II Kings 17:17,31 KJB
By far, the most important outcome for the history of the human race would be for God to defeat Satan and all evil, and He saves His human race from an eternal death which the Devil desires to impose upon every living human. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The Devil has far more power than any human, which means no human can save themselves from the Devil's eternal death. Romans 7:23-24 (KJB). The Devil has confidence in his power to utterly destroy the human race. The Devil bragged to God that he could go anywhere in the world that he chose to go, and he could do whatever he wanted to do. Job 1:6-7 (KJB). But just as God did not allow the Devil to take the life of Job, so God will not allow the Devil to take the lives of any of His living humans whom He creates in His image. Job 2:6; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God promised that He would send His Messiah, who is Himself, to utterly crush the head of the serpent; that is, the Devil, so that He can purge all evil from His world and save His entire, living human race from eternal death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The phrase in this verse, "it shall bruise thy head," means that the Messiah will overwhelm the Devil to the extent that He will win an absolute and complete victory over him. God does not win partial victories.
God allows the Devil to do his worst to the human race to prove that evil can never put out the light of God's love and faith that He puts into every living human that He creates. Genesis 1:31; John 1:9 (KJB). God chose the Hebrew people to be His chosen people who would write His Word and bring His Messiah into the world. God saved them from slavery in Egypt and gave them His commandments for them to obey so that they could have good lives free from evil. But from time to time, the Hebrews would become influenced by the Devil's power to the extent that they would begin to worship idols, and they would even throw their babies into the fires that were inside of these false gods. II Kings 17:17; II Kings 17:31 (KJB). The Devil knew that God sometimes uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy evil, so the Devil enjoys mocking God by using his own fiery wrath to destroy the innocence and goodness that God creates. But the Devil cannot permanently destroy anything God creates. The Devil believes that one day his fiery wrath will utterly destroy forever at least some of the goodness and love that God has put into every human. Job 1:7-12 (KJB). God knew that Job was a sinner like every human, but God called him perfect because Job tried very hard to live in accordance with the love and faith that God had put into him when He created him. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).
Humans cannot save themselves, but Christ can. Romans 7:24-25 (KJB). Christ took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of the entire human race on Himself on the cross so that through His death, burial, and resurrection, He could save the entire human race. I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ will save by His grace all humans who believe in Him while they are still alive in the flesh. John 3:3; John 5:24 (KJB). Christ judged and cast out only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross, but He did so to liberate all of His living humans from the Devil's eternal death. John 12:31-32; John 16:11 (KJB). Christ reserved His final judgment of the entire human race until the end of the world. John 12:44-48 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ has abolished death itself, not any of His living humans. I Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ will resurrect His Church in the Rapture, and then in the end of the world He will resurrect the rest of the human race back to life, and then He will gain a complete victory over all His enemies, which are the Devil and all evil, and then He will destroy the last enemy which is eternal death itself, not any of His living humans. I Corinthians 15:20-28 (KJB). Christ will save the entire human race with a special salvation for all humans whom He will save by His grace. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).
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