Introduction: Page 6

 
To fully understand God’s entire plan for bringing order back in both the earth and in the heavens and back under His supreme authority, one must study all the scriptures.
 
The faith of the Lord Jesus Christ and the faith of man are required for man’s redemption in two programs—the Prophecy Program for the restoration of the earth and the Mystery Program for the restoration of the heavens. 
 
Being grounded and settled in the covenants God made with the Nation of Israel, and knowing the distinctions between the Law/Prophecy program and the Grace/Mystery program enhances the spiritual growth and faith of all believers.
 
In every dispensation, Man has resisted following God’s instruction, have sinned. 
 
Before receiving God’s judgment, God has always offered to man a way to be redeemed though faith. 
 
It is not God’s will that anyone should perish. 
 
His desire is to restore His relationship with all those He created and loves and has always provided the means by which we can be reconciled to Him. 
 
He has always given man free will to choose or not to choose to be in His family. 
 
God always gives man free will to submit or not to submit to His Divine will.
 
Before the foundation of the earth God’s corrective plan to restore order in the heavens was through those who by faith placed their trust in the redemptive finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
In the future when Satan and the fallen angels receive their judgments, they will be removed from their presently held seats in heaven. 
 
The members of this body of believers will then replace those previously held seats of authority in heaven. 

Since God laid the foundation of the earth, He has had a corrective plan for the fallen condition on the earth. 
 
He created man in His image and asked him to be fruitful and to multiply and to reclaim the earth from Satan. 
 
The Nation of Israel and their Messiah would come from the line of Abraham.
 
In the future Israel will be a nation of priests, have an earthly kingdom and people from all nations will come up to Jerusalem to worship God.

God’s TIME PAST prophetic program, devised from the foundation of the world, was established in early Genesis.
 
After God created man in His own image, it only took Satan a short time to deceive the first Adam. 
 
The consequence of this first sin was spiritual death and the eventual physical death for him and all of his descendants. 
 
God prophesied to Adam and Eve that there would be a Redeemer who would come from her blood line. 
 
God continued to work with the Gentiles for 2,000 years, prophesying through Adam, Enoch and Noah. 
 
God’s work through the Gentiles was culminated when, at the Tower of Babel, Nimrod was determined to build his own kingdom and not follow God’s command to replenish the whole earth.
 
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