The Results of the Fall
God also made a covenant with Noah that all future generations should establish good governments to restrain all humans who would surrender to practice evil. These governments should have the power to execute the worst evildoers. Good people would be required to run these governments. However, for the most part, humans have miserably failed to keep this covenant. The history of the world demonstrates that most governments have been run by the evildoers who oppress and execute any good people who get in their way. The people have seldom had good governments who restrain the evildoers and provide liberty for its people. Genesis 9:6.
God destroyed the evil human race in sorrow, not in His wrath. God understood that they had become overwhelmed by evil because they had lost much of their free will that they could use to choose to combat evil. This meant their evil was not their fault. Genesis 6:6-7. God realized this fact, and He still loved these people. For this reason, God became deeply grieved because He had to destroy good lives that He had created through no fault of their own. God decided He had to separate their evil, fleshly natures from their spirits which still retained a consciousness of Him, although greatly subdued, by using a great worldwide flood. But God also knew that their fleshly natures would dissolve into nothingness with the decay of their flesh. In order to effect the cleansing and separation of their spirits from their fleshly natures, the great flood also contained the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross.
God had to consign the spirits of these evil humans to the bottomless pit because sin still stained their good spirits. But after His passion, Christ came to them and preached the gospel to them that He held the power to cleanse their good spirits of all sins by washing them in the spiritual water that flowed from His side on the cross. They all repented and believed, and Christ restored their full consciousness of Him and their fellowship with Him. No doubt, Christ also raised them from the dead and created new, righteous bodies for them. I Peter 3:18-21.
God uses four methods to cleanse all sin and evil from all His living humans that He created and loves. He uses His shed blood, His shed water, His Spirit, and His consuming fire which constitutes His wrath against evil. I John 1:7; Ephesians 5:25-27; I John 5:8; Isaiah 6:6-7; I Corinthians 3:11-14. God used the great flood and the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to thoroughly purge all sins and evil from the living spirits of the pre-Adamic race because He had no wrath against them. The Holy Spirit holds the power to change the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to spiritual blood and water. I Corinthians 6:11.
God put a rainbow in the cloud as a promise to the Adamic race that He will never again destroy humanity with a flood because He will never again allow humanity to become totally overwhelmed by evil. After the Devil has done his worst to humanity, then God holds the right to exercise His Almighty Power to move to protect His living humans from eternal spiritual death which the Devil seeks to impose on them. Job 2:4-6. While the Adamic race will inevitably sin because of weakness, it can also willfully and deliberately choose to do good or to do evil. God holds the Adamic race responsible for all the good and evil that it does. But God also only punishes His living humans temporarily for their sins and evil because He understands that their sins are inevitable and their evil is foreign to them. God has provided for the eternal salvation of all living humans, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24.
Christ purges all sin and evil from all believers while still alive in the flesh with His shed blood and water and gives them His righteousness and eternal life the moment they believe. John 5:24; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:23. Christ also purges all sins and evil from all repentant sinners confined within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Genesis 9:8-17. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only the dead into the lake of fire, not living humans. These dead are totally evil, and they may possess some negative consciousness but not a living, positive consciousness which God created for them. Jesus referred to this negative consciousness as being like worms. Mark 9:44, 46, 48. Revelation 22:11-12 also teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil. God will also provide a positive reward for the good works of all humans. They will have to be alive to receive these rewards.
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