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.