AND KNK: we can save even the dead sinners

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air…” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, the Holy Bible).

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AUNTIE ZENY CROSSES OVER TO ETERNITY: It is with deep sadness that my cousins who are the children of my uncle and aunt, Orville R. Mauricio and Azucena “Zeny” Lahora Mauricio, announced the other day of the death of Auntie Zeny, after a deadly stroke which hit her five days after celebrating her 85th, and evidently her last, birthday last April 25, 2015.

Among the saddest of these cousins of mine is Orlan, a fellow newsman and veteran TV reporter who is at the same time tasked with running the family’s newspaper in Malolos City, Bulacan. Orlan called me up, crying unabashedly and saying he is now very afraid.

The reason? He told me he was the one holding the hands of Uncle Orville and Auntie Zeny when they breathed their last, and he could not understand why it had to be him presiding at the final moments of their parents. Oh yes, what could someone like me say to him, at his moment of huge grief and, yes, of trembling fear?

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DEATH IS THE FATE OF EVERYONE ON EARTH: I had to think fast and organize my thoughts to either comfort him or calm him down. Yet, in all these, what kept coming to me, and which I ultimately shared with him, are what I have been reading in the Bible, and what we have been preaching all the time at the Anak ng Diyos Kadugo Ni Kristo (AND KNK, or the Children of God Blood Kin of the Christ) Church.

AND KNK, the Church of Jesus in the Far East, is clear in its doctrine: Death is the fate of everyone here on earth. Nobody stays here on earth forever. At some point in time, everyone in this world will have to leave. This proves that earth is not our final destination, as it were. It is just a brief-stop over to where all humans are really going.

Where are all humans really going? To eternal life. But there are two kinds of eternal life. The first is the eternal life in Paradise, in heaven, in the presence of God. The second is the eternal life in hell, where the worms that will eat those who will go there will not die, and where the fire that will burn them will not be quenched.

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AND KNK: WE CAN SAVE EVEN THE DEAD SINNERS: The Bible teaches us that, even now, we can already determine which of these two eternal lives we will be going to. If we accept Jesus as God and Savior, and act according to His commands, we will go to Paradise, in heaven, and live there in joy forever. If we reject Jesus as God and Savior, there is no other place to go but hell.

After the death of anyone, it is not true that he or she immediately goes to Paradise, in the presence of God, or to hell, to be with God’s enemies. The Bible is clear that the spirit of all dead men and women will have to be imprisoned first somewhere (AND KNK calls this place, the “prison for souls”), obviously to await judgment.

For AND KNK, while the dead can no longer hear or do anything anymore, they can nevertheless hear the Word of God. That is why, AND KNK teaches that even if a person died a sinner, he or she can still be saved, provided he or she is fed the Word of God continuously. Does you church teach this, too? If your answer is no, you are being shortchanged. Call us!

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