God's Promises in Deuteronomy III

 In Deuteronomy 29:29, God informs all who read His Word that He reveals to humans only that part of His Word that they can understand and that will lead them to repentance and faith in His power to save them. The entire Word of God is infinite and far beyond the ability of any human to understand most of it. This fact happens to be exactly what humans should expect from a God with an Infinite Intellect. Even so, there are some scriptures which touch on God's Infinite Intellect and are very difficult for humans to understand. Romans 11:33 (KJB). But humans saved by grace understand the Word of God much better than those who are not so saved because those saved by grace have the Holy Spirit within them to guide their understanding and interpret the Word for them. But all humans should understand that since God has an Infinite Intellect and Infinite Love, then He surely should be able to devise a plan that will cause all of His living humans eventually to repent and believe that only the Lamb of God can save them from eternal death. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

In Deuteronomy 6:24-25, Moses revealed that those Israelites who "do all these statutes" and who "fear the Lord" will be preserved alive. In other words, they would all be saved by grace. The key word again in these verses is the word "all." Those Israelites who came to faith that the sin offering and the burnt offering, which were parts of the statutes of God, and which symbolized the fact that only God could save them from sin and evil; they would become saved by grace. Those Israelites who had a fear of the Lord realized that they were wholly dependent on God for their salvation. They humbled themselves to God. Those Israelites who thought they could make themselves righteous by obeying the Ten Commandments but always failed to do so could not be saved by grace. But those Israelites who had some faith that the sin offering and the burnt offering symbolized a salvation that only God could provide, they obtained salvation by grace. But when they died, they did not go straight to Heaven. God put them into a place called Paradise which at that time was under the earth next to the regions of death but with a huge gulf between them. Ezekiel 31:16; Luke 16:19-26; Luke 23:43 (KJB). When Jesus' Spirit descended into the regions of death, He came to Paradise and preached the gospel to them and made them understand that He was the fulfillment of the prophesies of the sin offering and the burnt offering. They all believed His gospel, and when Jesus resurrected, He brought them all out of their graves and transported them all, and Paradise itself, to Heaven. I Peter 3:19; Hebrews 10:4-10; Matthew 27:51-52 (KJB).

There were two prisons within the regions of death when Jesus came into the world; the prison of the souls and spirits of all humans who died in the worldwide flood, and the prison called Paradise that held the souls and spirits of all the Old Testament saints. Jesus preached in both prisons, but He preached to those who died in the flood that Noah's burnt offering symbolized that He will raise them all from the regions of death near the end of the world and recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Genesis 8:20-21; I Peter 3:18-22; Revelation 21:1-5.

God had the Apostle Paul describe the difference between these two types of Israelites. Paul wrote that those Israelites who tried to make themselves righteous were not saved by grace. But those Israelites who had some faith that the sin offerings and the burnt offerings symbolized a salvation that only God could provide, they obtained salvation by grace. Many Old Testament saints were saved by grace. Romans 10:1-5 (KJB).