Everything covered to this point has been leading to what comes next. Yet only a glimpse can be given into the future that follows the completion of God’s Family—a future mankind has never fully known and one that stretches into infinite time.
From the creation of the angelic realm and the physical universe, through what may have been multiple trillions of years, God’s purpose remained fixed upon a unique creation that would become the greatest of all He could create. That creation would unfold within the vastness of time, yet its central work would be accomplished within a relatively short period of only 7,100 years.
This third and final phase, which follows the end of mankind’s physical existence, answers the questions humanity has always asked about life and death and what lies beyond this temporary human existence.
Until this point in God’s plan, His great purpose centered upon the physical creation of mankind—a creation designed to exist temporarily. Yet within that physical life, God made possible a second stage of creation: Mankind could be begotten by Him and then, in time, be born into spirit life within His Family—Elohim.
Everything leading to this third phase has been building toward this final apex in time—a moment the universe itself has been awaiting. Paul spoke of this in a remarkable way:
“For the anxious expectation of the creation waits for the revelation [the manifestation] of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19).
Why is that? Why has all creation been waiting for this moment?
The Inheritance Awaiting God’s Family
The full manifestation of God’s Family is not the end of God’s purpose but the beginning of an even greater phase. An inheritance of astonishing scope now awaits the sons of God. The anxious expectation Paul describes has always pointed to the inheritance God has prepared for His Family. The vast physical universe was not created as an end in itself but as a setting for God’s far greater purpose.
The New Testament clearly teaches that those who enter the Kingdom of God receive an inheritance of everlasting life. But that inheritance includes far more than life without end. God revealed a physical foreshadowing of that inheritance in the days of ancient Israel.
After Moses died, then Joshua the son of Nun led the Israelites into the promised land, and that land was divided among them as their inheritance from God. This physical inheritance was a type of something far greater. It foreshadowed the inheritance that Joshua the Christ will lead God’s Family to receive—an inheritance beyond everlasting life itself. Just as Israel’s inheritance was real, tangible, and expansive, so the inheritance of God’s Family will be literal and vast beyond imagination.
The Kingdom of God is indeed the Family of God, whose members receive everlasting life as spirit beings. Yet God’s purpose extends far beyond granting eternal life alone. He has prepared an inheritance worthy of His Family: the vast universe itself. This is the realm over which God’s Kingdom will extend throughout infinite time.
Creation is waiting.
The physical universe—billions of galaxies, trillions of solar systems, and vast expanses of space that make Earth seem like a single grain of sand—has remained largely barren and uninhabited for billions upon trillions of years. Not because God forgot about it. Not because it has no purpose. But because the beings who will fill it, build within it, and beautify it have not yet arrived.
They have been undergoing the very creative process that prepares them for that inheritance.
Everything God told Adam and Eve in the garden—to dress it, keep it, tend it, improve it, and beautify what He had given them—was only a small picture of something incomprehensibly greater.
The beautification of Earth was only a very meager beginning. A single planet was made habitable over six days, filled with life, and given to two human beings to begin tending to it. From that small beginning, God revealed the pattern for what His Family will do throughout the universe into infinite time.
Much work and sharing within God’s Family still lies ahead: creating, building, and beautifying the physical creation beyond imagination—solar system by solar system, galaxy by galaxy.
This will not be labor without joy. It will not be toil without meaning. The quality of life in which this work is shared will be so far beyond human experience that even the richest and most fulfilling moments any human being has ever known will seem pale by comparison.
Consider what human nature has produced during 6,000 years of self-rule: selfishness, betrayal, lying, unfaithfulness, addiction, broken homes, human drama, poverty, racism, division, war, oppression, and endless suffering that carnal human nature generates when left to itself. This is what life looks like when mankind is separated from God.
Now consider the exact opposite—not as a vague religious hope, but as a literal reality.
Life filled with genuine love and care for one another. Work that is always meaningful and rewarding. Peace that is not fragile or temporary, like the peace of human diplomacy, but permanent because it is established by God’s own character. Relationships marked by absolute honesty, faithfulness, and deepening richness that will grow not merely over decades, but over eons.
That is what God’s Family will inhabit forever.
The life God has planned for His Family is so far beyond the human experience. At this time, God only offers a mere glimpse into a future of everlasting life. That never-ending life, which includes beautifying the universe and adding life throughout it, will begin to be revealed more fully once all have been born into His Family at the beginning of this third phase.
This potential life in God’s Family is possible only because of a foundation laid from the very beginning of God’s creation. That foundation is the truth this book has worked to uncover.
The Cornerstone of It All
As mentioned previously, before anything was ever created, God predetermined that the cornerstone of all His purpose—the foundation upon which His entire plan would rest—would be His own Son.
Before the universe existed, before the angels were created, before Earth was formed, before prehistoric life was placed upon it, before Lucifer rebelled, before the creation week, and before the first Passover in Egypt, this had already been determined.
Joshua the Christ would become the Passover Lamb of God. He would be born into human life, live without sin, die as the Passover on a Wednesday afternoon in AD 31, remain in the tomb for exactly three days and three nights, and then be resurrected to become the first human being ever born into the Family of God. He would become the firstfruit, the Wave Sheaf, and the beginning of the harvest that will eventually include hundreds of millions.
“He [Joshua the Christ] indeed was foreordained [predetermined] before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Peter 1:20).
The distortion of Passover’s timing within Judaism marked the beginning of a cover-up that was later deepened by Constantine’s Council of Nicaea in AD 325. Layer upon layer of tradition, mistranslation, and religious politics buried the true cornerstone of God’s purpose for mankind for centuries.
Yet God declared that nothing hidden would remain hidden.
And it has not!
The Choice that Remains
Indeed, the potential God has planned for mankind—to live forever in His Family—rests upon the sure foundation and cornerstone that is Joshua the Christ.
As described throughout this book, it is within this brief span of physical human life that God offers mankind a choice. Each person must choose whether to embrace God’s way of life—receiving His Passover, becoming begotten of His holy spirit, and ultimately being born into everlasting spirit life—or to reject that way and remain under the sentence of death.
God does not force the choice. He cannot, because the very thing He offers to be created within mankind, for those who desire it, is holy righteous character. Such character cannot be produced by compulsion. It must be freely chosen over time, through struggle, repentance, growth and faithful response to God.
That choice still lies before every person reading these words.
The cover-up has been exposed. The blueprint has been revealed. The Passover has been identified. The sign of Jonah has been fulfilled. God’s annual appointed times have been shown to be far more than what many regard as merely Jewish customs or outdated rituals. They are the living outline of His entire plan for salvation.
Passover reveals the cornerstone. The Feast of Unleavened Bread reveals the call to come out of sin. Pentecost reveals the gift of the holy spirit, which makes true obedience possible. The Feast of Trumpets announces the return of the King of kings. The Day of Atonement pictures the removal of Satan’s influence. The Feast of Tabernacles reveals the Millennium. The Last Great Day shows how every human being who has ever lived will receive a genuine opportunity for salvation.
All of this points to the same destination: God’s Family, living into an age of infinity, with the inheritance of the universe stretching before them into time without end.
With this knowledge and understanding, the choice God has set before mankind could not be more important. He declared that He has set before us life and death, and He told us which to choose.
Choose life.
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