6d) What is Different in the Angel Universe after this Universe is Ended?
Let's summarize what I suggest (section 6 a & 6 b) happened in that perfect angel universe that existed long before our universe had to be created. Like us, angels could live for eons accepting that they have free will but not understanding how it could be. It would be a "mystery" that they learn to live with. However, eventually some angel has got to demand proof. This is not a bad thing at all. It is only natural that some angels (like our scientists) need to have more than blind faith, regarding their fundamental beliefs. It is not a sin to want proof. The only problem is that the proof in this case results in the death of the testers.
This ties in directly with why God wants all His created beings to "Remember the Seventh Day (Sabbath Day)", which He created explicitly for mankind. For in six days (rotations of the stage we call Earth) He created the 3D universe we live in and all that is in it with us. Its purpose is to be a stage on which to provide the proof required by the angels. The entire angel universe is concerned about this issue and is watching this temporary stage! This is the most important thing God has done, because the fate of His entire angelic universe hangs in the balance of what happens next! So, God creates this universe in sic rotations of our planet and then He adds a separate day just to remember what He had done. [Very Important point!]
This demonstration will prove that indeed they do have free will; that God is keeping them alive by thinking of them and yet not pulling their strings. It will further prove that trying to separate oneself from the Thinker is unnecessary, yet it will surely lead to ones self-destruction. We realize that nothing can exist without God continuing to think of it. But, it is not as clear that we will self-destruct if we try to separate ourselves from God, even as He continues to think of us.
We might call this the "Sin Drama", which is playing out on our simple planet in a temporary 3D universe. Once it is finished this self-destructed universe will be discontinued (Rev 20:11 & 21: 1) and only the pre-existing angelic universe will continue. Yet, sin will never arise in that universe again. It will be unnecessary since all those who are alive will have seen that God does not intervene against the free will decisions of His created beings, even though He may really want to.
Furthermore, we will all have decided that indeed we do want God watching our every move, as He must to keep us alive. Those of us who preferred to "hide from God" will have experienced the consequences as they and their world self-destructed on our 3D stage (Rev 20: 12-15). So as long as all of us "remember" that sin drama, which played out on this 3D stage, the prime cause of sin will never arise again anywhere in that everlasting angel world.
Hence, after our human universe passes away, the universe where the angels dwelt before the creation of this universe, will continue to exist but with these differences:
1) The Image of God (Michael/Christ) will have Holes in His Hands and will be known as the Son of God* (Jn 20:27)
2) The Planet Earth will be re-created in that universe as the New Earth (rotating with no Sun) (Rev 21:1, 4)
3) The Image of God's Headquarters ( the new Jerusalem) will be moved to this new Earth (Rev 21: 2, 3)
4) Humans will be re-created as angels and will live on this new Earth with the Son of God (1 Cor 15: 51-54, Rev 21:3)
5) The SABBATH, which was first instituted for Humans, will be kept by all angelic beings (Isa 66:23)
* Note that Michael and Christ were/are both the Image of God. However, Michael was never the Son of God. Christ was born of a human woman and the intercession of God’s Holy Spirit, so He was literally born as their Son. This is why the Bible has always called Christ the Son of God and the Son of Man. The Glorified Christ is still the Son of God and as such, seeing Him we will all recall the events that were so important for us to remember about the playing out of the Sin Drama on this earth.
This should clarify why the 7th day Sabbath is the true Sabbath day. God told us how critically important it is to remember that He is the Creator and that He created this universe in six days. That required a miracle and cannot be explained otherwise, because there is no other like Him. All the angels were watching because this was the most important drama ever to all of them. Their ability to live happily ever after hinges on remembering this 6-day creation and the drama it was intended to play out. Then God created an additional day on which all were to remember what He did all this for. Hence, (Isa 66:22-24) all angelic beings will remember this every Sabbath day. (See also Appendix 10d)
Notice also that the Sabbath Day was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath. There was no creation week for the angelic world. That universe is, I believe, continually being added to as we see in our own image of it. Even if it is not growing routinely, it was certainly not created in six days because there was no Earth rotating to count those days. Hence the angels had no Sabbath Day originally. Only after the creation of our 3D universe in six literal rotations of our planet, was there a 7th day. This is why the 7th day was so important. It links us all back to why God had to do this weird and incredible thing with humans when He already had angels.
Then in order to enable all who are to live thereafter the new Earth is remade with all the additional dimensions necessary to be included in that angelic universe. It is spinning without a Sun, as it was when created in 3D for us during the creation week of Genesis 1. As it does now for us, it will then mark off the days in heaven, so that every 7th day all God's family remembers and sin never ever rises again!
Praise God!
15 August 2001
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