Isaiah 6:6-7 (KJB)
God can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge and forgive sins and evil, and He can also use His fiery wrath to purge His entire creation of all sins and evil so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Isaiah 6:6-7; Leviticus 5:10; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The purpose of the Old Testament burnt offerings was to cleanse and forgive the believers who offered it. Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB). The purpose of the Old Testament sin offering was to cleanse and forgive the believer because of the shed blood of the animal. Leviticus 4:13-20 (KJB). The shed blood of the animals symbolized the shed blood of Christ that will cleanse and save all living humans by God's grace as soon as they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. The altar and the mercy seat inside of the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle where the High Priest once a year sprinkled the blood of an animal symbolized God's salvation by His grace. Leviticus 16:29-34 (KJB). But the brazen altar before the Tabernacle was called the burnt offering altar because it symbolized the fact that God will save the rest of the human race by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Leviticus 6:8-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
God gave a sin offering to Adam and Eve when He killed an animal and made coats for them to cover their nakedness which caused them to realize the shame of being sinners in God's sight. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). God initiated the sin offering to symbolize all humans who would become saved by His grace.
But after God had killed the entire, evil human race in the world-wide flood, except for Noah and his family who were saved by grace, God grieved because He had to do that. Genesis 6:5-7 (KJB). God determined that He would never destroy the entire human race again. He would provide a way to save them all. God gave Noah the burnt offering to symbolize the fact that He would use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of all humans who do not become saved by His grace. The burnt offering symbolized that God would forever save all of His living humans that He creates and loves, and He will burn forever their separated, evil natures. Genesis 1:27; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God would "not again curse the ground for man's sake" because he would use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve and cleanse all of His living humans confined to the regions of death from all evil. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). God realized that all humans possess an evil nature, but He would never again "smite" all of His living humans as He had done in the flood. The word "smite" in this context means to kill. God gave the burnt offering to Noah to symbolize the fact that in the future God will use His fiery wrath against evil to save all of His living humans confined to the regions of death from eternal death. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). Christ will accomplish this salvation when He appears to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
God commanded Moses to "Make thee a fiery serpent" and put it on a pole so that all Israelites who had been bitten by a fiery serpent would live. All of the Israelites who died from the bites of fiery serpents whom God had sent among them symbolized the evil natures of humans. Those who looked upon the serpent made of brass up on the pole symbolically saw Christ on a cross bearing their sins and evil so that they could be saved by His grace. But all of the rest of the Israelites who looked upon the fiery serpent were saved from death by God's mercy. They symbolized the fact that God intends to save His entire, living human race from eternal death. Numbers 21:5-9 (KJB).
I Corinthians 3:11-15 cannot be about salvation by grace for several reasons. These verses use the phrase "every man," and every man is not a Christian. These verses declare that a day will come when every man will be judged by his works. God will reward Christians for their good works, but God will never judge Christians for their good works because He saves them by His grace apart from any good works, and He washes them clean with the blood of Christ. These humans in these verses will be judged by fire. Their evil works will be burned, and they will be rewarded for their good works. They will be saved by fire. Christians are not saved by fire. These verses can only be a prophecy about how Christ will appear to all living humans confined to the regions of death in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can forever save their living natures, and He will cast their separated, evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
One wonders how any Bible believer can get around God's prophecy and promise in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." God creates "all things," including all of His good and living humans that He creates in His image. Genesis 1:17; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). According to His promise, God must save all of His living humans from eternal death and recreate them all. God creates all things for His pleasure. A God of Love and Mercy could certainly never derive any pleasure from His living humans being burnt forever in a lake of fire. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). God's promise agrees completely with Romans 8:20-21 (KJB). God's promise agrees completely with Colossians 1:20 where God promises "to reconcile all things unto Himself." God never cursed His living humans, but God proclaimed that all of His living humans will live forever in His sight. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). God's promise agrees completely with Jesus' own prophecy in John 5:28-29 (KJB). God will never allow any of His living humans whom He creates and loves to become dead. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).
But the Church preaches that God will cast His living humans confined to the regions of death into an eternal lake of fire. Perhaps they preach that because of a misplaced love for Jesus in that they believe that anyone who rejects Christ's salvation by grace deserves to be cast into an eternal lake of fire. Nevertheless, the Church comprises the best people on earth because the Church preaches and witnesses that the gospel of the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus will forever save and provide a home in Heaven to all who will repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. John 14:6; Acts 4:12 (KJB).
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