Immortality or Resurrection by William West (philippa perry book txt) 📕

Isaiah 34:10 says the smoke of Edom "shall go up for ever and ever." Today, there is no smoke. It is symbolic for a punishment that has eternal consequences and not a punishment that shall go on forever.
• (4)-(5)-(6) Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 21:8. Three times of the lake of fire, which burns with fire and brimstone is the second death. The symbolic use of brimstone and fire depends on its use in the non-symbolical passages for it meaning. In them, it is always a destruction that ends when the destruction is total. Many symbols in Revelations come from the Old Testament. In the Old Testament fire and brimstone always brought a literal death; in Revelations fire and brimstone are used as a symbolical picture of death.
PART FOUR
EVERLASTING OR FOREVER
Of The King James Version
OLAM in the Old Testament: "Age, age-lasting, olam" Robert Young, Young's Analytical Concordance To The Bible, Page 310. OLAM (olamim-plural) in the Hebrew Old Testament is translated everlasting in the King James Version and others, but does not mean without end as eternal in today's English does.
Olam-singer and olamim-plural are used of:
1. A Period of times that had both a beginning and an end. Forever (olam) is used about sixty-five times in the Old Testament for things that have already passed away.
2. Periods of times that had a beginning but the end is obscure or had not yet came.
3. A Period of time that is followed by another period of time; “from olam (age) to olam (age)” and “from olam (age) to olamim (ages), which are often translated “for ever and ever, ” which would make there be more than one eternality.
AGES WITH BOTH A BEGINNING AND AN END
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE "EVERLASTING" OR "FOREVER" IN THE KING JAMES VERSION THAT WAS AGE LASTING, NOT "EVERLASTING."
1. THE LAW OF MOSES - "A statute forever (olam-age)" See Exodus 12:24; 27:21; 28:43; 29:28; 30:21; Leviticus 6:18; 6:22; 7:34; 7:36; 10:9; 10:15; 16:29; 16:31; 17:7; 23:14; 24:3; Numbers 10:8; 15:15; 18:8; 18:11; 18:23; 19:10; Deuteronomy 12:28; 13:16; 15:17; 23:3; 28:40; 29:29; Joshua 4:7; 8:28; 14:9. It lasted for an age (about 1500 years) and was replaced with a better covenant [Hebrews 8:7-14], it had a beginning and an ending; it was not "forever" with the meaning of forever in today's English. Forever in the King James Version is a bad translation of olam, for olam in the Old Testament did not have the same meaning that forever had in 1611.
2. JEWS WERE TO POSSES THE LAND "FOREVER" (olam-age) [Genesis 13:15].
3. TEMPLE RITUALS TO CONTINUE FOREVER (olam-age) [2 Chronicles2:4]. Today there is no temple in Jerusalem and no rituals in the temple that does not exist.
4. LEVITES WERE TO BEAR THE ARK FOREVER (olam-age) [1 Chronicles 15:2]. There are no Levites to bear the Ark and no Ark for them to bear.
5. SACRIFICES WERE FOREVER (olam-age) [Leviticus 3:17; 6:18; 7:36; 10:9-15; 16:29; 17:17; 23:14: 24:3; Numbers 10:8; 15:15: 18:8; 19:10].
6. CIRCUMCISION WAS FOREVER (olam-age) [Genesis 17:13].
7. DAVID'S THRONE WAS FOREVER (olam-age). [2 Samuel 7:12-13; 1 Kings 9:5].
8. A SLAVE WAS A SLAVE FOREVER (olam-age) [Exodus 21:6; Deuteronomy 15:17] Olam [forever] lasted only to the end of his life.
9. JONAH'S "EVERLASTING" (olam-age) lasted only three days [Jonah 2:6].
AGES THAT HAD A BEGANNING
BUT THE ENDING IS IN THE OBSCURE FUCTURE
THE EVERLASTING (olam) HILLS [Genesis 49:26]: The hills had a beginning when the earth was made but there ending is some times in the obscure future.
THE EVERLASTING (olam) COVENANT OF THE RAINBOW [Genesis 9:11-17]: Like the hills, the beginning of the rainbow covenant is known but it’s ending is some times in the obscure future, probability both the hills and the rainbow ends at the end of the earth.
Neither is eternal, without beginning or ending. The “olam hills” are not the “eternal hills.”
FROM ONE OLAM (age) TO ANOTHER OLAM (age)
From one age to another age
Not from one eternality to another eternality
Old Testament - "from olam to olam" [from age to age] is used twenty-one times. From one period of time to another period of time demands a separation of the two periods – ages; therefore, neither or the two olams could be without a beginning or ending. Two olams would demand that there be more than one olam, more than one age, not more than one eternality.
From olam (age) to olam (age) applied to people or things
1. “Thou hast blotted out their (the wicked) name for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age) [Psalms 9:5]
2. “He (the king) asked life of Thee, Thou didst give him length of days for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 21:4].
3. “The people praise thee for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 45:17]
4. “All His precepts are sure. They are upheld for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 111:8]. From one age to another age, not from one eternality to another eternality.
