The World and the Word

                                                         The Wheat and the Chaff

In Isaiah 22:14, God informed Isaiah that He would not purge his iniquity until after his physical death. After he died, God consigned Isaiah's soul and spirit to the place called Paradise within the earth next to Hell because he was saved by grace. Luke 16:23-26. God purged the sin and evil from Isaiah's soul and spirit by the blood of Jesus when He came and preached the gospel to him when He descended into Hell. God completed Isaiah's salvation by grace only after his physical death. I Peter 4:6.

In John 11:25, Jesus informs all humans that He can save any human who will believe in Him after their physical death. Jesus then proved his statement by raising Lazarus from being dead for four days. In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesied that one day He will raise to life from their graves the good lives of all humans that He created and loves, and He will condemn their dead and evil natures to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. But the good lives of all humans still in their graves must return to the faith that God put into them that only the Lamb can can save them from the regions of death. Genesis 1:31; Romans 12:3; Luke 17:20-21. This event will happen as prophesied in Revelation 5:11-14 when all humans within the regions of death will worship God in a great worship service, and they will recognize Christ as the Lamb who can purge their sins and evil and raise their good souls and spirits to life again. Christ will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, to purge and cleanse their good lives stained by sin. I Corinthians 3:11-14; Mark 9:49; Luke 3:16-17. Christ will resurrect their good lives in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate, and He will cast their separated spiritual deaths into the lake of fire as recorded in Revelation 20:15.