The World and the Word

         The Inerrant and Infallible Word of God

What is God's Word? God's Word happens to be more than the written Word of God. Psalm 19:1-6 clearly teaches that all of God's creations declare His Word. Verse two reveals that God's creations "uttereth speech," and verse four equates His creations with "words." God's Word goes out to the world in His creations as well as His written Word. God created absolutely every positive creation. Revelation 4:11.

Romans 1:19-20 teaches that God can be clearly seen as being the Creator of all things. God's Word in His creations demonstrates that His creations are designed. God patterned His creations on the invisible Infinite Set of Perfect Ideas in His own Mind. The Logos is Christ who is One in being with His Father. John 1:1; John 10:30. All of God's creations indicate His existence. True science and mathematics now indicate that God exists. The universe has been fine tuned to a mathematical precision that allows life to exist. The mathematics that results from quantum mechanics indicates that an Infinite Mind must exist. True science and mathematics belong to God, and He has made them a part of His perfect Word that now speaks to humans.

Scientific atheists have invented many intricate but false arguments that creation may look designed, but it is not. According to them, it all just happened by chance. Blind evolution just proceeds by chance, although mathematical calculations have proven that idea to be impossible. Darwin himself made this argument. Only their stubborn hostility to God causes them to reject the overwhelming evidence that creation looks designed because it is, in fact, designed. Romans 1:21-32.

God made all of His creations to be "very good." Genesis 1:31. But when Satan introduced sin and evil into God's creations, then they became flawed by its influence. Romans 8:20. Only God's creations became flawed, not the inerrant and infallible Living Word of God who is Christ. John 1:1. The written Word of God contains flaws because it was written by fallible humans. Nevertheless, the written Word of God remains inerrant and infallible because God based it on His Perfect Set of Ideas who is Christ. The written Word of God cannot be less than inerrant and infallible because it teaches the inerrant and infallible truth that all humans have become fallible because of sin and evil even as they write the Word of God. Hebrews 8:7-9; Ezekiel 20:25. God allowed sinful humans to write flaws into His Word, but that fact does not diminish the inerrant and infallible written Word in the least.

God based His written Word on the inerrant and infallible Living Word who is Christ. This fact means that in symbolic form the written Word must bear the sins and evils of fallen humans just as Christ bore the sins and evils of all humans on His cross. But just as Christ rose victorious over all sins and evils from the dead, so the written Word of God emerges as inerrant and infallible because God's Love written in His Word covers and eliminates all sin and evil. Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:7-8; I Peter 4:8.

Consciousness and a Camera

          Consciousness and a Camera

No camera can take a picture of itself in a mirror without being loaded with film. Similarly, the electrical and chemical processes in the brain cannot produce consciousness. Consciousness must be loaded into the brain for a person to be physically conscious of the world and inner thoughts.

The materialists contend that if a brain is defective or becomes diseased, then consciousness does not work properly and that proves that the brain produces consciousness. But even though a defective camera cannot take a good picture even though loaded with perfect film, so a perfect consciousness cannot operate properly within a defective or diseased brain. Consciousness and brain activity must work together in harmony to produce a normal and healthy experience of the world and inner, subjective experience as well.

When most babies are born, God loads their brains with consciousness which is the same as spirit. Their spirit causes them to possess a physical consciousness of the world, of their own inner being, and of God. Sometimes rarely, babies are born who seem to be normal and healthy, but they remain in a vegetable state until they die because, for reasons of His own, God does not load their brains with spirit. Job 32:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; I Thessalonians 5:23; James 2:26.

Atheists deny the existence of God because they willfully shut down their consciousness of God that He gave them when they were born. God creates every human in His own image. Genesis 1:27. God judges all atheists when they die, and He consigns their souls and spirits to one of the regions of death according to how they lived their lives. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. But God loves them, and He will not give up on them. I Corinthians 13:8. In the end, God will reawaken their consciousnesses of Him when He appears to them in a great worship service, and He will cause them to choose of their own free will to repent and believe in the Lamb who alone can save them. Revelation 5:11-14. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse their souls and spirits of all sin and evil, resurrect them, and recreate them to righteous lives on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

The Creation of Reality

 Absolutely everything humans experience can only be real whether abstract or material. The only real illusion that humans experience in life is the idea that illusions exist. If a person feels it or thinks it, it is real. Consciousness cannot experience anything that is not real. Consciousness is that very necessary engine of the universe that makes everything that it experiences real.

