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Jimmij, God has a plan to reunite all in Jesus Christ. The same all who died in Adam will be restored to God. We had no say so in becoming sinners and we have no say so in becoming righteousness in the end. It is the work of God. We may temporarily rebel and disobey, come under condemnation , but ultimately, God heals and delivers all for His glory. God bless.
Only those who have the Son of God have eternal life.
"And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life" (1 John 5:11-12).
This is what Jesus says eternal (aionos) life is, Jimmiej.
John 3:17:3
Now this is eternal (aionos) life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Aionos life is the life of knowing the only True God and Jesus. If we are believers, God gives this life to us today and in the age to come. It is a blessed life of walking by faith and having a relationship with God. We are called the children of God, a holy nation. This life that believers have is abundant life, true life, the best life.
All people do not have this life of knowing God and Jesus. They do not have a relationship with God. They are lost, estranged, blinded, under the power of sin and satan. They are dead spiritually.
This is a temporary condition because there will come a time when all people will know God and Jesus. They will all return to Him, Jimmij. All creation will be delivered and experience the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Psalm 22: 27: All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will worship before You.
Romans 8 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope** 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God
**hope=elpis=expectation, confidence
The True Light which enlightens every man has come into the world. John 1:19 All are not enlightened at the same time but all will one day be enlightened. If this is not so, then darkness is greater than light. God bless.
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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. All things, everything that has ever come into being came out of God. He is the owner of all things. All things are His by design.
This means that He did not give us the capacity to have complete freedom.
He gave us life and it is a gift. But this life is not a gift that was given for us to keep to ourselves.
It ultimately belongs to Him. Even our children, our families, our material things, our aspirations, our hopes, whatever belong to Him, the Creator of all.
We are not the master of our own fate. If we were, then God would not subject or subdue all things to Himself in the end.
As someone once stated, we all came out of Him and we can all fit back into Him.
This means that every person we meet, encounter, in our lives is valuable. No one is a throw away.
We may not like them or understand them or we may have serious issues with them but they belong to God. He loves them and He has a good plan for them in the end.
The realization that God has a good plan for all people has changed my perspective in so many ways. I see them with different eyes now and even if I don't see eye to eye with them, I know that one day, we will all be on the same plane with our Creator.
One day He will be all in all (1 Cor. 15)
We should treat one another with this view in mind.
Are you prepared to claim that sin and the darkness that resides in the heart of one ignorant person are greater than the power of God to reveal, enlighten, persuade, convince, and deliver a person out of that darkness?
Do you believe that the ignorant human will is greater than the will of its own Creator to eventually subject all to Himself?
Do you believe that darkness is greater than light?
Are you prepared to claim that sin and the darkness that resides in the heart of one ignorant person are greater than the power of God to reveal, enlighten, persuade, convince, and deliver a person out of that darkness?
Do you believe that the ignorant human will is greater than the will of its own Creator to eventually subject all to Himself?
How shallow is the common view of “fire” as only or chiefly a penal agent. Fire, in Scripture, is the element of…
“Life”…Isa. 4:5
“Purification”…Matt. 3:3
“Atonement”…Lev. 16:27
“Transformation”…2 Pet. 3:10
And never ever of preservation alive for purposes of anguish.
And the popular view selects precisely this latter use, never found in Scripture, and represents it as the sole end of God’s fiery judgments! If we take either the teaching of Scripture or of nature, we see that the dominant conception of fire is of a beneficent agent. Nature tells us that fire is a necessary condition of life; its mission is to sustain life; and to purify, even when it dissolves.
Extinguish the stores of fire in the universe, and you extinguish all being; universal death reigns. Most strikingly is this connection of fire and life shown in the facts of nutrition. For we actually burn in order to live; our food is the fuel; our bodies are furnaces; our nutrition is a process of combustion; we are, in fact, “aflame to the very tips of our fingers.” And so it is that round the fireside of life and work gather: when we think of home we speak of the family hearth.
Fire Is The Sign Of God’s Being
And what Nature teaches, Scripture enforces in no doubtful tone. It is significant to find the Great Source of life constantly associated with fire in the Bible.
Fire is the sign, not of God’s wrath, but of His being.
When God comes to Ezekiel there is a “fire unfolding itself” (Ezek. 1:4, 27) and “the appearance of fire.” (Ezek. 8:2)
Christ’s eyes are a flame of “fire” (Rev. 1:14).
