Salvation for All

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I felt that I would post my response in the form of an article, as it includes things I have not written publicly of before. The article speaks of the truth that the Lake of Fire is clearly revealed from scriptures to be a place of purging and correction, and it is not for eternity as many have supposed. It’s purpose will be fulfilled when the wrath of God has consumed all that is not of Him and in the end ALL things whether in heaven or earth will be reconciled to God, as the scriptures record in the book of Colossians.</div> <bR> <div> I will begin with the questions that this reader posed.</div> <bR> <div> Please help me understand, if you will, how verses such as the following work together with your teaching:  "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (Jn. 3:16)  and  "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." (Jn. 3:36)</div> <bR> <div> The focus of this passage of the Gospel of John is the need to be born again of the Spirit of Yahweh. Nicodemus, being a teacher of the Jews, did not understand the necessity of being born again. To the Jews, they thought it was sufficient to live by the edicts of the Law and the prophets. They did not discern that the Law was only a schoolmaster to show them their need of being born again, and of having a Savior provide a way that they could be born again.</div> <bR> <div> An interesting thing that many overlook in this passage is that being born spiritually actually precedes being able to see or enter into the kingdom of God. Being born spiritually is a sovereign act of Yahweh, and it is not based upon man’s desire or actions. Men are not saved, or born spiritually because they have sought to be so. It is a work wholly precipitated by Yahweh and accomplished by His Spirit. We see this truth in the following verses.</div> <bR> <div> John 3:3</div> <div> 3   [Yahshua] answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God..."</div> <div> 5   [Yahshua] answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> From these words of Yahshua we see that being born again precedes seeing the kingdom of God and it precedes entering the kingdom of God. This is a marvelous thing, for many saints think they were born again because they were seeking God and they chose to believe in Him and His Son for salvation. These scriptures reveal quite the opposite. His Spirit caused a spiritual birth to occur in our lives and then we could both see and enter into the kingdom.</div> <bR> <div> This is in perfect harmony with the following verses:</div> <bR> <div> Romans 3:10-11</div> <div> 10     as it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one;</div> <div> 11     There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God...</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> John 6:44</div> <div> "No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.”</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> John 6:65</div> <div> And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from the Father."</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> What most people identify as a struggle to turn their lives over to Christ actually occurs after they are born of the Spirit. Before they are born of the Spirit they cannot even see the kingdom of God, so there is no possibility of a struggle. We are further told that man’s will has no part in spiritual birth. It is a sovereign act of Yahweh.</div> <bR> <div> John 1:12-13</div> <div> 12     But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,</div> <div> 13     who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> Finally, we have the witness of Ephesians to tell us that the faith to believe was a free gift, and the gift always of necessity originates with the one giving the gift.</div> <bR> <div> Ephesians 2:8-9</div> <div> 8     For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;</div> <div> 9     not as a result of works, that no one should boast.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> The message of these passages is that man has far less to do with his salvation than he has supposed. The Jews thought they would be saved by keeping the Law, but salvation has always been on the basis of faith, not of works, and we are shown that faith is a gift bestowed by the Father on whomever He wills. So man has no right to boast in anything before God. </div> <bR> <div> Paul, who was formerly Saul, is actually a great testimony of how this process works. While he was on his blind and merry way to go and torment the saints of God, to deliver them to be imprisoned and killed, Father God sovereignly, of His own choice, decided to intervene in his life and to open his eyes to the kingdom of God. There is no way that Paul could have been said to have been seeking after Yahshua. On the contrary, He was persecuting Yahshua. But Yahweh decided to intervene in Paul’s life, not at the request of Paul, but by His own sovereign election. Many saints do not understand that this is actually the process for every one of us.</div> <bR> <div> When I first understood the message of Romans chapter 9 I was physically shaken. I understood how totally helpless I was and that had not the Father chosen to have mercy on me, I would have forever remained in darkness. Let me include some of this passage here, for it is so powerful.</div> <bR> <div> Romans 9:10-24</div> <div> 10     And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;</div> <div> 11     for though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose according to His choice might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who calls,</div> <div> 12     it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger."</div> <div> 13     Just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."</div> <div> 14     What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!