My series A Universalist Looks at the New Testament is about going through the New Testament and showing how it reads differently when you don’t rule out the possibility that God really might be saying that one day He is going to save everyone. Acts 3:21 has another passage like that.
Peter was preaching, and talking about Jesus when he said this:
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
Universalists believe that yes, there will be judgment. There will even be suffering as people receive punishment and correction for their sins. But one day, at the end of the ages, “God will restore everything.”
Is everything really restored if some are still suffering in hell?
Peter finishes his sermon in verses 25 and 26 —
And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’ When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
They were the first to be blessed. But they will not be the last!