BOB: Temporal and Eternal Salvation

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In this review of Born of the Blood, we’ll consider salvation from the aspects of the physical and the spiritual. Salvation of the physical includes eternal salvation after we die and are resurrected, but also there is a physical salvation in mortality.  Spiritual salvation refers to the condition of being in the presence of God, which includes three types and one devoid of God’s presence. ​

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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

                                                                       Individual Salvation
                                                                             Born Again
          Born of the Blood > Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

                                                                       Married Exaltation
                                                                     Going Onto Perfection
                           Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son


The Fall
In the Garden, Adam and Eve enjoyed a life without their physical bodies degenerating and dying - they were not subject to physical death. Moreover, they lived in the presence of God and enjoyed a spiritual life with God.

This condition changed when Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s commandment and partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  The serpent said to Eve that she would be like God knowing good and evil, but to know evil would require them to experience a world subject to corruption both the physical and the spiritual - a physical and spiritual death.  They would lose their physical bodies and be cast out of God’s presence. Here is the first incident that we see the pattern set out in Isaiah where there is a descent before the ascent. So the act of Adam and Eve partaking of the tree of knowledge provided an opportunity for Adam and Eve - and all humanity - to raise their level of blessedness - to be like God knowing good and evil.  We’ll see more of this pattern in our next post.

​But then man would retain his knowledge of good and evil in eternity as Yeshau redeems man from eternal physical and spiritual death through His Atonement, Death and Resurrection.

Moreover, we see the law being given to Adam and Eve, which defines evil and symbolically is what made Adam and Eve "naked" -being without the Law.   In summary, this is what this looks like for Adam and Eve, and actually for all humanity.​

In the Garden	>	Descent	>	Ascent (man raised to a higher level)
.	.	V	.	Like God Know Good/Evil ​Immortal Physical Body Live in God's Presence Forever
Adam/Eve in the Garden	.	V	.	^
.	.	Experience Good/Evil Physical Death ​Spiritual Death	.	^

Mortality
In mortality, we see three types of physical salvation and two types of spiritual salvation. Our first type of physical salvation applies to all humanity when God promises not to destroy man and gives him the Noahide laws - the seven basic laws for all humanity.  Then we see God promise Israel long life under the Sinai covenant. And finally we see certain holy men have death suspended with Enoch, Elijah and perhaps John.

In mortality , we see two types of spiritual salvation. Those who receive the Holy Spirit and those who receive the presence of Jehovah like Moses.


Eternity
In eternity, we see three types of physical and spiritual salvation where heaven is divided among the Unjust who receive God’s Spirit; those who are sanctified by living His law and Word, are fully Born Again and receive the presence of Jehovah; and those who know the Father and Son, are proxy-saviors under the Davidic covenant, receive eternal life and the presence of the Father - John 17:3

Moreover, those who reject the Father and the Son are unredeemable and die both physically and spiritually forever.

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