The
Appointed Times of Salvation For All Men
By
Steve Santini
(Excepted
from the manuscript, A Journey Unto
Revelation’s End: A Search for the Apostle Paul’s Lost Revelation by Steve Santini)
The following study is based on I Thessalonians
4:12 to 4:17. Its overall focus is on the impact of the word “all” as used in
the following verses.
“This is a trustworthy
saying that deserves full acceptance (and for which we labor and strive), that
we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of ‘all’ men, and
especially those that believe” I Timothy 4:9, 10 NIV
“… so in Christ ‘all’ shall
be made alive.” I Corinthians 15:22b
“And I, if I be lifted up
from the earth, will draw ‘all’ unto me.”
John 12:32
There are two other points that I would like
to make in this brief introduction. First, there are four types of people when
studying the salvation of all men. They are the unjust, the just, those that
have faith in Christ Jesus and those that are Christ’s messengers or saints.
The second point is that the term “eternal life” used throughout the New
Testament is not synonymous with the term “to forever be with the Lord” used in
I Thessalonians 4:17.
The apostle Paul’s first letter to the
Thessalonians was written out of a concern that the pressure from those without
may have undercut the faith of that church. In the letter he comforts them by
reminding them of their resurrection and their eternal life to culminate in
ever presence with the Lord. The letter does not contain all the elements of
the transition from this present age of “man’s day” into the restitution of the
age of eternal life in paradise upon this earth. Paul addressed this these
missing details in chapter five verse one when he wrote, “But of the times and
seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.” Paul had no need to
write of all the times and seasons since he had previously been with them
teaching day and night. Paul had also recently sent them Timothy who, of all
his followers, was the most likeminded with Paul. To comfort the pressured
church in Thessalonica Paul had reiterated the most important points concerning
their transformation at the appearing of Jesus Christ as written of in chapter
four.
In consideration of our limitations in understanding
from Paul’s brief but powerful reminder to the Thessalonians I have gone
broadly to some of Paul’s other letters and other areas of scripture to fill in
some of the information about the times and seasons that Paul, in his writing
to the Thessalonians, found it unnecessary to repeat.
As stated the first draft was written on the
2002 anniversary of the date Jesus was crucified. I do realize that the reading
of the study may require concentration at points. To make a change in belief
sometimes necessitates documentation in detail. Those in Berea were most noble
in that they searched the scripture daily to see if what Paul was saying was
true.(Acts 17:11) It is evident at points from this present reading that it
required focus for me to work out of long held traditions and doctrines into
marvelous truths so much larger than myself.
I believe that this process is a common experience for all of us who
seek understanding.
I have provided, at the beginning, a chart or
time line that was prepared after I completed my initial study on the subject.
At the end I have provided some recently written summary statements. I hope
that these both will give you some contextual stability for your understandings
within your reading of this study and the further scope of the manuscript.
. End Time’s Time Line According
The Apostle Paul’s
Revelation of the Mystery
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Man’s DayOr Times
of the Gentiles Planting
of Paul (From the 1st Century Till The Manifestation of the Saints) |
Day of the Lord Foundation for the
millennial kingdom, acceptable year of the book of Hebrews, Mechisedec
priesthood and royal priesthood established New law of faith written in the heart
by the Holy Spirit |
Day of Christ, 1000 year millennial kingdom,
the restitution of all things from the beginning of paradise on this earth,
new heavens and a new earth, Either age long/ everlasting life or
age long/ everlasting perdition for souls |
All Gathered in the Clouds Third heaven and earth of which there
is no end |
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First the blade |
then the ear (time of sporadic pollination) |
then the
full ear of corn |
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1. Manifestation of the sons of God
(Rom. 8:19) The Lord cometh in ten thousands of his saints (Jude 14, Joel
2:1-11) (spiritually masculine) 2. Out resurrection of the faithful
in Christ Jesus from Israel and Gentiles (Phil. 3:11, Heb.11:35) The living
God who saves all “especially” those who believe or, in other words, those
who have been faithful to Christ Jesus unto the end (spiritually feminine), Israel of God filled from Gentiles and Jews; then made
fully whole at “out-resurrection.” |
Arrival of Jesus Christ Resurrection of the just-all who have
done righteousness out of a conscience for God-for age long life on a
replenished earth Resurrection of the unjust for
corrective separation during age long sufferings of heat producing pressure
(thanatos) (Matt.25:31-46, Luke 16:19-31) |
All things subdued unto the Father by
the Lord Jesus Christ. All things delivered up to the Father. Death
(thanatos-separation from God) destroyed All souls together meet the Lord in
the air (I Thess. 4:17) as known
elements melt (II Peter 3:8-12) The living God who is the savior of
all men (I Tim 4:10) Completion of the “one new man in Christ” |
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A Writing on Passover
This publication was written on the day on which our Lord was crucified. As it was about two thousand years ago this day carries great significance for the future of mankind.
