Romans 8:18-19 prophesies about a coming event in which God will awaken all of His fallen creations from the pall which sin had cast over their minds. Revelation 5:13 reveals the fulfillment of this prophecy. This great worship service begins with the angels and the Church in heaven. Revelation 5:11-12. This tremendous worship service then awakens all of God's creations still under the power of sin, and all that God has ever created joins in this thunderous praise and worship of Him as their Creator and Savior. The living parts of all humans confined within each of the regions of the dead called the sea, death, or hell will awaken to the fact that God created them and that He still loves them. This great awakening will cause all the living parts of humans within the regions of the dead to yearn and groan for a return to fellowship with God. Romans 8:22. Their hope will be realized when God liberates them from the regions of the dead in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5. The Bible also prophesies about this great awakening in Philippians 2:9-11; Romans 14:9; Luke 20:37-38; Romans 14:11, and Isaiah 45:22-24. In the general resurrection, God will dissolve every individual human system, recover the good and living parts to be recreated and cast the dead parts into the lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:13-15.
Romans 8:20 describes how God's creations were "subject to vanity;" that is, to both pride and emptiness. All through the Bible, it equates sin with vanity. This vanity has clouded the minds of all humans. God clears the minds of all humans saved by grace because they acquire "the mind of Christ." I Corinthians 2:16. But God will still subject all humans within the regions of the dead to the hope of being saved. The living parts of these humans will have hope of being saved because they did not sin "willingly," but because they were weakened by contact with sin. That part of their beings which sins "willingly" will never repent and is permanently dead, and God casts their death into the lake of fire. In this way, God destroys the first death which liberates all living humans within the regions of the dead, and God casts their dead parts into the second death. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 21:8.
In Romans 8:21, God promises that He will liberate His entire fallen creation from its bondage to sin and fully recreate it, including all humans. Revelation 21:1-5.
Romans 8:22 describes how all of God's fallen creations yearn to be reunited to fellowship with Him. This groaning will greatly increase after its awakening in the great worship service.
Romans 8:23 describes how all humans saved by grace in the Church Age also yearn and groan for the resurrection and recreation of their bodies in the Rapture of the Church. I Corinthians 15:51-57.
The word "hope" in Romans 8:24-25 in the Greek means "a confident expectation," and not just "desire" as in English. Both the fact that humans saved by grace groan for the redemption of their fallen bodies, and the fact that all of God's creations also yearns to be reunited with Him proves that God will realize this hope by absolutely saving from corruption everything He has ever created. Revelation 21:5; Romans 11:29; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
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