False combinations of real ideas or feelings can cause a person to arrive at a false conclusion that illusions exist. But all false combinations of real experiences are only systems that inevitably comprise real elements. False combinations are like mistakes in arithmetic, but yet all of the signs and numbers that compose elements of that false system are real. If one feels it or thinks it, it is real. Consciousness makes it real.

Materialists believe that all of life's thoughts and feelings, and even consciousness itself, are but illusions because all of life is based on material chemical reactions. But humans can only know about chemical reactions by being conscious of them. If intelligent consciousness happens to be but an illusion, then chemical reactions must also be an illusion. Once one has subtracted all of the illusory elements of illusory consciousness, one can only conclude that nothingness produces illusions. After all, how can an illusory consciousness have real experiences. This conclusion is as absurd as the materialists assume life is.

Yet, even nothingness cannot produce illusions because nothingness itself is no more than a useful idea in consciousness. If even the idea of nothing cannot produce illusions, then some unknown factor which cannot be anything at all must produce illusions. This thing must be less than nothing. It can only be an absolute nothingness which does not exist anywhere or at any time. One is then left with the conclusion that absolute nothingness produces illusions which are ordered and have laws that govern them. In other words, a non-existent entity which can be nowhere and at no time produces an ordered universe governed by laws, and can produce a consciousness which can be aware of it all as but an illusion. This conclusion amounts to the height of absurdity. Why not just make the logical conclusion that everything of which consciousness can be aware must be real?

Consider the consciousness of a corpse. Those who observe a corpse will say that it has no consciousness; that is, its consciousness equals nothing. But its consciousness cannot equal nothing because nothing can only be an idea in consciousness of which the corpse has none. This condition can only cause one to conclude that the corpse has no consciousness whatsoever. In other words, the corpse has a non-existent consciousness which can only non-exist nowhere and at no time. It is an absolute nothingness which can produce absolutely nothing.

The materialists may counter these arguments by saying that consciousness can have illusions. True, but the word illusion happens to be but a useful idea in consciousness that indicates the presence, or actually the non-presence, of absolute nothingness. Consciousness cannot experience absolute nothingness, but consciousness can use the idea of nothing to indicate its non-presence. Illusions only non-appear when something goes wrong with consciousness; that is, when consciousness makes mistakes, has hallucinations, optical illusions, or merely misapprehensions. In other words, consciousness can make false combinations, but it always uses real objects or ideas to make them. For instance, one can observe an illusion called a "ghost," but a ghost comprises an opaque mist or a shadow which are real ideas derived from prior experience. One can make a mistake in arithmetic which is always a false combination comprised of real ideas. 2+3=6 is a false combination, but all of its signs and numbers are real ideas. All illusions comprise false combinations of real objects or ideas.

But if an illusion always comprises real objects or ideas, then where is the falsity of the illusion? One can argue that illusions are completely useless, and therefore, they equal nothing. But nothingness is a real and useful idea in consciousness that indicates the presence, or actually the non-presence, of non-existence. A unicorn does not exist although horns and horses are real. The real and useful idea of nothing cannot be the same as the non-existence of the unicorn because that combination cannot be real and the idea of nothing is real. Consciousness can never get a real idea of non-existence because it never appears to consciousness. For this reason, illusions are never real. Non-existence equals absolute nothingness.

If the non-existence of the consciousness of a corpse can only be nowhere and at no time, then it equals absolute nothingness. A corpse cannot be conscious of itself or anything else. The only consciousnesses that can locate the corpse in time and space are the others who are conscious of it.

