UNIVERSAL SALVATION DECEIVES MEN, GIVING THEM FALSE HOPE - Tell an unsaved person that Christ will save them no matter what they believe, and they'll have no reason to repent and turn to Christ. Whether we fully embrace this heresy, tell others we "hope it's true," or keep silent when people promote it, we become part of Satan's efforts to deceive men and separate them from God. Jesus warned men of hell and we must do the same. Not only because it's the most loving thing to do, but also because Christ’s final instructions on earth were to make disciples, teaching them everything He taught. It's important that Christians understand the ramifications of Universal Salvation. It sounds loving to talk about God saving all men, whether they repent and turn to Christ or not. But it's perhaps the cruelest trick of Satan. It requires unbelief in Scripture. It makes a mockery of God's perfect grace and justice. It requires a low view of God, and it produces false hope. Tell an unsaved person that Christ will save them no matter what they believe, and they'll have no reason to repent and turn to Christ. Whether we fully embrace this heresy, tell others we "hope it's true," or keep silent when people promote it, we become part of Satan's efforts to deceive men and separate them from God. Jesus warned men of hell and we must do the same. Not only because it's the most loving thing to do, but also because Christ’s final instructions on earth were to make disciples, teaching them everything He taught.

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Universal Salvation Deceives Men, Giving Them False Hope

Tell an unsaved person that Christ will save them no matter what they believe, and they'll have no reason to repent and turn to Christ. 

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Whether we fully embrace this heresy, tell others we "hope it's true," or keep silent when people promote it, we become part of Satan's efforts to deceive men and separate them from God. 

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Jesus warned men of hell and we must do the same. Not only because it's the most loving thing to do, but also because Christ’s final instructions on earth were to make disciples, teaching them everything He taught.

Gail Burton Purath

 

This is the final devotion in a 4-part series on Universal Salvation - It's important that Christians understand the ramifications of Universal Salvation.

 

It sounds loving to talk about God saving all men, whether they repent and turn to Christ or not.

But it's perhaps the cruelest trick of Satan.

It requires unbelief in Scripture.

It makes a mockery of God's perfect grace and justice.

It requires a low view of God, and it produces false hope.

Tell an unsaved person that Christ will save them no matter what they believe, and they'll have no reason to repent and turn to Christ.

Whether we fully embrace this heresy, tell others we "hope it's true," or keep silent when people promote it, we become part of Satan's efforts to deceive men and separate them from God.

Jesus warned men of hell and we must do the same.

Not only because it's the most loving thing to do, but also because Christ’s final instructions on earth were to make disciples, teaching them everything He taught (Matthew 28:16-20). 

I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but

since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!

I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

https://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2017/03/universal-salvation-deceives-men-giving.html

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A GLIMPSE AT THE AWFUL TRUTH - Satan does and reveals his allies who do his evil work and follow his bidding. Despite the pervasiveness of evil in some governmental powers, religious structures, human organizations, and individuals, Jesus will triumph and bring victory for his people. We are led to recognize evil, so we are not deceived. This revealing of evil is to challenge us to stand firm in our faith, to trust in our Deliverer, to live holy lives in honor of our God, and to look forward to our ultimate vindication and victory. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth! “Then the angel carried me [John] away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.” — The Spirit carries John away in a vision to see the ghastly, awful truth about Satan's work to destroy the people of God. The vision exposes the great evil that Satan does and reveals his allies who do his evil work and follow his bidding. However, underneath this glimpse of evil is the truth that the Spirit comes to reveal: Despite the pervasiveness of evil in some governmental powers, religious structures, human organizations, and individuals, Jesus will triumph and bring victory for his people. We are led to recognize evil, so we are not deceived. We are not informed about Satan's influence to make us fall back in fear. This revealing of evil is to challenge us to stand firm in our faith, to trust in our Deliverer.

 

 

 

A Glimpse at the Awful Truth

Satan does and reveals his allies who do his evil work and follow his bidding. Despite the pervasiveness of evil in some governmental powers, religious structures, human organizations, and individuals, Jesus will triumph and bring victory for his people. We are led to recognize evil, so we are not deceived. This revealing of evil is to challenge us to stand firm in our faith, to trust in our Deliverer, to live holy lives in honor of our God, and to look forward to our ultimate vindication and victory. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth!

Phil Ware

God's Holy Fire

 

“Then the angel carried me [John] away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.” — Revelation 17:3 NIV

 

The Spirit carries John away in a vision to see the ghastly, awful truth about Satan's work to destroy the people of God.

The vision exposes the great evil that Satan does and reveals his allies who do his evil work and follow his bidding.

However, underneath this glimpse of evil is the truth that the Spirit comes to reveal: Despite the pervasiveness of evil in some governmental powers, religious structures, human organizations, and individuals, Jesus will triumph and bring victory for his people.