The seven lamps of “fire” are the seven Spirits of God (Rev. 4:5). So a fiery stream is said “to go before God,” His throne is fiery flame, its wheels are burning fire (Daniel 7:9,10). His eyes are lamps of fire (Dan. 10:6); He is a wall of fire (Zeph. 2:5). At His touch the mountains smoke (Psl. 104:32). And God’s ministers are a flame of fire (Psl. 104:4…Heb. 1:7). It is not meant to deny that the Divine Fire chastises and destroys.
Purification, Not Ruin Is The Final Outcome
It is meant that purification, not ruin, is the final outcome of that fire from above, which consumes–call it, if you please, a paradox–in order that it may save. For if God is Love, then by what but by love can His fires be kindled? They are, in fact, the very flame of love; and so we have the key to the words, “Thy God is a consuming Fire,” and “Thy God is a merciful God” (Deut. 4:24-31). So God devours the earth with fire, in order that finally all may call upon the name of the Lord (Zeph. 3:8,9)–words full of significance.
So Isaiah tells us of God’s cleansing the daughters of Zion by the spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4)–suggestive words. And, so again, “By fire will the Lord plead with all flesh.” (Isa. 66:16) And Christ coming to save, comes to purify by “fire.” (Mal. 3:2).
Fire A Sign Of Favourable Response?
Let us note, also, how often “fire” is the sign of a favourable answer from God; when God appears to Moses at the Bush it is in “fire:” God answers Gideon by “fire;” and David by “fire.” (1 Chron. 21:26) Again, when He answers Elijah on Carmel, it is by “fire;” and in “fire” Elijah himself ascends to God. So God sends to Elisha, for aid, chariots and horses of “fire.” So when the Psalmist calls, God answers by “fire.” (Psl. 18:6-8)
And by the pillar of “fire” God gave His law. And in “fire” the great gift of the Holy Ghost descends at Pentecost."
Fire Is The Portion Of All
These words bring us to the New Testament. There we find that “fire,” like judgment, so far from being the sinner’s portion ONLY, is the portion of all. Like God’s judgment again, it is not future merely, but present; it is “already kindled,” always kindled: its object is not torment, but cleansing. The proof comes from the lips of our Lord Himself. “I am come to send fire on the earth,” for it is certain that He came as a Saviour. Thus, coming to save, Christ comes with fire, nay, with fire already kindled. He comes to baptize with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Therefore, it is that Christ teaches in solemn passage (usually misunderstood, Mark 9:43) that everyone shall be salted with fire. And so the “fire is to try every man’s work.” He whose work fails is saved (mark the word saved), not damned “so as by fire,” by consuming what is evil, saves and refines.
The antient tradition that represents Christ as saying, “He that is near Me is near fire,” expresses a vital truth. So Malachi, describes Christ as being in His saving work “like a refiner’s fire.” And so, echoing Deut 4:24-31, we are told that “our God is a consuming Fire,” i.e., God in His closest relation to us; God is Love; God is Spirit: but “Our God is a consuming Fire”–a consuming Fire, “by which the whole material substance of sin is destroyed.”
When, then, we read (Psl. 18:12) that “coals of fire” go before God, we think of the deeds of love which are “coals of fire” to our enemies. (Rom. 12:20) Thus, we who teach hope for all men, do not shrink from but accept, in their fullest meaning, these mysterious “fires” of gehenna, of which Christ speaks (kindled for purification), as in a special sense the sinner’s doom in the coming ages. But taught by the clearest statements of Scripture (confirmed as they are by many analogies of Nature), we see in these “fires” not a denial of, but a mode of fulfilling, the promise–
"Behold, I make all things new." -Christ Triumphant-
How shallow is the common view of “fire” as only or chiefly a penal agent. Fire, in Scripture, is the element of…
“Life”…Isa. 4:5
“Purification”…Matt. 3:3
“Atonement”…Lev. 16:27
“Transformation”…2 Pet. 3:10
And never ever of preservation alive for purposes of anguish.
And the popular view selects precisely this latter use, never found in Scripture, and represents it as the sole end of God’s fiery judgments! If we take either the teaching of Scripture or of nature, we see that the dominant conception of fire is of a beneficent agent. Nature tells us that fire is a necessary condition of life; its mission is to sustain life; and to purify, even when it dissolves.
Extinguish the stores of fire in the universe, and you extinguish all being; universal death reigns. Most strikingly is this connection of fire and life shown in the facts of nutrition. For we actually burn in order to live; our food is the fuel; our bodies are furnaces; our nutrition is a process of combustion; we are, in fact, “aflame to the very tips of our fingers.” And so it is that round the fireside of life and work gather: when we think of home we speak of the family hearth.