If objects with no consciousness cannot be conscious of themselves, then the only power that can make them real is consciousness. This condition can only mean that all of the potential real objects in the universe before consciousness arrived, if there were any, would have to be equal to absolute nothingness. The universe would be like a corpse. All of the potential real objects in this universe would have to be nowhere and at no time until they could be located and made real in time and space by consciousness, and separated from each other as individual objects by the use of the idea of nothing in consciousness. Only consciousness can raise something above the level of nothing and create something from absolute nothingness. All of this put together can only mean that before the advent of finite consciousness, an Infinite Consciousness had to exist in order to create and establish the reality of the universe. Genesis 1:1.

The World and the Word

       The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God wrote Revelation 22:18-19 to the churches to explain to them that which happens to the evil, but foreign, nature injected into every human by the Devil which never repents and believes. Like the Devil himself, every unbeliever attempts to add to or subtract from God's Word by denying its truth or by trying to distort it. Genesis 3:1-5. God never forgives unbelievers because they never repent. Matthew 12:31-32. God used His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve Lucifer's good system, recover all of God's good elements that He had put into it, and reduced him to a totally empty, negative consciousness called Satan because he refused to repent. Ezekiel 28:13-28. In a similar manner, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human system confined to the regions of death, recover the good image of Himself that He put into them when He causes them to repent and believe, and He will extract their empty, evil natures from them for Him to cast into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15.

Jesus promised in Revelation 22:20-21 that He will "come quickly." Jesus has kept and will keep His promise because He continuously comes quickly. He quickly created the Heaven and the earth in six days. God could have created His universe in six seconds because He can make a billion years pass in one second or less. II Peter 3:8; Genesis 1:1. He quickly comes to believers saved by His grace the moment they repent and believe. Acts 3:18-20. He quickly came to empower His Church on the day of Pentecost. Acts 2:1-4. He quickly completed the higher and lower forms of salvation of all living humans in only three days. Matthew 20:17-19; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22. He will quickly come to Rapture His Church. I Corinthians 15:51-57. He will come quickly to defeat His enemies in the battle of Armageddon and rescue Israel and the Tribulation saints from annihilation. Revelation 19:11-21. He will come quickly to burn up the Devil's armies in His last battle with evil, and He will quickly sit on His Great White Throne for His judgment of the quick and the dead. Revelation 20:7-15; II Timothy 4:1.

The World and the Word

         The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Revelation 22:14-15 emphasizes the fact that God in the end will effect a complete separation of all the good systems that He has created from all of the evil systems invented by the Devil. Even the worst humans have done some good in life which adheres to the good image of God within them that God will raise from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Even though a man may become insane because of evil and be filled with a legion of devils, Jesus will save His good image still in him and cast His total evil out of him. Luke 8:26-39. Like a fig tree that bears no fruit whatsoever, Christ will curse the evil part of all humans and destroy it forever. Matthew 21:18-20. So Christ will do the same for every human who ever lived.

Revelation 22:14 seems to indicate that God will allow those living humans raised from the regions of the dead who tried to live good lives on the former earth to visit Heaven from the new earth to have access to the Tree of Life. God will recreate all living humans on His new earth with the same kind of righteousness that He gave to Adam and Eve before they sinned. They will live long and blissful lives on the earth, but eventually God will translate their spirits and souls with new bodies to Paradise next to Heaven when their earthly bodies finally expire. Physical death as a punishment for sin is not the same as a translation to Heaven which is like a Rapture. Recreated humans who have access to the Tree of Life will live much longer on the new earth than those recreated humans who led evil lives on the former earth. Both kinds of living humans will be translated to Paradise when their physical bodies expire, but the best humans will enjoy the best rewards. Perhaps, someday God will create a new earth for them somewhere so that they can live in bliss there forever. Psalm 116:15.

In Revelation 22:16, Jesus affirmed that He sent His message of Revelation, and by extension the rest of the Bible (KJB), to His churches for them to preach to the world. Jesus also affirmed that He is the eternal King of Israel and Judah as His Father promised king David in II Samuel 7:16. After Christ recreates the Heaven and the earth, He will make Israel the only organized nation on the earth, and Jerusalem will be the capitol of the world. All of the recreated Gentile people will come to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. Isaiah 66:10-24.

