NOT ALL MEN ARE
PREDESTINED TO LIVE ALWAYS UNDERThe first Adam lost his opportunity of everlasting life for not obeying God, because of listening instead to his wife's voice. (Gen 3:17).
Now, certain men who have listened to God, through His Christ, Jesus, will be able to "sit, each one under his vine" (Micah 4:4) and be "free of disturbance" (Isaiah 14:7), even inheriting everlasting life. Their enemies, the ones with satanic worldly authority who "drive others to work", will for them come to a stop, as the prophecy states. (See Isaiah 14:3,4,7. 65:22-24).
Furthermore, and on reflection, it would not be in accord with God's justice for men whom He "declares righteous" (Rom 8:33) to still be under the original curse of Adam. More to the point, it would also make The Christ's ransom sacrifice obsolete if that were so.
PREPARED ONES "BEFOREHAND" (Rom 9:23) ARE "VESSELS OF MERCY".
To these who are really "Israelites" (Rom 9:4,5,8. 3:29) "belong the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the sacred service and the promises"; because they pursued and attained righteousness by faith. They did not stumble over the "stone of stumbling" (Rom 9:32. 9:4,5). All these things then, are according to God's mercy. (Rom 9:14-16).
Interesting to note is that His mercy does not reach obstinate ones (Rom 9:18), and His mercy is so that His Name "be declared in all the earth". (Rom 9:17). Also, in the places "where it was said to them, 'You are not My people' (where once they were rejected and ostracised), there they will be called 'sons of the Living God'". (Rom 9:26).
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