</div> <div> 15     For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."</div> <div> 16     So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.</div> <div> 17     For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth."</div> <div> 18     So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.</div> <div> 19     You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"</div> <div> 20     On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?</div> <div> 21     Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use?</div> <div> 22     What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?</div> <div> 23     And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,</div> <div> 24     even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> Yes, salvation is based solely upon the will of God, not on the man who wills or the man who runs. That is to say, it has nothing to do with our desires or actions, it is solely based upon Yahweh deciding by His own counsel to have mercy on some, while also sovereignly choosing to harden others.</div> <bR> <div> When we fully understand this awesome truth, we are led to ask what Paul states here, “Why does He then still find fault, for who can resist His will?” Is it right for Yahweh to condemn some when they never had a chance to choose Him? This goes against our sense of fairness. Yet we must notice that Paul never answers this question by trying to justify Yahweh’s actions. He simply says that since He is God, He can do whatever He desires and we, as His created beings, have no right to object. The Potter can do whatever He desires with the clay, and we are the clay.</div> <bR> <div> How clearly I saw my peril when the Spirit opened my eyes to this truth. Unless the Father had chosen to have mercy on me, I would have never have had the slightest inclination to seek Him. I would have been lost, and I would have remained under His wrath.</div> <bR> <div> Of course, Christianity today does not teach this aright. They have fallen from the truth. They object because of a sense of fairness they gained when Adam ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They say it would only be good for God to give every man an opportunity to accept or reject Him. They say it would be evil for God to not give every man this opportunity. But clearly, from the testimony of all the verses we have just read He does not do so. We even find this truth revealed in Yahshua’s high priestly prayer.</div> <bR> <div> John 17:6-9</div> <div> 6     "I manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world; Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to Me, and they have kept Thy word...</div> <div> 9     "I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine”</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> Yahshua’s high priestly prayer for the Father to glorify those who were His followers was not prayed on behalf of the world. Yahshua is quite precise about who He is praying for. He says “I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom Thou hast given Me...”</div> <bR> <div> This is not what Christianity teaches at all. They say that all children who die before a certain age will automatically go to heaven for they have not reached the age of accountability. After this age, people are accountable for all men have the opportunity to accept or reject Yahshua. This is pure falsehood. Salvation is always on the basis on God having mercy on whom He will have mercy. It is not dependent on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on the sovereign decision of God. Why else would the saints be called “the elect of God”? Has He not elected us? We did not elect Him.</div> <bR> <div> I have a son who was stillborn, so if anyone should adhere to a doctrine of an age of accountability it should be me. This was my firstborn son, whom I loved and anticipated with all of my heart. I desire for him to be chosen of the Father. Yet I see nothing in scripture that speaks of an age of accountability. I see salvation being solely based upon God who has mercy on whom He chooses. With this I am content, and I am hopeful that He has decided to have mercy on my firstborn son. My whole life is entrusted to the mercy of God, and in this too I must trust to His mercy.</div> <bR> <div> Those who say that God must out of fairness allow every man an opportunity to receive or reject Him, have actually overlooked a very important point. We were everyone of us in Adam’s loins when he rejected God. In Adam we have all sinned in rejecting God and turning aside to our own way. To say that Yahweh must give every man an opportunity to receive or reject Him is actually saying that He must give them a second opportunity to do so, for all did so in Adam. I rejected God while I was in Adam’s loins, as did you, and every other person. Our decision has already been made, and we turned aside from God.</div> <bR> <div> Romans 5:12-19</div> <div> 12     Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--</div> <div> 16     And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.</div> <div> 17     For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, [Yahshua the Messiah].</div> <div> 18     So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.</div> <div> 19     For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> This point of our sharing in the sin of Adam is a most important point. What Adam did, he did for all of mankind. It is only because this principle of representation exists that we can also know that we have salvation through the work of Christ. For even as we were all in Adam and were condemned, we were also in Christ and were justified. We did not perform the sin of Adam, but we became partakers of the consequences. Likewise, we did not perform the righteousness of Yahshua, but we also became partakers of the consequences of His actions. We are placed in Yahshua through faith, and that faith comes from the Father. What a marvelous truth this is.