The Fall
Hell is not the only region of spiritual death. God accidentally created the region called Death which He also calls the bottomless pit. But God deliberately created the Sea of forgetfulness into which He will cast all of the sins of all humans saved by grace. Micah 7:19. God also created Hell for the Devil and his angels, not for living humans. The cursed in Matthew 25:41 can only be the evil, spiritual deaths of all humans whom He will cast into the lake of fire, not living humans whom He loves and whom He will rescue from spiritual death. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve every human system within the regions of the dead to separate their living souls and spirits for Him to recreate from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesied about His judgment in the end of the world. This resurrection to judgment cannot be any resurrection of any saints saved by grace because the Old Testament saints were resurrected when Christ arose, the New Testament saints will be resurrected in the Rapture of the Church, and the Tribulation saints will be resurrected at the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. Matthew 27:52-53; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:6. These facts can only mean that the only persons who will be resurrected in the end of the world must be those who inhabit the regions of the dead because they rejected salvation by grace when they were alive in the flesh. Jesus taught in this prophecy that those who have done good works will regain life but not because of grace. Grace is solely a gift from God which has nothing to do with good works. Ephesians 2:8-9. Humans saved by grace will live with God in heaven forever. John 17:24. But Jesus' prophecy taught that those who have done good works will regain a recreated life, and those who have done evil will be separated for eternal damnation into God's consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 16:27. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve every human system within the regions of the dead. Deuteronomy 32:22.
In II Timothy 4:1, the Apostle Paul also prophesied that Jesus will judge "the quick and the dead" at a particular time and place which can only be at the end of the world. Christ will make His judgment in His final appearance when He receives His kingdom. This can only be the Great White Throne Judgment as recorded in Revelation 20:11.
God is One Lord. Deuteronomy 6:4. God is also a Trinity in which each person in the Trinity exists in absolute harmony with the other two persons. Matthew 3:16-17. But God has determined that each person in the Trinity will pass through particular ages in which One of those persons will possess the preeminence. In creation, the Holy Spirit had the preeminence, but it would not be wrong to say that Christ and the Father also created. Genesis 1:1-2. Jesus suffered on the cross, but it would not be wrong to say that the Father and the Holy Spirit also suffered. Throughout the written Word of God, the Father has the preeminence which accounts for Jesus' statement in John 15:28. But according to Colossians 1:18-19, a day will come when the Father will turn His preeminence over to His Son. At that time, Christ will recreate the heavens and the earth and will reconcile all of His creations that became stained by sin back to Himself. Revelation 21:5; Colossians 1:15-23. Christ will gain rule over the entire Kingdom of God, but the Father and the Holy Spirit will be in complete harmony with His rule.
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