The World and the Word

          The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God is Almighty and His Intellect is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. Satan does not believe this. Satan believes that God made a huge mistake when He gave free will to Lucifer and then to humans. Satan believes that he can use free will to cause at least some humans to chose to become so evil that the Devil will be able to completely destroy their good and living souls and spirits that God has given to all living humans whom He creates and loves. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9.

But God did not put faith into every living human for it to fail. Romans 12:3. Satan believes that he can use free will to cause man's inner faith to fail, prove that God is not Almighty because He made this mistake, and that failure will give the Devil the power to find a way to murder God. John 8:44. Satan desired to completely ruin Job, and any other human, so that he could find a way to murder God. But God's Intellect is Infinite and Almighty which certainly means that He can devise a plan to return all living humans to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. Nowhere does the Bible (KJB) teach that the physical deaths of humans can thwart the Almighty will of God. John 11:25; II Peter 3:9.

God gave Satan the chance to murder Him when He allowed all of the sins and evil of all mankind to nail Jesus to a cross. Satan thought that Jesus would not be able to take it. Satan believed that all of the tremendous agony and pressure of all that sin and evil delivered to Jesus on the cross would cause Jesus to sin; His Spirit would be trapped in Hell forever, and Satan would succeed in his murder of God. But Jesus is God. Jesus possessed all of the power He needed to bear all of the sins and evil of all mankind and die the eternal deaths to which all living humans are subject. Jesus died as a perfect and sinless human who did not deserve eternal death. Because of this fact, He was able to transfer all of the sins and evil that He bore on the cross to the evil natures of humans that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Peter 3:18; Hebrews 2:9; Acts 2:27; Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 20:15.

When Jesus died on the cross, He died as a perfect man, not as God. Jesus is God because the Spirit of God wholly possessed the perfect man as He walked the earth. John 3:34. But as Jesus was dying on the cross and as His Spirit descended into Hell, He was temporarily separated from His Father because of all the sins and evil that He bore. Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:6. But Jesus was perfect because of the Spirit of God in Him, and therefore, He did not deserve eternal death. This fact gave the Father and the Spirit every right to raise Jesus' perfect body from Hell and return Him to His rightful place at the right hand of God. Jesus it still God in human form. The Spirit of Christ left all of the sins and evil of all humans behind in Hell when He rose from the dead. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27.

Jesus poured out His blood and water on the cross to cleanse and forgive all humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; John 13:1-13; John 5:24. Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of the rest of mankind. But just as God's salvation by grace does not become actual until the Holy Spirit delivers the cleansing blood of Jesus to the believer saved by grace, the salvations of the living humans confined to the regions of death does not become actual until they repent and believe in the power of the Lamb to save them. Revelation 5:11-14. At that time, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their individual systems in order to separate and save their living souls and spirits from their evil, dead natures which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13. By these two methods, Jesus succeeded in cleansing all living humans from all their sins and evil that would have caused all of their spiritual deaths forever. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38.

God did not die on the cross, but He certainly suffered greatly. Humans only suffer temporarily for their sins because of Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus forever removed man's potential eternal suffering in Hell. If living humans do not belong to God, then the Devil can claim them. Satan thought that he could kill God on the cross, and God did die but only as a perfect man who did not deserve eternal death. As a perfect human being, God died on the cross, and yet, Almighty God cannot die. This fact forms a paradox that only God can understand. God, the Father, suffered greatly when He turned His face away from His Son on the cross. Matthew 27:46. Jesus suffered greatly when He saw His Father turn away because Jesus had to die as if He were a sinful human whom His Father could not accept. Christ's Spirit had to have suffered greatly from the tremendous heat of Hell when He descended there.

God suffered for man, but because Christ had died as a perfect and sinless human, God had every right to raise Him from the dead and transform His perfect body into a spiritual body which He will also give to every living human who becomes saved by His grace. I John 3:2. God annuls the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by grace and casts their sins into the Sea of forgetfulness the moment they believe. John 5:24; Micah 7:19. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate all of the sins and eternal deaths of all living humans confined to the regions of death from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire when they repent and believe. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:15. By these means, God will give the evil, eternal deaths of all humans back to the Devil, but God will save all of His living souls and spirits that He creates and loves. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Hebrews 2:9; John 5:28-29; Matthew 15:13. Christ came to the cross, and His judgment fell on Himself. II Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 2:9; I Peter 3:18.

The World and the Word

             The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to king David and made a covenant with him that He would establish David's throne forever. God kept His promise to David by making Christ the eternal king of Israel. God always keeps His part of any covenant He makes. Psalm 89:34. God's judgment fell on king David when God punished him for his sins, but He still kept His part of His covenant with him. God will certainly punish living humans for their sins and evil, but He will also certainly keep His covenant with Adam and Eve and Noah that He will forever preserve the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 8:20-21.

Jesus came to the earth to be born as a baby in Bethlehem. Angels announced to shepherds and the rest of humanity the reason Jesus came. The angels said that Jesus came to be a Savior and a joy to all people. Luke 2:10. But Jesus has certainly never been a joy to those who hate Him. The angels also prophesied that Jesus came to bring "peace" and "good will toward men." Christ could only fulfill these prophecies if the angels meant that Christ will eventually save all humans either by His grace or by His revelation to all living humans confined to the regions of death in order to cause their repentance and faith so that He can resurrect them and recreate them to inhabit a new earth created in righteousness. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:10-13; John 11:25. God's judgment fell when He allowed Herod to murder all of the babies in Bethlehem. The Devil tried to murder God at that time, but he only succeeded in being used of God to provide a prophecy that an innocent Christ would die on a cross to save all of humanity. Matthew 2:16-18. One day, even the puny, living soul and spirit of Herod will cry out to Christ for mercy from the bowels of Hell. Revelation 5:11-14.

