Devotional Gems by Jolene: Unstoppable!

Friday, July 17, 2015

Unstoppable!

UNSTOPPABLE!

Part eight of fifteen devotions in Heaven Enchantment Series

Revelation 21:1, 3: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. …And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.’”

God is unstoppable! God redeems, even resurrects “what is,” reshaping it to His satisfaction. God’s plan from the beginning was to defeat death and restore Paradise after His first kids sinned.

1 Corinthians 15:25 says, “For He [God the Father] must reign until He has put all enemies under His [Jesus’] feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Christ defeated death when He rose from the dead.

John 3:16 assures that everyone who believes in Jesus will “not perish, but have eternal life.”

After disobeying God, Adam and Eve assured that physical death was certain for them and for everyone thereafter. God affirmed that when He said, “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19b).

How could Old Testament people—who never even heard of Jesus—be redeemed of their sins, so that they may have eternal life in Paradise?

God knows one’s heart. Abraham believed God that he’d be father of a “great nation, …and that the whole world would be blessed through him” from Genesis 12:1,3. Romans 4:3, and 20 says that Abraham’s belief was “credited to him as righteousness, …because “he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, …being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.”

God counts as righteous whoever has this faith.

Beginning with Aaron as priest in Exodus 30:10 until Jesus’ death and resurrection in Matthew 27 and 28, people’s sins were atoned for by the blood of sacrificed animals.

The lesson linked below shows how God’s people would be redeemed.

Take Home Nugget

When God walked in the Garden (Genesis 3:8), the Paradise of Eden was His backyard.

God says in Isaiah 66:1, “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool.”

Jesus will restore Paradise with New Earth/ Heaven link!

Let’s finally claim a truth that is rarely acknowledged: Jesus forever links God’s throne with people’s home. Ephesians 1:9-10 confirms, “And He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”

Praising and thanking unstoppable God for redeeming both people and Paradise!