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WE BELIEVE that God is a sovereign God, but we do not believe that God elected some to salvation and some to destruction. We believe that God, before that foundation of the world, elected to save all those who would put their faith in Christ, that he elected to draw all men unto him (John 12:32), that he elected the nation of Israel as a divine instrument through which he was to reveal his plan of salvation and to be a light to the Gentiles (Rom 9:4-5, Is 49:6), that he is without doubt an elector of nations (Rom 9:13, Gen 25:23) but at the same time he no respecter of persons, that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (2Pet 3:9, Rom 10:13).
WE BELIEVE that the Second Coming of Christ will be preceded by the return of the Lord himself in the air for His Church, who shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, that those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with those who have already fallen asleep in Christ and we will meet the Lord in the air (1Thes 4:16-17), the Blessed Hope of all believers; that the world will be plunged into seven years of Tribulation spoken of by Daniel (Dan 9:24-27) and the other prophets, the time of Jacob's trouble (Jer. 30:7) and as outlined in the Book of Revelation, where the judgment of God will be poured out without mixture upon all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ, both Israel and the Gentile nations; that in Israel's darkest hour they shall call upon him who they have pierced (Zec. 12:10) and they shall be saved out of it when Christ responds and comes again personally and visibly to put down all who oppose him, and to make the kingdoms of this world, the kingdoms of our Lord (Rev. 11:15); that he will establish a one thousand year millennial reign on the earth, at the end of which time he judge the living and the dead; there is a bodily resurrection of both believers and unbelievers, believers to an inheritance of eternal life in the presence of the Lord, and the unbelievers unto condemnation and eternal separation from God in the Lake of Fire, this is the second death; and that a new heaven and a new earth will be ushered in. (Rev. 21:1)
"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
(2 Peter 3:13)
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