The World and the Word

                             The Wheat and the Chaff

When the Apostle Paul wrote about "the dispensation of the fulness of times" in Ephesians 1:10, he could only have meant the time of the end of the world when God will recreate the heavens and the earth. Paul wrote that Christ will gather "all things" to Himself at that time. Since Christ created all things, and they all belong to Him, and He can never lose any of it; then God cannot fail to recover and recreate everything that He originally created including all human souls and spirits defiled by sin. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. God will cause all human souls and spirits that He created to be good to be cleansed of sin and purged of evil, which is spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 1:31; John 3:16; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Humans saved by grace will live in Heaven with God forever, and all living humans that God recovers from the regions of death, He will recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 50:23.

The judgment of II Timothy 4:1 can only be the Great White Throne Judgment of Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15. The Apostle Paul refers to a specific time and an exact place for Christ's Judgment of the "quick and the dead." In no other judgment of the Bible (KJB) are the quick and the dead judged at the same time.

II Timothy 4:1 cannot be about Christ's Judgment at the beginning of His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4 teaches that the living and resurrected Tribulation saints will be the judges at that time. The millennial reign of Christ cannot be His final kingdom because evil will again emerge toward its end. Revelation 20:7-10. Christ will establish His eternal kingdom only after His Judgment of the quick and the dead and after He has burned up the heavens and the earth to purge it of all influences of evil and has recreated it all to be eternally righteous. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                            The Wheat and the Chaff

The Apostle Peter preached in Acts 3:21 about "the times of restitution of all things." The Bible (KJB) must mean exactly that which it states. God created all things, and there must come a time when He will restore and recreate all things that have been stained by sin. The Apostle Peter used the word "times" because God will restore all things in various stages. The Raptures of the Old Testament saints, the New Testament saints, and the Tribulation saints constitutes a partial restitution of all things. But the prophets also foretold of a specific time and place when God will destroy the heavens and the earth, and He will recreate everything that He originally created that has been stained by sin, including all living humans. Daniel prophesied in Daniel 12:1-3 that God will effect a specific time of judgment and resurrection following the Great Tribulation. Some will be raised to "everlasting life" and some to "everlasting contempt." No one has been or will be raised to permanent "shame" in any of God's Raptures of His saints. The word "destroyed" in verse 23 means that God will dissolve the individual systems of every human still in their graves in the end, raise their good, living souls and spirits for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated evil, spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. The phrase "all kindreds of the earth be blessed" can only mean that through Abraham's seed, who is the Lord Jesus Christ, every living human who ever lived, God will raise back to a recreated life. John 5:28-29; Isaiah 66:12-24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

The Apostle Peter further preached in Acts 3:23 that God will permanently destroy only unbelievers. Unbelief is the opposite of faith. The unbeliever denotes that part of every human that is totally evil and spiritually dead. The unbeliever can never repent and believe. Matthew 12:31-32. But God has arranged a day in which He will revive the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all unbelievers still in their graves. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; Romans 12:3; John 5:28-29; John 11:25. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and separate their living souls and spirits, with all their good works, from all their evil, spiritual deaths with all their dead works. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will cleanse from sin and annul the spiritual deaths of all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. I John 3:14; John 5:24. But God will also bring into being a great Judgment Day in which He will thoroughly purge all evil, which causes sin, from all of His creations, and He will reward every recreated living human for their good works. Revelation 22:11-12.

In Acts 10:34-35, the Apostle Peter preached that to God every human has equal value. Peter further preached that God will accept the righteousness and faith of any person in any nation because He created them all in His image. Genesis 1:27. Peter preached this message at the beginning of his sermon before he began to preach salvation by grace. This means Peter had to be preaching about the righteousness and faith that God puts into all humans that He has created in His image. Romans 12:3. Since even the most evil humans have done some good works in their lives, then the fact that God accepts their goodness can only mean that He will provide a lesser form of salvation for all human souls and spirits not saved by His highest form of salvation, which is by His grace. Matthew 5:5.

