"The whole purpose of the great white throne judgment is to clear away all the old religious heavens that have ruled us, and the earth of the flesh and the works of the flesh that have bound us, to make way for God’s new order — the new heaven and earth of CHRIST’S KINGDOM. I do not say that even that heaven and earth are an eternal order, for Paul tells us of a reality beyond all this: “Then cometh the end, when He shall have DELIVERED UP THE KINGDOM to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power…and when all things shall have been subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, THAT GOD MAY BE A-L-L I-N A-L-L!” (I Cor. 15:24,28). That is certainly beyond the new heaven and the new earth of the kingdom of Christ! We experience these things more and more in our lives as we walk with the Lord. This is the ongoing process by which Christ is “making everything new.” By it He transforms us into a new creation in which God can live, work, express, and manifest Himself in the totality of His life, glory, and power. When our old earth and heavens flee from before the Lord’s face, when we allow no room for them in our experience, God’s judging and refining has at last destroyed all carnality, sinfulness, religiosity, and all immature spirituality from our lives."
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"The very first key to understanding the book of Revelation is the fact that the book is, in its entirety, a book of symbols. Any other approach will leave you hopelessly lost in a sea of confusion, or limited to an array of implausible literalistic conclusions, or muttering like a mad man about things utterly ridiculous. “I saw the dead, small and great,” John declared. When Jesus came this world was spiritually a cemetery. ALL were dead! NONE were living! “For to be carnally minded is death,” is the Spirit’s own graphic and accurate definition of what it means to be dead (Rom. 7:6). "And you hath He quickened (made alive) who were dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1). To the spiritually dead the apostle commands, “Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Eph. 5:14). Let us with pure minds and an understanding enlightened by the spirit of revelation from God consider these meaningful words: “And I saw the dead…stand before God.” I saw the DEAD — S-T-A-N-D! And immediately the “books” were opened."
https://www.godfire.net/eby/Rev/rev230.html
"And think not, O man, that should your earthly body be laid in a silent and motionless tomb, that the Almighty must then resort to some celestial scrolls wherein heavenly angels have faithfully recorded your every thought and deed. NO! All is accurately recorded in the law of your own life, deep within the recesses of your own nature, in your spiritual and soulical condition and state of being, and to deal with you in judgment God has but to “stand you up” and prompt you to speak or act — and immediately you will manifest exactly what is inscribed in the constitution of your inner life and heart. At once your “book” will “open,” each line being made clear, and you will be judged by the things written in that book which you are. There will be no mistake then, because the books will show the truth. I do not know what your name may be. There may be ten thousand or ten million men or women of the same name as yourself, but when the Lord puts His hand upon your book and opens it, it will be your book, and that of nobody else. What you are, is what you are, and what will be read will be out of your book.