I Thessalonians 4
12
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have
lack of nothing.
13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep
in Jesus will God bring with him.
15
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first:
17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
When we read this section there are six important points to be considered in regards to the salvation of all men. First, we need to consider the three groups of people involved throughout the section as indicated by the usage of the first, second and third person plural pronouns of “we, you and they”. We also need to consider the differentiation and usage of the Greek word alla and the Greek word de that is translated as the conjunction “but” in verse thirteen. And we need to consider the differences between the two Greek words anastesontai and exanastesontai translated “rise or resurrection” in Paul’s epistles. In light of the chapter entitled “The No People of Romans Ten” we need to consider who are the “alive and remaining” (perileipomenoi) of verses fifteen and seventeen. Also, in verse seventeen, we need to take the time to consider the differences between Greek word epeita translated “then” in that verse and the word tote translated “then” in other places. And finally we need to use the Greek rules of grammar when we consider to whom the Greek word ama, translated “together” in verse seventeen, refers.
we, you and they
From the context, they, throughout the section, refers to them that are without who do not believe in Jesus Christ. These without in verse twelve are them which are asleep and the others of verse thirteen, them also which sleep in Jesus (not in Christ) of verse fourteen, them which are asleep of verse fifteen, and them of verse seventeen.
The ye of verse twelve are those which are not to be ignorant and those who are not to sorrow of verse thirteen, the you to whom Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy were writing in verse fifteen, the dead in Christ who rise (anastesontai) of verse sixteen and the one another of verse seventeen.
The we are Paul, Silvanus and Timothy of chapter one, verse one, the we who believe of verse fourteen, the we who say and we who are alive and remain (perileipomenoi) of verse fifteen and the we who are alive and remain of verse seventeen.
de vs. alla
A pivotal point in understanding this section is the connection between verses twelve and thirteen. It is the moderate contrasting Greek conjunction de rather than the strongest contrasting conjunction alla.
Here de is translated but yet in many places the same word is translated howbeit, therefore and even and. Because of this conjunction, the contextual subject of them, identified as those that are without in verse twelve, does not change in verse thirteen nor does it change as the subject throughout the section.
Another pivotal point in understanding this section is that thanotos (separation from God) or apolumi, translated destruction and meaning away from light does not commence until the period of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Until that time all expired souls, except for those of the saints (Philippians 1:21-23), are apothnesko (away from thanotos) either asleep in Jesus or asleep in Christ.
epeita vs. tote
And another pivotal point in understanding this section rest in the connection, then, between verse sixteen and verse seventeen. The word then that begins verse seventeen is the Greek word epeita which means then after a period of time. It is not the Greek word tote, which means then at that time. Epeita’s root, eita, is used twice in the gospel of Mark in chapter four verse twenty-eight.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full ear of corn.
