(P1) Imprinted by God at birth on the heart of every human being is a threefold ultimate concern that dominates all serious thinking about this life, whether or not these issues are eventually faced by the person in question or are later willfully erased. Through observation of the world as God has made it, all human beings at some point (usually at an early age) become aware of their own mortality (death), their own imperfection (sin), and the existence of a perfect God in comparison to whom their own imperfection is strikingly clear (Law). #GodsPlan #Salvation #FreeWill

(P2) What is The purpose of God's creation of man? God's desire for all to be saved. The essential nature of mankind. The sacrifice of Christ proof-positive of God's goodwill towards all. The inevitability of disobedience if freedom is really free. As explained in Part 1 of this Bible study on "God's Plan to Save You, history has been decreed by God as the time and place where we, His moral creatures, have been given the opportunity to adjust our will to His through the exercise of our faith in His chosen object of faith, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God is glorified when we respond to Him. He is pleased with us when we and others come to understand who He really is and what He is really like, appreciate Him for Himself, and respond to Him in the way He would have us to do. That is the reason, that is the purpose for us being here and for us "being" at all. God clearly does not need this response from us. Moreover, we are the ones who benefit from accepting and responding to His truth. That is not only so in the abstract: it is by our free-will faith response to His truth – which is all about who He is and was before time began, what He is in the process of doing here on earth, and what He will do in the eternal future – that we are saved (by responding to the gospel), that we are blessed in time (as we grow spiritually through His truth), and that we shall be rewarded in eternity (for the level of response we have achieved in this life). God not only created us – He created us in order to share Himself with us, and He is pleased, He is gloried, when we do respond to His grace. God loves us: in love He made us, and out of love He sacrificed His one and only dear Son Jesus Christ for us that we might respond to Him, that we might be saved through Him, that we might grow and be blessed in Him, and that we might be rewarded abundantly by Him in time to come.

(P3) The objective of the Plan of God is salvation: its (strategic) declaration (Logos – Plan of the Father), its (operational) completion (Logos – Person and Work of the Son), and its (tactical) fulfillment in the lives of individual believers (Logos – Message of Good News or Gospel mediated by the Holy Spirit). Thus, the Plan of God is the Logos, Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the One who perfectly represents the thinking and the planning of the Father (1Cor 2:16), the One who has perfectly carried out the plan (Heb 1:3), and the One who is the message or Logos which must be believed in order to be saved when the Holy Spirit makes this truth of the gospel understandable to the person in question (Jn 3:18-19). As the Word of God, therefore, Jesus Christ has been given a place of honor in the plan even above the hallowed Name of God Himself, for it is only by responding to Jesus Christ that the Father is truly honored and His plan fulfilled for His creatures who possess free will (cf. Acts 4:12). #LOGOS #Salvation #PlanOfGod

We now turn our attention to God's point of view in this multi part #BibleStudy on, sanctification and the #Logos of God, and we shall see how He has been in complete control of the process of #HumanHistory all along. We now shift our focus to a detailed chronological and strategic overview of God's plan for humanity as it moves resolutely and inexorably forward toward history's final conclusion, decisively pushing aside in the process all satanic resistance, defeating the devil at every turn until he and all the evil he represents are finally eradicated from the universe. As is the case with so many aspects of divine truth, the process of judgment, restoration and replacement, a threefold set of actions that can stand as short-hand for the plan of God overall, are themselves divisible into three distinct parts. In this respect, they parallel the believer's sanctification, the process whereby an unsaved human being is restored to complete and eternal fellowship with God better than what was lost at the fall. These topics will be discussed in detail: Judgment, Restoration and Replacement 1: Positional Victory (Progeny and Promise). The Plan of God in Human History: 1. The One Central Person of Human History 2. The Two Phases of Human History: The Foreshadowing and Fulfillment of Jesus Christ: The Old and New Covenants 3. The Three Wilderness-Pilgrimage Eras of Human History 4. The Four Ages of Human History

Before the rebellion of the devil and his angels, Satan occupied a unique position in God's creation. He was the guardian cherub, assigned to protect the holiness of God from everything profane, and he appeared before God bedecked with memorial jewels betokening the original nine angelic divisions. Created to serve and glorify God in these and other special ways, the devil decided instead to attempt to replace God as ruler of the universe. As a consequence, Satan has now been replaced in his duties as the cherub by four other (elect) angelic creatures. Topics include: Gentile Age. Christ promised to all humanity in general as Savior. Jewish Age. Christ promised to Israel in particular as Messiah. Church Age. Christ having been revealed in Person in the (virgin-born) flesh in humility as the suffering Servant. Millennial Age. Christ having been revealed in Person in the (resurrected) flesh in glory as the King. Divisions of God dispersing #knowledge. 7 Days of #HumanHistory & re-creation #dispensation

