About This Video
Afterlife Destinations
Life from Planet Earth
This is Heart of the MatterTGNN’s original show where Shawn McCraney deconstructed religion and developed fulfilled theology. Radicalized
And I am your host, Shawn McCraneyFounder of TGNN and developer of the fulfilled perspective—calling people to faith outside of religion.
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YAHAVAH We thank you and seek you . . .
IN Yeshua’s name, amen.
May 6th 2025
Three days ago we held our first annual EschatologyStudy of “last things”—TGNN teaches all biblical eschatology was fulfilled in 70 A.D. More conference here in Murray Utah which we feel was a phenomenal success. It is available for you to watch (GRAPHIC) and we suggest that if you are under the impression that Yeshua is still coming back to take you from this world and to destroy everyone else you might want to DO YOURSELF A FAVOR and consider the insights that were presented there. It will alter your life, your outlook and your understanding of the scripture and we hope you will consider the content of each presentation. Want to still wallow in the traditions of men? That’s okay too. It’s all in your hands. God loves you where you are and so do we – whomever you are, however you believe and whatever path you are on.
Educational Outreach
Hey, listen – here is a list of some more CONFERENCES we are working on for your education for the rest of the year! Check them out, maybe consider tuning in, showing up or even participating!
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This said, we invite you to check out thegreatnewsnetwork.com to see all that we have both created and gathered on your behalf as a means to help you re-educate yourselves about the facts of the faith instead of just egurgitating traditions. I am personally convinced that the faith is now in the hands of educational outreach and format with the religious practices found in Brick and mortar dying and heading for the grave – where it all should have stayed nearly 2000 years ago. We invite you to see the Great NewsThe message that prophecy is fulfilled and we are free to pursue God in love and liberty—without fear or religious control. Network like a super impressive university campus that offers you events, community but most important education based on fulfilled eschatology, a better interpretation of soteriology and the support of absolutely independent, subjective ecclesiology.
Professors of Faith
Perhaps you could become one of our visiting professors – a term we liberally use and assign to anyone willing to “Profess” elements, ideas, doctrines, teachings that endorse and support THE GREAT NEWS proffered by the victory of Christ over all things. Check us out and consider applying for a professorship at the Great News Network. Why would we take such liberties over things like the use of titles like, “professors?” Ask yourself, what have real professors, in the academic sense, done in the past to bring forth the Great News? NOTHING. All of their learning and study has not, in 2000 years, illuminated us to the truth. Who has? A man born in a manger, a carpenter. A bunch of fishermen, tax-collectors. And souls who have put seeking the truth over lining their pockets.
Listen to what Paul writes in the first chapter of Corinthians, saying at verse 25, GRAPHIC “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
For us it stands to reason that our professors (meaning, people who profess publicly biblical truths) are the salt of the earth, of humble origin, usually without any credentials, who have ALL come to know and see the truth by and through their own personal study – and we all agree on the majors!!!! You want academia from the ivory towers? You’re free to go after it because we cannot offer that to you – and we don’t want to. We want the Truth about God to come from those God says that He will use. PERIOD.
Before we get to another radicalized topic tonight, let’s do our 5X5 where I share some cultural expressions and the people behind them to give you ideas outside the established Christian culture of mediocrity. By the way, one of the reasons I do this is because I am CONVINCED that in this present age (and going forward) CINEMATIC offerings will ultimately replace sermons from the pulpit. You heard
Representation of Christ through Arts
me right – I believe that the Cinema arts will do more to teach and represent the actual truth of Christ in a far better more meaningful way than the bully pulpits of yesteryear. In fact, tonight, we have a really good example of this in this months 5×5!
Five Inspiring Musical Artists
- Suburban Lawns with Su Tissue 4. Eddie Vedder Soundtrack for Into the Wild 3. All things Jack White 2. Joe Cocker 1. Tarantella (a duo team with profound style)
Five Mind-Expanding Books
- Man’s Search for Meaning Victor Frankle 4. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 3. Walden by Thoreau 2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Five Stirring Films
- The Black Stallion 4. Doubt 3. Breathless 2. Knight of Cups 1. NETFLIX Adolescents
Five Artists
- Slavoj Sizik Slovenian Philosopher 4. Salavat Fidai – you must see his work 3. Janis Joplin – see live performance at Monteray Pop Festival 2. Kurt Vonnegut (Christ loving Atheist) 1. John Singer Sargeant – favorite oil painter ever
Five Modern Heroes
- The International Red Cross/Red Cresent (world wide service) 4. Abraham Lincoln (political genius) 3. Marie Curie (work in radioactivity) 2. Ben Carson (his overall person) 1. All women who dedicate themselves to being mothers
What a wonderful world.
Eschatology and Afterlife
Eschatology literally means “the study of end things” and what many people omit in the study of end things includes the study of the afterlife, or what is believed to exist after the “end of our human material lives.” In Part II of our Radicalized Cosmology, I want to speak to what I have come to believe best describes the afterlife for every individual on earth ever since Christ has had the victory over sinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace., deathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God., satan, hell and all the heavenly demons, spirits and gods mentioned in the Old Testament.
