Job 17:1-16
God will not nullify man's free will to get them to worship Him. But God also cannot lose any of His creations. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God possesses such an almighty power and intellect so that He can devise a plan that will absolutely rescue his entire creations from evil without violating man's free will. Sin and evil can soil the good and living image of God in every person, but it cannot destroy it. In this great worship service, when all humans still in their graves observe the awesome majesty and holiness of God and the infinite depth of His Love for them, they cannot help but to be fully overcome by an overwhelming desire to completely submit their image of God in them to worship Him as their God and Savior. God will not force them to worship Him. They will worship Him of their own free will.
Lucifer thought that God had made a mistake when He gave him free will. God gave Lucifer free will in all innocence of sin. II Thessalonians 2:7. This condition means that God has to be not guilty although His Love causes Him sometimes to feel guilty. Isaiah 45:7. Lucifer thought that he could use his free will to misuse some of God's ideas to invent false and destructive systems called sin. Lucifer first invented a false system called "excessive pride" which caused him to rebel against God. Lucifer believed that he could use sin and evil to annul a part of God's creations, prove that God's Love fails to be almighty, and then exploit that weakness in God's power to eventually murder Him. God gave Satan his best chance to do just that when all sin and evil nailed Jesus to the cross. But Christ proved that His Love cannot be annulled when He rose triumphant from the grave. I Corinthians 13:8.
God tested His own Love when He created humans in His own image whom He knew would fall into a history of sin and evil. With every human who gets saved by His grace of their own free will, God proves that His Love cannot fail. In that tremendous worship service of Revelation 5:13, when the image of God in every human still in their graves returns to faith and worship of Him as their God and Savior of their own free will, He will prove that His Love cannot fail. If God forced all humans to love and worship Him, then His Love would not be tested. God gave the gift of free will because of His Love. God meant for it to be used only for positive creations. God had no idea it could be misused. When God returns His image in all humans to love for Him and faith in Him of their own free will, He will absolutely prove that His Love cannot fail. He will prove that His gift of free will because of His Love was not a mistake.
God knew that His test of His Love in humanity would, of necessity, cause great pain and suffering to humanity. But God could not allow His Love to go untested. Such a condition would cause constant warfare between Him and evil for eternity. Such a condition would cause pain and suffering to His creations for eternity. God means to make a short work on the earth in order to purge all sin and evil from His creations forever. Romans 9:28. Temporary suffering is better than eternal suffering. God seemed to cause man to be in danger of eternal torture by the Devil, but Christ took that eternal torture on Himself on the cross in man's place and suffered far more than man ever could. Luke 24:46.
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