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The Kingdom of God, a More Inclusive Gospel prt2

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The Kingdom of God, a More Inclusive Gospel prt1

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Do most People go to Hell?

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Luke 13:23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” So he said to them, 13:24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

If this was the end of this story and Jesus is talking about the whole world, further more if Jesus is talking about literal Heaven & Hell in this story then Yes most human beings ever born go to Hell. If you connect this verse to John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” and interpret this in a Protestant way you can also exclude all Catholics and all other non Born Again believers.  How ever if any of these interpretive assumptions are wrong, then just maybe there is a wider hope then we have been lead to believe.

LUKE 13:25  Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’

So which house are we talking about here, could it be the house of Israel?  In which case this section of scriptures scope would be restricted to the house of Israel.  Could Jesus be speaking of the end of one season and the beginning of another?  Do we have to understand this as an absolute and universal statement, or Particular and local?

Luke 13:26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

This verse appears to be limiting this verse to a particular time as well as location.  I understand it so much easier to just understand this verse as absolute and universal but I would plead to you that is just not the case.

Luke 13:27  But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.

Ok can you see these are people who are evil doers we have narrow the group Jesus is talking to even further. Wow could Jesus really be talking to a very select group of people and not the whole world.  Also is this story talking about Heaven or a coming Earthly Kingdom and did I miss something here or has Hell been mentioned?

Luke 13:29  Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God. 13:30 But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

So there is more people than just these evil doers who refuse the narrow gate, and that some who thought they where first or preferred will be last but not forgotten? These teachings of Jesus are much more hopeful than I was taught or lead to believe.  Could it be that Jesus is the savior of the world after all, and not the leader of a very small secret society.

ANZAHOLYMAN

SALVATION is a BIG PICTURE

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Now in Judaism the High Priest made an offering for the people once a year, every year.  It was only good for the people of Israel who were the people of the covenant, all outside this offering where not lost in an everlasting sense.  They where however outside the National Promises made to a Covenant People, they where to be so blessed in this life that all would be drawn in God’s Kingdom demonstrated and Manifested on Earth.

That Israel was chosen as the vessel of Gods blessing, was not meant to mean God had abandoned all outside of Israel.  You see Israel was a chosen people through which God would introduce the Savior of the World.  Now Jesus Christ is that savior but not just of those who are in The Church, although being in the Body of Christ comes with blessings just like the Nation Israel.  The book of Hebrews tells us Christ as High priest made one offering for all people for all time.  Revelation tells us He is this Offering of God which was offered as a demonstration of God’s love for the world, was a reality before the foundations of the world.

So we see that although God entrusts people with the knowledge of Salvation, that knowledge is not in and of itself what Salvation is.  It is God who saves period and there is a good reason for this, because people will make the way evermore narrow until no one but a very small group are actually saved according to them.  This is why it is appointed for all to stand before God, now blessed are those in the first resurrection for they shall never die.   There is a second resurrection however and many people will find the Salvation of the Lord during that great judgement.

Because as Paul teaches in the book of Romans that as we where all under Adam, so are we all under the Savior of the Worlds offering of himself. This as far as I can calculate is all of humanity, and it is not necessary that they be present when the High Priest made the offering.  Nor was it required reading with the appropriate verbal responses to the proper questions.  With Christ’s loving offering transcending time, space and location, it matters not whether you where a Plains Indian in 4000 BC or an Eskimo in 1400 AD.  How wonderful to share this story of the Salvation of the Lord and to free the soul here and now.  I fear however we have narrowed the way with our pride of knowing we are his children, and thinking that means no body else can be unless we get to them first.  God already has before time, and the sooner we see how Big the Picture of Salvation is the more we will praise HIM.  

So what then tips the balance for entrance into the future Kingdoms of God, why living like His dear son in this life silly.  You did not think knowing you were forgiven was all there was to this KIngdom stuff did you.  Oh and by the way Christ is not just the propitiation of your sins because you are aware of it, but the sins of the whole unaware world.  As Jesus taught it matters how you live in this world, not what you know or have read, or even believed with your mind.  What God accomplished before time began is way bigger then any system men have designed to contain it.  Jesus is Lord and He shall save all of Israel and that’s a way bigger group then we have ever imagined.

ANZAHOLYMAN