God's Division of Salvation

In John 6:33, Jesus taught that He came to give life, not just to Christian believers, but to all mankind. God cannot fail to accomplish fully anything He purposes to do. Christ said that He came to give life to all mankind and that must be exactly that which He will do. Numbers 23:19.

In John 6:50-51, Jesus taught about this division in His plan of salvation. In verse 50, Jesus taught about those whom He will save by His grace. Those who receive Him as their Savior while still alive in the flesh will never be separated from Him by spiritual death. Physical death has nothing to do with separation from God. Physical death equals total non-consciousness, but one can only be separated from God if one is conscious of it. Luke 16:23. But in the last part of verse 51, Jesus taught that in addition to salvation by grace, He came that through His sacrifice He would also give life to the whole world, meaning all mankind. In order to do this, God must recover and recreate all of His goodness that He has put into every man. Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5.

In John 10:10, Jesus again reveals this division in God's salvation. Christ gives life to the entire sheepfold, symbolic of the world, but He only gives His abundant life to those sheep, symbolic of those saved by His grace, that hear His voice and follow Him out of the sheepfold; that is, separated by Him from the world. John 10:1-5.

Jesus' teaching in John 12:32 seems to reflect that which the Holy Spirit taught in John 1:9. The Holy Spirit draws all men to Christ by supernatural means and not just through the preaching of the gospel. Can Christ miraculously draw all men to Him and yet fail to save them? Can the will of man override the will of God? God's almighty power means he must finish every project He starts. This verse must mean that God will provide some form of salvation for all mankind. Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3:14.

In John 12:47, Jesus clearly taught that He did not come to judge those who reject His salvation by grace, but He came to save all mankind. Christ never changes. Hebrews 13:8. If Christ did not judge the world then, then He does not judge the world ever. This verse can only mean that God will provide some form of salvation for all mankind either by grace or recreation.

In John 12:48, Jesus did teach that unbelievers will be judged by the Word of God "in the last day." This event can only be the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:11-15. But only the dead are judged there, and they are the opposite of the living men that God created in His image. The dead can only be equal to the total evil that has invaded the life of man that God created to be good. The Great White Throne Judgment demonstrates that at that time God will have already separated the deadness of man which is totally evil from the life of man which God created to be good. God will cast only that which is totally evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8; Matthew 25:41.