Will this hell be for eternity? yes or no

No.

– If no, what brings you to that conclusion?

1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

– You mentioned “As the Scriptures do not contain the word ‘eternal’ or its equivalent, I can’t give you a Scriptural definition of eternity.” If you cannot give such, what brings you to believe that eternity does not exist?

Show me where I ever said eternity does not exist.

– Is the bible as it is written today in the KJV wrong? yes or no

There is no such thing as a perfect translation of anything.

– If no, why not?

Languages do not translate perfectly literally from one to another.

– Is the devil real, or is the devil symbolic of all evil?

Real.

– Since God lives outside of space and time, is he considered to be eternal?

Yes.

Thanks Mike and God Bless YOU !!!!!

Hi Mike,

I hope you are doing well. I want to thank you for answering my previous emails concerning Mr. Eby’s comments about God not being in charge, God’s anger and the trinity. Actually, your son, Wayne answered the one about the trinity, but he did an excellent job. Your e- mails also, were right on target. I could and did identify with them and I really appreciate you both taking the time and effort. E- mails like these take lots of time.

If you could help me again, it would mean a lot to me. I am stumped.

I understand that when we die we are dead. (At least I think I partially understand it.) Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It should be a simple matter, right? Now, I have questions of course.

1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

It appears that the spirits that Jesus was preaching to are dead. How is this possible?

1Pe 4: 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

The dead people in verse 6, are they physically dead or what is going on here?

In 1Sa 28 we have Samuel – who is dead – being called up by a woman with a “familiar spirit” for Saul. What got called up?

We also have psychic detectives, etc.

If you could help, please do. I am at a loss.

Thanks so much. Peace,

S____

Hi S____,

Thanks again for your question. It is always good to hear from you.

Your questions about ‘spirits in prison’ will be answered in an email entitled Fallen Angels… In Archive 3.

Your next question concerns 1 Pet. 4:

1Pe 4: 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

The ‘gospel’ was first preached to Adam and Eve. It has never ceased to be preached. Here in Genesis is the first mention of the gospel:

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

This promise that the “seed… [ of] the woman” will bruise the head of the “seed… of the serpent” is the first promise of the coming of the Messiah.

This coming was promised along with the promise that “he [ the serpent] will bruise your heel.” It is revealed right up front that the serpent was predestined to afflict man’s walk. How true that has always been. But when all is said and done in each of us, “he [ the seed of the woman] will bruise your [ the serpent’s] head. Christ is promised to prevail in the lives of all men. That promise is made “from the beginning.” It was this same message that Noah preached for one hundred and twenty years.

It is only the lies of orthodox Christianity which make us think that Christ went to preach to spirits in prison while he was in the grave. These lies, one and all, stem from the first lie ever told; “Thou shalt not surely die…[ Why, in reality you are an immortal spirit having an earthly experience]. It is upon this lie that mankind was created an immortal triune being, that the lie of the trinity is based. After all, if man is an immortal triune being as the serpent told Eve, then she must be just like the God who created her. Therefore, that God must also be an immortal triune being. Be sure to read Free Moral Agency, The Trinity and The Fall of Man in Archive six. That is an in- depth discussion of the origin of the lie of the ‘fall of man.’

Getting back to your question, it should now be obvious that “the gospel was preached to them that are dead” has no more to do with the period of time Christ spent in the grave than for me to say that the gospel was preached to the apostles who are now dead.

The fact that people die after the gospel is preached to them, in no way infers that I am saying that it was while Christ was in the grave. Such a statement flies in the face of all scripture:

Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

And again:

Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

That is the simple Truth of scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

1Co 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

The dead are all “fallen asleep.” They would remain so forever were it not for a resurrection of the dead. Without a resurrection from the dead, “the dead… are perished.” This certainly includes Samuel when king Saul went to the witch of Endor. You ask:

In 1Sa 28 we have Samuel – who is dead – being called up by woman with a “familiar spirit” for Saul. What got called up? We also have physic detectives etc. If you could help, please do. I am at a loss.

“What got called up” was a “familiar spirit.” That is exactly what God had commanded His people to avoid and to destroy:

Deu 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deu 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deu 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Lev 20:4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Lev 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Lev 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

God does not approve of his people associating themselves with such wickedness. What Saul saw was exactly what the apostles saw on the mount of transfiguration. It was “a vision.”

Mat 17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

Enoch and Elijah were never really on that mount with Jesus. But it sure didn’t look like a vision to James and Peter and John when they saw Enoch and Elijah there talking with, and humbling themselves before Christ. So it was with king Saul. The only difference was that what the apostles saw was to reveal the Truth of who Christ was, while what king Saul saw was to deceive him and millions since him to believe a lie.

God has always spoken to His people through dreams and visions. That is His prerogative. It is also His prerogative to insist that those who ‘name His name’ stay as far away from those with ‘familiar spirits’ as they can. Just because the familiar spirit told the truth does not justify Saul’s disobedience. The Truth of the matter is that God had simply sent Saul ‘strong delusion.’ And just as the strong delusion of today includes “healing the sick and casting out demons,” it is all for the purpose of “sending them strong delusion… [ which would] deceive the very elect if possible.” Strong delusion consists of partial obedience and the ability to perform miracles. This is what king Saul was subjected to here at the hands of the witch of Endor:

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

What minister do you know who believes the truth of the words of Christ which command us to “love thine enemy?” They are few to none!

I will close with the scriptures that affirm the statements made above of how God uses real miracles to deceive His enemies, just as he used a true prophecy to deceive king Saul and all those who chose to follow in his rebellious steps:

Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

I hope the letters I have referred you to and this letter have answered your questions. I sugggest you read Strong Delusion if you have not done so already.

Mike