Joel prophesied about a specific future event that will happen to all mankind following the Rapture of the Church. The Apostle Paul also prophesied about this future event in Romans 4:11 and Philippians 2:10-11. Revelation 5:13-14 records this future event. This great worship service will begin with the Raptured saints, spread to all the angels, and will culminate with the worship of every living creature that God ever created including all living humans entrapped in hell, death, and the sea. In the Tribulation period which will immediately follow this great worship service, the Devil will launch a massive counterattack in his desperate attempt to ruin for eternity the living parts of men by putting a mark on them and by holding their lives forever within the regions of the dead. Satan will be desperate because he will know that he must succeed in permanently ruining some of God's creations in order to begin a process that will lead to the death of God. Satan believes that he can kill God because he remembers that when he was Lucifer he must have rebelled because there was something wrong with the ideas God used to create him. In other words, Satan believes that God can sin, and if He can sin, He deserves death. Matthew 4:1-11. Satan blames God for his own evil. Satan knows that if he fails to show some flaw in God's creations, then God will cast him alive into the lake of fire, and he will be forced to suffer all of the horrible pain and torment possible to a positive consciousness that God will force on him.
Isaiah 45:22-24 best describes the results of this future worship service. God will bid all of humanity to look to him and be saved. Every human who has ever lived will respond by bowing and worshipping God. Only living persons can worship God. Death and total evil absolutely refuse to ever worship God. Revelation 9:20-21. All men will come to God ashamed of themselves for ever allowing sin and death into their lives. This attitude shows repentance as well as worship. No one would want to worship God without an attitude of repentance. The Tribulation period will test mankind to the utmost. But in the end, the Devil will fail to hold down God's living humans in the regions of the dead, and thus ruin God's Word and cause God's death. God's Love was tested to the utmost on the cross, but He passed that test as well. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God can only reward living persons, not dead ones. Colossians 1:15-20. God clearly teaches in these verses that He will reconcile everything He has ever created back to Himself. Romans 11:36. Everything that God has ever extended from Himself in creation comes back to Him. Luke 20:38 and Romans 11:29. All that God has ever given life, lives forever in Him.
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