Continuing with our discussion about the huge masses of mankind that will eventually be redeemed and become part of the eternal family of God. Folks, we need to give our Creator a little credit regarding this matter of salvation. We need to stop seeing Satan as far more powerful than God in this matter. Many Christians see a great battle raging between God and Satan – God doing His best to get everybody saved while Satan is doing his best to get, or keep, everybody lost and Satan winning the battle hands down. At the end of it all, they could easily see Satan saying to God, “Let’s do it all over again with another earth, or planet, and another race of peoples. After all, I won, and won big time and will surely win again!”
Why can’t the religious-minded think and think a bit more deeply than they quite obviously do, or don’t do??? Remember, God had all of eternity past to think about this grand scheme of creating mankind and extending to us humans the invitation to become heirs of eternal life and members of His heavenly kingdom. He surely had the insight and intelligence to consider long and hard every single eventuality and situation that might present Him with an obstacle in accomplishing His desire and to devise a means of overcoming each and every one of those obstacles. The circumstances, time or place of your birth would not be the slightest obstacle to the God with whom all things are possible! Can’t you see that? Can’t you believe that? It wouldn’t matter if you lived only six years, sixteen years or sixty years. Death is no obstacle to God. NOTHING human mind can devise or think of presents an obstacle to God in His accomplishing His desire. That is WHY Jesus Christ “by the grace of God should taste death FOR EVERY MAN (Greek, “every person” – male, female, young, old, all races, etc.). (See Hebrews 2:9).
I assure you Jesus Christ did not shed His blood needlessly! “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall ALL (that same all that died in Adam) be made alive (by Christ’s sacrificial death on Calvary)” (See I Corinthians 15:22). True, multitudes will fail to take advantage of this opportunity to inherit eternal life, though. Still Jesus Christ died for Geronimo and Ghengis Kahn as surely as He died for Queen Elizabeth and the rabbi across town. He tasted the second death for the Aztec maiden sacrificed a thousand years ago as surely as He tasted death for Billy Graham or Mother Theresa! The doctrine of a limited atonement, that Christ died only for the “elect”is a patently false doctrine! And, believe this for it is true, NO ONE is going to get a better shot at salvation, a better chance at inheriting eternal life than anyone else. Not even John the Baptist, Jesus Christ’s own cousin who grew up with Him and heard Him expound the truths of God with his own ears. NO ONE will ever shake their fist in God’s face and be able to say, “I never had as good an opportunity as your cousin. I never had a chance at all.” NO ONE!
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley