Space, Time, Consciousness, Reality, Nothingness, and Non-existence

 Einstein, by his use of thought experiments, reached the conclusion that space and time happen to be the same. Space is the distance between objects, and time is the motion between objects in space. This means that wherever there is a distance there is also a time, and whenever a time also a distance. The fastest time in space is the speed of light. At the speed of light there is no time or distance. At all speeds slower than the speed of light there is both time and distance. Objects that emit light can be known to humans only if that object resides within the time of the speed of light. Objects that emit light but reside outside of the time of the speed of light cannot be known by humans to even exist or not exist. Because humans are always moving slower than the speed of light, they observe light as having both time and distance. Objects in space whose light has not yet reached the human eye are shrouded in darkness. They may possess potential reality, but they cannot be known to be real until their light reaches the human eye. They reside within absolute nothingness covered by darkness.

This fact means that only consciousness can determine that which is real or not real. Any object shrouded in darkness and unknown to consciousness cannot be real to consciousness until such a time comes that that object reveals a space between it and the consciousness that makes it real. How can anything be real if it is not even known that it exists. It cannot be real within itself because it would know absolutely nothing about itself. Any object which never affects consciousness can never be real even if it possesses potential reality. Consciousness makes all of its sense objects and thought objects real just as it experiences them because that is the very purpose of consciousness. All that humans call unreal is actually just false combinations of real objects.

These facts can only mean that every sense object or thought object that comes within the purview of consciousness becomes real because consciousness makes it real. Human consciousness makes everything that it experiences real. At any time that an unknown object becomes known to consciousness, a space exists between it and human consciousness. In other words, human consciousness always objectifies whatever it experiences. Human consciousness is here and its object is there. This fact happens to be true of even thought objects in the mind. A very tiny space always exists between a thought object and consciousness.

Even the idea of nothing is real to human consciousness because by the use of this idea, human consciousness can tell the difference between something and nothing. But the idea of nothing and space are not the same. Space is the real distance between objects. The idea of nothing simply means that "no thing" can exist between human consciousness and its object. The idea of nothing literally means "no thing;" that is, a negation of any object. But since human consciousness cannot actually negate anything it has already experienced, including the idea of nothing itself, then human consciousness can only use the idea of nothing to consider any real object to be equivalent to non-existence for the purpose of forming a system in experience or thought. For example, if a mathematician makes a mistake in his calculations, he considers the false calculation itself to be equal to nothing, not any of the signs and numbers he used to make his calculation. If a man builds a house, and he uses only lumber and excludes all bricks, he knows that bricks still exist, but he only considers them to be equal to nothing as far as his plan to build his house is concerned.

Humans never directly experience non-existence, only the idea of nothing which can indirectly indicate non-existence. Humans only experience that which is real because every sense object and thought object has meaning and is useful to human consciousness, including the idea of nothing. One of the uses of the idea of nothing is that it can indirectly indicate non-existence which is the same as unreality. But human consciousness never directly experiences unreality.

Reality simply cannot exist without intelligent consciousness. Time is simply the realization by intelligent consciousness that a distance exists between itself and its objects and a consciousness of any motions between those objects within the purview of that distance.

All of this also means that an Infinite Consciousness must exist in order for the universe to be real. Genesis 1:1 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 2:1-12

The second Psalm happens to be a prophecy about the millennial reign of Christ on the earth. During Christ's thousand year reign, Satan will be shut up in a prison which will be the bottomless pit under the earth. Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB). This fact can only mean that during Christ's reign the Devil will not be able to exert his evil influence over humans who live on the earth. Revelation 20:3 (KJB). Yet, even during the thousand year reign of Christ as related in the second Psalm, evil rulers and people will secretly hate Christ and conspire against Him to overthrow His rule. God in Heaven will laugh at their stupidity. These evil people and rulers will "imagine a vain thing." All through the Bible, it describes sin and evil as being "vanity." Vanity means both "excessive pride" and "emptiness." These evil rulers and people will be motivated by excessive pride which will eventually cause them to be reduced to emptiness. That happened to be the exact same result that happened to Lucifer when he rebelled against God. God stripped Lucifer of all the goodness that God had put into him, and He exiled him to earth as a completely empty and evil consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:15-19 (KJB).

