John 12:32 “And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto me.”
That verse brings up one very important question.
“Do you believe it?”
Oddly, the vast majority of Christians
emphatically deny the truth of that verse, and in doing so deny the words of
Christ Jesus.
Most Christians agree that
Christ was “lifted up from the earth” in His crucifixion. However, they deny that He will draw all men to Himself. Instead, they say and teach that only a
remnant will come to Him.
Notice that he does not say
that all will come as a result of their collective free will. Instead, Christ said “I will draw.” By His will and His power, Christ will draw
all to Himself. You will also notice
that in the paragraph above, I italicized the word “men.” The word is missing from all
manuscripts. It has been added by the
translators. What Christ said was that if He was lifted up, and He was, He
would draw “all” to Himself.
At this time, all creation
(due to the fall of man) is living under the curse of death. At His crucifixion and resurrection, Christ
Jesus began to restore all to perfection.
That includes all plants, animals, fish, birds, reptiles, and men!
This “drawing” does not depend
on what men do. It is entirely dependent
on what Christ did.
Some, in their spiritual
ignorance, have postulated that all will be drawn to Christ without proclaiming
Him to be Lord. That is a great mistake!
The Bible says explicitly
that every Knee SHALL bow and
every tongue SHALL confess.
Any denial of that fact is also a denial of God, Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit
and the Bible.
Some in their spiritual
ignorance protest that in this life many will never hear the name of Jesus and
therefore cannot proclaim Him to be Lord.
Death is a great barrier to humans but it is not a barrier to God!
God works all
things---including the timing of all things according to His infinite and
sovereign will, and not according to man’s finite, limited will.
Eph 1:11 In
whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
In 1 Corinthians, the New
Testament speaks of three resurrections.
1 Cor 15:23-24
23 But every (Gr. hekastos-ekastoV-each and every) man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God,
even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and
power.
Those three resurrections
are: Christ, His immediate followers, and the end, or the last group to be
resurrected. In Verse 24, the word
“cometh” is also added and does not appear in any manuscripts.
Most teach that the final
resurrection consists of those who face the Great White Throne judgment, and
will be cast into the
Why resurrect somebody just
to commit them to death---again?
Does that make any type of
sense? Absolutely not!
Of course, there is a Great
White Throne judgment! And of course, some will be cast into the
But, consider this: Why would
God resurrect millions of sinners just to tell them that they are sinners and
to condemn them to death when they are already dead, and already know they are
sinners?
That is totally illogical!
A thief does not need to
stand at the Great White Throne to know he is a thief. He knows he is a thief.
All resurrections are resurrections
from death to life! The teaching of a resurrection from death to death is
slightly dim-witted.
Nothing in the Scriptures
says that judgment in the
Most of Christianity has been
truly taught that Christ Jesus took upon Himself the sins of the world and was
resurrected from death on the cross to life on the throne at the right hand of
God the Father. That is correct!
They are taught that those
who are His followers shall be resurrected from death to life serving God and
Christ forevermore. That too is correct!
However, the Christian
majority has been taught and has blindly accepted that the last group will be
resurrected so that God can tell them something they already know just to be
condemned to a state in which they already reside, a burning Lake of Fire or as
many call it, “hell.”
That is totally illogical!
The Bible tells us explicitly
that God will make all things new (Rev 21:5), and yet the vast majority of Christians
live in absolute denial of God’s word in believing that most shall be committed
to an eternal punishment even though Christ paid the full and complete price
for all our sins for all time.
Some believe that the
The Bible speaks of various
forms of purification. Christ’s word
purified those who heard them.
John 15:3
Now ye are clean (Gr. katharoi-kaqaroi) through the word
which I have spoken unto you.
That Greek word translated
“clean” in John 15:3 speaks of purification from guilt, sometimes by fire.
John the Baptist told many,
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me
is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost, and with fire”
(Matt 3:11).
Christ Jesus said, “For every
one (Gr. pas-paV-all) shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.”
(Mark 9:49)
The
words of Christ were fire to the spirit burning out the sins that contaminated
His chosen. It was remedial, not
punitive.
When God said, “I make all
things new,” He meant all things, and He meant new.
The Bible calls Jesus, “the
Savior of the world (1 John 4:14),” and yet the Christian majority rises up and
shouts the Bible down, screaming “No!”
Instead, they claim that He must commit the majority of people to the
All who deny the power of
Christ Jesus are spiritually deceived!
Do you actually believe the
Bible, or do you qualify or limit the words to fit a man-made philosophy rather
than trusting what is said to be true?