We are led to recognize evil, so we are not deceived.

We are not informed about Satan's influence to make us fall back in fear.

This revealing of evil is to challenge us to stand firm in our faith, to trust in our Deliverer, to live holy lives in honor of our God, and to look forward to our ultimate vindication and victory.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth!

Today's Prayer

Father God, thank you for the truth — for your truth that is not only factual but is also authentic and real.

Satan so easily can deceive me and blind me to your truth.

Open my eyes, Holy Spirit, to see the Father's truth.

Embolden me to live faithfully since I am trusting in Jesus' victory.

Empower me to trust in your presence to sustain me.

To your glory, O God — Father, Son, and Spirit — I live and pray.

Amen.

God's Holy Fire is a daily devotional about the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

The Thoughts and Prayer for God's Holy Fire are written by Phil Ware.

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THE GAP THEORY - Conjectures such as the Gap Theory are provocative and challenge us to search "the whole counsel of God" for consistency and integrity with known, established doctrines. As the "prince of this world," Satan's offer to Jesus Christ in the famed temptations was valid, or else it wouldn't have been a temptation. By God's allowing the cosmic drama to play itself out, Satan will inadvertently glorify God by demonstrating that there can be only one will in the universe and all other paths lead to chaos and destruction. God will use the weakness of man, and his redemption through faith in His Son, to redeem not only fallen man, but "a new heavens and a new earth." The so-called "Gap Theory" is a conjecture about a possible interval between the first two verses in Genesis 1. Among other things, it attempts to deal with the creation of the angels, the fall of Lucifer, and related topics. The angels apparently witnessed the creation of the earth; but when were they created? Satan's rebellion is also portrayed in Scripture; but when did he fall? The third word, Elohim, the name of God, seems to be a grammatical "error": it is a plural noun, used as a singular. It is recognized by many scholars as the first hint of the Trinity. It is the second verse that raises some questions. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” - Genesis 1:2. The conjecture is that between the first two verses of the Bible, after the original creation which included the angels and Lucifer, there was a rebellion and a judgment of his principal domain, the Earth.

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The

Gap 

Theory

What is the Gap Theory and is it valid?

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Conjectures such as the Gap Theory are provocative and challenge us to search "the whole counsel of God" for consistency and integrity with known, established doctrines. As the "prince of this world," Satan's offer to Jesus Christ in the famed temptations was valid, or else it wouldn't have been a temptation. By God's allowing the cosmic drama to play itself out, Satan will inadvertently glorify God by demonstrating that there can be only one will in the universe and all other paths lead to chaos and destruction. God will use the weakness of man, and his redemption through faith in His Son, to redeem not only fallen man, but "a new heavens and a new earth."

Q & A with Chuck Missler

The so-called "Gap Theory" is a conjecture about a possible interval between the first two verses in Genesis 1.

Among other things, it attempts to deal with the creation of the angels, the fall of Lucifer, and related topics.

The angels apparently witnessed the creation of the earth; but when were they created?

Satan's rebellion is also portrayed in Scripture; but when did he fall?

Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” - Genesis 1:1

Beresheet Bara Elohim et ha-Shamayim et ha-Eretz.

Seven Hebrew words; 4 x 7 letters.

Volumes have been written on this verse alone. This opening declaration in verse 1 stands alone; it says it all.

If you understand this verse you will have no trouble with any other verse in the Bible.

The first word is Beresheeth, "In Beginning," which yields the name of the book of Genesis in Hebrew.

The second word is bara, to create out of nothing.

This is in contrast to similar words in the Hebrew: Asa, to make, fashion, or fabricate; and Yatsa, to form or shape. (Isaiah 43:7 uses all three.)

Most of what we see in the remainder of Genesis 1 are forms of "made."

The third word, Elohim, the name of God, seems to be a grammatical "error": it is a plural noun, used as a singular.

It is recognized by many scholars as the first hint of the Trinity.

Genesis 1:2

It is the second verse that raises some questions.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” - Genesis 1:2

The words, "without form and void, tohu w'bohu, seem to be contradicted by a passage in Isaiah:

“For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain [Whto tohu], he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.” - Isaiah 45:18

And also in Jeremiah:

“I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void [tohu w'bohu]; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.” - Jeremiah 4:23-27

When were "all the cities thereof broken down"?

Furthermore, the verb hayah, "was" in Genesis 1:2, is a transitive verb; it is the same word used when "Lot's wife became a pillar of salt."

It implies an active transition.

Also, the waw, "and," in Genesis 1:2 usually implies a time delay.

Here it can be construed as an adversative conjunction, implying a reversal as well as a delay.

(In the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate it is rendered as "but.")

