The World and the Word

            The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to Noah and his family to save them from the great flood which He sent to destroy the rest of humanity that had become very evil. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 6:8. Genesis 1:26-31 clearly teaches that God created a pre-Adamic race in His image. These humans could not have been the same persons as Adam and Eve because God created them to be "very good" when God sent them into the whole world for them to inhabit. When God sent Adam and Eve from the garden into the world, they were not "very good." In fact, they were sinful. God also gave the pre-Adamic race every good fruit and meat to eat. God also gave them no Tree of Life and no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God created this pre-Adamic race in His image which meant that they had souls and intelligence but no spirit which is an inner consciousness of God. They could not have had spirits because God did not visit with them as He did with Adam and Eve.

Beginning with God's exile of Cain from the Adamic race, the Adamic race began to intermarry with the pre-Adamic race. The children of these marriages inherited both sin and evil and a spiritual nature from the Adamic race. But their spiritual natures were weak because of their absence of spirit. Over time, the evil natures that they had inherited gained dominance over their weak spiritual natures, and they became very evil. Genesis 4:16-24; Genesis 6:5-7.

The pure Adamic race, which continued through Seth, continued to worship God and still offered the sin offering that God had given to Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:21. For these reasons, the pure Adamic race found grace in God's sight to Noah and his family. Genesis 4:6; Genesis 6:8-10.

By Noah's time, the entire human race had become violent and evil except for Noah and his family. God regretted that He had created all life and humans because evil had corrupted it all except for Noah and his family. God determined to destroy all mammals, birds, and humans except for Noah and his family and the beasts God would bring to Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:5-7.

God killed all of the evil people with a great flood and sent their souls and spirits into the cursed bottomless pit in the ground. God had not as yet provided any form of salvation for these evil humans. This condition put them in grave danger of being lost from God in eternal death forever. The goal of the Devil is to permanently annul a part of God's creations and thereby prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. But God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love aroused His compassion for even the weak spirits of these evil humans whom He had confined to the place of eternal death called the bottomless pit.

Because of His compassion for the weak spirits of all these living humans and for all future evil humans, God commanded Noah to make a burnt offering for their future salvation. God told Noah that his burnt offering would symbolize God's removal of His curse of the ground so that it could never hold the living souls and spirits within it forever. God also promised Noah that He would never again in the future put all living humans in danger of eternal death, but He would provide a way to save them all but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. From that time forward, the burnt offering would be directly connected to the sin offering because it would symbolize the descent of the coming Savior into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all mankind not saved by grace that the Savior would bear on His cross. Christ rose immaculate from the dead to provide a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all living humans. Genesis 8:20-21; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 20:5.

Christ's Spirit descended into Paradise located next to Hell to preach His salvation by grace to all of the Old Testament saints confined there. Ephesians 4:7-10. Christ's Spirit also descended into the bottomless pit where He preached His lesser form of salvation to all the living souls there who had been destroyed in the flood. I Peter 3:18-22. Christ will raise all living humans upon their repentance and faith from all of the regions of the dead and recreate them all to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Christ came to Noah and his family, but His judgment fell on the whole, evil world.

The World and the Word

        The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ came to Adam and Eve after they had sinned to promise them a Savior, and He cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains the bottomless pit from which all evil emerges. Christ punished Adam and Eve and all of their descendants with hard labor and pain in life because of their sins, but He did not curse them, and He promised them that their good lives that He had created would always belong to Him. Genesis 3:14-20; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. God also punished Adam and Eve and all of their descendants with physical death because of their sins. Physical death typifies the way God deals with His good systems that become tainted with sin because of evil. God causes dead bodies to dissolve in the earth in order to extract all of their good elements to feed plant life, but actual death itself, which becomes a false system, equals absolute nothingness.

The fact that physical death becomes an absolute nothingness can be illustrated by the use of mathematics. The formula that is 3+2=6 is a false system, similar to physical death. But all of the numbers and signs of this false system are good and useful individual elements that can be used in true systems, similar to the elements of the dead physical body. When all of these good elements become subtracted from this false system, similar to the dissolution of a dead body, only the idea of nothing is left. But the idea of nothing is also a good and useful element in consciousness. One of its uses is that it can indicate a deeper nothingness in a false system. The idea of nothing indicates that the life of a dead body equals nothing, but it also indicates that the consciousness of a dead body equals an absolute nonexistence. Nonconsciousness exists, in a sense, as nonexistence. It nonexists nowhere and at no time. Consciousness can recognize the falsity of a system because of the useful idea of nothing, but the usefulness of the false system itself equals an absolute nothingness. Isaiah 40:17; Job 10:21-22.

