Chapter Six
Verses 60-66
When Jesus became certain that the multitude had rejected Him, He turned to preach to some who considered themselves to be His disciples. Some were His true disciples, and some were not. But the pretended disciples could not grasp the spiritual truths that Jesus preached because they too had allowed their material natures to dominate their spiritual natures.
Jesus asked these unbelievers if they were offended, and then in order to try to get them to connect with His Spirit, He asked what they would do if they saw Him ascend back to Heaven. By saying this, Jesus implied that if He were not with them in physical form, then they would need His Spirit.
Jesus then plainly told them that He preached spiritual truths. Jesus told them that if they had only received His words by faith, the Holy Spirit would have caused their spirits to come alive in a new way. God considers all living human spirits that He created to be alive, but all living humans who allow their evil, sinful natures to dominate their lives, God considers to be temporarily dead. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; John 8:23-24. But the Holy Spirit holds the power to cleanse believers still in the flesh from all their sins and evil with the blood and water that flowed from Christ on the cross and recreate their souls and spirits by giving them the very Life of Christ Himself. II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 2:20; Colossains 3:3-4; John 17:23-24.
But God will not forget the unbelievers whom He must consign to one of the regions of death after their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. If the Devil were able to hold these unbelievers within the regions of death forever, then he would succeed in completely destroying a part of God's creation. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 13:8. Christ suffered the eternal deaths of all living humans on the cross, and He will appear to all living humans within the regions of death near the end of the world and by His Love and His Majesty that they will see, He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him, the Lamb, and He will raise them all back to life and recreate them with the same righteousness that He gave to Adam and Eve for them to live forever on His new earth. Hebrews 2:9; I Corinthians 15:22; John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14. God will recreate them with free will, but they will not be able to sin because God will have purged all sin and evil from His new creation of Heaven and earth. II Peter 3:9-13.
Jesus suffered the eternal deaths of all living humans on His cross, but He is alive, and He will return to eternal life all living humans in danger of eternal death, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. Hebrews 2:9; I Corinthians 15:20-26. God created Hell for the Devil and His angels which means He created it for evil and spiritual death only, not for living humans. This means that God will use His fiery wrath against evil, which could be Hell itself, to dissolve all human systems within the regions of death in the end of the world in order to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead, evil natures. Deuteronomy 32:22; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3. In His final judgment, Christ will recreate all separated living humans to a new life on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead, spiritual natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
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