Circumstances and Consequences

Seminar 216-02
June 3-6, 2009
Seminar topic:

The Two Witnesses – Part II

Larry Wilson

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What would you and your wife do to protect yourself in a situation like this?

 

a.) have no children – because the first born has to be the firstborn

 

b.) kill the child sometime during the 40 years while he is still your best friend?

 

c.) immediately kill your child when he becomes evil to limit the damage upon others?

 

d.) write down the whole story before it happens so that at the end, you can show all of your children and grandchildren that you knew what was going to take place before it came to be.

 

The point here is that God knew the outcome of creating life and He chose to be vulnerable anyway.

 

Contrary to Lucifer’s claims, and the blame game that goes on today, God grants the power of choice to all of His creatures.

 

God is love. His foreknowledge does not change His behavior nor does it alter His actions that spring from a character of love.

 

God foreknew the existence of sin and He prepared for its deadly consequences by writing a book.

 

He foreknew that Lucifer would sin and deceive 1/3 of Heaven’s angels.

 

God foreknew that Adam and Eve would sin.

 

He foreknew that generations of people on Earth would curse and deny Him.

 

God foreknows everything.

 

Yet, He made the angels and after they sinned, He gave them many opportunities to repent. One third persistently refused – committing the unpardonable sin.

 

God also made man. Since man did not openly defy God’s law and commit the unpardonable sin, God provided a way back to Eden – the payment was death – Jesus died in man’s place.

 

At the creation of Heaven and Earth, God commissioned some recording angels. Their records, as impartial observers of angels and the human race, are called the book [of deeds]. These are the records from which angels and men will be judged.

 

1 Corinthians 6:2   Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

 

1 Corinthians 6:3   Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!”

During the 1,000 years, the saints will go over the records of the wicked (angels and mankind) and they will determine the amount of suffering (restitution) that is required of each wicked person.

 

At the end of the 1,000 years, God is going to present a history of each life to the inhabitants of Earth. Everyone is going to see his own life, as God saw it.

 

There will be no blame, no excuses, and no escape.

 

For God’s record not only includes our external actions, His records include motive. In other words, God sees our inner motives and their corresponding actions and He judges accordingly.

 

When the wicked behold their records as recorded by angels in the book of deeds they will kneel before God admitting that God has been unquestionably fair in His judgment of them.

 

When the righteous beholds their life’s record, they kneel and confess that God’s record is true and they have no claim to eternal life in God’s kingdom.

 

Two Groups:

 

One kneeling before God’s throne of justice, the other before His throne of mercy.

 

Isaiah 45:23    “By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.

 

Isaiah 45:24   They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.

 

Isaiah 45:25   But in the Lord all the descendants of Israel will be found righteous and will exalt.

 

After the books of record have been opened and the judgment review completed, the Book of Life will be opened.

 

At this time, the universe will behold that God wrote down a complete history of everyone before they came to be.

 

Everyone will be astonished that God, fully knowing their rebellion against Him, gave them so much love and grace.

 

It will be shown that God fully knew who would hate Him and rebel against Him – yet He gave everyone life and Jesus as a ransom for each sinner.

 

Everyone will be forced by circumstances and consequences that God’s way are righteous and most of all, He extended much grace and patience to every sinner.

 

Bible texts:

 

God foreknew every person before they are born:

 

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