Very excellent. Well explained, well articulated. Great job! Love the chart!

An infinite, perfect, all powerful God did not create a defective universe. He does not need to "restore" His mistake.

1 Timothy 4:10. For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, Who is the Savior of all Men, especially of those who believe.

Spot on my friend. There are more and more of us awakening to the true Gospel. Thanks for sharing.

These are great John. First time listener… love the Bible study approach

I guess I'm out of touch. I saw the first Star Wars and that's it! Maybe I need to get a TV and DVD player and catch up. Thanks for this John.

Just started this series. Thanks John. You and a few others like you are helping me through a time of shifting sands.

Having worked through the scriptures and church history, I am convinced that this is the only gospel that can mean anything at all. What stumbles me now is not abstract arguments to the contrary or “gotcha” verses that, if anything, only reinforce this message when thought through with deep coherence. It is that people at best don’t care, at worst despise the very idea of it. I just don’t understand. I was never able to have spiritual integrity, a truly clean conscience, before I gave myself permission to believe it, because it was patently obvious that if this were not true, the only dregs of a gospel that could be left over would be one in which I only really cared for myself. Anyone else who goes to heaven is an intrinsically disposable “nice to have.” The only possible way to mitigate this selfishness and maintain a shred of honesty was to be profoundly miserable about it. It really stumbles me to see people who don’t believe this ever laugh, ever smile, ever enjoy anything at all, and be so downright irresponsible, from a risk management perspective, to have children. Let alone sleep beyond their absolute bare minimum physiological needs.

Hey John, I really appreciate the info! KZbin is not allowing my comments to show publicly. Could you send me your email?

I can recommend Andrew Rillera's book "Lamb of the Free" which provides a deep insight into what atonement means with reference to Jesus. God bless you, Thomas

I can't believe I ever thought God would send a soul to hell for all eternity, for any reason. I believe God redeems and restores here and in the great beyond. It is such joyous news!!

Great vid!

Torah Based Universalism in Messiah Yahusha... yeah, it never made it to the States. Until now!

Thanks for this message! Feeling lonely but better today!

I want to thank you for sharing. I had been a fundamentalist with a strong emphasis on dominion theology( purple, red and blue) when I began to see the parables and actions of inclusion of Jesus calling me to be more respectful to the outcast ( those outside the tribal bubble or system of laws) How do you love your enemies? How do you befriend the outlaw when you are afraid to meet with them let alone speak to them? To top it off how do you overcome the church’s bubble culture that discourages you to hang out with the outcasts? How can you be free to listen to their perspective….their story in order to really gain their trust and befriend them. How do you genuinely connect with anyone if you are fearful? How do you love your perceived enemies? One of my biggest struggles has been trying to learn to be more inclusive of our select outcasts in the presence of old Christian Friends who are deeply blue, red and purple. I tried to explain to them how I see the parables and actions of Jesus as calling us to be loving to the outsider. I recalled Jesus saying ,”whatever you do to the least of them you do to me trying to show them how much Jesus identified with the outcast. I even recalled Jesus saying on the cross, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they are doing”. Through the lesson on Spiral dynamics you have confirmed my understanding that God wants us to be open and loving to all people wherever they are on their journey without favoritism or prejudice… even Red, Purple, Blue Orange or Green Christians as well as the so called “outcasts”. I feel pretty alone right now. My current church is pretty inclusive to the poor and secular genzie. Has said no to political discussions and conversations, not wanting to alienate anyone unnecessarily. I don’t see leadership having an easy time of managing it in this volatile world. However, I personally feel isolated ready to burst, trying to manage the internal struggle I am having with managing the relations I have with others, seeing red flags everywhere. Boy, would I like to be turquoise and have a perspective that could transcend these controversies. I must depend on Christ and the spirit within me to recognize life is hidden in Christ to all be revealed at the proper time. Thank you for your message that helped open my perspective.

That was great John. Good to see this diagrammed out in detail. It is important to be able to identify and understand those gravity points. BTW, did you use the Zoom white board or is it another tool you are using to draw it out? It is a great teaching tool. (And nice to meet your parents 😂

I love it John! Thanks for this! You know, another thing that came to mind as you were listing the things that can pull us up: saints, mystics, holy fools, and scripture, was the idea of returning to our sacred texts In the state of a second nievete. I don't remember offhand who it was that originally discussed that, but I think I first encountered it in one of Brian Zahnd's books (If memory serves me correctly, it was a fairly recent one on deconstruction). At any rate, as I understand it, a second nievete reads scripture through a childlike sense of wonder, but the difference is that it has already gone through the dark night of the soul, no longer limited to a simplistic understanding of inspiration. It can sit with the critical theorists but is still able to find rest for the soul.

Thanks John.

Can mature leaders pull people up?

They sure fixed up the stone house. It used to be all broken up, and there was none of the furniture there. Wonder who decided to do that. Nice to see the place again. The idea with the prayer notebook is not to hide your prayers, you're supposed to have them out there for other people to pray for you. There are some older ladies who live in New Haven and all the other places close by who come out a couple times a week and pray through that whole note book and all the prayers on the walls. So you're always prayed for.

A flag is the emblem of the state and states power, and state power demands subservience and brooks no competition. We were made to pledge allegiance to the flag every morning as kids, I repent for this now and would rather a flag of any kind not be brought anywhere near a gathering of Gods people. Give me king Jesus and nothing else. Cursed is the man that trusts in the arm of flesh.

