Page 15 - Gods Plan of the Ages

If Yahweh requires His sons and daughters to show mercy and demonstrate
forgiveness to their enemies, will He not also do the same? Yahweh's wrath endures for a
moment.

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the
remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights
in unchanging love.

The church in teaching a doctrine of eternal torment is doing the work of Satan by
declaring God to be angry forever. The testimony of Scripture is that Yahweh "does not
retain His anger forever." Yahweh does not delight in endless punishment. He seeks the
reconciliation of His creation.

Ezekiel 33:11
"Say to them, ‘As I live!' declares Yahweh God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the
wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from
your evil ways!'"

Yahweh is abundantly rich in mercy. He will not hold the sinner guiltless, but neither
will His wrath endure forever.

Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when
we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have
been saved)...

The grace and mercy of God will reign supreme, accomplishing reconciliation of the
entire creation before the time of the end. The truth of Yahweh's merciful reconciliation of
the entire creation back to Himself is offensive to a great many people. Is God unjust to
forgive all His enemies? You and I were at one time numbered among the enemies of God.
He showed mercy and forgiveness to us. Will we account it an evil thing for God to show
mercy and forgiveness to all before the conclusion of His plan of the ages? We should
rejoice that Yahweh is merciful. Apart from His mercy we would all be consumed.

Isaiah 54:7-8
"For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an
outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting
lovingkindness I will have compassion on you," Says Yahweh your Redeemer.

We have not looked at all of the testimonies found in the Scriptures that speak of the
work of Christ to reconcile all things back to His Father. The Bible is pregnant with the
message of the plan and purpose of God. To the church in Ephesus, the apostle Paul writes:

Ephesians 1:9-10
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He
purposed in Him with a view to a stewardship suitable to the fullness of the times, that