The World and the Word

                                                      The Wheat and the Chaff

As quoted by the Apostle John, John the Baptist clearly taught in John 3:36 that the wrath of God abides only on unbelievers. When Adam and Eve chose to sin, they became spiritually weak which gave the Devil the means to inject evil, spiritual death into their beings. Romans 5:12. All humans inherited this evil nature which can never repent or believe. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit who will call on all humans to renew their faith in Christ amounts to complete rejection of and hatred of God. Matthew 12:31-32. God wills to use the temporary, spiritual death of His Son to purge eternal spiritual death from all of His creations, including all living humans. Hebrews 2:9; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 15:22. The difference between evil and sin is repentance and faith. All evil is sin, but sins of which the living soul and spirit repents of and believes in the sacrifice and power of the Lamb to remove and forgive become a beautiful reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20.

When Jesus gained all power over all the regions of death as recorded in Revelation 1:18, He changed all the rules. Jesus broke the claim of the Devil that he had the right to hold all living humans in the grip of eternal death, and He liberated all living humans from eternal death by His resurrection from the dead. II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 6:13. Sooner or later, all living humans will repent and believe and become reconciled to God. II Peter 3:9.

God created the living nature of every human and put faith into their systems as a good response to His Love for them. Romans 12:3. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36. God can never lose any gift He has ever given. Romans 11:29. God means, sooner or later, to recover and recreate all the living souls and spirits of every human whom He loves. Faith can only emerge from the living nature of humans, never from their evil nature. Colossians 1:15-20. The evil nature of humans can never repent and believe, but because it is foreign to the beings of humans, God can separate it from all humans when they repent and believe and cast its death into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. The good nature of humans can repent of their sins caused by the influence of evil and become reconciled with God. Colossians 1:15-20. God will save by His grace all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. God will purge all sins from their lives by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He will immediately annul their spiritual deaths. Revelation 1:5; I John 3:14. God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against sin and evil, to purge all sins from all living humans confined within the three regions of death the moment they repent and believe as a result of a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will also separate their spiritual deaths from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. God will raise from the regions of death the cleansed, living souls and spirits of all humans for Him to recreate with new bodies to live on His recreated, righteous earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                                                             The Wheat and the Chaff

When one reads God's Word one must pay close attention to that which God actually states. In John 1:29, John the Baptist preached that Jesus came to "take away the sin of the world," not living humans. In other words, Jesus came to cleanse and separate all sin and evil from all of His spirits and souls that God created and loves and can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38. This statement of John the Baptist agrees with I John 3:8 where the Apostle John teaches that Jesus came "that He might destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. In Genesis 3:14-19, God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the three regions of death, not His living humans. In Genesis 3:20, God told Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and in Luke 20:38 Jesus affirmed that "all live unto Him" which can only mean that God can never lose any living human that He ever created. All of this agrees with God's statements in Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; John 11:25; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10 and many other scriptures. Nowhere in the Bible (KJB) does any scripture state that God will cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire, only totally evil, dead humans. Revelation 20:11-15. The "worm" that does not die that Jesus referenced in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48 symbolizes dead and evil humans, not His living humans.

After their physical deaths, God temporarily consigns all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of death, according to His Judgment of how they lived their lives, because their living souls and spirits are still stained by sin and evil which God cannot accept. Revelation 20:13 clearly states that God calls the dead from three different regions of death. God judges these dead according to their totally sinful and evil works as recorded in Revelation 21:8.

But God will provide for the resurrection and lesser salvation of all His living humans when He causes them to return of their own free will to faith in Christ their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Luke 3:6. God always directs His fiery wrath towards sin and evil, never toward living humans. Jesus left all of the sins and evil of all living humans not saved by grace that He bore on the cross behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10.

