The Restitution Of All Things A.K.A. Universalism

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"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 mystery 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. And you…"

Mystery=

Musterion=

Denotes, not the mysterious (as with the English word) but that which, being outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension, can be made known only by Divine revelation, and is made known in a manner and at a time appointed by God, and to those only who are illumined by His Spirit.

"The mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations..."

Jesus Christ said to His disciples>>>>

"I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it."

John 16:12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

God is the Source, Guide, Goal of ta panta

 

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The just judgment of God

“The main point which we seek to impress upon our readers is to accept God’s declaration that, for those who are judged before the great white throne, the lake of fire is the second death, not a second lifetime.

While the ‘injury’ (literal translation) sustained by those who are cast into the lake if fire (in Revelation 20:14,15) will be fatal (since to these the lake of fire is the second death), it will not be permanent. We may be certain that this is the case, for, at the consummation, death will be abolished and all will be vivified, that God may be All in all.

God is the Saviour of all mankind, and this includes all who enter the second death.” -James Corman-

God is the Source, Guide, Goal of ta panta

 

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"Reason teaches us that Good having a divine Principle, ought to be stronger than evil, which is essentially nothing but disorder and deprivation; that evil putting man into a state of violence, that state cannot continue for ever; that this state of violence supposes its contrary in man, struggling against it…that God being the God of order, and the undoubted Sovereign of the universe, can never consent that disorder and confusion should prevail there for ever." -Marie Huber- (Swiss Protestant Theologian)


"Though a fall has been permitted, evil shall have an end, and the creature through God's wondrous wisdom even by its fall be raised to a higher glory. Scripture distinctly teaches that, 'the creature was made subject to vanity, not by its own will, but through Him who subjected the same in hope; because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God'." -Andrew Jukes-

All creation shall be delivered and set free

 

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God's Ultimate

“We do not wish to belittle the awful judgments of God. They will be terrible enough. But we desire to get all the perspective of Scripture and look to the end God has in view.

We do not believe that orthodox theology has done this. It has stopped short in the ages themselves and has misnamed them eternity, and has therefore presented the vision of a heaven full of saints and a hell full of tortured sinners in endless existence. In such a survey of the ultimate there is no place for the vision that Paul gives when God shall be All in all (1Cor. 15:28).

We contend that nothing less than the reconciliation of all would satisfy the heart of God and be a fitting consummation to the shedding of the blood of His Son.” -A.E. Saxby-

God In Creation Redemption Judgment Consummation

God in Creation, Redemption, Judgment and Consummation, by A. E. Saxby

 

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The Everlasting Gospel

“Col. 1: 16-20 teaches us the extent of the reconciliation made by Christ, namely, that it extends itself over the whole creation. Therefore the fallen angels must also necessarily have their share in it, for they do incontestably belong to the invisible things created by Christ, and consequently to all things including the things in the heavens.

‘Jehovah is good to all: and His tender mercies are over all His works.’ Psalm 145:9

In this passage we are plainly told that the mercy of God, or His tender love, does not only extend itself to men, but universally towards all creatures that have their being and stand in need of mercy; and consequently also towards the fallen angels; which tender love of God must necessarily at last effect or bring about the restoration of all corrupt creatures, for it is not a weak or faint, but an almighty love.” -Paul Siegvolck-

God is the Source, Guide, Goal of ta panta

 

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Every knee bows IN/EN the Name of Jesus in all dimensions of the earth, the heavens & the underworld.

All saved, and more so, reconciled in the mighty draw of the Unlimited One.

This identical polys “made sinners” in the first Adam, are the polys “made righteous” in the Last, every last broken wreck reconciled!

Never ever limit the Holy One Of Israel!

If you imagine His will being multiple choice, know His will prevails, ALWAYS!

Salvation in the koine =esothen & sozomenos & sothesomai

There is a tense in koine known as the descriptive present, or the progressive present, which depicts an action in progress.

Yes, God IS the Saviour of all mankind, not some of mankind: all of mankind!

 

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Time Eternity & God

“Modern theology has so long circumvented our thinking and teaching to the biased idea that God will save only part of His creation and so limited His redemptive powers that we have forgotten that with God all things are possible and shall be wrought out in due time. God has a definite schedule for saving His creatures, and there is nothing that can withstand His purpose.

Sin was allowed for wise ends, and only after these have been secured will sin cease to exist. It is all a part of God’s purpose of the ages and redemption’s glory will only shine out the more after the plan’s execution. God never allows -sin to go beyond His transforming power. God always has everything under perfect control.” -Ray Prinzing -

God is Source, Guide, Goal of ta panta

 

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Welcome to the Ultimate recovery program

"God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.

Christ Holds It All Together

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.

