CONCLUSION
The spirit world—the true spirit world—is more fascinating than words can describe. God the Father and Jesus Christ created everything (apart from Themselves) that exists. In the spirit realm, these two eternally living, infinitely powerful beings created angels—sentient beings with individual freedom of choice and greater might than humans.
One of the angels (Lucifer) chose to pursue an alternate way of life and rebelled against God. One-third of the angels eventually joined him, becoming enemies of God and then enemies of His human creation. Satan’s deceitful tactics include perpetrating many fallacies about God and the spirit realm.
God created humans in His own image, with the potential to one day be born into the very family of God, rising above the angels. This is the true, amazing potential of every human being, including you!
What is the formula for entering God’s family? “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).
Repenting involves ceasing to break God’s laws, which have never been abolished. (The idea that God’s laws are abolished is another example of Satan’s deceitful messages, designed to encourage humans to disobey God as he did. Study more of what the Bible teaches about God’s law in our online article “Jesus and the Law.”)
True repentance is followed by water baptism and the receiving of God’s Spirit as a down payment on eternal life. The change to spirit will first be experienced by God’s firstfruits of this age at the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. This is the time frame of Christ’s promise in Revelation 22:12: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.”
After Christ’s return, all humans will have the opportunity for salvation—eternal life in the family of God. Then, a prophecy given through King David in Psalm 16:11 will become reality for everyone in God’s eternal family: “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”