The subject of our message this afternoon is, "Behold! I
Make All Things New."
In the 21st chapter of Revelation we read, in
verses 3-5, "�Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell
with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the
throne said, Behold, I make all things new�"
How far does this go and what does it mean? It means the
fullness of interpretation: all things new.
We turn to the Apostle Paul�s writing in the Book of
Colossians and we find, in the 1st chapter, he is talking about the
fullness of God having dwelt bodily with us, and he tells us, in verses 15-18,
that this is"� the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature. For by him (Yahshua or Jesus) were all things created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones,
or dominions, principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and
for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is
the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the
dead; that in all things he might have preeminence."
Paul continues the discussion and says, in verses 20-22.
"And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet hath now he reconciled in the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy of his flesh through death, to present you
holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight."
Now just think of the vastness of the grace of God, think
of the vastness of His program. We hear so many people talk about the fact
that the Gospel of the Kingdom is filled with hate and judgment. We hear that
the Gospel of the Kingdom is not satisfactory to them. So they go on their way
with perdition and all their areas of judgments and their final destruction
for great numbers of people who do not accept their faith and factors of
religion. But I want you to know that the Gospel of the Kingdom has more grace
and more love in it than any message on the face of the earth. Jesus went
about and preached the Gospel of the Kingdom, and this is the only message
that Jesus ever preached.
We can well understand that God talks about His nations,
His Household and His race. He refers to His sons and His daughters for the
building of His Kingdom. He says they are His battleaxe and weapons of war,
and He as them pitted against the hordes of World Communism, battling to
destroy the politics of perdition; and all of this is a part of the program of
God�s Kingdom. He has us fighting in great fury against the forces of evil,
but we still have in our knowledge the fact that the fullness of time is
coming, and the end of time, and times and times and times are coming, and we
have everything in its proper position. So as we proceed in this area, we may
be today battling against the powers of communism and the forces of evil, but
we know that grace is going to triumph over the powers of darkness. We may be
overthrowing idol temples, we may be trying to release people from witch
doctors, we may be cutting down and overthrowing their powers of darkness, but
we do know that all things are going to be made new. We know that God will
triumph in the manifested pattern of His grace, and we will proclaim this area
of His grace.
So we see that all things were "�made by him, and for him."
The Scriptures declares, "� all things," that He was "� before all things" and
"�by him all things consist." Therefore, this is the mighty purpose: that He
who made all things, and by whom all things consist, is going to have all
things and is going to have them correctly. Now I want you to note that we
say, "all."
In the Book of Revelation God says, "Behold, I make all
things new." Here in the Book of Colossians God reveals, through the lips of
Paul, that He made everything from the beginning to the end, that in His death
on the cross He had reconciled all things unto Himself, so as to present you
holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.
In the 12th chapter of Genesis you will read of
the call of Abram, by God, to leave the city of Ur in the land of the
Chaldeans. Abram, whose name was changed to Abraham, was a descendant of Adam,
who was the son of God. And in the 1st chapter of Gospel of Matthew
you will read that Jesus Christ was a descendant of David, who was a
descendant of Abraham. In fact, you will find a complete genealogy of this
family, from Abraham to Christ, in Matthew 1:1-16.
Abram was told that out of his household, out of his
descendants, would come the Kingdom of God. Yahweh said unto Abraham: "Get
thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father�s house,
unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and
I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And
I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee: and in
thee shall all (it doesn�t say some, but all) families of the earth be
blessed"(Genesis 12:1-3).
Not only was the Kingdom of God to emerge out of his
household of God�s sons and daughters, which God had planted in the earth, but
God himself, the Eternal Yahweh, would also emerge in a virgin birth out of
this household of Abraham. Therefore in the physical sense, the flesh of God
would emerge forth out of the seed of Abraham; and all families, all would be
blessed. Now God didn�t say I am going to leave some of them; He said, "All of
the families." He doesn�t say how quickly; but in the fullness of time,
however, it will come to pass.