Jesus came and walked the earth "and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him." Acts 10:38. Jesus demonstrated compassion for all humans because He had created the good souls and spirits of them all. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7; Luke 17:21. The story of Jesus' return to His home town of Nazareth to preach but "could there do no mighty work" does not mean that His friends' lack of faith prevented Him from doing mighty works. Jesus did heal a few sick folk. Jesus chose not to do miracles for them because He became a little angry with them because they were His own people who did not believe. Mark 6:1-6. Jesus healed the man whose ear Peter cut off. and that man certainly did not believe in Jesus. Luke 22:50-51. God certainly moves with compassion to heal and save when He sees faith, but that does not mean that God cannot heal or save when He does not see faith. Nevertheless, God will not provide eternal salvation for those he saves by grace or to those confined within the regions of death until He sees their repentance and faith because their repentance and faith will demonstrate that they all desire to be rid of their sins and evil and to become reconciled with God. God's goal is to thoroughly purge all sin and evil from all of His creations and recreate all of it to be righteous. Jesus came to save all living humans from the power of the Devil with a higher and a lower form of salvation. II Peter 3:10-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8.

The World and the Word

              The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ came to the Israelites in slavery in Egypt and gave them a sin offering of a slain lamb. God's judgment fell on the firstborn of the Egyptians which symbolized His wrath against sin and evil which has enslaved the human race. God commanded the Israelites to put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts in the symbolic form of a cross to represent all humans who would ever become saved by the blood of Christ. God commanded that the rest of the lamb be made a burnt sacrifice to symbolize His lesser form of salvation for all living humans not saved by grace. The Israelites represented the entire human race because all humans are slaves to sin and evil. The liberation of the Israelites symbolized God's liberation of the entire human race from slavery to sin and evil. The slain firstborn Egyptians represented sin and evil itself which God will purge from the whole human race. Exodus 12:1-3.

When the Israelites came to Mount Sinai, God told Moses to get the Israelites to accept His covenant of grace by which He liberated them. The Israelites only had to keep this covenant by their sin offering at Passover to symbolize their faith in God's grace. God instructed Moses to tell the Israelites that if they would simply practice their faith by the sin offering, then God would take care of their sanctification, and He would make them "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" which is exactly the same gift that He has given to the Church Age saints. If the Israelites had accepted God's offer of salvation by grace, then the only living humans who would have ever been saved by grace would have been the Israelites, and all of the Gentiles would have had to be content with God's lesser form of salvation which is resurrection to be recreated to live on God's new earth. Exodus 19:1-7; Revelation 1:4-6.

But the Israelites summarily rejected God's covenant of grace, and they asked God to give them some laws to obey so that they could prove that they could make themselves good enough to be accepted by God. They should have humbled themselves to God and realized that God alone had saved them and that self-salvation was quite impossible. By their rejection of God's grace, they demonstrated that they still clung to the sin of excessive pride which is a condition from which all other sins emerge. Exodus 19:8; Luke 18:9-14.

God responded to their rejection of His grace by demonstrating His fiery wrath against sin and evil from the top of Mount Sinai. God commanded Moses to instruct the people to sanctify themselves by washing their clothes and by staying away from the mountain. By washing their clothes, the Israelites symbolized that they each possessed a good and clean soul and spirit that God had put into them when He created them. By staying away from the mountain, the Israelites demonstrated the fact that God will never allow the the good image of Himself within every human to ever be permanently destroyed. God directed His fiery wrath only against the sin and evil that had infected them. God did punish the Israelites by making them greatly afraid of His power to destroy them if He so chose to do, but He did not kill any of them which symbolized the fact that He will save the good souls and spirits of all humans confined to the regions of death. Exodus 19:9-24.

God then gave Moses the law for the people to obey, but He also gave the people animal sacrifices for their forgiveness when they failed to obey. God gave them peace offerings which was added to the sin offering to symbolize all living humans who would ever be saved by grace. God gives all living humans saved by grace peace in their hearts with God. God also gave them His burnt offerings which symbolized that one day, in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His repentant, living humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day in the Tribulation period close to the end of the world, God will reveal Himself to all living humans confined to the regions of death, and His glory and majesty will cause them all to choose to repent and put their faith in the Lamb whom they will realize that only He can save them and resurrect them to a recreated life. Exodus 20:1-26; Revelation 21:1-5.

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          The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Controversy exists as to whether Genesis 6:1-4 records either the inter-marriage of the fallen Adamic race with the pre-Adamic race or the fornication of fallen angels with human women. Both accounts are true. Genesis 6:1-2 records the inter-marriages between the fallen Adamic race and the pre-Adamic race that produced normal children as Genesis 6:3 confirms. Genesis 6:4 records that fornication between fallen angels and human women produced "giants" and "men of renown" which inter-marriage between normal humans could not have produced. This story proves that angels are not sexless. These fallen angels cannot be the same persons as the rebellious angels who followed Lucifer because God chained all of them in the bottomless pit except for four whom He chained in the river Euphrates. Jude 1:6; Revelation 9:14. God exiled these fallen angels from Heaven because they remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer. They roam God's universe doing some good things and some sinful things. Some of them desire to be friends with humans, some are neutral toward humans, and some are somewhat hostile toward humans.

Christ came to Abraham and made a covenant with him that He would give him and all of his descendants the land of Canaan forever. God promised Abraham that His judgment would fall on all those who would hate and do harm to Abraham's descendants. God also promised Abraham that he and his descendants would become a blessing to "all families of the earth," which can only mean the living natures of every human who would ever live. God's message to Abraham constituted a prophecy that God will one day separate the repentant, living nature of every human from their evil nature, some by His grace and all others from the regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 17:6-8; John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The seed of Abraham can only be those Israelites who have been faithful to the Jews' religion. Romans 2:28-29. In Christ's judgment in the end of the world, He will raise all faithful Jews who did not get saved by grace from the regions of the dead, recreate them, and give them citizenship in the eternal nation of Israel that will rule the earth. Isaiah 66:10-14. God will also raise and recreate all unfaithful Jews, but He will judge them with His "rod" and demote them to have to live with the recreated Gentiles. Ezekiel 20:37-38. Israel will forever be the nation that rules the recreated earth, but it will be populated only by those who were faithful to Judaism. Romans 11:26-27.