If Adam and Eve had chosen to eat of the Tree of Life first and had refused to sin, then after over 900 years of a blissful life on earth, God would have simply translated their bodies to spiritual bodies and lifted them up to live with Him in Heaven forever. They would not suffer physical death. God probably translated Enoch in this way. Of all sinful humans who ever lived, Enoch was probably the least sinful. Enoch walked with God, and he had so few sins in his life that God was able to save him by His grace, eliminate all of his sins and his evil, and translate him directly to Heaven. Genesis 5:24.

The World and the Word

                The Advents and Judgments of Christ

In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil in order to dissolve His entire creation, including all humans, so that He can separate all that is good from all that is evil. Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 22:11-12. All evil is sinful, but sins of weakness are never wholly evil. When God uses His fiery wrath to dissolve all humans confined to the regions of death, He will cause them all to repent of their sins of weakness and believe that the Lamb can save them and reconcile them to God. For this reason alone, sins of weakness can never be wholly evil. Evil is wholly evil because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. When God causes every living human confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God, He will turn even the worst evils that they have committed into sins of weakness that He can forgive because their humility in repentance will engender His compassion when He sees their desire to give up their sins and be reconciled to Him. These living humans would not be able to recognize the Lamb as their Savior unless they were willing to repent and believe that only the Lamb can and will take away their sins and save them with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-15; John 11:25.

God considers the totally evil nature of humans that never repents to belong solely to the Devil because it is a foreign poison that the Devil injected into humans that causes them, in their weakness, to sin. I John 3:10. God will eventually cleanse and forgive all sins of weakness of all living humans because He will cause them all to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. God's Love has compassion for the helplessness of living humans while they are under the evil power of the Devil. Romans 5:6-9; Hebrews 2:9.

With every coming of Christ, God effects a concomitant judgment. When Christ came, as His Holy Spirit, He created the Heaven and the earth to be wholly righteous and good, including all humans. Genesis 1:31. God's judgment fell on the rebel Lucifer because he refused to repent. God dissolved his good system, recovered all of his good elements that God had put into his good system and exiled his wholly empty negative consciousness to the earth as Satan the god of this world. Negative consciousnesses are devils from the bottomless pit who are totally empty, evil, nasty, and cruel. Satan became one of them. Isaiah 41:28-29; Isaiah 40:17; Ezekiel 28:13-19. Those who worship Lucifer actually worship Satan because Lucifer no longer exists except in God's memory.

The World and the Word

                  The Advents and Judgments of Christ

I Corinthians 15:20 teaches that when Christ rose from the dead, He became "the firstfruits" of them that slept." Since both Jesus and the Apostle Paul often referred to those who died in a state of grace as being "asleep," then these "firstfruits" can only mean all living humans who physically died in a state of grace whom Christ has raised from the dead in the Rapture of the Old Testament saints, and whom He will raise in the Raptures of the Church Age saints and the Tribulation saints. Matthew 27:51-53; I Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:4 and 6.

But then I Corinthians 15:21-22 teaches that Christ will also effect a "resurrection of the dead" which can only follow the "firstfruits" resurrections. In addition, the phrase "every man in his own order" can only mean, in light of verse 22, that Christ will eventually raise all living humans from the dead. Revelation 20:5. Verse 21 further teaches that just as Adam caused the eternal deaths of all living humans, so the man, who can only be Christ, will cause all living humans subject to eternal death to be made alive again. Verse 23 clearly teaches that this resurrection of the dead back to life will occur after all of the "firstfruits" resurrections, and at the final and eternal coming of Christ. Verse 24 clearly teaches that this final and eternal coming of Christ will happen "in the end" which can only mean the end of the world. Verse 24 further teaches that in this final judgment, Christ will gain an absolute and eternal victory over all evil and the Devil himself. Christ does not gain this final victory in His millennial reign. Verse 25 teaches that after Christ's reign, meaning His millennial reign, He will "put all enemies under His feet." The enemies of God can only be the Devil and evil itself, not living humans whom He created and loves. I John 3:8. Verse 26 teaches that Christ will in the end destroy death itself. Christ will take eternal death away from all living humans. Hebrews 2:9; Luke 20:38. Christ will destroy the eternal deaths of all living humans, not the living humans themselves. Verses 27-28 teach that after His final judgment, Christ will become the final and eternal King of all His recreations, including all living humans. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-23; Isaiah 66:20-24. Colossians 1:20 teaches that Christ will "reconcile all things unto Himself" which includes all things in earth as well as Heaven. Christ created "all things." Colossians 1:16.