We also want to point out to you that in the Book of
Psalms, in the 2nd Psalm, one of the promises which God made to the
house of Israel and to His people and to His Zion was this: "Ask of me, and I
will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession." But that time has not yet come. You have tired
to carry the pattern of God�s great work to the heathen in Africa and Asia;
you have established culture and civilization beyond their wildest dreams. You
have pointed out that the gods they serve are pagan gods that they are to
return to the worship of the right God and obey His laws, and then He will
bless them and supply them with food and with the blessings of earth. But they
have turned to fight you back; they have acted like cannibals and have sought
to overthrow this civilization. Today, the powers of darkness and the forces
of the World Order are trying to drive the White man out of Africa and out of
Asia, but still you know that there is coming a time when you are going to
inherit all the heathen for your possession, and the uttermost parts of the
earth will belong to the household of God�s Kingdom.
And so this is the message and it is a message of hope, and
it is not a futility, even though we fight because we have been trained to
fight against the powers of darkness and God has raised up His Kingdom to
bring His order in the earth. We find that God also, with wrath and judgment,
turns against the wicked, because of their wicked ways. And even in the course
of His bringing down upon them the battles and the wars, that will destroy and
sweep the wicked from the earth, they still cannot pass out of His hand or out
of His control. Even in the prophecies, which we have, we have been promised
the resurrection of the righteous at the return of Christ. But at the end of a
thousand years, what will God do? He will raise even the wicked dead and start
out His program of correction for them, because He says, "I am going to have
all things" and, in the fullness of time, this is exactly what He is going to
do. Let me point out to you that in the Book of Isaiah we have the passage, in
the 22nd verse of the 45th chapter, which says, "Look
unto me and be ye saved, hear this now: Salvation is not always the same.
There is one Salvation for the sons and daughters of God that will restore
them as the children of God, and they will be able to go in and out of the
heavens. No one can ascend to heaven that did not come down out of it; but
this is salvation for the house of Israel, for the Adamic race, which will be
coming and going throughout all the universe. But for the pagan peoples He
says, "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
Yahweh, and there is none else."
Surely, shall one say, in Yahweh have I righteousness and
strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him
shall be ashamed. In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified and
shall glory" (Isaiah 45:24-25). Not only is there a special existence and
program of salvation for Israel, but in Israel all the seed of Israel shall be
justified and shall glory; not waiting for worlds without end in the periods
of time, but beginning even at the return of Christ, as we shall see all men
shall be transformed even in His image.
If you turn to the 3rd chapter of the Book of
Acts, you will read about Peter preaching to the people and telling them of a
great day that would come in the future, when Christ would return to earth. In
the 21st verse he spoke these words concerning Christ" "�whom the
heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." Now
these are the words of Peter, moved by the holy spirit, saying that all the
prophets talked about a great day when there would be restitution of all
things, and that God would be the one who would bring about this restitution
of all things, but heaven would receive Him until that day and all this was
under the control of the Most High. This is what Peter had to say.
We will turn to the original Gospels, because I want you to
see how many times you will read. "All things," and how many times you will
read, "All things restored." God�s grace is sufficient, transforming and doing
the things, which God alone has the capacity to do.
In the 1st chapter of the Gospel of John, it is
recorded that John the Baptist was talking to the people, and when he saw
Jesus approaching he said, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin
of the world."
Remember, that when Jesus was preaching and teaching the
mysteries of the Kingdom, He said that the field was the world and He planted
good seed in it, and they were the children of the Kingdom; but the enemy
sowed tares, and they were the children of the wicked one. However, He
promised to remove the tares, and even in this hour He is taking out the
tares, because the Kingdom is never going to be left to other peoples. But the
tares will not be removed beyond his capacity to reach them as living souls. I
want to point out to you that, in this declaration; we have the procedure for
the salvation of the earth. Luke says, in the 3rd chapter of the
Gospel of Luke, in verses 5-6, "Every valley shall be filled, and every
mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the
salvation of God." Listen now. This is what Luke says in the 3rd
chapter of Luke, "� all flesh shall see the salvation of God." All flesh, not
some, not a few, but all flesh!
Someone has said, "God gets such a little bit out of this.
Everybody lands in the road to destruction, and God is just getting a few
people to go down the narrow road." "All flesh" may refer to the created
peoples if the world, as God�s Israel is a minority in the earth who shall
rise first to the power and the glory of proclaiming His Kingdom. But God
says, I am not going to get just a few out of this; I am going to get "all
flesh." Hear this now. Let us go on in the declaration of this message.
