"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men" (Titus 2:11)
Adam, the first man, sinned, even though he was in a perfect world, newly created and new, full of happiness and harmony. And letting sin enter the world, he opened the door to death and corrupted the entire human race after him by bringing destruction and suffering. This is the Justice of God, who gave him life with perfect happiness, which has an incalculable price, in exchange for a very simple act of faith and obedience. When God gave the Earth to Adam to rule over it and everything in it, He had also given him the Universe in secret, for it is written that in the beginning God made the Heavens and the Earth, finishing the work of Creation with the crown of Creation, the man who would bring the Image and Likeness of the Face of His Glory. The Judgment of God was just upon Adam, who, despising everything in exchange for nothing, transgressed the commandment by the Serpent's astute offering. However, in giving the details of man's punishment, God also gave him a promise of Redemption, through the Seed of the Woman. God's plans then unfolded through the centuries, in a contested battle for the heart of man, who had fallen into sin, in manifestations of His merciful intervention generation after generation through the centuries. In acquiring a particular people for Himself, through a covenant with Abraham, from a later one of his descendants, He raised up Christ, in ascending the fulness of times, to Jesus, declared the Son of God in power, according to the Promise of Eternal Salvation which from ancient times had been made for Israel and for all the families of the nations of the earth. He is the Messiah, son of Joseph, son of David, the Savior of the World who was born by the Holy Spirit, and who lived the only perfect, immaculate life and full obedience to God that was possible, being fully Son of God and Son of Man. And having consummated the manifestation of the Testimony of the Truth to those whom he had chosen, and to the multitudes that had seen and touched him, he gave up his life as a sacrifice for the atonement of eternal effect on the sins of the world. And having conquered, he rised again for the justification and salvation of all that believe, having been made the only and sufficient Mediator between God and men, and made Judge of the living and the dead. And the Scriptures bear witness to all men that all those who repent of their sins and through Him come to God through Faith will be delivered from the Righteous Judgment and from the wrath to come, and washed, regenerated, and changed will receive the Gift of Righteousness to Eternal Life, and entry into the Future Heavenly Kingdom of Peace, which near and very soon will defeat the present lower dominion of corruption in this world, on the occasion of the second coming of Christ, descending and manifesting itself forever in visible plenitude from the earth.