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            The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to Noah and his family to save them from the great flood which He sent to destroy the rest of humanity that had become very evil. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 6:8. Genesis 1:26-31 clearly teaches that God created a pre-Adamic race in His image. These humans could not have been the same persons as Adam and Eve because God created them to be "very good" when God sent them into the whole world for them to inhabit. When God sent Adam and Eve from the garden into the world, they were not "very good." In fact, they were sinful. God also gave the pre-Adamic race every good fruit and meat to eat. God also gave them no Tree of Life and no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God created this pre-Adamic race in His image which meant that they had souls and intelligence but no spirit which is an inner consciousness of God. They could not have had spirits because God did not visit with them as He did with Adam and Eve.

Beginning with God's exile of Cain from the Adamic race, the Adamic race began to intermarry with the pre-Adamic race. The children of these marriages inherited both sin and evil and a spiritual nature from the Adamic race. But their spiritual natures were weak because of their absence of spirit. Over time, the evil natures that they had inherited gained dominance over their weak spiritual natures, and they became very evil. Genesis 4:16-24; Genesis 6:5-7.

The pure Adamic race, which continued through Seth, continued to worship God and still offered the sin offering that God had given to Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:21. For these reasons, the pure Adamic race found grace in God's sight to Noah and his family. Genesis 4:6; Genesis 6:8-10.

By Noah's time, the entire human race had become violent and evil except for Noah and his family. God regretted that He had created all life and humans because evil had corrupted it all except for Noah and his family. God determined to destroy all mammals, birds, and humans except for Noah and his family and the beasts God would bring to Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:5-7.

God killed all of the evil people with a great flood and sent their souls and spirits into the cursed bottomless pit in the ground. God had not as yet provided any form of salvation for these evil humans. This condition put them in grave danger of being lost from God in eternal death forever. The goal of the Devil is to permanently annul a part of God's creations and thereby prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. But God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love aroused His compassion for even the weak spirits of these evil humans whom He had confined to the place of eternal death called the bottomless pit.

Because of His compassion for the weak spirits of all these living humans and for all future evil humans, God commanded Noah to make a burnt offering for their future salvation. God told Noah that his burnt offering would symbolize God's removal of His curse of the ground so that it could never hold the living souls and spirits within it forever. God also promised Noah that He would never again in the future put all living humans in danger of eternal death, but He would provide a way to save them all but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. From that time forward, the burnt offering would be directly connected to the sin offering because it would symbolize the descent of the coming Savior into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all mankind not saved by grace that the Savior would bear on His cross. Christ rose immaculate from the dead to provide a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all living humans. Genesis 8:20-21; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 20:5.

Christ's Spirit descended into Paradise located next to Hell to preach His salvation by grace to all of the Old Testament saints confined there. Ephesians 4:7-10. Christ's Spirit also descended into the bottomless pit where He preached His lesser form of salvation to all the living souls there who had been destroyed in the flood. I Peter 3:18-22. Christ will raise all living humans upon their repentance and faith from all of the regions of the dead and recreate them all to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Christ came to Noah and his family, but His judgment fell on the whole, evil world.

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        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ came to Adam and Eve after they had sinned to promise them a Savior, and He cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains the bottomless pit from which all evil emerges. Christ punished Adam and Eve and all of their descendants with hard labor and pain in life because of their sins, but He did not curse them, and He promised them that their good lives that He had created would always belong to Him. Genesis 3:14-20; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. God also punished Adam and Eve and all of their descendants with physical death because of their sins. Physical death typifies the way God deals with His good systems that become tainted with sin because of evil. God causes dead bodies to dissolve in the earth in order to extract all of their good elements to feed plant life, but actual death itself, which becomes a false system, equals absolute nothingness.

The fact that physical death becomes an absolute nothingness can be illustrated by the use of mathematics. The formula that is 3+2=6 is a false system, similar to physical death. But all of the numbers and signs of this false system are good and useful individual elements that can be used in true systems, similar to the elements of the dead physical body. When all of these good elements become subtracted from this false system, similar to the dissolution of a dead body, only the idea of nothing is left. But the idea of nothing is also a good and useful element in consciousness. One of its uses is that it can indicate a deeper nothingness in a false system. The idea of nothing indicates that the life of a dead body equals nothing, but it also indicates that the consciousness of a dead body equals an absolute nonexistence. Nonconsciousness exists, in a sense, as nonexistence. It nonexists nowhere and at no time. Consciousness can recognize the falsity of a system because of the useful idea of nothing, but the usefulness of the false system itself equals an absolute nothingness. Isaiah 40:17; Job 10:21-22.

If Adam and Eve had chosen to eat of the Tree of Life first and had refused to sin, then after over 900 years of a blissful life on earth, God would have simply translated their bodies to spiritual bodies and lifted them up to live with Him in Heaven forever. They would not suffer physical death. God probably translated Enoch in this way. Of all sinful humans who ever lived, Enoch was probably the least sinful. Enoch walked with God, and he had so few sins in his life that God was able to save him by His grace, eliminate all of his sins and his evil, and translate him directly to Heaven. Genesis 5:24.

The World and the Word

                The Advents and Judgments of Christ

In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil in order to dissolve His entire creation, including all humans, so that He can separate all that is good from all that is evil. Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 22:11-12. All evil is sinful, but sins of weakness are never wholly evil. When God uses His fiery wrath to dissolve all humans confined to the regions of death, He will cause them all to repent of their sins of weakness and believe that the Lamb can save them and reconcile them to God. For this reason alone, sins of weakness can never be wholly evil. Evil is wholly evil because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. When God causes every living human confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God, He will turn even the worst evils that they have committed into sins of weakness that He can forgive because their humility in repentance will engender His compassion when He sees their desire to give up their sins and be reconciled to Him. These living humans would not be able to recognize the Lamb as their Savior unless they were willing to repent and believe that only the Lamb can and will take away their sins and save them with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-15; John 11:25.

