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.