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The ultimate purpose and sacred secret of God is that the subjected members of the "little flock" of 144,000 be followed, in like manner, by other "sheep"-like ones in becoming new spirit creations, to live in the heavenly realm of God. As it says: "Nevertheless, the first is, not that which is spiritual, but that which is physical, afterward that which is spiritual (physical no more)… And just as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one" (The Christ Michael). (From 1 Cor 15:46-49). This is in acknowledgement of the fact that "God is not partial" (Acts 10:34) and that all who are flesh have the same opportunity to live "no more for the desires of men, but for God's Will." (1 Peter 4:1,2). As sin inherited from the first Adam is no longer reckoned against us (because of the undeserved kindness of God manifest in the acceptance of His Son's ransom sacrifice), we can now by our righteous "rule of conduct" be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, as distinct from the inherited sin of the first Adam debased by satan's will. However, "The last Adam (The Christ) became a life-giving spirit" (through the administration of spirit laws of God through him). (1 Cor 15:45).

Those under Christ's provisions, enduring "various trials" while maintaining their obedience to His spirit laws, bear "fruitage" of a heavenly kind, and will require a heavenly environment to enjoy their new, God-created self. And although self-seeking apostates among the sect of JWs erroneously teach that the ultimate glory of the spirit is in its healthy manifestation in a physical body in a "new earth", this has never been the purpose of God according to His Word. The glory of the spirit is manifest in one having the same relationship in "image and likeness" as that enjoyed by our Lord Michael: A son of God living in the heavenly spirit realm of God.

THE SELFISH ONES WHO TEAR DOWN WITH FALSE WITNESSING.
It is sad to observe, that because those taught by false witnesses associate the opportunity of future salvation only with their present earthly condition in the flesh, they believe that they are therefore destined to live life again on earth in their past likeness, forever! This is another destructive sectarian teaching, one which does not give true hope within The Christ's provisions, nor is it true to their spirit nature and need according to the wonderful purpose of God of His creating. For the purpose of God is not merely for mankind to fill the earth and subdue it, thereafter to live forever on earth in a paradise garden, but is to live in the heavenly spirit paradise with God. For life in the age of the "new earth" is for mankind to progressively become holy, as God is holy, ready to inherit life in the "new (spirit) heavens". "It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is physical body, there is also a spiritual one." (1 Cor 15:44). True, the future "new earth" will comfortably be filled with righteously disposed people, but it is simply a preliminary to life in the everlasting home of the heavenly realm of God.

Therefore: "Working together with him, we also entreat you not to accept the undeserved kindness of God and miss its purpose." (2 Cor 6:1). For this selfish and unscriptural teaching from those falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, promising merely an earthly destiny, has stopped up the way to heavenly life for so many. (Prov 6:16-19).

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of the heavens before men; for you yourselves do not go in, neither do you permit those on their way in to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one you make him a subject for Gehenna twice as much so as yourselves." (Matt 23:13-15 NWT).