God considers the totally evil nature of humans that never repents to belong solely to the Devil because it is a foreign poison that the Devil injected into humans that causes them, in their weakness, to sin. I John 3:10. God will eventually cleanse and forgive all sins of weakness of all living humans because He will cause them all to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. God's Love has compassion for the helplessness of living humans while they are under the evil power of the Devil. Romans 5:6-9; Hebrews 2:9.

With every coming of Christ, God effects a concomitant judgment. When Christ came, as His Holy Spirit, He created the Heaven and the earth to be wholly righteous and good, including all humans. Genesis 1:31. God's judgment fell on the rebel Lucifer because he refused to repent. God dissolved his good system, recovered all of his good elements that God had put into his good system and exiled his wholly empty negative consciousness to the earth as Satan the god of this world. Negative consciousnesses are devils from the bottomless pit who are totally empty, evil, nasty, and cruel. Satan became one of them. Isaiah 41:28-29; Isaiah 40:17; Ezekiel 28:13-19. Those who worship Lucifer actually worship Satan because Lucifer no longer exists except in God's memory.

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                  The Advents and Judgments of Christ

I Corinthians 15:20 teaches that when Christ rose from the dead, He became "the firstfruits" of them that slept." Since both Jesus and the Apostle Paul often referred to those who died in a state of grace as being "asleep," then these "firstfruits" can only mean all living humans who physically died in a state of grace whom Christ has raised from the dead in the Rapture of the Old Testament saints, and whom He will raise in the Raptures of the Church Age saints and the Tribulation saints. Matthew 27:51-53; I Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:4 and 6.

But then I Corinthians 15:21-22 teaches that Christ will also effect a "resurrection of the dead" which can only follow the "firstfruits" resurrections. In addition, the phrase "every man in his own order" can only mean, in light of verse 22, that Christ will eventually raise all living humans from the dead. Revelation 20:5. Verse 21 further teaches that just as Adam caused the eternal deaths of all living humans, so the man, who can only be Christ, will cause all living humans subject to eternal death to be made alive again. Verse 23 clearly teaches that this resurrection of the dead back to life will occur after all of the "firstfruits" resurrections, and at the final and eternal coming of Christ. Verse 24 clearly teaches that this final and eternal coming of Christ will happen "in the end" which can only mean the end of the world. Verse 24 further teaches that in this final judgment, Christ will gain an absolute and eternal victory over all evil and the Devil himself. Christ does not gain this final victory in His millennial reign. Verse 25 teaches that after Christ's reign, meaning His millennial reign, He will "put all enemies under His feet." The enemies of God can only be the Devil and evil itself, not living humans whom He created and loves. I John 3:8. Verse 26 teaches that Christ will in the end destroy death itself. Christ will take eternal death away from all living humans. Hebrews 2:9; Luke 20:38. Christ will destroy the eternal deaths of all living humans, not the living humans themselves. Verses 27-28 teach that after His final judgment, Christ will become the final and eternal King of all His recreations, including all living humans. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-23; Isaiah 66:20-24. Colossians 1:20 teaches that Christ will "reconcile all things unto Himself" which includes all things in earth as well as Heaven. Christ created "all things." Colossians 1:16.

All of this put together can only mean that the particular time and place of Christ's judgment of "the quick and the dead" can only occur at His Great White Throne Judgment. I Timothy 4:1. The phrase "at His appearing and His kingdom" can only mean His final and eternal appearance and His final and eternal kingdom of eternal righteousness. II Peter 3:10-13. The millennial reign of Christ will not be His final kingdom. In His millennial reign, Christ will take His rightful place as the King of this world, and He will cause the "god of this world" to be chained in the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1-3; Revelation 20:6. In His millennial reign, Christ will create all humans to be righteous but that will not put a final end to evil. Revelation 20:7-10. Christ will gain His final and eternal reign as King only after "He hath put all enemies under His feet," and He has obtained the "preeminence." I Corinthians 15:25; Colossians 1:18. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up the heavens and the earth in order to thoroughly purge them of any taint of evil. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:9. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all systems that He created in order to separate every good system that He ever created from all evil which seeks to annul it. I Corinthians 3:11-15. Only then will Christ be ready to recreate the heavens and the earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness," including all living humans that He ever created, so that He will become the final and eternal King of His new universe. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:1-3; Revelation 21:1-5.

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              The Advents and Judgments of Christ

Revelation 20:1-3 relates that God will send an angel to chain the Devil in the bottomless pit for most of the millennial reign of Christ. Satan will not be allowed to exert any evil influence over the nations until near the end of Christ's millennial reign. Yet, despite God's restraint on the Devil, some of the nations will again turn to evil near the end of Christ's millennial reign. In Revelation 20:7-9, Satan will be released from his prison to "deceive the nations" in order to form an army to try to defeat Christ in battle and retake the world for himself. But Satan would not be able "to deceive the nations" unless they had begun to turn back to evil. This fact proves that Lucifer had to have been influenced to rebel against God by devils that somehow got into Heaven from the bottomless pit. Ezekiel 28:15. Evil was "found" in Lucifer. He did not generate it himself. A "mystery of iniquity" exists that God must discover in order to completely purge it from all of His creations so that He can recreate a new Heaven and earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness." II Thessalonians 2:7; II Peter 3:13. The fact that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly destroy the Devil and his evil army in this final battle proves that God will have discovered how evil demons get into His creations. God will solve the mystery of iniquity. Revelation 20:9-10.

II Timothy 4:1 prophesies that Christ "shall judge the quick and the dead." This verse clearly states that this judgment will happen at a particular time and place. In no other judgment of Christ in the Bible (KJB) does He judge the quick and the dead at the same time. This can only be the Great White Throne Judgment because when Christ comes at the beginning of His millennial reign He will give that judgment to His Tribulation saints. Revelation 20:4. I Timothy 6:13 also prophesies that God "quickeneth all things." This can only be a prophecy that God will raise back to life all living humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. This verse cannot mean that God only gives temporary life to humans because Ecclesiastes 3:14 teaches that whatever God creates lasts forever. Psalm 111:7-8. If living humans were ever to go into the lake of fire, that would amount to a subtraction from God's infinite creative powers. That cannot happen according to Ecclesiastes 3:14. Luke 20:38. In addition, I Timothy 4:10 clearly teaches that God "is the Savior of all men." This verse has to mean exactly that which it states because, in light of Ecclesiastes 3:14, God can never lose anything He has ever created. God's statement in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," can only mean that God will absolutely recreate everything that He created in the first place, including all living humans. Romans 8:18-25. The phrase in I Timothy 4:10 that states "specially of those that believe" means that those who believe while still alive in the flesh will receive God's special salvation which is by His grace.