In Revelation 22:17, the Spirit commands the churches to preach the gospel to the world so that some of those whom God has chosen will hear it and believe and become saved by grace. The preaching of the gospel is not a part of the gospel. It is only the message of the gospel. Only the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ administered by the Holy Spirit to those who repent and have faith is the gospel. I Corinthians 15:1-4. The Holy Spirit preaches the gospel to every human who lives during the Age of Grace. John 1:9; Colossians 1:23.

God simply allows the witnesses and the preachers of the gospel to be used by the Holy Spirit to preach at certain times and places for those who hear to be saved by grace at those times. These are additional good works given to believers saved by grace because Christ lives in their hearts. The churches also participate in the edification and sanctification of converts when they join the church and are taught the Word of God. Matthew 28:18-20. Since Jesus promised that He will never lose a single one of His special sheep, then all who become saved by grace who never heard the gospel preached will nevertheless become saved by grace through the direct preaching by the Holy Spirit. John 10:27-30; John 1:9; Colossians 1:23. No one ever goes to one of the regions of death because the gospel was not preached to them.

The World and the Word

       The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Revelation 20:13 clearly teaches that God will call the dead out of three different regions of Hell called the Sea, Death, and Hell. Revelation 6:7-8 also confirms this fact. But the Bible (KJB) refers to all three places by the general term of Hell because they all are hellish places. God's created His universe to be wholly positive because it emits light and correct levels of heat so that His good systems of life can flourish. All of the hellish places are only negative because they absorb light which makes them dark and able to hide evil. The hellish places exist in another dimension, but they cast a "shadow of death" into God's creations. Psalm 23:4. In the end, God will eliminate Death and Hell when He casts them into the eternal lake of fire which emanates from His Holy Spirit. Revelation 20:14; Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 32:22. God will also eliminate the Sea by a means not specified. Revelation 21:1.

Dark evil somehow enters God's universe through the cover of the "shadow of death." Psalm 23:4. God will recreate His new Heaven and earth to be completely filled with the Light of the Lamb so that no "shadow of death" can bring evil into His new creations ever again. Revelation 21:22-27; Revelation 22:3-5.

Revelation 22:11-12 records that in the end God will effect an absolute separation of all that is evil from all that is good. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve His entire creation, including all human systems confined to the regions of death, recover all their good and cast all of their evil into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:10-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God can give only positive rewards, and Revelation 22:12 teaches that God will give only positive rewards for the good works of all living humans whom He will raise from the dead. God does not give negative rewards to dead humans in the lake of fire. Romans 2:8-9 clearly teaches that in the end God will effect an absolute separation of all that is evil from all that is good, and God will provide positive rewards for all recreated humans who will have to be alive to receive them. Jesus taught the same in Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 15:13 and John 5:28-29.

In Revelation 22:13, Christ proclaims that He began His test of His Love when He created the earth and humanity, and He will end that test with complete victory. John 19:30; John 16:33; Revelation 1:17-18. The Devil believed that God made a huge mistake when He gave free will to humans. The Devil knew he could cause humans to choose to sin which would allow him to inject evil, which is spiritual death, into their inner beings which would eventually cause the complete ruin and annulment of the image of God in them and their eternal loss from God's Love forever. Romans 5:12. By this plan, the Devil thought he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty and that proof would give him a means to find a way to murder God and take His place. John 8:44; Isaiah 14:12-17. The first written book of the Bible (KJB) reveals Satan's plans for the destruction of the human race and God. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. If Jesus had not come to earth to take upon Himself on a cruel cross the eternal deaths of all humans and their sins which cause that eternal death, descended into Hell to leave behind the sins and deaths of all living humans confined there, and rose immaculate from the dead to give life back to all humans infected by eternal death, then the Devil would have succeeded. I Peter 3:18; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 2:14-15; John 5:24; Psalm 16:10.