All of this put together can only mean that there exists such an entity as a negative consciousness. The negative consciousness is the opposite of a positive consciousness. The positive consciousness seeks to be creative and to do good, but the negative consciousness seeks only to do evil and be destructive. The bottomless pit under the earth happens to be full of these demonic consciousnesses, and somehow they found a way to emerge from the bottomless pit and enter into Heaven to influence Lucifer to cause him to rebel against God. But Satan, who happened to be more intelligent than the demons, became able to gain power over all of the demonic forces in the earth which still rules most of the people of the earth to this day. Matthew 4:8-10 (KJB). Satan does not rule in the bottomless pit. Satan rules his own evil kingdom in the world.

When Christ returns with all of the armies of Heaven to end the Tribulation period and to defeat all of the evil armies led by Satan's toadies called the Beast and the False Prophet, Christ will send an angel to pull that coward Satan from whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him in the bottomless pit. Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB). Christ will then begin His thousand year reign on the earth. Christ will rule with a "rod of iron" which means He will severely punish any evil that manifests itself. For this reason, God exhorts the rulers and people of the earth to love and worship Jesus, and He will bless them for it. Psalm 2:10-12 (KJB). Yet, many rulers and people will secretly hate Christ and secretly plot to overthrow His rule. Since these people cannot be influenced by the Devil, then they must be influenced by whatever demonic forces that still exist in the world.

This condition could indicate the purpose for Christ's millennial reign. God will closely observe the bottomless pit to determine how the demons emerge from it to influence some of the people of the earth to rebel against Christ. Satan will be chained in the bottomless pit to prevent him from finding that way of escape. But at the end of Christ's reign, God will have learned how the demons emerge from the bottomless pit, and He will loose Satan from his chain to reenter earth to cause all those secret rebels to reveal themselves, and he will organize an evil army to openly rebel against Christ and attack Jerusalem where Christ rules. But God will use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy the Devil and all of his evil army and cast it all into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB).

All of this raises the question: If God is Omniscient, would He not already know how the demons emerge from the bottomless pit? The answer is that God is Omniscient in all that is positive; that is, all that is good and creative. God can know nothing about the nature of evil because it is all vain and thoroughly empty. Evil seeks to destroy by annulment all that is good and creative. But God can observe evil to discover how it operates. Habakkuk 1:12-17 (KJB). For this reason, God can make a plan to utterly purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation and recreate it all to be righteous. In the end of the world, God will burn up the earth and even Heaven to thoroughly purge it all of any vestiges of evil that may remain. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                  Psalm 1:1-6 (KJB) II

In Psalm 1:1-6, God describes the difference between the Godly person and the ungodly person. The Godly person rejects his ungodly nature within him and chooses to believe in God and has reverence for His laws and statutes. He chooses to be a good person, but that does not mean that he is not a sinner. Many of God's people in the Old Testament loved God and honored His laws, but inevitably they all sinned. I Kings 8:46 (KJB). The first three verses of Psalm One happens to be about these kinds of people, but many of them forgot, as many do today, that they are still sinners whom only God can save. In verse three, God relates that these kinds of people will be rewarded with a good life on a new earth and not with a home in Heaven which only those who trust in God to save them from their sins will inherit.

The last three verses in Psalm One describes the ungodly person. The ungodly person deliberately chooses to be evil. Even a good person who is an atheist is nevertheless an evil person because he rejects God who is the source of all goodness and truth. The ungodly person deliberately chooses to adhere to the evil, spiritual death within him, and he rejects God's laws and even His being. God describes the ungodly as being "like the chaff which the wind driveth away." God's description of the ungodly happens to be very similar to John the Baptist's revelation that when Jesus baptizes with fire, He will burn the "chaff" and save the "wheat." Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). In other words, in the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every living human on the earth and confined to the regions of death in order to separate their Godly natures from their ungodly natures so that He can save their Godly natures alive that He created in His image, and He will condemn their ungodly natures to the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). But in order to use His fiery wrath in this way, Christ will appear to all of His living humans on the earth and under the earth to renew their faith in Him and love for Him that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The Bible clearly teaches that the only enemies of God and His creations are evil and the Devil, and therefore, God will utterly destroy only the Devil and all evil, not any of His creations that He loves. I John 3:8; Ephesians 6:10-13 (KJB). Only the Devil and all evil are the enemies of all living humans and can therefore be the only enemies of God.

