The Restitution Of All Things

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Pages and pages of UR spam quoting UR gurus giving their unsupported opinions. Matthew 15:14

 

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The Divine Embrace Of Father

It is so sad that for many years the church had to reduce its message to a heaven or hell theme in order to persuade people into a decision for Christ. The Gospel persuades man what God believes and what God achieved on humanity’s behalf in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If the Gospel has the power to get people to fall head over heels in love with God and to love their neighbor as much as they love themselves, then this Gospel demands our total attention and emphasis.

This automatically frees anyone anyway from the dread of hell or any sense of pending punishment. There is no law against the free expression of the fruit of the spirit. No one can exaggerate love, peace, joy, endurance, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self control. Legalism can neither match nor contradict this.......

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Francois du Toit on rejecting a Christless universalism-Divine Embrace

 

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"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." -MSG-

The abounding love & grace of God = perisseia =

Exceeding measure/ above the ordinary.

Overflowing.

 

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Apocatastasis =

Jesus the Christ came to save more than a few.

Universal Salvation? Bible Supports Apocatastasis

"How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him.

Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.

Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!

He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making.

He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone." -MSG-

 

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A.P. Adams=

We Are God's Workmanship

Purpose In Creation

Purpose of Evil

The Atonement

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Why did Christ Die?

https://www.godfire.net/why_did_chri..._a_p_adams.htm

The Second Death

http://www.theheraldofgodsgrace.org/...cond_death.htm

Death and the grave were cast into the Lake of Fire, and Rev. 20:l4 distinctly says "this IS the second death."

Let me ask any thinking believer that if Scripture means that these enemies of mankind, "death and the grave" are going to die the second time?

You will say no.

Then why be inconsistent enough to insist that it means nothing but a literal death the second time for mankind.

By this Scripture, you may see at once that it is not the number of deaths that Yahweh is indicating but the kind of death or character of the destruction. I notice that writers on this subject who freely give a literal second death to human sinners are silent about "death and the grave" going into the same punishment, although the Bible boldly declares it.


Judgment

http://kingdom-resources.com/2017/10...-by-a-p-adams/

 

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We Are God's Workmanship
Purpose In Creation
Purpose of Evil
The Atonement
Why did Christ Die?
The Second Death
Death and the grave were cast into the Lake of Fire, and Rev. 20:l4 distinctly says "this IS the second death."
Let me ask any thinking believer that if Scripture means that these enemies of mankind, "death and the grave" are going to die the second time. You will say no.
Then why be inconsistent enough to insist that it means nothing but a literal death the second time for mankind.
By this Scripture, you may see at once that it is not the number of deaths that Yahweh is indicating but the kind of death or character of the destruction. I notice that writers on this subject who freely give a literal second death to human sinners are silent about "death and the grave" going into the same punishment, although the Bible boldly declares it.
Judgment..

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But for the fact that "death" is the point in time end of life. It has no physical presence and cannot be literally thrown anywhere. It is not a living thing so it cannot literally die a first time so it cannot die a second time.
Hell is either the grave or the place of eternal punishment. If the grave that is only empty holes. "Empty" cannot be thrown anywhere. "Empty" is not a living thing it did not and cannot die a first time so it can't die a second time.
If "the place of punishment" it can conceivably be thrown somewhere. But "hell" is not a living thing it did not and cannot die a first time so it can't die a second time.
There is a scriptural answer that does not involve jumping through hoops mixing literal and figurative.

Revelation 6:8
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.​

I refer to these two guys as the angel of death and the demon of hell. They are living beings, they can be thrown into the LOF and they can die and their power to kill ended..

 

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Complete book Christ Triumphant -Thomas Allin-

Christ Triumphant by Thomas Allin

The 2nd Death & The Restitution Of All Things -Andrew Jukes-

The Second Death and the Restitution of All Things by Andrew Jukes (Index)

 

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"Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see God’s salvation.”

"Thunder in the desert!
Prepare God’s arrival!
Make the road smooth and straight!
Every ditch will be filled in,
Every bump smoothed out,
The detours straightened out,
All the ruts paved over.
Everyone will be there to see
The parade of God’s salvation.” -MSG-

 

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A.T. Robertson Word Pictures

Overview - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

Rev. 5:13

"Every created thing (παν κτισμα — pān ktisma).

