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"Unfolding Death for the Kingdom-Minded:
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Part One: Death for the Wicked
Andrea L. Sims PhD.
Introduction:
The guiding Scripture for “The Kingdom Study”
'Why have you not considered in your mind this thing that is to come,
rather than that which is present?
Then answered I and said, O Yahuah Adonai,
you have ordained in your Torah,
that the righteous should inherit these things,
but that the wicked should perish.
Nevertheless, the righteous shall suffer strait things,
and hope for wide:
for they that have done wickedly
have suffered the strait things,
and yet shall not see the wide.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:16-18 את CEPHER
We know that among “ . . . this thing that is to come . . .” is death, both for the Righteous and for the wicked.
What a topic to tackle!
But we have all known, have we not, that one day it will happen to us. So many, though cannot bring themselves to consider what death may mean for them. So many are caught up in “. . . that which is present,” whether that is the chaos in the world or the business of the day, or the thoughts and plans for the future, etc. Many things occupy our minds these days. Yah is saying, I believe, that we should stop and reconsider some things . . . about death.
My “unfolding” doesn’t mean I understand it all or that I can explain it all; that would be presumption on my part. I am opening this topic up for examination with questions of my own and my searching for Truth. I see the topics I am “unfolding” as a type of origami—many folds creating multiple layers that are both intricate and intriguing. The topic of “death” is assuredly made up of multiple layers and quite a challenge to approach in this manner. But that is what I have attempted to accomplish because there are people in my life who have died; there are people in my life right now who are dying. I am of the age to take a good hard look at my own life in light of what may not be too far off. I have recently written a will and created legal documents as to what I would like done (and not done) when that time comes for me.
TO everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heavens:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
QOHELETH (ECCLESIASTES) 3:1-2 את CEPHER
And that time is ordained by Yah:
“. . . in Your book all the days [of my life]
were written before ever they took shape,
when as yet there was none of them.”
Psalms 139:16 [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition]
For death is the door that leads to what follows, and what follows is what I am unfolding for us. The following Scriptures seem to apply both to the righteous and the wicked. And it may give us some additional understanding about the shared “near death experiences” of so many of late.
Ezra asked many questions of the Angel who was sent to him with answers, which provide great insight for us who have ears to hear.
[The Angel] Now, concerning death, the teaching is:
When the decisive decree has gone forth from El Elyon
that a man shall die,
as the ruach leaves the body to return again to him who gave it,
first of all it adores the glory of El Elyon.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:78 את CEPHER
[Baruk] As for what you said,
to whom will these things be,
and how many will they be?
[Angel] To those who have believed there shall be the good
which was spoken of aforetime,
and to those who despise
there shall be the contrary of these things.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 42:2 את CEPHER
[Angel] For the judgment of El Elohiym
shall thereby be made known
and his ways,
which though past finding out,
are right.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 44:6 את CEPHER
Yah’s judgment and his ways are right—even though we may not understand them or even agree with them. In using the word “right” here, I’m reminded that Yah decides what is “right”; as our Creator, he defines the terms; he sets the rules; he, in his sovereignty decides “when.” Yah reigns. It is his dominion that we find ourselves under—by his hand. As this study unfolds, we will see with great certainty, that Yah requires his creation, his people, to walk according as he has instructed for our good. To have the right word at the right time with the right heart—this is Righteousness—being “right with Yah!”
I [Ezra] answered then, and said, I know, Adonai,
that El Elyon is called merciful,
in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
And upon those also that turn to his Torah;
And that he is patient, and long suffers those that have sinned,
as his creatures;
And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it needs;
And that he is of great mercy,
for he multiplies more and more mercies to them that are present,
and that are past, and also to them which are to come.
For if he shall not multiply his mercies,
the world would not continue with them that inherit therein.
And he pardons;
for if he did not so of his goodness,
that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them,
the ten thousandth part of men should not remain living.
And being Judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word,
and put out the multitude of contentions,
There should be very few left perchance in an innumerable multitude.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:132-140 את CEPHER
AND he [Angel] answered me [Ezra], saying,
El Elyon has made this world for many,
but the world to come for few.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 8:1 את CEPHER
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me:
then shall I be upright,
and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 19:13 את CEPHER
The Great Transgression of the Wicked
I dug a little deeper into this word “transgression”: It is pesa (peh shah) in Hebrew (Strong’s H6586) and means “rebellion” or “revolt” or “trespass.”
The Wicked defined
And Chanoch also, the seventh from A'dam, prophesied of these, saying:
Behold, Yahuah comes with ten thousands of his qodeshiym,
To execute judgment upon all,
and to convince all that are wicked among them
of all their wicked deeds
which they have wickedly committed,
and of all their hard speeches
which wicked sinners have spoken against him.
YAHUDAH (JUDE) 1:14-15 את CEPHER
For this reason, therefore,
those who dwell on earth shall be tormented,
because though they had understanding
they committed iniquity,
and though they received the commandments
they did not guard them,
and though they obtained the Torah
they dealt unfaithfully with what they received.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:72 את CEPHER
The transgression of the wicked says within my heart,
that there is no fear of Elohiym before his eyes.