The revelation in Psalm One that "the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment" completely agrees with John the Baptist's prophecy that "He will thoroughly purge His floor." Luke 3:17 (KJB). "Floor" symbolizes God's entire creation. In other words, Christ will completely purge His world of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, and He will recover and recreate all of His righteous people that He created and loves. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The "righteous" in Psalm One means all of the living humans that God ever created in His image. Even the most evil human who ever lived, who was probably Judas Iscariot, has a Godly nature within him that has done some good. Jesus taught that even the smallest good that any person does will be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 (KJB). Only living humans can be rewarded. Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). Jesus taught that He will show the greatest Love possible when He will "lay down His life for His friends." John 15:13 (KJB). Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" when Judas came with a mob to arrest Jesus. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). God can never lose anything he has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). 

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 1:1-6 (KJB) I

In this Psalm, God describes the difference between the Godly person and the ungodly person. The Godly person and the ungodly person exits together inside the inner being of every human. God created everything to be good, and He creates all humans in His image, and He promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living human beings. This fact can only mean that all humans still have the goodness that God puts into them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20 (KJB). God warned Adam before He created Eve that if he ate of the forbidden fruit, he would die on that same day. God did not directly warn Eve but left it to Adam to warn her. This condition meant that Eve happened to be in a deeper state of innocence than was Adam. When Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the Devil deceived her like a seducer deceives a small child. Genesis 3:1-5 (KJB). This meant Eve could not be responsible for her sin until she gave the forbidden fruit to Adam for him to eat. Adam knew fully well that if he ate the forbidden fruit, then both he and Eve would lose their innocence and become something called being dead. I Timothy 2:13-15 (KJB). Adam also knew that God would know exactly how to solve His problem with Eve, but Adam failed to call on God for help. Instead Adam, being afraid that he would completely lose his companionship with his wife, he decided to eat the forbidden fruit. Genesis 3:6 (KJB). When Adam did this, He sinned on two levels, but he also manifested the goodness and love that God had put into him on the third level. On the first level, Adam deliberately and willfully disobeyed God, and that was evil. I Timothy 2:13-15; Numbers 15:30-36 (KJB). On the second level, Adam, being afraid of losing the tender love making he had with his wife, sinned because of a weakness in his free will that God had given him. Numbers 15:24-29; Genesis 1:27-28 (KJB). On the third level, Adam did not sin at all, but he manifested the love that God had put into him when he sacrificed his own innocence so that he could be with his wife to comfort her and suffer whatever death happened to be with her. Romans 5:14 (KJB). On this level, Adam manifested the self-sacrificial love of the Messiah that God would promise them. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God displayed the basic conditions of the history of the human race with the sin and self-sacrifice of Adam.

All of this means that every human who would ever live would inherit the good and living image of God because He promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living humans. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). God never loses His image of Himself in every human because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Adam alone became responsible for the death that every human inherits because of his disobedience, and because of his fear of God's judgment if he called on Him for help. Romans 5:12 (KJB). But God informed Adam and Eve that He would send them, and the rest of humanity, a Savior who would sacrifice Himself to purge every human of all of their evil, sin, and spiritual death so that He can recreate them all and fully restore them all to eternal life. Genesis 3:15; John 12:31-32; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

God did not mean that physical death would be the punishment for sin because Adam and Eve did not die on the same day that they ate the forbidden fruit. But Adam and Eve knew fully well that something bad had come into their inner beings when they became ashamed of their nakedness and tried to hide from God's visit to them. Genesis 3:6-13 (KJB). They had acquired a spiritual death that the Devil had injected into them. This had to be a curse from the Devil because God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB).

Jesus Himself taught that the "wheat" which symbolizes God's image, He puts into every human. Jesus also taught that the "tares" symbolizes the spiritual death that the Devil instills into every human. Jesus clearly taught that the "field" is the world. Jesus also taught that the "wheat" are the "children of the kingdom," and the "tares" are "the children of the wicked one." Both the "wheat" and the "tares" are inside of every human. Jesus further taught that in His judgment in "the end of the world," He will separate the "righteous," which are "the children of the kingdom," from those who practice "iniquity" who are "the children of the wicked one," so that He can cast the evil humans into the lake of fire and save all the righteous alive. In other words, God will take measures to separate the "wheat" from the "tares" inside of every human on the earth and confined to the regions of death. Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

