The World and the Word

                                                Freedom versus Tyranny

God has also provided a lower form of salvation for all living humans that He created in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 8:20-21. Everything that God created is good. He loves it all and it can never be permanently ruined. God can never lose any of His goodness that He puts into every human that He creates. God's Almighty Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 1:31.

God grieved because He had to destroy every living human for their evil in the great flood except for Noah and his family who found grace in His sight. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 6:8-10. After the flood, God commanded Noah to offer burnt offering sacrifices which symbolized this lower form of salvation which God would provide for all living humans not saved by grace. Genesis 8:20-21. God determined to include all living humans not saved by grace in His lower form of salvation accomplished by Christ's descent into Hell where He left all of their sins and evil behind when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10. God created Hell only for the cursed, which is the evil nature of humanity, and for the Devil and his angels, not living humans. God never cursed the living natures of Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-20; Matthew 25:41. The existence of Hell expresses God's fiery wrath against evil which He will use to forever separate His living image in all humans confined within the regions of death from their evil, spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. God will cause all living humans confined within the regions of death to repent and return of their own free will to faith in the Lamb who can cleanse them of all sins and evil by the use of His fiery wrath. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will resurrect all of His living humans from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Deuteronomy 32:22; Matthew 3:11-12; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 5:5; Matthew 6:10.

In Genesis 8:21, when God used the phrase, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake...," He meant that He would remove all living humans from the ground that He had cursed in Genesis 3:17. In other words, God will not subject any of His living humans to an eternal curse. God's phrase "...for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth..." means that every living human needs to repent of the sins and evil in their nature. The imagination is evil, not the heart. God's phrase, "...neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done," means that God will rescue every living human confined within the regions of death. God's destruction of all evil humans in the great flood happened to be a potential eternal destruction of their good lives as well. But because God grieved over the loss of His living humans, He provided a means through His fiery wrath against evil itself, to rescue all of His living humans from all of the regions of death. Such scriptures as Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 4:1; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12 and I Peter 3:18-20, among many others, attest to the fact that God will rescue all of His living humans confined within the regions of the dead by means of Christ's descent into Hell upon their repentance and faith that their Lamb can save them. Revelation 5:11-14.

The World and the Word

                                             Freedom versus Tyranny

The original tyrant was Satan himself. Being very intelligent, the Devil used very subtle lies to get Eve to sin and then Adam. No doubt, the Devil put the fearful idea into Adam's mind that he had to fall to Eve's level or he would lose his physical love with her. Once Adam and Eve disobeyed God, then that failure opened a weakness in them that the Devil could exploit to inject the evil of spiritual death into their very beings which was foreign to them because God had created them in His own image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12. God loves all of His creations, including all humans, with an unfailing Love. I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 11:29. The Devil seeks to use the evil that he has injected into all humans to so overpower the good image of God in at least one human that the Devil will be able to annul that good image and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. By such a means, the Devil seeks to prove that God's free will demonstrates a weakness in God Himself that the Devil can exploit to the extent that he can eventually find a way to murder God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-15. In other words, the Devil thinks that he can eventually get God to sin. Matthew 4:1-11. Satan got his chance when the Father allowed all of the sins and evil of all mankind to nail Jesus to the cross. Isaiah 53:6. God came to the rescue of Adam and Eve and all of their descendants when He promised them that He would send them a Savior who would sacrifice Himself to take away all of the sins and evil of the whole human race and provide a higher and a lesser form of salvation for everyone of them. John 3:16; John 5:24; Genesis 3:14-21; Genesis 8:20-21; John 1:29; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38.

The highest form of salvation occurs when a person repents of their sins while still alive in the flesh and puts his faith in the sacrifice of Christ to take away his sins and evil. Genesis 3:21; John 3:16. God delivers His salvation to the believer by His grace the moment he believes wholly apart from any good works done by the believer. Romans 4:5-8. Upon repentance and faith, the Holy Spirit washes the sins of the believer's soul and spirit away with the spiritual blood of Christ. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5. After cleansing, the Holy Spirit recreates the soul and spirit of the believer with no more sins and evil within and gives that believer the righteousness of Christ Himself by means of which God can accept him to live in Heaven with Him forever. I John 3:9; Romans 8:14-17. However, God will allow the evil that causes the believer saved by grace to sin to still adhere to his fleshly nature. Believers can still sin but only in the flesh. But the Holy Spirit will wash these fleshly sins away with the spiritual water that Jesus shed on the cross as the believer daily confesses and repents of them. I John 1:9; John 13:1-14.

But the believer who backslides on God and fails to daily repent of his fleshly sins will appear filthy before Christ at the Rapture of the Church. Christ has promised all believers saved by grace a home with Him in Heaven forever. I Peter 1:2-5. In order to be able to accept the Church into Heaven at the Rapture, Christ must thoroughly cleanse it of all fleshly sins and evil. At that time, Christ will temporarily punish the inveterate backslidder by casting him into the bottomless pit. Matthew 5:25-26; Matthew 24:48-51; Luke 12:25-26. Once there, the backslidder will greatly suffer, but he will remember that Christ is his Savior and he will repent of all his sins and cry out for Christ to save him from his torment. Christ will hear his cry, cleanse him of all his fleshly sins and evil, forgive him, and restore him to His Church. According to God's promise of Ephesians 5:25-27, Christ will thoroughly cleanse His Church at the Rapture of all of its unrepentant fleshly sins and evil by washing it in the water of His Word so that He can present it to the Father as a glorious Church worthy to be with Him in Heaven forever.

The World and the Word

                                                Freedom versus Tyranny

Some controllers seek to gain power over their fellow humans by insisting that everyone strictly obey the law, except themselves. They will vigorously prosecute any fellow citizen whom they claim has broken the law, even in self-defense, but they allow themselves to break any law with a claim of impunity. They will employ foot soldiers to riot, loot, and burn buildings and claim impunity because they did it all for the betterment of mankind. They will loudly proclaim their love for democracy while at the same time they will gladly rig elections to put their own controllers in charge. Such potential tyrants do not seek the betterment of humanity. They seek only power over their fellow humans.

Some controllers even exist within the bounds of Christianity. They seek to ruin Christianity by the introduction of false doctrines and false bibles. They desire to gain control of Christianity for their own evil purposes. True Christians strictly adhere to the true Word of God for guidance to true doctrine and practice. God has preserved the true Word of God in the Received Text which came to the west through the Antioch Church to Eastern Europe and then spread to Western Europe. The true Word of God in English is the King James Bible translated directly from the Received Text. Psalm 12:6-7; Matthew 24:35.

Jesus proved in His Word that He recognizes that everyone who hears His Word has the right to choose to believe or not. John 3:16.

Jesus demonstrated that He approves of a moderate form of free enterprise where the employer and his employees agree beforehand on the terms of their employment. Matthew 20:1-16. Jesus also revealed in Matthew 20:25-28 that leaders should be the servants of their people, not their rulers, which is the essence of democracy.

Jesus also revealed that He had no use for the super rich who use the power of their riches to gain oppressive controls over others. Matthew 23:14; Matthew 22:21. Even though they are worth billions, the super rich of today seek to increase their riches by gaining control over whole economies. They often ally themselves with the oppressive socialists because they desire universal health care which will lower the costs of the health care that the super rich must supply for every one of their workers individually. The super rich obtain sweetheart deals with the socialists to ensure that they pay only a small amount in taxes every year for universal health care. The super rich also favor the socialists' desire for a slow growth economy because that will ensure high unemployment which, in turn, will provide the super rich with cheaper labor. For these reasons, the super rich should never be allowed to control the economies of free societies.

The socialists also seek to obtain oppressive controls over others by taking away individual rights. The socialists desire to supply only the material needs of the masses. They ignore the inner freedom of individuals. In their philosophy, everyone must be wholly devoted to the material needs of everyone else. Any individual who criticizes this idea must be punished for being selfish. Socialism cannot produce a better society because it destroys all of the natural incentives of individuals, born of inner freedom, to create a better life for themselves and their families, and by extension for others, through their God-given talents to create useful systems of supply. Socialism is really based on an unfair, greedy attempt to steal the wealth created by others and on jealousy of the talents that God has given to some people who know how to create systems of wealth for themselves and others. The socialists are also natural atheists. They claim that they can create a workers' paradise which leaves no room for God's rule. Psalm 14:1.