Every creature in a still wider antiphonal circle beyond the circle of angels (from κτιζω — ktizō for which see 1 Timothy 4:4; James 1:18), from all the four great fields of life (in heaven, upon the earth, under the earth as in Revelation 5:3, with on the sea επι της ταλασσης — epi tēs thalassēs added). No created thing is left out. This universal chorus of praise to Christ from all created life reminds one of the profound mystical passage in Romans 8:20-22 concerning the sympathetic agony of creation (κτισις — ktisis) in hope of freedom from the bondage of corruption. If the trail of the serpent is on all creation, it will be ultimately thrown off."

 

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Apollumi =

On the following pages you will see the many ways the word "apollumi" is used in the New Testament. You will see that sometimes it is translated "lost" such as in the "lost" sheep, when the sheep was alive. In other places, the same word, "apollumi," is translated "perish" or "destroyed" and the implication in these last two instances is that the individual is dead.

The "Destruction" of the Wicked

Although John Wesley is not on record as a universalist, he was greatly influenced by the Moravians, many of whom were universalists. He quoted from Sixteen Discourses (Moravian Literature), the following statement, “By his (Christ’s) name, all can and shall obtain life and salvation.” One of Wesley’s intimate friends, Peter Bohler wrote: “All the damned souls shall yet be brought up out of hell.” (Bohler was made the Bishop of American Moravians, next in rank to Zinzendorf).

The Reformer Martin Luther had hope for all. In his letter to Hanseu Von Rechenberg in 1522, Luther wrote: "God forbid that I should limit the time of acquiring faith to the present life. In the depth of the Divine mercy there may be opportunity to win it in the future." Bengel's book, Gnomon, quotes Luther's exposition of Hosea as accepting the idea that Christ appeared to souls of some who in the time of Noah had been unbelieving, that they might recognize that their sins were forgiven through His sacrifice.

... Since 1800 this situation has entirely changed, and no traditional doctrine has been so widely abandoned as that of eternal punishment. Its advocates among theologians today must be fewer than ever before.... Among the less conservative, universal salvation, either as hope or as dogma, is now so widely accepted that many theologians assume it virtually without argument." --Richard J. Bauckham, lecturer in the history of Christian thought at the University of Manchester

Dr. J.I. Packer has noted that Universalism "has in this century quietly become part of the orthodoxy of many Christian thinkers and groups."

D. B. Eller asserts in the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology that it is clear that "Universalism, in a variety of forms, continues to have appeal for contemporary faith, in both liberal and conservative circles."

"We have not an impotent Father, or a disappointed Christ, or a defeated Holy Ghost, as is so commonly preached; but an omnipotent Father, and all-victorious Christ, and an almighty Holy Spirit, able to break the hardest of heart and subdue the stoutest will." Dr. E.W. Bullinger, The Companion Bible

 

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A.T. Robertson Word Pictures

Overview - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

Rev. 5:13

"Every created thing (παν κτισμα — pān ktisma).

Every creature in a still wider antiphonal circle beyond the circle of angels (from κτιζω — ktizō for which see 1 Timothy 4:4; James 1:18), from all the four great fields of life (in heaven, upon the earth, under the earth as in Revelation 5:3, with on the sea επι της ταλασσης — epi tēs thalassēs added). No created thing is left out. This universal chorus of praise to Christ from all created life reminds one of the profound mystical passage in Romans 8:20-22 concerning the sympathetic agony of creation (κτισις — ktisis) in hope of freedom from the bondage of corruption. If the trail of the serpent is on all creation, it will be ultimately thrown off."

All things work together (παντα συνεργει — panta sunergei). A B have ο τεος — ho theos as the subject of συνεργει — sunergei (old verb, see 1 Corinthians 16:16; 2 Corinthians 6:1). That is the idea anyhow. It is God who makes “all things work together” in our lives “for good” (εις αγατον — eis agathon), ultimate good.

According to his purpose (κατα προτεσιν — kata prothesin). Old word, seen already in Acts 27:13 and for “shewbread” in Matthew 12:4. The verb προτιτημι — protithēmi Paul uses in Romans 3:24 for God‘s purpose. Paul accepts fully human free agency but behind it all and through it all runs God‘s sovereignty as here and on its gracious side (Romans 9:11; Romans 3:11; 2 Timothy 1:9).


Acts 26:5. See Psalms 1:6 (lxx) and Matthew 7:23. This fore-knowledge and choice is placed in eternity in Ephesians 1:4.

He foreordained (προωρισεν — proōrisen). First aorist active indicative of προοριζω — proorizō late verb to appoint beforehand as in Acts 4:28; 1 Corinthians 2:7. Another compound with προ — prȯ (for eternity).

Conformed to the image (συμμορπους της εικονος — summorphous tēs eikonos). Late adjective from συν — sun and μορπη — morphē and so an inward and not merely superficial conformity. Εικων — Eikōn is used of Christ as the very image of the Father (2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15). See note on Philemon 2:6. for μορπη — morphē Here we have both μορπη — morphē and εικων — eikōn to express the gradual change in us till we acquire the likeness of Christ the Son of God so that we ourselves shall ultimately have the family likeness of sons of God. Glorious destiny.

That he might be (εις το ειναι αυτον — eis to einai auton). Common idiom for purpose.

First born among many brethren (πρωτοτοκον εν πολλοις αδελποις — prōtotokon en pollois adelphois). Christ is “first born” of all creation (Colossians 1:15), but here he is “first born from the dead” (Colossians 1:18), the Eldest Brother in this family of God‘s sons, though “Son” in a sense not true of us.

Called (εκαλεσεν — ekalesen)

- Justified (εδικαιωσεν — edikaiōsen)

- Glorified (εδοχασεν — edoxasen). All first aorist active indicatives of common verbs (καλεω δικαιοω δοχαζω — kaleōεδοχασεν — dikaioōdoxazō). But the glorification is stated as already consummated (constative aorists, all of them), though still in the future in the fullest sense. “The step implied in edoxasen is both complete and certain in the Divine counsels” (Sanday and Headlam). -Robertson Word Pictures-

 

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Overview - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament
Rev. 5:13
"Every created thing (παν κτισμα — pān ktisma).
Every creature in a still wider antiphonal circle beyond the circle of angels (from κτιζω — ktizō for which see 1 Timothy 4:4; James 1:18), from all the four great fields of life (in heaven, upon the earth, under the earth as in Revelation 5:3, with on the sea επι της ταλασσης — epi tēs thalass
ēs added). No created thing is left out. This universal chorus of praise to Christ from all created life reminds one of the profound mystical passage in Romans 8:20-22 concerning the sympathetic agony of creation (κτισις — ktisis) in hope of freedom from the bondage of corruption. If the trail of the serpent is on all creation, it will be ultimately thrown off."

As with quoting scripture out-of-context UR-ites will quote anything and everything out-of-context vainly trying to support the false UR agenda. Robertson was not a universalist and nothing he wrote when read in context supports UR.

A.T. Robertson Matthew 25:46
Eternal punishment (kolasin aiōnion). The word kolasin comes from kolazō, to mutilate or prune. Hence those who cling to the larger hope use this phrase to mean age-long pruning that ultimately leads to salvation of the goats, as disciplinary rather than penal. There is such a distinction as Aristotle pointed out between mōria (vengeance) and kolasis. But the same adjective aiōnios is used with kolasin and zōēn. If by etymology we limit the scope of kolasin, we may likewise have only age-long zōēn. There is not the slightest indication in the words of Jesus here that the punishment is not coeval with the life. We can leave all this to the King himself who is the Judge. The difficulty to one’s mind about conditional chastisement is to think how a life of sin in hell can be changed into a life of love and obedience. The word aiōnios (from aiōn, age, aevum, aei) means either without beginning or without end or both. It comes as near to the idea of eternal as the Greek can put it in one word. It is a difficult idea to put into language. Sometimes we have “ages of ages” (aiōnes tōn aiōnōn).​

 

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The Outcasts Comforted

What comfortable Words are these!

Words sufficient to cheer the hearts of the mourners, and to cause the outcasts to rejoice. Here is an invitation to those who tremble at the Word of the Lord, they are called to hearken to the cheering voice of their God, who promises to appear to their joy, and to the shame of their brethren, who cast them out, under a pretense of glorifying God thereby.

Let us in the first place inquire into the characters of those who are spoken to in the words of my text; they are such as tremble at the word of the Lord.

We read in Ezra 10:3 of those who trembled at the commandment of God. These are such as believe the truth of God with their whole hearts, who feel the power of the same within their breasts, who loathe themselves on the account of their iniquities, and live so under a sense of the Majesty of God, that they are continually abased and humbled before Him.

