All Mankind Saved

There has been a lot write about what this means, but the question is, what does it really mean? A lot of churches will tell you that it means that God is the saviour of all of those who believe and that he would be the saviour of all mankind if all mankind believed. Since all mankind don’t chose to believe, then God will not save them, it has to be there choice.

However there are problems with this explanation. The first being that a lot of children die before they can make a choice. What happens to these children, do they as some teach end up in heaven or as others teach, go straight to Hell?

Millions of people die when they are children, never getting to know God. Churches have always had problems with this issue, what happens to them? Loads more die with out ever having heard the message of Christ. What happens to these people? Was it surely up to them to find out? You have to realise that in the early days of the church, the message had not reached the whole world. The message start in Israel, almost 2000 years ago. What about the rest of the world? Before Christ, God had picked mainly Israel to here his voice, again what about the rest of the world? Before Israel God pick a much smaller group. He only picked a few people on the whole planet.

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Some teach that when the person who has not heard, gets resurrected and stands before the judgement seat, that it is at that time that they get to chose. Surely everyone would pick heaven, which would mean that it would have been better not to have heard at all and chosen incorrectly. Thus it would be better not to herald the good news, that way people will not chose incorrectly. As a matter of fact Christ should have said, “DO NOT Herald.”

Instead of listening to all these people and believing what they say, it is better to read the verses a fresh, with open eyes. Do not think about what they say, reading it and think for yourself what you think it means.

1 Timothy 4:9 Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome

10 (for this are we toiling and being reproached), that we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind,

11 especially of believers. These things be charging and teaching. {CLV}

It means that the saying “that we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers”, is Faithful and worthy of all welcome. The “we” here are followers of Christ. The followers of Christ rely on the living God. The living God is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers. That is God is the Saviour of all mankind. God is the Saviour of Believers especially, but not only believers. God is the Saviour of All Mankind including believers. That means the rest of mankind who are not believers will also be saved, because God is the saviour of them as well. All mankind, means believers and unbelievers, it does not leave anyone out. This is what the followers of Christ are mean to teach, that we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.

Christ Jesus is the correspondent Ransom for all

1 Timothy 2:1-7 I am entreating, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, pleadings, thanksgiving be made for all mankind, for kings and all those being in a superior station, that we may be leading a mild and quiet life in all devoutness and gravity, for this is ideal and welcome in the sight of our Saviour, God, Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth. For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and mankind, a Man, Christ Jesus, Who is giving Himself a correspondent Ransom for all (the testimony in its own eras),for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the nations in knowledge and truth."{CLV}

Paul entreated that petitions, prayers, pleadings, thanksgiving be made for all mankind. God wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth. No one can resisted the will of God. What God wills will happen and no one can stop it from happening. There is no freewill choice here, no choice is mention here. Thus all mankind will be saved and come in to a realization of the truth. This truth is that “there is one God, and one Mediator of God and mankind, a Man, Christ Jesus,” and it is this Man, Christ Jesus, Who is giving Himself a correspondent Ransom for all. That is Christ Jesus is giving Himself a correspondent Ransom for all. That is for all mankind, Christ Jesus is the correspondent Ransom. The ransom is needed to pay the price. For the penalty for sin is death. He is not just the ransom for believers, but for all mankind.

Freewill?

Do people really have freewill? Can they really choice God or not? The answer may surprise you, but the answer to both questions, is NO. People don’t have freewill, they don’t have freewill in any part of their daily lives, and they can’t choose God, or not choose God. It is not up to them, they don’t have freewill.

Romans 9:18 Consequently, then, to whom He will, He is merciful, yet whom He will, He is hardening.

19 You will be protesting to me, then, "Why, then, is He still blaming? for who has withstood His intention?"

20 O man! who are you, to be sure, who are answering again to God? That which is molded will not protest to the molder, "Why do you make me thus?"

21 Or has not the potter the right over the clay, out of the same kneading to make one vessel, indeed, for honor, yet one for dishonor? {CLV}

God is the molder, he makes the vessel, and no man should protest to God "Why do you make me thus?" The molder, God makes vessels for honor or dishonor, he is the one that makes you, he is the one that moulds you into who you are. You have no choice as to the way God moulds you. You have no freewill at all.

