were seated those who had been given authority to judge.” They are God’s army, and after the spiritual war against Satan they will judge all the others since Adam. The souls of the chosen 144,000 will belong to God. Some people will clearly belong to Satan. For these few, trial will not be necessary. Everyone else, however, will face the final judgment by the 144,000.

John the apostle saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. They will have a pile of books in their office that record the names of those to be judged. As judgment for a prisoner takes a while in this world, it will take a lot of time to judge so many people in the spiritual world.

Moses’ work was in the first covenant, which was for this world. The new covenant is about the spiritual world - how the people of God, who can live in the kingdom of heaven, will be made. The first was the shadow of the second, so I can explain the judgment in the spiritual world based on the judgment in this world.

First of all, who will be the judge in the spiritual world? “I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given

authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years” (Rev. 20:4).

Those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus are those who stated their belief in Jesus as the son of God and were martyred because of it in the New Testament era. And the people who had been beheaded because of the word of God are those who observed God’s word and were martyred because of that in the Old Testament era. They will not worship the beast during the spiritual war between God and Satan (Rev. 13:8).

The appearance of souls in the spiritual world will be different depending on whether they belong to the Holy Spirit or evil spirit. When you meet your friend or a relative in the spiritual world, they will not be able to recognize you because you will have a different appearance from what you had in this world.

Here is an example. Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of