</div> <bR> <div> Having shared these things, let me return to your questions. All men are in a most perilous position. We are all born under the wrath of God. God, however, chooses to deliver some from wrath in this life, not because we desire deliverance, nor because some of us are more noble than others, it is simply based upon His deciding to have mercy on some, while hardening others in their blindness and unbelief. Thus we have some like Paul who were not looking for Yahshua when he had an encounter with Him, while others have no such encounter.</div> <bR> <div> It is Yahweh’s decision to create some vessels for wrath and some for mercy. The question remains, however, “How long will His wrath abide upon the vessels of wrath? Will it be for eternity as Christianity teaches, or will ALL things in heaven and earth eventually be reconciled to God through the cross of Christ?”</div> <bR> <div> There is no doubt that the cross of Christ, and the sacrifice of Christ is capable of purchasing the lives of all created beings in heaven and earth. The question remains, “Does Yahweh want to reconcile all of His creation to Himself, or would He rather have the greater portion of it remain under wrath for ages without end?”</div> <bR> <div> From what I read from scriptures, His wrath is but for a period of time. Consider the following. We know that Sodom and Gomorrah were wicked cities, so wicked that the Father removed them in His wrath from the face of the earth. Will they remain forever under His wrath?</div> <bR> <div> Lamentations 4:6</div> <div> For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were turned toward her.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> Ezekiel 16:46-63</div> <div> 46     "Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.</div> <div> 47     "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.</div> <div> 48     "As I live," declares the Lord [Yahweh], "Sodom, your sister, and her daughters, have not done as you and your daughters have done.</div> <div> 49     "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.</div> <div> 50     "Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it...</div> <div> 52     "Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.</div> <div> 53     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Georgia" >"Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your own captivity...</FONT></div> <div> 61     "Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.</div> <div> 62     "Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am [Yahweh],</div> <div> 63     in order that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done”, the Lord [Yahweh] declares.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> If the wrath of Yahweh on Sodom and her daughters will be fully satisfied, and they will be restored, then who will have unending wrath? If Israel’s sin was greater than Sodom’s, and the covenant will be renewed with them, then who will not one day be reconciled? We see that with Yahweh, “Mercy triumphs over judgment.”</div> <bR> <div> What is the purpose of the wrath of Yahweh, anyway? A sister sent me a note the other day, and in it she said the following, “God's wrath...the Hebrew word for wrath...means to set straight.....His judgment is His love greatly provoked....to draw man to HIM.” I suspect that this definition is true. In looking up the Hebrew word for wrath in Strong’s dictionary, I found that it comes from the word for heat. As was shared in the article “God’s Plan of the Ages”, fire is symbolic of cleansing, and it burns until there is nothing left to consume. Eventually, even in the most wicked of Yahweh’s created beings, His fire will consume all that can be consumed. Wickedness is not greater than God. It has a beginning and an end. It is therefore not reasonable that the fire of God would find anything in His creation that will burn forever and ever, as is commonly taught.</div> <bR> <div> When the wrath, or fire of God, has consumed all that is not righteous and holy, His wrath will be extinguished. Again, this is addressed in the article we are discussing. The scripture you inquired about says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him" (Jn. 3:36). How long does the wrath of God remain on him? It does not say forever. When taken in counsel with the full body of scripture we see that wrath is always for a period of time.</div> <bR> <div> When Israel or Judah sinned, the Father always corrected them, subjecting them to His wrath. Even when their sin was so complete that He had to deliver them to captivity, it was always for a period of time. Yahweh’s mercy always triumphs over judgment. We see that this is so of all of His creation. When the Father sent Jonah to Ninevah He desired to spare them from judgment. He desired to see repentance that He might not carry out His wrath on them. The scriptures tell us that Yahweh takes no pleasure in the punishment of the wicked.</div> <bR> <div> In Malachi we are told:</div> <bR> <div> Malachi 4:5-6</div> <div> 5     "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of [Yahweh].</div> <div> 6     "And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse."</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> Even Elijah is sent so that wrath might be averted, for the Father does not want to smite the land with a curse.</div> <bR> <div> In the most common scriptures today we find the word hell used repeatedly, especially in the King James Version. However, these words are not interpreted correctly. The words Sheol, Abaddon, Tartarus, Hades, etc., do not all correlate to the lake of fire. The translators have done a great disservice to the mass of Christendom by translating as they have done. In truth, the lake of fire that most saints correlate with hell is spoken of very rarely in the scriptures.