God's Love can never fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14. If nothing can be added to God's creations, and nothing can be subtracted from it, then God holds an Infinite Power over all His creations. God knew that the free will He gave to humans would cause them to sin which would also give the Devil the ability to inject evil into their inner beings which God had created in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:17. But God outwitted the Devil. God used even the Devil to devise a plan whereby God would sacrifice Himself on a cross to completely take away all of man's sins and the eternal deaths that those sins cause. John 15:13; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 2:14-15. Having cleansed all living humans from all sin and eternal death through His shed blood and water and His descent into Hell, Christ rose immaculate from the dead to give His eternal life to all living humans saved by His grace and His created life back to all humans whom He would raise from the regions of death. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5. God also proved that His gift of free will to humans was not a mistake that would cause the complete ruination and loss of His image in living humans. God knew that His Infinite Intellect could devise a plan whereby He would be able to cause every living human who ever lived to choose of their own free will to return to the faith that He puts into His image when He creates them. Romans 12:3. God creates every human to be "very good" which includes faith. Genesis 1:31. God will reveal Himself to every living human confined to the regions of death and cause them all to choose of their own free will to repent and believe in the Lamb of God. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 2:7; Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

The World and the Word

        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate all living humans confined to the regions of the dead from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15. Christ will recreate the living humans cleansed by His fire, and He will cast only their evil, spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:15. Christ will judge every tiny detail of every action of these living humans so that He will know exactly how to thoroughly separate their good works from their sinful and evil works which He will cast into the lake of fire. This kind of judgment will be necessary because many actions of humans involve good works mixed with sinful works. Matthew 10:26. I Corinthians 4:5 exactly describes Christ's final judgment, and the phrase "then shall every man have praise of God" agrees precisely with Revelation 22:12.

Christ will judge every resurrected, living human according to their good works. Revelation 22:12; John 5:28-29. Christ will judge the spiritual dead according to their evil works. Revelation 20:12; John 5:28-29. The Bible (KJB) tends to agree with the existential philosophy that that which humans choose to do becomes what they are. Some of the dead works will be small, meaning these humans committed few evil works, and some of the dead works will be large, meaning those humans committed a lot of evil works. Revelation 20:12. God will judge the evil dead according to their evil works recorded in "the books." Their names will not be found in the Book of Life. Revelation 20:15.

God records the earthly names of every human born into the world in His Book of Life. Since these earthly names apply to both the good and the evil natures of every human, God will blot the earthly names of the evil dead out of His Book of Life. Revelation 22:18-19. But God gives to every living human whom He recreates a new name. Revelation 2:17. God immediately recreates the souls and spirits of all humans saved by grace the moment they repent and believe, and He then writes their new names in the Lamb's Book of Life. Revelation 21:27. God will recreate all of the living humans whom He raises from the regions of death, and He will write their new names that He gives them in His Book of Life. Revelation 21:5. God will also rewrite the earthly names of all the living humans whom He raises from the dead in His Book of Life. God will allow only humans saved by His grace to live in Heaven with Him, but He may allow some of the recreated earth dwellers to visit Heaven from time to time. Revelation 21:23-27; Revelation 22:14.

The World and the Word

         The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Jesus will come as King of Kings and Lord of Lords mounted on a white horse with His army of saints to end the Tribulation period and rescue the nation of Israel and the Tribulation saints from being annihilated by the Beast and the False Prophet. Christ will defeat these evil armies, and He will cast the Beast and the False Prophet alive into the lake of fire, and He will send an angel to find the Devil whom the angel will chain in the bottomless pit. Christ will then take the Devil's place as the ruler of the evil part of the world, and Christ will establish His millennial kingdom in righteousness. Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:1-3. The Tribulation saints will reign with Christ, and He will make them the judges of the world. Revelation 20:4-5. Up to this time, Christ has made no judgment of the quick and the dead. II Timothy 4:1. This fact means that Christ's millennial kingdom cannot be His final appearance or His final kingdom.

