If we believe the message recorded in the bible gospels of the gospel testimony of Jesus Christ we will want to live our lives in this world in a way that maximises our prospects in the next world, the place of our spirits after we die. Looking out for the poor is vital in this. So too is refraining from excess luxury, and not spending too much on ourselves, leaving something for the poor and needy. Maybe our government enforces this in some way to some extent by making us pay towards some kind of welfare fund which is used for benefits of those in need or difficulty or severe illness. How does it all get tallied up when we die. I have no idea, nor do scriptures in the bible say. Ancient Egyptians recorded their belief that some kind of angelic reckoning happens after we die to determine where we go, weighing the deeds. How did they know it? Perhaps from Enoch and Noah. Perhaps less reliably. Perhaps from shamanic visions. The Book of Enoch adds detail to what Jesus is recorded to have said about it. Then the gospel leads us to also seek to be worthy to be raised by Jesus in the resurrection, when he returns, or to be made immortal if we have not died by then. This is about being willing to suffer death for his testimony, and being faithful in keeping his testimony in the gospels and from the Holy Spirit, believing in him. This life and how we spend it is great in its impact on what happens later, after death or after he comes, which ever is first. God sent Jesus to die for you and raised him back to life when he did so. That is what God is investing in your prospects. Yours. Mine. Everyone’s prospects. Make it count. God is seeking those who will be worthy to reign and to judge alongside his son after the resurrection, and then continue in fellowship with God and His Son forever afterwards. Like angels, yet distinctly human too like His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
