December 23, 2013 – 2 Chronicles 29

When you think of your body as a Temple for God, reading these cleansing of the Temple reminds me of Reconciliation. Can you think of a better way of describing Reconciliation than to “clean out the filth from the sanctuary.” That always comes to mind when I read these accounts, but this one especially. When it says the “people rejoiced over what God had re-established for the people.” That is what Reconciliation offers and provides people. It takes a person that has been separated from God because of their sinful actions and reunites them. They lost connection with God and reconnects them. The Jews were lost without this connection with God. It makes you wonder about the idea of “once saved, always saved”. It does not appear to be a Biblical theology with all the scriptures that talk about “coming back” to God. That implies that you were their before (saved), did something to lose God, and then had to come back to God.

I guess the idea of once saved always saved would apply to those that die. Once you die you are either saved or not, and once that happens there is no losing that. You either go to Heaven or Hell and once you are in either, you don’t leave. But I have never heard “once saved, always saved” described in that sense.