I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes how God will "try every man's work" in order to burn their dead works and reward their good works. The message of I Corinthians 3:15 cannot apply to any human saved by grace because they are saved forever by being cleansed of all sin and evil by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. Romans 11:29. This condition means that God would never subject His saints saved by grace to any additional test by fire to prove their salvation. This verse can only mean that God will provide a lesser salvation by a test by fire, and He will resurrect every living human who ever lived in order to give them a lesser salvation of a recreated life on a recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolizes God's forgiveness and cleansing of sin and evil by the use of His fiery wrath. Leviticus 5:10. In Genesis 8:20-21, God established the burnt offering as His means for the salvation of every living human that He ever created who would not be saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5 records that God will resurrect all of His living humans that He has cleansed by His fiery wrath and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God's statement in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," can only mean that He will recover and recreate everything that He originally created that has been stained by sin and evil, including all living humans. Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20; I Corinthians 15:22.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

The Light that John wrote about in John 1:9 can only be the image of God that He puts into every human that He creates. Humans may deny it, rebel against it, but it is in them nevertheless, and God can never lose it. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Even the worst humans being punished for their correction in the bowels of Hell still possess a Light within their beings which God will recover on Judgment Day in the end of the world and recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. But they will lose their former lives which they had on earth because much of their identities and personalities were formed by the influence of evil. God will have to recreate them as completely different, but righteous persons, and they will not remember their former lives on earth. John 12:25.

John wrote in John 1:16 that all humans have received the "fulness of God." God creates every human with His Holy image in them which manifests itself in good works that God has given to each of His images to do. Ecclesiastes 9:1. The Devil seeks to defeat God by permanently putting out this Light in at least one person. But God will never fail to cleanse, recover, and recreate His Light in every human stained by sin and influenced by evil. God will save some by His grace, and all others in His general resurrection in the end of the world. I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.

God's image that He has put into every person amounts to a type of elementary grace since God can never lose it. It is an eternal gift from God. Romans 11:29. But God can also give "grace for grace" which means that He can cleanse and recreate the souls and spirits of all who will repent and put their faith in the sacrifice and power of Christ while they are still alive in the flesh. Galatians 2:20; John 5:24.

God created humanity and its history in order to test His Love; that is, to prove that His Love for His creations can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Lucifer's rebellion called God's Love into question, not by God but by His creations. Lucifer refused to repent. God had to strip him of all the good that He had put into his system and exile him to earth as a totally empty and evil entity possessed of only a negative consciousness. Ezekiel 28:12-19. Satan falsely claimed that he had succeeded in annulling God's Love because God no longer loved him and he bragged about it. But God has a right to hate pure evil. Job 1:6-7. Satan knew that God had given humans free will, and he believed that he could cause at least one human to choose to totally rebel against God which would annul his living soul and spirit and prove that God's Love can fail. Job 1:11; Job 2:4-5; Job 2:9-10.

God creates every human system, some with a small image of Himself, and some with a large image of Himself. Romans 9:14-24. Those who possess a small image of God tend to never accept Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh, but because they have free will, some do. Some of those who possess a large image of God never choose to accept Christ's salvation by grace, but they often tend to be good and religious people. In either case, God gave free will to humans to be used to create good systems. Even the worst humans have done some good works that God gave them to do, even Judas Iscariot. In Matthew 26:50, Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" which demonstrated that Jesus still saw some good in him. Humans can choose to do good or evil, but in either case, God's will will eventually prevail. God knows exactly how to turn evil systems into good ones. Psalm 50:23; II Peter 3:9. God even created the Pharaoh who opposed Moses for His honor and glory. Romans 9:17. God's creation of humans as He wills does not annul free will. Free will works because God has promised in John 6:37 that He will never fail to save by His grace anyone who chooses to repent and accept Christ as their Savior by faith. God will also cause every living human confined within the regions of the dead to choose to repent and return to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.

The World and the Word

                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Luke 17:20, the Pharisees demanded that Jesus tell them when the kingdom of God should come. The Pharisees wanted to use Jesus' power as a weapon to drive the Romans from their country. When Jesus told them that they would not see the kingdom of God at that time, He did not mean that it would never come. The eternal kingdom of God will come in the end of the world when God burns up and then recreates the heavens and the earth. II Peter 3:10-13.

Jesus went on to inform these evil Pharisees in Luke 17:21 that the kingdom of God already existed within them. Jesus clearly taught in this verse that every human, whether good or bad, possesses a dual nature; that is, the good image of God and an evil spiritual death.

