Apostle Paul said in Romans 8:28-30 CJB, " because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!"
My question to you is, who does God want to save? Some select people?
The answer of the Holy Spirit is this: "Everyone."
So, how can Paul say those God knew in advance were called, caused to be considered righteous, and glorified?
God is outside his creation as much as he is within it. The whole play of our time and time sequences - with all its dispensations and deviations - have been seen already by him. It began with "For God so loved the world", continued with "that he gave his one and only Son," and concluded with "that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16). However, the whole picture of John 3:16 was seen by him before the earth was born.
He called us to be his own out of this foreknowledge of the diversities of paths and the ones we would each eventually take.
So, who does God want to save? The answer remains: "Everyone!"
But will everyone accept his salvation? No. "But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God," John 1:12 CJB
Everyone can be saved, but not everyone will because not everyone will choose the path of salvation that God provided, i.e., his son Jesus the Messiah.
Except when God mentions a name explicitly, when he speaks, it is like a sower who throws the seed far and wide. The seed is for all the ground it lands on, but as we know, not all ground or soil will support its growth, and as such, not all will produce the promise of harvest the seed holds. (Mark 4: 1-20).
So it is the same with the words God has said for the coming year...There will be a bigger hurling of souls into the kingdom of God in these coming years than in all the years the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ has been in existence combined. The grace of the Lord to accomplish this impossible feat has been poured out into the world as a whole. All who bask in and take advantage of, this available grace will see exponential wholeness and salvation of peoples and spheres of influence and have a personal consciousness of YHWH's presence more than ever before this dispensation. May we prepare and plan with a consciousness of this outpouring.
When the scriptures use the term 'zeal' as done in Isaiah 37:32b: "The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this", the word there is 'qin’â which means jealous. The Lord is jealous of his own to return to himself, and this passionate zeal will cause his desire to come to pass. The spirit of YHWH expresses the zeal of God, such that when the scripture says the zeal of God will accomplish anything, it means there will be a powerful presence of his Spirit in that area to cause it to happen.
I saw a thick cloud of glory over all the earth. It pushed back the cloud of gloom, which prevented people from seeing the beauty of YHWH in their lives and hearts. It caused the opening of eyes and hearts to Jesus, the Saviour, in great numbers. They saw visions of his glory - the young and old, rich and poor, influential and unknown, strong and weak. It made giants of the feeble and Kings of the lowly. It strengthened the weak and lifted the weary. And the knowledge of the glory of the Lord filled the earth as the fluids filled the oceans.
See it. Believe for it. Walk in it.
The Lord told Haggai, the prophet, concerning the second Temple: ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” The surpassing glory of the second Temple is that the Lord himself, i.e. Jesus the Messiah, walked in it. The promise is that this glory he represented will outshine the former glory of God's physical buildings of worship.
"To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory!" Colossians 1:27 CJB
The glory of Christ being in his people surpasses any glory seen before. Embrace the glory of God in you, his child.
"God created the heavens and stretched them out;
he fashioned the earth and all that lives there;
he gave life and breath to all its people.
And now the Lord God says to his servant,
“I, the Lord, have called you and given you power
to see that justice is done on earth.
Through you I will make a covenant with all peoples;
through you I will bring light to the nations.
You will open the eyes of the blind
and set free those who sit in dark prisons." Isaiah 42:5 -7 GNB
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