26 The cross, the completion of creation

1. The cross, the completion of creation

 When God created the creation world, He intended creatures to embrace each other with love, after that He created the creation world.[1] If God created the creatures as those who have no choice but to obey God's laws without free will, then God and the creatures cannot be bound by love. Then, if God only grants free will to the creatures, will they automatically enter into the love of God? Not like that.[2] Creatures are not completed just by allowing free will to them. Free will is the possibility of rebellion.[3] As long as this chance does not drop to 0%, every creature will surely rebel at some point in the passage of time. To be granted free will means to be in a state that it is possible to rebel against the will of God. If God leaves the creatures in this state, they will someday all rebel in the course of time. It is a very unstable state that will surely die someday in the flow of time if left alone. If left alone, in the sight of God who made space-time and transcends them, all creatures are already dead.[4] But God does not leave them alone.

 Without deception, there would be no free will. Free will to choose whether or not to sin, is meaningful only when the circumstances are sufficient to sin. God allows only tests that we can bear.[5] However, unless that creature is perfected as a creature which always chooses to be 100% obedient to God, even if that creature overcomes the test at that moment, there is no guarantee that the creature will overcome it the next time. The creature is still in an unstable state.[6] But God has given the creatures free will, determined that they will always choose to be 100% obedient to God.[7]

 This unstable state of creatures is only a process.[8] God determined to perfect the creatures in such a way that He first granted free will to the creatures and then perfected that free will, and after that He began to create.[9] In the sight of God who transcends space-time, therefore, the creatures who choose to obey Him are already completed.[10] The means by which God perfects the free will of His creatures, is the cross.[11]

 Creatures cannot love their Creator in the first place.[12] Creatures must know the Creator's love first before they can love the Creator.[13] Therefore, the Creator shows His love for the creatures first.[14] The Creator determined to complete creation through the cross, and then He began creation.[15] In the face of the Creator's love that shined on the creatures through the cross, the creatures who were granted free will were divided into two groups.[16] Creatures who accept the Creator's love come to love their Creator[17], and those who have greed and reject that love[18] come to disobey their Creator.[19] The granted free will becomes hardened.[20] Creatures who accept the Creator's love do not reject the Creator's grace[21], so they come to love their Creator more and more, eventually reaching a point where it is impossible to disobey their Creator. The limit of the love that the Creator requires from Adam, is the death of his/her body.[22] Even if Adam loves his/her Creator to the point of giving up his/her life, the Creator accepts Adam's love to the point of rewarding him/her.[23] Creatures who love their Creator, because they obey their Creator, do not trample their neighbors[24] and are therefore not thrown into the lake of fire.[25]

 Although they can rebel against God because they have been given free will, if there are only creatures that obey God even to death because they love God, rebellion will not happen forever.[26] If they are given free will to kill their parents[27], but they are all creatures[28] who love their parents[29], they would rather die than kill their parents[30], they cannot kill their parents, then no sin of killing parents would ever happen.[31] Love completes creatures.[32] Only then will creation be completed.[33] Through the cross that the Son took, God makes known His love to His creatures[34] and makes them love God[35], perfecting their free will that He granted them.[36] Therefore, the cross is the completion of God's creation.[37] (Of course, it remains to prove the truthfulness of the commandments through the resurrection of the saints[38], but that proof also begins with the cross.[39])

 

A. The inheritance of the throne was confirmed.

B. God revealed His glory to the creation world.

C. The truthfulness of God's love has been proved.

D. God saved humans.

E. The truthfulness of God's justice has been proved.

F. The truthfulness of the commandments has been proved.

G. Satan's sins were exposed.

H. God judged Satan fraudswarms.

I. The LORD Jesus has completed His inheritance.

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[1] Ps.33:5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Yahweh.

[2] Mal.3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.

[3] Gen.2:16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

[4] 1Tim.5:6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

[5] 1Cor.10:13 No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

[6] Gen.4:6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

[7] 1John5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

[8] Luke22:31 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers." He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!" He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

[9] Titus2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

[10] Rom.8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

[11] Rom.14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

[12] 1John4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

[13] 1John4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

[14] Rom.5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

[15] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

[16] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

[17] Rom.5:5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

[18] Luke20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

[19] James1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

[20] Rev.22:11 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still."

[21] 2Cor.6:1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

[22] John15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

[23] Heb.11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

[24] Ezek.18:26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

[25] Rev.20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[26] Song8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends

[27] John19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

  Luke20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

[28] Heb.12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

[29] 2Cor.5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

[30] 1John3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

[31] Matt.27:23 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!" All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"

[32] Rom.13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

[33] Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

[34] Rom.5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

[35] 1John4:9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

[36] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

[37] Rev.5:9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."

[38] 1Pet.1:12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

[39] Acts2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  Rom.8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared