The Results of the Fall
The book of Job reflects Satan's attitude toward the entire human race. God allowed Satan to do his worst to Job, but he had to spare his life. Satan ignored God's command and tried to permanently extinguish Job's life by causing him "to curse God and die." Job 2:9. Job represents the entire human race. Satan seeks to annul forever the good lives of all of humanity. His attempt to annul humanity exists as the spiritual death, which is totally evil, that Satan has injected into the inner beings of every human. But God loves the good lives of all humans whom He created, and He will never allow the faith that He has put into every human spirit to ever fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 12:3. In the future Judgment Seat of Christ in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His good lives confined to the regions of the dead because He will cause them all to return of their own free will to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. God will separate all of their spiritual deaths from them and cast them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
God does not regard the physical deaths of His saints as being death at all. Psalm 116:15; Mark 5:39; John 11:11; John 11:26; I Thessalonians 4:13. Physical death simply means a transition of life from a lower dimension to a higher one. Physical death and spiritual death exist as two different events entirely. God holds the right to dissolve any system that He has created. Physical death simply dissolves the material body to its constituent elements that God can use to create new life systems. Spiritual death means the eternal separation of the human soul and spirit from God's Love. God will allow the temporary spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace, but because of the temporary spiritual death of His Son, God will purge permanent spiritual death from the lives of all humans. Hebrews 2:9.
Many humans who have turned their lives over to do evil have cursed God, but their good lives, no matter how feeble, can never die forever. Even the worst humans have done some good that came from God which demonstrates that the dim light of faith within their good lives, although greatly subdued, cannot be put out by the Devil. Isaiah 26:12; Romans 12:3; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Revelation 22:12. Even Hitler was good to his mistress and his dog. Stalin's daughter testified that although her father murdered millions, including his wife and son, he was always good to her. Can God ever lose anything He has ever created and loves? According to Ecclesiastes 3:14 and I Corinthians 13:8, He cannot.
Just as God completely dissolved Lucifer's system, stripped him of all the good ideas that God had put into him, and exiled him to earth as a totally empty and evil negative consciousness; so God will strip all of the total evil from all humans within the regions of the dead, resurrect their good lives that He created and loves, and cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Jesus prophesied in John 12:25 that those who try to save their lives will lose them. Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33. All lost sinners consider their lives to belong to themselves, not to God. They try to save their own lives which they consider to be both the good and evil parts of themselves. Christ will judge them after they physically die, and He will cast their good and evil natures into one of the regions of the dead. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. In the end of the world when Christ judges these lost sinners, He will use His consuming fire to dissolve their systems to separate their good lives from their evil natures. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this event. I Corinthians 3:11-15. When Christ resurrects and recreates these living souls and spirits with new bodies to live as righteous humans on His recreated earth, they will not retain the same identities and personalities that they had on the former earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Those who chose to lead good lives on the former earth may retain some of their former identities and personalities, but those who chose to practice evil will retain none of their former lives. All humans who obtain salvation by grace while living on the former earth will retain their former identities and most of their personalities when they die and go to heaven. John 12:25; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Corinthians 5:8.
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