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The one in control is God

Daniel 4:35 All abiding on the earth are reckoned as naught: According to His will is He doing in the army of the heavens and with those abiding on the earth. And no one will actually clap with his hands and say to Him, "What doest Thou? {CLV}

God is doing according to his will, with the army of the heavens and with those abiding on the earth. He is in control of every thing, and everybody, on Earth and in the Heavens.

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Christ died for all

Romans 5:18-19 Consequently, then, as it was through one offense for all mankind for condemnation, thus also it is through one just award for all mankind for life's justifying. For even as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners, thus also, through the obedience of the One, the many shall be constituted just. {CLV}

The many, all mankind where condemned because of the disobedience of Adam, thus also the Many, all mankind shall be constituted just, because of the obedience of the One, Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ is constraining us, judging this, that, if One died for the sake of all, consequently all died."

5:15 And He died for the sake of all that those who are living should by no means still be living to themselves, but to the One dying and being roused for their sakes." {CLV}

Christ died for all. He died for all mankind, that is he died for everyone, no one is excluded.

All made Alive

1 Corinthians 15 21-22 For since, in fact, through a man came death, through a Man, also, comes the resurrection of the dead. For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified. {CLV}

Death came though a Man, that is Adam, and in Adam all are dying, thus also though a Man, Christ comes the resurrection of the dead, and thus in Christ ALL shall be vivified, that is made ALIVE!

Christ the Saviour of the world

1 John 4:14 And we have gazed upon Him, and are testifying that the Father has dispatched the Son, the Saviour of the world.

15 Whoever should be avowing that Jesus is the Son of God, God is remaining in him, and he in God.

16 And we know and believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who is remaining in love is remaining in God, and God is remaining in him. {CLV}

The Son is the Saviour of the world, not just believers, but everybody. Christ is the Saviour of all mankind. God is the Father… God is Love… God Loves Us All…….

Death Abolished

2Timothy 1:8-14 You may not be ashamed, then, of the testimony of our Lord, nor yet of me, His prisoner, but suffer evil with the evangel in accord with the power of God, Who saves us and calls us with a holy calling, not in accord with our acts, but in accord with His own purpose and the grace which is given to us in Christ Jesus before times eonian, yet now is being manifested through the advent of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, Who, indeed, abolishes death, yet illuminates life and incorruption through the evangel" of which I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher of the nations. For which cause I am suffering these things also, but I am not ashamed, for I am aware Whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard what is committed to me, for that day." Have a pattern of sound words, which you hear from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus." The ideal thing committed to you, guard through the holy spirit which is making its home in us." {CLV}

1 Corinthians 15:25-26 For He {Christ} must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy is being abolished: death. {CLV}

Christ Jesus, abolishes death, yet illuminates life. That is death will be abolished, all mankind will be immortal, not suffering the effects of death. No one will be physically dead, or spiritual dead. If a person is not in Christ, then they are spiritual dead. After the judgement the unjust will be in the Lake of Fire, which is the Second Death. This Second Death, spiritual death, will be abolished. For it to be abolished all the unjust will be transformed, form spiritual death to life.

Predestination

Has God predestine some to be saved, before all the rest of mankind? YES.

Romans 8:28 Now we are aware that God is working all together for the good of those who are loving God, who are called according to the purpose

29 that, whom He foreknew, He designates beforehand, also, to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be Firstborn among many brethren.

30 Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also; now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also. {CLV}

Predestination is true, those God calls, have been designate beforehand, God has chose them beforehand. Those are called according to God’s purpose, which is to save all, that is all the creatures that he has created. That means the ones that are called have a purpose in this great plan of God.

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What about Hell?

It is refer to as a place of torture that will continue on forever, where unbelievers will suffer forever. However 1 Timothy 4:9-11 clear tells us that God is the saviour of all mankind, that must mean this believe about hell is totally incorrect.

The question then is, what is correct? In a correctly translated bible the word Hell is not even in their. The word Hell is a translation of a number of words, some of which mean different things, but none of them correspond to this place of torture. God never created this place of evil torture that is called Hell. In fact Hell DOES NOT EXIST!

What happens when you die?

