The World and the Word

                                                          Freedom versus Tyranny

God gave Satan his chance to murder Him when He allowed the sins and evil of all mankind to nail His Son to a cruel cross. Satan believed that Jesus would not be able to take it. Satan thought that the overwhelming horror of all that sin and evil would crush Jesus' Spirit and cause Him to sin so that the Devil could murder Him and hold Him in Hell forever.

But the Almighty Power of man's Holy Savior, even without the Father's help, was fully able to wash away with His shed blood and water all of the sins and evil of every living human whom He would save by His grace. Matthew 27:46; Matthew 26:28; Revelation 1:5; Ephesians 5:25-27. In addition, when Jesus descended into Hell, He left behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that He bore on the cross when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10.

Christ gained complete victory over sin which can cause eternal death and over eternal death itself  when He rose immaculate from the dead. Revelation 1:18; Hebrews 2:9; I Timothy 6:13; I Corinthians 15:26. He who has the power has the right to change the rules. Satan enacted a rule that he would be able to cause the eternal deaths of all living humans when he injected evil into their beings that would cause them to sin. Romans 5:12. But Christ's victory over eternal death gave Him the right to change it to a temporary death by His resurrection from the dead. Revelation 1:18. Three regions of death exist. Revelation 20:13. God created Hell and the Sea as temporary regions of death for all living humans who go there. God also changed the bottomless pit to a temporary region of death for all His living humans who go there. When all living humans confined to the regions of death see the Almighty Love and Majesty of their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14, then every one of them will not be able to refuse to choose to repent and believe in the Lamb whom they know can rescue them from those horrible places. John 11:25. Revelation 20:5 records that God will raise all of His repentant, living humans from the regions of the dead.

By God's ability to cause all living humans to return to faith in their Savior of their own free will, He will prove to all of His creations that His Almighty Love can never fail. If He forced them to return, that would prove nothing. I Corinthians 13:8. In John 20:24-29, the Apostle Thomas symbolized the doubt of all of God's creations in the power of His Love, but by his repentance and faith, he symbolized the return to repentance and faith of all humans and all of God's creations. John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 15:22; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Joel 2:28-29.