The World and the Word

                            Freedom versus Tyranny

Some controllers seek to gain control over the minds of humans by insisting that humans adhere to the discoveries of science to the exclusion of any other knowledge. But science happens to be merely a method by which humans learn material facts about the world through observation and experimentation. These controllers themselves do not believe in science. Instead, they have replaced science with a philosophy of atheism and materialism to which they demand that all humans adhere. They then accuse all who do not believe their philosophy of being ignorant and backward if they oppose their false version of that which science is. They also link their philosophy with progressivism, which is actually just Marxism, and many submit to their control because they become afraid of being called ignorant and backward. These controllers are strict behaviorists. They believe humans are only physical creatures with physical needs. These controllers seek to reduce all of humanity to their false philosophy because they desire, like the Devil himself, to annul the inner, spiritual being of all humans.

These controllers have demonstrated that they do not believe in learning by observation because they believe in the theory of evolution; that is, that a completely blind and mindless process can, by chance alone, produce all of the extremely complicated systems humans observe in the world, including the extremely complex systems of life, not to mention the almost infinitely complex system called the intelligent brain. No one has ever observed this process. Some of their own mathematicians have proven by calculation that such a process happens to be absolutely impossible. Simple observation of the world proves that all complex systems can only be created by an intelligent mind.

These controllers also do not believe in learning by experimentation. Many modern experiments in quantum mechanics have shown that consciousness happens to be absolutely necessary for the observation and establishment of a real, material world as well as a real, abstract mental world. But the philosophers of materialism and atheism heatedly rail against these findings because they do not believe that humans can possess an inner consciousness, and if they do it is only a kind of inner television that observes the world but does not participate in it. These controllers hate the idea of a real, inner consciousness because that would provide evidence that humans also possess an inner spirit and soul.

The World and the Word

                                                                Freedom versus Tyranny

Some people actually become tired of being free. They desire to submit to strict controls over their lives. These types of people often join religious cults or oppressive political systems. They do not fear freedom as much as they fear not being able to avoid taking responsibility for the choices they make. They fear making a wrong choice and perhaps having to suffer for the rest of their lives because of it. They only desire to give up their freedom and become submissive. If they suffer for wrong choices made for them, they can take comfort in being blameless. For some reason, these types of people take pleasure in becoming as insignificant as possible and only used and abused for the pleasure of those who control them. These people really boost the already inflated egos of their controllers.

All controllers seek to expand their controls over more people. The intelligent ones often use very clever tricks and deceptions in order to gain that control. For example, certain controllers have learned to use even the goodness of a good person against them. Good people desire to be fair and compassionate, but clever controllers try to convince them that as individuals they are not compassionate enough. The controllers convince these good people that they need to join their cult or political movement that will ensure greater fairness and compassion for everyone once that system takes control. But actually, that controller only seeks to gain control of that good person in order to use them to help support a cruel and oppressive system that will never show any fairness or compassion.

In the past, controllers used physical oppression, such as slavery and torture, to maintain control. Many still do today. But in modern times, controllers have learned that in free societies those methods no longer work. Instead, they have turned to bribery as one of their methods of control. They convince some people that if they will only submit to their form of government, they will receive a lot of free stuff. Actually, someone always has to pay for that free stuff. Those who receive the free stuff do not realize that they will have to surrender some of their freedom when they do so. These types of controllers take advantage of people's ignorance of economics. These controllers know perfectly well that their economic system will consume wealth much faster than it creates it and eventually bankrupt it. Wholesale poverty will ensue. But they do not care. Through bribery, these controllers only seek to gain more control over more people. And once they gain that control, they will resort again to slavery and torture to maintain that control.

The World and the Word

                                       Freedom versus Tyranny

Many people exist who feel the need to control others, some on a small scale, such as a domineering parent, and others on a grand scale such as an oppressive and cruel ruler of a nation. Their motive for this desire is the same one that caused Lucifer to rebel against God; that is, excessive pride. Many people learn at an early age that they are just one small person within a vast sea of humanity. This realization scares them because they feel that their individuality will become crushed by anonymity. To counter this fear, they begin to acquire the idea that they are really much smarter and wiser than the average person. This idea prompts them to try to gain control over others so that they can rise above the stupid crowd and become an important person in the world. When such persons are actually very intelligent, they can learn to use very subtle methods to gain control over others.

This argument does not mean to convey the idea that certain controls are not necessary in a free society. Employers must exert limited controls over their employees while they are on the job in order to effect an efficient operation. But they agree on these controls, and if an employee does not like the controls, he can resign. Parents must have control over their children but not abuse them. Most people in a free society agree that a very strictly controlled military happens to be necessary for the defense of the nation. A free society also compels all citizens to obey the law if that law allows the citizens to exercise the freedoms that God has given them. But most people in a free society also agree that all forms of forced or abusive controls should be illegal.

Contrary to that which most people think, God does not forcibly control anyone. In fact, God gives freedom to every human whom He creates. God allows every human to be completely free to live however they desire. But God warns all humans in His Word that if they choose a sinful or evil lifestyle, then they will come under the strict controls of the Devil. The Bible (KJB) admits that there can be "pleasures of sin for a season," but eventually addiction sets in with powerful controls that can destroy a person's life. Hebrews 11:25. God creates humans to be free to exercise positive pleasures; that is, to properly love and to be able to create systems that are healthful, joyful, peaceful, beautiful, and pure. Any invented systems that lie outside of these parameters can only bring humans under the destructive and cruel controls of the Devil. John 8:44-45.

Jesus demonstrated that He dealt with every person as a free individual. Jesus allowed them all to choose for themselves whether or not they would put their faith in Him. Jesus did not try to exert controls over the rich, young ruler who rejected Him. Jesus allowed him to go his own way. Matthew 19:16-22. Jesus stood with the oppressed people of His day against the tyrannical controls of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Matthew 23:1-36.

The World and the Word

                                                       Freedom versus Tyranny

Jesus taught in John 8:32: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." While Jesus' statement has mainly a spiritual meaning: that is, if a person comes to know Jesus, who embodies truth, repents of one's sins and puts one's trust in Him as one's Savior, then that person will become "born again" and forever saved by God's grace. John 3:3; John 14:6. But Jesus' teaching also has a wider application in that it demonstrates the method by which people can obtain physical and political liberty. In order to obtain freedom, people must know the actual events that take place in life. Only in this way, can people make informed decisions based on their ability to distinguish between truth and lies. Truth liberates. Lies enslave.

This truth can be illustrated by that which happens in honest and fair courts of law. While no court can be perfect, as a general rule, a fair court can often obtain a close approximation of the truth by allowing a defendant the presumption of innocence, a disinterested judge who strictly rules according to the law, a trial by a jury of one's peers, oaths to tell the truth, examination and cross-examination of witnesses, and a fair presentation of all evidence. When courts of law do not employ these fair methods to find the truth, then many an innocent person loses their liberty.

Tyrants often employ dishonest courts to enslave innocent people. The judge presumes the defendant to be guilty, and false witnesses and false evidences are used to falsely convict an innocent person of a crime when that person actually only criticized the tyrant.

Tyrants often employ lies to keep their people under their control. For example, a typical tyrant will tell his people that physical, mental, and political freedoms are mere illusions, that people are really only free when they obey the tyrant. Lies control. Truth liberates.

The World and the Word

                                                            The Wheat and the Chaff

Psalm 37:20-24 teaches and prophesies that God will utterly destroy only the wicked who are His enemies. God's enemies are the Devil and evil itself and the curse that the Devil injected into the beings of all humans when Adam and Eve sinned. Living humans that God created in His image are not His enemies. Evil equals spiritual death. God created a way to purge all sins and evil that adheres to and stains His image in all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. I Timothy 4:10. Christ provides His highest form of salvation for all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Christ washes away their sins that stain His image in them with His blood and water that He shed on the cross and purges them of spiritual death. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5. Christ gives them His own Holy Righteousness by which God can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. John 14:16-21; John 17:23-24.