The ministry of reconciliation isn’t just winning souls, it’s also reconciling the split off parts the disowned parts of our own hearts first

Good stuff! I’ve been in ministry for 30 years, after my last church hurt… I’ve been through this dark night of the soul! And it has been liberating!! But now … I’m stuck between stages 3-4 I think. Where no theology fits what I now believe… and it’s kinda scary! Because my heart knows it’s true, and I trust where God is leading me, but there aren’t communities living in stage 4, except online. A little lonely out here.

There are so many holes in your arguments. Why wasn't Gregory of Nyssa condemned as a hieratic? Because he didn't create the belief. It was always pinned as Origen's belief. When they condemned Arianism, they condemned Arius. They didn't condemn others who held to his view because they way they do it is condemn the source. Plus with Gregory, there are two things. His univeralistic beliefs weren't his main beliefs he spoke on. It was a side belief. But the most pivotal thing about Gregory was that towards the end of his life, He began to contradict is old beliefs on Universalism in his third book. The thing is, you guys keep reaching for things that don't exist. The argument you made was that there was no formal writing on the council. Let's just use a little common sense from it. Did they start believing in unversalism after it??? No.... Of course not. Nobody did after that. So the lie that gets peddled was that people did believe it, but there was no scholarship at all proving that any them after that council held to Origen's beliefs. It wasn't preached at all.

I've just discovered your channel, as well as a recent convert to Apokatastasis. These are wonderful recommendations, thank you.

I was sad to see that you are looking to the mystics. These are all followers of the occult, either directly or indirectly. I watched your series about the restoration of all things and found a lot of truth in your scripture based presentations. I am not sure how the Yeshua will choose to judge us all in the end but I trust Him because He is Good and Just and Perfect! Please do not put your trust in Man or in the doctrines of Man. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light and although the mystics and spiritualism may seem appealing to you, it is NOT the Father's way. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. You will sow whatever you reap. I am praying for you that you will choose the straight path that leads to life.🙏 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. Proverbs 4:25-27. Please pray about this!

Mt19,28 speaks about the Millennium other than that I'm with you!❤

When the news is truly good and God and Christ reach out to mankind for a loving relationship, no one is curious? Do people only respond to fear????

Don't stop teaching, you have a wonderful knack for it.

So excited for this - it sounds rad

Thank you!!

Apokatastasis means (from 600 /apokathístēmi, "restore") - restitution, referring to the "restoration of the physical earth in the Messianic kingdom (Millennium)" (G. Archer). The verses point to the kingdom of God..

I can prove it 60 times from the 1st 7 unspoken works & Words of the Torah

The Message Delivered to the Torah Keeping Saints of old was the Universal Salvation of YHVH from the Beginning to End

The Word of Yahovah was Given primarily in Hebrew

It means Teshuvah to Shuv

Excellent dear brother. Thank you Lord! The Faith Hope and Love of God definitely remains for ALL to enjoy! No small wonder Paul calls this Gospel glorious!

Are you hinting that the reconciliation of “all things” means that all people will be saved? If so, that won’t agree with the other passages in the New Testament that speak so clearly about a place prepared for unrepentant sinners.

John, this was an insightful video, thank you! I was hoping it would shine light on whether the restitution of all things refers to a time that is to come in the future, or if it is presently fulfilled in Jesus. Any thoughts on that?

For such a massively important subject it is so rare to find any teaching on the supposed rejection and condemnation of the teaching of Christian Universalism.

John - was looking at my analytics this morning and realized our discussion ("The Man Who Can't "Unsee" Universal Reconciliation!") has had 1,737 views after just three months! I love and appreciate what you have to say here about Bonhoeffer, the Imago Dei and ethics.... It brings to mind the close association I've been reading about between the "inner man" and "conscience" in Romans - Some are proposing a very convincing link between the "inner man" (which is being renewed/renovated) and the Image of God in us (which I believe is Christologically inseparable from the revelation that Jesus IS "the image of God" - i.e. that He, as the Archetype of humanity, is "stamped' upon the "being" of every human - yet "hidden", awaiting disclosure, through the work of the Spirit, which "hydrates" that "seed" through Baptism [one could argue]). Thanks for this, John - Let's talk soon, my brother!

It's a really interesting story. Almost a Noah inversion. 7+1 saving all the land animals. 7+1 delivered all the fish

The church is full of people who need a Breakdown.

Repent is from a Latin mistranslation see what it says in The Mirror Bible. I went through a break down.

For me it was like the framework on which everything hung on collapsed and I was above an abyss in mid air. Maybe it was my fault trying to find answers to what was going on inside of me feeling like two people, I thought it was gender dysphoria so I sought the pastors help but he made things worse (an absolute Cxnt) then ten years later my sister suddenly said maybe it’s autism, which it turned out to be the case, too little too late, I wish she’d said something earlier because I’ve been an hormone transgender therapy for many years but not surgery, I was also convinced I would lose my salvation and end up in the never ending darkness of what people know as hell, hades. Now God seems distant to me. If I was normal I could fit in with normal people .

I knew many people who ditched their record collection on coming to faith. Only later to regret it later. I’m at the ash stage, nothing but my dog and bird and family members mean anything to me now. I don’t have a church anymore. My church ended because the leaders packed it up.

Mk9:49...for EVERYONE will be salted with fire.

I have heard from many people throughout my years of teaching the Bible that; "God loves everybody." But what about when God stated: "Jacob I loved, Esau I hated."?

Plus Romans 5:18 tells us that Jesus justified ALL people !!!!

Great video. I love when preachers have their own revelation of just how amazing Gods Grace (Jesus) really is!!!!! Almost as if the powers of the Church want to limit God to empower themselves..........