Putting all this together, some scholars suggest that it should be rendered:

"But the earth became without form and void ("ruined and uninhabitable"); and darkness was on the face of the deep (LXX: abousso). And the Spirit of God hovered (Talmud: like a dove?) over the face of the waters."

The Cosmic Interval

The conjecture is that between the first two verses of the Bible, after the original creation which included the angels and Lucifer, there was a rebellion and a judgment of his principal domain, the Earth.

We thus find Satan already fallen in Genesis 3.

According to this view, the record following is simply a reconstruction and the subsequent unfolding of God's plan of redemption.

These ideas were published by Thomas Chalmers in 1814; George Pember, in 1907; Arthur C. Custance in 1970, and Donald Gray Barnhouse, among others, in more recent years.

This is all, of course, highly speculative, and there are those who have published refutations against this view.

In any case, attempting to employ the "Gap Theory" in an attempt to reconcile the Genesis record with geologic or paleanthological theories is inappropriate and futile.

Fossils are dead: they occurred after Adam.

Clearly, the Biblical record attributes plants and animals to the post-Adamic world, and its subsequent "bondage of decay" to the fall in Genesis 3.

The ambiguities of language, and its subsequent translations, often leave room for creative speculations.

Conjectures such as the Gap Theory are provocative and challenge us to search "the whole counsel of God" for consistency and integrity with known, established doctrines.

Speculations such as these can stimulate fruitful discussions but should, of course, be maintained with a light touch at best.

Yet, the possibility of such an interval would seem to reconcile many of the passages regarding Satan and his background.

His aspirations to "ascend into heaven," and the suggestive portrayal in what appears to be a pre-Adamic Eden, with the earth as his principal domain, would seem to harmonize with this view.

As the "prince of this world," Satan's offer to Jesus Christ in the famed temptations was valid, or else it wouldn't have been a temptation.

By God's allowing the cosmic drama to play itself out, Satan will inadvertently glorify God by demonstrating that there can be only one will in the universe and all other paths lead to chaos and destruction.

God will use the weakness of man, and his redemption through faith in His Son, to redeem not only fallen man, but "a new heavens and a new earth."

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IN A MOMENT OF TIME - Satan’s apparent dominion over this world, though it lasts six thousand years or so, is only a moment compared to eternity. One day, Jesus will return to reclaim the world from Satan. What we must endure “here and now” is so brief compared to the eternity “then and there” that it is not even “worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” - “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.” - It is interesting that there are just three “moments” mentioned in the New Testament and that there are three different Greek words so translated, each used one time only in the Bible. Furthermore, each of these three “moments” is used in a context that is anticipatory of the future. First of all, Satan tempted Jesus by flashing before His eyes a vision of the whole world, offering it to Him immediately without His having to endure the cross, if He would rule it for the devil. Here the Greek word for “moment” is stigme, meaning a “point,” like a period after a sentence. In an infinite “timeline,” it would be just a dot on the line, a “point” in time. Satan’s apparent dominion over this world, though it lasts six thousand years or so, is only a moment compared to eternity, and Jesus knew this was a poor bargain. One day, in fact, He will return to reclaim the world from Satan. At that great day, “we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.”

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In a Moment of Time

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Satan’s apparent dominion over this world, though it lasts six thousand years or so, is only a moment compared to eternity. One day, Jesus will return to reclaim the world from Satan. What we must endure “here and now” is so brief compared to the eternity “then and there” that it is not even “worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”

BY HENRY M. MORRIS, PH.D. 

“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.” - (Luke 4:5)

It is interesting that there are just three “moments” mentioned in the New Testament and that there are three different Greek words so translated, each used one time only in the Bible.

Furthermore, each of these three “moments” is used in a context that is anticipatory of the future.

First of all, Satan tempted Jesus by flashing before His eyes a vision of the whole world, offering it to Him immediately without His having to endure the cross, if He would rule it for the devil.

Here the Greek word for “moment” is stigme, meaning a “point,” like a period after a sentence.

In an infinite “timeline,” it would be just a dot on the line, a “point” in time.

Satan’s apparent dominion over this world, though it lasts six thousand years or so, is only a moment compared to eternity, and Jesus knew this was a poor bargain.

One day, in fact, He will return to reclaim the world from Satan.

At that great day, “we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

In this passage, the unique word is atomos, meaning an indivisible particle.

That is, in an “atom of time,” too instantaneous to measure, we shall be changed to be like Him in “his glorious body” (Philippians 3:21).

Right now, however, our bodies are weak and easily beset with pain and sickness.

Nevertheless, we are assured that “our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).

The word here is parautika, referring specifically to the present moment.

What we must endure “here and now” is so brief compared to the eternity “then and there” that it is not even “worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).

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