But Christ has also provided a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by His descent into Hell, which is God's fiery wrath against evil itself, where He left all of their sins and evil that He bore on the cross behind there when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10. The image of God within all these humans confined within the regions of the dead will repent, believe, and worship Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will use His fiery wrath to cleanse His image in them from all their sins and evil and raise them cleansed from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. God will recreate them to be wholly righteous and immortal, but they will not possess the Holy Righteousness of Christ. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20-21; John 1:29; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; I John 3:8; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:22.

Psalm 37:20 teaches that only the enemies of the Lord, like the fat of lambs, will be consumed by God's fiery wrath. Living humans are not God's enemies. God did not curse Adam and Eve or any of their descendants but only the Devil and the ground which holds all three regions of death. Revelation 20:13. All living humans would have been trapped forever within the regions of death had not Christ come to rescue all His living humans from their sins and evil which would have held them in spiritual death forever. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; Luke 17:21; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 13:8. If all humans are alive to God, as Luke 20:38 teaches, then no human can ever be permanently dead, especially since Christ has abolished death itself. I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10.

In Psalm 37:22, God assures that all who are "blessed of Him," which can only refer to His good image in every human, He promises He will recreate to "inherit the earth." He also assures in this verse that only the "cursed," which can only be the Devil and the evil he injected into all humans, God will purge from all living humans and from His presence forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.

Psalm 37:23-24 teaches that God delights in His goodness that He has put into every human. Many good humans exist who are not saved by grace. God does not delight in humans who deliberately practice evil, but He does delight in the small measure of goodness still left within them. Jesus recognized the small amount of goodness still left in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Judas displayed that small measure of goodness when he felt remorse for betraying Jesus. Matthew 27:3-5. Psalm 37:24 assures that though all humans fall because the evil within them causes them to sin, God will uphold every one of them in His mercyfull hand. John 3:16; Psalm 50:23; Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:8.

The World and the Word

                                                           The Wheat and the Chaff

The writing of the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 3:11-15 cannot be about salvation by God's grace because he writes only about a salvation by good works. God's Word has to mean exactly that which it  states. The phrase "every man" and "any man" can only refer to every human that God ever created in His image. Genesis 1:27. In addition, these verses clearly reveal that every human that obtains salvation by being washed in the blood of Christ cannot also be saved by the fire of God. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolize this lesser form of salvation. God initiated this lesser form of His salvation when He commanded Noah to offer burnt offerings for the salvation of all living humans in Genesis 8:20-21. Leviticus 5:10 proves that God will forgive sins because of a burnt offering. All humans saved by grace can only be saved by being washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and wholly apart from good works. Ephesians 2:8-9. The burnt offering sacrifices symbolize Christ's descent into Hell to leave all of the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace behind there when He rose from the dead. Psalm 16:10.

Many passages in the Old Testament refer to God's lesser form of salvation by the use of His consuming fire. In Psalm 21:8-11, God directs His fiery wrath toward His enemies, not living humans that He created in His image. God's enemies are Satan and evil itself, not living humans. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Jesus came to destroy evil itself, not living humans. Genesis 3:20 and Luke 20:38 clearly teach that all living humans will be forever alive to God.

Psalm 22:26-28 constitutes a prophecy about God's lesser form of salvation. Every human who ever lived will eventually return to the faith that God put into them when He created them and will live to worship God forever. Romans 12:3; Luke 17:21. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Jesus taught that the meek will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5. God will create the people who will inhabit His recreated earth to be meek because He will have used His consuming fire to burn up their sinful, excessive pride in order to raise their good lives from the regions of the dead to a new life on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5. God will cast only the evil, separated dead into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15.

Psalm 33:13-15 informs that God observes every human He has ever created. He has put His good image into every one of their hearts. He judges all human works, good and bad. Many humans have given themselves over to practice evil and rebellion against God. But even the worst of them have done some good works at some time in their lives which proves that they still have a small image of God within them. Even if the worst of them had only at one time given a cup of cold water to another human, then God will resurrect even that tiny image of Himself that did that good work for him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Matthew 10:42; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

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                                                 The Wheat and the Chaff

The Apostle Jude wrote his epistle as a prophetic warning to Christ's true believers about future apostates who would introduce false doctrines into the Church in their attempt to destroy the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. All that is good in Christianity hinges on repentance and faith. Jude wrote that the apostates would be unbelievers and ungodly persons. Unbelief and ungodliness always denote the totally evil and spiritually dead nature of every human. Apostates have allowed the totally evil natures of their inner beings to dominate their lives to the extent that they have fully suppressed the faith that God put into His image that He put into them when He created them. The have become secret agents of the Devil who seek to corrupt Christianity.

In verse 6, Jude compared these apostates to the fallen angels whom God cast into eternal darkness. But just as God stripped all of His goodness from Lucifer's system before God cast him to earth as a totally evil, negative consciousness, so God had to have stripped His fallen angels of all His goodness in them before He cast them into everlasting darkness. Ezekiel 28:15-19. Likewise, in verse 7, Jude wrote that only the totally evil natures of the people of Sodom and Gomorrha would be cast into eternal fire, not their living souls and spirits that God created and would reclaim. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

In verses 8-9, Jude compared these apostates to the Devil who contended with the archangel Michael over the body of Moses. Just as Michael told the Devil that the Lord would deal with him, so God will deal with the totally evil natures of the apostates.

Jude aptly described these apostates as being "brute beasts" in verse 10 just as the Apostle Peter had done in II Peter 2:12. In other words, both Apostles described the apostates as having an evil nature that is foreign to the image of God that He put into them which makes them truly human. In Matthew 15:16-20, Jesus taught about the evil nature of every person. In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus spoke about the eternal image of God that He puts into every human that He has created.

Jude wrote in verse 11 that the apostates could be compared to the "way of Cain," the "error of Balaam," and the "gainsaying of Core." In other words, Cain, Balaam, and Core practiced evil, but their souls and spirits were not inherently evil. It was their "way," their "error," and their "gainsaying" that was evil, not their living images of God in them.

Jude wrote in verse 12 that just as God's Holy Church would have evil persons within it, so these apostates would have an evil nature within them that would be devoid of any goodness. "Clouds they are without water" means they have no life whatsoever in their evil natures. "Trees whose fruit withereth" reminds one of Jesus' teaching about the inner nature of every human in Matthew 7:15-20. "Twice dead" reminds one that Christ will judge all humans not saved by grace after they physically die in order to cast their living souls and spirits still stained by sin into one of the regions of death, but He will use His consuming fire to separate and resurrect their living natures in His final judgment and cast their dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 3:11-15. "Plucked up by the roots" reminds one of Jesus' parable about the tares and wheat in Matthew 13:24-30. Every human has tares and wheat within their inner being.

In verses 14-15, Jude further wrote that Enoch prophesied that God would judge these ungodly apostates in the end of the world and get rid of them.

In verse 16, Jude instructed the Church as to how they could recognize these apostates. They would often murmur and complain about the true doctrines of the Church. When they preached, they would often use big, theological words to get unlearned Christians to admire them and think of them as being good men of God.  In verses 17-19, Jude warned the Church to beware of these apostates who would definitely be in their Churches.

In verse 20-25, Jude encouraged the Church to faithfully preach the true gospel of Christ in order to convert sinners to salvation by grace and a home in Heaven with God forever.

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                                                        The Wheat and the Chaff

God bases His higher and lower forms of salvation on His Love, His grace, and His mercy. God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Everything in man's relationship with God depends on repentance and faith which always reconciles a living human to God. Colossians 1:15-20 assures all humans that God will reconcile all things that He created to Himself. God reconciles all living humans saved by His grace to Himself the moment they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Colossians 1:21-23; John 5:24. God will cause all living humans confined within the regions of the dead to repent and believe of their own free will in the saving power of the Lamb in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Isaiah 45:21-25; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; I Corinthians 15:22; II Peter 3:9; Psalm 107:10-15. Puny human will can neither thwart nor enhance the will of God. Revelation 21:5. Living humans are a part of the "all things" that God has created and will recreate. "Behold, I make all things new." God will separate and consign all the evil and dead natures of all humans to the eternal lake of fire because spiritual death can never repent and believe. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15. God will save His wheat and burn the chaff. Luke 3:16-17.

