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The Ten-Part Plan of Salvation
- In the beginning, Almighty God created the entire universe, including the little speck in the cosmos we know as Planet Earth.
Genesis 1:1 - God was surrounded by angelic creatures who worshiped Him because it was their nature to do so. However, He wanted entities who would love Him because they wanted to, not because they had to.
- Human beings were created for the express purpose of worshipping God. We were created in the spiritual image of God so He could have someone to talk to.
Genesis 1:27 - God deliberately created us with something theologians refer to as a free moral agency. This means we could worship God because we wanted to. It also means we could reject God if we wanted to.
- The penalty for disobeying God and breaking His laws was death. Not just death in the physical sense, but death as eternal separation from God.
Genesis 2:17 - Our first ancestors, Eve and Adam, broke God's law and incurred the death penalty for their sin by eating the forbidden fruit..
Genesis 3:6 - However, God had mercy, and didn't impose eternal separation from Him immediately. Instead, He set up a system of sacrifice where animals and not humans would die on the altar for our sins. From the time of Moses until Jesus was born, animals died on the altar of God so humans wouldn't have to die for their sins.
Leviticus 1:4
Genesis 22:13 - But animal death was only a temporary system of salvation. The ultimate sacrifice was to be His own Son, Jesus Christ: The Lamb of God. God was willing to send His only Son to Earth as the supreme sin sacrifice. Jesus was willing to come, and was born in a barn as the Lamb of God. What better place for a Lamb to be born than in a barn?
Luke 2:6
John 1:29
Revelation 5:6. - When Jesus died on that Roman cross, He paid the death penalty for all of us who accept Him. Everyone, from Adam to the thief on the cross, who had watched in faith as animals died on the altar of God as their sin sacrifice was saved by the blood of Jesus on the cross. And, all of us who look back to the cross and accept Jesus as our personal savior are saved by His blood, also. Acts 4:12
- The Bible clearly predicts that some day, Jesus Christ will return to Earth and rapture all persons (living and dead) who have accepted sacrificial blood as their salvation from sin. In a Biblical context, "rapture" means the instant removal of all persons living and dead who have accepted God's plan for their salvation by means of holy sacrifice. However, the word rapture, itself, does not appear in the Bible. See Gone, a Novel about the Rapture.
All the Old Testament prophecies about the first coming of Jesus were fulfilled, right down to the place where He would be born. There is no reason to believe that the New Testament prophecies concerning His second coming will not be fulfilled in equal detail.
Acts 1:11
1 Thessalonians 4:16.
Conclusion: Born-again Christians don't decide who goes to heaven. God does. Everyone that accepts His Son as their Lamb of God goes to Heaven!
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