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and shall put my spirit in you, and
ye shall live, and 1 shall place you
in your own land: then shall ye
know that 1 the Lord have spoken
it , and performed it, saith the
Lord" (verses 13, 14) .
In other words, in the Great
White Throne Judgment after the
millennium, Old Testament Israel
will be resurrected; then they shall
come to " know the Lord." God's
knowledge will come to them. The
resurrected then will read this:
"And there shall ye remember
your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and
ye shall lothe yourselves in your
own sight for all your evils that ye
have committed. And ye shall
know that 1 am the Lord, when 1
have wrought with you for my
name's sake, not according to your
wicked ways, nor according to your
corrupt doings, O ye house of Is–
rael, saíth the Lord God" (Ezek.
20:43-44).
Then upon this repentance, notice
again in Ezekiel 37:14: "And [I]
shall put my spirit in you, and ye
shall live, and I shall place you in
your own land: then shall ye know
that 1 the Lord have spoken it, and
performed it, sai th the Lord ."
Thus, in the Great White
Throne Judgment , they will come
to know that Christ the Savior had
come and died for them. And upon
their repentance they shall receive
the Holy Spirit and with it salva–
tion and eternal life.
All who had lived, previously un–
judged, not only Israel, but of all
nations, will be resurrected MOR–
TAL, physical, as they were in their
first life up to the time of death.
Those in this judgment will be
mortals. They will then give ac–
count and be judged. Concerning
this Great White Throne Judg–
ment Jesus saíd: "The men of
N íneveh shall rise in judgme nt
wíth this generation, and shall con–
demn it: because they repented at
the preaching of Jonas; and, be–
hold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise
up in the judgment with thís gen–
eration, and shall condemn it: for
she carne from the uttermost parts
of the earth to hear the wisdotn of
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So1omon; and, behold, a greater
than Solomon is here" (Matt.
12:41-42; also in Luke 11:31-32).
Also: "But I say unto you, that it
shall be more tolerable in that day
for Sodom, than for that city....
But it shall be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon at the judgment,
than for you" (Luke 10: 12, 14).
There will be punishments. Those
who have sinned little will be
beaten with few s tripes, but those
who have sinned greatly, lcnowing
God's will, with many stripes
(Luke 12:47-48).
But the penalty for sin is DEATH
in the final last judgment. Since all
have sinned, all shall be judged
guilty and sentenced. But they
shall learn that Jesus Christ paid
their penalty in their stead. And in
repentance, demonstrated by per–
formance, they will be given an
opportunity yet at that time to
choose LIFE, and be made immor–
tal.
What a merciful God is the Cre–
ator, whose merey is as great to–
ward us as the heavens are high
above the earth. And he is able to
remove our transgressions from us
as far as the east is from the west
(Ps. 103:12) .
BUT THERE
IS
MORE! MUCH
MORE!
lncredible Human Potentlal
Revealed
In the book of Hebrews we read:
"For unto the a ngels hath he
[God] not put in subjection the
world to come, whereof we speak"
(Heb. 2:5). The theme of the con–
text here is "the world to come."
There is but one earth, but the
Bible speaks of three worlds, ages
or civilizations on the earth-the
"world that then was" (the ante–
diluvian world from Adam to
Noah); this "present evil world"
(from the Flood until Christ's re–
turn, yet future) ; and "the world to
come" (which will start when
Christ comes and sets up the king–
dom of God) .
This verse speaks of angels as if
the world had been put in subjec–
tion to angels; in fact, in the very
beginning of this book of Hebrews,
the first chapter, it is speaking of
Christ and angels and the relation
of angels to humans. This was ex–
plained in chapter two of this book.
But bear in mind tbe general
theme here, or context, is "the
world to come, whereof we
speak"- not this present age, now
coming rapidly to its
end!
Con–
tinue on in verse 6: "But one in a
certain place testified, saying...."
Then follows a quotation out of the
first six verses
only
of the eighth
psalm.
In this psalm, David continued
showing specifically that God has
now placed in subjection under
man the solid earth, the earth's
atmospbere or air, and the sea. But
now tbe writer of the book of He–
brews is inspired to expand David's
prophecy to add something radi–
cally
different-sometbing
to hap–
pen in the world to come!
Thi s revealed knowledge of
God's purpose for mankind- of
man's incredible awesome poten–
tial- staggers the imagination. Sci–
ence knows nothing of it- no reli–
gion reveals it, so far as 1
know- and certainly higher educa–
tion is in utter ignorance of it.
Nevertheless, it is what God says
he has prepared for them that love
him (1 Cor. 2:9-10) .
1 have said before that God re–
vealed necessary knowledge to our
first parents, but
they didn't be–
lieve what he said!
Sorne 4,000
years later, J esus Christ the second
Adam appeared on earth with a
message direct from God the Fa–
ther in heaven, revealing the same
necessary knowledge- but only a
handful- a hundred and twenty–
believed what he said, though
many professed to "beli eve on
him" (as in John 8:30-31, 37-38,
40, 45-46).
Today science, religion and edu–
cation still do not believe WHAT HE
SAlO.
But now let's see what is said in
this passage in Hebrews, beginning
where Hebrews leaves off quoting
the eighth Psalm: " Tbou hast put
all things in subjection under bis
[man's] feet. For in that he [God]
put all in subjection under him
(man), he (God) left NOTHING that
is not put under him" (Heb. 2:8).
Is it possible God could mean
what he says ("all things")?
Noth–
ing
excluded?
In the first chapter, the Moffatt
translation of the Bible renders the
Greek word translated "all things"
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