The Book

OPEN GATES

Setting All Captives Free From Hell, That None Will Perish — a study of the widest promises in Scripture, and of what changes when you believe them.

The Message

Scripture at its widest

Open Gates follows a single thread from Genesis to Revelation — God's purpose to reclaim everything he has made — and finds that it ends where it began: with nothing left outside the reach of mercy.

1 Timothy 2:4

The will of God

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Paul grounds the case not in human optimism but in the settled will of God — a desire that cannot finally be defeated.

1 Corinthians 15:22

All, in Christ

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

The same “all” that fell in Adam is the “all” raised in Christ. The second Adam does not lose what the first one lost.

Colossians 1:20

All things reconciled

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself.

Reconciliation is not limited to souls. It reaches the whole creation — things in earth, and things in heaven.

“Behold, I make all things new.”

Revelation 21:5

The Author

Dr Gerald Tan

Dr Gerald Tan writes on the widest reaches of God’s redemptive purpose — the salvation of all and the restoration of creation — and on what it means to live as though it were already true.

Open Gates gathers that study into a single argument. The daily devotionals carry it into ordinary days, and this site is where each new reading, video and launch update is posted first.