All of this put together can only mean that the particular time and place of Christ's judgment of "the quick and the dead" can only occur at His Great White Throne Judgment. I Timothy 4:1. The phrase "at His appearing and His kingdom" can only mean His final and eternal appearance and His final and eternal kingdom of eternal righteousness. II Peter 3:10-13. The millennial reign of Christ will not be His final kingdom. In His millennial reign, Christ will take His rightful place as the King of this world, and He will cause the "god of this world" to be chained in the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1-3; Revelation 20:6. In His millennial reign, Christ will create all humans to be righteous but that will not put a final end to evil. Revelation 20:7-10. Christ will gain His final and eternal reign as King only after "He hath put all enemies under His feet," and He has obtained the "preeminence." I Corinthians 15:25; Colossians 1:18. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up the heavens and the earth in order to thoroughly purge them of any taint of evil. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:9. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all systems that He created in order to separate every good system that He ever created from all evil which seeks to annul it. I Corinthians 3:11-15. Only then will Christ be ready to recreate the heavens and the earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness," including all living humans that He ever created, so that He will become the final and eternal King of His new universe. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:1-3; Revelation 21:1-5.

The World and the Word

              The Advents and Judgments of Christ

Revelation 20:1-3 relates that God will send an angel to chain the Devil in the bottomless pit for most of the millennial reign of Christ. Satan will not be allowed to exert any evil influence over the nations until near the end of Christ's millennial reign. Yet, despite God's restraint on the Devil, some of the nations will again turn to evil near the end of Christ's millennial reign. In Revelation 20:7-9, Satan will be released from his prison to "deceive the nations" in order to form an army to try to defeat Christ in battle and retake the world for himself. But Satan would not be able "to deceive the nations" unless they had begun to turn back to evil. This fact proves that Lucifer had to have been influenced to rebel against God by devils that somehow got into Heaven from the bottomless pit. Ezekiel 28:15. Evil was "found" in Lucifer. He did not generate it himself. A "mystery of iniquity" exists that God must discover in order to completely purge it from all of His creations so that He can recreate a new Heaven and earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness." II Thessalonians 2:7; II Peter 3:13. The fact that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly destroy the Devil and his evil army in this final battle proves that God will have discovered how evil demons get into His creations. God will solve the mystery of iniquity. Revelation 20:9-10.

II Timothy 4:1 prophesies that Christ "shall judge the quick and the dead." This verse clearly states that this judgment will happen at a particular time and place. In no other judgment of Christ in the Bible (KJB) does He judge the quick and the dead at the same time. This can only be the Great White Throne Judgment because when Christ comes at the beginning of His millennial reign He will give that judgment to His Tribulation saints. Revelation 20:4. I Timothy 6:13 also prophesies that God "quickeneth all things." This can only be a prophecy that God will raise back to life all living humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. This verse cannot mean that God only gives temporary life to humans because Ecclesiastes 3:14 teaches that whatever God creates lasts forever. Psalm 111:7-8. If living humans were ever to go into the lake of fire, that would amount to a subtraction from God's infinite creative powers. That cannot happen according to Ecclesiastes 3:14. Luke 20:38. In addition, I Timothy 4:10 clearly teaches that God "is the Savior of all men." This verse has to mean exactly that which it states because, in light of Ecclesiastes 3:14, God can never lose anything He has ever created. God's statement in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," can only mean that God will absolutely recreate everything that He created in the first place, including all living humans. Romans 8:18-25. The phrase in I Timothy 4:10 that states "specially of those that believe" means that those who believe while still alive in the flesh will receive God's special salvation which is by His grace.

The World and the Word

              The Advents and Judgments of Christ

When Christ comes back in His physical form on His white horse to defeat the evil armies of the Beast and the False Prophet and sends an angel to chain the Devil in the bottomless pit, He will take His rightful place as the King and God of this world to replace the Devil who was the former "god of this world." Revelation 19:15-16; II Corinthians 4:4. This return of Christ to the world in His physical form happens to be the same advent prophesied by the angels in Acts 1:11. This coming of Christ is commonly called "the second coming of Christ." But strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "the second coming of Christ." Christ comes continually, either in His spiritual form to His people saved by grace or in His physical form as He reveals Himself to the world or to His repentant, living humans confined to the regions of death. John 14:18; Luke 2:7; Revelation 5:11-14.

