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God the Savior is Not Willing That Any Should Perish
God is not willing that any should perish in a Christ-less and Eternal Hell.
God wants everyone to hear His truth, receive His Gospel, and repent unto life eternal.
This desire is seen starting in the Garden of Eden when God Himself comes looking for His rebellious, fallen creations: Adam and Eve.
God’s desire continues all the way to the climactic ending of Earth’s end of days.
The Evangelistic Angel
This evangelistic angel is “preaching the good news concerning everlasting life and entrance into the kingdom of God, and is urging the people of the world to change their allegiance from the beast to the Lamb”.
This message that God sends via the angel evangelist is called by six other terms throughout the New Testament: the gospel of God, the gospel of grace, the gospel of Christ, the gospel of peace, the glorious gospel, and the gospel of the kingdom.
It is good news that God saves by the forgiveness of sin and opens His kingdom to all who will repent and believe. The whole world will hear this preaching by the angel as God graciously calls all to salvation.
Note what God the Savior does, as Earth convulses in the Tribulation, and people are dying like flies, as we stand for the reading of God’s Word:
Revelation 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, [to every] tribe, [to every] language and [to every] people.
God’s Eternal Gospel
God’s Gospel is Eternal and He has always sought to make it known. From the pagan butchers of Ninevah to whom the Lord sent His unwilling evangelist Jonah, to the end of time when the Earth lies in ruins, while the Universe is experiencing a Cosmic Quake when demons are howling through the skies, God again sends an evangelist in the form of an angel to proclaim the everlasting Gospel which offers everlasting life.