When you die, you do not go to Hell, and you do not go to Heaven. It is at the Judgement, that one gets into the Kingdom, or goes to the Lake of Fire. At death you are dead and there is nothing you can do. Your spirit separates from your body, and goes back to God. In this state, you can do nothing, it is like being asleep. When Jesus refer to people who had died as being asleep, he was correct, when you dies you go to sleep. You do not notice the passage of time. At the time of Judgement you will be resurrect from the dead, and it will be like you just died, even thou you may have been dead many years, you will not have noticed the pasting time, in between. When Christ died his spirit when back to God, there was nothing he could do while he was dead, he was dead.

Luke 23:46 And shouting with a loud voice, Jesus said, "Father, into Thy hands am I committing My spirit. Now, saying this, He expires." {CLV}

Lake of Fire

The place unbelievers go at the time of the Judgement is called the Lake of Fire.

Revelation 20:11 And I perceived a great white throne, and Him Who is sitting upon it, from Whose face earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them."

20:12 And I perceived the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. And the scrolls were opened. And another scroll was opened which is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged by that which is written in the scrolls in accord with their acts."

20:13 And the sea gives up the dead in it, and death and the unseen give up the dead in them. And they were condemned, each in accord with their acts."

20:14 And death and the unseen were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death-the lake of fire.

20:15 And if anyone was not found written in the scroll of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." {CLV}

Fire does not mean that someone will be burned by real fire. A fire consumes, yes, but this is not a fire that burns someone’s body. This is a spiritual fire, that purifies and the water cleanses. Once the person’s time in the Lake is finished, they will be saved, they will have been reconciled back to God and they will enter the kingdom, their name will be put on the scroll of life. The Kingdom is also the city, which is called the New Jerusalem.

The Nations Gain Glory and Honor

Revelation 21:22 And a temple I did not perceive in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lambkin.

23 And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should be appearing in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lambkin.

24 And the nations shall be walking by means of its light, and the kings of the earth are carrying their glory into it.

25 And its portals should under no circumstances be locked by day; for there shall be no night there.

26 And they shall be carrying the glory and the honor of the nations into it,

27 and under no circumstances may anything contaminating, or one who is making an abomination and a lie be entering into it, except those written in the Lambkin's scroll of life. {CLV}

The nations are walking by means of the light of the city, New Jerusalem, and the nations have glory and honor. The kings mentioned here are walking into the City, to walk into New Jerusalem they must have been written on the Lambkin's scroll of life. For “the kings of the earth” to carry the “glory and the honor of the nations” in to the city, the nations must have glory and honor. However outside are those described as curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood.

Revelation 22:14 Happy are those who are rinsing their robes, that it will be their license to the log of life, and they may be entering the portals into the city.

15 Outside are curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood. {CLV}

The nations are not in the city, they are outside, those outside are not written in the scroll, the nations are made up of curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood.

Somehow the nations have glory and honor. Somehow the nations must have gain glory and honor, which means the people in the nations have gained glory and honor. That is the curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood, have gain glory and honor. Which means they are no longer curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters.

1 Peter 1:7 that the testing of your faith, much more precious than gold which is perishing, yet, being tested by fire, may be found for applause and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ, {CLV}

Those being tested here by spiritual fire while they are alive are true believers. This is so that they may be found for applause and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ. Christ will be unveiled at his return at the end of this eon. True believers get glory and honor when Christ returns, after being tested by spiritual fire.

Outside the city are the people who make up the nations who are being tested in the Lake of Fire, by spiritual fire. Those people in the Lake, make up the nations. These people gain glory and honor after being tested. They however will not be tested for their faith, they will be test so that they can come to trust, to love, to have faith in God, and Jesus Christ.

Rinsing their robes

Revelation 22:14 Happy are those who are rinsing their robes, that it will be their license to the log of life, and they may be entering the portals into the city.

15 Outside are curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood. {CLV}

True Believers are the ones who are Happy, those who are Happy are those who are rinsing their robes, that it will be their license to the log of life, and they may be entering the portals into the city. This is at the time of Judgement, when believers will be entering the portals into the city.

The people in the Lake of Fire after the judgement are rinsing their robes, once they have done so, they will have license to the log of life, and they will have access to the Kingdom.

Healing the Nations

Revelation 22:

1 And he shows me a river of water of life, resplendent as crystal, issuing out of the throne of God and the Lambkin.

2 In the center of its square, and on either side of the river, is the log of life, producing twelve fruits, rendering its fruit in accord with each month. And the leaves of the log are for the cure of the nations.