When Christ comes and establishes His millennial kingdom, He will appoint His Tribulation saints to be the judges of the nations. Revelation 20:4. At that time, Christ will effect a Rapture of the Tribulation saints. God calls this Rapture "the first resurrection" because it occurs at the beginning of His millennial reign. The last sentence of Revelation 20:5 really belongs to Revelation 20:6. Revelation 20:5 relates that God will resurrect all of His repentant, living souls and spirits that He created and loves from the regions of the dead at the end of His millennial reign.

The fact that Christ appoints only His Tribulation saints to be His judges in the beginning of His millennial reign proves that His Judgment, as recorded in Matthew 25:31-46, can only be His Great White Throne Judgment. The "sheep" and the "goats" of Christ's final Judgment happen to be inside every individual who receives judgment. The "sheep" represent the repentant, living souls and spirits of all humans whom God will resurrect from the regions of the dead. and the "goats" represent the evil natures of all dead humans that God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every individual human system confined to the regions of death to separate their inner "sheep" from their inner "goats." Matthew 12:33-37; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 3:11-12; Matthew 15:13; Isaiah 45:20-25. The "brethren" of Matthew 25:40 represent all humans saved by grace who will be exempt from Christ's final Judgment. The "least of these" of Matthew 25:45 represent all living humans that God will recreate to live on His new earth. Matthew 25:41 proves that God created the lake of fire for the Devil and his angels, and by extension, for spiritual death itself that God cursed, not for any living human. Genesis 3:14; Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Matthew 25:41 agrees with Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10, and Revelation 20:15.

The World and the Word

                   The Advents and Judgments of Christ

The Tribulation saints will have to "endure to the end" in order to be saved by grace. Matthew 24:13. The Tribulation saints will not have the Holy Spirit in their hearts to guide them and assure them of their salvation by grace. They will have to depend on intellectual faith alone until they are either martyred or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period. God will send an angel to preach the gospel to the whole world and that will encourage them, but they still must rely on their certain knowledge that the Rapture did happen and that all claims that it did not will be a lie. Revelation 14:6. All Tribulation saints who give up their faith and receive the mark of the Beast will lose their salvation by grace, but God will still save their living souls and spirits from the regions of death with His lesser form of salvation. Revelation 14:9-13. Even though some of the Tribulation saints will lose their salvation by grace, God still knows all of His saints, and He will never lose a single one of them. John 10:26-30.

The goal of the Devil has always been that he will be able to find a way to so overwhelm the living souls and spirits of humans with evil that he will be able to annul them forever and thereby prove that God's Love can fail because the Devil will have caused God to lose something that He created and loves. The Devil believes that if he can succeed in this endeavor, then that will open a way for him to find a way to murder God and take His place. For this reason, the Beast will invent a powerful gadget called "the mark of the beast" that will cause all who receive it during the Tribulation to become totally evil to the extent that it will completely ruin their good souls and spirits that God created and loves. The Beast will then be able to trap these ruined souls and spirits in Hell forever and thus defeat God. Revelation 14:9-12. But the Beast will fail. Revelation 14:13 proves that those who receive this "mark" will "die in the Lord" which means God will recover His good living souls and spirits from them when they receive the mark for Him to hold in the regions of death until He can effect their lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14. Only the totally evil natures of these humans who receive the mark will be tormented in the lake of fire forever.

All Tribulation saints must rely on intellectual faith alone until they are either killed by the Beast or Christ comes to end the Tribulation period of seven years. Their salvation by grace cannot be completed until they become washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. God will translate the souls and spirits of those who endure to the end to Heaven where they will be washed clean in Christ's blood and water, and they will receive white robes and a home in Heaven forever. Revelation 7:9-17. Christ will invite all the martyred Tribulation saints to be guests at His marriage to His Church. But some of these Tribulation saints will have refused, because of fear or a lack of faith, to be washed in Christ's blood and water and receive their white robes. Christ will cast them out of His wedding to the bottomless pit where they will wait to receive their lesser form of salvation as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Matthew 22:1-14; John 3:29.