Romans 8:18-25 provides an account of how God will one day recreate absolutely everything He has ever created which has become less than good because of the fall of Adam and Eve. The Bible prophesies about this great recreation event in such passages as Revelation 21:1-5; Colossians 1:15-20; Matthew 19:28, and John 5:28-29. God has created absolutely all things, including mankind. Therefore, every man who ever lived must be included when God reveals that, "...Behold, I make all things new..." The prophecy in Colossians 1:20 that Christ will "...reconcile all things unto Himself...," must include all mankind. Humans that God saves by grace will be recreated in a different way prior to the general resurrection of John 5:28-29.
God created every human to be a good system. The Devil injected sin and evil into every human system causing all of God's creations to become less than good. God means to purge all sin and evil from His creations and recreate them all as good systems again. I John 3:8; Revelation 21:5. Since the fall, every human system contains a good system created by God and a false system injected into every human by the Devil. In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesied that in a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will effect an absolute separation of the good system in every human still in their graves from their fallen system. In order to do this, God will dissolve every individual system. God will use His consuming fire to effect this separation in every human within one of the regions of the dead. God will consign every human not saved by grace to a temporary separation from Him in one of the three regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Revelation 20:13; I Corinthians 3:12-15. Other scriptures, such as Revelation 22:11-12 and Matthew 3:10-12, also prophesy about God's absolute separation of good from evil in the end of the world. In this recreation, humans who led good and moral lives while on earth will retain some of their former identities and personalities when recreated as determined by the judgment of God. Humans who led deliberately sinful and evil lives will retain none of their former identities and personalities after their recreation. I Corinthians 15:35-50; Matthew 16:25-27.
God will cleanse from sin and recreate humans saved by grace with a different process than He will use with those humans still left in their graves. While still alive in the flesh, God will cleanse and recreate the souls and spirits of all believers in Christ with the blood He shed on the cross. II Corinthians 4:6-7; II Corinthians 5:17; Revelation 1:5. God will cleanse the sinful, fleshly nature of each believer with the water which flowed from Jesus' side on the cross as they daily confess and repent of their sins. I John 1:9; John 13:1-10. Christ will thoroughly cleanse the fleshly nature and recreate the body of every believer at the Rapture of the Church. I Corinthians 15:51-57. Old Testament saints have already been resurrected with the resurrection of Christ. Matthew 27:52-53. Tribulation saints will be resurrected when Christ returns to begin His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4. These events mean that those still left in their graves to experience the general resurrection of John 5:28-29 can only be the rest of humanity never saved by grace. All humans saved by grace will live with God in heaven forever and will retain their former identities and most of their former personalities. Matthew 16:24-25. The good and living parts of all humans raised in the general resurrection, God will recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
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