The Apostle Peter wrote about Lot who had become almost as evil as the Sodomites themselves. But Lot's living soul became disturbed and uneasy by the evil that he observed and sometimes practiced himself. God delivered Lot and two of his daughters from Sodom's fiery destruction because they had living, righteous souls which still retained some faith in God's Love and power to save. II Peter 2:6-9. God had the right to save Lot and his daughters, and He had the right to destroy Sodom. No one should ever question God's will. Lot's salvation was symbolic on two levels. God will Rapture His Church before the Tribulation period and cleanse it of all sin by the water of His Word because it too has become somewhat polluted by evil. Ephesians 5:25-27. God will use His consuming, fiery wrath against evil to cleanse for resurrection the living souls and spirits of all humans confined to the regions of death no matter how evil their lives may have been. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5. The evil natures of the Sodomites symbolize the total evil that God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. But God will reclaim and resurrect even the tiny, living souls and spirits of the actual Sodomites by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God burned the living Sodomites, but He never said He would burn them forever.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In II Peter 2:1-22, the Apostle Peter identifies and describes apostate Christians. The Apostle describes how a person becomes an apostate Christian. Every human possesses a righteous soul and spirit given to them by God, but also a totally evil and spiritually dead nature injected into their beings by the Devil. The apostate becomes drawn to repentance and faith in Christ by the Holy Spirit when he hears the gospel. But his evil nature gets the best of him and causes him to completely reject Christ. His rejection becomes so final that he actually allows his evil nature to take complete control of his life to the extent that he begins to secretly hate Christ and His sacrifice. Judas Iscariot was the first apostate. Nevertheless, as a secret agent of the Devil, the apostate remains in Christianity, often as a false leader, so that he can corrupt the Church with false doctrine. Many apostates have introduced false doctrines and false versions of the Bible into Christianity. The only true Bible in English is the King James Bible translated directly from the Received Text. Matthew 12:31-32; II Peter 2:1-3; Psalm 12:6-7.

In verse 4, the Apostle Peter identifies the apostates as being equal to fallen angels which are totally evil. In verse 12, the Apostle describes them as "natural brute beasts" who "shall utterly perish in their own corruption." In other words, God will consign their totally evil, spiritual deaths to the lake of fire, not their living souls and spirits that He created. Romans 11:29. In verse 14, Peter identifies the apostates as "cursed children." Since God never cursed the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve, and He promised that they and all their descendants would live in His sight forever, then the Apostle's phrase "cursed children" can only refer to the totally evil nature of the apostates. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38.

Based upon Christ's descent into Hell typified by the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices, in the end of the world God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, to dissolve the beings of every human consigned within the regions of the dead, resurrect their repentant living souls and spirits that He created and loves, and consign their evil, spiritual deaths to the eternal lake of fire. Leviticus 5:10; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Psalm 107:10-14. In many ways, the apostates are far more evil than even those who commit horrible crimes against their fellow humans because they direct their crimes toward God Himself, but even these mostly evil humans have done some good works in their lives given to them by God which proves that they still retain very small living souls and spirits that God will resurrect and recreate in the end of the world. Ecclesiastes 9:1; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5. But God's higher form of salvation which is by His grace and His lower form of salvation which is by His recreation cannot happen without repentance and faith in the Lamb of God who will cleanse every repentant sinner and reconcile them all to God. Jesus described salvation by grace in John 3:1-21. God will bring all living humans confined within the regions of death to repentance and faith through a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Colossians 1:15-20; Isaiah 45:21-24; Luke 3:6; I Timothy 4:10.

Jesus taught in Matthew 10:41-42 that "whosoever" does good works will receive positive rewards; that is, blessings that he can enjoy. The "whosoever" of verse 42 means essentially the same as the "whosoever" of John 3:16. These verses can only mean that God must resurrect and recreate every living human confined within the regions of death so that He can give them rewards for their good works. Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 4:11; Psalm 50:23.

The World and the Word

                                               The Wheat and the Chaff

Christ will appear at the battle of Armageddon to put an end to the horrible Tribulation period and to save Israel from total destruction by the armies of the Beast and the False Prophet. Christ will establish righteousness over the earth in the beginning of His millennial reign, but it will not end that way. Although Christ will have cast the Beast and the False Prophet alive into the lake of fire, and He will have sent an angel to chain the Devil in the bottomless pit, evil will still maintain an influence in the earth. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:1-3. Toward the end of the millennial reign of Christ, God will loose Satan from his prison to allow him to lead an evil army, who will already be willing to receive his leadership, against Christ in God's final war against evil. God will destroy this evil army with His fiery wrath which is also the lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10. In this final battle, God will succeed in purging all evil from all of His creations so that He can recreate the heavens and the earth to be eternally righteous. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-5.

God will establish the millennial reign of Christ for a specific purpose. God will eliminate the influence of all the leaders of evil from the earth in order to use the righteousness of Christ to guard the earth so that He can learn exactly how evil emerges from the bottomless pit to cause righteous humans to turn to evil. According to Ezekiel 28:15, God suddenly discovered evil in Lucifer which had to have existed prior to Lucifer. But according to II Thessalonians 2:7, how evil got into God's creations remains a mystery to Him. According to Isaiah 45:7, God did learn that evil somehow uses the cover of darkness that God created to surreptitiously enter His creations. But with Christ guarding the consciousnesses of all humans during His millennial reign, God will learn exactly how negative consciousnesses; that is, demons, can emerge from the bottomless pit to cause righteous humans to turn to evil. God will have to learn this evil method of influence over His creations so that He will know how to purge all evil from all of His creations and forever block it from ever being able to enter His creations again.

The Apostle Paul wrote in II Timothy 4:1 that Christ's final Judgment will be "at His appearing and His kingdom." Christ has appeared and will appear many times throughout human history, but Paul meant by this verse that Christ will establish His eternal appearance and His eternal reign over His purified and recreated, eternal heavens and earth. Paul wrote in Colossians 1:18 that a time will come when Christ will "have the preeminence." This phrase can only mean that God the Father will allow His Son to recreate the heavens and the earth after He has purged it of all evil. Christ will become the eternal King over His righteous earth and all of His resurrected and recreated living humans that will inhabit the earth. Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                             The Wheat and the Chaff

When the Apostle Paul wrote about "the dispensation of the fulness of times" in Ephesians 1:10, he could only have meant the time of the end of the world when God will recreate the heavens and the earth. Paul wrote that Christ will gather "all things" to Himself at that time. Since Christ created all things, and they all belong to Him, and He can never lose any of it; then God cannot fail to recover and recreate everything that He originally created including all human souls and spirits defiled by sin. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. God will cause all human souls and spirits that He created to be good to be cleansed of sin and purged of evil, which is spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 1:31; John 3:16; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Humans saved by grace will live in Heaven with God forever, and all living humans that God recovers from the regions of death, He will recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 50:23.

The judgment of II Timothy 4:1 can only be the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15. The Apostle Paul refers to a specific time and an exact place for Christ's Judgment of the "quick and the dead." In no other judgment of the Bible (KJB) are the quick and the dead judged at the same time.

II Timothy 4:1 cannot be about Christ's Judgment at the beginning of His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4 teaches that the living and resurrected Tribulation saints will be the judges at that time. The millennial reign of Christ cannot be His final kingdom because evil will again emerge toward its end. Revelation 20:7-10. Christ will establish His eternal kingdom only after His Judgment of the quick and the dead and after He has burned up the heavens and the earth to purge it of all influences of evil and has recreated it all to be eternally righteous. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                            The Wheat and the Chaff

The Apostle Peter preached in Acts 3:21 about "the times of restitution of all things." The Bible (KJB) must mean exactly that which it states. God created all things, and there must come a time when He will restore and recreate all things that have been stained by sin. The Apostle Peter used the word "times" because God will restore all things in various stages. The Raptures of the Old Testament saints, the New Testament saints, and the Tribulation saints constitutes a partial restitution of all things. But the prophets also foretold of a specific time and place when God will destroy the heavens and the earth, and He will recreate everything that He originally created that has been stained by sin, including all living humans. Daniel prophesied in Daniel 12:1-3 that God will effect a specific time of judgment and resurrection following the Great Tribulation. Some will be raised to "everlasting life" and some to "everlasting contempt." No one has been or will be raised to permanent "shame" in any of God's Raptures of His saints. The word "destroyed" in verse 23 means that God will dissolve the individual systems of every human still in their graves in the end, raise their good, living souls and spirits for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated evil, spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. The phrase "all kindreds of the earth be blessed" can only mean that through Abraham's seed, who is the Lord Jesus Christ, every living human who ever lived, God will raise back to a recreated life. John 5:28-29; Isaiah 66:12-24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

The Apostle Peter further preached in Acts 3:23 that God will permanently destroy only unbelievers. Unbelief is the opposite of faith. The unbeliever denotes that part of every human that is totally evil and spiritually dead. The unbeliever can never repent and believe. Matthew 12:31-32. But God has arranged a day in which He will revive the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all unbelievers still in their graves. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; Romans 12:3; John 5:28-29; John 11:25. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and separate their living souls and spirits, with all their good works, from all their evil, spiritual deaths with all their dead works. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will cleanse from sin and annul the spiritual deaths of all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. I John 3:14; John 5:24. But God will also bring into being a great Judgment Day in which He will thoroughly purge all evil, which causes sin, from all of His creations, and He will reward every recreated living human for their good works. Revelation 22:11-12.

