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The Biblical Overview of The Plan of God – Part 14

The Year of Jubilee and The All In All

Exo 15:2  The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Lev 25:8  And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month,in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 
Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 

Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Rom 8:25  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Joh 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Introduction

This is our final study on the biblical overview of the plan of God for mankind. We have now come to God’s goal for all men of all time. That goal is the destruction of death, and for God to “be all in all”.

1Co 15:25  For he [Christ] must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 
1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

The holy spirit inspired Paul to express the appreciation which we should have for the honor which has been bestowed upon us.

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

It is through Christ that His Father works, and it is through Him that we are accepted by His Father:

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will [the overview of His plan for all men of all time], according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in [the] Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 

In this series on the overview of the plan of God we have learned that the steps to arriving at the goal of that plan of God is revealed to us in the symbolism of the rituals of the seven festivals which God gave to ancient Israel. We have learned that those seven festivals complete the revelation of God’s work with mankind while we are yet in vessels of clay. We have also seen in part six of this series of studies that there is a process of judgment involved in the revelation of this overview of what God is doing with mankind, and this process of judgment is revealed by the three seasons of the year in which all these festivals take place.

These annual festivals, with their attendant rituals, were designed by God to reveal to us all He is doing with mankind while we are still in these sinful garments of clay. The last step of God’s work with mankind in these clay vessels took us only to the “little season” which follows the millennial reign of Christ and His Christ, and we have been told clearly that the millennium, the thousand years, is the time when Christ, through His elect, will rule over the kingdoms of this world:

Luk 22:29  And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

A summary of the meaning of the holy days

We have seen that the passover, in the spring of the year, typifies the beginning of the work of God with mankind as He passes over our sinful bodies and comes to us to begin taking up His rightful abode within us, even while we are yet in sin. The days which immediately follow and are attached to the passover, the days of unleavened bread, symbolize the work which God immediately begins to perform within us, as He begins to convict us of our sins and we strive to purge the leavening of the Pharisees and the Sadducees out of our lives. But at this ‘passover’ stage we are still spiritually called “carnal… babes in Christ” (1Co 3:1-4). The next step in our spiritual walk follows seven sabbaths “until the morrow after the seventh sabbath”, at which time we are to offer up the only offering with leaven in all of the offerings made by fire unto God. It consisted of two loaves of finely ground flower. The leaven in this sacrifice has both a positive and a negative application. It symbolizes two very different things. First it symbolizes our present station being yet in these sinful earthen vessels, but after that these two leavened loaves symbolize the leaven in these verses:

Mat 13:33  Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

“Till the whole was leavened” in this verse means until “God shall be all in all’, which as we shall see, will be accomplished through “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” (Rev 14:4). These two leavened loaves which are offered on the day of Pentecost, symbolize the work of God through His Son’s anointed, “the Lord and… His Christ” (Act 4:26), who are given the gift of the holy spirit on that very day. Then, and not until then, do we become converted and begin to be prepared to blow the seven trumpets of judgment upon the kingdom of our old man. The festival of trumpets takes place on the first day of the seventh month, in the fall of the year. It is symbolized by seven trumpets blown by the seven angels of Revelation 16.  Those seven angels are also typified by the seven priests who blew the seven trumpets in Joshua 6, where Israel compassed the walls of Jericho for seven days. For those who have the eyes to see it, it is we who are called priests in this verse of scripture:

Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 

The feast of trumpets was followed nine days later with the day of atonement, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in which we are instructed to “afflict [our] souls” and to offer “the Lord’s goat… and the scapegoat” for a sin offering. The day of atonement, just nine days after the feast of trumpets, signifies the afflictions of the Lord’s Christ which come upon them as a result of sounding the trumpet as they are commanded:

Isa 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

When this day is lived internally, we too, afflict those who ‘tell us of our transgressions and our sins’. This takes place outwardly also, and it will certainly take place in a dispensational way at the end of this age as the days approach when “the kingdoms of the world… become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ”.

This step in the work of God where the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, is typified by the festival of tabernacles at the end of the annual growing season. This festival symbolizes the millennial reign of Christ,

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

The final step in the plan of God for mankind while yet in these vessels of clay is the “little season” which immediately follows the millennium just as “the last great day” immediately follows the feast of tabernacles.