Jesus taught this same doctrine in Luke 14:12-15. Jesus spoke directly to the Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner. Jesus did not preach the gospel to Him. Jesus did not tell him that he had to believe in Jesus as his suffering Messiah and become "born again" in order to be saved by grace because Jesus knew that he would not believe. Jesus advised him to do good works and promised him that he would be "recompensed at the resurrection of the just." This resurrection could not be in the Rapture of the Church because this Pharisee was not a believer in Jesus. In this case, Jesus prophesied about His general resurrection in the end of the world. Jesus informed this evil Pharisee that He would be "just" in this general resurrection which can only mean that God will raise God's image in him from the dead, recreate him to live on His recreated earth, and reward him for whatever good works he had done on the former earth. Revelation 4:11; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God clearly informed all readers in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new." Since God created all positive things in the first place, then He must recover and recreate all positive things that have been spoiled by sin and evil in the end of the world. Revelation 22:11-12 clearly teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil in the end of the world. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20; Isaiah 45:21-24.

The World and the Word

                                                        The Wheat and the Chaff

Matthew 25:41 informs readers that God created the lake of fire only for the cursed. In Genesis 3:14 and 17, God cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains Hell. God did not curse the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve or any of their descendants because He creates them. Genesis 3:20. When Adam and Eve sinned, Satan injected spiritual death, which is totally evil and cursed, into the inner beings of Adam and Eve and all of their descendants, but this curse is foreign to the beings of all humans. When any human not saved by grace physically dies, God must temporarily consign his living soul and spirit, which is conjoined with his spiritual death, to one of the three regions of death as recorded in Revelation 20:13. God cannot accept the filthiness of sin and evil into His immaculate kingdom. The Devil holds an eternal claim on all humans consigned to the regions of the dead because of spiritual death. Satan hopes to ruin forever their living souls and spirits that God created, and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. But Jesus took the power of spiritual death away from the Devil when He descended into Hell. Revelation 1:18.

God consigns humans who deliberately practice evil to Hell, but even these humans retain a diminished, living soul and spirit that God created and can never lose to the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate all living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths because they will have returned to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will resurrect even these diminished souls and spirits from Hell and recreate them with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, but they will not be the same persons that they were when they lived on earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:25.

Although God is One Being, the manner in which He exercises His power happens to be different in different ages. Deuteronomy 6:4. The power of the Holy Spirit manifests Himself in creation. Genesis 1:2. The new birth of a human saved by grace is a type of spiritual recreation. John 5:24. The power of the Father's wrath against evil manifests Himself in the Old Testament as a consuming fire. Exodus 19:9-25. The Father will use His consuming fire to separate all of His living humans from their spiritual deaths who are confined to the regions of death. I Corinthians 3:11-15. The power of the Son's Love for all humanity manifested Himself in the New Testament in His cross and resurrection. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21; John 12:47-48; John 11:25; Hebrews 2:9; I Timothy 1:10.

The Holy Spirit created the world and humanity to test God's Love to prove that it can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God's wrath against evil and His Love for all humanity were both expressed in His power to create. The Father manifests His wrath against evil in order to purge all evil from the lives of all humanity through His Love and creative powers. God manifested His Love by becoming a perfect human who sacrificed Himself in the place of all humanity by taking all of their sins and spiritual deaths upon Himself on a cruel cross to purge it from all humanity, and who gained all power over sin and spiritual death by His resurrection from the dead. I John 3:8; Revelation 1:18; John 1:29; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:22; John 11:25.

Jesus' parable in Matthew 25:31-46 prophesies about the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. Christ will not "sit upon the throne of His glory" until this final Judgment. According to Revelation 20:4, the Tribulation saints will be the only judges in the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. Although Christ and the Holy Spirit forever draw their power from the Father, in the end, only the Love of God will rule forever. I Corinthians 15:25-28. Colossians 1:18 relates that in the end Christ will possess "preeminence." This word can only mean that in the end God's Love, who is Christ, will rule forever because God's burning wrath will have already finished His work by purging all sins and evil from all of His creations including all humans. Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23; John 5:28-29.

