The World and the Word

             The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to king David and made a covenant with him that He would establish David's throne forever. God kept His promise to David by making Christ the eternal king of Israel. God always keeps His part of any covenant He makes. Psalm 89:34. God's judgment fell on king David when God punished him for his sins, but He still kept His part of His covenant with him. God will certainly punish living humans for their sins and evil, but He will also certainly keep His covenant with Adam and Eve and Noah that He will forever preserve the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 8:20-21.

Jesus came to the earth to be born as a baby in Bethlehem. Angels announced to shepherds and the rest of humanity the reason Jesus came. The angels said that Jesus came to be a Savior and a joy to all people. Luke 2:10. But Jesus has certainly never been a joy to those who hate Him. The angels also prophesied that Jesus came to bring "peace" and "good will toward men." Christ could only fulfill these prophecies if the angels meant that Christ will eventually save all humans either by His grace or by His revelation to all living humans confined to the regions of death in order to cause their repentance and faith so that He can resurrect them and recreate them to inhabit a new earth created in righteousness. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:10-13; John 11:25. God's judgment fell when He allowed Herod to murder all of the babies in Bethlehem. The Devil tried to murder God at that time, but he only succeeded in being used of God to provide a prophecy that an innocent Christ would die on a cross to save all of humanity. Matthew 2:16-18. One day, even the puny, living soul and spirit of Herod will cry out to Christ for mercy from the bowels of Hell. Revelation 5:11-14.

Jesus came and walked the earth "and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him." Acts 10:38. Jesus demonstrated compassion for all humans because He had created the good souls and spirits of them all. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7; Luke 17:21. The story of Jesus' return to His home town of Nazareth to preach but "could there do no mighty work" does not mean that His friends' lack of faith prevented Him from doing mighty works. Jesus did heal a few sick folk. Jesus chose not to do miracles for them because He became a little angry with them because they were His own people who did not believe. Mark 6:1-6. Jesus healed the man whose ear Peter cut off. and that man certainly did not believe in Jesus. Luke 22:50-51. God certainly moves with compassion to heal and save when He sees faith, but that does not mean that God cannot heal or save when He does not see faith. Nevertheless, God will not provide eternal salvation for those he saves by grace or to those confined within the regions of death until He sees their repentance and faith because their repentance and faith will demonstrate that they all desire to be rid of their sins and evil and to become reconciled with God. God's goal is to thoroughly purge all sin and evil from all of His creations and recreate all of it to be righteous. Jesus came to save all living humans from the power of the Devil with a higher and a lower form of salvation. II Peter 3:10-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8.