Job 24:1-25
Even though God is innocent, He created that good and useful emotion that leads to repentance called guilt. For this reason, the image of God in parents often causes them to feel guilty if something bad happens to one of their children even though they had no fault at all. God feels guilty about allowing evil to enter His creations although He knew nothing about it at the time. God expressed His feelings of guilt in Isaiah 45:7. But because of God's test of His Love through His creation of mankind, He learns more about evil as time passes. Someday, God will thoroughly purge all evil, including all spiritually dead humans, from all of His creations using His consuming fire, and He will completely prevent it from ever again entering into His new creation of a righteous heaven and earth. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:1-5.
Satan is counting on just one human who will refuse to repent and return to faith in God. Should there ever be one, Satan will forever capture the good image of God in that person and torture it forever until Satan annihilates a part of God's creations that He loves. In that case, Satan will win. But God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. The closest that Satan ever came to completely ruining the good image of God in a man resulted from his influence on Judas Iscariot. God never takes back any good gift He has ever given. Romans 11:29. When Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" in Matthew 26:50, He meant that Judas would be His friend forever. As recorded in Revelation 5:13, someday even the good image of God in Judas Iscariot will cry out to God from the bowels of hell in his desire for repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20.
How can God be sure that His good image in every person will someday choose to return to faith and reconciliation with Him? God knows that His Love for His creations is all-powerful and that means Satan will never be able to annihilate even a small part of it. God has put His good image and measure of faith into even the most cruel atheist so that deep within themselves every person yearns for reconciliation and renewed fellowship with God like Adam and Eve enjoyed in the garden. Romans 12:3. God's gifts of free will, repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation are all attributes of His Almighty Love. For this reason, God knows that every living image of Him in all humans saved by His grace and within the three regions of the dead will freely choose to repent and return to faith in Christ the Lamb as recorded in that great worship service in Revelation 5:11-14. Humans saved by grace will worship Christ because they have already been saved.
This return of all living humans within the regions of the dead to reconciliation with God results from God using His consuming fire to forever separate all good and living humans from all the total evil in all dead humans in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29. God will recover all of His living images in dead humans for Him to recreate to live on His recreated and righteous earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:28-29; John 12:44-48; John 11:25. God will separate all of the totally dead and evil humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire forever, which is the second death because God will have already destroyed the first death. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8. Note that in John 1:29, John the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus "taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans. Note that in Genesis 3:14-20, God cursed the Devil and total evil, not living humans.
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