Ultimate Reconciliation Scriptures

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46. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:18)

Isaiah said there was no sin which might not be pardoned. The evident intent of this language is that there was no sin so deep-dyed in the soul, that it could not be washed away. What is here said of Israel, is true of every individual.

47. All nations shall flow into the mountain of the Lord's house. Isa.2:2

A figurative representation of the covenant of the Gospel.

48. In this mountain, the Lord of Hosts has made for all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well-refined.[ (Isa. 25:6)

By mountain is meant the covenant of the Gospel; the place of the establishment of the ark is made a metaphor, to signify the Gospel. This feast is salvation by Jesus Christ. This salvation is prepared for all people; it is sufficient to supply the wants of all.

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49. God will destroy, in this mountain, the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil, that is spread over all nations. (Isa. 25:7)

This salvation is not uselessly prepared. Unbelief shall be done away. The darkness of the nations shall be removed. The covering cast over all nations shall be destroyed; they will then all see the truth.

50. God will swallow up death in victory.  (Isa. 25:8)

This is to take place at the resurrection of the dead, for Paul quotes these words, and applies them to the resurrection of the dead in 1 Cor. 15:54. 51. The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces (Isa. 25:8) The work of the Gospel will not be fully done, until tears shall be wiped away from all faces. Sorrow shall cease. Paul applies the subject to the resurrection of the dead.

52. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. (Isa. 40:5)

This is the declaration of Yahweh, for the prophet adds, the mouth of the lord has spoken it. If the Lord has declared, that all flesh shall see his glory together, surely it must be done.

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52. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. (Isa. 40:5)

This is the declaration of Yahweh, for the prophet adds, the mouth of the lord has spoken it. If the Lord has declared all flesh shall see his glory together surely it must be done.

53. As the rain and snow come down from heaven, and return not thither, but water the earth, and cause it to bring forth and bud, so shall the word of God be; it shall not return void, but it shall accomplish the divine pleasure, and prosper in the thing for which God sent it. (Isa. 45:10,11)

Isaiah presents the Gospel as being completely successful in accomplishing the purpose for which it was sent into the world. All who see that God sent the Gospel to benefit all mankind, must here see the beneficent object will surely be accomplished. If any reject the Gospel, and are lost forever, can it be said in truth, that God's word does not return unto Him void?

54. I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth. (Isa.49:6)

Isaiah, speaking in the name of Yah, affirms that the blessings of the Gospel should not be confined to the Jews. I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles.  For what purpose? That you may be salvation unto the end of the earth. This is to signify the greatest possible extension of the blessings of the Gospel. Is this consistent with the supposed fact  that countless millions of the human race shall never hear of the blessings of the Gospel?

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55. I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. (Isa. 57:16)

Is this declaration consistent with the doctrine of endless misery? According to that dogma, will not God contend forever? Will He not be always angry?

56. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their heats; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying , know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jer. 31:33,34)

The spirit of the passage is universal grace. What God says He will do for the Jews, He will also do for the Gentiles. The former is a pledge of the latter.

57. The Lord will not cast off forever, though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies, for He does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. (Lamen. 3:31-33)

Though God cause grief, yet He will have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies, for He does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. This is the principle of the divine government. God does not afflict for the purpose of afflicting, but for the good of the sufferer. How, then, can endless torment be inflicted?

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61. The people wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. (Luke 4:22)

This could not have happened, had he threatened the people with endless misery. He preached salvation to sinful, guilty man; he preached the love of God to the whole world and declared that God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved. Well might the people wonder at his gracious words.

62. Anxious thought for the future. (Matt. 6:25-34)

Jesus presented the strongest confidence in God; and reasoned in the most tender and judicious manner with the people, to dissuade them from taking anxious thought for the future. The object of the Saviour was to encourage, in the hearts of those whom he addressed, the most implicit confidence in God for all future blessings. God is good; he is kind, even to the unthankful and to the evil; therefore, said the Saviour, take no anxious thought. Be not afraid; God will do you good. He has already proved his beneficence to you. He takes care of the lower orders of beings; why should you doubt? He clothes the flowers of the field with beauty; why should you despair? Take not anxious painful thought for the future. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Such is the spirit of the passage, which is perfectly consistent with universal restoration, but utterly inconsistent with the doctrine of endless misery.