The World and the Word

           The Advents and Judgments of Christ

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.