5. “Thy law continually for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 119:44]
6. “From this time forth and for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 125:2; 131:3]
7. “I will bless thy name for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 145:1]
8. “I will praise thy name for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 145:2]
9. “He has also established them (the heavens) for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 148:6]
10. “Also established them for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Isaiah 30:8]. “That it may serve in the time to come as a witness forever (olam-age)” New American Standard Version
11. "Then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever" "from olam to olam" [Jeremiah 7:7]. From a long time past to a long time to come, but not forever as the word "forever" is used today.
12. "And dwell in the land that the Lord has given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever" "from olam to olam" [Jeremiah 25:5]. If "forever and ever" is for eternity, then the world cannot end for they must dwell in the land for eternity and then for another eternity. None of them could dwell in Heaven or in Hell for they would be dwelling in the land on this earth for eternity and then for another eternity.
13. “As the stars for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Daniel 12:3]
From olam (age) to olam (age) applied to God
1. “The Lord shall reign for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age) [Exodus 15:18]
2. “Blessed the Lord God of Israel for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age) [1 Chronicles 16:36]
3. “The Lord is King for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 10:16]
4. “God is our God for ever (olam-age) and ever (olam-age)” [Psalms 48:14]
5. “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting (olam-age) and to everlasting (olam-age)” [Psalms 41:13]
6. “Even from everlasting (olam-age) to everlasting (olam-age) thou art God” [Psalms 90:2] ""from olam to olam" - from age to age. "From everlasting to everlasting" would mean one everlasting would have to end for there to be another. Two everlasting are not possible. There cannot be a "from one eternity to another eternity."
7. “The Lord is from everlasting (olam-age) to everlasting (olam-age)” [Psalms 103:17]
8. “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting (olam-age) to everlasting (olam-age)” [Psalms 106:48]
a. From “everlasting to everlasting” from “one eternality to another eternality”? How could there be from everlasting to everlasting or from eternality to eternality? Today’s concept of eternality seems not to have existed in the Old Testament; they had the concept of one age after another age after another age, but not of today’s eternality.
DAYS OF OLD
If olam means everlasting or eternal, why did the King James Version translate it old and ancient; could it be that they knew eternal as it is used today would have made no sense in these passages? DAYS OF OLD (olam-age) IS DURATION ENDED, NOT ENDLESS DURATION.
[1] "Remember the DAYS OF OLD (olam-age), consider the years of many generations" [Deuteronomy 32:7]. One word translated into three words.
[2] "For those nations were OF OLD (olam-age) the inhabitants of the land" [1 Samuel 27:8]. The same one word translated into two words.
[3] "The OLD (olam-age) way which wicked men have trodden" [Job 22:15]. The same one word translated into only one word.
[4] "For they have been ever OF OLD (olam-age)" [Psalms 25:6].
[5] "I remembered the judgments OF OLD (olam-age)" [Psalms 119:52].
[6] "Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is new? It has been already OF OLD TIMES (olam-age) that was before us" [Ecclesiastes 1:10].
[7] "I held my peace even OF OLD (olam-age), and you feared me not" [Isaiah 57:11].
[8] "And he bare them, and carried them all the DAYS OF OLD (olam-age)" [Isaiah 63:9].
[9] "Then he remembered the DAYS OF OLD (olam-age), Moses, and his people" [Isaiah 63:11].
[10] "The prophets that have been before me and before you OF OLD (olam-age)" [Jeremiah 28:8].
[11] "He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead OF OLD (olam-age)" [Lamentations 3:6].
[12] "When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, with the people OF OLD TIMES (olam-age), and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate OF OLD (olam-age)" [Ezekiel 26:20].
[13] "Let them feed in Basham and Gilead, as in the DAYS OF OLD (olam-age)" [Micah 7:10].
[14] "Then shall the offering of Judea and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the DAYS OF OLD (olam-age), and as in former years" [Malachi 3:4].
[15] "And they have caused them to stumble in their ways from ANCIENT [olam-age] paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up" [Jeremiah 18:15].
Olam is used repeatedly where it means an age but cannot mean everlasting. To go into them would take many pages. Look up "ever" in any good concordance or Wigam, pages 907-910, Old Testament. A few of them - 1 Samuel 13:13; 2 Samuel 7:13,16,25, 26, 29; 1 Kings 2:33; 2:45; 9:5; 1 Chronicles 17:12, 14, 23, 27; 22:19; 28:4, 7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; Psalms 89:4; Ezekiel 37:25. Olam is used many time for things where both the beginning and end are known; many times where the beginning is known but the end is unknown; the beginning of God’s covenant of the rainbow is known but not it’s end – probable at the end of the earth.
AION AND AIONIOS
AION (a noun - the plural is aions) and AIONIOS (the adjective form of aion) in the New Testament. Like olam in the Old Testament, aion in the New Testament is also used repeatedly where it means an age but cannot mean everlasting. One example is Colossians 1:26.
• King James Version: "The mystery which hath been hid from AGES [aions] and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints"
• New King James Version: "The Mystery which has been hidden from AGES [aions] and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints"
• American Standard Version: "Even the mystery which hath been hid for AGES [aions] and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints"
• New American Standard Bible: "That is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past AGES [aions] and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints"
• New Revised Standard Version: "The mystery that has been hidden throughout the AGES [aions] and generations but has now been revealed to his saints"
• New International Version: "The mystery that has been kept hidden for AGES