The Results of the Fall
God preserved His light of faith in Noah and his family, and God symbolically preserved His light of faith for the entire human race in the good life of Job. Job 13:14-16. The story of the Tower of Babel relates how the whole human race descended into the depths of despair. But when the Devil had done his worst to humanity, and God's light of faith had not been put out, then God claimed His right to counterattack. God's method of counterattack was to renew His revelation of a coming Savior. After Job had come to the depths of despair, God began to reveal to him, and the whole human race, that God had given Job a Savior. Job 19:25-27. At humanity's lowest point at the Tower of Babel, God scattered humanity over the earth and chose a particular people, the Israelites, to reveal through His written Word that humanity has a Savior.
After God had rescattered the people over the earth, He decided to choose a particular ethnic group of people through whom He would bring the revelation of the written Word of God to all of humanity. This Word would reveal that all of humanity will be saved by the sacrifice of a Savior sent by God. God chose a man named Abram and his descendants to be His chosen people. God did not choose Abram because he was more moral than other people. God chose Abram and his descendants because they were very intelligent, and because He knew that they would possess a stubborn desire to preserve His Word that He would give them. Deuteronomy 4:36-40. God also promised that He will preserve the nation and religion of Israel forever on the earth and that Israel will rule the world after God recreates it and all humans that He will raise from the dead. Isaiah 60:1-22; Daniel 12:2-3.
When God chose Abram, He promised him that He would give him and his descendants His special protection. God would reward any people who helped Israel, and He would severely punish any people who would hurt them. This prophecy has proven to be true throughout the history of the earth. Genesis 12:1-3. God also promised Abram that through him "...shall all families of the earth be blessed." This phrase can only mean every human who has ever lived. Since this phrase has to be true, then no living human can ever be cast into the lake of fire because that cannot be a blessing. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, not living ones. Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that God will raise every living human from the regions of the dead. This phrase that God gave Abram actually prophesies that God will save the good lives of every human He has ever created, some by His grace and all others by His resurrection of them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Some of the artists in the early Church depicted Christ raising Adam and Eve from the dead. Since Eve is the mother of all living, then these pictures symbolize the fact that God will raise every living human from the dead. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
Genesis 3:20 proves that God created all humans to have a good, living spirit, and from Adam and Eve onward, a good, living soul and spirit. Luke 20:38 proves that all living souls and spirits of all humans will always be alive to God. Ecclesiastes 3:14 proves that God can never lose anything He has ever created, and I Corinthians 13:8 proves that God's Love can never fail. Romans 12:3 proves that God has given faith to every living soul and spirit. Hebrews 2:9 and II Timothy 1:10 proves that Christ has abolished death itself in order to protect all of His living souls and spirits from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 20:15 and Revelation 21:8 proves that Christ will cast the first death, which is the total evil in mankind, into the second death. Revelation 20:5 proves that Christ will raise all the living souls and spirits of all humans from the regions of the dead. Revelation 5:11-14 proves that all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ. John 5:24 proves that all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh will receive eternal life the moment they believe.
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