Don Herston grew up attending a small Primitive Baptist church. The church taught a compassionate version of predestination. Good people are going to Heaven, but good people are good because God made them that way. They are the children of God, and they will come to God.
Don struggled with the question of people who never heard of Christ. At sixteen he realized that since Jesus is perfect and overcame the Law, if Jesus discards His flesh that will justify discarding the flesh of all good people. In this way all good people go to Heaven whether they are Christian or not.
If would be twenty-four years later, while working as a bookkeeper with a lot of free time, Don decided to write a book about his inspiration. The book was tedious. It took that one little idea, threw in a lot of Bible passages, and rambled on for a hundred pages.
When writing the book, and in the years that followed, he did get some things wrong. Not being a Biblical scholar was essential in Don’s ability to look at the Bible less influenced by previous interpretations. This meant the process was a learning experience, but it led to some amazing discoveries.
The Revelation
If our redemption is entirely by Christ then God is not trying to determine who freely makes the choice to be with God. This led to the idea that God created the world for the journey of live. God created the world so that He could go with us on this journey.
If Christ redeems us by discarding His flesh, there must be some other reason for Him to die on the cross. This allowed Don to see the numerous clues scattered throughout the Bible that Satan cursed God when Jesus was dying on the cross.
Jesus destroys the devil as a witness against him.
Don would later realize that this explains the Trinity. There can be God outside of time and God inside time, but why is there a third God? There is a second consciousness of God moving in time because the Son of God is at a level of reality that transcends Heaven. This explains why the devil did not know and still does not know that Jesus is Lord. The Son of God, transcending Heaven, is a secret that had to be kept until the time of the end. This revelation is what causes the end.