Jesus' parable of the "tares" and the "wheat" comports exactly with how God describes His final judgment in the end of the world. Christ will appear to all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him of their own free will as the Lamb of God their Savior, so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings in order to separate their living natures that He will save and recreate from their evil natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Jesus will resurrect all of His repentant, living humans. Revelation 20:5 (KJB). Jesus will cast only the separated and evil dead humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). Christ also promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Since Christ created "all things," then He will recreate His entire creation which He has purged of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. The "all things" must include all living humans that He creates in His image. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 4:11; Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Colossians 1:15-23 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy VI

 Jesus taught about this same subject on a day when He preached the gospel. John 12:23-26 (KJB). Jesus taught that the person who hates the kind of life that he has in this world will attain to eternal life while still alive in the flesh because he will be more prone to believe Jesus' gospel. John 5:24 (KJB). In other words, the person who learns from hearing the gospel that he has sin and evil inside of him will come to hate that part of his life, and he will repent of all his sins and evil, and he will put his trust in Christ alone to save him from all his sins, evil, and spiritual death. But the person who loves the sin and evil in his life will lose his life because Christ will consign him to one of the regions of death when he dies. John 8:21-24; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). But Christ's judgment of unbelievers does not mean that He will abandon unbelievers to eternal spiritual death in a lake of fire. God's Almighty Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ will save all unbelievers in the end of the world because He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. All living humans on the earth and under the earth will worship Christ as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). No verse in the entire Bible teaches that the physical death of an unbeliever predestines that unbeliever to be cast into an eternal lake of fire. The Bible clearly teaches that only dead humans will be cast into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God will cause all living humans to repent and believe, and He will raise them all from the dead and recreate them all. John 11:25; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God invited the Israelites to choose life and love for Him over any adherence to spiritual death. God also promised all faithful Jews that He will return them to eternal life in the land that He promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In order to do this, God must resurrect and recreate all faithful Jews. But God extends His resurrection to all faithful Gentiles confined to the regions of death because He will return them all to faith in Him. Deuteronomy 32:43; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). All Jews and Gentiles who accept Christ as their Savior while still alive in the flesh will be saved by God's grace, and they will go directly to Heaven when they die. II Corinthians 5:5-8 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy V

 In Deuteronomy 30:14-20, God informed the Israelites that His Word and His goodness and life were in their hearts. God spoke about the image of God that He had created them to be. But God also informed them that they had a choice. They could choose death and evil. God meant that His life and goodness were in them, but also death and evil were inside of every one of them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17 (KJB).

In order to choose goodness and life, one must love God and obey all of His commandments and statutes. One must possess a fervent desire to do good and stay out of sin, but one must also possess a heartfelt desire to be wholly dependent on God for forgiveness of sins whenever one inevitably sins. The presence of spiritual death and evil inside of every human will inevitably cause every person to sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). To be dependent on God means to have faith in His Love and mercy that He will always cleanse and forgive confessed sins, and He will give that repentant person a greater desire to do good and stay out of sin. God gave the Israelites His Ten Commandments for them to obey, but he also commanded them to demonstrate their dependence on Him by making a sin offering or a burnt offering or both to show their faith in His mercy and forgiveness whenever their spiritual death would cause them to sin or do evil. God's people are those who are grateful for every gift that He gives them, for the gift of goodness and life that He creates them to be, and for the gift of faith in His mercy and forgiveness whenever they inevitably sin and fail to do good. John 3:27; Romans 11:29 (KJB). Romans 11:29 means that God never takes back anything He has ever given. This fact can only mean that God will, over time and in the end of the world, recover and recreate all of His goodness and faith that He has put into every human that He ever creates. Revelation 21:5; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

God also warned the Israelites that they would give up their dependence on Him and turn to other gods to worship. People worship idols because they think that they will give them prosperity and health. They reject God and turn to the worship of death and evil. Anything that people depend on to give them what they want is a god to them. Some depend on the love of money, some on power over others, some on political philosophies, and some on the government to give them what they want and need. But only God can give humans what they want and need which is life and goodness. John 3:27 (KJB).

