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There may not be
definitive answers to all the questions we have concerning God and His
Plan for
mankind until we see
our Lord and Savior face to
face, but there are reasonable
answers to most of the questions posed below. But if you are
not asking any of
these questions, then there is probably no room for answers and that
very well
may be the case at this
time in your Christian
walk.
But if you are seeking a deeper understanding
of the God of Scripture and His Son, Jesus
Christ, the answers to the
following
questions that we have come to embrace over the past 40 years of study
will hopefully
be of much value and a blessed
encouragement to you. Therefore, hang in there and we pray that
the
extraordinary love
of God will be revealed to you
in a most magnificent way,
for the more you know of God and His love for you and all mankind,
the more
love you will have for Him, for Christ, for yourself and for all those
around
you, and for what He has called you into.
Speaking from our own personal experience, since God has revealed these
truths to my wife and myself, we have had our
eyes and hearts opened to a
level
of trust and understanding of God’s Plan that neither of us could have
ever imagined
when
we were first regenerated into
our new creation life.
of people to burn in hell, a place where they would be
tortured forever and ever, for all eternity without a second of relief,
with
unending suffering, pain and torment?
And why would He even devise such an outcome for those He so
loved that
He was
willing to have His Logos/Word sacrifice His heavenly estate, be
actualized into a Jewish family, live a perfect human life and
then suffer and
die? In other words, does Love plan
torture? For Love Himself to architect
such a plan that calls for the eternal
anguish of billions upon billions of conscious
souls, this would be tantamount to unmitigated cruelty by a God that
reveals
Himself
as unmitigated Love. So I ask
again, does Love Plan torture? If you
answer “No”, then read on. If not, then
we’ve got nothing
more to discuss and definitely very little in common.
the grave
without ever having had a chance to hear the Gospel, let alone receive
Jesus as
Lord). And of the billions that have
never
heard, can the “law of conscience” as some call it, or inner conviction
that there must be a Creator (due to having seen His creation)
can this save a
person or damn him based on his actions in this life?
Many evangelicals, and others, claim that
this is the case and
they base their speculation on Romans 1:18-32. However,
according to Scripture, nothing saves
a person from sin and death but
regeneration and then faith in Jesus Christ,
alone, and not by keeping the Old Testament law o
since death, been conscious in a Luke 16 fiery
hell and will some day be going to an eternal hell (Gehenna) of
indescribable
torture?
Has God failed in His Plan of
salvation in which He wishes and wills that all would repent and
receive Christ
as their Lord and Savior?
According to today’s church
doctrine, if a child dies before the age of 12 (the touted age of
accountability) he/she automatically goes to
heaven without making a conscious
choice to receive Christ. What about the
child that is 12 ½ or 13, or even 14, or 12 years plus one
day old? And isn’t it also true that “all
(which includes every person who has ever been born) fall short of
the glory
of God” (Ro.
and are unable
to stand before a holy and righteous God in and of themselves
(regardless of
age), based on Scripture saying that “No, not
one is righteous or holy” (I Sam.
2:2; Heb.
and holiness via the Life of Christ? And
also isn’t it true that we all inherited a fallen, sinful nature from
our
father Adam and that only through
faith in Christ can a person be “born again”,
in order to be reckoned righteous enough to even come before God in
prayer? So how can
anyone, young or old be considered
righteous, or spotless and therefore blameless before God without
believing in
the shed blood on
and Christ’s atonement? And then being
aware that they are washed not
only of their sins, but of the sin nature, as well, that they inherited
from
father Adam?
God in the beginning breathe His breath of life into man,
thus making him a living soul? (Here the word soul means his entire
being, the
person,
which includes body, mind, emotions and spirit.) In
other words, does man “have” an
immortal soul, or is he merely “a living soul” which,
according to
God, is subject to death if it sins?
speculate that at death something
survives and goes on to another place? And
how does this square with Scriptures that state that God, alone,
has
immortality, and that immortality (or being imperishable) is a reward
for them
that diligently seek Him. According to the
Bible, all mankind is
born mortal (subject to death) as Adam was,
and therefore does not have immortality, but it’s received when a
person is
born from above and
remains faithful to the truth, “fighting the good fight of
faith”, thus “taking hold of eternal life” (1 Tim.
6:12).
“To those
who by persistence
in doing good, seek glory,
honor and immortality, He will give
eternal life.”
Based
on the above Scripture, why would God exhort us to “seek” for something
we
already have?
