Friday, July 30, 2021

Finished But Not Completed

     Heb.2:9 says, “..so that by God's grace He would experience death on behalf of everyone” - the word here for everyone is “pas - all, every, the whole”.

     The work is finished, He has died for all, but the work is not completed until death no longer exists.

     1Cor:15:24-26 says, “Then the end” (and a ReGenesis, Rev.21:1-5) “will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”

     Followers of Christ are still given the mandate concerning the “message of reconciliation” but by the Spirit.. as there is not the reason to panic.

     For the Lord told us He will “draw all” (Jn.12:32). And told us how He will do it - “These (not yet saved/still wild weeds/goats) will rise into aionion-kolasis *AGE*LASTING-CORRECTION” which is “after the thousand years” Rev.20:5 (translated, everlasting punishment, the most extreme possible usage of both words) “but the righteous into aionion life” (into “the thousand years”/millennium age)- Mt.25:46.

     Some being “corrected” now, and some during “the judgment”.

     But if part of our message is ‘you needn’t be born again’ we set them up for failure, they will remain still wild weeds rather than being part of the wheat harvest (and our works are in danger of being straw and stubble and being burned up at the consummation when Jesus arrives).