Math 5:39"But I tell you not to resist evil" Lk14:26,33 "If anyone comes to me and hates not his own father and mother and his wife and children and brothers and sisters, further also even his own life, he cannot be my disciple....thus therefore everyone from among you who does not bid adieu unto all his own possessions, cannot be my disciple" Rev2:9-10,11 "I know your tribulation and destitution, nevertheless you are rich; and the profane speech of those from among them who affirm that they themselves are Jews (true Jews; ie, christians) and they are not but a synagogue of satan. Do not fear the things that you are about to suffer. Lo! the adversary is about to cast some of you into prison that you may be tried......become you faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life......he that overcomes shall in nowise be injured by reason of the second death" Rev11:11 "...and they loved not their life even unto death"
The world which we touch with our senses is not the real world. The true christian (the poss-ess-er) recognizes that fact and lives accordingly. He knows there is no such thing as good and evil, for all is good. However, before one can get to this consciousness (for it's not a place), one must "die". This "death" is the "first" death-the first of two. When one experiences this first death, he is free from the second-he doesn't have to experience it or go through it.
The first death is not physical; ie, it's not when the soul departs the physical body. This death occurs while the individual is still alive physically on the earth. This death is what all the above scripture passages point to. In order to experience this death, one must suffer the loss of all things similiar to what Job did.
This death is an on-going process, the key to which is willingness on the part of the individual. When God sees the willingness of the heart, then spiritually it is complete (the death is complete), but because we live in time, which is a stretching out or expanding/slowing down of spirit, it is experienced as a process that one goes through.
The death is a letting go of all things that bind one to earth. This includes all human ties-family expectations, things, etc. This also includes the natural human tendency to defend ones self (resist not evil) as well as the desire to be accepted and understood by others.
God is the one who initiates this process: ".....and yahweh said unto the accuser, have you applied your heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth.....? The accuser is God's instrument in this work.
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