“For the perishable must
clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
When the perishable has been clothed with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,
then the saying that is written
will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory’.”.
“…which God will bring about
in His own time – God, the Blessed, and only Ruler,
the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who alone
is immortal
and Who lives in
unapproachable light, Whom no one has seen or can see.”
“…but it has now been
revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus,
Who has destroyed
death and has brought immortality to light through the Gospel”.
So if God alone
gives “unconditional
life”(immortality), through faith in His Son and what He accomplished
on the
Cross, how can it be
that those who don’t have faith in Jesus, also receive
eternal life (living on forever), the only difference being that they
are going
to be l
iving forever in another place other than heaven, ie., Gehenna/hell? How can they have everlasting anything based
on the fact that they
aren’t immortal, and don’t have the promise of life
everlasting, or eternal life, or living on and on anywhere?
According to
popular
Christian belief if a person doesn’t receive Christ before he dies, he
immediately goes to a Luke 16 tortuous hell.
Does it seem logical then that God would resurrect him on the
day of
judgment only to tell him he is going to go to a Gehenna (2nd
death)
tortuous hell? Doesn’t he already know
that, since he’s been living in a conscious tormented state ever since
he
died? Doesn’t this sound
a bit
ludicrous? And what about all the places
in Scripture that talk about the first death hell, and then about the
second
death referred to
as hell also? What’s
the difference or is there a difference?
Does is seem fair
for a
loving, just, wise and all powerful God to not have
planned a way for all to really hear and act
on the Gospel, rather
than just a select few?
And why did God predestine vessels of honor and vessels of
dishonor, and
why has He blinded the eyes of men (or
used Satan to do so) so they couldn’t
and can’t see and hear the truth? Why would He do such a thing, unless it was
only for an interim period
of time before He dealt justly with those He had
allowed to be blinded by Satan.
And when Scripture
speaks of
a coming time, referred to in Revelation 20:4,6 as Christ’s 1,000 year
millennium reign on earth, who is He going
to reign over when the majority of
the people on earth will have been destroyed by the great forth-coming
time of
tribulation that the world has never
known or seen before? If the few that
survive the tribulation are
the only ones Christ will be ruling and reigning over, why did God
allow the
procreation
of billions and billions of people that lived and died prior to
this, with the vast majority of them never hearing and therefore never
responding to the Gospel?
And where in time, since the
beginning of time, has God’s prophecy in Genesis been fulfilled where
He says
that “all the nations of the earth will be
blessed by the seed of Abraham”?
(Genesis 12:3,
of Grace? And what exactly does God mean by the seed of Abraham? Is this seed Christ alone, or is this seed
Christ and His Church, Christ being the
Head, andHis Church being the Body? Galatians
3:29 states the seed of Abraham is both
Christ and His Church, “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye
Abraham’s
seed, and heirs according to the promise”(KJV). So
if this is true, then who are the completed seed to rule and reign
over? And when?
And when in time has the
prophecy been fulfilled stating that there will be “a time of
restitution of
all things”? (Acts 3:19-21) And when is
it that the lion will lay down with the lamb, and the deaf, the lame,
and the
blind will be healed? The only way
various mindsets can harmonize verses like these is allegorize them out
of
reality.
There
is one thing we ask
that you consider after reading all of the above. As you think
upon God, remember again that He
is love,
He is just, He is wise, and He is all powerful. If one or more of
these attributes does not reasonably
apply to the God of Scripture or
the truths you have been led to believe about
Him and His Plan for mankind, then it is very likely that you have not
heard
His true Plan
of Salvation, the Gospel, the really Good News. So please ponder
what we have shared thus far,
and then continue on to Part 2 of this
sharing which begins with a journey into
God’s Word of Truth, truth that will indeed make you more and more free
in
Christ…free to love,
free to forgive, and much more free to move in God’s
Spirit as you worship Him, not only in Spirit, but also in Truth.
For it’s in Spirit and
Truth that you
will be set free from the bondage inflicted on all those who would
allow their
minds and spirits to be deceived by the creeds
and doctrines of Churchianity
that do not line up with God’s revealed Plan.
Part 2
In
this section we ask you to do some homework by looking up and reading
the
following Scriptures that speak to a forthcoming rule and reign
of Christ on
planet
earth, while Satan is bound for a period of 1,000 years (Rev.20:1-6).
