The World and the Word

                            The Wheat and the Chaff

The Apostle Peter preached in Acts 3:21 about "the times of restitution of all things." The Bible (KJB) must mean exactly that which it states. God created all things, and there must come a time when He will restore and recreate all things that have been stained by sin. The Apostle Peter used the word "times" because God will restore all things in various stages. The Raptures of the Old Testament saints, the New Testament saints, and the Tribulation saints constitutes a partial restitution of all things. But the prophets also foretold of a specific time and place when God will destroy the heavens and the earth, and He will recreate everything that He originally created that has been stained by sin, including all living humans. Daniel prophesied in Daniel 12:1-3 that God will effect a specific time of judgment and resurrection following the Great Tribulation. Some will be raised to "everlasting life" and some to "everlasting contempt." No one has been or will be raised to permanent "shame" in any of God's Raptures of His saints. The word "destroyed" in verse 23 means that God will dissolve the individual systems of every human still in their graves in the end, raise their good, living souls and spirits for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated evil, spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. The phrase "all kindreds of the earth be blessed" can only mean that through Abraham's seed, who is the Lord Jesus Christ, every living human who ever lived, God will raise back to a recreated life. John 5:28-29; Isaiah 66:12-24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

The Apostle Peter further preached in Acts 3:23 that God will permanently destroy only unbelievers. Unbelief is the opposite of faith. The unbeliever denotes that part of every human that is totally evil and spiritually dead. The unbeliever can never repent and believe. Matthew 12:31-32. But God has arranged a day in which He will revive the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all unbelievers still in their graves. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; Romans 12:3; John 5:28-29; John 11:25. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and separate their living souls and spirits, with all their good works, from all their evil, spiritual deaths with all their dead works. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will cleanse from sin and annul the spiritual deaths of all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. I John 3:14; John 5:24. But God will also bring into being a great Judgment Day in which He will thoroughly purge all evil, which causes sin, from all of His creations, and He will reward every recreated living human for their good works. Revelation 22:11-12.

In Acts 10:34-35, the Apostle Peter preached that to God every human has equal value. Peter further preached that God will accept the righteousness and faith of any person in any nation because He created them all in His image. Genesis 1:27. Peter preached this message at the beginning of his sermon before he began to preach salvation by grace. This means Peter had to be preaching about the righteousness and faith that God puts into all humans that He has created in His image. Romans 12:3. Since even the most evil humans have done some good works in their lives, then the fact that God accepts their goodness can only mean that He will provide a lesser form of salvation for all human souls and spirits not saved by His highest form of salvation, which is by His grace. Matthew 5:5.