“My Father has entrusted everything to Me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.” (Matthew 11:27 NLT)
God is everything He was revealed to be in and through the Person of His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. “Yeh, but what about all those wild and crazy things He did in the Old Testament? Flooding the whole earth and killing millions of people? Or wiping out entire people groups? What kind of loving God would do those kinds of things?“ The same God who will allow billions of people to choose hell when they have the clear choice of heaven.
Consider a few things about God. He’s loving, kind, good, gracious, all-knowing, all-caring, ever-present, omnipotent and omniscient. He knows everything there is to know about everything, including, but certainly not limited to, every person who has ever lived or ever will live. He knows our thoughts before we think them and the intent of every heart. No one has ever or ever will keep any secret from God. No one goes to hell who doesn’t deserve to be there. No one was killed in the Old Testament who didn’t deserve to die.
What’s my point? He flooded the earth because it was filled with wicked, evil people. The Bible says that Noah was “the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.” Yet, as it turned out, Noah’s family wasn’t so righteous, and after about 4,000 more years, God chose Abraham and began the building of His own people, the Jews.
Much of the Old Testament is the rise and fall of faithful and unfaithful Jewish leaders, following their 400 years of bondage to the Egyptians, leading up to the birth and ministry of Jesus. Many of the “battles” of the Old Testament, as I’ve shared before, are “pictures” of the spiritual battles we face with Satan today. The annihilation of people groups is a picture of our need to allow the Holy Spirit to “annihilate” the forces of evil that daily battle us for the “territory” of our heart.
If we think we can allow the presence of evil to cohabitate with God’s Spirit in our heart while seeking to live a holy life unto the Lord, we’re delusional. The people God desired in the Old and the New Testaments were and are people fully committed, fully devoted, and fully invested in living for and constantly pursuing the things of God.
“But I don’t want to do that!” That’s your choice and, unfortunately, it’s the choice the vast majority of human beings will make. Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14: “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.”
The miracle that Jesus accomplished on the Cross opens the narrow way to heaven that He’s inviting you to enter today. Why will you perish when there’s a clear and open way to escape the torments of an eternity in hell? “Yeh, if God is so loving why would He ever send someone to hell?” That’s the point! He doesn’t, we send ourselves by refusing the only way of escape. My sense is Noah’s ark could have been the size of 20 Titanic’s, had more people repented and chosen to follow the Lord as Noah begged them to do before the rain came.
The miracle isn’t that everyone is going to heaven, though Jesus made a way for everyone, the miracle is that you can, if you will. Will you? Will you be bold enough to admit you’re a sinner, unclean, unfit to be in the presence of a holy God? Will you confess your sin, your disobedience to the clear commands of God and invite the Lord Jesus to become your only Savior, Lord, and Guide for the rest of your life on earth? If you are, please tap on anewstory.com and allow Ron Hutchcraft to walk you through a brief explanation as to why you need to repent (turn from your selfish ways) and allow the Lord Jesus to forgive you and fill you with Himself. That’s the only pathway to knowing fully who God really is.
Food for thought.
Blessings, Ed 😊
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