PROPHECIES
SUPPORTING MILLENNIUM BEING A
NEW
WITH ALL MANKIND RESURRECTED AND THEREBY HAVING
AN
OPPORUNITY
Isaiah 11:6-9, 35:9-10,
65:25, Is. 61:1-9, Joel 3:18, Amos 9:13-15 – Foretelling the original curse upon
creation to be removed.
Isaiah 25:8, 30:19 – Physical death no more, tears no more.
Isaiah 29:18, 35:5-6,
61:1-2, Jer. 31:8 – Deaf
hear, blind
see, lame walk.
Isaiah 11:6-9, 41:19-20,
54:13, Hab.
Zeph. 3:9 – Unified language.
Isaiah 35:1-2, Wilderness and desert will bloom.
Isaiah 60:1-3, 61:1-9,
Ezek. 39:21, Micah 4:1-5, Hab. 2:14
– God’s glory seen by all nations.
Isaiah 65:20 – Man’s longevity to be restored.
Isaiah 2:4, 32:15-18 – Universal peace.
Romans 5:1-2, Heb. 11:6 –
Salvation is always through faith.
Faith must have an object, and billions have
died without that object.
They will be
resurrected and have that object during the millennium.
Ezek. 18:2, Jer. 31:29-31 – “father’s ate sour grapes….teeth set on
edge”
Gen 12:3,
All families of the earth blessed through the seed of Abraham,
Christ and His Church are Abraham’s “seed”. (See Gal. 3:29)
Acts
SCRIPTURAL
REFERENCES
AS A CASE AGAINIST
A “LIMITED ATONEMENT”
Is. 45:22 “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the world; for I am God, and there is no other”. (NIV)
Luke 3:6
“And all
flesh shall see the salvation of God”. (KJV)
Luke 12:8 “Also
I say
unto you, whosoever shall confess me before men, him
shall the Son of man also confess before the
angels of God”. (KJV)
John
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. (KJV)
John
believeth not the Son shall not see life; but
the wrath of God abideth on
him”. (KJV)
John
thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life”.
(KJV)
John
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God: and they that hear shall
live”. (KJV)
John
John
The Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day”. (KJV)
John
he shall live forever: and
the bread that I will give is my
flesh, which I will give for the life of
the world”. (KJV)
John
beieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live”. (KJV)
John
Acts
Acts
whosoever believeth in Him shall receive
remission of sins”. (KJV)
Acts
thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and
breath, and all things”. (KJV)
Ro.
sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned”. (KJV)
Ro.
offence of one many be dead, much more the
grace of God, and the
gift of grace, which is by one Man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many".
(KJV - the key word here is
“many”, and there is no reason to speculate
that
the 2nd “many” is quantitively any different than the 1st “many”.)
Ro.
of grace and of the
gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ”.
(KJV)
(KJV - As
with the comment at the end of Ro.
the 1st
“upon all men” is quantitively the same as the 2nd “upon all men”.)
Ro.
1 Cor.
1 Cor.
Col. 1:20
“…and through Him
to reconcile to Himself all things,
whether things on earth or things
in heaven, by making peace through His blood,
shed on the cross”. (NIV)
1 Tim.
Jesus
came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst”. (NIV)
I Tim. 2:4 “…Who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth”. (NIV)
2 Pe. 3:9
“The Lord is not slow in keeping His
promise, as some understand
slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance”.
(NIV - The “wanting” here is another way of saying
God’s Will. His Will is His Want,
and if
it’s agreed that His Will is sovereign, then His Will or Want is
immutable.)
1 John 2:2 “He
is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,
and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world”. (NIV)
Rev. 22:17 “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say ‘Come!’ Whoever
is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life'." (NIV)
In light of the Scriptural
references (provided in Part 2) that speak of the coming 1,000-year
Millennial
rule and reign
of Christ (with His Church), all who have ever lived and died
(that were never called during this Gospel Age and are
therefore not part of
the Church/Bride) will be resurrected at a future time in order to hear
the
Good News, and this,
while Satan is bound so there will be no deception on
earth to influence those who will then be able to hear the truth,
for the first
time (before this time, during the Gospel age, God used Satan to
blind the
eyes of those He was not yet
calling out of death into resurrection life). Churchianity
pundits slander this truth about
people’s 1st chance to hear
and act on the truth by calling it “the
2nd chance theory”. As far as
they’re concerned, each individual has had their
1st chance just by
virtue of having made it past the age of 12 and then sometime later
dying. We (the Church) were
able to hear the Good
News because God opened our ears and eyes when He called us, by
quickening our
spirits
with His Holy Spirit. Scripture
refers to this “quickening” as regeneration or being conceived by the
Word of
God.
