I John 2:2 KJB
The word "propitiation" in this verse literally means to be made right with God. That includes the forgiveness of God and reconciliation with God. The Apostle John used that word to mean that Christians were right with God, but he also used that same word to apply to the rest of mankind. Jesus bore the sins, evil, and eternal deaths in the place of every human who ever lived. A balance exists between the first half of that verse and the second half.
But the Church contends that God saves only Christians by His grace, and He eventually casts all other living humans into the lake of fire even though the Bible teaches that He casts only dead humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). God knows every living human whom He will save by His grace. Acts 15:18 (KJB). So why would God the Father ask His Son to unnecessarily bear the sins and evil of the rest of humanity? Why not just ask Jesus to bear the sins and evil of those whom He would save by His grace? Jesus had to have had a good reason to bear the sins and evil of the entire human race on His cross. In honor to the Almighty Intellect and Love of God, Jesus had to have had a plan to visit the rest of humanity, "on the earth, and under the earth," near the end of the world and cause the rest of humanity not already saved by grace to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can save them from eternal death but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
God has promised that He will "make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). Since living humans must be a part of the "all things" that God has created, then God will, in the end of the world, use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all of His repentant, living humans from all of their sins, evil, and eternal deaths, and He will also use His fiery wrath to purge His entire creation of every vestige of evil so that He can recreate it all, including all of His living humans not already saved by grace to be righteous and live forever with new bodies on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
God has promised that He will "reconcile all things to Himself." Colossians 1:20 (KJB). Christ has "abolished death" itself and not any of His living humans whom He creates and loves. I Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ "is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe," which means that Christ will provide a higher form of salvation for all those whom He saves by His grace and a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ is the Savior who "giveth life unto the world." John 6:33 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross, and He promised that He "will draw all men unto Me," which can only mean that He will save all living humans because millions of people have lived and died without ever hearing the name of Jesus. John 12:31-32 (KJB). God has promised that He will deliver His entire creation from the bondage of sin and evil, which would have to include every living human who ever lived. Romans 8:21 (KJB). Jesus promised an unbelieving Pharisee that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:12-14 (KJB). Jesus taught that a day will come when "all that are in the graves shall hear His voice," and He will save their good natures whom He created and loves, and He will cast their dead natures into the lake of fire. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Jesus' promise cannot refer to the Rapture of the Church because the Church will not be "all that are in the graves." Jesus' promise can only refer to His final judgment in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
Jesus made a clear reference to the lake of fire in Mark 9:44,46, and 48 where He informs that "their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched." But the word "worm" in the Bible refers only to the sins, evil, and eternal deaths inside of every human. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The Holy Spirit wrote that Jesus became a "worm" on the cross which means that Jesus bore the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of every human while He was on the cross so that the Holy Spirit could leave those "worms" behind in the fires of the eternal Hell. Psalm 22:6 (KJB). Isaiah prophesied that in the final resurrection all living humans will be able to look back at their "worms" squirming in the lake of fire. Isaiah 66:22-24 (KJB). Isaiah prophesied that in the end of the world, Satan will be immersed into a sea of "worms," not any living humans. Isaiah 14:11 (KJB).
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