In Acts 10:34-35, the Apostle Peter preached that to God every human has equal value. Peter further preached that God will accept the righteousness and faith of any person in any nation because He created them all in His image. Genesis 1:27. Peter preached this message at the beginning of his sermon before he began to preach salvation by grace. This means Peter had to be preaching about the righteousness and faith that God puts into all humans that He has created in His image. Romans 12:3. Since even the most evil humans have done some good works in their lives, then the fact that God accepts their goodness can only mean that He will provide a lesser form of salvation for all human souls and spirits not saved by His highest form of salvation, which is by His grace. Matthew 5:5.

The World and the Word

                                                      The Wheat and the Chaff

As quoted by the Apostle John, John the Baptist clearly taught in John 3:36 that the wrath of God abides only on unbelievers. When Adam and Eve chose to sin, they became spiritually weak which gave the Devil the means to inject evil, spiritual death into their beings. Romans 5:12. All humans inherited this evil nature which can never repent or believe. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit who will call on all humans to renew their faith in Christ amounts to complete rejection of and hatred of God. Matthew 12:31-32. God wills to use the temporary, spiritual death of His Son to purge eternal spiritual death from all of His creations, including all living humans. Hebrews 2:9; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 15:22. The difference between evil and sin is repentance and faith. All evil is sin, but sins of which the living soul and spirit repents of and believes in the sacrifice and power of the Lamb to remove and forgive become a beautiful reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20.

When Jesus gained all power over all the regions of death as recorded in Revelation 1:18, He changed all the rules. Jesus broke the claim of the Devil that he had the right to hold all living humans in the grip of eternal death, and He liberated all living humans from eternal death by His resurrection from the dead. II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 6:13. Sooner or later, all living humans will repent and believe and become reconciled to God. II Peter 3:9.

God created the living nature of every human and put faith into their systems as a good response to His Love for them. Romans 12:3. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36. God can never lose any gift He has ever given. Romans 11:29. God means, sooner or later, to recover and recreate all the living souls and spirits of every human whom He loves. Faith can only emerge from the living nature of humans, never from their evil nature. Colossians 1:15-20. The evil nature of humans can never repent and believe, but because it is foreign to the beings of humans, God can separate it from all humans when they repent and believe and cast its death into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. The good nature of humans can repent of their sins caused by the influence of evil and become reconciled with God. Colossians 1:15-20. God will save by His grace all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. God will purge all sins from their lives by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He will immediately annul their spiritual deaths. Revelation 1:5; I John 3:14. God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against sin and evil, to purge all sins from all living humans confined within the three regions of death the moment they repent and believe as a result of a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will also separate their spiritual deaths from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. God will raise from the regions of death the cleansed, living souls and spirits of all humans for Him to recreate with new bodies to live on His recreated, righteous earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                                                             The Wheat and the Chaff

When one reads God's Word one must pay close attention to that which God actually states. In John 1:29, John the Baptist preached that Jesus came to "take away the sin of the world," not living humans. In other words, Jesus came to cleanse and separate all sin and evil from all of His spirits and souls that God created and loves and can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38. This statement of John the Baptist agrees with I John 3:8 where the Apostle John teaches that Jesus came "that He might destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. In Genesis 3:14-19, God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the three regions of death, not His living humans. In Genesis 3:20, God told Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and in Luke 20:38 Jesus affirmed that "all live unto Him" which can only mean that God can never lose any living human that He ever created. All of this agrees with God's statements in Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; John 11:25; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10 and many other scriptures. Nowhere in the Bible (KJB) does any scripture state that God will cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire, only totally evil, dead humans. Revelation 20:11-15. The "worm" that does not die that Jesus referenced in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48 symbolizes dead and evil humans, not His living humans.

After their physical deaths, God temporarily consigns all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of death, according to His Judgment of how they lived their lives, because their living souls and spirits are still stained by sin and evil which God cannot accept. Revelation 20:13 clearly states that God calls the dead from three different regions of death. God judges these dead according to their totally sinful and evil works as recorded in Revelation 21:8.

But God will provide for the resurrection and lesser salvation of all His living humans when He causes them to return of their own free will to faith in Christ their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Luke 3:6. God always directs His fiery wrath towards sin and evil, never toward living humans. Jesus left all of the sins and evil of all living humans not saved by grace that He bore on the cross behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10.

I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes how God will "try every man's work" in order to burn their dead works and reward their good works. The message of I Corinthians 3:15 cannot apply to any human saved by grace because they are saved forever by being cleansed of all sin and evil by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. Romans 11:29. This condition means that God would never subject His saints saved by grace to any additional test by fire to prove their salvation. This verse can only mean that God will provide a lesser salvation by a test by fire, and He will resurrect every living human who ever lived in order to give them a lesser salvation of a recreated life on a recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolizes God's forgiveness and cleansing of sin and evil by the use of His fiery wrath. Leviticus 5:10. In Genesis 8:20-21, God established the burnt offering as His means for the salvation of every living human that He ever created who would not be saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5 records that God will resurrect all of His living humans that He has cleansed by His fiery wrath and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God's statement in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," can only mean that He will recover and recreate everything that He originally created that has been stained by sin and evil, including all living humans. Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20; I Corinthians 15:22.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

The Light that John wrote about in John 1:9 can only be the image of God that He puts into every human that He creates. Humans may deny it, rebel against it, but it is in them nevertheless, and God can never lose it. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Even the worst humans being punished for their correction in the bowels of Hell still possess a Light within their beings which God will recover on Judgment Day in the end of the world and recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. But they will lose their former lives which they had on earth because much of their identities and personalities were formed by the influence of evil. God will have to recreate them as completely different, but righteous persons, and they will not remember their former lives on earth. John 12:25.

John wrote in John 1:16 that all humans have received the "fulness of God." God creates every human with His Holy image in them which manifests itself in good works that God has given to each of His images to do. Ecclesiastes 9:1. The Devil seeks to defeat God by permanently putting out this Light in at least one person. But God will never fail to cleanse, recover, and recreate His Light in every human stained by sin and influenced by evil. God will save some by His grace, and all others in His general resurrection in the end of the world. I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.

God's image that He has put into every person amounts to a type of elementary grace since God can never lose it. It is an eternal gift from God. Romans 11:29. But God can also give "grace for grace" which means that He can cleanse and recreate the souls and spirits of all who will repent and put their faith in the sacrifice and power of Christ while they are still alive in the flesh. Galatians 2:20; John 5:24.

God created humanity and its history in order to test His Love; that is, to prove that His Love for His creations can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Lucifer's rebellion called God's Love into question, not by God but by His creations. Lucifer refused to repent. God had to strip him of all the good that He had put into his system and exile him to earth as a totally empty and evil entity possessed of only a negative consciousness. Ezekiel 28:12-19. Satan falsely claimed that he had succeeded in annulling God's Love because God no longer loved him and he bragged about it. But God has a right to hate pure evil. Job 1:6-7. Satan knew that God had given humans free will, and he believed that he could cause at least one human to choose to totally rebel against God which would annul his living soul and spirit and prove that God's Love can fail. Job 1:11; Job 2:4-5; Job 2:9-10.