Of course, we have traditionally been bombarded in the Christian faith with notions of afterlife destinations being an either/or – you either go to heaven where God dwells or you go to hell forever where Satan dwells. The descriptions of those two locations vary depending on denomination but a literal reading of the scripture or a more interpretive understanding can be had if you are willing. At the full-on extremes of biblical literalism comes the idea that people either burn like roast chicken over eternal flames forever and or people sit on clouds worshipping Yeshua forever using voice and/or harp. Most of these notions, perpetuated over the centuries through the traditions of Man, have a basis in scripture, but what has almost always been overlooked is a reasonable, contextual exegesis of the text relative to the Nation of Israel and the Messiah (promised them) which must include His finished work on behalf of all.
Spiritual Genesis
What are we to say then, in the face of a better exegesis of the text, and what does the study of the afterlife look like once we accept His victory as complete? I am going to attempt to share with you tonight what I see and believe surrounding these things while admitting that I don’t know anything, and that I may be wrong about most everything. In order to grasp the foundation “of it all” we must use the biblical narrative to establish the fact that Christ, the second Adam, overcame all things that the first Adam introduced to the world.
With that in place, we, at the Great News Network, teach that in and through Christ victorious work the world has spiritually been returned to the Garden of Eden and we all exist in what we are calling, a Spiritual Genesis, which started way back at His incarnation and put an end to the first material Genesis which included sin, death, Satan, hell, the Nation of Israel, material Jerusalem, priesthood, genealogies, animal sacrifices, the material temple and the Law. Done. Over. Absolutely obliterated. And in the Spiritual Genesis all human beings are spiritually (again emphasized, spiritually) existing in a Spiritual Garden of Eden and choosing what to consume whether it be fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or from the Tree of Life.
We submit that because His victory was over all things “in heaven, earth and below the earth,” and that the Spirit of Christ now dwells in every individual, every person is destined by their personal choices to land in an afterlife destination relative to their relationship to Light (with a capital L) and Dark (with a capital D).
The Spiritual Tree of Life
and the Spirit of Christ is obtained when we choose to eat from the Spiritual Tree of Life. Add in that another element to consider is that all human beings possess a soul which the Greeks defined as MIND, WILL and EMOTION. Because Christ is in all of us, Christ is seeking to work on and renew our minds while the operations of our respective will and emotions are what God has us govern. That said, I suggest that the human will and emotion can only be rightly influenced by their allowing the Spirit of Christ in them to access to their individual minds as a means to renew and replace what is off with His mind, effectively washing or replacing the defects we all retain therein and thereby affecting our will and emotions. So, let’s work on these notions in and through some graphics and we will begin with examining the human soul.
Human Soul
GRAPHIC #1 HUMAN SOUL
MIND WILL EMOTION
GRAPHIC #2 HUMAN SOUL
MIND WILL EMOTION (Where we allow Christ to work) (What we control)
Types of Souls on Earth
#3 Types of Souls on earth and potential afterlife destination MIND WILL EMOTION
CELESTIAL – 1st Corinthians 15 (Within Heavenly Kingdom) MIND of CHRIST Renewed by Christ His His Tree of Life Will Emotions Holy of Holies Temple Paul, “Sun” glory LIGHT
TERRESTRIAL – 1st Corinthians 15 (Outside Heavenly Kingdom) Religious MIND Renewed by Religion Religious Religious Tree of Knowledge of Good Good Good Inner Court of Temple Paul, “moon” glory REFLECTED LIGHT
Earthly/carnal MIND Not renewed (carnal) Self Self Tree of Knowledge of Evil Evil Evil Outer Court of Temple Paul, “star” glory DISTANT LIGHT
GRAPHIC #4 What does this look like relative to the Trees in the Spiritual Garden?
FRUIT THAT CONTINUES FRUIT THAT IS LIMITED All choosing to eat from HIM (the Tree of Life) or Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
ALL SAVED FROM SIN, HELL, DEATH, SATAN, GRAVE.