(P3 of Logos series.) The Uniqueness of #Israel. #LOGOS #Mystery It should not be overlooked that gentile believers of the present day are portrayed as having become part of the household of God along with Israel, rather than replacing Israel. This picture is consistent with every other passage in the New Testament where the issue is discussed. The gentiles are the wild olive branch that has been grafted into the natural olive tree Israel as seen in (Romans 11:13-24). The truth of the matter is that the Church is composed of #Jews and #gentiles, and that Jewish believers are the foundation for the holy building that God is erecting; not only in the Jewish age, but in the Church age as well.1.) All of the apostles of Christ were Jewish. And although the New Testament is written almost exclusively in Greek, the dominant gentile language of the time, all of the writers of the Bible, New Testament as well as Old Testament, were Jewish.2.) Though many first century Jews rejected the gospel in the same way that their Judean countrymen had rejected their own Messiah, even a cursory reading of Acts and the Epistles demonstrates clearly that Jewish believers were both the original foundation of the Church and continued to play a huge role after the influx of the gentiles had begun.3.) Jewish or Hebrew DNA believers not only exist but have played and continue to play a critical part in all generations of the Church as noted in (Romans 11:5). For the gospel is theirs by first priority, and ours (as gentiles) by the grace of God. "to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, gentile)". See (Romans 1:16; Matthew 10:5; 15:26; Acts 13:46; and Romans 2:9-10).4.) The hardness of the majority of the line of Israel during the Church age has been since Paul's day a heavy burden on the heart of their believing countrymen as noted in (Romans 9:3; 10:1). Jesus Himself mourned their lack of belief in (Matthew 23:37), and predicted these ("times of the gentiles") which comprise the two millennial Church age days, when gentiles would flood into the Kingdom while Jewish belief would be reduced to a trickle as noted in (Luke 21:24. the wedding banquet parable where those invited fail to come and others are brought in instead. Matthew 22:1-14; Luke 14:15-24). In the case of the resistant majority, two issues always seem to lie at the core of this resistance which is in such stark contrast to the preeminence of Israel in matters of faith both in the past and in the prophesied future.a.) refusal to accept a suffering Messiah as seen in (Matthew 16:21-23; John 6:66; 1st Corinthians 1:22-23; as we cross that with the desire for displays of miraculous power instead of the cross in Matthew 16:4; Mark 8:11-12; and Luke 11:29), and consequently tripping over the Cornerstone, Jesus Christ, and the "offense" of His cross as we see in (Romans 9:32-33; 1st Coronthians 1:22-23; Galatians 5:11; Hebrews 11:26; 12:2; and 13:13).and, b.) resentment over the inclusion of gentiles into the family of God, seed of Abraham by faith alone as noted in (Matthew 27:18; Acts 13:43-45; 17:5; 22:21-22; Romans 10:2; Luke 15:25-32). and, the corollary to this, trusting in their own righteousness from the Law instead of faith as we see in (Romans 9:30-32; and 10:3-4). This second issue is very much a post-cross problem. Jesus' earthly ministry was focused entirely upon Israel, not the gentiles, so that our Lord's contemporaries never had this excuse. They rejected Him before believing gentiles became an issue as we know from (Matthew 7:6; and 10:15).This ("hardness in part") of Israel is destined to continue "until the fullness of the gentiles comes in" as seen in (Romans 11:25), that is, until the calling out of the mass of gentile believers is complete, a process characterizing the Church age, and a process that will continue and be completed just prior to the 2nd Advent of Christ as we see in Revelation 11:2; 12:17). At the moment of His return, everything will change for Israel, and the vision of Him returning in glory will bring about a profound and glorious change of heart as we see in (Zechariah 12:10-14; Revelation 1:7; Joel 2:30-32; and Mattew 24:30).

The third proof of God's seven millennial day construction of human history is to be found in the pattern of festivals He ordained for Israel in the Mosaic Law. The Jewish ceremonial calendar was, after all, not produced by human agency, but was instead given to Israel by God Himself through His intermediary Moses as noted in (Galatians 3:19). It is not surprising, therefore, that, just as the seven Genesis days give us God's blueprint for human history as a whole, so the yearly system of dates and festivals ordained by the Mosaic Law likewise lays out the pattern for God's historical agenda. The Jewish ceremonial calendar (to be distinguished from Israel's civil calendar which, commencing in the seventh month, was roughly equivalent to our fiscal year) began with the month of Abib (or Nissan), March/April in our calendar. This ceremonial calendar, by means not only of its festivals, but also through the significant gaps it contains between the festivals, mirrors the overall progression of God's plan for human history. For the Jewish calendar is essentially composed of four "gaps" (periods of no festivals) separated by three festival clusters, wherein both the festivals and the gaps give specific information about God's grand design in Jesus Christ and the calling out of His Church..... Get the full transcript https://tribreadywatchman.wixsite.com/tribready #LOGOS #BibleCalendar #Esoteric

For at least the last few centuries, the application of scientific theories to the Bible has provided stumbling blocks for many who would otherwise accept the truth of the Word of God. Our Lord Himself told us that it is necessary for such stumbling blocks to arise, but also promised dire consequences to those through whom they come in (Matthew 18:7-9). As Christians, believers who profess faith in Christ in spite of what our eyes may see as noted in (2nd Corinthians 4:18; 5:7; and Hebrews 11:27). We ought to trust God more than human testimony, no matter how persuasive and seemingly irrefutable that testimony may seem to be. We ought to understand by now, living as we do in a world of accelerating change, that science at its best is merely a search for the truth about the material construction of God's creation, and a highly imperfect attempt at that, yielding but a dim and incomplete comprehension of the boundless universe which God has wrought, and producing but a limited and often only theoretical understanding of it, an understanding which is, moreover, of necessity always in flux. For each new scientific revelation reveals in turn a geometrically larger area of ignorance of whose existence science was previously unaware. The more scientific knowledge, the greater the awareness of the boundlessness of the task, and of the futility of any ultimate, comprehensive understanding of the cosmos through secular means. Sadly, what should occasion humility, that is, the dawning realization of the ultimately incomprehensible nature of God's creation by any mere mortal, has historically tended to arrogance as insignificant bits and pieces, only partially understood, are hailed as great achievements. No matter that all our scientific and technological advance has not prevented one single person in human history from reaching the grave, nor provided one single person with eternal life, science has become for many what amounts to a religion.