Fire Is The Sign Of God’s Being
And what Nature teaches, Scripture enforces in no doubtful tone. It is significant to find the Great Source of life constantly associated with fire in the Bible.
Fire is the sign, not of God’s wrath, but of His being.
When God comes to Ezekiel there is a “fire unfolding itself” (Ezek. 1:4, 27) and “the appearance of fire.” (Ezek. 8:2)
Christ’s eyes are a flame of “fire” (Rev. 1:14).
The seven lamps of “fire” are the seven Spirits of God (Rev. 4:5). So a fiery stream is said “to go before God,” His throne is fiery flame, its wheels are burning fire (Daniel 7:9,10). His eyes are lamps of fire (Dan. 10:6); He is a wall of fire (Zeph. 2:5). At His touch the mountains smoke (Psl. 104:32). And God’s ministers are a flame of fire (Psl. 104:4…Heb. 1:7). It is not meant to deny that the Divine Fire chastises and destroys.
Purification, Not Ruin Is The Final Outcome
It is meant that purification, not ruin, is the final outcome of that fire from above, which consumes–call it, if you please, a paradox–in order that it may save. For if God is Love, then by what but by love can His fires be kindled? They are, in fact, the very flame of love; and so we have the key to the words, “Thy God is a consuming Fire,” and “Thy God is a merciful God” (Deut. 4:24-31). So God devours the earth with fire, in order that finally all may call upon the name of the Lord (Zeph. 3:8,9)–words full of significance.
So Isaiah tells us of God’s cleansing the daughters of Zion by the spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4)–suggestive words. And, so again, “By fire will the Lord plead with all flesh.” (Isa. 66:16) And Christ coming to save, comes to purify by “fire.” (Mal. 3:2).
Fire A Sign Of Favourable Response?
Let us note, also, how often “fire” is the sign of a favourable answer from God; when God appears to Moses at the Bush it is in “fire:” God answers Gideon by “fire;” and David by “fire.” (1 Chron. 21:26) Again, when He answers Elijah on Carmel, it is by “fire;” and in “fire” Elijah himself ascends to God. So God sends to Elisha, for aid, chariots and horses of “fire.” So when the Psalmist calls, God answers by “fire.” (Psl. 18:6-8)
And by the pillar of “fire” God gave His law. And in “fire” the great gift of the Holy Ghost descends at Pentecost."
Fire Is The Portion Of All
These words bring us to the New Testament. There we find that “fire,” like judgment, so far from being the sinner’s portion ONLY, is the portion of all. Like God’s judgment again, it is not future merely, but present; it is “already kindled,” always kindled: its object is not torment, but cleansing. The proof comes from the lips of our Lord Himself. “I am come to send fire on the earth,” for it is certain that He came as a Saviour. Thus, coming to save, Christ comes with fire, nay, with fire already kindled. He comes to baptize with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Therefore, it is that Christ teaches in solemn passage (usually misunderstood, Mark 9:43) that everyone shall be salted with fire. And so the “fire is to try every man’s work.” He whose work fails is saved (mark the word saved), not damned “so as by fire,” by consuming what is evil, saves and refines.
The antient tradition that represents Christ as saying, “He that is near Me is near fire,” expresses a vital truth. So Malachi, describes Christ as being in His saving work “like a refiner’s fire.” And so, echoing Deut 4:24-31, we are told that “our God is a consuming Fire,” i.e., God in His closest relation to us; God is Love; God is Spirit: but “Our God is a consuming Fire”–a consuming Fire, “by which the whole material substance of sin is destroyed.”
When, then, we read (Psl. 18:12) that “coals of fire” go before God, we think of the deeds of love which are “coals of fire” to our enemies. (Rom. 12:20) Thus, we who teach hope for all men, do not shrink from but accept, in their fullest meaning, these mysterious “fires” of gehenna, of which Christ speaks (kindled for purification), as in a special sense the sinner’s doom in the coming ages. But taught by the clearest statements of Scripture (confirmed as they are by many analogies of Nature), we see in these “fires” not a denial of, but a mode of fulfilling, the promise–
"Behold, I make all things new." -Christ Triumphant-
Amen, Birdy. Whatever the source of this material, it is an outstanding study and witness.
Amen, Birdy. Whatever the source of this material, it is an outstanding study and witness.
Mystic: We have our dear friends Gary & Michelle Amarault to thank for presenting this remarkable book for us by Thomas Allin an Anglican priest from years ago. Enjoy the witness.
All will NOT be saved. It is imperative we make new disciples before it’s too late.
2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
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