Christ will gather all nations for His final Judgment. The sheep and the goats, like the chaff and the wheat and the good tree and the bad tree, represent the inner being of every human with its living soul and spirit and its evil spiritual death which causes sin. Christ will dissolve the individual beings of every human confined within the regions of the dead and set their individual sheep on His right hand and their individual goats on His left hand. Christ will reward the sheep for their good works and will recreate them to live forever in that part of God's kingdom which will be His recreated earth. These sheep cannot be saints saved by grace because God never saves His saints by good works but solely by His grace. Titus 3:5-7. Christ will cast only the separated goats, which represent the dead and evil nature of all humans, into the eternal lake of fire. According to Matthew 25:41, only the cursed are cast into the lake of fire, not living humans whom God creates and loves. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 22:11-12.

Isaiah 5:24 and Isaiah 47:14 both prophecy that one day God will use the wrath of His consuming fire to burn the "stubble," which represents the useless dead and evil natures of every human confined within the regions of the dead, forever in the lake of fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 also proves that God can use His consuming fire to purge sin and evil and forgive repentant sinners. Genesis 8:20-21 prophesies that God will use His burnt offerings to symbolize the fact that He will preserve all living humans forever. Psalm 36:6. All living humans confined within the regions of the dead will repent and believe in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to purge the dead and evil natures of every one of them for Him to cast into the lake of fire, and He will recover their good and living souls and spirits for Him to recreate with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 11:25; John 5:28-29.

The World and the Word

                                                    The Wheat and the Chaff

In Matthew 15:12-20, Jesus taught about the evil in men's hearts that "defile the man." This "man" must be clean in order to be defiled. That which is already defiled can only be further defiled. By His use of the word "man," Jesus spoke about the clean soul and spirit that God created and put into every man. Genesis 1:27. This image of God in man can be stained by sin, but it can never be diminished by sin because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. Every human system has two natures; that is, the image of God and an evil nature that is foreign to their systems.

In verse 13, Jesus taught that God will eventually purge every evil nature that exists in every human. Jesus said "every plant," not some plants. By His use of the phrase "every plant," Jesus implied that God has His own plants. God's "plants" are His images that He has put into every human who ever lived, and every "plant" that He has not planted, He will eventually purge from every human who ever lived. God will purge the evil natures of all humans confined within the regions of death by the use of His consuming fire and resurrect their living souls and spirits at the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. God will burn up all of His polluted creations, and He will recreate a new, righteous human race to live in His righteous, recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Timothy 4:1; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

In verse 14, Jesus told His disciples to leave the Pharisees alone because they were too spiritually blind to understand His teachings. Jesus had the authority to instruct His disciples to do this. But His instruction does not conflict with His great commission to His Church as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20. Jesus' command to His Church is similar to a general who tells his army that they all must work together as a team in order to win a war. Jesus' command pertains mostly to preaching and teaching to crowds regardless of whether they contain potential believers or unbelievers. The Spirit of Christ now commands the Church, and He can command His believers to witness or not witness as He wills. This condition means the Holy Spirit holds all authority to instruct an individual believer as to whether or not that believer should witness on any particular occasion. For example, if a believer sits down by a person on a bus, then he should certainly witness to that person if the Holy Spirit tells him to witness, but he should not witness if the Holy Spirit tells him not to witness. Just like Jesus, the Holy Spirit knows who will hear a witness and who will not. The Holy Spirit's instruction comports with God's command to believers in Proverbs 26:4-5.

But in order for a particular believer to be able to spiritually hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, he must be in constant tune with the Holy Spirit. He must pray without ceasing in his spirit. I Thessalonians 5:17; Romans 8:26. He must confess his sins and repent every day. He must read his Bible (KJB) and pray and ask God to give him strength to avoid sin. He must yield his life to the control of the Holy Spirit and love his neighbor, even his enemies. Galatians 5:22-26; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 5:44. The believer must "Pray without ceasing" as I Thessalonians 5:17 commands. But when the believer objects that this command is quite impossible because of the weakness of his flesh, the Holy Spirit will remind him of Romans 8:26 where He prays for him without ceasing.

