GODS PURPOSE FOR MANKIND.
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The purpose for man's presence is expressed at the two finishes of Scripture. Toward the starting, God uncovers that He made man in His own particular picture and resemblance (Genesis 1:26-27)— dialect that alludes to posterity or youngsters (Genesis 5:1-3)— to, in accommodation to Him, share domain or run with Him over creation (Genesis 1:28).
Also, toward the finish of the Bible God says, "He who defeats will acquire all things, and I will be his God and he will be My child" (Revelation 21:7). Once more, the wording concerns imparted control to God over all creation in accommodation to Him as His youngsters.
Hence we see that man's predetermination is to be a piece of the Kingdom and group of God. Furthermore, in the last verse here, as all through the Bible, we are informed that man can just achieve this fate through a procedure of surviving.
It is God's longing that no people die yet that all come to contrition in order to wind up individuals from His family as children and girls in His Kingdom (2 Peter 3:9; 2 Corinthians 6:18). As a component of this procedure, God is presently calling a few people to acquire unceasing life at the arrival of Jesus Christ to the earth (1 Corinthians 1:26-28; Matthew 20:16; John 6:44; John 6:65), with others to be called later.
Those being picked now should acknowledge Christ as their Savior, surrender their wills to God's will and endeavor with God's assistance to defeat sin amid their present lifetime (Revelation 3:21).
Jesus Christ is alluded to as "the firstborn among numerous brethren" (Romans 8:29; see additionally Romans 8:14-17; Revelation 1:5-6; Colossians 1:15-18). He came as a person to lead the route for others to be celebrated and acquire all things. Christians are really alluded to as "beneficiaries of God and joint beneficiaries with Christ" (Romans 8:17). However as Hebrews 1 through 2 clarifies, mankind has not yet accomplished its fate of acquiring all things, yet Jesus has, and God is "conveying numerous children to brilliance" (Hebrews 2:10).
In this procedure, individuals turn into God's kids through getting His Holy Spirit, which joins with every individual's human soul (Romans 8:16). We are consequently "generated once more, not of corruptible seed, but rather of morally sound" (1 Peter 1:23, American Standard Version).
Furthermore, we progress toward becoming "partakers of the celestial nature" (2 Peter 1:4)— similarly as any youngster goes up against the hereditary attributes of its folks. Through an advancement procedure, we turn out to be increasingly similar to God as far as character, while we are pointed toward an extreme transformation including our exceptionally quintessence and level of presence.
The messenger Paul clarified that "as we have borne the picture of the man of residue [the first man Adam], we will likewise bear the picture of the magnificent Man [Jesus Christ]" (1 Corinthians 15:49). And keeping in mind that the primary man Adam turned into a living, physical being, "the last Adam [Christ] turned into a nurturing soul" (1 Corinthians 15:45). So we will be soul creatures like Christ. Without a doubt, "fragile living creature and blood can't acquire the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50).
The witness John puts forth an astounding expression about our future revival at Christ's arrival: "Brethren, now we are offspring of God; and it has not yet been uncovered what we will be, but rather we realize that when He is uncovered, we will resemble Him, for we will consider Him to be He is" (1 John 3:2).
Also, Paul additionally clarifies that "we anxiously anticipate … the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that empowers him to bring everything under his control, will transform our modest bodies so they will resemble his grand body" (Philippians 3:20-21, NIV). That is, Christ's celestial soul body is a similar sort of body we will have in the restoration!
Similarly as human kids are an indistinguishable sort of creatures from their folks and more established kin, individuals, so will we be an indistinguishable sort of creatures from God the Father and Jesus Christ—divine creatures. By saying that it's not yet uncovered what we will be, John implied that we can't presently genuinely get a handle on resembling the Father and Christ, as it's past the limit of our constrained human personalities. He by the by comprehended that we will be what They are.
Truth be told, God was much more unequivocal about our predetermination in Psalms 82:6, expressing His expectation for individuals as, "You are gods, and every one of you are offspring of the Most High." Jesus really cited from this verse (see John 10:30-36). Actually our fate is to tolerate the name of the God family (Ephesians 3:14-15). By and by, the one God—that is, the one God family—comprises of two awesome creatures: God the Father and Jesus Christ. At the end of the day, God expects to grow this celestial family into billions.
The Church of God of this age is a forerunner in satisfying this purpose. At the season of Christ's arrival, the individuals who have passed on in the confidence will be revived, and the individuals who are alive in the confidence will be changed.
Those in the two gatherings will end up divine, unfading soul creatures in the group of God. They will then present with Christ on the earth as lords and ministers amid His millennial, or 1,000-year, decide that will quickly take after (Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:4).
Lord and minister are the two workplaces held by Jesus Christ. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:15-16). He is likewise our High Priest (Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 5:5-6; Hebrews 6:20; Hebrews 7:24-28; Hebrews 8:1-6; Hebrews 9:11; Hebrews 10:12). In this manner, others will, as simply noted, share in His obligations as the two lords and ministers serving under Him to do the Father's will.
The individuals who move toward becoming ministers in the Millennium will be in charge of training individuals to observe between "the unclean and the clean," an expression that in its broadest sense incorporates perceiving amongst great and shrewdness (see Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 44:23-24). As dispatchers from God, they will educate the law of God, making known its importance and application (Malachi 2:7-9).
One of the obligations of a lord in the Old Testament was to work out the expressions of God's law and "read everything the times of his life" so he would painstakingly watch it and not divert beside it (Deuteronomy 17:18-20). Those influenced rulers and clerics in the Kingdom of God to will be the individuals who have enabled God to compose His laws in their souls and psyches while they are as yet people (see Hebrews 8:10-11; Jeremiah 31:33).
As lords amid the Millennium, they will show God's lifestyle to people living in that age (Isaiah 30:20-21). They will oversee God's administration in those territories in which He gives them duties (see Matthew 19:27-28; Luke 19:11-19). They will even be given expert over heavenly attendants (1 Corinthians 6:1-3). What's more, in this, they will be totally subject to Christ's will, similarly as He is totally subject to the Father's will (John 5:30).
God's awesome arrangement incorporates all mankind. The Great White Throne Judgment, portrayed in Revelation 20:11-13, is the period when every single person who have kicked the bucket while never understanding that awesome arrangement will be revived and have their actual fate uncovered to them. God's arrangement is thorough. All mankind will appreciate the chance to take in His reality and come to atonement.
This will happen amid the time past the Millennium when most by far of individuals will be raised from the dead to get their chance for salvation. The individuals who atone and acknowledge Christ as their Savior will get the endowment of everlasting life in the group of God, at last accomplishing their God-given fate.
With a transformed new paradise and new earth, the wonderful city of God, the New Jerusalem, will finally come down to the earth with God the Father. What's more, the individuals who have atoned and loyally served Him, at that point transformed into celebrated soul creatures like Himself, will stay with Him and with Christ forever in idealize peace and bliss—without any agony or demise (Revelation 21:1-4).
As of now said, the individuals who are celebrated will acquire from God "all things"— joint possession and manage over not only the earth but rather the whole universe and soul domain. This mind boggling part of man's fate was foretold right off the bat in the Old Testament by Moses when he expressed that "the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of paradise … the Lord your God has given to every one of the people groups under the entire paradise as a legacy" (Deuteronomy 4:19).
This, at that point, is the purpose for which mankind was made—to share God's perfect level of presence forever as His cherishing, cheerful family and to have with Him and control over the whole immense made domain. So otherworldly is this fate we can scarcely even understand it