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When Christ comes back in His physical form on His white horse to defeat the evil armies of the Beast and the False Prophet and sends an angel to chain the Devil in the bottomless pit, He will take His rightful place as the King and God of this world to replace the Devil who was the former "god of this world." Revelation 19:15-16; II Corinthians 4:4. This return of Christ to the world in His physical form happens to be the same advent prophesied by the angels in Acts 1:11. This coming of Christ is commonly called "the second coming of Christ." But strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "the second coming of Christ." Christ comes continually, either in His spiritual form to His people saved by grace or in His physical form as He reveals Himself to the world or to His repentant, living humans confined to the regions of death. John 14:18; Luke 2:7; Revelation 5:11-14.

When Christ comes and establishes His millennial kingdom, He will appoint His Tribulation saints to be the judges of the nations. Revelation 20:4. At that time, Christ will effect a Rapture of the Tribulation saints. God calls this Rapture "the first resurrection" because it occurs at the beginning of His millennial reign. The last sentence of Revelation 20:5 really belongs to Revelation 20:6. Revelation 20:5 relates that God will resurrect all of His repentant, living souls and spirits that He created and loves from the regions of the dead at the end of His millennial reign.

The fact that Christ appoints only His Tribulation saints to be His judges in the beginning of His millennial reign proves that His Judgment, as recorded in Matthew 25:31-46, can only be His Great White Throne Judgment. The "sheep" and the "goats" of Christ's final Judgment happen to be inside every individual who receives judgment. The "sheep" represent the repentant, living souls and spirits of all humans whom God will resurrect from the regions of the dead. and the "goats" represent the evil natures of all dead humans that God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every individual human system confined to the regions of death to separate their inner "sheep" from their inner "goats." Matthew 12:33-37; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 3:11-12; Matthew 15:13; Isaiah 45:20-25. The "brethren" of Matthew 25:40 represent all humans saved by grace who will be exempt from Christ's final Judgment. The "least of these" of Matthew 25:45 represent all living humans that God will recreate to live on His new earth. Matthew 25:41 proves that God created the lake of fire for the Devil and his angels, and by extension, for spiritual death itself that God cursed, not for any living human. Genesis 3:14; Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Matthew 25:41 agrees with Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10, and Revelation 20:15.

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The Tribulation saints will have to "endure to the end" in order to be saved by grace. Matthew 24:13. The Tribulation saints will not have the Holy Spirit in their hearts to guide them and assure them of their salvation by grace. They will have to depend on intellectual faith alone until they are either martyred or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period. God will send an angel to preach the gospel to the whole world and that will encourage them, but they still must rely on their certain knowledge that the Rapture did happen and that all claims that it did not will be a lie. Revelation 14:6. All Tribulation saints who give up their faith and receive the mark of the Beast will lose their salvation by grace, but God will still save their living souls and spirits from the regions of death with His lesser form of salvation. Revelation 14:9-13. Even though some of the Tribulation saints will lose their salvation by grace, God still knows all of His saints, and He will never lose a single one of them. John 10:26-30.

The goal of the Devil has always been that he will be able to find a way to so overwhelm the living souls and spirits of humans with evil that he will be able to annul them forever and thereby prove that God's Love can fail because the Devil will have caused God to lose something that He created and loves. The Devil believes that if he can succeed in this endeavor, then that will open a way for him to find a way to murder God and take His place. For this reason, the Beast will invent a powerful gadget called "the mark of the beast" that will cause all who receive it during the Tribulation to become totally evil to the extent that it will completely ruin their good souls and spirits that God created and loves. The Beast will then be able to trap these ruined souls and spirits in Hell forever and thus defeat God. Revelation 14:9-12. But the Beast will fail. Revelation 14:13 proves that those who receive this "mark" will "die in the Lord" which means God will recover His good living souls and spirits from them when they receive the mark for Him to hold in the regions of death until He can effect their lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14. Only the totally evil natures of these humans who receive the mark will be tormented in the lake of fire forever.

All Tribulation saints must rely on intellectual faith alone until they are either killed by the Beast or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period of seven years. Their salvation by grace cannot be completed until they become washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. God will translate the souls and spirits of those who endure to the end to Heaven where they will be washed clean in Christ's blood and water, and they will receive white robes and a home in Heaven forever. Revelation 7:9-17. Christ will invite all the martyred Tribulation saints to be guests at His marriage to His Church. But some of these Tribulation saints will have refused, because of fear or a lack of faith, to be washed in Christ's blood and water and receive their white robes. Christ will cast them out of His wedding to the bottomless pit where they will wait to receive their lesser form of salvation as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Matthew 22:1-14; John 3:29.

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When Jesus came as the Holy Spirit to His Church, He also brought judgment to it. Christ imparts His Holy Spirit to the hearts of His believers so that their souls and spirits will no longer sin. I John 3:9. But Christ did not remove the fleshly natures of believers which adheres to their bodies and can still cause them to sin. Romans 7:15-25. God enjoins believers to reject the temptations of the flesh and adhere to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to stay away from sin and evil. Romans 12:1-2. But when believers inevitably do sin, God has promised that He will wash them in the water that Jesus shed on the cross which the Holy Spirit will bring to them in spiritual form as they daily repent of those sins. John 13:1-15. Although no believer saved by grace can ever lose their salvation, Christ will sometimes severely punish His believers who deliberately sin; that is, practice evil. Such was the case with Ananias and his wife Sapphira when they deliberately lied to the Holy Spirit. Acts 5:1-11. Christ will also discipline His believers who fail to daily repent of their sins of weakness in order to correct them. Hebrews 12:3-13.

