Which is the Gospel?
(A) “Accept Me, believe in Me and serve Me, or suffer forever in Hell – You choose” – Jesus
(B) “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” – Paul
What does the Scripture say?
“And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed (Gal. 3:8 NKJV).”
This awesome Gospel promise to bless all nations is not an isolated occurrence. It is repeated five times in Genesis alone! (12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14) The Apostle Peter repeats it too and even specifies that the blessing entails all the families of the earth including each family member!
“…every one of you…” Acts 3:25-26.
The Apostle Paul, who proclaimed the “whole” counsel of God (Acts 20:27),whom Christ sent to bear His Name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel (Acts 9:15), states the Gospel in 8 simple words.
“Scripture…preached the Gospel… saying,
“1 In 2 you 3 all 4 the 5 nations 6 shall 7 be 8 blessed.” (Gal 3:8)
Jesus Himself confirmed this reality when He said:
“I, if I am lifted up from the earth (which He was when He was lifted up on the cross, and in His resurrection) will draw (literally “drag” in the Greek) all peoples to Myself (John 12:32 NKJV).”
The Apostle John confirmed it too:
“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)”
Paul also proclaimed:
“At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow… and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil 2:10-11 NASB) “…and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:3).”
Every single human being on the planet “shall be blessed!” That’s the Gospel! That’s a matter to rejoice about, even to sing about! It is truly, as God’s angel said, “good tidings of great joy which will be to all people (Lu 2:10 NKJV).”
Paul also expressed the wondrous joy of the Gospel when he wrote:
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things! (Ro. 10:15 NKJV).” Glad tidings of good things – PEACE – that’s the gospel!
All the nations shall be blessed in Abraham’s seed (Jesus). This is the only message that is truly “glad tidings” – which makes “great joy” and true “peace” possible for any of us. I say this for two reasons:
1. If God “elects” only some persons to salvation (as some assert) and torments all others forever, then we could never experience “great joy” and true “peace” unless we were 100% sure we were one of the elect, correct? And how many of us are that sure of ourselves? And even if we were, true peace would still evade us because of our love for the lost. If we truly loved our neighbors “as” ourselves (as Christ commands), we could never have true joy and peace unless we knew that all whom we love will be saved with us. So the only Gospel which makes “peace” possible to any “loving” Christian is the Gospel as proclaimed in Galatians 3:8 – “all shall be blessed in Christ.”
2. If one must “measure up” to a certain level of moral perfection (as “over comers”) to escape an eternal hell, only a self-righteous person (confident in his or her goodness) could attain peace. Anyone who feels “unworthy” in any way could never find peace. I know I lived it.
So then, the “Gospel,” to be truly “Good News” to all believers, must of necessity be the “Gospel” as God proclaimed it to Abraham. Otherwise, the (A) gospel, above, would in truth be the worse news imaginable. The thought that eternal torture awaited the vast majority of the world’s people (whom we, in Christ, love as ourselves) is the most horrific news we could ever think of. I think that if you would think deeply enough about this you would agree.
To know more about God’s unfailing love for all humanity, visit HopeBeyondHell.net.
April 20, 2012
Dear Gerry,
I am thankful you arrived back from the Congo safely. Praise the Lord. I am still passing out the smaller
booklet to people who write to me…giving it away free, hoping they will read and believe the message. Del went
back to the PI as his children were sick. He is now going to move to Guam to work as a nurse. His wife does not want to live in the USA due to the cold weather, etc. As for this message from Abraham re: ALL NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED, etc. I agree it is a good point. As u most argue “All who accept Him.” That is when I feel we need to explain the “Time Element” re: the Second Coming of Christ. I don’t know if you believe in the rapture or what. I do not. Nor do I believe the traditional “Coming in 15 min or so in a flash of fire to kill all the bad and take the good ones to heaven,” etc. Which is what most churches teach, even SDAs. Instead I see a parallel between the first coming of Christ and His Second Return. It will happen in stages the same as His first coming
which He said would happen. In Rev 14 there are 3 Angels with 3 messages. Each one in their turn is sounding
a specific message. “Fear God and Give Glory to Him.” That is the First Angel and it is going right now with your book and mine and others. This will go until the Death Decree which I believe will come as a third phase of a National and World Sunday Law push. Rev 11 indicates that the NWO will be operating out of Jerusalem, i. e. The Beast from the Bottomless Pit or NWO. “Where they also crucified our Lord,” which was Jerusalem. Rev 11:8.
That is where Satan will appear first when he comes, claiming to be Jesus. I also believe there will be a last 7
year period of time divided into two 3 1/2 year segments. Dan 12 and Rev 11 and 12 refer to these 1260 segments of time, literal time one day for a day…not one day for a year as SDAs have taught in the past. There
are three grains to be harvested. 1. Barley (Elect) 2. Wheat. 3. Grape. Matt 13 refers to the Harvest which
is “the end of the world.” The Jewish harvest always had 3 phases…Barley, Wheat and Grape. The Barley are
the same as the Elect which is a small group like Gideon’s 300. The Wheat are the Wise Virgins, Rev 7 and 14,
which will become the 144,000. You can read all of this in my Commentary on Dan & Revelation at my
web site: http://www.godslastcall.org There are 7 levels of the character of God message. Your book is level
#4…Universal Restoration, Acts 3:21. Level #5 is the Harvest, per above. #6 is the real truth about the
God head which includes the truth about the Feminine image of God. The Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost is always
in the feminine Gender. The Bible does not teach the Trinity doctrine along with Mary as the 4th member.
The 7th level/Stage has two phases. Transformation and Translation. This is where we are now moving
rapidly to the Translation stage with Enoch and Elijah as our examples. Your friend, Pastor Mike
Jesus Is Lord Over all. GLC Box 473 Woodburn, OR 97071
April 20, 2012
God’s Truth never needs “Defense”, it just is Truth. It’s the same Today and Everyday. The Holy Spirit is the teacher for Today. The Punny man or Mankind for today is lost without His truth.
Amen and “Amen”
In His love and ours,
jc and lillian