Those that were never called before
or during the “Church Age” (all those from the beginning of time, up to
and
after
the Cross, on through to the rapture) have to be given a chance to
hear,
and this chance will be their first chance, for,
again, in the past, our
Sovereign God allowed Satan, the prince of the air, to rule over them
with
deception and lies,
thereby blinding them to the Truth. In
other words, God has His timing for each
person’s enlightenment and until that
moment arrives they will remain deaf,
dumb and blind.
them, along with the thoughts added at the end of each reference.
"And all
flesh shall
see the salvation of God".
(This ALL includes both
The Church, resurrected to life
during the Church Age. But it also
includes the rest of mankind that will be raised to life during the
1,000 year
Millennial rule and reign of Christ with His Church.
This is in the future, and will come after
the tribulation and after Armageddon.
This will happen during the time that
Scripture refers to as when “the
lion will lay down with the lamb”…”when every knee shall bow and every
tongue
will confess Jesus Christ is Lord”.
*Note: At the end of
this 1,000 years, Satan will be loosed for a short
season to deceive all the nations and many will fall away and chose to
follow
him, with their final judgment and penalty
being cast into Gehenna hell, which
is a state of destruction, and not torture).
"And I say unto you, whosoever
shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess
before the
angels of God".
(All peoples on earth
that are in the grave [in the sleep of
death] are going to be raised to life, whether they like it or not, due
to
Christ’s obedience and His satisfying God’s
Justice by His Blood being applied
on behalf of mankind onto the heavenly Mercy Seat.
In like manner, all were born dead in their
sins, like it or not, due to the disobedience
of father Adam. All will be resurrected to
life because of the
obedience of the second Adam, Christ. If
it helps, you can think of it this way:
Because Christ shed His Blood
for all, and took that Blood into the
heavenly Holy of Holies, God’s Justice was satisfied to the extent that
all
mankind was reckoned freed from the everlasting death penalty
that Adam
inflicted on himself, along with all who were in his loins when he
sinned. So now all are potentially set
free due to
Christ’s Atonement. It’s as though God
has
deposited a million dollar stimulus package into every man’s bank
account,
but only sent out statements of that fact to those who He is, during
this
Gospel Age, calling to be
His daughter-in-law.
So the Bride-to-be is now “in the know” as to her incredible
riches,
with the rest of mankind’s awareness of their salvation riches being
withheld
until they’re
resurrected in the Millennium).
"For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life".
(In order to believe, one
first has to hear, for “faith
cometh by hearing”. Millions have gone
to the grave that never heard the name of Jesus Christ, and the ones
that were
witnessed
to about Christ, (that were never being called out) couldn’t hear
either because they were never quickened by the Holy Spirit to hear, or
to see
or know the Truth. Only the Church,
during the Gospel Age, has ears to hear, because God is now only
calling out a
predestined, foreknown, elect Bride that is going to be married to
Christ, once
they are taken up into
heavenly Glory, after which she will return with Christ in
order to share the Good News with ALL the peoples of the earth during
their
millennium resurrection time. As it
states in Gal.
3:29, the seed of Abraham that will bless all the nations of the
earth is Christ and His Church, the seed in its entirety, Christ being
the Head
and the Church being His Body, united with
Him as One Seed. Overlay this truth with
Calvin’s “Limited
Atonement”, that God dishonoring and blasphemous theology that He
elects a
handful of people to be saved and all the rest
He elects to be tortured forever
in a fiery hell. How’s that for Love?).
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he
that
believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth
on him".
(At this point, it’s
necessary to define the word “hell”. In
certain places in the Bible hell simply
means “the grave” from which there will be a resurrection. But in other
places
in the Bible,
hell is referred to as the “second death”, from which there is no
resurrection. Most people lump these two different conditions together
thereby
causing a lot of confusion. In the Bible, the
first death [hell[ is where a
person goes when he dies, in other words they go into the grave, into
the
ground and return to dust [my son calls this their “dirt nap”[. Christ said that when a
person died, they
were only “asleep” for He knew a resurrection was coming where all
would be raised
out of the grave, the state of sleep. This
is not the “second death”, from which there
is no resurrection and which is
reserved for Satan and all that follow him as a final punishment for
sin. This second death is denoted as a
place of
fire [a symbol of destruction] and is called Gehenna.
The word for hell “grave”, does
not imply
this at all. Adding to the confusion
about “hell” is the parable in Luke 16 that many, down through Church
history
have taken literally and by doing so insist that when a person dies
they go to
this Luke 16 “holding tank”, where they are either in conscious torture
or
conscious spiritual and physical bliss. But once a person understands
that an
individual does not have an immortal soul that lives on after death,
then a lot
of the confusion about death and hell and Luke 16 is cleared up, ie.,
death is
sleep and hell is the grave, or else it’s the 2nd death).
(God warns throughout
Scripture of His coming wrath that He
is going to pour out upon mankind. His
wrath is His judgment on sin. It will
come in the form of the 7 years of “great tribulation” like the world
has never
known and then final judgment [wrath] is going to be His consigning all
incorrigibles
to Gehenna hell, or the second death, from which no one will ever be
resurrected. They will be made as if
they never were. And it’s not that God
couldn’t resurrect someone out of the 2nd death, but that He
has
decreed He won’t. In other words, they
will be destroyed so sin, death, evil and wickedness will be done away
with
forever. And because immortality and
everlasting life are a “gift from God”, no one is going to live on
forever with
everlasting life in hell, nor does one live on in a Luke 16 hell when
his earth
life comes to an end [Again, Luke 16 is a parable and is not to be
taken
literally]. When one dies and is buried
or cremated, there is no consciousness at all.
All awareness is finished with at death, and only a resurrection
by God
can, and will, restore that person to a state of insight and mental
alertness-sentient
being).
(So yes, hell, “the
grave” and hell, “the second death, are
referred to in the Bible many times. The
above Scripture [John
"But whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the
water
that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life".
"Verily, verily, I say unto
you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear
the voice
of God; and they that hear shall live".
(All mankind will be
resurrected to a life on earth and be
given an opportunity to hear and act on the Good News.
And this will be after the earth has been
restored to an Edenic state, with Satan bound.
Judgment day is not a 24-hour day, but 1,000 years, (to God a
day is
likened unto a thousand years, 2 Peter 3:8), at this time and all
through the
1,000 years, God will judge all peoples according to their faith in
Christ, and
their obedience. We, the Church, don’t
fall into this group of people, for we now are reckoned to be
resurrected and
proleptically [potentially] are seated in the heavenlies with Christ
and are on
our way to the marriage feast of the Lamb, thereafter to return, and
rule and
reign with Him during His 1,000 year reign on earth.)
"For the bread of God is He
which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world".
(God is all love,
justice, all power, and all wisdom – Every
person who has lived and died has to have an equal opportunity to hear
the
truth. Only that is just and right. The
eyes and the ears of those being called out as the Church were opened
when they
were called by God, [His elect, His chosen priesthood].
They were quickened, resurrected and given
Life in Christ. Likewise, all the rest of mankind will be given a
similar
opportunity to have their ears and eyes opened as well.
Nothing is more God dishonoring than to
attribute to Him the lack of wisdom, justice, power and love it would
have
taken for Him to put a plan into motion that has His human creatures
made up of
an immortal anything that could not die and possibly have to spend
eternity
being tortured [again, does love plan torture?]. Attributing
this
kind of planning to our all
wise God is pure, unadulterated blasphemy!
And it drags His love and compassion through a mire of madness
that
should make true believers ashamed to be associated with any Christian
group
that believes and teaches such foolishness.
Unfortunately,
the vast majority of so called Christian groups worship a God Who is
not
represented in the Bible).
"And this is the will of Him
that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last
day".
(Again, all must be
given an opportunity “to see” and “to hear” and “to act” on the Good
News)
"I am the Living Bread which
came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread, he shall
live
forever; and the bread that I will give is my flash, which I will give
for the
life of the world".
(Christ died not only for
His Bride, but for the whole of
mankind. Every person that has ever lived
will be given an opportunity to hear and act on the Good News. Anything else would be unjust!)
"Jesus said unto her, 'I am
the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in Me, though
he were
dead, yet shall he live'."
(Even though billions
have gone to the grave before and
after the Cross, a time is coming when all will be awakened out of
their “sleep
of death” and be given a chance to hear and act on what Christ did for
them.)
"I am come a light unto the
world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in
darkness".
"And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be
saved".
(God is not partial.
His plan is first to call out a Bride for Christ, The Church,
His
elect. This perfected, glorified Church
will be used to help resurrect those who fell asleep in death
without receiving
Christ, and then share with these the love of God during their 1,000
year
Millennium opportunity to become and be shaped into His new and
improved model
man).
"To Him give all the prophets
witness, that through His Name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive
remission of sins"
(The
millennium is the time God has set aside for mankind, in general, to be
resurrected and then hear and interact with the Gospel.
This is their “belief time” to either do, or
die the
second permanent death.)
"Neither is worshipped with
men’s hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all
life, and
breath, and all things".
(This can refer
to man’s first birth or his 2nd birth).
Romans 5:12
"Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all
men, for
that all have sinned"
(All ever
born were born dead, so to speak, with Adam’s death, for all were in
Adam when
he sinned and died, and therefore, “all have sinned”, and therefore all must
die.
And
just as each of us was inadvertently born in sin, each of us [because
of
Christ’s Atonement] will in like manner, also, be inadvertently raised
with
resurrection life.
But only those who are
of the espoused Bride know this, at this time).
(By the sin of father
Adam, all of mankind was plunged into
death, and all were separated from God.
All were consigned to death, until The Word became flesh
[Christ] and
took upon Himself the penalty of death for the sins of the whole world).
"But not as the offense, so
also is the free gift. For if through
the offense of one many (all) be dead (born dead in their sins separate
from
God), much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by
one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many(all)".
(All that have died are
“asleep” and will be awakened, and
raised to life and given the opportunity to hear the Good News, due to
the free
gift of grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, the First of the
“first
fruits”. First comes the Church’s
resurrection, the first fruits [proleptically this has already
happened], and
then later, in the Sabbatical Millennium, the rest of the world will be
resurrected
– the harvest).
"For if by one man’s
(Adams’s) offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive
abundance
of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ (the second Adam)".
"Therefore as by the offense
of one, judgment came upon ALL men to condemnation; even so by
the
righteousness of one, the free gift came upon ALL men
unto justification
of life".
(By father Adam all were
condemned to death for all were in
Adam when he sinned. When Adam sinned,
you sinned, I sinned. All mankind
sinned. When God looks and considers
Adam, He sees you and me. When He looks
at the resurrected Jesus, He sees you and me and all mankind! All were in the first Adam and sinned, like it
or not. The same “all” are now in the last Adam and are therefore
considered
sinless, like it or not. It’s just that
only the espoused Bride knows this, at this time. Christ,
[the second and last Adam] is
mankind’s new federal Head. And by His
Spirit, He is in the process of perfecting all those who conform to His
Plan. All those who don’t, He will
consign to the second death, and then turn over the resultant perfected
“world”
to the Father [I Cor.
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved"
(Means that EVERYONE must
be given a chance to receive
Christ. No one can call on Him Whom they
have never heard of, or believed in, while Satan was deceiving them. And merely “seeing creation” as Romans says,
doesn’t justify or save a person from the prison house of death. All Romans 1:18-23 is speaking to is the fact
that all are without excuse in their not seeking after God, for God is
clearly
known by all to exist, due to the creation which denotes a creator. The
only
thing that saves people is the atoning work for all that was
accomplished by
Christ’s blood being poured out and applied to the heavenly Throne of
God. That
work is an accomplished fact and now all
that remains is to give everyone an opportunity to hear it, receive it
and then
act on it.)
"For God hath bound all
men over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all".
(Read the account in
Romans 11:13-32 where Scripture shows that due to the disobedience of
the Jews,
the Gentiles, who are referred to as “the branches from a wild olive
tree were
broken off and then contrary to nature were joined to a cultivated
tree”. [In
horticulture it’s done just the opposite, ie., the cultivated good
branch is
grafted on to the wild native stock].
Then following that, God’s intent is to then “rejoin the broken
off
branches, the natural branches, the Jews, to their own tree again” –
verse
24. This is just one more example
pointing to a coming time when those whom God has blinded and thereby
not
seeing their disobedience will eventually be given a chance for
salvation).
"For since death came through
a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man".
(All were condemned to
death, for in Adam all sinned. Christ will
make all alive to hear, and hopefully
believe unto Life.)
"For as in Adam all die,
so in Christ all will be made alive".
(The same “all” that die
in Adam
(that’s everyone) will be made alive by a resurrection from the dead
[the grave].
made alive, and not just
made alive to be thrown into a lake of fire at that time.
