The World and the Word

                                               The Difference between Sin and Evil

God directs His wrath against sin and evil which seeks to utterly destroy the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He creates and loves. God will not let that happen. Ecclesiastes 3:14. No verse in the Bible (KJB) relates that God will ever cast living humans into the lake of fire. Christ came to purge all living humans of all its enemies; that is, the Devil, sin, and spiritual death. John 12:31; John 1:29; I John 3:8. In John 12:47, Jesus specifically taught that He would not judge unbelievers while He was in the world. But He did say that He came "to save the world." Since God must make His Word good, as Numbers 23:19 relates, and since no verse in the Bible states that God will cast His living humans into the lake of fire, then Christ must save all living humans with a higher and a lower form of salvation. In fact, Luke 20:38 would require Him to save all living humans.

In John 12:48, Jesus taught that He will reserve His judgment of unbelievers until the end of the world when He will judge them by His Word. Revelation 20:11-15 describes His judgment of these unbelievers. These unbelievers happen to be the same as the evil, spiritual dead whom Christ will have already separated from His living humans. Revelation 20:5. Christ will cast only these dead unbelievers into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. Revelation 20:5 informs that Christ will have already raised His living souls from the regions of the dead before He judges the dead unbelievers. Christ will save His living humans from the regions of death when they all repent and believe of their own free will when Christ appears to them in all His glory as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.

In Luke 14 verses 1 and 12, Jesus spoke directly to an unbelieving Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner. Jesus advised this Pharisee to do good works and promised him that he would be blessed for them "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus could only have prophesied about Revelation 20:5 when He will raise from the dead all living humans who have all done some good works given to them to do by God. Ecclesiastes 9:1.

In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus taught some unbelieving Pharisees that "the kingdom of God is within you." Jesus could only have meant that they possessed living souls and spirits that He had created and put into them which He will preserve forever. Psalm 36:6.

In John 10:33-35, Jesus told some unbelieving Jews that God had made them "gods." Jesus could only have referred to the image of God that He has put into every living human. Jesus also taught them that the Word of God was written for them. Jesus quoted Psalm 82:6 which teaches that all living souls are also "children of the most High." Psalm 82:7-8 further prophesies that although living souls can die and fall into the regions of death, God will "judge the earth," and He "shall inherit all nations" which can only mean that He will raise all living humans from the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His new earth. Revelation 21:1-5.

In John 5:28-29, Jesus directly taught about His resurrection of the living from the dead in the end of the world. He will resurrect all His living humans from the regions of the dead, all of whom have done some good works, for Him to recreate to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. After they all repent and believe, Christ will extract their living souls and spirits from their totally evil, spiritual deaths which He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.