God creates every human system, some with a small image of Himself, and some with a large image of Himself. Romans 9:14-24. Those who possess a small image of God tend to never accept Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh, but because they have free will, some do. Some of those who possess a large image of God never choose to accept Christ's salvation by grace, but they often tend to be good and religious people. In either case, God gave free will to humans to be used to create good systems. Even the worst humans have done some good works that God gave them to do, even Judas Iscariot. In Matthew 26:50, Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" which demonstrated that Jesus still saw some good in him. Humans can choose to do good or evil, but in either case, God's will will eventually prevail. God knows exactly how to turn evil systems into good ones. Psalm 50:23; II Peter 3:9. God even created the Pharaoh who opposed Moses for His honor and glory. Romans 9:17. God's creation of humans as He wills does not annul free will. Free will works because God has promised in John 6:37 that He will never fail to save by His grace anyone who chooses to repent and accept Christ as their Savior by faith. God will also cause every living human confined within the regions of the dead to choose to repent and return to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.

The World and the Word

                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Luke 17:20, the Pharisees demanded that Jesus tell them when the kingdom of God should come. The Pharisees wanted to use Jesus' power as a weapon to drive the Romans from their country. When Jesus told them that they would not see the kingdom of God at that time, He did not mean that it would never come. The eternal kingdom of God will come in the end of the world when God burns up and then recreates the heavens and the earth. II Peter 3:10-13.

Jesus went on to inform these evil Pharisees in Luke 17:21 that the kingdom of God already existed within them. Jesus clearly taught in this verse that every human, whether good or bad, possesses a dual nature; that is, the good image of God and an evil spiritual death.

Jesus taught this same doctrine in Luke 14:12-15. Jesus spoke directly to the Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner. Jesus did not preach the gospel to Him. Jesus did not tell him that he had to believe in Jesus as his suffering Messiah and become "born again" in order to be saved by grace because Jesus knew that he would not believe. Jesus advised him to do good works and promised him that he would be "recompensed at the resurrection of the just." This resurrection could not be in the Rapture of the Church because this Pharisee was not a believer in Jesus. In this case, Jesus prophesied about His general resurrection in the end of the world. Jesus informed this evil Pharisee that He would be "just" in this general resurrection which can only mean that God will raise God's image in him from the dead, recreate him to live on His recreated earth, and reward him for whatever good works he had done on the former earth. Revelation 4:11; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God clearly informed all readers in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new." Since God created all positive things in the first place, then He must recover and recreate all positive things that have been spoiled by sin and evil in the end of the world. Revelation 22:11-12 clearly teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil in the end of the world. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20; Isaiah 45:21-24.

The World and the Word

                                                        The Wheat and the Chaff

Matthew 25:41 informs readers that God created the lake of fire only for the cursed. In Genesis 3:14 and 17, God cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains Hell. God did not curse the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve or any of their descendants because He creates them. Genesis 3:20. When Adam and Eve sinned, Satan injected spiritual death, which is totally evil and cursed, into the inner beings of Adam and Eve and all of their descendants, but this curse is foreign to the beings of all humans. When any human not saved by grace physically dies, God must temporarily consign his living soul and spirit, which is conjoined with his spiritual death, to one of the three regions of death as recorded in Revelation 20:13. God cannot accept the filthiness of sin and evil into His immaculate kingdom. The Devil holds an eternal claim on all humans consigned to the regions of the dead because of spiritual death. Satan hopes to ruin forever their living souls and spirits that God created, and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. But Jesus took the power of spiritual death away from the Devil when He descended into Hell. Revelation 1:18.

God consigns humans who deliberately practice evil to Hell, but even these humans retain a diminished, living soul and spirit that God created and can never lose to the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate all living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths because they will have returned to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will resurrect even these diminished souls and spirits from Hell and recreate them with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, but they will not be the same persons that they were when they lived on earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:25.

Although God is One Being, the manner in which He exercises His power happens to be different in different ages. Deuteronomy 6:4. The power of the Holy Spirit manifests Himself in creation. Genesis 1:2. The new birth of a human saved by grace is a type of spiritual recreation. John 5:24. The power of the Father's wrath against evil manifests Himself in the Old Testament as a consuming fire. Exodus 19:9-25. The Father will use His consuming fire to separate all of His living humans from their spiritual deaths who are confined to the regions of death. I Corinthians 3:11-15. The power of the Son's Love for all humanity manifested Himself in the New Testament in His cross and resurrection. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21; John 12:47-48; John 11:25; Hebrews 2:9; I Timothy 1:10.

The Holy Spirit created the world and humanity to test God's Love to prove that it can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God's wrath against evil and His Love for all humanity were both expressed in His power to create. The Father manifests His wrath against evil in order to purge all evil from the lives of all humanity through His Love and creative powers. God manifested His Love by becoming a perfect human who sacrificed Himself in the place of all humanity by taking all of their sins and spiritual deaths upon Himself on a cruel cross to purge it from all humanity, and who gained all power over sin and spiritual death by His resurrection from the dead. I John 3:8; Revelation 1:18; John 1:29; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:22; John 11:25.

Jesus' parable in Matthew 25:31-46 prophesies about the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. Christ will not "sit upon the throne of His glory" until this final Judgment. According to Revelation 20:4, the Tribulation saints will be the only judges in the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. Although Christ and the Holy Spirit forever draw their power from the Father, in the end, only the Love of God will rule forever. I Corinthians 15:25-28. Colossians 1:18 relates that in the end Christ will possess "preeminence." This word can only mean that in the end God's Love, who is Christ, will rule forever because God's burning wrath will have already finished His work by purging all sins and evil from all of His creations including all humans. Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23; John 5:28-29.

Christ will gather all nations for His final Judgment. The sheep and the goats, like the chaff and the wheat and the good tree and the bad tree, represent the inner being of every human with its living soul and spirit and its evil spiritual death which causes sin. Christ will dissolve the individual beings of every human confined within the regions of the dead and set their individual sheep on His right hand and their individual goats on His left hand. Christ will reward the sheep for their good works and will recreate them to live forever in that part of God's kingdom which will be His recreated earth. These sheep cannot be saints saved by grace because God never saves His saints by good works but solely by His grace. Titus 3:5-7. Christ will cast only the separated goats, which represent the dead and evil nature of all humans, into the eternal lake of fire. According to Matthew 25:41, only the cursed are cast into the lake of fire, not living humans whom God creates and loves. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 22:11-12.

Isaiah 5:24 and Isaiah 47:14 both prophecy that one day God will use the wrath of His consuming fire to burn the "stubble," which represents the useless dead and evil natures of every human confined within the regions of the dead, forever in the lake of fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 also proves that God can use His consuming fire to purge sin and evil and forgive repentant sinners. Genesis 8:20-21 prophesies that God will use His burnt offerings to symbolize the fact that He will preserve all living humans forever. Psalm 36:6. All living humans confined within the regions of the dead will repent and believe in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to purge the dead and evil natures of every one of them for Him to cast into the lake of fire, and He will recover their good and living souls and spirits for Him to recreate with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 11:25; John 5:28-29.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Matthew 15:12-20, Jesus taught about the evil in men's hearts that "defile the man." This "man" must be clean in order to be defiled. That which is already defiled can only be further defiled. By His use of the word "man," Jesus spoke about the clean soul and spirit that God created and put into every man. Genesis 1:27. This image of God in man can be stained by sin, but it can never be diminished by sin because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. Every human system has two natures; that is, the image of God and an evil nature that is foreign to their systems.

