Chapter 18: Where Did Everybody Go?

Closing time, time for you to go out
To the places you will be from

Closing Time – Semisonic

God is all‑powerful and all‑knowing. Because He is perfect, He creates in order to express everything He can do and everything He knows. Creation is His way of revealing His fullness. Every universe He makes shows another part of His knowledge, His ability, and His nature.

This universe is not the first one He created. It is an intermediary creation — an incubator. It isn’t the first intermediary creation nor will it be the last. Its purpose is simple: to mature souls and sort them. Every soul develops a pattern here. That pattern determines where the soul belongs forever. Some souls align with God’s benevolence. Others align with malevolence. When this universe dissolves, the sorting occurs.

From that sorting come three final possibilities.

Possibility One — Eternal Paradise

Paradise is a distinctly different universe, one that has always existed since God has been creating. It is full of the souls who successfully graduated from previous intermediary creations. These souls have internalized God’s Ways into their own nature. They have learned His benevolence, His justice, His compassion, and His harmony and His Way of Doing Things.

In Paradise, they receive bodies made of solid light. They experience God’s absolute goodness every single day forever. Nothing fades. Nothing breaks. Nothing dies. It is the universe where God expresses everything He knows about kindness, generosity, and perfection.

Possibility Two — Eternal Torment

Eternal torment is also a distinctly different universe — in fact, many universes — that have existed as long as God has been creating. These are the places where the souls who did not graduate are sent. Their patterns did not align with God’s benevolence. They aligned with cruelty, selfishness, and rebellion.

In these universes, God expresses everything He knows about malevolence. Not because He enjoys cruelty, but because omniscience includes every pattern, and omnipotence expresses every pattern. These souls experience the full weight of that knowledge forever.

Possibility Three — A Second Chance

There is a third possibility hinted at in the patterns of Scripture: a second chance. God could, at His discretion, choose to create another intermediary world — an intermediary to the intermediary — and allow certain souls to try again. This would give them one more opportunity to mature, to learn His Ways, and to graduate into eternal paradise.

There is support for this idea in the patterns of the Bible itself. God gave the Israelites a second chance. They were not allowed to enter the Promised Land until the entire rebellious generation had died off. Only the second generation — the one that had not taken part in the rebellion — was allowed to cross over. This delay mirrors God’s looping figure‑8 serpent pattern, the movement of mercy and correction, before the serpent stiffened into a straight staff in the hands of the high priest.

There are scriptural indications as well.

In the book of Daniel, it says that in the last days “many people will wake up from the dust of the earth.” Daniel describes three groups:

The Qur’an shows the same pattern. Chapter 56 describes the final sorting and divides humanity into three groups, not two:

Scripture says that God will create a new heaven and a new earth, and that this new creation will “remain” before Him forever (Isaiah 66:22). This hints at a world that will not fall, a world without the tilt, a world that stays upright and perfect the way God intended from the beginning.

The Qur’an also repeats that God is both forgiving and merciful. So although He will certainly do whatever He chooses, one might infer that some souls will be forgiven and move forward, while others might receive mercy and be given a second chance.

Because of these scriptures — and because of the events in the desert with Moses — one could reasonably theorize that God might create another intermediary world, a second incubator, where certain souls receive one more chance to mature. This world would have no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and no satanic influence, because its purpose would not be testing. Its purpose would be refining.

The Israelites themselves lived through a pattern like this. They wandered for forty years, and they were not allowed to enter the Promised Land until the entire rebellious generation had died. Only the second generation entered. This delay, this reset, mirrors God’s figure‑8 serpent pattern — the looping motion of mercy and correction — before the serpent stiffened into a straight staff in the hands of the high priest.

Taken together, these patterns suggest that an intermediary‑intermediary creation — a world designed for final refinement — is not only possible, but probable.

And when this creation finally dissolves, every soul will awaken in the world that is appropriate for who they chose to become.

“Everyone will receive the hospitality they deserve on the Day of Retribution.”