The Restitution Of All Things

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יְשׁוּעָה 'yeshuʽa or yeshua' = salvation

"It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing 'what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah. Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, 'and all his work. It's God's gift from start to finish!" ~MSG

Note

1. God is salvation. He is not potential salvation: He IS salvation.

2. He is incredible love (His essence).

3. He requires no help from our sin dead lives: He does it all alone.

4. There is no rush, He has all the time in this world & the next.

5. Saving us is all His idea and ALL His work from start to finish.

NO HELP REQUIRED

 

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Fire Is The Portion Of All.

Fire, like judgment, so far from being the sinners portion ONLY, is the portion of all.

Like God's judgment 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 comes as Saviour.

Thus, coming to save, Christ comes with fire, with fire already kindled. He comes to baptize with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.

Behold I make ALL new.

 

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The wonderful event encompassing the feeding of many thousands by the Man of Glory left many baskets of leftovers. What does the Master instruct His disciples to do?

"Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost."

Question =

Are morsels of leftover fish and bread more important to the Saviour of all mankind than those leftover remnants of broken mankind from the disobedience of Adam?

Charles Slagle: Absolute Assurance in Christ – Four Views of the Good News of Jesus Christ – Mercy Upon All

 

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The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart.

He has loved us from all eternity and needed nothing to stimulate that love.

The cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love which conceived the cross as the one method by which we could be saved.

God felt no different toward us after Christ had died for us, for in the mind of God Christ had already died before the foundation of the world.

God never saw us except through atonement.

The human race could not have existed one day in its fallen state had not Christ spread His mantle of atonement over it.

This He did in His eternal purpose long ages before they led Him out to die on the hill above Jerusalem.

All God's dealings with man have been conditioned upon the cross. - A.W. Tozer

 

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Charles Slagle

Charles Slagle

God is the Savior of all mankind, not some of it, ALL of it.

 

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Who is Gerry Beauchemin

https://www.hopebeyondhell.net/about-me/

Gerry's Book: Free on-line

https://www.hopebeyondhell.net/

Do you ever feel hopeless?

Rest assured our Heavenly Lord loves you and I excessively beyond all we can imagine

 

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My love to God and my admiration have increased unutterably since I have seen that He is not the defeated fiend of Christendom, but is fully able to cope with evil and sin, and bind them all to the chariot wheels of love. All His attributes, including holiness, and righteousness, serve in the livery of love. Adored be His Name!" -A.E. Knoch

"Annihilation is the triumph of death over life: it is the very antithesis to the gospel, which asserts the triumph of Christ over every form of death." -Thomas Allin (Christ Triumphant)

 

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"God has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that in the name Jesus, every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and in things under the earth; and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

NOTE

1. Every knee (the radical all).

2. Every tongue (the radical all).

3. Every dimension of heaven, earth & underworld. (the radical all).

4. In union with the Name of Jesus (en = in).

No being in any dimension of Fathers world will not worship Him.

 

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“Christ hath abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.”II Tim. 1:10.

Christ did not bring eternal death and an endless hell to light. He revealed life and immortality for our race beyond the grave.
Temporal death is the last enemy man will ever encounter, and that is to be destroyed by the Lord Omnipotent.

“Christ died and rose again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and the living.” Rom. 14:9.

“The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.” Acts 10:36.

Lord means owner: Jesus, then, is the owner of all mankind – the dead and the living.

Paul, writing of the glorious resurrection of all the dead, says: “But every one in his own order: Christ, the first fruits, and afterwards, those that are Christ’s at his coming” – (I Cor. 15:23) – he means that all the dead shall be raised in Christ’s possession.

Will one soul that belongs to Jesus Christ be forever lost?

Christ will destroy the devil.

“Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he, also, himself (Christ), took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death – that is, the devil.” Heb. 2:14.

Jesus will not only destroy the devil, but he will destroy all his works.

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” I John 3:8.

The reign of all evil is to cease.

The Prince of Peace is its conqueror.

False is the notion that sin and misery will continue forever!

 

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“Christ hath abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.”II Tim. 1:10.

Christ did not bring eternal death and an endless hell to light. He revealed life and immortality for our race beyond the grave.
Temporal death is the last enemy man will ever encounter, and that is to be destroyed by the Lord Omnipotent.

“Christ died and rose again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and the living.” Rom. 14:9.

“The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.” Acts 10:36.

Lord means owner: Jesus, then, is the owner of all mankind – the dead and the living.

Paul, writing of the glorious resurrection of all the dead, says: “But every one in his own order: Christ, the first fruits, and afterwards, those that are Christ’s at his coming” – (I Cor. 15:23) – he means that all the dead shall be raised in Christ’s possession.

Will one soul that belongs to Jesus Christ be forever lost?

Christ will destroy the devil.

“Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he, also, himself (Christ), took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death – that is, the devil.” Heb. 2:14.

Jesus will not only destroy the devil, but he will destroy all his works.

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” I John 3:8.

The reign of all evil is to cease.

The Prince of Peace is its conqueror.