God warned the Israelites that if they turned to worship other gods then they would "perish," and they would "not prolong their days upon the land." They would not remain very long in the goodness and enjoyment of life that God gave them. The word "perish" in the Hebrew does not mean to be utterly destroyed. It means "to wander away" or to "lose oneself." One who wanders away can find their way back to where they were. This word "perish" is similar to the word "perish" in John 3:16. The Greek word "perish" means "to destroy in physical death." But physical death does not destroy life. Life continues after death. The life that continues after death can be recovered by God. John 11:25; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can recover their lives that He created and loves for Him to recreate them to live forever on His new earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy IIII

 In Deuteronomy 30:15, God reveals His absolute separation of life and goodness from death and evil. Life and goodness are inside of every human because God creates every human in His image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). But with the fall of the human race, the Devil was able to instill death and evil into the inner beings of every human. Genesis 2:17; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). A spiritual war exists between God and the Devil. The Devil seeks to use the death and evil that he puts into every human to completely overpower and annul the life and goodness that God puts into all humans, and thereby he can prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Job 2:9 (KJB). But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God proved His Love for all living humans when Jesus suffered and died on a cruel cross to utterly defeat the Devil and annul spiritual death and evil from the lives of all humans. John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 16:11; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Hebrews 2:9; John 15:13 (KJB). The Devil would have had an eternity to work out his plan to utterly destroy the life and goodness that God puts into all humans, and no doubt he would have eventually succeeded except that God came to earth in human form and suffered all that eternal death and evil in the place of every living human whom He ever creates. Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). God is a consuming fire, and the lake of fire happens to be the eternal place for all spiritual death and evil that Christ will separate from all of His living humans. Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). All living humans who come to faith that only Christ can save them while they are still alive in the flesh, God will save them by His grace. John 5:24 (KJB). But God has not given up on the rest of His living humans. Christ will appear to all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death because they died in their sins, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can resurrect them and recreate them all with an eternal life on His new earth. John 8:22-24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Deuteronomy 33:29 clearly teaches that God will not save just some of the Israelites, He will save them all. Romans 11:26-29 (KJB). Since God also extends His gospel of His grace and mercy to the Gentiles, then He will save the entire, living human race. Romans 11:30-36 (KJB).  All Jews and Gentiles who repent and believe in Christ as their Savior while still alive in the flesh will be saved by God's grace and will inherit a home with God in Heaven. John 5:24 (KJB). All Israelites who were faithful to God, He will resurrect them from the regions of death and give them a special place on His new earth. God will make them citizens of the nation of Israel, and He will give them all of the land that He promised them, and the whole world will be ruled by the laws that come from Jerusalem the capitol of the world. Isaiah 66:18-24 (KJB). All Jews who were unfaithful to God will be resurrected to live with the recreated Gentiles. Ezekiel 20:37-38 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy III

 In Deuteronomy 29:29, God informs all who read His Word that He reveals to humans only that part of His Word that they can understand and that will lead them to repentance and faith in His power to save them. The entire Word of God is infinite and far beyond the ability of any human to understand most of it. This fact happens to be exactly what humans should expect from a God with an Infinite Intellect. Even so, there are some scriptures which touch on God's Infinite Intellect and are very difficult for humans to understand. Romans 11:33 (KJB). But humans saved by grace understand the Word of God much better than those who are not so saved because those saved by grace have the Holy Spirit within them to guide their understanding and interpret the Word for them. But all humans should understand that since God has an Infinite Intellect and Infinite Love, then He surely should be able to devise a plan that will cause all of His living humans eventually to repent and believe that only the Lamb of God can save them from eternal death. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

In Deuteronomy 6:24-25, Moses revealed that those Israelites who "do all these statutes" and who "fear the Lord" will be preserved alive. In other words, they would all be saved by grace. The key word again in these verses is the word "all." Those Israelites who came to faith that the sin offering and the burnt offering, which were parts of the statutes of God, and which symbolized the fact that only God could save them from sin and evil; they would become saved by grace. Those Israelites who had a fear of the Lord realized that they were wholly dependent on God for their salvation. They humbled themselves to God. Those Israelites who thought they could make themselves righteous by obeying the Ten Commandments but always failed to do so could not be saved by grace. But those Israelites who had some faith that the sin offering and the burnt offering symbolized a salvation that only God could provide, they obtained salvation by grace. But when they died, they did not go straight to Heaven. God put them into a place called Paradise which at that time was under the earth next to the regions of death but with a huge gulf between them. Ezekiel 31:16; Luke 16:19-26; Luke 23:43 (KJB). When Jesus' Spirit descended into the regions of death, He came to Paradise and preached the gospel to them and made them understand that He was the fulfillment of the prophesies of the sin offering and the burnt offering. They all believed His gospel, and when Jesus resurrected, He brought them all out of their graves and transported them all, and Paradise itself, to Heaven. I Peter 3:19; Hebrews 10:4-10; Matthew 27:51-52 (KJB).

There were two prisons within the regions of death when Jesus came into the world; the prison of the souls and spirits of all humans who died in the worldwide flood, and the prison called Paradise that held the souls and spirits of all the Old Testament saints. Jesus preached in both prisons, but He preached to those who died in the flood that Noah's burnt offering symbolized that He will raise them all from the regions of death near the end of the world and recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Genesis 8:20-21; I Peter 3:18-22; Revelation 21:1-5.

God had the Apostle Paul describe the difference between these two types of Israelites. Paul wrote that those Israelites who tried to make themselves righteous were not saved by grace. But those Israelites who had some faith that the sin offerings and the burnt offerings symbolized a salvation that only God could provide, they obtained salvation by grace. Many Old Testament saints were saved by grace. Romans 10:1-5 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy II

 In Deuteronomy 4:24 and 32:22, God reveals that He created Hell, but He created it solely for the Devil and his angels, not for any of the good and living humans that He created in His image. Genesis 1:27; Matthew 25:41 (KJB). God never cursed the living natures of Adam and Eve or any of their descendants, but the Devil put the curse of spiritual death into their inner natures and by inheritance to all of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-21; Matthew 13:38-39 (KJB). Every human possesses the good and living image of God within them, and they also possess spiritual death from the Devil that causes them to sin and do evil. But in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human confined to the regions of death in order to separate the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the bad fish, and the goats from the sheep inside of every human on the earth and under the earth so that He can save and recreate His living humans and cast their cursed spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-52; Matthew 25:31-46 (KJB). In order to renew the faith and humility of all His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, Christ will appear to them near the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

Deuteronomy 32:22 further prophesies that God will use that same fiery wrath that created Hell to burn up the earth and all of its inhabitants so that He can purge it all of all sin and evil and recreate it all to be righteous. In order for God to keep His promise that He "will make all things new," He must resurrect all of His repentant, living humans and dissolve them and all of the inhabitants of the earth so that He can purge all sin and evil from His creations so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Psalm 75:3; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). When God dissolves all living humans, He will cast only their separated spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

In Deuteronomy 32:43, God extends His mercy that He gives to His Israelites to all the nations of the world; that is, the entire human race. God further reveals that He will destroy all His enemies who are also the enemies of all of His living humans whom He creates and loves. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to dissolve all of His repentant, living humans on the earth and under the earth and recreate them all to be righteous. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The only exceptions will be that God will not dissolve His living humans saved by His grace because He will have already recreated them. II Corinthians 5:17 (KJB).

But God made all of this possible when He suffered and died on a cruel cross in the place of all living humans so that He could purge all sin, evil, and spiritual death from their lives and purge the Devil from His world. John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 16:11; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

God's Promises in Deuteronomy I

 God made solemn promises to the Israelites in Deuteronomy, and God never fails to keep His promises.

In Deuteronomy 5:29, God informed the Israelites that if they would acquire a heartfelt desire to obey "all my commandments always," then He would keep them and their children alive forever. The key word in this verse is the word "all." God gave the Israelites His Ten Commandments for them to obey, but He also gave them the sin offerings and the burnt offerings for them to offer through their priests for their forgiveness of their sins whenever they inevitably failed to keep His Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 12:1-22; Leviticus 5:1-10 (KJB). The problem with these Israelites, and with the rest of religious humanity, was that they thought that they could obey God so perfectly that they could make themselves acceptable to God. This attitude happens to be symptomatic of excessive pride expressed through religion. If a person could practice a religion that would make that person good enough to be acceptable to God, then that person would no longer need God. Two of the most subtle lies from the Devil are that he will tell a person who has led a sinful lifestyle that they are so bad that God does not want them, and he will tell a religious person that they can make themselves so good that God will accept them, which lie puts the subtle idea in his mind that he will no longer really need God. God desires that humans humble themselves to Him, and confess to Him that they are hopeless sinners in need of the salvation that only God can provide. Then God will change their hearts and give them a desire to obey Him simply because they love Him, and He will give them a desire to do what is right toward others simply because they love everyone.

In Deuteronomy 12:1 and 12:28, God promises faithful Israelites that if they will obey "all His words," then He will preserve them and their children "forever." The key word again is the word "all." These Israelites should have had a heartfelt desire to keep God's Ten Commandments, but they should have also demonstrated humility to God by their sin offerings and their burnt offerings which would have symbolized their need for God's forgiveness whenever they failed to keep His Ten Commandments