Leviticus 20:14 KJB
This chapter reveals how God deals with evil. God commanded all Israelites who practiced evil and refused to repent should be put to death. If a man had sex with his wife and her mother, they were to be burned. But they were not burned alive. Only their bodies were burned after they had been stoned to death. Execution in Israel was always by stoning. But God taught them that their bodies were to be burned to remove "wickedness" from among His people. All through the Bible, God used His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy evil itself, but not the good and living natures of those who practiced evil because He created those good and living natures. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge His creation of all evil, but He will cause all of His good and living humans that He created to repent so that He can save them all from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Luke 3:16-17; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). All through the Bible, God refers to evil as being "chaff," "stubble," "tares," or "thorns" that will be burned. But the "wheat" is always saved. Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:15-17 (KJB).
God separated the Israelites from all other people because He desired to make them holy and obedient to His statues. Leviticus 20:7 (KJB). One of God's statues was that any sinner who displayed repentance toward God by a sin offering or a burnt offering, God would forgive their sins. The main difference between sin and evil is that sin will always eventually repent, but evil never repents. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). Evil happens to be hatred of God and total rebellion against Him, but sinners will sooner or later repent of their sins and evil and humble themselves to God. In such cases, their evil becomes sin because of God's compassion for their humility. The good and living natures that God has put into every human that He creates has become filthy with sin and evil, but God knows exactly how to cause every sinner to eventually repent so that He can cleanse and save every living human either by washing them clean with the blood that Jesus shed on the cross or by purging them by the use of His fiery wrath in the end of the world. God knows exactly how to cause all sinners to humble themselves to Him and repent and return to faith in Him. Repentance and faith demonstrates goodness. John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Isaiah 64:4-9 (KJB). God hates evil, but He loves the sinner because He creates their good and living natures that are willing to repent and believe. II Peter 3:9 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will purge all that is unjust and filthy from all of His living humans who were not already saved by His grace, and He will resurrect them all and recreate them all to be righteous. Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). All humans saved by His grace will have already been cleansed of all sins and evil by the shed blood of Jesus. I John 1:7 (KJB).
Sin always adheres to the God-given ability of the sinner to repent and become cleansed, forgiven, and saved, but rebellious evil in humans always adheres to their dead and evil natures that God will separate from all humans for Him to cast either into the Sea of forgetfulness or into the lake of fire. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Micah 7:18-19 (KJB). All persons who become saved by grace, God will cast all of their separated sins into the Sea of forgetfulness which itself He will utterly destroy in the end of the world. Revelation 21:1 (KJB). God will also utterly destroy the dead and evil natures of the rest of humanity by His use of His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world. Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Revelation 21:8 happens to be about the dead and evil natures of humans who refuse to repent. The sinner and the good and living natures of all humans who will eventually repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior to save them are the same persons, but their dead and evil natures that are foreign to them, God will purge from all of them when their good natures repent of their sins and evil. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Rebellious evil that causes sin comes only from the Devil, but God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 3:15; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).
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