For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit:
he has left off to be wise,
and to do good.
He devises mischief upon his bed;
he sets himself in a way that is not good;
he abhors not evil.
TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 36:1-4 את CEPHER
[Angel speaking [about] the wicked]
For while we lived and committed iniquity,
we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
Then answered he me, and said,
This is the condition of the battle,
which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said:
but if he get the victory,
he shall receive the thing that I say.
For this is the life whereof Mosheh spoke unto the people while he lived, saying,
Choose life, that you may live.
Nevertheless, they believed not him,
nor yet the prophets after him,
no nor me [Ezra] which have spoken unto them,
That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction,
as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to yeshu`ah.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:126-131 את CEPHER
He has both wrought iniquity so far as he could do anything
and has not remembered my goodness
nor accepted my longsuffering.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 48:30 את CEPHER
And it shall come to pass at the selfsame time
that a change of times shall manifestly appear
to every man
because in all those times
they polluted themselves
and they practiced oppression
and walked every man in his own works
and remembered not the Torah of El Elohiym.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 48:38 את CEPHER
And as regards all these
their end shall convict them,
and your Torah which they have transgressed
shall requite them on your day.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 48:47 את CEPHER
For then they chose not for themselves this time
which beyond the reach of anguish could not pass away:
but they chose for themselves that time
whose issues are full of lamentations and evils;
and they denied the world which ages not those who come to it;
and they rejected the time of glory
so that they shall not come to the honor of which I told you before.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 51:16 את CEPHER
For over this above all shall those who come
then lament that they rejected my Torah
and stopped their ears that they might not hear wisdom
or receive understanding.
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 51:4 את CEPHER
But now, ye peoples and nations,
ye are guilty because ye have always trodden down the earth,
and used the creation unrighteously.
For I have always benefited you.
And ye have always been ungrateful for the beneficence [the doing of good; charity].
BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 13:11-12 את CEPHER
What “benefits” exactly is Yah speaking of here? And how deceived and blinded and stubborn and rebellious must the wicked be to disregard Yah’s benefits. Let’s take a look at what they rejected:
Bless Yahuah, O my soul: and all that is within me,
bless his holy name.
Bless Yahuah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgives all your iniquities;
who heals all your diseases;
Who redeems your life from destruction;
who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfies your mouth with good things;
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 103:1-5 את CEPHER
This, then, is what follows for the “wicked”:
Through the Door of Death for the Wicked
Now, concerning death, the teaching is:
When the decisive decree has gone forth from El Elyon
that a man shall die,
as the ruach leaves the body to return again to him who gave it,
first of all it adores the glory of El Elyon.
And if it is one of those who have shown scorn
and have not guarded the Way of El Elyon,
and who have despised his Torah,
and who have hated those who fear Elohiym;
such ruachoth shall not enter into habitations,
but shall immediately wander about in torments,
ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.
The first way,
because they have scorned the Torah of El Elyon.
The second way,
because they cannot now make a good repentance that they may live.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:78-82 את CEPHER
The third way,
they shall see the reward laid up for those who have trusted
the covenants of El Elyon.
The fourth way,
they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
The fifth way,
they shall see how the habitations of the others
are guarded by angels in profound quiet.
The sixth way,
they shall see how some of them will pass over into torments.
The seventh way,
which is worse than all the ways that have been mentioned,
because they shall utterly waste away in confusion
and be consumed with shame
and shall wither with fear at seeing the glory of El Elyon
before whom they sinned while they were alive,
and before whom they are to be judged in the last times.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 7:83-87 את CEPHER
The Conclusion of the Matter
This is what it looks like leading up to the “consummation of time”: Sound familiar? Yah wants us to know this!
For there shall be in every place,
and in the next cities,
a great insurrection upon those that fear Yahuah.
They shall be like mad men,
sparing none,
but still spoiling and destroying those that fear Yahuah.
For they shall waste and take away their goods,
and cast them out of their houses.
Then shall they be known, who are my chosen;
and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.
Hear, O ye my beloved, says Yahuah:
behold, the days of trouble are at hand,
but I will deliver you from the same.
Be ye not afraid neither doubt; for Elohiym is your guide,
And the guide of them who guard my commandments and precepts,
says Yahuah Elohiym:
let not your sins weigh you down,
and let not your iniquities lift up themselves.
EZRA REVIY`IY (4 EZRA) 16:70-76 את CEPHER
FRET not yourself because of evildoers,
neither be envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither as the green herb.
Trust in Yahuah,
and do good;
so shall you dwell in the land,
and truly you shall be fed.
Delight yourself also in Yahuah;
and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way unto Yahuah;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your judgment as the noonday.
TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 37:1-6 את CEPHER
Unfolding Death for the Kingdom-Minded Part Two will cover what occurs for the Righteous ones as they reach that door into the “Next.”
All Scriptural references taken from the Cepher
Fiery Faith Ministries or the Tseviyah Widow's Fund.
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