Christ has promised that He will never lose a single believer saved by His grace. John 17:12-24; John 10:27-30. For this reason, Christ will sanctify His entire Church by washing it all in the water of His Word. Ephesians 5:25-27. However, some living humans saved by grace will give in to their fleshly nature and fall back into a life of sin and even some deliberate evil. Lot was a good example. Christ will not immediately accept these backsliders into Heaven at the Rapture of the Church because they failed to daily repent of their sins and evils and forsake them. Unless one forsakes one's sins, one has not really repented. God turns evil sins into sins of weakness upon repentance because the sorrow and humility He sees engenders His compassion. God never forgives evil because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. According to Matthew 5:25-26, backsliders will be in opposition to Christ at the Rapture of the Church. Christ will cast these backsliders into the "prison," which is the bottomless pit, where they will suffer torment until they remember that they were saved by grace and fully repent. When they repent, Christ will bring them out of the bottomless pit, thoroughly wash them in the water of His Word, and restore them to His Church in Heaven. According to Matthew 18:32-35, backsliders who fail to exercise compassion and forgiveness will be tormented in the prison until they truly repent. According to Luke 12:45-48, backsliders will be tormented until they repent.

When Christ appears to the world; that is, mankind itself, He only appears in His physical form. When Christ appeared to His Church and the Old Testament saints saved by His grace after His resurrection, He appeared in His spiritual body; that is, a body in which He can be physical or spiritual as He wills. Luke 24:36-43. Christ abides with His Church in His spiritual form; that is, His Holy Spirit. John 14:18. God will give spiritual bodies to all believers saved by grace so that they can live with Him in Heaven forever. Philippians 3:20-21. But when God resurrects all of His repentant, living humans from the regions of the dead to be recreated to live on His new earth, He will provide them with only righteous bodies in His image like those He gave to Adam and Eve. I Corinthians 15:35-50.

At the Rapture of the Church, Christ will appear to the world in His physical form only, but He will appear to His Church in His spiritual body. Revelation 1:7; Acts 1:10-11. The unbelievers of the world will claim that the Rapture did not happen, but many others will believe that it happened because they will have seen it with their own eyes. The Tribulation period will soon follow the Rapture. Those living humans who continue to believe in Christ until they are either martyred or until the end of the Tribulation will be saved by grace. These will be the Tribulation saints. Matthew 24:7-13.

After the Rapture, God will remove the Holy Spirit's restraint of evil from the world. II Thessalonians 2:7. God will allow the world to be wholly given over to the complete influence of evil. God will do this to demonstrate to humanity all of the terrible horrors that evil will cause them when God is not present to protect them. Those horrors will be one of the factors that will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to cry out to the Lamb for their salvation as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.

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When Jesus walked the earth in human form, He dealt with the world as a whole when He preached to large crowds, to the Pharisees and Sadducees, and even to Pilate. He also dealt with individuals when He saved and healed them. Luke 7:36-50; Matthew 12:15. Jesus came to save all those who would not believe in Him at that time as well as all who would believe. The fact that Jesus would not judge the world while He was in it, but He reserved His final judgment of the evil, eternal deaths of humans until the end of the world and resurrects their living souls and spirits from the regions of the dead demonstrates the truth that Jesus came to the world to save every human who ever lived. John 12:47-48; Revelation 20:15; Matthew 15:13; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 13:10-12; I John 3:8; I Timothy 6:13. When does Christ "quicken all things?" The only possible answer must be at the end of the world. Revelation 20:5. God never creates temporary life. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38.

After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared in His spiritual body to His believers saved by grace. Jesus did this to instill faith in them that He was alive and had the power to save them forever. John 20:24-29. He did not appear to the world because from the time of His ascension He would deal with the world through His Church and the power of His Holy Spirit. He charged the Church to preach the gospel and witness to the world that He is alive and can save by His grace. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8. He also assured His Church that they can never lose their salvation that He had given them, and He promised them that He would always be with them. John 10:27-30; Matthew 28:20.

After His ascension, Jesus came back to His Church as the Holy Spirit to empower His Church to preach His gospel and to show the world that He can purify and change the hearts of men in order to give them His eternal life and to make them much better people. The Holy Spirit gave the Church "cloven tongues like as of fire" to symbolize that He would sanctify and purify His Church. Acts 2:3. God can cleanse sins with His fiery wrath against evil as well as with the blood of Christ. Isaiah 6:6-7. With this event, the Church became the body of Christ with His power to do His work in the world. I Corinthians 12:12-13. The Holy Spirit empowered the Church at Pentecost. He did not save the Church at that time. Christ saves only individuals one at a time. The Holy Spirit baptizes believers into the body of Christ when He washes them in the spiritual blood and water that flowed from Jesus' cross. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11. All of the Old Testament saints and Jesus' disciples, except for Judas Iscariot, became saved by grace in reservation before they became washed in Jesus' blood and water because God knew that He would certainly wash them from their sins in the future. In John 20:22, Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to His Church as individuals for the certainty of their salvation through His washing them in the spiritual blood and water from Jesus' cross. The Tribulation saints will be saved by grace in reservation until they get to Heaven when they will be cleansed by the blood and water from Jesus' cross. Revelation 7:11-17.

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God creates every human to be an extremely complicated system with a body, soul, and spirit. I Thessalonians 5:23. The earthly body always dissolves after physical death. Genesis 3:19. The souls and spirits of humans saved by grace go to Heaven after their physical deaths. I Peter 1:3-4. The souls and spirits of humans who do not become saved by grace go to one of the three regions of death when they die according to the judgment of Christ. Christ appears to all humans following physical death. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. God will cause every soul and spirit confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25. When Christ comes with His final judgment in the end of the world, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all things in Heaven and earth including all of the souls and spirits confined within the regions of death. II Peter 3:10-13. Christ will use His fiery wrath to extract His repentant souls and spirits from their dead natures which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 3:10-12; Revelation 20:15. Christ will raise all of His repentant souls and spirits from the dead and recreate them with new bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Earthly bodies never inherit the kingdom of God. I Corinthians 15:50. When Christ comes to Rapture His Church, He will bring recreated, spiritual bodies with Him to clothe His resurrected and translated saints to live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:1-5; I Thessalonians 4:13-18.

