God accomplished the salvation of all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. God has provided a special salvation for all who will believe that the blood and water that Christ shed on the cross has the power to permanently cleanse them of all their sins while they are still alive in the flesh. Revelation 1:5; I Peter 1:18-23. God will thoroughly cleanse the souls and spirits of all such believers with the blood of Jesus and recreate their inner nature. II Corinthians 5:17. God will cleanse the outer fleshly nature of all such believers with the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross as they daily confess and repent of their sins. John 13:1-10; I John 1:9. Eventually, Christ will present His Church to God as being thoroughly cleansed and pure. Ephesians 5:25-27. God will recreate the souls and spirits of all these special believers the moment they are born again, but God will wait to recreate the bodies of these believers, which holds their sinful nature, at the Rapture of the Church. Philippians 3:20-21. God will give these believers more than just the original righteousness that He created them to be. God will give His Church the perfect righteousness of Christ by which God will allow them to live with Him in heaven forever. Romans 8:14-17; II Corinthians 5:21.
God will provide a lesser salvation for the rest of humanity not saved by grace through Christ's descent into hell. The Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized God's cleansing from sin by the use of His consuming fire. Leviticus 1:9. God will cleanse from sin every human within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire. Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God created everlasting fire to use against total evil, not for the good life that He put into humans. Matthew 25:41. Since Christ bore the sins of all humanity on the cross, He had to have left the sins of all humans not saved by grace behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Salvation by God's consuming fire is based on this fact. But this fiery separation of the good life of man from the total evil of his sins does not become actual until the general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. But in order for all live humans within the regions of the dead to be saved by God's consuming fire, they must repent and put their faith in Christ. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy this event and Revelation 5:13 the fulfillment of this prophecy. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created, including all live humans. Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:20. God will allow all recreated, live humans to live in the recreated paradise of His new earth with bliss and immunity from sin forever. Revelation 21:1-5. God will consign the separated spiritual deaths of humans to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.
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