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.