Job 28:1-28
Jesus taught in several places in the gospels that God will save all sinners from their punishments in the regions of death. In Luke 12:54-59, Jesus taught people whom He referred to as hypocrites because they did not try to understand His message. Jesus gave these unbelievers a little parable about how they must agree with their adversary while they had time or the judge would cast them into prison. Jesus used the word "adversary" to symbolize Himself since unbelievers consider Jesus' message of grace to be irrelevant to them. Jesus used the word "agree" to mean that unbelievers must believe in Him in order to avoid the sentence of the judge. Jesus used the word "prison" to symbolize the place of outer darkness, or the bottomless pit, as recorded in Revelation 20:3 and 7. But Jesus then taught these unbelievers that they would eventually depart from this prison after they had endured the full punishment for their sins. But since unbelief is an eternal evil worthy only of eternal death, Jesus had to have meant that their living souls whom He had created would emerge from the regions of death after their return to faith, and He had cleansed them of all their sins.
In Luke 14:12-14, Jesus spoke directly to an evil Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner for the sole purpose of trying to trap Jesus into saying something that he could use for a blasphemy charge. Jesus advised this evil Pharisee to do some good works in his life for which God would bless him. Jesus further informed him that God would reward him "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus had to have meant that this evil Pharisee had a part of him that was "just;" that is, his living image of God that Jesus had created. Jesus also had to have meant that God would effect a general resurrection of all the just and unjust in the end of the world. Jesus also could not have meant any of the resurrections of those saved by grace since this Pharisee was an unbeliever. Jesus had to have also meant that in the end of the world, God will dissolve the systems of all sinners within the regions of the dead, completely separate their good and living images that Jesus called "the just" from their totally evil natures, called the dead, whom God will cast into the lake of fire. Jesus referred directly to this general resurrection and judgment in John 5:28-29. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
Jesus also taught this evil Pharisee that he would receive a positive reward for his good works after his resurrection. God provides only positive rewards for living persons, not lesser punishments for living persons in an eternal hell. Matthew 16:27; Revelation 22:12. No verse in the Bible (KJB) states that God casts living persons into the lake of fire, only dead ones. A lesser punishment in an eternal hell could not possibly be any kind of reward, especially from a positive Creator. God possesses Infinite Wisdom which means God certainly has to be capable of devising a plan to rescue His entire creation, including His living images in every person, from utter destruction despite the weakness in their free will that causes them to sin and their temporary loss of faith. God will one day cause the measure of faith that He has put into every living image of Him still in their graves to fully return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. Revelation 5:13; Revelation 22:11-12.
These are the just that God will resurrect to a lesser form of salvation in that He will recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God said: "Behold, I make all things new." This statement can only mean that God will cleanse and recreate everything He has ever created that has been tainted by the influence of evil. Romans 12:3; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 5:13.
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