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.