Acts 25:1-6
God's eternal Life and Love arose from the dead to recover His good life that He had put into every human because He had already separated their eternal deaths from them. He had left all of their sin and evil behind Him when He descended into hell and recovered their images of God when He rose from the dead. Hebrews 2:9; John 11:25-26; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8.
In John 15:13, Jesus taught His disciples the very reason why His Love can never fail. The greatest expression of love happens in self-sacrifice. Christ sacrificed His human life by allowing it to become the sin and evil of all humans who are the dead that He casts into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Christ's Love happens to be in that fire forever in order to separate man's eternal death from his eternal life which God created and put into him. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God will recover and recreate every life of every human, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 3:16. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire. Part of the work of the Spirit of Christ is that He became the lake of fire so that He could forever separate the eternal death of man from his eternal life. Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47. The lake of fire also prevents evil from ever being able to enter into God's new creations again. II Peter 3:12-13.
Satan knew that as long as sin and evil existed as a part of man's being, then a Holy God would never be able to accept filthy humans again into reconciliation and renewed fellowship with Him. Satan knew that if God had to reject the sin and evil in man then He would also have to reject His soiled image that He had put into man. Since no other powers exist except those of good and evil, the Devil obtained the right to claim the soiled images of God in every human as his own to torture forever in hell until he succeeded in annihilating a part of God's creations and thus prove that God's Love can fail. But the Devil did not count on God expressing His Love by becoming a human and taking all of the sin and evil of mankind, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, upon Himself and suffer man's eternal spiritual death in man's place. The Devil did not count on the loving self-sacrifice of Christ. Through His loving self-sacrifice, God renewed His power to cleanse all of humanity of all its sin and evil, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His consuming fire when Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead.
Matthew 25:41 teaches that God created hell only for the Devil and his angels, and only the cursed belong there. God never cursed His living humans whom He loves. God cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains hell. These facts can only mean that in a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and recover His living images in all humans within the three regions of the dead. God loves everything He has ever created, and He can never lose any of it. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
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