Who can dispute the fact that the Bible clearly teaches both the doctrine of Election and Free Grace, over which Arminian and Calvinist, not being able to agree, have quarreled for centuries? Rom. 9:11; 11:5, 7, 28; I Thess. 1:4; II Pet. 1:10; John 6:44; Rev. 22:17.
Did not our Lord say that our Heavenly Father would “send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they would gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven [religious element] to the other”? Matt. 24:31.
Do you know that the elect were predestinated “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ”? I Pet. 1:2.
Do you know that these elect ones will be the little flock which God “foreknew” and “also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his [dear] Son”? Luke 12:32; Rom. 8:29.
Do you know that in this time of election, no man can come unto the Lord “except the Father … draw [call] him”? — but, when the free-grace time arrives, who-so-ever will may come? John 6:44; Rev. 22:17.
Do you know that not all, but many, are now called, and only a FEW of the many called are chosen? Matt. 20:16; 22:14.
Do you know that the few CHOSEN (those who willingly conform to God’s requirements) are the elect ones whom God has “called according to his purpose”? — and that it is his purpose to bless all and eternally torment none? Rom. 8:28; Eph. 1:5; Gal. 3:8.
Isn’t it very necessary that we, who have been called, give diligence to make our calling and [subsequent] ELECTION sure? II Pet. 1:10.
“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect”? Rom. 8:33.
Do you know that Paul was a “servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith [plan] of God’s elect”? (or, according to this plan of God’s of electing or selecting these sons through faith)? Titus 1:1.
Did not Paul say that he pressed toward the mark for THE prize of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus, and that he had “fought a good fight” and “finished my course” and “kept the faith,” and that thenceforth there was laid up for him a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, would give him at that [judgment or restitution] day: and not to him only, but unto all them also that LOVE his appearing? Phil. 3:14; I Cor. 9:24; II Tim. 4:7, 8.
Do you know that unto God’s elect is given exceeding great and precious promises? — and that THE promise is the prize of the HIGH calling? — and that the PRIZE of the high calling is the divine, immortal NATURE? II Pet. 1:4; Phil. 3:14.
Do you know that God’s elect are the promised SEED of Abraham? — and that they are the little flock who will have walked the narrow way unto life? — and that they are the body of Christ, the wise virgins, which become the [figurative] bride of Christ — the bride of the Lamb, the sons of God, the LIVING stones, the LIVING temple, and the living CHURCH of God? Gal. 3:14-29; Luke 12:32; Matt. 7:14; I Cor. 12:27; Matt. 25:1, 2; Rev. 21:9; Rom. 8:14-17; I Pet. 2:5; I Cor. 3:16; Col. 1:18-24.
Did not Paul say: “Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory”? II Tim. 2:10.
Hasn’t the Lord two folds of sheep? (John 10:16). Isn’t the first fold the “ELECT” “LITTLE FLOCK” (Luke 12:32) who hear and heed the voice of the Master, walking in the narrow way to life? (Matt. 7:14). And are not the “other sheep… not of this fold” (John 10:16), the large NON-ELECT flock who do not recognize the voice of the Master and blindly walk the broad road to destruction? (Matt. 7:13). But does not the Lord say that these also he will bring from destruction, and that they, too, shall hear his voice? John 10:16.
Do you know that God will permit in these last days (of this age) STRONG delusions that will DECEIVE the whole world, and, even, the very elect, IF it were possible? II Thess. 2:11; Matt. 24:24.
Isn’t the foregoing scriptural evidence enough to convince any Christian that God is electing or selecting a “little flock” from amongst mankind, to be joint-heirs with our Lord and Saviour? — and can it be questioned that all the remainder of mankind are NON-ELECT to THAT peculiar honor? Matt. 7:14; Luke 12:32.
The question now arises, what provision has the great Creator made FOR this large class of NON-ELECT which have gone the broad road to [temporary] destruction? Matt. 7:13.
Do you know that according to (so called) “orthodoxy” this large non-elect class were either predestinated or, from inability to prevent, will be permitted to become sufferers of eternal torment?
Do you know “that to suppose that God foreordained the non-elect class to suffer eternal torment, would be to suppose God a monster [be it with reverence said], devoid of every sentiment of justice and love”? [R:2732:1]
Do you know that God’s purpose, foreknown unto himself from before the foundation of the world, is the blessing of the many non-elect families of the earth by the promised elect SEED of Abraham? Gen. 28:14; Acts 3:25; Rom. 8:29; Gal. 3:29; Eph. 1:5.
Has not God promised that the non-elect families of the earth should be blessed and not cursed? And isn’t this blessing to be done by the promised elect “seed” of Abraham? Gal. 3:16-29.
Has the election of God’s “house of sons” ended? — or have all families of the earth been blessed with the “more abundant” life according to the promise? Who would dare say yea! Doesn’t every death assure us that the curse still rests upon us? Rom. 6:23.
If the “election” of God’s SONS is still going on, and all families of the earth have not yet been blessed according to the promise, and he who made the promise cannot lie, isn’t that a positive assurance that it is yet future and will SURELY come to pass in his own DUE TIME? Heb. 6:17-18; I Tim. 2:6.
Isn’t this future time spoken of the time of free grace? When the “election” is over and the elect has made “herself” (feminine only in a figurative sense) ready, will not the Lord return for his “espoused” and “marry” (unite) “her” unto himself, “she” thus becoming his “bride” and “wife”? And will not the spirit and the bride say come, and may not who-so-ever will, come and take of the water of life freely? John 3:29; Rev. 19:7, 9; 21:9; 22:17.
Will not this invitation of the Spirit and Bride be free to who-so-ever will? — whereas now, no one can come unto the Lord except the Father draw him? Rev. 22:17; John 6:44.
Doesn’t the apostle call the free grace times “the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began”? Acts 3:21.
Doesn’t the above scripture teach that it is the church which is “called and elected” to become SPIRIT BEINGS, “partakers of the divine [immortal] nature” like the Lord? And doesn’t it teach that all the balance (residue) of people, the non-elect, are to be blessed BY the elect church? And does it not teach that the blessing is to be restitution? And does not restitution mean to restore, to put or give back what was lost or taken away? And did not father Adam by disobedience lose his standing, home and life? Did not all his children share with him in the loss of all these things? II Pet. 1:4; Acts 3:21, 25; Gal. 3:16-29.
Did father Adam lose a spirit nature and a heavenly home, or did he lose perfect human nature and an earthly home?
If the world-beings who lost life, home and God’s fatherhood in Adam, are to have these “things” restored to them, which will they gain, the spiritual and heavenly, or the human and earthly?
Does not restitution necessitate REANIMATION, future probation and resurrection? And does not scripture promise all these things, too, to the unjust, non-elect world? Acts 3:21; 24:15; John 5:25-28.
Do you know that by looking up the 16th chapter of Ezekiel, you can read what God has to say regarding the restitution of Sodom to her former estate?