In verse 13, Jesus taught that God will eventually purge every evil nature that exists in every human. Jesus said "every plant," not some plants. By His use of the phrase "every plant," Jesus implied that God has His own plants. God's "plants" are His images that He has put into every human who ever lived, and every "plant" that He has not planted, He will eventually purge from every human who ever lived. God will purge the evil natures of all humans confined within the regions of death by the use of His consuming fire and resurrect their living souls and spirits at the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. God will burn up all of His polluted creations, and He will recreate a new, righteous human race to live in His righteous, recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Timothy 4:1; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

In verse 14, Jesus told His disciples to leave the Pharisees alone because they were too spiritually blind to understand His teachings. Jesus had the authority to instruct His disciples to do this. But His instruction does not conflict with His great commission to His Church as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20. Jesus' command to His Church is similar to a general who tells his army that they all must work together as a team in order to win a war. Jesus' command pertains mostly to preaching and teaching to crowds regardless of whether they contain potential believers or unbelievers. The Spirit of Christ now commands the Church, and He can command His believers to witness or not witness as He wills. This condition means the Holy Spirit holds all authority to instruct an individual believer as to whether or not that believer should witness on any particular occasion. For example, if a believer sits down by a person on a bus, then he should certainly witness to that person if the Holy Spirit tells him to witness, but he should not witness if the Holy Spirit tells him not to witness. Just like Jesus, the Holy Spirit knows who will hear a witness and who will not. The Holy Spirit's instruction comports with God's command to believers in Proverbs 26:4-5.

But in order for a particular believer to be able to spiritually hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, he must be in constant tune with the Holy Spirit. He must pray without ceasing in his spirit. I Thessalonians 5:17; Romans 8:26. He must confess his sins and repent every day. He must read his Bible (KJB) and pray and ask God to give him strength to avoid sin. He must yield his life to the control of the Holy Spirit and love his neighbor, even his enemies. Galatians 5:22-26; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 5:44. The believer must "Pray without ceasing" as I Thessalonians 5:17 commands. But when the believer objects that this command is quite impossible because of the weakness of his flesh, the Holy Spirit will remind him of Romans 8:26 where He prays for him without ceasing.

The World and the Word

                                                           The Wheat and the Chaff

The false prophets which Jesus spoke about in Matthew 7:15-20 are humans who have given their lives over to do mostly evil. They only want people to believe they are prophets of God for their own gain. Such persons actually do not believe that God exists. If they did, they would be afraid of his wrath.

Jesus taught that humans who know Him have a right to recognize evil when they see it and avoid those types of persons. But believers have no right to make any final judgments about them because Christ is the only final Judge. Matthew 7:1-2.

But no sinful person has ever been entirely good or entirely evil. Even false prophets would be good to someone they loved. This means that Jesus taught in Matthew 7:17-18 that the good tree and the evil tree must exist within every individual human. The good tree within every human can only be the living soul and spirit that God created in His image and which He can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Revelation 21:5. If God allowed some of the living souls and spirits that He created to burn in the lake of fire forever, then that would forever mar and stain God's Love. Luke 20:38.

Jesus taught in Matthew 7:19 that a day will come when He will dissolve all individual human systems confined within the regions of the dead, retain their living souls and spirits for Him to recreate and cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. All of these living souls and spirits will repent and believe in the Lamb as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will purge all of His creations of all sin and evil and recreate all that He created that has been stained by evil. Romans 8:18-22; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                                                The Wheat and the Chaff

In Matthew 13:52, Jesus taught His disciples that anyone who seeks to learn more about the kingdom of Heaven will be like a man who owns a house that contains both an old and a new treasure that he brings out to use. By His symbolic language, Jesus meant anyone who owns and reads the Old and New Testaments, the written Word of God, in order to use that which he learns for spiritual and creative purposes. God wrote the Old Testament to inform humans that they have a spiritual death inside them, injected into them by the Devil, that causes them to sin and that they cannot get rid of that spiritual death on their own. But the Old Testament also informs humans that they each possess a good and living soul and spirit that God gave them, and if they conform their lives to express their faith and do the good works that God put into their living souls and spirits, then in the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will provide them with a much better recreation than for those who do evil. Daniel 12:1-2; Isaiah 66:10-24; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:7-11; Genesis 3:20-21.

God wrote the New Testament to inform all humans that He would sacrifice Himself in their place to remove all their sins and spiritual deaths in order to save them from eternal spiritual death, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; John 12:47-48; I Corinthians 15:22.

When Jesus died on the cross, He took the place of every lost sinner subject to eternal spiritual death which is totally evil, and since evil causes sin and sin causes evil, then Jesus also had to take the sins of all mankind on Himself on the cross. Romans 5:12; Romans 5:18. But Jesus also died on the cross as a perfectly righteous, sinless human. II Corinthians 5:21. This means that Hell had no right to hold the Spirit of Jesus when He descended there. Since Christ rose immaculate from the dead, then He had to have left the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans who are subject to the regions of death behind Him when He rose from the dead. God provided a prophecy in Revelation 5:11-14 that He will cause all living humans confined there to return to the faith that He put into them that the Lamb holds the power to resurrect their living souls and spirits from the regions of eternal death. Christ also holds the power to use His shed blood and water to wash away all the sins of humans saved by grace and annul their spiritual deaths the moment they repent and believe. John 5:24.

When Jesus rose from the dead, He gained all power over all of the regions of the dead because He gained the power to eliminate spiritual death itself. Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10. Whosoever holds the power makes the rules. Jesus changed the eternal deaths of all humans to temporary deaths by His resurrection from the dead. This condition means that Christ has the right to use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, in the end of the world to separate the spiritual deaths of all humans confined within the regions of the dead from their spiritual lives that He created. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 7; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 3:17-18. Revelation 3:17 clearly teaches that the members of the church of Laodicea were not saved by grace, but verse 18 nevertheless teaches that God will use His consuming fire to separate their gold, symbolic of their spiritual lives, from their spiritual deaths. All humans saved by grace or God's consuming fire will have to return to the faith that God put into their living souls and spirits of their own free will that Christ alone holds the power to save them. Romans 12:3. Satan believes that God's gift of free will to humans will eternally ruin them, but God will prove that the great power of His Love will cause all humans to return to faith in Him of their own free will. I Corinthians 13:8.

Sooner or later, every human will learn that his treasure, which symbolizes his living spirit, will be redeemed by God's Word in both the Old and New Testaments. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Psalm 50:23; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

The World and the Word

                           The Wheat and the Chaff

Jesus taught in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48 that the evil nature of humans that He will cast into the lake of fire will be like worms squirming in the fires of Gehenna which was the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:24 also teaches that the evil nature of humans will be like worms in a fire. Isaiah 14:11 teaches that the lake of fire will be full of worms. Psalm 22:6 prophesied that Jesus would take the wormy nature of all humans on Himself on the cross so that He could save by grace and leave all the rest of the evil of mankind behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the grave.

But Jesus also taught in Matthew 13:50 that those whom He casts into the lake of fire will suffer "wailing and gnashing of teeth." Since worms do not wail or have teeth, then what did Jesus mean? One can only suffer if one has consciousness. Worms have only a very small amount of consciousness. Jesus had to have symbolically meant that the evil nature of humans possess a small amount of negative consciousness that will endure a limited amount of spiritual suffering.

But what is a negative consciousness? God possesses only a positive consciousness which can only be Holy, and creative and good. God gives a positive consciousness to every human whom He creates. Genesis 1:27. Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then God must cleanse from sin and recover every positive consciousness that He has put into every human not already saved by grace in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Since positive consciousness can only be creative and good, then a negative consciousness can only be the opposite; that is, wholly destructive and cruel.

This truth can only mean that the consciousnesses within the evil natures of humans confined to the lake of fire cannot be positive consciousnesses. When God created all good systems, He could have had no awareness of evil whatsoever because His Consciousness is wholly positive; that is, the Holiness of God. Since all positive reality has to be somewhere in positive consciousness, then all negative consciousnesses can only be nowhere. The Bible (KJB) refers to this nonexistent nowhere as the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3. Negative consciousnesses called devils had to have somehow emerged from the bottomless pit to invade Heaven and cause Lucifer to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15. Since positive consciousness can only be wholly creative, then negative consciousness can only be destructive. Exactly what a negative consciousness could be or how it could think and operate remains a complete mystery even to God. II Thessalonians 2:7. Every evil nature of humans within the lake of fire will be a negative consciousness, and their "wailing and gnashing of teeth" will express their spiritual desire for annihilation.

Every negative consciousness hates everything, including itself. The devils in the maniac of Gadara begged Jesus not to send them back to the deep which is the bottomless pit. They knew that when Jesus sent them into the pigs that they would kill themselves. They hoped that the deaths of the pigs' consciousnesses would annihilate their own consciousnesses. Luke 8:26-33. The story of the maniac of Gadara constitutes a prophecy that in the end of the world, Christ will dissolve every human system within the regions of the dead, extract all the negative consciousnesses for Him to cast into the lake of fire and liberate every positive consciousness of every living human. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.  

