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Eternal Security, December 30
The Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be
one Lord, and his name one.
Zechariah 14:9
.
The great plan of redemption results in fully bringing back the world
into God’s favor. All that was lost by sin is restored. Not only man but the
earth is redeemed, to be the eternal abode of the obedient. For six thousand
years Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God’s
original purpose in its creation is accomplished. “The saints of the most
High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for
ever and ever” (
Daniel 7:18
).
“From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s
name is to be praised” (
Psalm 113:3
). “In that day shall there be one
Lord, and his name one.” “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth”
(
Zechariah 14:9
).... “All His commandments are sure. They stand fast for
ever and ever” (
Psalm 111:7, 8
). The sacred statutes which Satan has hated
and sought to destroy, will be honored throughout a sinless universe.
Through Christ’s redeeming work the government of God stands jus-
tified. The Omnipotent One is made known as the God of love. Satan’s
charges are refuted, and his character unveiled. Rebellion can never again
arise. Sin can never again enter the universe. Through eternal ages all are
secure from apostasy. By love’s self-sacrifice, the inhabitants of earth and
heaven are bound to their Creator in bonds of indissoluble union....
In the place where sin abounded, God’s grace much more abounds. The
earth itself, the very field that Satan claims as his, is to be not only ransomed
but exalted. Our little world, under the curse of sin the one dark blot in His
glorious creation, will be honored above all other worlds in the universe of
God. Here, where the Son of God tabernacled in humanity; where the King
of glory lived and suffered and died—here, when He shall make all things
new, the tabernacle of God shall be with men, “and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.” And through endless ages as the redeemed walk in the light of
the Lord, they will praise Him for His unspeakable Gift—
Immanuel, “God
with us.”
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