Section 5 Building Your Relationship With God - 18 Clarification Of Bilblical Stories
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because there is no more continuity. This is why God said, it got butchered. In addition, The Parable of the Worker made things even worst.

If you go back to the Chapter: Supernatural Phenomenon, Jesus used the same line “The last shall be the first” when He explained how we feel younger the closer we get to Heaven. As He said:

Age before beauty
The last shall be the first.

Question: Is there any relationship between this statement with the story of the rich man and your statement: Many of the first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first?

God’s answer:

Old ways
He is one of the many who will be the last.

Question: And what is this old way?

God’s answer:

Reward and Punishment

Meaning: This is the article God led me to:

“The doctrine of reward and punishment is central to Judaism throughout the ages; that man receives his just reward for his good deeds and just retribution for his transgressions is the very basis of the conception of both human and divine justice, and it is with the latter that this article deals. The doctrine of reward and punishment is incorporated in every classical enumeration of the fundamental principles of Judaism (see below, in philosophy). In the Bible the doctrine of reward and punishment – individual, national, and universal – is of this world. It is regarded as axiomatic that God rewards the righteous by granting them prosperity and well-being and punishes the wicked with destruction. It is the basis of the second

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paragraph of the Shema (Deut. 11:13–21): adherence to God's commandments will bring "the rain of the land in its seasons"; disobedience will cause Him "to shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and the land will not yield her fruit." It is the subject of the two dire comminations in the Bible (Lev. 23 and Deut. 28). The reward of honoring one's parents will be "that your days may be long upon the earth which the Lord thy God giveth thee" (Ex. 20:12). The seeming prosperity of the wicked is fleeting; in the end he will be utterly destroyed (Ps. 92:8). Only in the drama of *Job is the doctrine of the suffering of the righteous examined, but even that book concludes with the banal and almost apathetic statement that the possessions which he had before the trial of his faith were doubled after he successfully passed that trial (cf. Job 1:2–3 with 42:12–13). Such agonizing cries as "why does the way of the wicked prosper" (Jer. 12:1) are made with the implication that they will receive their just retribution in the end....” 32

Question: And what is the new way?

God’s answer:

“ I Am the way, the truth and the life. If you want to be perfect, then come follow Me.
You can never merit Heaven on your own.”

Meaning: This is the whole concept of Salvation.

Question: Please confirm.

God’s answer:

The last (new way) shall be the first.
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