Persons of this character are very dear to God, as we find written in Psalm 34:18 - "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite Spirit," and in Psalm 51:17 - "The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise," and Psalm 138:6 - "Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; but the proud he knoweth afar off," and Psalm 147:3 - "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." Isaiah 57:15 - "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:2 - "But to this man will I look (or have regard) even to him that is poor, and of a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my Word."

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The Outcasts Comforted by Elhanen Winchester

 

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The Outcasts Comforted

What comfortable Words are these!
Words sufficient to cheer the hearts of the mourners, and to cause the outcasts to rejoice. Here is an invitation to those who tremble at the Word of the Lord, they are called to hearken to the cheering voice of their God, who promises to appear to their joy, and to the shame of their brethren, who cast them out, under a pretense of glorifying God thereby.
Let us in the first place inquire into the characters of those who are spoken to in the words of my text; they are such as tremble at the word of the Lord.
We read in Ezra 10:3 of those who trembled at the commandment of God. These are such as believe the truth of God with their whole hearts, who feel the power of the same within their breasts, who loathe themselves on the account of their iniquities, and live so under a sense of the Majesty of God, that they are continually abased and humbled before Him.
Persons of this character are very dear to God, as we find written in Psalm 34:18 - "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite Spirit," and in Psalm 51:17 - "The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise," and Psalm 138:6 - "Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; but the proud he knoweth afar off," and Psalm 147:3 "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." Isaiah 57:15 - "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble Spirit, to revive the Spirit of the humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:2 - "But to this man will I look (or have regard) even to him that is poor, and of a contrite Spirit, and trembleth at my Word."
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There are no hearts of the mourners,outcasts, broken hearts or spirits, contrite hearts in the grave or in heaven everything mentioned in this copy/paste happens in this life.

 

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There is exactly one passage of Scripture using the word "limited".

"You have limited the Holy One of Israel."

Welcome to the world of the Unlimited God of Glory.

“Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison; which once were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was in preparation, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water… for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.”

"Who shall render an account unto him who is holding in readiness to judge living and dead; for, unto this end, even unto the dead, was the glad-message delivered,—in order that they might be judged, indeed, according to men in flesh, but might live according to God in spirit."

Dead=

nekros= a corpse (from nekus)=

Breathed his last/ lifeless.

Deceased/ departed.

Destitute of life/ without life.

Inanimate.

Disobedient= apeitheo=

Not to allow one’s self to be persuaded.

To refuse or withhold belief & obedience.

To refuse belief and obedience.

Not to comply with.

Live= zao=

To be alive with resurrection life.

 

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“The Father Who Lost Two Sons“

This is about what’s normally called The Parable of the Prodigal Son. That’s only one of the two sons in the parable, the younger boy. The older boy is the one—the other son—who is lost. And the point about changing the name of the parable is that the parables are almost always misnamed. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is not about the lost sheep. All the sheep ever did was get lost. The parable is about the passion of the shepherd who lost the sheep to find the sheep. His passion to find is what drives the parable; and consequently it isn’t the Prodigal’s lostness, wasting all his money on wine, women and song in the far country; and it isn’t the elder brother’s grousing and complaining and score keeping that stands against him. What counts in the parable is the father’s unceasing desire to find the sons he lost—both of them—and to raise both of them up from the dead....

“The Father Who Lost Two Sons”

 

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The Scars Of Life

Some years ago, on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water he ran out the back door leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went. He flew into the water not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake that an alligator was swimming toward the shore.

His father was working in the yard and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In utter fear he ran toward the water, yelling to his son as loudly as he could. Hearing his voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his father.

But it was too late.

Just as the little boy reached his father, the alligator reached him.

From the dock the father grabbed his little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The alligator was much stronger than the father, but the father was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by and heard his screams. Grabbing a rifle the farmer raced from his truck, took aim, and shot the alligator.

Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred by the vicious attack of the animal. And on his arms were deep scratches where his father's fingernails had dug into the boy's flesh in his effort to hang on to the son he loved.

A newspaper reporter interviewing the boy after the trauma asked if he would show him the scars on his legs. The boy lifted his pant legs.

And then with obvious pride, the boy said to the reporter, "But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too! I have them because my Dad wouldn't let go."

 

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The Father loses nothing.

All sheep and goats are His.

All piglets are His.

All animals on the thousand hills are His including the hills.

Abba is the Source, Guide & Goal of ta panta/ the all !

 

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