BP: The Seven Spiritual Categories of Humanity

In this chapter, we’ll review the second of four important sevens pertaining to the salvation/exaltation of man, which is the Seven Spiritual Categories of Humanity.  The Bible describes highly righteous men at the top who obtain God’s power who are called Angels or Seraphim to those who see God, reject Him who then are slated for dissolution, which the Bible identifies as Perdition.

---

Spiritual Categories
Generally, religionists lump everyone into two categories - the righteous and the wicked - or those who inherit Heaven and Hell, but when we look at the Bible, a more dynamic view of humanity emerges. For instance, at the bottom of Humanity are those who have seen/heard God and then rejected Him like Cain and Judas.  Then we see those who kill for profit and suffer for their own sins. We also see those who seek to satisfy the desires and appetites of the carnal or natural man. Comparatively, we see Yehovah reveal a collective law to Israel to create a nation and a covenant people. Moreover, we see holy men who gain favor with God and through their righteousness God saved others like Noah, Abraham and King Hezekiah.  We see characters like Moses that God gave His power and finally we see Enoch who God took up to Heaven. So it seems biblically that the view of Humanity is more than just two dimensions.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
“People depicted in the Book of Isaiah are more than characters who feature incidentally in ancient and end-time events. They additionally typify spiritual categories discernible by how they relate to Israel’s God. Each informs us who we are from his perspective—what defines us.”

Dr. Gileadi, in his book Isaiah Decoded, categorizes Humanity in mortality into five spiritual categories and one temporary (Jacob/Israel) in his analysis of the Book of Isaiah.  In my analysis of the Bible, I expanded this to seven categories with one temporary (Jacob/Israel). Later, we’ll see how these seven categories play out when we look at the seven levels of Heaven.  Also, this dynamic view of Humanity can explain why the writings of Paul seem confusing, because Paul is teaching Believers who are at different spiritual levels.  We can see this more specifically in Paul’s writings to the Hebrews and with new Gentile believers.​​

Dr. Gileadi's Categories	Expanded
Seraphim/Angelic Emissaries	Seraphim/Angelic Emissaries
Sons/Daughters	Sons/Daughters
Zion/Jerusalem	Zion/Jerusalem
Jacob > Israel	Jacob > Israel
Babylon	Babylon
--	Sodom/Gomorrah
--	Mahan
Perdition	Perdition

Jacob/Israel
Those who are Jacob identify themselves with a Creator god or the God of the Bible or Believers in the Messiah/Christ.  These have not made a conscious choice to ascend to God renew His covenant becoming spiritual Israel or to succumb to the desires and appetites of their carnal nature.
 
Those who are spiritual Israel have renewed God’s covenant but as yet have failed to make their covenants unconditional and everlasting by becoming Zion/Jerusalem.
 
During Endtime events, this category of Believers – Jacob/Israel - will disappear as they will be forced into a decision to repent, seek righteousness and become Zion or to give into sin. There will be a separation of the righteous and wicked first on principle and second by a physical gathering and separation, which will occur during the Endtimes as God polarizes Humanity.​​

Jacob/Israel (choosing righteousness or wickedness)

V	V
Ascending to God - Life and Peace	Descending into Sin and Death

DESCENDING INTO SIN AND DEATH
​
Babylon
Those who succumb to their base desires engage in all types of modern idolatry: debasing entertainment, obsessions with sports, false religious/spiritual systems, the pursuit of worldly wealth, really anything that takes them away from the true God qualifies as idolatry. Another aspect of Babylon is the reliance on human power rather than divine providence. All kinds of social maladies plague Babylon - divorce, drugs, crime, poverty. These seek to satisfy the appetites and desires of the carnal or natural man.  Because of their reliance on man-made systems, in the end they self-destruct, because man-made systems are not sustainable.

These who have sinned against their conscience – the Light of Messiah – in mortality will suffer for their own sins after they die but will be saved from everlasting death by accepting Yeshua’s redemption.


Sodom/Gomorrah
Those who are Sodom/Gomorrah perpetuate violence.  Sodom/Gomorrah has the same fate as the world just before the flood and the city of Nineveh who God destroys or threatens to destroy because of violence. For this, God Himself executes a judgement of death.

These who have sinned against their conscience – the Light of Messiah – in mortality will suffer for their own sins after they die but will be saved from everlasting death by accepting Yeshua’s redemption.


Mahan
Those who are Mahan murder for profit.  These take killing life to a new low. We see this particularly in the case of Judas who  betrayed the Messiah for thirty pieces of silver, which led to His death.  Though not a term found in the Bible, Mahan has word links to Hebrew meaning destroyer.

These who have sinned against their conscience – the Light of Messiah – in mortality will suffer for their own sins after they die but will be saved from everlasting death by accepting Yeshua’s redemption.


​Perdition
At the very bottom of Humanity, is Perdition.  These reject both the Father and the Son and die both body and soul never to live again.  Cain and Judas are biblical examples of Perdition. Cain was “marked” for dissolution.

These have rejected the redemption of Yeshua and receive no resurrection.​​

---

ASCENDING TO GOD - LIFE AND PEACE

Zion/Jerusalem
Those who are Zion/Jerusalem accept Yeshua’s redemption and sanctify their lives by overcoming personal sin.  These are Born Again living a fulness of God’s covenant law of Sanctification, passing a trial of faith, and having their covenants sealed by the Spirit become a New Creation of the Holy Spirit.

These endure the Endtime trials and pass into the Millennium.


Sons/Daughters
Those who are Sons/Daughters, God’s Elect, accept Yeshua’s redemption, have sanctified their lives and are married.  They Go Onto Perfection reaching the full stature of Messiah as proxy-saviors as they perfect their lives, enter into the Davidic covenant and serve as earthly proxy-deliverers/saviors to their families and others.  Their loyalty to God is tried as they suffer near death. They see God the Son and become a New Creation of the Son. They are exalted.

These endure the Endtime trials and pass into the Millennium. Being redeemed, sanctified, and exalted, they function in leadership roles.


Seraphim/Angels
Those who are Seraphim or God’s Angelic Emissaries are redeemed, sanctified, exalted, married and prove their loyalty to God under all conditions.  The scope of their mission is worldwide. They obtain God’s power, the power to seal, lead the Endtime gathering of Israel and are Joint Heirs with the Messiah.
 
They are made like the Son of God and ascend to the throne of the Son.

These endure the Endtime trials and pass into the Millennium. Being redeemed, sanctified, and exalted, they function in leadership roles. ​