In natural growth there is a period of time between each the blade and the ear, and the ear and the full ear. When the ear first appears in early July there is a relatively short period of time in which the ear is pollinated. After pollination it matures into a full ear of corn.
The word epeita is also translated as afterward in some places. It is used in I Corinthians 15: 46 when Paul was writing of Adam and Jesus Christ.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
There was quite a long time between Adam and Jesus Christ.
So, because the usage of this then (epeita) at the beginning of verse seventeen between the dead in Christ rising and the meeting of the Lord in the air, there is a period of time between the two events.
perileipomenoi and exanastesontai
Now look at the Greek word for rise in the phrase, the dead in Christ shall rise first of verse seventeen. It is the word anastesontai. It is a verbal that corresponds to the Greek noun anastasis, which is also translated 39 of 43 times as resurrection. So, it could very well be that this first resurrection is the “better resurrection” of Hebrews 11:35, and the “out resurrection” of Philippians 3:11 or the first resurrection of the dead in Christ as stated here in I Thessalonians.
The word for remain in the phrase for those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord is perileipomenoi. The prefix peri means upon the outside edge of a circle. The root leipo is translated in other prefixed forms as remnant. It is used singularly of those whom Titus was to set in order within the churches of Crete to solve the overall church problems.
We know from Hebrews that there is an order of Melchisedec. The word order means either a succession or an arrangement in within time. In this context, there is “another (heteros-another of a different kind) tribe” other than Levi from which there is a priesthood of which Jesus Christ is the High Priest as Aaron was of the tribe of Levi. It is a tribe after the order of Melchisedec that has, as he had, an endless life without beginning of days and, in the spirit, unaccounted for by genetic lineage. This tribe is the saints who serve within the office of the High Priest. As Paul addresses the saints in Philippians he talks of his desire to depart and be with the Lord which he considers, at that time near the end of his ministry, as far better. In the context there is no indication that he, as a saint, will have to wait from the time of his death or departure to be present with the Lord. In I Thessalonians 3:13, it says that the Lord Jesus will come with (meta) his saints. Jude writes of the Lord coming in his saints. How could he come within his saints unless they were already with Him above the heavens or on the outside (peri) of the circuit of this universe. Joel and Isaiah speak of a people to come and harvest before the end of day of the Lord when the resurrection of the just and unjust takes place. (Joel 2, Isaiah 66:19)
So, before the Lord
comes in his fullness for resurrections, the saints come to prepare the
inhabited earth for His arrival. Their presence prepares the inhabited world by
two means. It is their coming that is the catalyst for the “first and better”
resurrection of the dead in Christ. They are the catalyst for the forthcoming
resurrections. The saints minister to and protect the faithful in Christ Jesus.
The saints presence is considered antithetical by the world and they, the
people of the world, are deluded to think that they, the saints, are the
antithetical therefore giving further rise to the true antichrist in order to
oppose the saints. This is the strong delusion of sent to those who perish
because they choose to believe a lie. (II Thessalonians 2:10-12). They saints
bear the sword of the powerful logos
of this time to execute wrath and vengeance on those who resist their mission
to energize the promised restitution to this earth. If the saints fall upon a
sword they shall not be wounded according to the prophet Joel. At the end of
this time the true antichrist’s work will be destroyed by the epiphany of the Lord Jesus Christ’s effulgence.
Then those who have followed the antichrist’s delusion will have their souls
sent for their time of formative destruction in perdition during the last age
while those of belief in Christ Jesus will enter paradise for everlasting life.
(The word everlasting in the phrase everlasting destruction and everlasting life throughout the Bible is the Greek word aion, which means age or age long. However, the Greek word ever, in the phrase “so shall we ever be
with the Lord”, in II Thessalonians 4:17 means always and speaks of the time beyond the last age of everlasting
life on this earth’s paradise.)
