Title: 13
Author: JOEG
Last saved by: Matthew C. Lawson
Company: Symcast

© 2001 Joe Griffin	                                   ▼                    01-07-29-A.JSH-518 /

The Inscrutable Question: Second Resurrection: 2 Shifts; On the Subject of Cloning: Doctrine of the Will of God
	43-	Having rejected the message of salvation communicated by Noah, the souls of these Nephilim must face the same judgment as was imposed on their angelic as well as their human parents.
	44-	This judgment is scheduled after human history in the courtroom of the Great White Throne.  Until that moment arrives, the souls of the Nephilim must be placed in detention.
	45-	The place of that detention cannot be Tartarus or the Abyss, for these are the places where certain categories of fallen angels are sequestered until they are transferred permanently to the lake of fire.
	46-	Remember that the fallen angels who are sequestered in Tartarus and the Abyss have already been judged.  However, they cannot be transferred to the lake of fire until the conclusion of the angelic conflict.
	47-	The Nephilim’s place of detention cannot be Torments for this is the place where the souls of unbelieving humanity are sequestered until the Great White Throne judgment.
	48-	It is clear from Revelation 20:13 that the Nephilim and human unbelievers are called forward at the Second resurrection in two shifts, Nephilim first, followed by human unbelievers:
Revelation 20:13 - Then the sea [ the Sea Gates of the Abyss ] gave up the dead, those in it [ the Nephilim ]; death [ physical death which separates the soul from the body (Hebrews 9:27 – It is appointed unto man once to die but after this the judgment.) ] and Hades [ Torments compartment ] gave up the dead, those in them [ human unbelievers ].  And they [ Nephilim and unbelievers ] were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.
	49-	Thus the Second Resurrection has two shifts: (1) The Nephilim are brought before the court from the Sea Gates of the Abyss and (2) all human unbelievers of every dispensation are brought before the court from the Torments compartment of Hades.
	50-	Following their arraignment, they are all determined to be among the irredeemable dead since their names have been blotted out of the book of life.  They are then judged by means of their works and found wanting by comparison to the perfect work of the perfect Christ on the cross, a message they all rejected, the Nephilim during the 120-year period of antediluvian grace and the unbeliever during his time of physical life on the earth.
Revelation 20:12 - And I saw the dead, the great and small, standing before the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
v. 15 -	And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
I.	On the Subject of Cloning.
	1-	Recently I was asked a question about the subject of cloning and if the procedure was against the will of God.  I addressed this subject briefly in our studies of the Nephilim on Sunday, July 22, second session.  Before we leave our study of the Nephilim, I want to treat this subject in a little more detail.
	2-	In so doing, I think we can draw some conclusions from the Lord’s dealings with the Nephilim.  To begin, we must do a brief review the doctrine of the Will of God.
	3-	The doctrine of:
The Will of God
1)	First of all we must define the word “will.”  The word in the New Testament is qšlhma / thelema /.    When used for God’s will for the believer it refers to the purpose and plan God has decreed for him in eternity past.  For the believer, the will of God is the sovereignty of God expressed in the decrees of God.
2)	There are four kinds of wills in history:
a.	Divine will or the sovereignty of God revealed by direct revelation by a “preacher of righteousness” such as Noah.
b.	Angelic will, elect and fallen.  The will of fallen angels seeks to frustrate divine will by tampering with human volition through duplicity and deceit.
c.	Human will through the exercise of free will.  Believers may submit to divine will through rebound and know the divine will by learning Bible doctrine.  But they may oppose divine will and be guilty of known sin or be ignorant of divine will because they have not learned what it is through Bible study.
d.	Nephilim will exercised by the half-breeds of Genesis 6 who chose to reject the Gospel communicated by Noah and instead engaged in corruption and violence.
	3)	The will of God may be classified in three ways:
a.	The directive will of God.  It is made known to man through the process of divine revelation.  In the Church Age the directive will of God is made known through the mandates of the completed canon of Scripture with emphasis on the New Testament epistles.
Following the fall of man in Eden, the directive will of God was made known to the angelic community regarding the rules of engagement for the next phase of the angelic conflict.  Among these rules was the prohibition against fallen angels crossbreeding with human women.  Also the directive will regarding the behavior of the Nephilim was made known to them through direct revelation and in the message communicated by Noah.
b.	The permissive will of God.  When men or fallen angels oppose the directive will of God then under the principle of free will, God permits it.  By permitting these decisions to go forward God allows the subsequent ramifications to occur although neither is His desire.
c.	Overruling will of God.  Whereas through negative volition and wrongdoing men or fallen angels rebel against the directive will of God, God does not allow the subsequent ramifications to destroy the fair playing field for the resolution of the angelic conflict.  
	4)	There are three categories of God’s will for the individual believer:
a.	The viewpoint will of God: What does God want me to think?  The answer is divine viewpoint by means of Bible doctrine circulating the seven compartments of the stream of consciousness.  To understand God’s viewpoint will the believer must have doctrine in the soul by which he is guided through the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
The viewpoint will for the Bene ha Elohim should have been the rules of engagement for the Invisible War.  For the Nephilim their viewpoint will should have been to believe in Messiah and mentally orient and adjust to the laws of divine establishment pertinent to the antediluvian civilization.
b.	The operational will of God: What does God want me to do?  The answer is found through the inculcation of biblical mandates and functioning under their positive and negative imperatives.
			The fallen angels should have continued to function within the confines of their “first estate.”  Since they didn’t the operational will for the Nephilim was to reject the lifestyle of their angelic and human parents and function under the plan of God that would have been revealed to them had they been positive.
c.	The geographical will of God: Where does God want me to be?  If you are doing what God wants you to do, which is to execute the mandates of Scripture, then you will eventually be where God wants you to be.  A general key to being in the geographical will is wherever Bible doctrine is taught.  The priority in the Church Age is the local church.  
However, there were those in the first century who did not have a local pastor but were able to grow in grace by means of the epistles that were circulated in written form.  The counterpart today involves utilization of technology, i.e., publications, audiotapes, telephone hookups, Internet broadcasts and computer disks.
For the Bene ha Elohim the geographic will was the first and second heavens as well as planet earth.  In this geographic will they were permitted to operate as functionaries for Lucifer in the appeal trial.

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