False is the notion that sin and misery will continue forever!

 

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The New Testament presents Christ as a universal and complete Savior.

He is the true Light that lights every man that comes into the world – the Bread of God, that comes down from heaven to give light to the world – the Physician to heal the morally diseased – the Author and Finisher of faith, and the Captain of Salvation –Jesus, or Savior, who should save his people from their sins – the Deliverer who shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob – the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world – the Head of every man – the Head of the Church, which is his body, and the fullness of him that fills all in all – the Heir of all things – the faithful and true Witness – the prevailing Lion of the tribe of Judah – the Door and Shepherd of the sheep, who gave his life for the sheep – the Mediator and Testator of the better covenant.

The complete Savior of the whole world.

If Christ be the true light that lights every man that comes into the world, shall not every man be enlightened?

If the Bread of God gives life to the world, shall not the world have life?

If the morally sick are healed, shall they eternally remain diseased?

Shall not faith, in the now unbelieving be perfected under the Author and Finisher?

Will salvation be completed under the Captain who "shall not fail nor be discouraged?”

If he saves his people from their sins, shall they eternally remain unsaved?

If he turns away ungodliness from Jacob, and takes away the sin of the world, shall ungodliness and sin forever hold mankind in endless bondage?

Shall the body of Christ eternally remain incomplete, or diseased, or in bondage?

Shall the Heir of all things never possess his inheritance?

Does the faithful and true witness swear
falsely when he declares, “and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me?”

Shall the Lion of the tribe of Judah be defeated and never prevail?

Shall the sheep never enter the door opened for them, nor the Shepherd that died for them, lead them into the green pastures, and by the side of the still waters of God’s love?

Shall the Mediator never accomplish the object of his mission, or see the better covenant fulfilled, nor witness the conferring of the inheritance on those to whom it was bequeathed and attested by his death?

If he is the Savior of the world, shall not the world be saved?

Can he be the Savior of the world if a large portion of the world be eternally lost!

Endless misery = NO: At-one-ment = YES

 

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Jacques Ellul regarding Universal Salvation

(Universalism, Ultimate Reconciliation, Universal Reconciliation, Apocatastasis, The Larger Hope, The Greater Faith, The Doctrine of Inclusion, Restoration of All, The Victorious Gospel of Jesus Christ)

Am I a pessimist?

Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God .

I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

The difference between the Christian and the non-Christian is not one of salvation. Salvation is given by grace to everyone.

Christians are simply those charged by God with a special mission.

The meaning of being a Christian is not working at your own little salvation, but changing human history.

It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation.

There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved.

Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

Being saved or lost does not depend on our own free decision. An explicit confession of Jesus Christ is not the condition for salvation. Salvation is always for everyone, by grace. All people are included in the grace of God. A theology of grace implies universal salvation.

 

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So, what do you think?

With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?

Who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger?

The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.

Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us?

There is no way!

I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us." ~MSG

 

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“Christ has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.” -II Tim. 1:10.

Christ did not bring eternal death and an endless hell to light.

He revealed life and immortality for our race beyond the grave.

Temporal death is the last enemy man will ever encounter, and that is to be destroyed by the Lord Omnipotent.

“Christ died and rose again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and the living.” -Rom. 14:9.

The Apostle Peter writes “The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.” -Acts 10:36

Lord means owner: Jesus is the owner of all mankind – the dead and the living. Will one soul that belongs to Jesus Christ be forever lost?

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Owner of all mankind: dead & living.

 

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Christ’s name, and office, is Savior.

“You shall call his name Jesus (which means Savior), for he shall save his people from their sins.” -Matt. 1:21.

All people = “the dead and the living,”

“All things” – are given to Christ.

Here we are told that he will save them, (remember, he is called the Savior of the world), hence his very appropriate name.

In the character of God, as exhibited by the spirit, the works, and the whole life of Christ, we find an irrefutable argument for universal salvation.

Jesus appeared on earth in the character of a Savior, not of a destroyer; a friend, not a foe of mankind; an impartial and kind benefactor of all, not a capricious revenger of pretended or real wrongs.

When persecuted, he retaliated not; when reviled, he reviled not; when reproached and scoffed at, he did not curse his foes.

His whole life was one continued exhibition of love, benevolence, and compassion.

It is emphatically and truly said of him, “he went about doing good.”

To the poor and needy he was condescending and humane. He gave health to the sick, feet to the lame, ears to the deaf, speech to the dumb, sanity to the lunatic, bread to the hungry, forgiveness to the sinful, salvation to the lost, and life to the dead.

Ever merciful and mild, he compassionated the sufferings of every condition. He wept at the grave of Lazarus, his friend, and also over the approaching woes of Jerusalem, where resided his bitterest foes; and even for his bloody and cruel murderers he prayed on the cross, and in the agonies of death at their unfeeling hands, besought his Father for their forgiveness.

If we would know the character of God, we must study the character of Jesus

If we would know how God will deal with those who love or hate him, his friends and foes, we should learn how Christ dealt with those classes, for he “was God manifested in the flesh,” “was the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.”