The millennial reign of Christ actually will not end the influence of evil in the world. The mystery of iniquity to God happens to be that God has not yet discovered how evil emerges from the bottomless pit to influence His living humans to commit sins. II Thessalonians 2:7. Ezekiel 28:15 relates that iniquity was suddenly found in Lucifer with no explanation of how it got there. But with the trinity of evil eliminated from any influence over humanity, God will be able to observe exactly how devils will be able to emerge from the bottomless pit, under cover of darkness, to influence even the righteous humans in the millennium to sin again. The evil army that God will allow the Devil loosed from his prison to lead into the final battle with Christ will have already turned to evil before the Devil assumes command of it. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve this evil army in the final battle of the world, and He will cast the Devil alive into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10.

Following this final battle with evil, Christ will burn up the present universe to eliminate any taint of evil, and He will then recreate a righteous Heaven and earth thoroughly purged of all sin and evil and with no possibility of its ever being able to enter His new Heaven and earth again. II Peter 3:10-14; Revelation 22:3.

At that time, God the Father will give His Son the "preeminence" over all of His recreations, and Christ will assume His rightful throne as the eternal King over all of His new creations because He alone purged it of all sin and evil. Colossians 1:18; Revelation 21:5. Christ will sit on His Great White Throne and administer His final judgments of  "the quick and the dead." II Timothy 4:1. Christ will raise all living humans whom He caused to repent and believe in Him from the regions of the dead for Him to recreate with righteous bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God can create systems or dissolve them as He wills, but whatever He creates lasts forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Romans 11:29. All systems which God dissolves remains eternal in His Infinite Mind. But the Word of God which equals His Infinite Set of Eternal Ideas from which He draws His ideas to create good systems remains the same forever. Psalm 119:89; Psalm 147:5; Matthew 24:35; Hebrews 13:8; John 1:1.

The World and the Word

        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Two types of apostates exist. The first is the believer saved by grace who backslides from his faith, returns to a sinful lifestyle, and refrains from daily repentance for forgiveness. These types of apostates who may daily repent just for show actually practice deliberate evil. According to II Timothy 2:12-13, Christ will deny these apostates His protection and His comfort, but He will never rescind their faith. Christ has all power, and He knows exactly how to return these apostates to true repentance and faith that they can know they have. When they physically die or Christ Raptures His Church, He will consign their sinful, fleshly natures to the bottomless pit until they truly repent and cry out to Christ to return them to His Church and knowledge of their salvation by grace. Matthew 5:25-26; Luke 12:45-48. Christ will present to His Father an absolutely pure and wholly sanctified Church. Ephesians 5:25-27.

The second type of apostate actually happens to be an agent of the Devil who pretends to be a Christian in order to spread false doctrine and discord in Christ's Church. The Apostle Peter wrote about both types of apostates in II Peter 2:1-22. He wrote about Lot who represents the first type of apostate. II Peter 2:6-9. Peter also wrote that God will cast the agents of the Devil into a burning Hell until the day of Christ's Judgment in the end of the world. II Peter 2:1-4. Peter further wrote that the agents of the Devil will learn a lot about Christianity, and they will pretend to be righteous but pretending to know Christ when one actually happens to be corrupt and evil is the worst type of deliberate evil. Judas Iscariot was this type. Nevertheless, in the day of Christ's Judgment, God will raise even the puny, little souls and spirits of these apostates who have done some good for Him to recreate to live on His  recreated earth. Even these apostates will repent and believe in the Lamb like all the others confined to the regions of death. Revelation 5:11-14. But God will recreate these apostates to be completely different persons than they were on the former earth. John 12:25. The Apostle Jude also wrote about these agents of the Devil in Jude 1-19.

Christ will come to Rapture His Church to Heaven. He will thoroughly cleanse it by washing it in the water of His Word so that He can present it to His Father as a glorious Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Ephesians 5:25-27. At the same time, Christ will remove His Holy Spirit who restrains evil from His world. II Thessalonians 2:6-8.

