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Direct Answer Based on David Bercot’s teaching, “escape” doesn’t mean leaving earth early, but being freed inwardly from the self-centered, hate-filled, fearful patterns that belong to “mortal life,” as love becomes the dominant force in us.

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• He qualifies it immediately: “although not in an absolute sense,” but “to the extent that we learn to love as God loves.”
• Escape happens “to the degree that love completely takes hold of us and becomes the dominant force in our life.”
• Love breaks the “dungeon of self” (George MacDonald): love of neighbor is “the only door out.”
• Daily attachments love dislodges include “wrath and hatred” (“When Christ is everywhere, wrath and hatred will be nowhere”).
• He describes love’s effects toward neighbors: “we won’t harbor any mean or hurtful thoughts,” would “rather suffer a thousand wrongs… than… wrong them,” and we “rejoice” in their blessings and “feel their hurts.”