The World and the Word

                                      The Israelites

God addressed the book of Job and the first eleven chapters of Genesis to all mankind. Job represents all humans who would ever be saved by grace because of their faith in a suffering Messiah. Job 19:25-27. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar represent all humans who will be saved by God's consuming fire in His final judgment in the end of the world which their burnt offerings symbolized. Noah and his family were saved by grace, but God commanded Noah to offer a burnt offering after the flood to symbolize God's lesser form of salvation that He would provide by the use of His consuming fire for all the living souls and spirits within the regions of the dead in the end of the world. Christ shed His blood and water on the cross for all humans who would be saved by His grace, but He left all the sins and evil of all of the rest of mankind behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. God will effect this separation of the living from the dead in the end of the world. Genesis 3:20; Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Timothy 4:1. God cannot lose anything He has ever created, and He will recover and recreate all things that He originally created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Romans 8:18-22; Romans 11:36.

God has provided two forms of salvation for every living soul and spirit that He ever created. God will give a small minority of humans salvation by grace the moment they believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh, and He will create spiritual bodies for them so that they can live with Him in Heaven forever. Romans 8:9-11. God will provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death when they repent in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-15; Revelation 20:5. God will use His consuming fire to separate their living souls and spirits that He created and that forever belongs to Him from their spiritual deaths as effected by Christ's descent into Hell and as activated in the great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-15. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will recreate them with new bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.

But God will also provide a higher form of the lesser salvation for all faithful Israelites whom He will raise from the dead. Isaiah 59:20-21; Isaiah 60:1-22; Isaiah 61:1-11; Isaiah 62:1-12. God will resurrect all Israelites who were faithful to Moses' religion to dwell in the only organized nation that God will allow on His recreated earth. Israel will make the laws for all the Gentiles, and Jerusalem will be the capitol of the world. Jeremiah 3:17. God will require all the Gentiles, whom He also calls the heathen, to go to Jerusalem to worship Him. Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 66:23. Christ Himself will build the third temple in Jerusalem, not the Jews. Amos 9:11. God will judge and separate all unfaithful Israelites with His "rod," and He will demote them to life among the recreated Gentiles. Ezekiel 20:37-38. Christ Himself will rule the eternal nation of Israel. Isaiah 59:20-21.