(Why should we consider this purifying work of perdition the act of an unloving God? It is when we count the days of historical importance as only those of our own lives and fail to view eternity that we consider an age of one thousand years of “destruction” as unloving or unjust. Even now, in these short lives, those children who hinder or ignore parental desires for familial growth are set in a corner or isolated within a room in a less desirable situation to reconsider their rebellious thoughts and disobedient actions. Luke 16:19-31)
In the beginning of Hebrews in chapter one, verse six, Paul introduces the main subject of the book by saying, “and again when he bringeth the first begotten into the world”. The Greek word for bringeth is a word that is used of a shepherd driving sheep to sheepfold. Near the beginning of Hebrews Paul writes of the sons (huis) who have already been completely brought to glory. (Hebrews 2:10) Then he writes of the children (padion). Padion are young children in need of instruction. Hebrews is a training manual that commences in earnest when the Lord first comes within his saints. It will be necessary for the padion to fully recognize the saints during this time. For this purpose Paul includes much about the characteristics of the Melchisedec priesthood in variation to another priesthood. In Hebrews, this period of time preceding the coming millennial kingdom or paradise is likened to the forty years that the children wandered in the wilderness. Although many translators footnote Hebrews chapter four, verse eight to replace the word Jesus with the word Joshua, when the scriptures speak of “another day”, it should remain the word Jesus. If the texts are scrutinized there is not a place where Joshua spoke of another day, while Jesus did. Jesus said at the time of the four gospels that he had another flock that were not of that present fold. The Greek allos, used there, is translated another and means another of the same kind in greater quantity and/or quality. In this context, in Hebrews chapter four, Paul writes of certain limited day and likens it to the time of David. David ruled Israel for forty years.
Those of former Israel and Gentiles, who have believed and do believe during the “short work”(logos), during the forty year suntelia of this present age, will be the remnant feminine seed or padion. In their portion, as the forthcoming royal priesthood in the Holy Temple, they will be prepared minister to all others during the future millennial kingdom. (Romans 9:28,29)
Paul also writes of the forty years Israel wandered and closes by likening it to the then present period in which he writes saying it is upon the church that the “ends” of this age are come. (I Corinthians 10:1-11) This present age or time period is termed, “man’s day” Biblically. A line has two ends as a period of time or age would. The first end of this age was the forty years from John the Baptist until the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. It was marked early by the gift from the Holy Spirit. This is the time of the sufferings of Christ. The second end is the forty-year parousia when the Holy Spirit writes a new law on the heart and when the saints come and then the Lord himself comes to resurrect the faithful in Christ Jesus first. After the first resurrection, the resurrection of the just and the unjust takes place.
In Philippians, chapter three, verse eleven Paul calls the earlier resurrection of the faithful in Christ Jesus the “out resurrection” (exanastasis) in differentiation from the resurrection (anastasis) (The Greek word exanastasis is used in it verb form in Acts of a group from within a larger group of believing Pharisees who rose up to challenge Paul’s work among the Gentiles.) This “out resurrection” is the “better resurrection” that Paul writes of at the ending of Hebrews, chapter eleven. It is for those who have been faithful to the message of the saints and who have been willing to suffer for their belief in the truth of Christ Jesus.
The variation between the coming of the saints and the first resurrection of the faithful in Christ Jesus is why Paul in his last writing refers generally to this time period by using the Greek word epiphany while Peter in his last writings uses the Greek word apokalupsis for the same time period. Paul, in this context, writes from a masculine heavenly perspective while Peter writes from an earthly feminine perspective. Basically, epiphany means light on top of while apokalupsis means away with a veil. These two groups will unite and function together, yet distinctly, as the office of the High Priest of which Paul writes, and the royal priesthood of which Peter writes.
