CHAPTER 31: GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION

CHAPTER 31: GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION

It is God's Plan of Salvation for mankind to eliminate sin, to overcome the world, and to defeat Satan. This is a means through which to find true love and eternal life with him. God made this possible through the empowerment of the application of the Word of God and the baptisms of Water, the Holy Ghost and Fire. In the absence of the Holy Ghost, which is the power of the Word of God, which overcomes mankind's base desires, mortal bodies will not become immortal bodies. Therefore, mankind would have a limited lifespan.

Adam was never made immortal but was made a mortal, an earthly being. God, in the beginning, had not set a determined end to mankind’s mortal lives. Mankind, through disobedience, moved God to establish a time limit on their mortal lives. This was after breaking His law against partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

But, if mankind hadn’t sinned, whatever time limit before the end of mankind’s life cycle...would have been God’s choice to decide. It appears God was prepared to work with mankind for as long as it took to create overcomers whether with or without Adam’s committed disobedience. Adam or one of his children could have sinned. It seems Adam did not take very long to decide.

The First Resurrection will be for those who become measurably like Christ before any other person.

Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

God determined the first humans to achieve this measurement would be part of a group containing one hundred and forty-four thousand saints and to be called the Bride of Christ.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.

God has reserved this group for his son Jesus as his wife, naming them the Bride of Christ. The First Resurrection was only for the Bride of Christ.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

These are the people during the early reign Church who gained eternal life and were caught up to heaven before any of the Second Resurrection. This group started within the early reign church of Jesus Christ establishing the first part of the Bride of Christ and is called the man child of the Church of Jesus Christ:

Revelation 12:5 KJV And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

The man child designation is a nomenclature for the saints of the Bride and not a gender specification because all in Christ are the same. In the early reign of the church, the Bride was not a complete male nor a male-gendered species, but a child (the term "man child" is used for a human child).

Galatians 3:27 KJV For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Galatians 3:28 KJV There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Until the church emerged out of the wilderness in this day and age, these saints were the only members of the bride.

The First Resurrection has specific fundamental rules that are orderly and absolute. The starting point for the First Resurrection is a dispensational act of God concerning time and chance.

Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 teaches mankind about the basics of God's plan for salvation and is explained in a counterpoise term for action and reaction that balances or neutralizes predestination.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

The understanding of these two scriptures is based on “time and chance happeneth to them all" for all humans, for all humans cannot predict their time of death. They are caught in whatever dispensation they are born into, and death falls suddenly upon them all.

Just as God did not create evil, God did not create chance or chaos; it is the result of God's Law and Order of Time and Chance. However, he also allows chance/chaos to affect godly and ungodly mankind.

Chance is the result of time. The reason God allows chance (or chaotic theory) is to prevent naysayers from claiming unjustly and unfairly that God favors certain people over others and treats mankind unfairly.

God created time and in doing so he allowed the result (the counterpoise of chance) to occur. Time and chance are the fields of battle on which creation and mankind battle it out. His plan uses time to control nature and human events that affect his plan. God uses time to create and ensure his predestined plan for human salvation. God allows people to prove themselves through free-will choice.

Mankind is now 6000 years old and has passed through many dispensations under God's authority. God doesn't choose who or when the general populace of mankind is born. He allows rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

The exception would be if God needed a specific person to be born for a specific task in God's Plan for Salvation. God predestined certain people such as Jeremiah, John the Baptist and Jesus. However, God does not predestine any individual to be saved from sin.

Salvation is never given. Salvation is earned. In reality, "time and chance" are fixed immutable standards that all people are subjected to under the curse of death.

There will be a time in which these factors of “time and chance” will have no more affect upon mankind, but that happens on the 8th day of creation.

While "time and chance" will still exist in the New Heaven and New Earth, they will not govern the Saints of God.

Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

Revelation 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

However, now, under sin..in order to be in the First Resurrection..a member must be born DURING the dispensation of Jesus and alive AFTER the resurrection of Jesus Christ.   

A member must first hear the word of God about Jesus and believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. A member must receive Water and Holy Ghost Baptism. A member must pass through Fire Baptism, becoming just and an overcomer, BEFORE they lay down their mortal body to receive an angelic body.

There are no exceptions to the fundamental truths of the First Resurrection and attaining the Bride of Christ.

If a disciple fails to become an overcomer, God in his mercy, has provided his disciples with a second chance to redeem themselves by a Second Resurrection.

The Second Resurrection requirements begin with a very simple requirement. John 3:16 tells us that anyone who believes in Jesus must do so.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

By fulfilling this requirement alone, a believer and follower of Christ can receive a resurrection called the Second Resurrection.

An exception to this requirement of the Second Resurrection applies to infants born to believers in Jesus Christ which are babies and children of indeterminate age.

Children of this age are unable to make informed moral decisions based on biblical and civil law. They would be unable to adequately make a decision about accepting Christ as their Savior and die before they themselves become saved.

1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

This rule also applies to those born mentally challenged adults who are unable to make informed mature moral decisions.

Infants, babies, and children must have one parent serving God at the time of the children's individual death. Parents must continue to serve God for the rest of their own lives.

The meaning of 1 Corinthians 7:13-14 is not influenced by the degree of salvation of the parent (whether a parent is perfected or not); it is given to all believers as a result of God's grace and mercy for their servitude.

Accountability for salvation as a child grows in maturity ending in adulthood. This is beginning with understanding the Word of God's Plan for Salvation and accepting Jesus as their own personal Savior. Once salvation has begun they must live as a disciple of Jesus for the rest of their mortal lives.

After that basic requirement of belief in God, the Second Resurrection demands become as strict as the First Resurrection requirements.

When the church of Jesus Christ was formed, the church became the only gateway through which a Jew or Gentile could attain resurrection.

The Law of Moses became a closed door to a resurrection because the Law had been fulfilled by Jesus Christ. Jesus established the Law of Righteousness and ushered in the Kingdom of God by way of the Church of Jesus Christ.

After the Church was established, false prophets came into the church preaching another Jesus. The church fled into a spiritual wilderness during the diaspora of the Church of Jesus Christ after the destruction of 70 AD.

The church in the wilderness propagated many churches as time marched on for thousands of years. During that time, churches of different denominations were established leading to the Second Resurrection.

In our present day a disciple of Christ may get a Second Resurrection if they are a member of any Christian denomination, organized or unorganized. During the current dispensation, a believer may not even belong to any kind of church. However, if the confessor professes Jesus, even secretly, the confessor will be accepted into Jesus' hands and rewarded with a resurrection.

God's children are held accountable for adhering to whatever Christian governing rules they may have been taught and believe.

However, they cannot accept Jesus as their savior and then continue to act as a child of Satan and gain any resurrection.

When a disciple receives his physical Second Resurrection, the requirements become even more difficult. This is especially true if the disciple does not wish to become a member of the Church that Jesus Christ will establish during his thousand-year reign.

In that future day in time, the Church of Jesus Christ will have been restored to the exact true teaching of Jesus. As Jesus' church, we will be able to assist each soul in completing their salvation, and in obtaining eternal life. The existence of another denomination at that time will result in destruction and the Second Death.

Those in the Second Resurrection are resurrected in a "Just and Unjust" spiritual condition of the soul.

Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

As the resurrected then died a second time with sin in their hearts because they had not conquered the lusts of the world or Satan. Therefore, they had to meet the criteria for perfection in Christ. All must receive Water, Holy Ghost and Fire Baptisms. They must overcome and eliminate all sin according to the exact teachings of Jesus' church. They did not meet the measure of Christ our Lord.