The World and the Word

                                                           The Wheat and the Chaff

The false prophets which Jesus spoke about in Matthew 7:15-20 are humans who have given their lives over to do mostly evil. They only want people to believe they are prophets of God for their own gain. Such persons actually do not believe that God exists. If they did, they would be afraid of his wrath.

Jesus taught that humans who know Him have a right to recognize evil when they see it and avoid those types of persons. But believers have no right to make any final judgments about them because Christ is the only final Judge. Matthew 7:1-2.

But no sinful person has ever been entirely good or entirely evil. Even false prophets would be good to someone they loved. This means that Jesus taught in Matthew 7:17-18 that the good tree and the evil tree must exist within every individual human. The good tree within every human can only be the living soul and spirit that God created in His image and which He can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Revelation 21:5. If God allowed some of the living souls and spirits that He created to burn in the lake of fire forever, then that would forever mar and stain God's Love. Luke 20:38.

Jesus taught in Matthew 7:19 that a day will come when He will dissolve all individual human systems confined within the regions of the dead, retain their living souls and spirits for Him to recreate and cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. All of these living souls and spirits will repent and believe in the Lamb as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will purge all of His creations of all sin and evil and recreate all that He created that has been stained by evil. Romans 8:18-22; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 22:11-12.

The World and the Word

                                                The Wheat and the Chaff

In Matthew 13:52, Jesus taught His disciples that anyone who seeks to learn more about the kingdom of Heaven will be like a man who owns a house that contains both an old and a new treasure that he brings out to use. By His symbolic language, Jesus meant anyone who owns and reads the Old and New Testaments, the written Word of God, in order to use that which he learns for spiritual and creative purposes. God wrote the Old Testament to inform humans that they have a spiritual death inside them, injected into them by the Devil, that causes them to sin and that they cannot get rid of that spiritual death on their own. But the Old Testament also informs humans that they each possess a good and living soul and spirit that God gave them, and if they conform their lives to express their faith and do the good works that God put into their living souls and spirits, then in the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will provide them with a much better recreation than for those who do evil. Daniel 12:1-2; Isaiah 66:10-24; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:7-11; Genesis 3:20-21.

God wrote the New Testament to inform all humans that He would sacrifice Himself in their place to remove all their sins and spiritual deaths in order to save them from eternal spiritual death, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; John 12:47-48; I Corinthians 15:22.

When Jesus died on the cross, He took the place of every lost sinner subject to eternal spiritual death which is totally evil, and since evil causes sin and sin causes evil, then Jesus also had to take the sins of all mankind on Himself on the cross. Romans 5:12; Romans 5:18. But Jesus also died on the cross as a perfectly righteous, sinless human. II Corinthians 5:21. This means that Hell had no right to hold the Spirit of Jesus when He descended there. Since Christ rose immaculate from the dead, then He had to have left the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans who are subject to the regions of death behind Him when He rose from the dead. God provided a prophecy in Revelation 5:11-14 that He will cause all living humans confined there to return to the faith that He put into them that the Lamb holds the power to resurrect their living souls and spirits from the regions of eternal death. Christ also holds the power to use His shed blood and water to wash away all the sins of humans saved by grace and annul their spiritual deaths the moment they repent and believe. John 5:24.

When Jesus rose from the dead, He gained all power over all of the regions of the dead because He gained the power to eliminate spiritual death itself. Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10. Whosoever holds the power makes the rules. Jesus changed the eternal deaths of all humans to temporary deaths by His resurrection from the dead. This condition means that Christ has the right to use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, in the end of the world to separate the spiritual deaths of all humans confined within the regions of the dead from their spiritual lives that He created. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 7; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 3:17-18. Revelation 3:17 clearly teaches that the members of the church of Laodicea were not saved by grace, but verse 18 nevertheless teaches that God will use His consuming fire to separate their gold, symbolic of their spiritual lives, from their spiritual deaths. All humans saved by grace or God's consuming fire will have to return to the faith that God put into their living souls and spirits of their own free will that Christ alone holds the power to save them. Romans 12:3. Satan believes that God's gift of free will to humans will eternally ruin them, but God will prove that the great power of His Love will cause all humans to return to faith in Him of their own free will. I Corinthians 13:8.