This second forty years will culminate with the brightness of the Lord’s own epiphany. This is the time period of reversal. Christ shall be glorified in contrast to the previous sufferings of Christ. Those who have gloried in the flesh and caused the church to suffer shall in turn suffer. (I Peter 1:11 II Thessalonians 1:6-9)
So, this suntelia or parousia of Jesus Christ (coming near or beside for a period of time) commences with Christ’s coming in his saints and then proceeds to the first, out, or better resurrection of the faithful in Christ Jesus. The saints are the ones who are alive and remain in I Thessalonians 4:15 and 17. During this time period the Lord himself descends to resurrect the dead in Christ and transform the living faithful into immortality first. The Lord Jesus then resurrects all others. The just, who may have been some without, asleep in Jesus at that time, enter the millennial kingdom. Then he sends the unjust who were the remainder on the outside, asleep in Jesus at that time, to perdition. Then, epeita, after a period of time (millennial kingdom) those having been first resurrected together with those alive and remaining shall be caught up into the air at the same moment with the just and those unjust raised from perdition’s purifying work. At this time, all things have been subdued unto the Lord Jesus Christ, the kingdom is completed, and it is delivered up to the Father as all known elements melt with a fervent heat and all men enter a new universe clothed in light. At this time, Paul’s statement about the living God being the savior of all men, especially those who believe will have been fulfilled. Here, death (thanatos – separation from God) will have been fully destroyed. Here, Jesus Christ will have drawn all men unto himself. Here, Jesus Christ will have subdued all things unto himself and every knee will have bowed and confessed Jesus as Lord to the glory of the Father. Here all souls will transcend from age long life and age long perdition to be forever with the Lord. Here, He will have delivered all things up to His Father and our Father.
we, you, they with “ama”
Now back to the original verses for clarification:
16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first:
17
Then (epieta) we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together (ama) with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Grammatically the word together
(ama) when used in this phrase unites the two preceding subjects not the
following. The same grammatical usage
is in I Thessalonians 5:10
Who
died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live (ama) together with him.
Here, in the above verse, the Greek word ama unites those awake and those asleep together and then places
them all with (sun) him. (Jesus
Christ)
Likewise
in verse seventeen of chapter four, during a period of time (epeita), this word ama first joins the dead in Christ that have been raised (you) with those who are alive and remain
(we), and then places both “with” them who have slept in Jesus, so that
none precedes another into the eternal presence of the Father at the
culmination of the thousand year paradisiacal kingdom.
Why then is today so important? As the departure
of Israel from Egypt for their forty years of testing began with the first
Passover, I believe that it could very well be that the beginning of this age’s
suntelia will also correspond to a
Passover season. Not only does the book of Hebrews give us an indication of
this in its referral to the forty years in the wilderness but also the book of
Timothy. After speaking of the last days and the perils of such, Paul says that
those who have resisted the truth shall proceed no further and likens them to
Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses before the first Passover and the
departure of Israel from Egypt. This perilous time period in Timothy refers to
the period just before the first Passover.
Passover was the time period during which the
first ripened of different grains or seeds were gathered and presented in the
Temple. There are different seeds. There is a masculine spora and a feminine sperma.
(The Greek word sperma was derived
from the name of an ancient feminine Greek goddess who could change any grain
into wheat.) In the Greek, the word remain referring to the saints is a
nominative, plural, masculine, present participle, while the noun for the word resurrection
is feminine. The barley seed represents the masculine saints while the wheat
seed represents feminine souls of the faithful in Christ Jesus, which
eventually will be derived from believing Israel and believing Gentiles.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica and Webster’s Dictionary, cultivatable
wheat was first discovered by the Egyptians in the land of Canaan, while barley
grew throughout the world. Yeast or leaven was acquired from barley malt. It is
the yeast from barley malt that is needed to raise the wheat flour to obtain
the full loaf of bread. (The sporadic action of cell division causes the gases
that make the wheat dough to rise.) The year’s Passover was determined not only
by the moon’s phases but also by the maturity of the barley crop. The first
fruits of this crop were offered in the temple during the Passover celebration.
