4. Not understanding the biblical meaning of humans and angels

 4. Not understanding the biblical meaning of humans and angels

 

The scene when God created man is described in Genesis 2:7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." In Hebrew, a living being is nephesh haya, which means a living being.

A person is composed of a spirit and a body. However, when a person dies, Ecclesiastes 12:7 says, "The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." The spirit should be in God, but being in the dust of the world is not in its perfect form. The spirit in the dust is dead. John 6:63 says, "It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life."

After Jesus died on the cross, 1 Peter 3:18 says, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit." It also expresses that Jesus' spirit was made alive when his body died.

And Jesus said in 1 Peter 3:19-20, "In which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, who once were disobedient when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." The spirits in prison are spirits imprisoned, spirits imprisoned in the flesh like Jesus. Using the time of Noah as an analogy, it means that outside of Noah and his family, there were no one who realized this fact.

The flesh is like a prison, and it seems that the spirit is imprisoned. This is exactly the same as the appearance of the fallen angels. In Genesis 6:2-3, "The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took them wives of all which they chose. Then the LORD said, 'My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is flesh; his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. '" The sons of God refer to the spirits of the fallen angels, and the daughters of men refer to the flesh of the world. The spirit and the flesh meet to become a human.

So, this is the image of them sitting in the temple of their hearts as God. This is expressed as a warrior. Genesis 6:3-4 "And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them. The same were the warriors which were of old, men of renown."

The Bible speaks of fallen angels in two places. Jude 6: "And the angels who did not keep their own position in the heavenly domain, but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day." Darkness refers to the inside of the body. 2 Peter 2:4: "If God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of darkness to be kept until the judgment." The dark chain refers to the body of dust.

The Greek word translated as hell is tartarus, which means “deep abyss.” In Genesis 1:2, “Now the earth was formless and void, darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” The first part of the translation is not correct, but if we translate it again, it says that the earth existed as darkness, void, and chaos over the face of the abyss, and it is connected to the second part. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

『The face of the abyss ְּפְּנֵ֣י תְהֹ֑ום』(Peneh Taehom) means 『the face of the deep waters』, and the face is a word that indicates a person's identity and means spirit. Therefore, the face of the abyss is a face in deep water and means the spirit that is trapped in the material world.

The resurrection is when the spirit imprisoned in the flesh returns to the kingdom of God. Resurrection is not the concept of a dead flesh coming back to life, but rather returning to its original place. In Luke 20:35-36, it says, "But those who are considered worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, nor can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection." Resurrection means that the spirit imprisoned in the flesh returns to the spirit of the angels where it originally was.