Eternal Security

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 30
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Eternal Security

The Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be
one Lord, and his name one. Zech. 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" (Dan. 7:18). 

"From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's
name is to be praised" (Ps. 113:3). "In that day shall there be one
Lord, and his name one." "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth"
(Zech. 14:9). . . . "All His commandments are sure. They stand fast for
ever and ever" (Ps. 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 justified.
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."

>From Maranatha - Page 372