We now turn to the 4th chapter of the Gospel of
John and read about the Samaritan woman and how the Samaritans had heard of
her and the things that Jesus had said. They went out and talked with Jesus,
and they came back, after talking with him, and they said to the Samaritan
woman, "Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him
ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
He is not just the Savior of the whole world. (John 4:42.) We have talked to
you about the mysteries of His Kingdom, how He had to buy the entire world,
the "entire field," in order to get that treasure that was hid in the field,
which was His own household: His own sons, His own daughters. He bought the
world and He will redeem that which He has paid for. You can be absolutely
sure that God will redeem everything He has paid for. He bought the whole
world, and all have come short of the glory of God. All men have transgressed;
we are told in the book of Romans, all men have sinned. And in this instance,
by His own unblamable life and by His own sacrifice and His own atonement, we
are told, He has bought the world to get the treasure hid in the field (as we
read in Matthew 13:44), but He is going to have the world also. Just as He
already has Israel, who are special unto Him, He will also have all flesh, and
you can be well assured of that fact! So in the 4th chapter of John
it is "all flesh" it is Jesus, "the Savior world."
In the 10th chapter of John, Christ refers to
himself, in verse 2, as� "The Shepard of the sheep." We well understand that
the sheep nations are the nations of Israel; they are the household of the
Most High. They were spiritually begotten in the heavens and divinely
conceived in the Adamic race, on the face of the earth; they were the children
of God after the spirit, and they are the children of God through Adam, after
the flesh. Therefore God said, I am the Shepard of the sheep, I call my sheep,
I lead them out, I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. He
talks there in the land of Palestine about He has Judah and Benjamin, for they
are His sheep. Now Jesus said, concerning this, I am going to gather all
Israel. He said, these are the sheep of my pasture. But let me point this out
to you. He also said, "And other sheep I have." They are not Judah and
Benjamin they are the other tribes. "Other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be
one fold, and one shepherd" (John 10:16). So again we read of the triumph and
the power of God to gather and to use the majesty of His grace, the fathomless
power of the Eternal God, to subdue all things unto himself which fact is
unmistakably established here.
In the 12th chapter of the book of John, in
verses 31-32, Christ says, "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the
prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all men unto me." Now, of course this can well be "hu-man," this can
well be the Adamic race, but it also precludes none and proclaims that God
will save every last one of them and that all men will rise unto Him.
Actually, today, the Adamic race is the White race. The
White race in the world today is Christian, and the Christian nations to day
are the heart of God�s Kingdom, but this has nothing to do with the peoples
that are scattered throughout the world that are in all kinds of apostasy.
They are in Buddhism, they are in Hinduism, but God says, In the end I am
going to tear down all the powers of Lucifer, and all this flesh is going to
bow the knee, all this flesh is going to be saved.
Someone once said, "Well, I don�t like that, I think that
is too much, that is universalism or something else, and I can�t accept it." I
don�t care what you can accept, I am just telling you what the Word of God
says. It says, "I am going to save all flesh." In fact, I cannot think of any
possible condition that should make men happier than to know that God is going
to save every living soul on the face of the earth, for all time and for all
ages. The areas of their condition, the chastisements to which they had been
subjected, the powers of evil they had subordinated themselves to, under
Lucifer, even before your race was placed on the face of the earth, had
certainly demonstrated the power of Lucifer. But Lucifer is not as powerful as
God. Lucifer will win not one single victory over God, and by the time you get
through with this story in the endless ages, even Lucifer is going to be
singing hymns to the Most High God, The nature of Satan the devil is going to
be totally destroyed, and Lucifer will come out of his chastisements to sing
the praises of God. It tells me in my Bible that he is going to worship at
your feet. In the 12th chapter, 32nd verse, of the Book
of John, Yahshua the Christ says, "If I be lifted up from the earth, I will
draw all men unto me."
In chapter 15, verse 14, of the Book of Acts, James is
speaking to the people and reminds them "�how God at the first did visit the
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the
words of the prophets; as it is written." And continuing this passage, Christ
says, "After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David,
which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set
it up: that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these
things. Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world."
