Reader, let me assure you of one thing, one truth you can take to the bank, so to speak. Listen, ten thousand Einsteins putting their heads together in a great round-table discussion for ten thousand years could not come up with a better plan of salvation than God, a plan that is understood by precious few in this era. Before uttering the words, “Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness,” God, Jesus Christ and His holy messenger angels consider every single possible hindrance, difficulty, impediment, etc., that could even remotely place even one single solitary human being at a disadvantage for obtaining eternal life and immortality! “What if they don’t have Bibles? What if they live and die in separated lands on the other side of earth from Israel and God’s prophets and apostles? What if they are born into cultures embracing rank paganism and utterly unaware of the true God, His Word and plan to save them? What if someone has parents who are rank atheists? What if they are born into abject slavery in ancient Egypt, China or Africa centuries before Jesus’ earthly ministry and crucifixion? What if someone is born deaf, dumb and blind? Any and every impediment possible was duly considered and provision was made for overcoming the same .
Reader, let me assure you of this fact: NO ONE will ever have cause to stand in front of Jesus Christ at the judgment and honestly argue: “I was never given the opportunity to be saved and granted eternal life. I never even heard you existed! I never even knew eternal life was a possibility for human beings!! And no one can see and understand what I am saying and WHY I am saying it who rejects the light and understanding given by God through the Hebrew Scriptures as it is within those pages of Holy Writ primarily that the Most High God fleshes out the truth in this most important matter. God assures His faithful sons and daughters that He has a sense of fair play you cannot imagine. “Are not my ways equal?” He asks in Ezekiel 18:29. When Abraham said, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” it was because he was the first of God’s prophets to really have a comprehension of God’s plan of the ages. Many preachers have been deceived into believing that the Great Creator God brings billions of humans into existence and gives only comparatively few an opportunity to gain eternal life, consigning millions and millions of blinded, ignorant, deceived humans to burn in hell with no chance of escape. Deceived teachers retort, “Well, if someone is seeking God then God will get the truth to them so that they can be saved.” They ignore, probably have never even considered the scriptures that clearly state, “There is NONE that seeks after God – NO NOT ONE!” God MUST seek us. We are cut off from Him and born onto a planet where God Himself says Satan deceives the world, is the god of this present evil world, and hinders the operation of God. Think on these things,
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley