The World and the Word

                                           God's Plan

God's ability to turn all false systems to good ones, and His ability to cleanse and save all fallen humans derives from His greatest expression of Love which is His self-sacrifice, burial, descent into Hell, and His immaculate resurrection from the dead. John 15:13; I Corinthians 15:1-4; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to cleanse and save from sin and evil all who would repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; John 13:2-15. All of the sin offerings of the Old Testament symbolizes God's salvation by His grace.

The Spirit of Christ descended into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that He bore on the cross. His victory over all sin and evil has been proven by the fact that He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27. Christ descended into Hell, which includes all of the regions of death, to preach the gospel to all lost sinners confined there, and He also preached the gospel to all of the Old Testament saints saved by grace who were confined at that time to Paradise located next to Hell. All of them believed in Him, and He translated all the Old Testament saints and Paradise itself to Heaven. I Peter 3:18-21; Ephesians 4:8-10; Luke 19:10.

But just as salvation by grace cannot be completed until the Rapture of the Church, Christ will complete His lesser form of salvation of all living humans confined to the regions of death when He appears to them in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. At that time, they will all completely repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. The fact that they worship Christ as the Lamb can only mean that they recognize that He has the power to save them. God's Infinite Intellect happens to be fully capable of devising a plan that will cause all lost, but living humans to repent and believe in His power to save of their own free will. God does nothing halfway. Since Christ came "to seek and to save that which was lost," then He will save all lost, living humans that He creates and loves. Luke 19:10.

When all within the regions of death repent and believe, then Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their systems and separate their cleansed living souls and spirits for Him to recreate with new bodies to inhabit His recreated earth from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:10-13. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings, starting with that of Noah's, symbolizes God's lesser form of salvation for all lost but living humans confined to the regions of death. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10.

But the self-sacrifice of Christ could only have been effective because He rose immaculate from the dead having obtained complete and absolute victory over all sin, evil and spiritual death. He had to come back alive to make His self-sacrifice work. Revelation 1:18; John 16:33. Jesus' victory over the world and all evil had to be absolute and complete because He does nothing halfway. A Living Christ has all power to cause every living soul and spirit that He ever created to repent and believe of their own free will. Revelation 21:5. No verse in the Bible (KJB) states that physical death can thwart the Will of God. John 11:25; II Peter 3:9. Since Christ has "abolished death" and will "quicken all things;" that is, cast the first death into the second death, then this fact can only mean that He will save all living humans forever. II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 6:13; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:5; Ecclesiastes 3:14.