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.