Common objection: It is God’s will that all men be saved. However, it is also His will justice be done. Therefore, God is love and wants to save everyone but because He is just, He cannot.
God’s will that all men be saved and His justice are the same thing. Why are we continually trying to separate God’s love from His justice? Justice is a part of God’s love and they are never polar opposites that are dueling with one another. That is why Isaiah 26:9 says that God’s judgements cause humanity to learn righteousness. God will judge unbelievers, I get that, but scripture does not say that this judgement is eternal. God’s judgement on unbelievers will bring them to Christ’s cross and ultimately God’s perfection. That is how justice serves God’s love and nothing can be separate from God’s love because that is what He is.
Most of Israel save a few followers of Christ, rejected their Messiah. Christians say that Jesus Christ damns these people to hell forever. However, once judgement comes and jealousy runs its course…ALL OF ISRAEL IS SAVED (Romans 11:26). God bringing in the fullness of the gentiles provokes Israel to the point of accepting their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Christians teach that these Messiah rejectors are in hell forever when scripture says that they will be saved. Understanding that Jesus was speaking on the 1000 year kingdom and not eternity is vital to knowing God’s operation. Let us not condemn for eternity those that God plans to save.
See, Israel rejects their Messiah.
God’s Justice: Judges Israel and provokes them to jealousy.
God’s mercy: This judgement and jealousy leads to All Israel being saved.
God’s judgements lead to His mercy as God is love. Every aspect of separation from God leads to reconciliation with God. Judgement is never an end in itself but a means to God’s mercy and love. God wants us to know His love and mercy and therefore, we must be locked in stubbornness first.
Judgement will not be pleasant and we seek to avoid it, however it is not eternal and even our choices of rejection are part of God’s plan to eventually show us His love through the power of Christ’s cross. Salvation is all of God.
32 For God locks up all together in stubbornness, that He should be merciful to all. -Romans 11:32
God’s love is eternal as He is eternal. His justice is just a means to acquaint the creature with His love. For some it will take longer than for others. Here is what I, Christians, the religious, everyone must understand: GOD MAKES EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN ITS TIME (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Who cares if we can’t see the beauty yet. Does that mean that God is not at work? How arrogant are we to apply to eternity those things that will only last for a season in order to bring us all to God’s perfect completion.
But, this inability for us to see God’s work and His end game comes as no surprise. It comes as no surprise that we would say God is finished at separation when this separation is only a means for His creature to understand love and reconciliation. Its no surprise because God says in scripture that He has put obscurity in our hearts so that we CANNOT see the Almighty’s work from beginning to end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Well, Mr. Christian, Mr. Religion, myself, and everyone must understand that God is not done with any creature until it is made beautiful through the blood of the cross.
I see the experience that Elohim gives to the sons of HUMANITY to humble them by it. He has made EVERYTHING beautiful in its season; however, He has put obscurity in their heart so that the man MAY NOT FIND out His work, that which the One, Elohim, does from beginning to the END. -Ecclesiastes 3: 10-11
In closing, I find it very fitting that the word ‘olam,’ Strong’s word 5769 is used in the above verse to describe what God put in the heart of man. Again, ‘olam’ is the word used to mean ‘eternity’ in many bibles. However, if we are to believe that this word means ‘eternity’ then we have to say God put ‘eternity’ in man’s heart so that he does not know God’s beginning to the end, the opposite of eternity. If ‘olam’ meant eternity than man would know the beginning to the end, not the opposite.
Just another proof that the word ‘eternity’ does not describe punishment, separation, fire or anything else in scripture.
A few questions for the religious:
How can judgement be eternal punishment if God’s judgement causes people to learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9)?
How can judgement be eternal if God is the Savior of all mankind, especially (not exclusively) of believers (1 Timothy 4:10)?
How can judgement be eternal if all creation is reconciled to God through the blood of the cross (Colossians 1: 15-20)?
How can judgement be eternal if God is All in all of His creation (1 Corinthians 15: 28)?
How can judgement be eternal if the same all that die in Adam are the same all made immortal by Christ (1 Corinthians 15:22)?
How can judgement be eternal if Adam’s act condemned all mankind and Christ’s act JUSTIFIED all mankind (Romans 5:18)?
How can judgement be eternal if God is love and He commands us to love our enemies while His love runs out on His?
How can judgement be eternal if every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord for the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2: 10-11)?
How can judgement be eternal if God wills all men saved (1 Tim 2:4) and works all according to the counsel of His will (Eph. 1:11)?
How can judgement be eternal if God is love and love never fails? Please, don’t give me this nonsense that man’s will is stronger than God’s love.
Grace and peace.
Scott, excellent clarity on Judgement and Eternity. Keep it coming we are listening. M’s❤️