Job 30:1-31
Satan has gained some control over evil and its annulment powers. Satan seeks to use evil to annul God and become the god of his own universe. Satan has no desire to annul himself.
Satan caused evil to become a part of every humans' being which influenced the good and living image of God in them to become filthy with sin. Isaiah 64:6. But God devised a plan whereby He would be able to cleanse every living human from their sin and separate them from their total evil and by the use of their own free will. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:20; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38.
In their sinful condition, every living human being became doomed to be separated from God forever in eternal spiritual death. When God came looking for Adam and Eve after they hid themselves because of their sins, they were already spiritually dead. But God came to earth in Love to suffer man's sin and eternal spiritual death in the place of every human. Since Christ was sinless and perfect, spiritual death could not hold Him within the regions of the dead, so He rose from the dead to give spiritual life back to every human. A strict reading of John 12:47 can only mean that Christ cannot fail to do exactly that which He said He would do; that is, save the world, meaning all humanity. Hebrews 2:9.
God gives back His spiritual life to every human in different ways. Some humans who read or hear the gospel choose to repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. These believers receive God's highest form of salvation which is salvation by grace. God cleanses and recreates their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh and gives them the very righteousness of Christ Himself which makes them perfect and fit for God to accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
Following their physical deaths, Christ will consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of the dead because their living souls and spirits will still be filthy with sin. Revelation 20:13 informs us that three different regions of the dead exist which are the sea, death, and hell. All three are hellish places, but Christ will probably consign those who led moral lives, but were not saved by grace, to the lesser place of punishment called the sea. Christ will probably consign those who led immoral lives to the greater hellish place called death or the bottomless pit. Christ will also consign those who led evil lives to the worst place that He created for the Devil and his angels called hell. Matthew 26:41. In the end of the world, Christ will cast both death and hell into the lake of fire which will merge them and cause them to become the everlasting abode of all separated total evil which is the same as spiritual death. Revelation 20:14; I Corinthians 15:26. Christ will recover and recreate His living images from all humans within all three of the regions of death. I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Humans who deliberately choose to lead evil lives always know that they are evil. By their words and actions, they always betray the fact that they know they are evil. But even the worst evil humans still retain some goodness and faith within their living souls that God created. Genesis 1:31. God will not fail to cause even these small living souls and spirits to repent of their own free will so that He can recover their lives for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5. God created all things. Revelation 4:11. Therefore, the "all things" that God "makes new" in Revelation 21:5 can only be the same things He created in Genesis 1:31 and which He can never lose according to Ecclesiastes 3:14 and Romans 11:36. Colossians 1:15-20.
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