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Chapter 12 – Celestial Kingdom of God

When our souls are fully transformed from the image of God into divine substance, the spiritual gestation period ends and the full birth as children of God / divine angels will have taken place. Those who have reached this state are qualified to enter the Celestial Heavens – a glorified existence of unlimited potential where Jesus is the Master. This chapter gives glimpses of the life and work of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of God.

Children of God, But Not Equal to God

As shown in Chapter 3, we are God’s true children as soon as we start receiving the Divine Love, in the same way that an embryo or fetus is already a child of its parents. We read in the first letter of John:

1 John 3:1-2 – How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is [in the Celestial Kingdom through soul perceptions].

We also read in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians: