The Israelites
God is absolutely Holy and Pure. God cannot accept anything that even hints of nastiness into His pure and perfect heaven. But God can accept the souls and spirits of humans saved by grace into heaven because He has washed them absolutely clean by the blood of Jesus, and God has given them the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself. I John 1:7; Romans 5:9; II Corinthians 5:21; I Corinthians 1:30. Only a small minority of humans will ever be saved by grace. Matthew 7:13-14.
But God has provided a lesser form of salvation for all the rest of humanity based not on His grace but on His mercy. God's grace is a gift that humans do not deserve, but God's mercy is a pardon of the condemnation that humans deserve. The entire Bible (KJB) relates that God always directs His fiery wrath toward purging living humans of all sins and evil, never toward purging living souls and spirits that He created and loves. I Corinthians 3:11-15; I John 3:8; John 1:29. When all humans not saved by grace physically die, God must temporarily consign their living souls and spirits, still stained by sin and weighed down by evil, to one of the regions of death mentioned in Revelation 20:13 depending on His judgment. Had Christ not come to rescue them by His descent into Hell, they would remain there forever. But Christ will visit them, as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14, and He will include them all in a great worship service where all of them will accept the Lamb of God by their faith that He can rescue their living souls and spirits from the regions of death. Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15 records that in Christ's final Judgment in the end of the world, He will use His consuming fire to separate these repentant souls and spirits from their unrepentant evil which is their spiritual deaths. Christ will recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His recreated earth, and He will consign their spiritual deaths, which are totally evil, to the lake of fire which is His eternal wrath against evil. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
God will save and resurrect them according to His mercy, not according to their good works. But after God has recreated them, He will reward them according to their good works which they chose to do while in their lives on the former earth. Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 16:27; John 11:25; John 5:28-29. According to John 12:25, God will allow only humans saved by grace to retain their former identities and most of their former personalities in Heaven. But all of God's humans who will live on His recreated earth, He will recreate according to their good works while on the former earth. God will dissolve their systems in order to add new good elements to their recreated systems. This means God will recreate humans who did a lot of good works on the earth to possess new systems that will be similar to their former systems, but they still will not retain their former identities and personalities. God will have to add many good elements to the systems of humans who chose to practice evil while on the earth, and they will possess none of their former identities and personalities.
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