In Philippians 2:10-11 and Romans 14:11, the Apostle Paul quotes a part of a prophecy of Isaiah 45:22-24. Isaiah prophesied about an actual future event in which all humans who have ever lived will worship God. In verse 22, God bids all humans on the earth to come to Him and be saved. Verse 23 records the worship service of all humans who ever lived when they come before God. Verse 24 records that all men who ever lived will come to God being ashamed of their sins. This attitude demonstrates repentance, faith, and worship which is all that one needs to be saved. At this future worship event recorded in Revelation 5:8-14, humans saved by grace in heaven will worship God because they have already been saved. Those humans on the earth and under the earth will worship God in order to obtain a living resurrection from the dead in a general resurrection that Jesus prophesied about in John 5:28-29.
Romans 14:9 teaches that Christ is "...Lord both of the dead and living" because He has the authority to do that which He wills with both. But Luke 20:38 assures us that God is not the God of the dead "...but of the living, for all live unto Him." This condition can only mean that in light of Romans 11:29 and Ecclesiastes 3:14, God can never allow any living person He has ever created to become permanently dead. God will recover and recreate every living person from the regions of the dead by dissolving each individual system in order to recover the life within them. God will use His consuming fire as the means to separate out for preservation the living part of each individual and consume forever each dead part of them in the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:12-15. The dead parts of men can never worship God. Only living men can worship God.
In Philippians 2:10-11, Paul extends Isaiah's prophecy to the worship of Christ as being God and Savior. Christ extends His salvation by grace to all who will repent and believe while still living in the flesh in the world. John 5:24. But Christ extends His salvation by His mercy to all the rest of mankind trapped by sin and death. To the former, He provides a home forever in heaven. I Peter 1:4. To the latter, He provides a recreated life on His recreated earth forever. Revelation 21:5.
God is Almighty. Death cannot impede God's power. In fact, God has promised to destroy death itself. I Corinthians 15:26. Revelation 20:14 records the very event when God destroys death. God created life, and He has absolute power over death. For this reason, God will recover the living part of every human not saved by grace from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
Many teach that those who suffer physical death without a Christian salvation can never be saved but will suffer in hell forever. They believe this despite Jesus' teaching in John 11:25. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead to prove that He, as God, had power over physical and spiritual death. According to Matthew 27:52-53 and Ephesians 4:8-10, when Jesus descended into hell, He visited the Old Testament saints trapped in Paradise next to hell, saved them by His grace, resurrected them and took them, with Paradise itself, up to heaven when He ascended. Without a doubt, this story proves that God has complete power over physical and spiritual death. God can never lose to the Devil anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. For these reasons, God will resurrect the living parts of all humans who did not get saved by grace from the regions of the dead, use His consuming fire to separate their lives from their deaths and cast the dead parts of them, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20: 11-15; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-7; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
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