The World and the Word

                                                        The Wheat and the Chaff

God bases His higher and lower forms of salvation on His Love, His grace, and His mercy. God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Everything in man's relationship with God depends on repentance and faith which always reconciles a living human to God. Colossians 1:15-20 assures all humans that God will reconcile all things that He created to Himself. God reconciles all living humans saved by His grace to Himself the moment they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Colossians 1:21-23; John 5:24. God will cause all living humans confined within the regions of the dead to repent and believe of their own free will in the saving power of the Lamb in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Isaiah 45:21-25; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; I Corinthians 15:22; II Peter 3:9; Psalm 107:10-15. Puny human will can neither thwart nor enhance the will of God. Revelation 21:5. Living humans are a part of the "all things" that God has created and will recreate. "Behold, I make all things new." God will separate and consign all the evil and dead natures of all humans to the eternal lake of fire because spiritual death can never repent and believe. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15. God will save His wheat and burn the chaff. Luke 3:16-17.

The Apostle Peter wrote about Lot who had become almost as evil as the Sodomites themselves. But Lot's living soul became disturbed and uneasy by the evil that he observed and sometimes practiced himself. God delivered Lot and two of his daughters from Sodom's fiery destruction because they had living, righteous souls which still retained some faith in God's Love and power to save. II Peter 2:6-9. God had the right to save Lot and his daughters, and He had the right to destroy Sodom. No one should ever question God's will. Lot's salvation was symbolic on two levels. God will Rapture His Church before the Tribulation period and cleanse it of all sin by the water of His Word because it too has become somewhat polluted by evil. Ephesians 5:25-27. God will use His consuming, fiery wrath against evil to cleanse for resurrection the living souls and spirits of all humans confined to the regions of death no matter how evil their lives may have been. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5. The evil natures of the Sodomites symbolize the total evil that God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. But God will reclaim and resurrect even the tiny, living souls and spirits of the actual Sodomites by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. I Corinthians 3:11-15. God burned the living Sodomites, but He never said He would burn them forever.