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

This is the time when “the nations in the four quarters of the earth” rise up in rebellion against “the camp of the saints, and attempt to destroy their rulers, giving God the occasion He is seeking to destroy all flesh and thereby to destroy His last enemy which is death:

1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Physical death is destroyed in the lake of fire of which we are told:

Rev 20:14  And death and hell [hades, the grave] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 
Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

The scriptures teach very plainly:

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

So “all in Adam”, must be made alive, “even as… all in Adam” must die. Therefore these are the preceding verses of Rev 20:14-15:

Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

The dead small and great are raised up to be judged “according to their works”. This is the resurrection that follows the millennium. Elsewhere this resurrection is called “the resurrection of damnation”.

Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

The first resurrection at the beginning of the millennium is contrasted with “the resurrection of damnation” and is also called “the resurrection of life, [and] the resurrection of the just”.

Luk 14:14  And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

When Christ speaks of God being the God of the living and the dead, He is not conceding the loss of any in Adam because:

Luk 20:38  For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Dan 12:2  And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting [Hebrew: olawm, age] life, and some to shame and everlasting [olawm, age] contempt.

There is nothing “everlasting” about the Hebrew word ‘olawm’. It is a period of time with a beginning and an end, and it is translated in the New Testament with the Greek word ‘aion’ in its noun form and as ‘aionios’ in its adjective form.

What we need to understand is that with any judgment, whether it be the judgment which is now on the house of God (1Pe 4:17) or the “great white throne… judgment”, this is what all ‘judgment’ produces:

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

“When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord” is just as true of the “great white throne… judgment” as it is of the judgment we are enduring at this time(1Pe 4:17).  All judgment is “chastening of the Lord” for a very good purpose:

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 

Raised a spiritual body

“The resurrection of damnation” and those who are “condemned with the world” are both “in Adam”, and all those multitudes of people will be raised up in this “great white throne… judgment” to be “chastened of the Lord [and to] learn righteousness” after the destruction of physical death via the destruction of all flesh. What that means is that all who are raised from the dead, whether at the first resurrection or that the great white throne resurrection, are “raised a spiritual body” and are not therefore typified by any of the annual holy days, which deal only with the overview of the plan of God for mankind while he is still in a physical “earthen vessel”.

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48  As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

If indeed that is the case, where then will we find an Old Testament type and shadow, as a second witness to this event which is outside of the physical realm, and yet it is the very goal of the plan of God for all of mankind of all time?

The year of the jubilee

The undeniable formula given by the holy spirit is “as in Adam… even so in Christ”. As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall the same “all” who are “in Adam… be made alive”. That is also the message of the year of the jubile. “You shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” We have a series of studies on the priesthood, the Levites, and the camp of Israel, which demonstrates that the camp of Israel typifies the whole world. The Levites typified the many called, and the priesthood typified the chosen or elect of God. The holy spirit revealed this to the apostle Paul:

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29  Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

So when we are told that “You shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family”, this is what we are being told:

Eze 16:53  When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Eze 16:54  That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Eze 16:55  When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

It doesn’t require a spiritual giant to deduce that if Sodom and Samaria are going to be saved, considering the apostasy of both of those cities, then God intends to save “every man”, and He is intent upon saving all men of all time. This is exactly what we are told so many times and in so many ways in both the Old and the New Testaments (2Sa 14:14; Eze 16:55; 1Co 15:22, and 1Jo 2:2). Everything God did with mankind from Adam until Christ, and everything He is now doing, is preparing His “firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” (Rev 14:4) to ‘warn every man and teach every man… the mysteries of the kingdom of God’. It is all leading up to the great jubilee of scripture, and that great goal will also be accomplished through “we who have the firstfruits of the spirit… the sons of God”, who are being judged now, first, so we can show the same “yet so as by fire” mercy which is now being poured out on us, to all men of all time.

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 

How do we know that we “have now obtained mercy”? How do we know whether we a part of that “blessed and holy… first resurrection… firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”? Here is how we know whether we are part of that group of “the church of the firstborn… the pillar and ground of the Truth”:

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 
Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

If our salvation is a matter of being “as in Adam”, then we should expect the scriptures to reveal to us that we have no choice in the matter of our salvation. That is not to say that we will not choose, but it is to say that our choice will be “even… as” it was in Adam, and lo and behold, that is exactly  what the scriptures teach from Genesis to Revelation for this one reason:

Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

“The whole creation… was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who has subjected the same in hope [of] the redemption of our body. Then “the whole creation…through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.” That is the doctrine of the year of the jubilee, and it is so stated throughout the scriptures.