3 And there shall be no more any doom, and the throne of God and of the Lambkin shall be in it. And His slaves shall be offering divine service to Him.

4 And they shall be seeing His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.

5 And night shall be no more, and they have no need of lamplight and sunlight, for the Lord God shall be illuminating them. And they shall be reigning for the eons of the eons.

6 And he said to me, "These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, commissions His messenger to show to His slaves what must occur swiftly. {CLV}

The Chosen of God, are the salves, they are to offer divine service. They have been chosen, that is it was not there choice, but God choose them. The chosen are the ones who are saved before the judgement. The chosen shall be reigning for the eons after the Judgement, they shell be reigning over the unsaved nations. The leaves of the log are believers who where chosen, they will cure the nations.

All Acclaim Jesus Christ is Lord:

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore, also, God highly exalts Him, and graces Him with the name that is above every name,

2:10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bowing, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean,

2:11 and every tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father." {CLV}

After everyone has been saved, they will “acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father." This is clearly after all unbelievers have been saved, they are not being forced here. God is not making them bow by force, nor is Christ forcing them to bow, no one is forcing them. After unbelievers have spent time in the lake of fire, they will enter the kingdom. Once all mankind has been saved and is in the kingdom, they will bow and acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father."

However it is not just all mankind that is acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, it is every living creature in heaven and on Earth. That includes all the animals, and all the spirits. It means that not only is all mankind saved, but that all animals are saved, and that all evil spirits {demons and Satan} are saved also.

Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all in them, I hear also saying, "To Him Who is sitting on the throne-To the Lambkin-Be blessing and honor and glory and might For the eons of the eons!" {CLV}

Here every creature says: "To Him Who is sitting on the throne-To the Lambkin-Be blessing and honor and glory and might For the eons of the eons!" Every creature here is defined as every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all in them. That is to say all creatures in heaven and on the earth and underneath the earth and on the sea make the statement. That means all mankind, give blessing and honor and glory to Christ who is sitting on the throne.

All Works acclaim Yahweh

Psalm 145:9 Yahweh is good to all, And His compassions are over all His works."

145:10 May all Your works acclaim You, O Yahweh, And let Your benign ones bless You." {CLV}

Yahweh is good to all his works, that is all his creatures, that is all mankind, all animals and all spirits. He has compassion over all His creatures, that is all mankind, all animals and all spirits. All works, including All Mankind will acclaim Yahweh and the benign ones, that is the saints will bless Yahweh.

All Reconcile to Christ.

Colossians 1 15 Who is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn of every creature,

16 for in Him is all created, that in the heavens and that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities, all is created through Him and for Him,

17 and He is before all, and all has its cohesion in Him.

18 And He is the Head of the body, the ecclesia, Who is Sovereign, Firstborn from among the dead, that in all He may be becoming first,

19 for in Him the entire complement delights to dwell,

20 and through Him to reconcile all to Him (making peace through the blood of His cross), through Him, whether those on the earth or those in the heavens. {CLV}

Everything, all creation is going to be reconciled to Christ, through the blood of the cross, including all that are in the heavens and that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities. This clearly includes all mankind, which will be reconciled to Christ.

All is created for Christ. All mankind, All spiritual forces, and All animals are created for Christ. All has its cohesion in him, All Mankind have cohesion in him, every creature, will one day have cohesion in him. Christ is Firstborn from among the dead. The entire complement delights to dwell in Him, Christ. The entire complement, including All Mankind, every creature delights to dwell in Him. This is clearly a future event, when all, every person {including those that where once unbelievers}, creature and spirit {including those that where once evil}, will delight to dwell.

In Summary

All will be saved, and reconciled to Jesus Christ. The All, includes every living creature, this includes all mankind, all animals, and all spirits including Satan. Believers are saved first and have a purpose in the plan of God. Unbelievers go to the Lake of Fire where they are tested by spiritual fire, and cleansed by spiritual water. They are healed by the leaves, the ones in the Kingdom. All mankind will gain access to the kingdom, all mankind will be saved.

Saviour of All Mankind, means that All Mankind will be Saved.

Copyright © Mark J Farquharson 2009, updated 6 November 2010

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