The Results of the Fall
Satan seeks to exploit the free will of humans so that at least one of them will choose to become so evil that his spiritual life that God created and loves will become annulled, spiritually dead, and lost from God forever. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. God will never allow His free will that He lovingly gave to humans to be misused to that extent. Should the Devil succeed, he would win his war with God by proving that God's Love is not Almighty if He cannot protect even one living soul that He created and loves. But God devised a plan whereby He would be able to cause every living human who ever lived to choose of their own free will to return to faith in Him so that He will save every one of their living souls and spirits that He created and loves, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24; Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38.
When God came to earth in human form, He put Himself between the human race and the Devil. In effect, He told the Devil that in order for him to attempt to cause the eternal deaths of the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He loves, then the Devil would have to go through Him first. John 12:46-48; John 12:31-32; John 16:11; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:9. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. God does nothing halfway. God will absolutely eradicate all the works of the Devil which means He will save all living humans. The Devil had no choice but to accept Christ's challenge, and so he threw all of the evil and sins of the world onto Christ on the cross in his attempt to murder God and annul His Living Spirit forever. I John 2:2; John 8:44; II Corinthians 5:19. If Christ came to reconcile "the world unto Himself," then surely He cannot fail to do exactly that. Christ allowed His sinless body to die knowing that He held the power to raise it from the dead and thereby change the eternal deaths of all humans into temporary deaths. Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:18; John 11:25-26. When Christ died, He dismissed His Living Spirit to descend into hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace. Humans saved by grace never go to any of the regions of death because all their sins and evil has been washed away by the blood and water from Christ on the cross. Christ had to have accomplished this because He rose immaculate from the dead. Jesus' complete victory over spiritual death meant that during the Tribulation period, God will appear to the living souls and spirits of all living humans confined within the regions of the dead to cause them all to freely choose to be saved by His mercy by returning them to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14.
God's absolute victory over spiritual death meant that He had the power to completely destroy the first death and replace it with a second death which applies only to spiritual death itself, not living humans. The Spirit of Christ destroyed the first death by becoming the second death which is God's consuming fire; that is, the lake of fire which will forever consume the spiritual deaths of all humans that the Devil has injected into the beings of all humans and which happens to be foreign to all humans. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14; I Corinthians 3:11-14; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5; Proverbs 10:12; Deuteronomy 32:22. Proverbs 10:12 clearly teaches that "...Love covereth all sins," not some sins.
In Christ's Judgment in the end of the world, He will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, to separate the living spirits and souls of all humans within the regions of the dead from their spiritual deaths because they all will have returned to faith in Him. I Corinthians 3:11-14; Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will raise their living souls and spirits from the dead for Him to recreate with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized this event. Genesis 8:20.
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