The Fall
God immediately judges the souls and spirits of all humans following their physical deaths. Hebrew 9:27. Christ allows the souls and spirits of all humans saved by His grace to go immediately to heaven. Christ can only consign the souls and spirits of the rest of humanity to one of the three regions of death called the Sea, Death, and Hell because they did not repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. Revelation 20:13. But God does not give up on these dead humans. God has devised a plan whereby He will reawaken their dormant faith still within their living souls and spirits that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3. In a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14, God will cause the souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead to choose of their own free will to return to active faith in the Lamb of God who will take away their sins and evil. Because Christ left all of their sins and evil behind in Hell when He rose from the dead, God will be able to use His consuming fire, which burns into Hell, to separate the living souls and spirits of every human within the regions of the dead from their spiritual deaths for Him to recreate their souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His recreated earth and consign their spiritual deaths to the lake of fire forever. God is able to cleanse and forgive all sins, but He must purge all evil from His universe forever. Deuteronomy 32:22; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
The Lord described the difference between sin and evil in Numbers 15:22-36. Sin always happens because of ignorance; that is, weakness in the free will of the human soul and spirit. The good life and spirit that God gave to man has become stained by the influence of a foreign evil that the Devil has injected into man's being. Isaiah 64:6. God always cleanses and forgives sins because every human will eventually repent and offer either a blood sacrifice to be saved by grace or a burnt offering sacrifice to be saved by His consuming fire. All of the sin offerings of the Old Testament symbolize salvation by grace, and all of the burnt offerings symbolize salvation by God's consuming fire. God always forgives even the worst evil that a human can commit because his repentance and faith in God his Savior triggers the compassion of God for his weakness that caused that sin. Even a human's desire to be rid of his sin and be reconciled to God becomes a righteous act. But God will separate the spiritual deaths of all humans within the regions of the dead that caused them to sin by the use of His consuming fire and cast them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God will cleanse and forgive all sins of all humans saved by His grace with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He will cast their sins into the Sea of forgetfulness which He will also eliminate. Micah 7:19; Revelation 21:1. God will completely annul the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by grace. John 5:24; John 11:26; Galatians 2:20.
Evil always results from an absolute refusal to repent and return to faith in God's Love. Matthew 12:31-32. Even the slightest sin, such as picking up sticks on the Sabbath, becomes totally evil and spiritually dead if that sinner refuses to offer either a blood sacrifice or a burnt offering for his cleansing and forgiveness. Numbers 15:32-36. Evil results from a deliberate and willful sin that emerges from the rebellious side of man's nature. God cannot cleanse and forgive evil because it exists in a constant state of rebellion, but He can through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ permanently purge it from the lives of all humans and from all of His creations forever. Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Hebrews 2:9; Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 21:1-5; Colossians 1:15-23. All through the Bible (KJB), the Word of God makes a clear distinction between sin and evil and between transgressions and iniquity. No verse in the Bible states that God will ever cast living souls into the lake of fire. Worms are not human. Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isaiah 66:24.
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