God can never lose anything He has ever created, and He has created all positive things, visible and invisible, subjective or objective, all ideas and emotions as well as all material things. God has based all of His creations on His Holy Word which can never be altered. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Numbers 23:19. God can certainly never lose anything to the Devil. This fact can only mean that God will eventually recover and recreate all of His goodness and life that He has put into every human that has been soiled by sin. In Colossians 1:12-15, God affirmed that He created absolutely everything, and He promised that He will eventually "reconcile all things unto Himself." In Revelation 21:5, God promised that He will absolutely "make all things new," which can only mean that He will recover and recreate all that He has created that has been soiled by sin. Revelation 20:5 records the actual event when God will recover all of His life and goodness that He put into all humans trapped within the regions of the dead. The dead that God casts into the lake of fire in Revelation 20:15 were never created by God. This deadness equals total evil, a negative consciousness that infected humans beginning with Adam and Eve. This negative consciousness emerged from the abyss in some mysterious way to infect Lucifer when he rebelled against God. Ezekiel 28:15. While all sin is evil, God can cleanse and forgive all sins of humans because it is His goodness and life that has been soiled by evil. God never forgives total evil nor does it ever desire forgiveness. Matthew 12:31-32; Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 9:20-21.
In order to restore all of His creations that has been soiled by sin to its pristine holiness, God must purge all evil from His creations. God accomplished this cleansing from sin by the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. Christ uses His shed blood to cleanse the souls and spirits of all believers saved by His grace. Christ uses His shed water to cleanse all believers daily, fleshly sins who are saved by grace. Christ judges all unbelievers still soiled by sin to be cast into one of the three regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. Satan hoped that he would be able to hold these unbelievers within the regions of the dead forever and thus permanently ruin a part of God's creation in order to prove that God's Love and His Word are not all-powerful which, in turn, would eventually cause the death of God. But when Jesus descended into hell, He used His consuming fire to purge and separate the sins of unbelievers that He carried to that place from His cross so that in the end of the world He could recover their goodness and lives that He originally created. I Corinthians 3:12-15; Mark 9:49; Matthew 3:11. But God will not actualize this cleansing until the general resurrection of the living from the dead in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12. In a similar manner, Christ shed His blood to cleanse all believers saved by grace, but God does not activate this cleansing until the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ. I Corinthians 6:11.
Humans suffer for their sins in this life and in the case of all humans not saved by grace in the hereafter as well, but no human will have to suffer for his sins forever because of the suffering and death of Christ on the cross, His descent into hell, and His resurrection. John 6:51; John 6:33; John 12:47.
The burnt offering sacrifices of the Old Testament prove that God uses His consuming fire to cleanse from sin. Leviticus 6:8-13; Leviticus 9:7; Numbers 31:23. Other scriptures indicate that God uses His consuming fire to purge sin such as in Isaiah 6:5-7. Isaiah had to be thoroughly clean in order to stand before God. John the Baptist informs us in Matthew 3:11-12 that Christ not only saves by His grace, but He also saves by the use of His consuming fire. The wheat of verse 12 symbolizes all of the good and living parts of humans that God will recover, and the chaff represents all of the dead and useless parts of humans that Christ will cast into the lake of fire prepared only for the Devil and his angels. In Genesis 3:14 and 17, God cursed only total evil, not humans.
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