However, at the end of the Millennium, some
incorrigibles will remain and eventually have to go the 2nd
death,
from which there is no chance of a resurrection).
2 Cor. 6:2 (See also
Is.
49:8)
"For He says, In the time of
my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you. I tell you now is the time of God’s favor,
now is the day of salvation".
(The principal purpose
for which Christ is returning to
earth is to spiritually develop in humanity godly character, and to
save the
masses of humanity from the grave [the curse of death].
Most Christians have supposed that this time,
now, is the only day of salvation. The
verse of Scripture that they rely on is 2 Cor. 6:2.
It should read “a day of salvation”,
in both 2 Cor. 6:2 and Is. 49:8 and not “the”. If Christ has been
trying to
“save the world” during the Church Age, He would have done so. The
world, in
general, has not yet been saved out of the death condition. And God doesn’t use a world of confused,
disagreeing religious organizations, divided into hundreds of different
concepts and theological doctrines, as His instruments.
The real world evangelism will be
administered by Christ and His Church, composed of resurrected
immortals, under
the direct personal supervision of Christ, Himself.)
"Who wants all men to
be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth".
(The
question is, can a Sovereign God want something and then not bring it
about? Of course not!
What most don’t realize is that the only
reason there is so much confusion today about God’s Plan is that it’s
primarily
centered around the doctrine that says man is innately immortal, the
immortality
of the soul doctrine. Once this platonic
concept [devised by Plato, in concert with all other world religions
and their
writings – accept the Bible], once this erroneous concept is exposed by
overlaying it with God’s Word, any rational being will see that it’s an
unadulterated lie. And again, this most
causal lie is why few understand God’s Plan, a Plan that calls for
salvation
for all, but at two distinct separate times. And
this is based on Christ’s shed Blood, but
one time frame is for the formation of the Bride, and the other is for
mankind,
in general. This calls for two entirely
different groups that will be saved, at two different times and thereby
they
are anti-types of Old Testament
"The Lord is not slow in
keeping His promise, as some understand slowness; He
is patient with you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to come to repentance"
(From God’s
perspective, from the moment the first Adam sinned, he died [death
according to
the Word is separation from the Author of Life].
All mankind, who were in Adam, sinned and
died. So it follows that when God
decreed the death penalty on Adam, He decreed it on all mankind, who
were in
Adam’s loins. This is why God
considers
all of us dead, from the womb to the grave.
All must go to the grave, for all are dead in Adam the moment
they are
conceived! The grave, then, is simply
the body catching up with what already is true of the spirit. However, when the second and last Adam [Jesus
Christ] went to the Cross, the sins [resulting in death] of all mankind
were
placed on Him so that when He died, all mankind died with Him. [Again, we are considering this from God’s
perspective, not man’s]. What man calls
life [sentient being], God calls death, [dead in your trespasses and
sin]. In other words, we were all born
dead).
“For God so loved the world”……and hopefully, you know the rest!
Part 4
The Plan of God
by Teresa
Allan
When Adam was first created, he was given
a choice,
To choose the ways of God, to harken to
His voice.
To live by faith, not by sight, and
worship The Lord
above,
To trust in God, for He knows best, and to
always
walk in love.
But the pride of life and love of self,
tempted Adam
to go astray,
Who turned from God, with his free will,
to live his
life his way.
Which brings us to the here and now, up to
this
present date,
Where Satan and all his evil lies, leaves
man with
death his fate.
Many think that the Word of God, is a book
of fables
and jive,
For how could a man live in a whale, for
three days
and survive?
And why the pain and suffering, is this
God’s loving
plan,
With many sick and dying, where is the
hope of man?
And why would a such loving God, take an
infant
at its birth,
And leave a mother wondering, what have I
done on
earth,
To deserve such sorrow, to know such
grief, to suffer
such a loss,
Is this life really worth it, why must I
pay such a
cost?
The rich get richer, the poor stay poor,
and there’s
a famine in the land,
Where is God in all of this, why doesn’t
He take a
stand?
God’s still The One He claims to be, His
Word today
still stands,
We must but trust, He’s in control, The
Almighty God,
I AM.
And through it all, He’s working out, His
great and
glorious plan,
To give all mankind a chance at Life, and
believe in
the Son of
Some say this is a second chance, but if
you listen
close,
You’ll see that this is not the case, it’s
not the
case with most.
For billions have been born on earth, and
billions
have gone to the grave,
That lived before and after the Cross, and
need a
chance to be saved.
