THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
Remember in our last posting that we were shown that all of humanity is now in Christ. We were also shown in that study that Jesus will keep all of us who are in Him for all of eternity.
Jesus alludes to this Truth, that He will gather all of humanity to spend eternity with Him, in His parable of the Wedding Feast, Matthew 22:2-14. You will notice in this parable how Jesus tells us that the ballroom is filled with people when the King, or our Father, comes to dwell on the earth. This ties right in with Revelation 20:12-14 when John sees our Father coming to the earth after the Millennial Reign of Christ. John sees that all who have ever lived are there. Even if a person was dead, they are raised up from the dead to be there.
When Jesus tells us in the parable of the Marriage Supper that the people are judged, only one is found to be guilty. Only one, out of all of the people who have ever lived, only one is not allowed to stay with Him for eternity. How glorious is that. Now lets look at Jon 17:12
While I was with them, I kept and preserved them in Your Name [ in the knowledge and worship of You]. Those You have given Me I guarded and protected, and not one of them has perished or is lost except the son of perdition [Judas Iscariot--the one who is now doomed to destruction, destined to be lost], that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Jesus begins John 17:2 by telling us that He has been given all flesh. He then goes on to say that He will give eternal life to all that He has been given. Now here in John 17:12 He tells us that He has kept all that He has been given safe, except Judas, so that the scriptures might be fulfilled. Only one was not kept safe and preserved. Only one is not allowed to stay in the parable of the Marriage Supper.
There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ and the Truth is that all are in Christ. This does not mean that all will be the Bride of Christ, because Jesus tells us in Matthew 22 that the room was filled with guests. The Bride is not a guest at her own wedding. All will spend eternity with Jesus, because there are no longer any laws to convict us of sin. Some will be there as His Bride and some as His guests, but amen all will be there.
You may say but what about Matthew 22:14. This verse tells us that many have been called, not all have been called. When our Father comes to the earth to dwell, all will have been called to be there. Whether they are alive or dead, at the time when He comes, they will be there. So what Jesus is telling us in Matthew 22:14 is that many have been called to be His Bride, but only a few of us have actually been chosen to be. So only a few of us have been chosen to serve with Jesus for eternity. That doesn’t mean that Jesus loves us and not the guests. It just means that eternity has structure and some serve and some are served. But amen all are loved and all are allowed to be there, except Judas. Our Father would that all men be saved, 1 Timothy 2:4, and He gets His way. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, and that means every person will be saved, Romans 14:11.
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