In the foregoing passage, James reminds the people how
Yahweh God did first visit the people of Israel, who were then scattered over
the continent of Europe, to take out of them a people for His name, who would
later on be called Christians; and as he says, this agrees with all the words
of the prophets, as written in the Scripture. And continuing this passage,
Yahweh God, who in His embodiments is called Yahshua the Savior or Christ,
goes on to say, I will return again (this is the promise of His second
coming), and I will build again the worshiping of the right God and observance
of His laws; I will build again a civilization of righteousness, truth and
light, over the ruins of chaos, evil and darkness; I will build again on the
ruins thereof, and I will set it up; that the residue of all mankind will seek
after the right God, who is Yahshua the Christ, and all Israel (all
Christians), upon whom My name is called. Yahweh Yahshua will do all these
things, and all these things were known to him from the beginning of the
world. The White race, who are the children of God, will administer the
Kingdom of God"�on earth as it is in heaven," which will be under their Father
who is Yahweh Yahshua, the Christ. So here we have this message in the Book of
Acts. We can now understand what Peter as well as Paul had in mind when they
said that in the fullness of time would come the restitution of all things
spoken of by all the holy prophets since the world began.
Of the many letters, which the Apostle Paul wrote to the
nations (the tribes of Israel) and to the groups of Israelites that were in
various countries, one was addressed to those living in Rome and was called
the Book of Romans. This Book contains many majestic presentations and glimpse
of spiritual truth, which the Apostle Paul had written in "The Apocalypse of
Paul," nuggets which he took out of his "Apocalypse" that Rome tried to
destroy. In the 11th chapter of Romans, beginning with the 26th
verse, we read, "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob�" He didn�t say some, He said "all Israel." This is the promise in the
Old Testament, and this is the promise in the new. "For this is my covenant
unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, the
gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have
not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: even so
have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain
mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy
upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who
hath known the mind of Yahweh? Or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath
first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?" Now listen to
this. "For of him (Yahweh), and through him (Yahweh), and to him, are all
things" to be glory forever." Because God had included them in His mercy,
unsearchable are His ways!
This is a tremendous statement on the part of the Apostle
Paul. Israel, and not only Israel, but these people who have been in unbelief
as well, ultimately shall also be redeemed by the Most High, and He shall
establish His power over them forever.
We move into the First Book of Corinthians, and read the
words of the Apostle Paul, for here again we discover that the Apostle Paul is
talking about the mystery of God and the embodiment of God who comes to
receive the authority of the Kingdom and will emerge again to take this
Kingdom, as the Angel Gabriel came to the Virgin Mary and said that she would
be with child of the holy spirit, and that He would sit upon the throne of His
father David but He came to save His people from their sins. Now the Apostle
Paul says, in chapter 15, verse 24, that "�when he shall have put down all
rule and all authority�" Now this isn�t some rule, this isn�t just here and
there rule. But all rule and all authority. "When he shall have put down all
rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all
enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For
he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put
under him, it is manifest that he is accepted, which did put all things under
him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also
Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him that God may be all
in all."
This is the belief and teaching of the Apostle Paul: God
emerges with victory to put all things down, and before He has completed His
course. All things will become subject to Christ. Again the Apostle in Second
Corinthians said, "Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature"
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
God says, "Behold, I make all things new." This is exactly
what we have read in the Book of Revelation about people. After we have
entered the millennium and we have come into the great purposes of God, He
says, I am going to make all things new. He declares this, and therefore this
is what we should anticipate: He will make all things new. "And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself, (speaking about the house of Israel
which has become His church), hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ
(through His embodiment as Christ) and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation" (2nd Corinthians 5:18).
The church has tried to carry the message of reconciliation
to the ends of the world; sometimes it has not gotten it straight, sometimes
it told them they could be your brothers or you could intermingle with them
(and they had no right to do this; this was error), but they had a right to go
out and preach the reconciliation of the nations of the world, because God
said, I have given you the gift of this ministry of reconciliation. Now, what
does it say? It says there, in verse 19, "To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them,
hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." This is the fullness of
His grace.
So one stands mystified by the majesty with which God has
revealed to us these nuggets of truth; that through Israel, His Israel, His
blessings will eventually go to the ends of the earth. But again I want to
emphasize that you should realize who the Israelites are. To them belong the
covenants; to them belong the giving of the law, the keeping of the law, the
service of God, and the promises. But I want you also to realize that in the
fullness of time, in the fullness of the ages to come, that God is going to
reconcile every soul that ever lived upon the face of the earth, and they will
all bow their knees and proclaim that He is God.