Paul says to throw out the old leaven that you may be a new lump because Christ
our Passover is sacrificed for us. Each year at Passover the old leaven
acquired from the previous year’s barley harvest was thrown out because the new
barley harvest was coming in. Not only were the first fruits of barley offered
in the temple but much of the crop was sacrificed for malt so the Israelites
could acquire new leaven for the upcoming wheat harvest at Pentecost. Alfred
Edersheim, the highly regarded Hebrew scholar, says that, according to
unanimous Jewish tradition, Passover was not technically complete until it
merged with the Feast of Pentecost fifty days later. It was at Pentecost that
the leavened loaves of shewbread were presented beneath the seven lights of the
menorah in the Temple.
In Ephesians 4:12, in the phrase, for the perfecting of the saints, after
the listing of the “gift ministries”, the words of the saints is in the genitive case. The genitive case in its
simplicity directs the reader to the source not towards the object needing
perfecting. This perfecting is from the saints and is directed towards the
building up of the body of Christ as it appears in the following phrase. When
you work the stem of the root for the word, perfecting,
back to its primary verb, it has the sense of something suspended that causes a rising like yeast causing the bread dough to rise. As it has been for millennia, current instructions for making
bread say to place the yeast on top of the lump of flour so that it can be
worked down into the whole lump.
When Peter writes of the future salvation at
the unveiling (apocalypse) of those
he is addressing he says that they are to be regenerated by incorruptible seed.
(I Peter 1:23) This word for seed is the Greek word spora not the more commonly know Greek word for seed - sperma. These former Israelites
following Peter’s gospel and those Gentiles of faith are the sperma or feminine soul seed to be
regenerated by the leavening of the spora
or masculine spirit seed.
Wasn’t it the appearance of the saints, Moses
and Elijah, with the glorified Lord Jesus upon the Mount of Transfiguration
that was a precursor to the meeting of the masculine saints and faithful
feminine souls in Christ Jesus. This meeting on this Mount of Transfiguration
raised the level of belief within the souls of Peter, James, and John as Jesus
prepared them for the excruciating times then to come in Jerusalem? Wasn’t is
the presence of two saints standing on the earth with the faithful souls of the
twelve apostles who said at the ascension that Jesus Christ would return in
like manner as they
had seen him go. This saintly prophesy of reunion with Jesus Christ himself
raised the level of belief within the apostle’s hearts to accomplish what they
had been commanded by the resurrected Jesus.
It was the introduction of the apostle Paul
and other saints into the early church that caused the holy temple to rise from
its base of the twelve’s gospel. This is why Colossians, chapter one, verse
twenty-seven should correctly be translated, according to Greek grammar and
acceptable Aramaic, as Christ among you
rather than Christ in you. It will be
the introduction of the glorified new leaven of the saints from their place far
above the heavens into this inhabited world that will raise the level of belief
for all of humility so that they may obtain salvation and that will provide the
impetus for the forthcoming first resurrection from the dead. Then, as this
period of Hebrews comes to its end, the Lord himself provides the finishing touches
by bringing together the holy temple, making idle the wicked one, resurrecting
the just and unjust and ministering as the High Priest in the millennial
sanctuary.
There are four types
of men. Each will eventually be transformed in God's progressive plan of
salvation. Today, in this named
"mans day", the imposed hierarchal and quantitative order is such:
1. Those that
transgress God's immutable commandments "The Unjust"
2. Those that keep
God's commandments either by knowledge or out of natural conscience. "The
Just"
3. Those that have
the love of and faith in Christ Jesus (the called represented Biblically by the
feminine - wheat)
4. Those that are
Christ's (the chosen represented Biblically by the masculine - barley)
In the coming day of
Lord and as a result of God's plan for the culmination of all this world's
ages, the order will be reversed. As a result the reversal the new order will
not be hierarchal in the terms of man's current understanding and application.
