The World and the Word

                                               The Difference between Sin and Evil

Revelation 5:11-14 records that God's lesser form of salvation that Christ has provided for those living humans confined within the regions of death will become active for them when they see the Holy and Majestic Lamb of God in a great worship service, and they repent and believe of their own free will that Christ will save them from eternal death. I Corinthians 3:11-15 records that God will burn all of their dead works but will save all of their living souls and spirits. Jesus prophesied in John 5:28-29 that in the end of the world He will raise all living humans from the dead and cast their evil natures into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 15:22 prophesies that just as Adam caused spiritual death for all humans, so Christ will raise all living humans from the dead. I Timothy 6:13 clearly teaches that God "quickenth all things," which can only mean that God will raise all living humans held in spiritual death back to eternal life. Psalm 36:6 teaches that God preserves all living beings that He created. When God preserves something, how long does He preserve it? Romans 11:29.

Revelation 20:5 records that God will raise all living humans from the regions of death. Revelation 21:1-5 records that God will recreate all of these living humans with new bodies to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. This recreation has to be true because God promised in Revelation 21:5 "...Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:8 records that God will cast only dead, total evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 22:11-12 reveals that God will effect an absolute and eternal separation of all that is evil from all that He recreates to be righteous. God will reward every human for their good works which they must be alive to receive. In Matthew 10:41-42, Jesus taught that even the least good work done by any human will receive a prophet's or a righteous man's reward. These can only be positive rewards that God gives to living humans, and not just those saved by grace