He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end.

From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. Everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but>>>

all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross."

-The Message-

 

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“Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation. Good Samaritans are regularly sued. Fathers who give parties for wayward sons are rightly rebuked, Employers who pay equal wages for unequal work have labor-relations problems. And any Shepherd who makes a practice of leaving ninety-nine sheep to chase after a lost one quickly goes out of the sheep-ranching business.

The parables are true only because they are like what God is like, not because they are models for us to copy. It is simply a fact that the one thing we dare not under any circumstances imitate is the only thing that can save us. The parables are, one and all, about the foolishness by which Grace raises the dead. They apply to no sensible process at all - only to the divine insanity that brings everything out of nothing.” - Robert F. Capon-

God is the God of ta panta

 

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“The Lord knows how to rescue/deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unrighteous unto the day of judgement to be punished…” -2 Peter 2:9-

Punishment=Kolasis

Kolasis=

Correction.

Punishment.

Penalty.

Kolasis Rooted In Kolazo

Kolazo=

To lop or prune, as trees and wings.

To curb, check, restrain.

To chastise. To correct. Punishment .

To cause to be punished.

Correction=

Alteration that improves: An alteration that removes an error.

Punishment meant to improve: Punishment, especially meant to improve or reform the person punished.

Law treatment of offenders: The system of dealing with criminals by improvement, rehabilitation, parole, probation.

Treatment of a specific defect.

The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake. Something substituted for an error.

A rebuke for making a mistake.

The act of punishing.

Removing of errors: The removing of errors from something or the indicating of errors in something.

The act or process of correcting.

Something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate.

Rectification/ modification/ adjustment/ amending.

Amendation.

Rectification.

Rectification=

To set right. To correct.

To purify.

To correct by removing errors.

To adjust.

A quantity applied by way of correcting.

The act or process of correcting.

Something that is substituted or proposed for what is wrong or inaccurate.

Amendation.

To correct something or make something right.

The act of rectifying or the fact of being rectified.

To correct by calculation or adjustment.

To adjust.

To fix/ repair/ remedy/ amend/ correct/ redress/ put to right/ to straighten/ to reform/ to adjust something.

The act of amending, correcting or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous.

“Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction”

Fitted= Katartizo=

To mend what has been broken or rent.

To repair.

To complete/ put in order/ to arrange/ to adjust.

To make one what he aught to be.

" In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He comes down;… down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him." -C.S. Lewis

 

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The Will Of God The Deciding Factor

" 'This is ideal and welcome in the sight of our Saviour, God, Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth’ (1Tim. 2:3). This passage shows us what is the driving force behind salvation, the will of God.

It is God Who is the Saviour, not us, and it is His will that is the decisive factor that results in the saving of all.

Many believers will have some to be saved, some to be reconciled; God will have all to be saved, all to be reconciled.

He will be All in all, not all in some. Many insist on the word ‘some’ because it makes human endeavor a part of salvation; they will not recognize that human endeavor is, of itself, vanity, and that all is of God. He, the One, does everything for the all, that in each He may display His grace.

Let us not claim for ourselves the glory of our salvation, but give it wholly to Him.” -John Essex-

God is the Source, Guide, Goal of ta panta

 

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Universalism says God will redeem everyone, including Satan. This stands in direct opposition to the Revelation of Jesus Christ by which God Himself has revealed that Satan, the False Prophet, and the AntiChrist shall be tormented forever in the Lake of Fire along with everyone whose name was not found written in the Lambs book of Life. Since the Scriptures are God's Words, there is no way Universalism can be true, no matter how logical, sensitive, or "caring" it may sound. You cannot read and believe the Bible and believe in Universalism at the same time because they opposites. The only way you can say you believe in the the Scriptures AND Universalism is if you have never read these passages:

Revelation 20:10

 

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Universalism says God will r"deem everyone, including Satan. This stands in direct opposition to the Revelation of Jesus Christ by which God Himself has revealed that Satan, the False Prophet, and the AntiChrist shall be tormented forever in the Lake of Fire along with everyone whose name was not found written in the Lambs book of Life. Since the Scriptures are God's Words, there is no way Universalism can be true, no matter how logical, sensitive, or "caring" it may sound. You cannot read and believe the Bible and believe in Universalism at the same time because they opposites. The only way you can say you believe in the the Scriptures AND Universalism is if you have never read these passages:

Revelation 20:10

Dear Jonathan: Do you know what it means to be "in" Jesus Christ? Of course you do. It is what transpires in a life that He has touched by His love and grace in being born anew.