#5 SUGGESTED AFTERLIFE DESTINATIONS OF SOULS
THE NEW JERUSALEMThe spiritual reality of God's fulfilled presence with humanity—replacing Sheol after 70 A.D. – TREE OF LIFE
MIND WILL EMOTION Renewed by Spirit of Christ His His By faith
OUTSIDE THE NEW JERUSALEM’S CITY GATES – FRUIT OF GOOD
MIND WILL EMOTION Renewed by Religion Religious-will Religious Religious faith
EARTHLY SPIRITUAL HABITATION – FRUIT OF EVIL
MIND WILL EMOTION Not renewed (carnal) Self-will Self No faith (Corresponds to Outer Court)
#6 The Celestial Kingdom Realm – Direct Light (Corresponds to the Holy of Holies)
THE NEW JERUSALEM – TREE OF LIFE
MIND WILL EMOTION Renewed by Spirit of Christ His His By faith
KNOWN BY . . . Faith in God (who is CHRIST) Love and fruit of the Spirit
MATURED IN . . . Spirit of Christ (through) Humility/Light loving seeking Learning (about Him in spirit and truth) Love (selfless, sacrificial insufferable lives) Liberty
LIVE BY . . . Faith and Love Spirit and Truth
ARE . . . Sons and Daughters of God Children of God
#7 Terrestrial Realm – Reflected Light (Corresponds to the Inner Court)
OUTSIDE THE NEW JERUSALEM’S CITY GATES – FRUIT OF GOOD
MIND WILL EMOTION Renewed by Religion Religious-will Religious
KNOWN BY . . . Religious Idolatry Said Faith and Trust in God Religious Selflessness Works righteousness
MATURED IN . . . Regimentation of flesh Religious humility Learning in religious traditions Conditional love Conditioned Liberty
LIVE BY . . . Law/Obedience Condemnation/Judgement Conditional everything Good Spirit of Humanity Lust of the eyes and Pride of Life
#8 EARTHLY TERRESTRIAL REALM – MINIMAL LIGHT (CORRESPONDS TO THE OUTER COURT)
EARTHLY SPIRITUAL HABITATION – FRUIT OF EVIL
MIND WILL EMOTION Not renewed (carnal) Self-will Self No faith
KNOWN BY . . . Self Selfishness Idolatry
OPERATED BY . . . Lust of the Flesh, Eyes and Pleasure PRIDE Spirit of Evil Humanity – self in everything ultimately.
LIVE TO . . . Gain Dominate Control Hate Condemn
#9 Taking it all in and looking at from another more biblical perspective, it might look like this
CELESTIAL REALM
The Eternal Call
New Jerusalem
BENIGN
Far outside
SKIES TERRESTRIAL REALM WASTELAND
URBAN
UNDER THE EARTH
Long story short, I suggest that because God is longsuffering and is not willing that any should perish the gates of the Kingdom never close and an ongoing call to all souls continues into the eternities with each individual choosing to hear or not.
Afterlife Classifications
And could it be that in the realms of the afterlife that every soul outside the Kingdom could be classified as “malignant” verses “benign” and this is the determining factor on afterlife assignment?
Possibilities Beyond
Could it also be possible that
Souls in the Afterlife
Souls in the afterlife can be seen as:
Tree of Life eaters
CELESTIAL
SOULS OF THE KINGDOM –
Children of God
Of Glory and Power
TOKOGAE EATERS
TERRESTRIAL
Could it be that malignant souls are forceful, controlling, angry, oppressive, judgmental and that benign souls are passive, weak, submissive, pleading, surrendering, selfish and in bondage? Could malignancy of soul be viewed as Godlessly strong dominant masculinity expressed and felt while benignity is seen in those captive and in bondage?
Calling of Souls
I would conclude with the following, that,
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God is calling to all souls outside His Kingdom Realm (so all in the Terrestrial realm) to join Him who are living on earth before death and who die and find themselves outside the Kingdom of His Son and this is evident by Him being love itself and that the gates are open always. That while all who seek, desire and pursue entrance are invited but what each soul who accepts has to endure is unknown. That those who enjoy the company in the terrestrial realms may choose to remain in such destinations because they are satisfied and do not have any desire to enter the Kingdom. That those who abide in the dark earthly realm have a very hard time leaving it behind for unknown reasons and so they both dwell here and work to seduce humans to their way of living. (I base this on seeing a dead woman when I was a young child)
Finally, I suggest that the Spirit of Man, created by the mind will and emotion of Humanity, resides and evolves in some receptacle or reservoir, evolving and improving upon itself, and its contents are what move govern and guide human beings who have no interest in renewing their minds through the Spirit of Christ. And that from this evolving human collective, established when Adam fell then contributed to by every human being continues to serve as the Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
Realms and Destinations
You might see some of Joseph Smith’s ideas here which I maintain were all from the human collective and not from God. That said, the various realms described here are from Paul, not Smith, but I have to admit in his counterfeit, there does seem to be three realms of afterlife existence and that within the Kingdom of GodGod’s spiritual reign—fulfilled and present, not political or future. above there does seem to exist many mansions in and through their respective resurrected bodies of glory.
The Afterlife Journey
What does this all mean then? Exactly what we have described. Satan, hell, Death, and the grave have been overcome. What awaits all souls is one of three distinct destinations of gradient light. That every human being will be rewarded according to their choices of spiritual diet that they consume but every human being is always welcome to change and accept whatever God has for them to face and do before ascending from their initial afterlife destination. The universalism of this is in the forgiveness of all sin through the victory of Christ; the non-universalism of this is that no one will enter the Kingdom unless by faith in Christ. The choice, the every decision, is in the hands of each individual and has been since the complete destruction of the former material economy described in the Bible.
We love you all and invite you to learn and grow with us at the Great News Network and the teachings we have created and continue to create. See you the first Tuesday of June here on Heart of the Matter Radicalized!
