The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Jesus' parable in Matthew 13:45-46, the "merchant man" symbolizes Christ, and the "goodly pearls" symbolizes the living souls and spirits of all humans. The "pearl of great price" symbolizes the Church, and all other humans saved by His grace for whom He gave His all on the cross to provide them with His highest form of salvation. But all the other "goodly pearls;" that is, the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace, do not become worthless because Christ shed His blood and water to purchase the highest form of salvation for all those saved by grace. In the end of the world, all of the living souls and spirits confined within the regions of death will not have lost their value. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Luke 20:38. As Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies, God will cause every living human confined within the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will, and in Revelation 20:5, He will resurrect them all for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Psalm 50:23. The will of man cannot thwart the will of God. God's Love has Almighty Power. I Corinthians 13:8. God knows exactly how to cause every living human whom He loves to eventually choose of their own free will to return to faith in Him. II Peter 3:9; John 11:25. I John 2:2 clearly teaches that "the propitiation for our sins" not only applies to those saved by grace but also applies equally to the whole world. John 12:47-48.

In Matthew 13:47-52, Jesus again prophesied about His Judgment in the end of the world. The King of Heaven will make the judgment to cast a net to gather the good and bad fish from the sea. The Sea happens to be one of the regions of spiritual death as recorded in Revelation 20:13. The good and bad fish symbolize goodness and evil itself. Since no human has ever been wholly good, except Jesus, and no human has ever been wholly evil, not even Judas Iscariot, then the good and bad fish exist inside every human. Christ will dissolve every individual human system within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire, recover all of His good and living souls and spirits that belong to Him and cast all their evil natures into an eternal lake of fire which constitutes His wrath against evil, not living humans. I Corinthians 3:11-15; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5.