The World and the Word

                                       The Israelites

Daniel prophesied about a general resurrection of the good and evil at at specific time in the future. Daniel 12:1-3. Jesus Himself prophesied about a specific resurrection of the good and the evil in John 5:28-29. II Timothy 4:1 prophesied about a general resurrection of the quick and dead when Christ receives His kingdom in the end of the world. The millennial reign of Christ will not be His permanent kingdom because evil will be in it. I Timothy 1:10 teaches that Christ "hath abolished death," not living humans whom He created and loves. Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15 describes this resurrection of the living and dead at Christ's Judgment Seat in the end of the world. No evil dead are raised in any of the Raptures of the Old Testament saints, the Church, or the Tribulation saints. Matthew 27:51-52; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:4 and 6.

In Exodus 12:1-11, God gave the Israelites symbolic representations of the two forms of salvation that He will provide for the entire human race. The shed blood of the lamb symbolized all humans who would be saved by the shed blood of the Lamb of God. The eating of the roasted lamb and the burning of the remains of the lamb symbolized God's salvation of the rest of humanity by the use of His consuming fire. Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 5:10; Leviticus 16:24; Numbers 31:23; I Corinthians 3:11-15.

In Numbers 16:26-35, God consumed the 250 rebels with fire and swallowed them up in the earth and sent them down to the pit which is Hell. These unrepentant rebels symbolized God's separation of the total evil within mankind from their living souls and spirits in the end of the world. Their censers, which Moses said were hallowed and which Aaron recovered from the fire, symbolized the good and living souls and spirits of these rebels. Aaron used these censers to make a covering for the altar which symbolized the fact that in the end of the world God will recover and recreate all of His living souls and spirits from the regions of the dead and recreate them for His use. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:5.

In Numbers 16:41-50, the rest of the congregation of Israel rebelled against God by blaming Moses and Aaron for the deaths of the 250 rebels. God desired to consume them all with fire, but He also inspired Moses to command Aaron to put fire in a censer and walk among the people to make an atonement for them. God killed 14,700 of them with a plague, but God saved the rest of them because Aaron stood with a fiery censer between "the dead and the living." This story constitutes a prophecy that in the end of the world God will use His consuming fire to separate His living souls and spirits within the regions of the dead from the total evil in mankind which is spiritual death itself. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15.