</div> <bR> <div> In the New Testament we get the clearest picture of the purpose of the Lake of Fire, also called the Second Death, in the book of Revelation. We also see from the gospels that many of the saints will be assigned a place with the unbelievers, and it is clearly shown that the place referred to is the Lake of Fire where there will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.</div> <bR> <div> Those who would depict hell (the Lake of Fire) as being eternal, and a place from which one will never escape having entered it, also unknowingly consign a large portion, even a majority of Christians to eternal torment, since they are assigned a place with the unbelievers. As a father I may punish my children, and I may even put them on some restriction for a period of time, but it is never permanent. The purpose of punishment is to correct. This is true also with the punishment of God. He will correct the disobedient and unbelieving.</div> <bR> <div> We are told that He is a better Father than we are, and He scourges every son whom He receives. His scourging is for the purpose of bringing forth righteousness. Never in scripture do I see any evidence that Yahweh delights in afflicting any of His creation. He does so only out of necessity to correct. Hell, the Lake of Fire, is a place of correction, and as such it endures for a period of time until the wrath (heat) of God has brought forth the desired correction.</div> <bR> <div> A most telling point is revealed in the book of Jonah. After Jonah preached to the Ninevites and they repented, Jonah still desired wrath to fall upon them. He sat on a hill overlooking the city waiting for the judgment of God to fall. As he sat there, it was very hot (heat again representing wrath), and Jonah was very miserable. Yahweh caused a gourd to grow up and to cover Jonah with shade. This typifies wrath being removed from Jonah. Jonah was greatly comforted by the gourd, for the heat had been removed.</div> <bR> <div> However, Yahweh then sent a worm to destroy the gourd and Jonah lost his protection from the heat (wrath). He was now more miserable than ever for he had experienced the mercy of God when he was shielded from the heat. Yet though Jonah desired to have the gourd back and to be protected from wrath, he still wanted wrath to fall on the Ninevites. He wanted to be protected from the heat, yet he wanted fire to fall on Ninevah. His heart was not right, and he did not understand the desire of Yahweh to show mercy.</div> <bR> <div> Jonah 4:8-11</div> <div> 8     And it came about when the sun came up that God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, "Death is better to me than life."</div> <div> 9     Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."</div> <div> 10     Then [Yahweh] said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work, and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.</div> <div> 11     "And should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> The revelation of the book of Jonah is that Yahweh loves His creation. He longs to be merciful. He will not torment forever. It was because David knew the mercy of God that when he was presented with a choice of being afflicted by man or by God, he chose God, for God is merciful. It is to be expected that men who, like Jonah, do not understand the mercy of Yahweh, have accepted doctrines and beliefs that He will eternally torment His creation, for they have not discerned the great depths of love and mercy that are found in Him.</div> <bR> <div> Let me finally comment on your last question. You asked me to remark about how this fits with the scripture "For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross."</div> <bR> <div> It will be through the cross of Christ that all creation will be reconciled to God. We see a remarkable thing in the following passage.</div> <bR> <div> I Peter 3:18-20</div> <div> 18     For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,</div> <div> 19     by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,</div> <div> 20     who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.</div> <div> (NKJ)</div> <bR> <div> The remarkable thing revealed in this passage is that the message of salvation through the cross of Christ was preached by Yahshua Himself to those souls who perished in the days of Noah. Now why would Yahshua preach to these souls, who were imprisoned under the wrath of God (indeed they were totally carried away by the flood of God’s wrath), unless salvation was being extended to them as well.</div> <bR> <div> So we see in this scripture a clear example of those who in times past were judged under the wrath of Yahweh, yet in His mercy the gospel of the salvation provided through Yahshua is being proclaimed to them. If this was the case here, and the gospel was preached to a people whom the scriptures declare that they were given over to every kind of wickedness and evil continually, then why should we not suppose that the gospel will also be proclaimed to those who endure the wrath of God in the Lake of Fire? Indeed, I believe the scriptures are quite clear that it will.</div> <bR> <div> So much of our existence depends upon the mercy of Yahweh. It was His mercy that sent His dear Son to die for us on the cross while we were yet His enemies. How much more will He make His mercy available to all who are His enemies, though some endure His wrath for a season? </div> <bR> <div> So it is ever the cross of Christ that provides salvation, even to those who have been placed under the wrath of God for a period of time. The glorious truth of the mercy of God is revealed in the scripture that I will close with.</div> <bR> <div> Psalms 30:5</div> <div> For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning.</div> <div> (NAS)</div> <bR> <div> May you be blessed in Yahshua,</div> <bR> <div> Joseph</div> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>