The saints and faithful in Christ Jesus will function harmoniously together as
the one body of Christ. The transformations from beings of corruptible flesh to
spiritual beings with incorruptible flesh in the ever-growing body of Christ
will also take place sequentially in reverse order by varying methods as such:
1. Those that are
Christ's in the purest sense never die and are called the first begotten and/or
the saints. Their transformation comes first from heaven. Their transformation
is heavenly, so they are without need, technically, of resurrection.
2. Those alive in
faith will enter the acceptable year at the manifestation of the saints and
subsequent darkening of the sun and reddening of the moon. Within the year all
those that have maintained faith in Christ previously are resurrected first
from the earth to be joined also with the saints when the Lord himself
descends. In an increment the Lord's Prayer is fulfilled - "thy will in
heaven be done on earth." The
faithful in Christ Jesus are now, in this present “man’s day” and in the coming
Lord’s day, sealed for salvation first by the token of their inheritance from
the Holy Spirit and by their faith in Christ Jesus.
3. After the
“acceptable year” of the book of Hebrews the resurrection of the just and the
unjust occur. (Matthew 13:47-51) Then the just enter the prophesied
thousand-year kingdom that was the intent of the original paradise that began
this world. (The forty years of the
book of Hebrews is the coming wedding feast for the saints and faithful in
Christ Jesus spoken of by Jesus in his parables.)
4.
The unjust are sent to one thousand years of perdition or chastisement. (In
this present day repentance can move an individual from the category of unjust
to that of the just and likewise disobedience can moved the just, without
repentance, into the category of the unjust.)
5. At then end of
the thousand years of this earth’s restored paradise all souls will be gathered
together into the clouds to be forever with the Lord
In these thousand
years those that are Christ's and those that have faith in Christ are co-joined
ministers as Christ's body, or, in other words, the holy temple of the Lord,
Together, they minister unto the just nations of the world.
At the end of the
thousand years all men are transcended in to the third heaven and earth as the
completed “one new man in Christ” written of by the apostle Paul in Ephesians.
This, ultimately, is the grace, mercy and forgiveness made available to mankind
through the atoning work of the cross of Christ.
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Ministry
and Crucifixion
of Jesus Christ and Pentecost |
Destruction
of Jerusalem; Deaths
of Peter and Paul |
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1.Manifestation of the
Saints Luke
17:26-37 John1:51 2. Out pouring
and energizing of the gift from the Holy Spirit Acts
2:17-21 |
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The Dead
in Christ Raised
as the Lord himself comes |
Just
& Unjust Resurrected &
Judged Paradise
for the Just; Perdition for the Unjust |
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All men past and then present changed and
gathered for the third heaven and earth (I Tim.
4:10) |
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Peter’s And Paul’s Ministries; The Holy
Spirit and the Revelation of Jesus Christ; Lesser
Flock Sufferings |
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Faithful
in Christ Jesus become regenerated by faith with the work of the Holy Spirit
and the Ministration of the Saints: Parousia; Greater
Flock Glory |
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Joint
Priesthood of Saints and faithful in Christ Jesus unto the resurrected just
and their forthcoming progeny; (age-long
destruction for the unjust) |
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About
4000 Years Old
Testament (law) |
40 Years (law to
faith) |
About
2000 Years Man’s
Day Times of
the Gentiles (faith) |
The
“Acceptable Year” The Day
of the Lord Day of
Darkness-Joel 2 Faithful
saved out of wrath Manifested
Saints & the faithful in Christ
Jesus become united as the one body of Christ (faith) |
1000
Years Millennial Kingdom; Paradise (faith
realized-the hope) |
Third
Heaven and Earth |
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Hebrews: The
"Real" Book of Transition
By Steve Santini
Knoch, A. E.,
Eternal Torment or Universal Reconciliation, Santa Clarita, Concordant
Publishing Concern
Hanson, J.W., Biblical Proofs of Universal Salvation,
Universalist’s Publishing House, Boston, 1888
Dokas, J., Ages or Eternity in the King
James Version , 1977
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Links
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