But the goal of God has never been to have a “dying, [and] corruptible…body, [with a] rebellious, carnal mind [which] is enmity against God”. It has all along been through “entering into His rest” to create a new man who would be “conformed to the image of [Christ]”:

Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,  that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Predestination is a Biblical doctrine which demonstrates that all that God is doing will in the end bring all who are in Adam to be “conformed to the image of his Son”. It is the year of the Jubilee, which is outside of the physical realm and it therefore outside the scope of the annual festivals which God gave to ancient Israel. Here are but a very few of the many verses of scripture which make clear that God always has had every intention of bringing to Himself “even His banished”:

2Sa 14:14  For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. 

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [not ‘exclusively’] of those that believe. 

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 

Today we will look at this final part of the revelation of the overview of the plan of God for all of mankind as it is revealed to us in the year of the jubilee.

In our earlier study we made this statement:

“The church which is His body [is] the fulness of Him that fills all in all”. It is a rare person who is even given to understand that these words are true because Christ’s “inheritance [is] in the saints”.

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 
Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Few people know that Christ’s “inheritance [is] in the saints”, but it is even fewer who realize that this “all in all” is also typified for us outside of the seven festivals of the three annual seasons of the year. The year of the jubilee is pictured outside the annual holy days because the goal of the plan of God is outside the scope of this earthly vessel of clay. Therefore it is represented, not in a day following six days, neither is it represented by seven sevens of weeks. Instead the goal of the overview of the plan of God, which is outside of and beyond the scope of these clay vessels, and because it deals with the spiritual realm, it is represented for us  in a year which follows seven sevens of years which we are given in the Old Testament law of the year of the jubilee:

Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 

You will notice that the trumpet of the jubilee is sounded on the day of atonement, the day when the scapegoat was offered for the iniquities of Israel. We will stop here for today, and next week we will see what was to take place in the year of the jubilee, and  we will find as we have already pointed out, that even this goal of the plan of God for all men is accomplished through “the church which is His body… the glory of His inheritance in the saints”.”

So before we read any more about the year of the jubilee, let’s take the time to see why the year of jubilee is declared on the day of atonement:

Lev 16:21  And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Lev 16:22  And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

We have recently finished a series of studies on the identity of this scapegoat, and we found in that study that this scapegoat is just one more type and shadow of God’s elect, through whom He is bringing all men to Himself, and through whom He will accomplish His goal of being all in all:

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

So the glory we read about in Romans 8 is not physical joy. Our joy as “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” is not a matter of having a shining face like Moses had when he came down off Mount Sinai with the two tablets containing the law. “The glory which shall be revealed in us [is] that which excels” the glory that was fading away. “The glory which shall be revealed in us” is the same glory that is being revealed in Christ as the Savior of this world simply because we, too, are to be saviors with Him.

Look very closely at what we are told of who we are:

Oba 1:21  And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 
Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

1Jn 3:2  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

“With the Lord’s goat”, Christ, we are being offered as “a living sacrifice, dying daily with [Him, being] crucified with Him, [yet living], to bear upon [ourselves] all their iniquities, having them placed upon [our] head by [our] Priest”, who is Christ.

Lev 16:22  And the [scape] goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

It is not possible for the natural man to begin to appreciate the work God is doing with His creation. But it has been given to a “few… elect… firstfruits unto God and the Lamb”, not only to see, but also to become those “saviors… on mount Zion” by enduring and being faithful to the end:

Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. 

1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 

The salvation of all men will come only through Christ’s firstfruit, firstborn, who have been given the double portion of the inheritance. That double portion of the inheritance given to “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” is a major part of “the deep things of God”. That double portion of the inheritance grants us to judge both this present physical world and in the next spiritual realm, in the greatest work of grace God will ever bestow on His creatures. But that final work is not in the physical realm but in the spiritual realm of the lake of fire where Sodom and Samaria, and all men of all time, will finally fulfill the year of the jubilee, and all in Adam will be given “abundant… life”, finally fulfilling the commission Christ was  given and the reason for which He emptied Himself of His divinity and came into this physical dying realm.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.