Ultimate Reconciliation Scriptures

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"All the broken & dislocated pieces of the universe, people & things, animals & atoms, get properly fixed & fit together in vibrant harmonies all because of His death" ~TPT

 

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1. Ephesians 1: 5-11

"He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure-- to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One. It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace, the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us, when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him. In Him we have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will, so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ."

 

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2. Acts 17:26

“He has made of one blood, all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth.”

God would not have created intelligent beings had he known they were to be forever miserable. To suppose that God would bring beings into existence, whom He knew would be infinite losers by that existence, is to charge Him with the utmost malignity. Their existence itself would not be a blessing, but a curse; the greatness of which cannot be described. God is infinite in knowledge, He sees the end from the beginning & must have known before the creation, the result of the existence he was about to confer. He could not have created an existence that He knew would end in the worst possible consequences for His created ones. his creatures.

 

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3. Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine,” says the Lord. “As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine.” (Ezek. 18:4)

God will not give up what belongs to Him. All men are God’s by creation; He made them all. They are His by preservation; He sustains them all. They were His at first, and they always have remained in His care. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” God, who says to men, “If any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel,” can never abandon his own creatures. He will ever exercise a gracious care over them.

 

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4. Mal. 2:19

“Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?”

A kind Father will not punish His children but for their good. God is called the Father of all men in the Scriptures, and this is not an unmeaning name; He has the disposition and principles of a Father. He loves with a Father’s love; He watches with a Father’s care; He reproves with a Father’s tenderness; He punishes with a Father’s design. God is the Father of all men. He cannot make mankind endlessly miserable.

 

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5. John 17:2

You have given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given him.”

This plainly envisions that it was God’s design, in giving Christ dominion over all flesh, that they should all enjoy eternal life.

 

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1. Ephesians 1: 5-11

"He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure-- to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One. It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace, the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us, when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him. In Him we have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will, so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ."

Great passage, which I hadn't come across before. It says two main things. Firstly, it is God's will (and pleasure) that the ultimate destiny of all creation, so not just people, is to be restored together in Christ. And secondly, God carries out everything that He wills. How can this not be talking about universal restoration? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But no doubt we'll soon be enlightened...

 

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6. John 6:37

“All that the Father gives me, shall come to me, and he that comes to me I will in nowise cast out.”

These three propositions are evidence of the final happiness of all men.

1st. God has given all things to Christ.

2nd. All that God has given him shall come to him.

3nd. He that comes will in no-wise be cast out.

All are given; all shall come; and none shall be cast out. What is the unavoidable conclusion?

 

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7. “Who will have all mankind to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Tim. 2:4

All mankind is undoubtedly to be understood as all the human race. Salvation comes through the belief of the truth. God wills that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved thereby.

8. "Your will be done " Matthew 6:10

God inspires the hearts of us to pray for the salvation of all mankind, and say with Jesus “Your will be done.” Because He wills the salvation of all mankind, he wills that all mankind should be prayed for. “I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men.” Would God inspire the hearts of his saints to pray for the salvation of all mankind, if he knew they would not all be saved?

 

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9. “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” John 4:34

“I come to do Your will, O God.” The will of God is, that all men be saved. This is his will, by way of distinction and preeminence. Jesus came to do this will. He came as the Saviour, as the Saviour of all mankind. He came as the good Shepherd, to seek and save that which was lost. He came to save all mankind, not only those who lived on the earth while he was here, but all who lived before, and all who have since lived, and all who shall live. Jesus gave himself a ransom for all; he tasted death for every man; and unto him, at last, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess him Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Such is the way in which Jesus does the will of God.

 

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10. “He does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What do You do?” Dan. 4:35.

Who can resist a being of Almighty power? What God wills to take place, must take place. He wills the salvation of all mankind because it is right. A God of purity cannot desire endless sin and rebellion. If he wills the salvation of all men, he wills all the means by which it shall be accomplished; it must therefore take place.

 

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11. “He is in one mind, and who can turn him?” Job 23:13.

God has no other will besides the will to save all mankind.

12. God is love.” 1 John 4:8.

God is love and love works no ill. “Love works no ill.” Rom. 13:10. God is the very essence of benevolence, and benevolence cannot be the origin of endless evil. If love works no ill, God can work no ill & be the author of endless evil.

13. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.” John 3:16

God loves all mankind & died for all men, so God loves all men.

14. "For he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” Luke 6:35.

God loves even his enemies. For he requires men to love their enemies, which he could not do if he hated his. (Matt. 5:44) If God loves his enemies, he certainly loves all men; for no one doubts that he loves his friends. And can God cause those to be endlessly miserable whom he loves?

 

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1. Ephesians 1: 5-11
"He pre-destined us to be adopted by Himself as sons through Jesus Christ--such being His gracious will and pleasure-- to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One. It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace, the grace which He, the possessor of all wisdom and understanding, lavished upon us, when He made known to us the secret of His will. And this is in harmony with God's merciful purpose for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him. In Him we have been made heirs, having been chosen beforehand in accordance with the intention of Him whose might carries out in everything the design of His own will, so that we should be devoted to the extolling of His glorious attributes--we who were the first to fix our hopes on Christ."

You have omitted the first 2 verses which clearly show that Paul is NOT saying this to all the world but only to "the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:"

Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ​

 

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"All the broken & dislocated pieces of the universe, people & things, animals & atoms, get properly fixed & fit together in vibrant harmonies all because of His death" ~TPT

Fixed and Fit together????
Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away...

2 Peter 3:
11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

 

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2. Acts 17:26

“He has made of one blood, all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth.”

27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28 for in Him we live and move and have our being,
as also some of your own poets have said,
‘For we are also His offspring.’
29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

And what of those who ignore His command?
Are they not the ones responsible for the misery
you describe? We gained the knowledge of good
and evil, we have seen first hand the fruit of evil,
not to mention "greater good" ideologies. Is that
to no purpose under heaven? Yes, that we may
know the peace that passes understanding.

Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Only the overcomers have a future and a hope
with the Father and the Son.
Revelation 21:
6 And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

The second death is not a rehab clinic.
It is a permanent death.
Or is there scripture read in context, unlike
the ones you pull out of context that
says otherwise?

 

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Behold, all souls are mine,” says the Lord. “As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine.” (Ezek. 18:4)

Or, He can do whatever He wants.
Psalm 115:3 But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.

Isaiah 40:
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

There is no intrinsic value to any man as flesh.
Your teaching is carnal, and appeals to the
carnally minded. Please meditate on and embrace
the scriptures in my signature before you go on
trying to glorify flesh. Only what the Spirit of the
Lord has placed in man's spirit will pass over to
the age to come. Everything else will be burned.
Those who hate God and His Son have no memorial,
or rights or inheritance in Zion.

 

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6. John 6:37

“All that the Father gives me, shall come to me, and he that comes to me I will in nowise cast out.”

These three propositions are evidence of the final happiness of all men.

1st. God has given all things to Christ.

What a bizarre misquote!
all that the Father gives me is not the same as
God has given all things to Christ. Did you
really think you could just slip that by?
John 17:
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Seems that in the end times, there will be many
sons of perdition.
2 Tim 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

The Son has sanctified Himself to fulfill God's
purpose for man. Do you really think that is all
that pertains to God? There is more than can be imagined. What you think you know cannot cast a shadow on what you do not know. Where is the humility?

Ecclesiastes 6:11 Since there are many things
that increase vanity, How is man the better?

For the record, I am not the one claiming that
God cannot destroy flesh and still be a God of
Love. I embrace His Love and the Salvation found
in His Son precisely because it is totally unmerited.
Grace is for Today. If you will hear His Voice, harden
not your heart.

 

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4. Mal. 2:19

“Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?”

Malachi 2:
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

12 The Lord will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

The Truth brings discernment.
Malachi 3:
16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who meditate on His name.

17 “They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My jewels.
And I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
18 Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.

Matthew 15:
3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

In need of a 20/20 vision
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

 

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9. “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” John 4:34

John 4:
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

 

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7. “Who will have all mankind to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Tim. 2:4

All mankind is undoubtedly to be understood as all the human race.

This is vanity for those who oppose His Will.
John 7:17 If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or I speak on My own.

Romans 12:
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Can we really come to know and fulfill God's
Will for us individually? Since that is His purpose in Christ , I will say yes.

Titus 1:
15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.