God explicitly relates in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." God created all things, including all humans. This means God must recreate all living humans who ever lived, or this statement cannot be true. But it is true because it is the eternal Word of God. If any living humans ever go into the lake of fire then they will be lost from God forever and can never be recreated. Only the dead and evil natures of humans that God did not create and which the Devil injected into living humans will God cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Matthew 15:13; Matthew 3:11-12; Matthew 13:36-43; John 5:28-29. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8.

Jesus came to earth as a baby laid in a manger in Bethlehem. Luke 2:7. Jesus came as an ordinary human capable of suffering and death, but innocent and sinless. Hebrews 4:15. But Jesus was also God in human form. Matthew 1:23; John 1:14. Jesus had to have put off some of His heavenly glory in order to appear on earth as an ordinary human. As both God and a human, Jesus was able to take the punishment of the eternal deaths to which all humans are subject upon Himself on a cross. If God's Love had not done this, then all living humans would have been lost from Him forever. Hebrews 2:9; John 15:13; Matthew 26:50. Jesus also suffered for the sins of every human because sin causes eternal death. Romans 5:12. Jesus removed both the punishment and the cause of eternal death. As a sinless human, Jesus was able to cleanse and forgive the sins and evil of living humans saved by his grace with the blood and water He shed on the cross. I John 5:6-8. As a sinless human when Jesus died on the cross, He was able to leave the sins and evil of the rest of humanity behind in a fiery Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27. God raised Jesus from the dead because He was an innocent human who did not deserve eternal death and because He is Holy God with the power to raise Himself from the dead. I Peter 3:18. For these reasons, Jesus saves all living humans whom He created and loves, some with a higher form of salvation and all others with a lesser form of salvation. I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; Hebrews 2:9; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:26; I Peter 3:18-22; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Matthew 15:13; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Isaiah 45:21-25. Many other scriptures could be cited.

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Jesus endorsed God's lesser form of salvation when He told the rich young ruler in Matthew 19:17 that he would "enter into life" if he kept the commandments which included the sin and burnt offerings for his forgiveness when he failed to keep the Ten Commandments. Jesus could not have meant salvation by grace because obedience to the law cannot save one by God's grace. Jesus had to have meant the promise that God gave to Moses in Deuteronomy 4:40 that faithful Jews will obtain a recreated life on a future recreated earth. Even the worst humans have done some good in life. For this reason, Jesus promised in John 5:28-29 that in the end of the world, He will raise all living humans from their graves for Him to recreate to inhabit His new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Jesus gave this same promise to the lawyer in Luke 10:25-28 who did not believe that Jesus was His Savior. God has promised a higher form of the lesser form of salvation to all faithful Jews in that He will allow them to be citizens of the nation of Israel that will rule the recreated earth. Isaiah 66:10-24.

Jesus also promised a Pharisee in Luke 14:14 that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." This Pharisee was not saved by grace, so Jesus had to have meant that God will raise the good image of God that He put into this Pharisee to a new life on earth as He promised in Deuteronomy 4:40. Jesus also informed a group of Pharisees in Luke 17:21 that "the kingdom of God is within you" by which He could only have meant the good image of God that He had put into them. In John 10:34-35, Jesus reminded the Jews who sought to stone Him that their scripture taught them that they were "gods" by which He could only have meant the good image of Himself that He had put into them. Psalm 82:6. Jesus often rebuked the Pharisees for their oppressive sins against their own people, but He also sometimes referred to some good works which they did which could only have come out of His good image in them. Matthew 23:1-36; Matthew 23:23. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Even the worst humans demonstrate that they possess God's good image in them by the few good works they do. Jesus did warn the Pharisees that He would cast them into Hell for their evil works, but He did not say they would be there forever.

In Isaiah 66:22-24, the prophet informs all humans who ever lived who will still be in their graves in the end of the world that they will all come to Jerusalem to worship God on His recreated earth. They will also observe their own "worms," which symbolizes their separated, evil natures as they squirm in the lake of fire. Mark 9:44, 46, 48. In Revelation 22:11-12, God informs all living humans that He will extend His rewards to all of them whom He will raise from the dead in His general resurrection. Revelation 20:5; Matthew 16:27. God also informs that He will use His consuming fire, symbolized by the burnt offering, to dissolve all the systems of all humans confined to the regions of the dead in order to separate all of their filthy and dead natures from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire and raise their cleansed, living natures to a new life on His new earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Genesis 8:20-21; II Peter 9:9-13; Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 21:8.

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Christ came to Moses in a fiery bush and told him that He would use him to liberate His people from bondage in Egypt. Christ judged the Egyptians with ten terrible plagues which ended with the deaths of the firstborn until Pharaoh chose of his own free will to let God's people go to freedom. The fact that Pharaoh asked Moses in Exodus 12:32 to "bless me also" proves that he chose to let God's people go because he hoped for a blessing from God for so doing. The fact that Pharaoh chose to go after the Israelites with his army to bring them back into slavery also proves that he chose to let them go of his own free will. Every human, deep within themselves, knows that they can do good or evil. How they choose depends upon their faith or their lack of faith in yielding to temptation. Exodus chapters 1-12.

Christ came to the Israelites and displayed His fiery wrath against evil from the top of Mount Sinai. God desired that the Israelites realize by faith that He had liberated them not only from bondage in Egypt but also from bondage to sin and evil by His grace. Exodus 19:1-7; I Peter 2:9. But the people rejected this covenant of grace and desired to prove their own righteousness by their obedience to laws from God. Exodus 19:8. Christ judged these people by a display of His fiery wrath against evil, but He did not kill any of them because He instructed Moses to command the people to sanctify themselves and to stay away from His fiery wrath. Exodus 19:9-25.