Are they all doomed to burn in hell,
‘cause they
never heard God’s Word?
That’s not of the God of Scripture, to
think so is
most absurd.
For all men they are born in sin, a
condition we didn't
choose,
But man can be saved from this fallen
state, there’s
hope, it’s called the Good News.
God’s still the One He claims to be, His
Word today
still stands,
We must but trust, He’s in control, the
Almighty God,
I AM.
Again I say, He’s working out His great
and glorious
Plan,
To give all mankind a chance at Life, and
believe in
the Son of man.
But first, He’s calling out His Church,
from the time
Christ died on the Cross,
It’s a chosen few, made right with Him,
found after
having been lost.
They’ve been called out for His purpose,
they are
tested, they are tried,
They are also persecuted, attacked from
every side.
But God He’s had a reason, for all their
trials and
pain,
And soon they will be taken up, to return
with Christ
and reign.
But before all men have their chance at
Life, all
hell will break forth for a while,
But after this tribulation, God will look
down with a
smile.
For it’s time to send The Lord and His
Church, it’s
the second coming of Christ,
When all will be resurrected and given a
chance at
Life.
God wishes that none would perish, that
all would
enter in,
Receive of His Son, receive of His Love,
and finally
come to Him.
So it’s only a season of sin we’re in, for
soon will
come the day,
When all mankind will have a chance, to
choose to
live God’s Way.
For all mankind will be raised to Life,
and they will
look back through the years,
And see how satan and all his lies,
brought pain and
death and tears.
The Millennial Dawn is almost here, when
all will
confess and bow down,
That Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords, and
the truth has
now been found.
It’s the thousand year Millennial reign,
where Christ
and His glorious Church,
Will rule and reign over everyone, over
those who are
then on earth.
And all will be taught God glorious news,
while satan
he is bound,
When deception, lies and wickedness, will
no longer
be around.
Then at the end of the thousand years,
satan will be
loosed for a spell,
To test the faith of all on earth, and to
see who is
going to hell.
For those who choose to turn away, they’ll
on that
final day,
With satan and all his wicked ones,
they’ll all be
cast away.
But what of those who kept the faith, what
will their
future bring?
They’ll live on with everlasting life,
with Jesus
Christ, their King!
For rebellion will have come to an end, at
the final
curtain call,
When Christ will hand His Kingdom to God,
so the
Father may be all in all.
God’s always had The Way worked out,
through His
great and glorious Plan,
To give all mankind a chance at Life, and
believe in
the Son of
And after all I’ve shared with you, I pray
that
you’ve now seen,
The glorious truth of God’s Word, in John
three, in
verse sixteen:
John 3:16
“For God
so love the world, that He gave His Only Son,
that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting Life."
In
closing, consider the
fact that all of us have been greatly influenced by close to 2,000
years of “church”
history. Some of this influence has been
good,
but much of what we’ve come to believe is not in accordance with God’s
Mind put forth in His Word. Very early
on a lot of error crept into the true church.
Then, during the ensuing years before
Many today are involved in evaluating
the Plan of God that’s revealed in His Word.
Some consider this move of questioning the doctrines of the
Catholic and
Protestant churches to be blasphemous and cultish, and in some cases,
their
fears are well founded. However, if a
person is truly born from above
and has God’s Holy Spirit, they will be resting
in the fact of their salvation and realize that they were not saved by
correct
theology. Nor can they loose thatsalvation
by earnest study and questioning the so called authority of
organizational Christianity. Salvation
comes to a person based solely on Christ’s atoning work at
In the final analysis, it is
one’s appreciation for the incredible love of God that will allow a
person to
truly love themselves and others. But
this expanded love of God, like fallen human love, cannot be coerced or
forced.
One either resonates with this amplification
of His love or they don’t, and if they don’t, we tend to venture on to
others
who indicate that they perceive there is more to God’s Grand Design
than the
nominal church system has yet believed and taught.
We at New Creation Health
Unlimited have no organization to join and, therefore, nothing to quit. We don’t charge for most of what we share or
for our counsel, and above all, we are not in any way attached to what
folks do
with what we share. The only thing we
are attached and addicted to is the Mind of God and the glorious
relationship
that is possible once a person enters His Rest and allows His Perfect
Love to
cast out all fear, so that they may be free, yes, free indeed.
Resting in His Love and Care,
we are…
Richard and Teresa Allan