GOD'S PLAN "PLAYED OUT"

Scene One:  Place:  the "Third Heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2).  Time:  before time began (Gen. 1:1-19; Jn. 17:24; Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20; Rev. 13:8; 17:8; etc.).  A conversation takes place as though three Spirits are talking, and yet, there is but one Spirit present.  The first is identified as Father.  The second is identified as Son.  and the third is known as the Holy Spirit.

Father:  "Lucifer, the light-bearer, who We created perfect, has rebelled against Us, and he has taken one third of Our created angels with him" (Isa. 14:12-14; Ezek. 28:12-18; Mt. 25:41; Lk. 10:18; Rev. 12:4; etc.).

Holy Spirit:  "Those angels who remain faithful are curious to know what We will do" (1 Tim. 3:16; 1 Pet. 1:12; etc.).

Son:  "That 'all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Us, who created all things by Me:  to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church, Our manifold wisdom, according to the eternal purpose which We shall purpose in Me'" (Eph. 3:9-11).

Father:  "Agreed, then 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth'" (Gen. 1:26).

Scene Two:  Place:  before the Great White Throne of God.  Time:  Immediately after Christ's one thousand year earthly kingdom (Rev. 20:1-15).  The Apostle John is caught up to heaven and saw a vision of the scene (Rev. 1:1; 4:1). 

John writes what he sees:  "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Rev. 11-15).

Scene Three:  Eternity.  Place:  The New Heaven and New Earth (Rev. 21:1-22:20)!

 

All angels and all men are without excuse before God (Rom. 1:16-21)!