The World and the Word

                                          The Word

God's Word not only promises the highest form of salvation for all believers in Christ; it also promises a lower form of salvation for all the living souls that God created. In Psalm 37:27-29, God informs humanity that God will provide a special form of salvation for all of His saints saved by grace, but He will also preserve His righteousness that He put into every living soul that He created by His recreation of them to live in His land forever. Even the worst humans who deliberately practice evil nevertheless retain some goodness in their living souls which God will recover at His Great White Throne Judgment for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:10, and Revelation 22:12 clearly teach that God will provide positive rewards for all the good works that come out of the righteousness that God put into every living soul that He created. All of these humans have to be alive and recreated in order to receive these positive rewards. Revelation 20:5.

God's Word informs humanity that God will not relent until He has purged all evil from all of His creations and has restored them all to perfect righteousness through recreation. Revelation 21:5. God possesses an eternity to accomplish His goal. God has the upper hand on evil because it can only be finite. But in Romans 9:28, the Lord informs humanity that He only needs to make a short work on the earth.

Over and over, the Word of God informs humans that they can invent false systems based on God's good ideas which always prove to be sinful and ruinous. But God always goes to work on those false systems to eliminate the falsity and recreate them to be good and creative systems. For example, Judah sinned with his daughter-in-law Tamar, but God took control of that false system and caused Judah's and Tamar's son Phares to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Matthew 1:3. King David sinned with Bathsheba and murdered her husband, but God caused David to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Other examples can be adduced such as the stories of Joseph and his brothers, Samson, Jonah, and Peter when he denied the Lord. With most of the evil systems recorded in the Bible, the story ends when God eliminates all the falsity in these systems and recreates them to be good and creative systems.

These examples inform humanity that the entire purpose of God's Word must be that God will, through the history of the earth, work all of the evil out of all false systems and use His good ideas that He recovers from those systems to recreate good and useful systems. But the evil system that the Devil injected into the being of mankind with Adam and Eve's fall would cause the eternal, spiritual deaths of all the living images of God in every human if nothing were done about it. Man could not save himself from this spiritual death, but God could. God came to earth as a perfect human to take all of the sin and evil of all mankind upon Himself on a cruel cross, shed His blood and water from His body to cleanse and save all who would believe in Him from the eternal, spiritual death that evil causes. But He also saved the lives of the rest of humanity to be recreated to live on His recreated earth when His Spirit descended into hell to leave their sins and evil behind so that He could rise immaculate from the dead. I Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 2:9.