Christ will judge the world when He turns it over to total evil in the Tribulation period. The human race will suffer horribly in this evil time, but Christ will not abandon those who cling to an intellectual faith if they endure to the end. Matthew 24:13. But even in this evil time, Christ will not allow His gospel to go unpreached. When the Beast has overcome Christ's saints and has completely muted the preaching of the gospel, Christ will send an angel to preach His gospel to the whole world. Matthew 24:14; Revelation 13:7; Revelation 14:6-7. The Tribulation saints must endure to martyrdom or the end to become saved by grace. Because the Holy Spirit will not be in the world to restrain evil, He will not be available to wash them in the blood of Christ. They will have to wait until they get to Heaven to be washed in Christ's blood and receive their white robes of righteousness. Revelation 7:13-17. Those who refuse to be washed in Christ's blood because of fear or a desire to return to earth, Christ will cast out of Heaven into the bottomless pit to await their resurrection to be recreated. Matthew 22:11-14.

The World and the Word

        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ came to His Church when He rose from the dead, and His judgment fell on the Devil and sin and evil itself, not on any living human. John 12:31; John 16:33. Christ had gained complete victory over all sin and death and the world and Hell and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18; John 16:33; I John 3:8. The Devil still held some evil power in the world, but he knew that his time on earth was short. Revelation 12:12. Christ left His Church in the world as the "salt of the earth" to preach His gospel and to prove that His power in His Church can hold back the full force of evil in the world. Matthew 5:13. Nevertheless, in order to remove all doubt that God can save all living humans whom He loves, God will allow the Devil to exert his full force of evil in the world during the Tribulation period after God has removed the restraining power of the Holy Spirit invested in His Church at the Rapture of the Church. II Thessalonians 2:7-8. God will absolutely prove that His Love cannot fail by giving the Devil every possible opportunity to ruin His Love. The unbelievers of II Thessalonians 2:10-12 means the foreign, evil nature of humans that God will separate from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire forever. Unbelievers do not believe because they never repent. Matthew 12:31-32. Active repentance and faith adheres to the faith that God puts into His image that He puts into every human being, but unbelief always adheres to the totally evil, dead natures of humans injected into them by the Devil. Romans 12:3; Revelation 21:8.

Jesus came to His Church on the day of Pentecost as His Holy Spirit and filled His Church with power to preach His gospel and to be able to stand against evil. Acts 2:1-4; Acts 1:8. Christ also comes to every individual believer and baptizes them into His Church the moment they repent and believe. Acts 2:37-41; Acts 3:19-20; Acts 10:44-48. In these three accounts in Acts, the pattern remains the same. First, the repentant believer becomes baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Church and becomes "born again" which means the Holy Spirit comes into the heart of the believer. John 3:3-8; Mark 1:8. When this happens, the Holy Spirit brings the blood of Christ from His cross in spiritual form and thoroughly cleanses the souls and spirits of repentant believers of all their sins and evil and recreates their souls and spirits with the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself so that God can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. Matthew 26:28; I Corinthians 6:11; John 6:63; John 17:23-26. God actually loves "born again" believers to the same extent that He loves His own Son. That is awesome! Second, the "born again" believers should receive water baptism by immersion to witness to the world that they have received spiritual cleansing as Christ commanded in Matthew 28:19-20.

The Holy Spirit washes away forever all of the sins and evil of repentant believers' souls and spirits with the shed blood of Christ and recreates them so that their souls and spirits can never sin again. They become forever saved by the grace of God. I John 3:9; Revelation 1:5; John 10:27-30. However, God allows believers saved by grace to retain their fleshly natures which will still cause them to sin. Romans 7:7-25; I John 1:8-10. God allows the members of His Church to sin to prove to the world that He will protect and save those to whom He openly demonstrates His Love even if they sin. Matthew 26:74-75; Romans 7:23-27; John 10:27-30. God will eventually bring all of His believers saved by grace to repentance. God keeps His covenant of grace just as He does with all His covenants. Romans 11:29; Psalm 89:34. But God will certainly punish His believers saved by grace in order to correct them. Hebrews 12:5-13. The Holy Spirit provides for the cleansing and forgiveness of "born again" believers when He brings the shed water of Jesus' cross to them in spiritual form as they daily repent of their sins. John 13:1-13; I John 1:8-9; I John 5:4-8.