The character of Christ is the character of God; the tenderness and compassion that Jesus possessed for all men, the good, the evil, is that which God possesses for all mankind.

If our heavenly Father is as benevolent, compassionate, and forgiving, as his Son, will he bless or curse, save or damn our race?

Will he be merciful or unmerciful to us?

Will he favor us with everlasting life, or curse us with everlasting death?

Will he take us to heaven, or shut us up in hell?

Will he permit us to enjoy his presence, or put us in possession of the devil?

At-one-ment YES: Separation NO!

 

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Christ prayed for the whole world. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. That the world may believe that You have sent me. " ~ John 17:20-23.

Jesus then prayed that the world – all mankind – might believe on him, might know him, “whom to know is life eternal.”

Would Jesus have prayed thus if vast segments of the dead were then beyond the reach of mercy, and that God would consign unborn millions to a region of hopeless despair?

Why pray for all if mercy could only reach a part?

Could he have prayed in faith for all, if he had known that zillions were already damned endlessly, and that multitudes yet to live would be?

Impossible!

The angels of heaven desire the salvation of all men.

"There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.”[/b] -Luke 15:10.

They, therefore, desire that all may repent and would rejoice with exceeding great joy if all should do so.

Is not that benevolent desire of the angels a righteous one?

Will not the Creator cause it to be realized?

We are commanded to pray for all. “I exhort, therefore, that supplication, prayers be made for all men.” -I Tim. 2:1

God, our Father, would not require us to pray for all if it was not his purpose that salvation should be universally experienced!

Partialism contends for this absurdity.

What! The all-wise God commands his creatures to ask him to grant what is not, never was, and never will be, his intention to bestow!

 

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"God IS the Saviour of all mankind, especially those who trust in Him (who believe). Command this and teach this."

NOTE

1. God is Saviour: He is not a potential Saviour.

2. Especially = malista.

3. Only = monon and monos.

God is not the Saviour of only those who believe: He is the Saviour of ALL mankind!

 

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No one can obey the divine commandment, which is, to pray for all men in faith, unless they believe in universal salvation.

Calvinists can pray for all; but for the elect only can they pray in faith.

Arminians can pray for all; but, in faith, only for part.

Universalists can pray for all mankind, in full faith, “without wrath or doubting.”

They are the only class of Christians who obey both of these divine injunctions, and whose faith corresponds with their prayers.

It is the desire of every true Christian that all may be redeemed.

There is not a follower of Christ on earth, but who desires that all our race may enjoy the salvation of God.

This blessed faith is in accordance with every Christian’s heart. Wicked men only hope it may prove false, that they may be gratified by the damnation of their enemies.

It is, then, the will of God – was the prayer of Christ – is the desire of all the angels of heaven, and of all the Christians on earth, that all mankind may “be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Can that be an error, which God, Christ, all the angels and Christians are in favor of?

Are they all enlisted on the side of a base falsehood?

The goodness of men would cause them to save all, if they had power.

Will not God redeem all, who is infinite in goodness, and has ample power?

Would a drop of love in the human breast save the world, and will the ocean of love which God possesses cause him to damn half of it?

Can a stream rise higher than its fountain?

“Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?” Job 4:17.

A man would be deemed a monster who should say that he would, if he could, ruin half of mankind; yet, we are told that God has said he will do it!

The Love of God never fails, EVER.

 

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Jesus reproved the Pharisees for shutting up the kingdom of heaven against men.

“Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor suffer them that are entering to go in.” Matt. 23:13.

They were never guilty of shutting up the kingdom of hell – they were perfectly willing that it should be kept open, and that many should go in; but the door of the kingdom of heaven they endeavored to close against all who did not think and do as they did.

How many there are in this day just like the Scribes and Pharisees of old! They open hell and shut heaven to most of mankind.

Elsewhere Christ said to his disciples, “Beware of the doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees.”

Jesus labored, preached, suffered, died, rose from the dead, and ascended on high, that all might enter his kingdom.

We are informed that “he shall see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied.” All, then, will finally enter the kingdom of heaven.

Peter was instructed in a vision, that all mankind came from heaven; that they are, while on earth, protected by heavenly power; and that they “all will be drawn up again into heaven.” Acts 10:10-16.

The same truth is taught by the Apostle Paul, when he says, “For of him (God), and through him, and to him, are all things.” -Rom. 11:36

God is the Source, Guide and Goal of the all: the ta panta.

 

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The same soul-cheering truth is also taught by the wise man.

“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; but the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” Eccl. 12:7.

From these three passages we learn, that mankind are of divine origin; are, while on earth, under divine protection; and when they leave this world, return to that great and good Being who created and sustains them.

Says Jesus, “If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.” John 12:32.

It is also written, “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.” - Rom. 5:18.

NOTE

The judgment to condemnation came upon all men. None are excepted – all were condemned.

The free gift, with justification of life, also came upon all men. The free gift of eternal life is to be equal in extent to condemnation, all are to enjoy everlasting life.

Polus = polus" = a perfect equation