Sooner or later, every human will learn that his treasure, which symbolizes his living spirit, will be redeemed by God's Word in both the Old and New Testaments. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Psalm 50:23; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

The World and the Word

                           The Wheat and the Chaff

Jesus taught in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48 that the evil nature of humans that He will cast into the lake of fire will be like worms squirming in the fires of Gehenna which was the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:24 also teaches that the evil nature of humans will be like worms in a fire. Isaiah 14:11 teaches that the lake of fire will be full of worms. Psalm 22:6 prophesied that Jesus would take the wormy nature of all humans on Himself on the cross so that He could save by grace and leave all the rest of the evil of mankind behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the grave.

But Jesus also taught in Matthew 13:50 that those whom He casts into the lake of fire will suffer "wailing and gnashing of teeth." Since worms do not wail or have teeth, then what did Jesus mean? One can only suffer if one has consciousness. Worms have only a very small amount of consciousness. Jesus had to have symbolically meant that the evil nature of humans possess a small amount of negative consciousness that will endure a limited amount of spiritual suffering.

But what is a negative consciousness? God possesses only a positive consciousness which can only be Holy, and creative and good. God gives a positive consciousness to every human whom He creates. Genesis 1:27. Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then God must cleanse from sin and recover every positive consciousness that He has put into every human not already saved by grace in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Since positive consciousness can only be creative and good, then a negative consciousness can only be the opposite; that is, wholly destructive and cruel.

This truth can only mean that the consciousnesses within the evil natures of humans confined to the lake of fire cannot be positive consciousnesses. When God created all good systems, He could have had no awareness of evil whatsoever because His Consciousness is wholly positive; that is, the Holiness of God. Since all positive reality has to be somewhere in positive consciousness, then all negative consciousnesses can only be nowhere. The Bible (KJB) refers to this nonexistent nowhere as the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3. Negative consciousnesses called devils had to have somehow emerged from the bottomless pit to invade Heaven and cause Lucifer to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15. Since positive consciousness can only be wholly creative, then negative consciousness can only be destructive. Exactly what a negative consciousness could be or how it could think and operate remains a complete mystery even to God. II Thessalonians 2:7. Every evil nature of humans within the lake of fire will be a negative consciousness, and their "wailing and gnashing of teeth" will express their spiritual desire for annihilation.

Every negative consciousness hates everything, including itself. The devils in the maniac of Gadara begged Jesus not to send them back to the deep which is the bottomless pit. They knew that when Jesus sent them into the pigs that they would kill themselves. They hoped that the deaths of the pigs' consciousnesses would annihilate their own consciousnesses. Luke 8:26-33. The story of the maniac of Gadara constitutes a prophecy that in the end of the world, Christ will dissolve every human system within the regions of the dead, extract all the negative consciousnesses for Him to cast into the lake of fire and liberate every positive consciousness of every living human. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.  

The Bible (KJB) constantly refers to evil as being vanity; that is, complete emptiness. But when emptiness becomes recognized by positive consciousness as being nothing, then it becomes more than nothing as a useful and creative idea in the mind. The idea of nothing recognizes the space between objects in objective reality, and it excludes any ideas that may be useless to any creative system that a positive consciousness may create. All ideas in positive consciousness are real and useful, but consciousness must consider all real ideas to be equal to nothing as far as the ideas needed to create a particular system is concerned. For example, the real idea called "six" cannot be a part of the system that is 2+3=5. This condition can only mean that the word "vanity" in the Bible must also mean that which is less than nothing; that is, an absolute nothingness which can only be evil and destructive. God revealed that He has become aware of this absolute nothingness which is evil in Isaiah 40:17.

When God created all good systems, He could have had no awareness of evil whatsoever because His Consciousness is wholly positive. This condition means that God had to have accidentally and unknowingly created evil as a direct opposite of all that is positive. This condition did no damage to God's Omniscience because evil is a kind of anti-knowledge. When after Lucifer's rebellion, God discovered that He had to have accidentally created evil, He felt positive guilt although He was completely innocent, and He expressed His guilt in Isaiah 45:7.