God sanctified the Israelites by giving Moses the Ten Commandments for them to strive to obey, but also to teach them that they would inevitably disobey them because of their weakness. But for their sins, God also gave Moses the sin offering to symbolize God's higher form of salvation by His grace, and He gave the burnt offering to symbolize God's lesser form of salvation by His use of His fiery wrath to separate their good and living natures from their evil natures. Leviticus 6:24-30; Leviticus 6:8-13; Leviticus 5:10; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15. The fire that God commanded should never go out which burnt the animal sacrifices symbolized the lake of fire into which God will cast all of the separated, evil natures of all humans. Revelation 20:15; Matthew 15:13. The ashes that the priest had to carry to a "clean place" symbolized all of the separated, living souls and spirits that God will raise from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God has an Infinite Intellect which gives Him the power to create a way to cause every living human confined to the regions of death to repent and believe of their own free will in the Lamb of God and become saved with God's lesser form of salvation. The free will of humans does not equal the Will of God. II Peter 3:9; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25. In Deuteronomy 4:40, God promised all Israelites who have been faithful to Judaism that He will recreate them to live forever in their own land on His recreated earth. But Ezekiel prophesied in Ezekiel 20:37-38 that God will demote all unfaithful Jews to an even lesser form of salvation which will be life among the Gentiles on the new earth.

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When Christ gained all power over all of the regions of death after His resurrection, He changed them all to only places of temporary punishment for sins and evil. Revelation 1: 17-18. This victory over all sin and evil amounted to a removal of the permanent curse of the ground which Noah's burnt offering symbolized. God's curse means eternal death and separation from Him. But Christ changed that to temporary punishment and separation from God. Satan tried to get Job "to curse God and die" which meant he wanted to subject Job's living soul and spirit to permanent spiritual death. Job 2:9. Satan's temptation of Job symbolized his desire to cause the eternal deaths of all living humans. Job has been credited with great faith, but actually God did not allow Job to lose His faith. Job 19:25-27. God has allowed Satan to persecute the human race to the utmost to prove that the love and faith that God puts into the living souls and spirits of all humans can never fail. Some humans do curse God, but in the end, God will not allow their faith to fail. God creates all humans in His image which is good, and that good system cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14. If God's Love cannot fail, then neither can His faith fail which stems from His Love. I Corinthians 13:8; Galatians 5:6; Romans 12:3. If all humans are alive to God, then they are permanently alive. Luke 20:38.

 

When Christ descended into Hell, He left behind there all of the sins and evil of all mankind that He bore on the cross, and He proved that He did that when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27. The burnt offering symbolizes this victory of Christ. Because of Christ's victory over all sins and eternal deaths, in the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to judge and purge all living humans confined to the regions of death in order to separate their repentant lives which He will raise from the dead from their unrepentant, evil deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15. Christ will raise all of His living souls and spirits that He created and loves back to life from the regions of the dead and recreate them with new bodies to live on His recreated earth, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate all of their sins and evil from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15; John 5:28-29.

 

Christ came to Abraham and promised to give him and his descendants, who would write His Word and bring the Savior into the world, the land of Palestine forever. God will have to raise them all from the dead to do this. God also promised Abraham that through him and his descendants, all of humanity will be blessed, meaning God will give all living humans either a higher or a lower form of salvation. Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 17:6-8. God considers any curse against His people to be a curse against Himself. Curses against God proceed directly from the evil nature that the Devil injected into humans. Christ told Abraham that He will curse all humans who curse Abraham's people. Christ judges all who hate the Jews not only with punishment in their lives on earth, but He will also send their living souls and spirits to a fiery Hell if they do not repent and get saved by His grace. John 5:24.

 

The people of Sodom and Gomorrah displayed their contempt and hatred for Lot and his family when they tried to break down his door to get to the angels whom they thought were men and whom they knew that Lot had to protect. The angels punished these evil people by blinding them, and God destroyed them all with His fiery wrath against evil which symbolized the fact that God will send all who hate the Jews to a fiery Hell until Christ's final Judgment. At that time, Christ will separate their unrepentant, evil natures from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire, but He will raise back to life their repentant but puny good souls and spirits that He put into them when He created them for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

 

God has the right to create living humans with puny souls and spirits or strong souls and spirits as He wills. God does this to fully test His Love for His creations. Nevertheless, every human remains responsible for the choices he makes. Even the worst and most cruel humans have done some good works which proves that they still retain weak and puny souls and spirits that God will cause to repent in Revelation 5:11-14 so that He can raise them from the dead for Him to recreate. Romans 9:13-24.

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All of the judgments of  Christ are directly connected to the comings of Christ. Christ comes to humanity in many different ways. Christ has come to humanity in the past; He comes to humanity in the present, and He will come to humanity in the future. With every coming of Christ, He makes a judgment.

Christ came to earth in creation which culminated in His creation of mankind whom He judged for his sins, but for whom He also promised an eternal salvation through a Savior who would suffer in their place to take away their sins and eternal deaths and give them all an eternal life, some by His grace and all others by His resurrection of His good image that He put into them that He can never lose. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.

Christ came to Noah after the flood and judged all humanity by giving Noah a burnt offering which symbolized God's recovery and preservation of all life that He had created. In the flood, God killed all evil humans in such a way as to put them in danger of eternal death and separation from God, but in His compassion, God could not allow them to remain in that condition. So He gave Noah a burnt offering to symbolize His future salvation of them and the rest of humanity to a lesser salvation than that of grace. Genesis 3:20-21; Psalm 36:6. When God killed all evil humans in the great flood, He consigned their souls and spirits that He had created in His image to the cursed ground which holds the bottomless pit which, at that time, was a place of eternal death. But with Noah's burnt offering, God symbolically and actually removed the curse from the ground so that He could give His life back to all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. For this reason, Christ went to these living humans in their prison to inform them that if they would believe in Him, He would liberate them all from eternal death. They all believed which means Christ will raise all of their living souls and spirits that He created from the dead in His final judgment, and He will give them new bodies and a new life on His recreated earth which constitutes His lesser form of salvation. Hebrews 2:9; I Peter 3:18-20; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.