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Great Truths and Relevant Prophecies for all
Nations and Peoples during this 21st Century

Its continued RELEVANCE
and
FULFILLMENT
JuLY 09, 2025
Peace Publishers LLC. Resources in sixteen categories for self-instruction, classes, sermons, and conferences. An original 21st Century Commentary on Revelation is being added. Site administrator and publisher in English and Spanish: Homer Dewayne Shappley, evangelist and author of 2,500-plus documents in both languages. Oversight: Cairo, Tennessee Church of Christ.
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EVERYTHING LOST in EDEN COMPENSATED a MILLION-FOLD with SPECTACULAR REWARDS
Part 2
We continue our respectful communication with the Almighty Creator God regarding our “PUNISHMENT,” we describe as “truly often TERRIBLE.”
“Oh, dear Lord on High, pardon our boldness, but please consider just the very large number of birth defects, diseases, and traumatic afflictions such as cancer, serious heart problems, kidney failure, liver

failure, etc. that our physical body suffers. The list is very, very long! So many names, even strange, Latinized ones, for countless bodily ailments. From a simple headache to ugly, painful, incurable skin diseases, bone and joint disorders, countless gastrointestinal malfunctions, blood and lung diseases, wounds from light to frightfully disfiguring and crippling, incurable sexually transmitted dieseases, etc. And mental, emotional, and spiritual disorders and illnesses. Oh, this list is also very long! Then, DEATH! Inevitable DEATH! No matter what we do to postpone it. We end up here on this planet Earth, ALL OF US DEAD! Continuing reading...
Truly, GREAT is our PUNISHMENT! Not only are we surrounded and undone, physically, mentally, and materially, by decay and death, but also forced, as long as we believe in you, to continually face the evaluation of our entire earthly life in the JUDGMENT scheduled by you! And so, the Divine "Judgement Seat of God," Gavel, and Scales are always up there in a dark cloud over our heads. And those “BOOKS” where all our "WORKS" are recorded! Romans 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:12
We have suffered so much LOSS! INCALCULABLE LOSSES!
Lord God Almighty, the only living and true God, we respectfully ask you, beseeching you to forgive our audacity: Have you really weighed all our catastrophic losses?

Buttermere National Park, England.
Oh, yes, to be sure, here on this material Planet Earth, those of us who believe in you are certainly awed by the
astonishing abundance and variety of animal and plant life you have created, and the vastness, beauty, and symmetry of inert matter in all its incredible elements and formations. From the great galaxies to the constellation of Orion, to the Milky Way, and the Moon, as it glows so enchantingly at night. From majestic trees like the Giant Sequoia in northern California, the Kauri in New Zealand, and the Great Banyan Tree in India, to the spectacular wildflowers of the green meadows. From the deer in the forest to the human couple in their home. Continually procreating and multiplying.
Sincerely, we are more than amazed and grateful for all that brings us wholesome pleasure and makes our lives fascinating here on this material planet Earth. Yet, behind all of this, and even in the midst of it all, the Demon of Darkness, Deterioration, and Death, the "Great Red Dragon... called the Devil and Satan," (Revelation 12:1-9) is always at work and will not be satisfied until he brings about Destruction and Death to the whole planet and the entire universe, a fact that significantly dilutes our enjoyment of your creation, so that consternation and sadness often mingle with joy and happiness, and even more so when the vision of our own inevitable physical demise fleets across our consciousness, only to return again and again until the vision becomes a fulminating reality.”
Dear Reader, if the above statement beginning with “Oh, Lord…” reflects more or less your present state of mind and spirit, you are not alone. JOB, of ancient times, experienced it on an intense level. Job 1:1-3:26. And even Jesus Christ himself during his earthly ministry. As in the Garden of Gethsemane, when he prayed: “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup

pass from me.” And his "agony" was such that "his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground." Matthew 26:39; Luke 22:44. And on the cross, when he exclaimed: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” “Abandon me,” “left me,” “deserted me,” are other translations.
I myself have wandered around more than once in that same shadowy darkness of questioning, ruminating about the "WHYS" of so much suffering and loss.
Personally, I do not consider that state of mind, that questioning, even the complaining, to be, necessarily, a sin before God. However, dear friend, BEWARE! For continuous, unchecked complaining and arguing along this line can turn into a downward SPIRAL, a VORTEX, that ends in pure negativity, resentment, anger, loss of faith, and outright atheism.

The apostle Paul warns: “Do all things without murmurings and questionings.” Philippians 2:14 YLT. Other versions read: “Complaining or arguing,” “murmur-ings and reason-ings,” “grumbling,” “faultfinding.”
The KEY to STOPPING that VERY DANGEROUS SPIRAL is to understand and believe that God the Father has, indeed, “WEIGHED ALL OUR CATASTROPHIC LOSSES.” Fully cognizant of them, he makes a SWORN PROMISE to all souls who believe him and patiently endure their losses and suffering that HE WILL MORE THAN COMPENSATE THEM, thousands of times over, with ENORMOUS REWARDS that he is preparing precisely for all he judges worthy to receive them when they come to the end of their earthly sojourn.
Of course, logically, when it comes to the Almighty God Creator and his promise, "...without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is," and not only "that he is" but "that he is a REWARDER of them that seek after him." Hebrews 11:6. The true faith and hope of the mature Christian are founded on such PROMISES and AFFIRMATIONS as the following.
“For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes, an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the PROMISE the unchangeable character of his PURPOSE, he guaranteed it with an OATH, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” Hebrews 6:16-20
Now when undefeated, stubborn believers in the Almighty Creator, holding onto their faith, though wavering and weakened at times by questionings and doubts, read this and similar statements, pondering their boldness, clarity, logic, frankness, depth, cosmic and world view, they are comforted and strengthened, experiencing a further purification of their faith to the degree that they understand and appreciate them. How sublime and powerful is this statement! A DIVINE, IMMUTABLE OATH by the Almighty God in support of “the UNCHANGEBLE CHARACTER of his PURPOSE” to fulfill his “PROMISE” to REWARD so greatly all souls judged to be worthy by him that their catastrophic losses resulting from the knowledge of good and evil will be compensated a million times over!

Great REWARDS for the just, righteous, and obedient is one of the most inspiring, motivating subjects of the Gospel of Christ. “Rejoice and be glad, for your REWARD is GREAT in HEAVEN.” Matthew 5:12. “Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a GREAT REWARD.” Hebrews 10:35, Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 11:26. The “time” comes “for REWARDING” the “saints… prophets… those who fear” God’s “name, both small and great…” Revelation 11:18
Because of our enormous losses and many human weaknesses, we were, as expressed at the beginning of this study, disoriented, disconsolate, and depressed, but no longer! We “have strong encouragement” to tighten our grasp on “the hope set before us… as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.”
Thus does the Almighty God’s cosmic and world view become ours.
Dear friend, if your own cosmic and world view is limited to the bounds of this material universe and only to physical life here, it would not be surprising that sooner or later you would feel distraught about the outcome of both, especially as youth fades, aging begins to take its toll, and the end of your earthly existence comes inexorably.
Part 3 to be added.
Author: Homer Dewayne Shappley