The World and the Word

                       The Wheat and the Chaff

The key to being cleansed of all sin and evil and being rescued from eternal spiritual death can only be repentance and faith that Christ has already done everything necessary to cleanse, forgive, and rescue one forever from the power of evil. Repentance is a part of faith because it means that one must turn away from one's sins and believe that only Christ can cleanse and forgive them. The good life of all humans saved by grace receives complete cleansing of all sin and evil by the shed blood of Christ and forgiveness the moment they repent and believe. They also receive daily cleansing and forgiveness of their fleshly sins by the water that Jesus shed on the cross as they repent every day. John 5:24; John 13:1-10. But God has also provided for a lesser form of salvation for all humans still in their graves when He returns them to the faith He put into their image of Him in them in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-15. No verse in the Bible (KJB) states that humans cannot be saved after physical death. In fact, Jesus taught that dead humans can be saved in John 11:25 and proved it by raising Lazarus from his grave. In the end of the world, Christ will raise all living humans from the regions of the dead. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; I Corinthians 15:22; Isaiah 22:14.

Humans cannot become totally evil because that is a state of absolute rebellion against God which can never repent or believe. If humans ever became totally evil, they would hate God and be totally demonic. The "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost" as recorded in Matthew 12:31-32 only bars one from salvation by grace, not from God's lesser form of salvation in the end of the world. Repentance and faith are good qualities that God puts into His image in every human. Romans 12:3.

When humans not saved by grace physically die, God must consign their good souls and spirits to one of the regions of death because filthy sins and evil still adhere to their goodness. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. But God always directs His wrath as a fiery stream towards sin and evil itself, never toward living humans. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In the garden of Eden, God cursed Satan and evil itself, not the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve or any of their living descendants. Genesis 3:14-21. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized Christ's descent into Hell where He left all of the sins and evil that He bore on the cross of all humans that He did not save by His grace behind there when He rose immaculate from the dead. Genesis 8:20-21. Based on Christ's descent into Hell to use His fiery wrath to separate all of the sins and evil from all living humans consigned there, God will cause all the living humans there to repent and believe of their own free will that only Christ can save them in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will resurrect all of these repentant, living humans as recorded in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God will forever consign their totally evil, spiritual deaths to the lake of fire which is His eternal wrath against evil. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.

God will recover and recreate all His living systems that have become soiled by sin caused by the presence of evil. Revelation 21:5; I Timothy 6:13; I Corinthians 15:22; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Ecclesiastes 3:14. All sin is evil but the difference between sins and evil is that God can cleanse and forgive sins upon repentance and faith, whereas God can never forgive evil because it never repents. All of God's salvation hinges on the goodness of repentance and faith. But God can also purge total evil, which is the same as spiritual death, from all living humans after He has cleansed and forgiven them of all their sins. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-15. God annuls the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by grace the moment they repent and believe. Galatians 2:19-20. God will purge the spiritual deaths from the lives of all humans within the regions of death after their repentance and faith by the use of His fiery wrath towards evil itself, never towards living humans whom He created and loves. Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9; Hebrews 12:26-29; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Isaiah 66:22-24.

Some people surrender their lives to the spiritual death within them and commit terrible acts of cruelty toward their fellow humans. Most of these evil humans never repent and believe to be saved by grace. But should one of these evil humans ever resort to the good qualities of repentance and faith that God has put into their diminished living souls and spirits, then their evil acts will become sins that Christ can cleanse and forgive. Repentance and faith turn evil into sin. This type of conversion happened to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. Acts 9:1-6.