The Bible (KJB) constantly refers to evil as being vanity; that is, complete emptiness. But when emptiness becomes recognized by positive consciousness as being nothing, then it becomes more than nothing as a useful and creative idea in the mind. The idea of nothing recognizes the space between objects in objective reality, and it excludes any ideas that may be useless to any creative system that a positive consciousness may create. All ideas in positive consciousness are real and useful, but consciousness must consider all real ideas to be equal to nothing as far as the ideas needed to create a particular system is concerned. For example, the real idea called "six" cannot be a part of the system that is 2+3=5. This condition can only mean that the word "vanity" in the Bible must also mean that which is less than nothing; that is, an absolute nothingness which can only be evil and destructive. God revealed that He has become aware of this absolute nothingness which is evil in Isaiah 40:17.

When God created all good systems, He could have had no awareness of evil whatsoever because His Consciousness is wholly positive. This condition means that God had to have accidentally and unknowingly created evil as a direct opposite of all that is positive. This condition did no damage to God's Omniscience because evil is a kind of anti-knowledge. When after Lucifer's rebellion, God discovered that He had to have accidentally created evil, He felt positive guilt although He was completely innocent, and He expressed His guilt in Isaiah 45:7.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Jesus' parable in Matthew 13:45-46, the "merchant man" symbolizes Christ, and the "goodly pearls" symbolizes the living souls and spirits of all humans. The "pearl of great price" symbolizes the Church, and all other humans saved by His grace for whom He gave His all on the cross to provide them with His highest form of salvation. But all the other "goodly pearls;" that is, the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace, do not become worthless because Christ shed His blood and water to purchase the highest form of salvation for all those saved by grace. In the end of the world, all of the living souls and spirits confined within the regions of death will not have lost their value. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Luke 20:38. As Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies, God will cause every living human confined within the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will, and in Revelation 20:5, He will resurrect them all for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Psalm 50:23. The will of man cannot thwart the will of God. God's Love has Almighty Power. I Corinthians 13:8. God knows exactly how to cause every living human whom He loves to eventually choose of their own free will to return to faith in Him. II Peter 3:9; John 11:25. I John 2:2 clearly teaches that "the propitiation for our sins" not only applies to those saved by grace but also applies equally to the whole world. John 12:47-48.

In Matthew 13:47-52, Jesus again prophesied about His Judgment in the end of the world. The King of Heaven will make the judgment to cast a net to gather the good and bad fish from the sea. The Sea happens to be one of the regions of spiritual death as recorded in Revelation 20:13. The good and bad fish symbolize goodness and evil itself. Since no human has ever been wholly good, except Jesus, and no human has ever been wholly evil, not even Judas Iscariot, then the good and bad fish exist inside every human. Christ will dissolve every individual human system within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire, recover all of His good and living souls and spirits that belong to Him and cast all their evil natures into an eternal lake of fire which constitutes His wrath against evil, not living humans. I Corinthians 3:11-15; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5.

The World and the Word

                                            The Wheat and the Chaff

In Jesus' parable in Matthew 13:31-32, the "mustard seed" symbolizes the written Word of God. The "field" represents the world. When the Word of God was first written, it had a very small influence in the world because it had to be copied by hand, and this meant there were few manuscripts. But overtime, more scribes began to copy God's Word, and by the time of the Church Age the New Testament was added and enough copies spread over the world that the Church grew like a great tree. As in Matthew 13:4, the "birds of the air" could symbolize all of the evil influences and false doctrines that the Devil has injected into the Church of Christ.

In Mark 4:30-32, Jesus used the phrase, "the kingdom of God" in this same parable. Jesus probably repeated some of His parables from time to time. The phrase "kingdom of God" probably refers to God's entire creations; that is, the universe. the earth, and Heaven. The phrase "kingdom of Heaven" only refers to Heaven itself and all who will live in it; that is, the angels and all saints saved by grace. These two phrases apply equally to both parables since the Word of God effects both salvation by grace and God's Judgment in the end of the world when He will recover and recreate all living souls and spirits confined within the regions of death. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

In Jesus' parable in Matthew 13:33, He likened the kingdom of Heaven to "leaven." He probably used the word "woman" to symbolize the Holy Spirit since He comforts like a woman. The word "leaven" in the Old Testament usually meant evil which has corrupted God's creations. The "unleavened bread" of the Old Testament symbolized God's pure and holy Word. But Jesus used the word "leaven" in this parable in the same sense as He used it in Matthew 16:11 where He meant any doctrine, whether good or bad. In this parable, Jesus meant that the good doctrine of the Word of God will cause the "three measures of meal," which symbolizes the Church, to grow much bigger during the Church Age. In Luke 13:20-21, Jesus used the phrase, "kingdom of God," but the meaning would be the same because the Church grows within God's kingdom making both bigger.

In Jesus' parable of Matthew 13:44, the word "treasure" symbolizes all of God's living souls saved by His grace, and the word "field" symbolizes the world. Jesus' phrase "selleth all that he hath" means that Jesus gave His life on the cross and poured out all His blood and water to purchase His treasure which comprises all living souls saved by grace. But Jesus also taught in  the end of His parable that the buyer, meaning Himself, will also purchase the "field" in order to obtain the "treasure." Jesus' teaching can only mean that He not only will save by His grace all who go to Heaven, but He will also save the rest of humanity. Jesus' teaching in this parable comports with His teaching in John 12:47-48 where He clearly affirmed that He would not judge unbelievers while He was in the world because He came to save the world. God can never fail to do whatever He says He will do. Jesus did prophecy in verse 47 that in the end of the world He will judge by His Word all those who have completely rejected Him. God's record of this Judgment in Revelation clearly demonstrates that those who have rejected Christ are the spiritual dead whom He will separate by the use of His fiery wrath from every living human confined within the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will rescue all living humans from the regions of the dead because He will cause them all to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

 

                                The Wheat and the Chaff

 

In the parable of the tares and wheat in Matthew 13:24-30, the "man" symbolizes Jesus, the "good seed" symbolizes every good work that God has ever done in the world especially His good works that He has put into every living human, and the "field" symbolizes the world. Ecclesiastes 9:1. The "tares" symbolize evil which the Devil has injected into the being of every human. Evil is foreign to the beings of humans because God created all humans to be "very good." Genesis 1:31. Original sin, which is spiritual death, causes good humans to sin, but sin also caused spiritual death as it did with Adam and Eve. Romans 5:12.

 

God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. All of God's creations has been polluted by evil, but in the end of the world, God will absolutely recover and recreate all of His good creations, including all living humans. Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

 

According to verse 29, God will not allow the tares to be separated from the wheat as long as the wheat still grows. God will cause every living human to complete the good works that He has given them to do. The Devil aims to nullify a part of God's good works to show that God's Love cannot be Almighty. The Devil aims to cause God to permanently lose something that He created and loves. The Devil desires to eventually be able to overthrow God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17. God will not allow any individual human's good works that He has given them to do to be lost from Him because His good life in every human has been rooted up before his human growth as wheat has been completed. In other words, God cannot lose and will recover all of His good works and good lives that He has ever created and put into every living human. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 22:11-12.

 

According to verse 30, in the time of "harvest," which symbolizes Christ's Judgment in the end of the world, God will effect an absolute separation of all His good works and good lives that He has put into every individual human confined within the regions of death from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. But in order to avoid a permanent spiritual death of their good lives, they must return to the faith that God put into them that the Lamb of God can save them from the regions of death. This event will happen as prophesied in Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will be able to separate their sins and spiritual deaths from them because He bore them all upon the cross and left them all behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolizes Christ's descent into Hell to accomplish this form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21; Hebrews 2:9. Jesus did not apply this parable to humans saved by grace because God annuls their spiritual deaths the moment they repent and believe. John 5:24. All humans saved by grace will enjoy a home with God in Heaven forever. All humans saved from the regions of death will enjoy recreated lives on God's eternal, recreated earth. In the end of the world, God will gather His "wheat" into His "barn," which symbolizes His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.