You evidently do not grasp in your experience in Him, (so far), that God is the ta panta. He is not just the Source of the all, He is the Goal of the all. With that in mind let us read together what St. Paul writes to the Philippian household of faith>>>>

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

That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow (ina en twi onomati Ihsou pan gonu kampsh). First aorist active subjunctive of kamptw, old verb, to bend, to bow, in purpose clause with ina.

Not perfunctory genuflections whenever the name of Jesus is mentioned, but universal acknowledgment of the majesty and power of Jesus who carries his human name and nature to heaven. This universal homage to Jesus is seen in Romans 8:22 ; Ephesians 1:20-22 and in particular Revelation 5:13 . Under the earth (katacqoniwn). Homeric adjective for departed souls, subterranean, simply the dead. Here only in the N.T.

Philippians 2:10 Commentary - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

"Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

Dear Jonathan: Do you know what it means to be "in" Jesus Christ? Of course you do. It is what transpires in a life that He has touched by His love and grace in being born anew.

You evidently do not grasp in your experience in Him, (so far), that God is the ta panta. He is not just the Source of the all, He is the Goal of the all. With that in mind let us read together what St. Paul writes to the Philippian household of faith>>>>

Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that IN/EN the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow (ina en twi onomati Ihsou pan gonu kampsh). First aorist active subjunctive of kamptw, old verb, to bend, to bow, in purpose clause with ina.

Not perfunctory genuflections whenever the name of Jesus is mentioned, but universal acknowledgment of the majesty and power of Jesus who carries his human name and nature to heaven. This universal homage to Jesus is seen in Romans 8:22 ; Ephesians 1:20-22 and in particular Revelation 5:13 . Under the earth (katacqoniwn). Homeric adjective for departed souls, subterranean, simply the dead. Here only in the N.T.

Philippians 2:10 Commentary - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

You're not the Son of God. The Son of God says Satan, the False Prophet, the Anti-Christ, and whoever's names are not in His Book of life will be tormented forever in the Lake of Fire which is the 2nd Death. It's just like Satan to say "You shall not surely die". But even Satan knows his time is short. That's why he's mad. Eve ate from the tree and Eve died. Don't eat from the tree of Universalism. Eat the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. For unless you "Eat of My flesh and drink of my blood, you have no life in you." says God.

 

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You're not the Son of God. The Son of God says Satan, the False Prophet, the Anti-Christ, and whoever's names are not in His Book of life will be tormented forever in the Lake of Fire which is the 2nd Death. It's just like Satan to say "You shall not surely die". But Eve ate from the tree and Eve died. Don't eat the tree of Universalism. Eat the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. For unless you "Eat of My flesh and drink of my blood, you have no life in you." says God.

Dear Jonathan: evidently St Paul failed to grasp the significance of the 2nd death and what IN/EN means?

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

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

Dear Jonathan: evidently St Paul failed to grasp the significance of the 2nd death and what IN/EN means?

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

No. Paul grasped it well. You fail to grasp that "Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven but those who do the will of my Father who is in Heaven".

Is this (Revelation 14:11) God's True and Holy Word. Yes or No?
"And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name."

 

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"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 mystery 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. And you…"

Mystery=

Musterion=

Denotes, not the mysterious (as with the English word) but that which, being outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension, can be made known only by Divine revelation, and is made known in a manner and at a time appointed by God, and to those only who are illumined by His Spirit.

"The mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations..."

 

[Jonathan Mathews]

You didn't answer my question.

Is this (Revelation 14:11) God's True and Holy Word. Yes or No?
"And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name."

 

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You didn't answer my question.

Is this (Revelation 14:11) God's True and Holy Word. Yes or No?
"And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name."

Dear Jonathan: Yes!

Revelation 14:11 - And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever.

Question for you=

Can you define aionios and aidios?

And

Does Rev. 14.11 pre-empt the declarations of Phil. and Eph.?

 

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11. And the smoke of their examination by the touchstone continually ascends into (for) ages of the ages. And those continually worshiping the little animal and its image ‑‑ and if any one continually receives the imprinted mark of its name ‑‑ they, continually, are not having rest DAY and NIGHT.

12. Here exists (is continually) the patient endurance (the remaining under) of the set‑apart ones (the saints) ‑‑ the ones continually keeping watch upon (guarding, observing, having custody over) God's commands (orders; precepts) and the Faith of Jesus (the Faith pertaining to Jesus; the Faith belonging to Jesus).

13. And I heard a voice out of the heaven, saying, "Write: 'From the present moment (from this time; from now; henceforth) the dead ones [are] blessed (happy) ones ‑‑ those continuously dying within the Lord!' " "Yes, indeed," the Spirit continues saying, "to the end that they may rest themselves from out of their wearisome labor (travail; toilsome exhaustion), for their works (acts; deeds) are continually following together with them."

Jonathan Mitchell N.T. Translation