The World and the Word

                             The Wheat and the Chaff

When the Apostle Paul wrote about "the dispensation of the fulness of times" in Ephesians 1:10, he could only have meant the time of the end of the world when God will recreate the heavens and the earth. Paul wrote that Christ will gather "all things" to Himself at that time. Since Christ created all things, and they all belong to Him, and He can never lose any of it; then God cannot fail to recover and recreate everything that He originally created including all human souls and spirits defiled by sin. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. God will cause all human souls and spirits that He created to be good to be cleansed of sin and purged of evil, which is spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 1:31; John 3:16; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Humans saved by grace will live in Heaven with God forever, and all living humans that God recovers from the regions of death, He will recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 50:23.

The judgment of II Timothy 4:1 can only be the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15. The Apostle Paul refers to a specific time and an exact place for Christ's Judgment of the "quick and the dead." In no other judgment of the Bible (KJB) are the quick and the dead judged at the same time.

II Timothy 4:1 cannot be about Christ's Judgment at the beginning of His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4 teaches that the living and resurrected Tribulation saints will be the judges at that time. The millennial reign of Christ cannot be His final kingdom because evil will again emerge toward its end. Revelation 20:7-10. Christ will establish His eternal kingdom only after His Judgment of the quick and the dead and after He has burned up the heavens and the earth to purge it of all influences of evil and has recreated it all to be eternally righteous. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.