| The Fathers Eternal Purpose for Believers |
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| Written by John K. Eichmann | |||||||||
| Friday, 14 December 2007 | |||||||||
Page 7 of 7 At the Second Advent, the Lord Jesus Christ shall conquer all of the nations on this earth, remove all unbelievers from the earth, and place the nations of the earth under His own absolute rule (cf. Rev. 19:11-21 with Ps. 2). Satan will be captured and imprisoned in the abyss of the earth and Christ will reign over this earth for 1,000 years (cf. Rev. 20:1-3). After a thousand years, Satan will be freed and Christ will allow him to go all over the earth recruiting all those who have been born during the dispensation of the Kingdom and have refused to believe in Christ and be saved (cf. Rev. 20:7-9a). Satan’s non-violent crusade to force Christ to abdicate His throne will end with the Father destroying the old heavens and the old earth (cf. Rev. 20:9b with II Pet. 3:10-12). The unbelievers, fallen angels, demons, and evil spirits will have their final trial and be sent to the eternal lake of fire (Rev. 20:11-15). Then the Son will create the new heavens and the new earth and the dispensation of the Fullness of Times will begin (cf. II Pet. 3:13 with Eph. 1:9-10).
The dispensation of the Fullness of Times will endure for one thousand generations (cf. Deut. 7:9) and the Father’s plan for the maximum glorification of the Son will be fulfilled in its entirety (cf. Eph. 1:9-10). The Son will present to the Father all of the kingdoms that existed upon the earth in perfection during the dispensation of the Fullness of Times. The Son will honor the Father as the author of the eternal grace protocol plan of the ages. The deliverance of His crowns to the Father is typified by the twenty-four elders who will cast their victory crowns before Christ on His heavenly throne, as they worshipped God (cf. Rev. 4:10-11). God the Father has the spiritual headship in the eternal Trinity. His divine paternity demands spiritual headship (cf. John 1:18). The immutability of God (cf. Ps. 102:26) demands that if spiritual headship exists in the dispensation of Omega (i.e. eternity future) and it does (cf. I Cor. 15:24-28) then it had to have existed in the dispensation of Alpha (i.e. pre-creation eternity). He is the Author of the eternal grace protocol plan of the ages and this demands spiritual headship (cf. Isa. 46:9-10 with I Chron. 29:11-12; Ps. 115:3; Job 23:13; 42:2). The Father has delegated spiritual headship to the Son in various areas as a part of the Father’s plan. The Son has been given spiritual headship over His mystical body which is the church universal (cf. Eph. 1:22-23). The Son has been given spiritual headship over creation history as the creator and sustainer of it (cf. Col. 1:14-17). As the strategic victor in the spiritual warfare of the angelic conflict, He has been given spiritual headship over all elect angels (cf. Eph. 1:20-21 with Heb. 1:3-14), over all the kingdoms of this earth (cf. Rev. 19:11-16), and supreme judge over all who have rejected the Father’s grace plan of the ages (cf. John 5:22). The Father has delegated spiritual headship through the Son to the saved man in every dispensation to be the spiritual leader of his own home (cf. I Cor. 11:3). We would like to express our thanks to Pastor Ralph G. Braun (P. O. Box 211 Council Grove, KS 66846-0211) for his many years of friendship, his faithful prayer support, encouragement, and the freely sharing with us his Bible study notes on the doctrines of Paterology and many other subjects. It has been a blessing through the years to exchange Bible study materials with him and to spend time discussing the doctrines of the Father, as we both sought a deeper understanding of them. His teaching is the foundation upon which this Bible study was developed. |
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