Now we move over into the book of Ephesians, and in this
beautiful 1st chapter of Ephesians the Apostle Paul talks about how
we are the household of the Most High, we who are His children that He sent
from heaven to earth, and how we have already been blessed with all spiritual
blessings in the bosom of the Father before the foundation of the world; and
therefore He predestinated us for our position in the earth, that we would be
wholly without blame, positioning us even as His children, and timing our
birth according to the pleasure of His will. Paul praises the glory of the
grace of Christ "� in whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself; that in the dispensation of the fullness of times (now this isn�t
today or tomorrow, but in the dispensation of the fullness of times) he (the
Almighty God) might gather together in one all things in Christ (through His
embodiment as Christ), both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even
in him: in whom also, we (who are His Israel) have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things
after the counsel of his own will: that we should be to the praise of his
glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation: is whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise" (Ephesians
1:7-13 ).
But concerning us, I want you to know, that in this
dispensation, He has given us our inheritance and fulfilled His predestinated
course and purpose. He also declares that, in the fullness of time, He is
going to bring all things together. He is going to reconcile all things unto
Himself through Christ. So this is again a majestic declaration of the
greatness of Divine purpose.
Let us now turn from the Book of Ephesians to the epistle
which the Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians, and in it we discover that
God has reserved for Himself in his embodiment a name which is above every
name, and that at the name of Yahshua, or Jesus, every knee would bow. Every
knee is going to bow, in heaven, in earth, and even under the earth. In other
words, there is a heaven, there is this earth, and there is also a nether
world, which is under us and inside the earth. The nether world right now is
filled with the devil and his demons, his evil spirits; these are the ones who
are there. The children of the Most High, when they die, are absent from the
body and present with the Lord, as Paul explains in Second Corinthians 5:6-8;
therefore, some of them are in heaven and some are on earth. But the devil and
his angels, and the devil�s children, inhabit the nether world and also this
earth.
In John 8:23, Christ tells the Jews they came from beneath,
from the nether world, and, in John 8:44, He tells them they are descendants
of the devil. Still, it tells me here in the Book of Philippians that because
of the triumph of God, because of His grace and because of His majesty and
power, that every knee is going to bow, every tongue is going to proclaim to
the glory of heaven, in heaven and earth and under the earth, that Jesus
Christ is Yahweh Lord to the eternal glory of God. (Philippians 2:10-11.) So
this is going to be a great and tremendous day, in the fullness of time, when
this has been brought to pass.
We also want to point out to you, therefore, that in this
declaration of the Apostle Paul wrote to the followers of Christ in Philippi
and said, ". also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall
change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto
himself " (Philippians 3:20-21). This what the Apostle Paul said: He is going
to not only transformed our bodies, which will be transformed like unto
Himself at His coming, but the Apostle Paul said, He is going to transform our
bodies, and they will be fashioned like unto the glory of His body, according
to the workings whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.
The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy about this program of the
Most High God and His power, and so he says to Timothy in the 2nd
chapter of First Timothy, verses 5-6, "For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time." So the Apostle Paul tells Timothy that Yahweh
God, whose embodiment was Yahshua the Christ, had given Himself a ransom for
all, and it will be testified to in due time. So apparently he was not talking
altogether about the message of reconciliation then, because he was so busy
rounding up Israel, but he said, We are going to testify to this in due time.
We also discover that Paul tells Timothy, in First Timothy
1:15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation." Now, when
Paul tells Timothy what I am going to tell you now, that this is not only a
faithful saying, but is worthy of all acceptation, what is it? The answer is
in chapter 4, verse 10: "For there fore we both labour and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially
of those that believe." Hear that?
So what the Apostle Paul is talking about is that we are
the believers now, but He is the Saviour of all men, and especially to us who
believe. Therefore, the grace of God is going to every spirit and every
consciousness, bringing it to its utter understanding of truth, repentance of
error, and the acknowledgement of God throughout all of this universe. But the
Apostle Paul says, therefore, We may bear the reproach of this ministry, but
we trust in the living God who will be the Saviour of all men and especially
of us who believe.
The Apostle Paul writing in the Book of Hebrews, in chapter
1, verse 1, says, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his Son (His embodiment), whom he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all thing by the
word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, and assumed the
scepter hand of authority again." Paul said that He, by whom this is done, has
been appointed heir of all things, and this is all things, which were made,
and all things that have their existence, because He himself is God.
Then, in turning to Second Peter, in the 9th
verse of chapter 3, it says, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as
some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us - ward, not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." Someone has said,
"Well, of course, there are a lot of people who won�t want to come to
repentance." No, It says that "all" will come to repentance.
Now let us go back to the Book of Isaiah and see whether or
not there is any slackness concerning what God wants to do for God is not
slack concerning His promises, as some men count slackness, but is
longsuffering and not willing that any should perish, do you think they are
going to perish? Let me point out something to you, here in the Book of
Isaiah, in chapter 46, verse 10: "I declare the end from the beginning, and
from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure." I am going to have my way, I am going
to be happy, I am going to do all My pleasure, God says; and He says, I am not
willing that any should perish, and that will come, all will come to
repentance.
We turn to the 5th chapter of the Book of
Revelation, and here again it is talking about the great day when every
creature which is in heaven, every creature which is on earth, every creature
that is in the nether world, and those that are in the sea, will hear, and
they will all be singing the song: Blessing and honour and glory be to Him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto this embodied Lame, for ever and ever.
Glory, blessings, and honour be to Him; and every creature in heaven, and
every creature on the earth, and every creature down in the nether world, and
all that are in the sea, all of them are going to be singing the praises of
the Most High God. Now about that time, how will you feel about revenge? When
they are going to be singing the praises of God, when they are going to be
worshiping at your feet and the Kingdom is in power, where do you, who are the
sons and daughters of the Most High God, as you will be, where do you think
you are going to put these others? Do you think, by this time that you are
going to have an endless perdition for them? Absolutely not! For by this hour
the whole world will have been brought to a total reconciliation with God, the
last great vestige of rebellion in the universe will be put down, all things
will be made new. And God has declared this.
Now we have quoted only 35 to 40 scriptures here today, and
there are hundreds of scriptures to prove this, and preachers go on and never
see it. Preachers go on sending men to perdition, if they don�t go their
narrow way into their movement or into their congregation. A lot of them will
send you to perdition anyhow, because you don�t agree with. A lot of them want
to say that the devils themselves who run the world are actually the "chosen
people" and you know better than that. You know they are not the chosen
people. You know they are not the heirs of the Kingdom, and you know that in
this dispensation you are called as God�s battle-axe and weapons of war to
destroy the powers of darkness and the forces of evil, while at the same time
you preach the universal message of God�s present program of grace, and how He
will reconcile them unto Himself.
They can say want they want to, my friends that you don�t
have any grace in your program, but you�ve got all the grace! The Gospel of
the Kingdom is filled with grace, and the Gospel of the Kingdom doesn�t
consign the poorest wretch in Africa or the poorest wretch in Asia to
destruction. And they have something to worry about; they have to worry about
what they are going to do with these heathen that through the thousands of
years have lived and died. What are they going to do with them, send them all
to perdition and torture them while all the saints sit around and watch it?
That wouldn�t be anything like heaven. I would rather go fishing, any time
than, watch that.
Let me tell you something. God says His Shekinah glory will
purge out all evil and make new creatures of them, but they will not become
your brothers or sisters because God is not their father. God created them and
loves them because they are His creations and He loves all things that He
created, but you people of the White race Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and
Germanic peoples are God�s family and His Israel in the earth, Although your
Heavenly Father will at a future time give salvation to the other peoples,
that does not imply they will go to heaven, and the Scriptures do not say they
are going to heaven. In fact, in the 8th chapter of John, Christ
makes it very clear that nobody can go to heaven except those who came from
there, and the only ones who qualify are His own sons and daughters. This
appears to be a privilege that our Father has especially reserved for us. But
we can rejoice in the knowledge that our Father in heaven has given us His
promise that the time will come when all creatures, all things, all people,
shall be transformed by the majesty of His grace and the greatness of His
power.
