The World and the Word

                The Difference between Sin and Evil

God planned that all living humans who would believe in Christ's power to save them while they were still alive in the flesh, He would wash their living souls and spirits clean with the blood and water that He would shed on the cross and annul their spiritual deaths the moment they repented and believed. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5; John 13:1-14. God would give those whom He saved by His grace the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself by means of which He could accept them to live with Him forever in Heaven. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17. All of the Old Testament blood offerings for sin symbolized salvation by grace.

God also planned that while He walked the earth He would not judge those who would not believe in Him, but He would consign their living souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. In the end of the world, Christ will judge their evil, spiritual deaths which He will have separated from their spiritual lives. Their spiritual deaths are foreign to them because it was injected into them by the Devil. Revelation 20:11-15. God planned that when Christ descended into Hell, He would leave behind there all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans consigned there so that He could rise immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10. Christ's descent into Hell represented God's fiery wrath against evil expressed by His will to dissolve the individual systems of every living human there in order to extract their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In order to accomplish this separation, God will cause every living human within the regions of the dead to return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings for sin symbolized God's salvation of all living humans whom He would have to consign to one of the regions of death. Genesis 8:20-21. Because the blood had to be shed before the burnt offering could be made, God will also cleanse all of His living humans with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. Hebrews 9:22.

God will only be able to save those living humans confined within the regions of death if they choose of their own free will to return to repentance and faith in the power of Christ to save them. None of them will choose to remain within the horrors of spiritual death. They will all choose to repent and believe when they see the tremendous Majesty and the everlasting Love of the Lamb of God in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 3:6. Christ, who has gained all power over Hell and Death, will prove to the Devil, as well as all of God's creations, that His Love can never fail and that His sacrifice will cause all living humans to choose to return to faith in His Love for them. Revelation 1:17-18; I Corinthians 13:8. The Devil will have utterly failed to cause even one living human to "curse God and die." Job 2:9. God will resurrect all living humans from all of the regions of death and recreate them to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Jesus would not judge anyone while He was on the earth because He specifically represents the Love and compassion of God. John 8:15; John 12:47. But Jesus did prophecy that He will judge by His Word in the last day, which can only be the last day of the present earth. John 12:48. The Father represents God's fiery wrath against evil in His Word. Since Christ and the Holy Spirit and the Father are One, then they all agree as to the contents of God's Word. I John 5:7.

Jesus will judge the spiritual dead by His Word. Revelation 20:11-15. Before Christ's judgment, God will have already raised all of His repentant living souls in Revelation 20:5. Living humans can sin as they are influenced by the evil within them, but only the spiritual dead can commit deliberate acts of evil expressed by their hatred of God. Luke 23:34; John 8:28; Matthew 12:31-32. God can cleanse and forgive all sins of living humans upon repentance and faith because of His compassion for the weakness of their living souls and spirits caused by the foreign presence of evil. But God must use His fiery wrath to extract all evil from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8. In the entire Bible (KJB), God always directs His fiery wrath against evil itself, never against living humans whom He creates and loves. Exodus 19:9-24; Deuteronomy 32:21-22. Whenever God destroyed living humans with His fiery wrath, He never said it would be forever. Luke 10:11-12; Luke 20:38. Jesus came to destroy the Devil and all of his works forever, not living humans. I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14-15; John 12:31-32; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 15:22.