The World and the Word

          The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God is Almighty and His Intellect is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. Satan does not believe this. Satan believes that God made a huge mistake when He gave free will to Lucifer and then to humans. Satan believes that he can use free will to cause at least some humans to chose to become so evil that the Devil will be able to completely destroy their good and living souls and spirits that God has given to all living humans whom He creates and loves. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9.

But God did not put faith into every living human for it to fail. Romans 12:3. Satan believes that he can use free will to cause man's inner faith to fail, prove that God is not Almighty because He made this mistake, and that failure will give the Devil the power to find a way to murder God. John 8:44. Satan desired to completely ruin Job, and any other human, so that he could find a way to murder God. But God's Intellect is Infinite and Almighty which certainly means that He can devise a plan to return all living humans to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. Nowhere does the Bible (KJB) teach that the physical deaths of humans can thwart the Almighty will of God. John 11:25; II Peter 3:9.

God gave Satan the chance to murder Him when He allowed all of the sins and evil of all mankind to nail Jesus to a cross. Satan thought that Jesus would not be able to take it. Satan believed that all of the tremendous agony and pressure of all that sin and evil delivered to Jesus on the cross would cause Jesus to sin; His Spirit would be trapped in Hell forever, and Satan would succeed in his murder of God. But Jesus is God. Jesus possessed all of the power He needed to bear all of the sins and evil of all mankind and die the eternal deaths to which all living humans are subject. Jesus died as a perfect and sinless human who did not deserve eternal death. Because of this fact, He was able to transfer all of the sins and evil that He bore on the cross to the evil natures of humans that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Peter 3:18; Hebrews 2:9; Acts 2:27; Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 20:15.

When Jesus died on the cross, He died as a perfect man, not as God. Jesus is God because the Spirit of God wholly possessed the perfect man as He walked the earth. John 3:34. But as Jesus was dying on the cross and as His Spirit descended into Hell, He was temporarily separated from His Father because of all the sins and evil that He bore. Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:6. But Jesus was perfect because of the Spirit of God in Him, and therefore, He did not deserve eternal death. This fact gave the Father and the Spirit every right to raise Jesus' perfect body from Hell and return Him to His rightful place at the right hand of God. Jesus it still God in human form. The Spirit of Christ left all of the sins and evil of all humans behind in Hell when He rose from the dead. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27.

Jesus poured out His blood and water on the cross to cleanse and forgive all humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; John 13:1-13; John 5:24. Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of the rest of mankind. But just as God's salvation by grace does not become actual until the Holy Spirit delivers the cleansing blood of Jesus to the believer saved by grace, the salvations of the living humans confined to the regions of death does not become actual until they repent and believe in the power of the Lamb to save them. Revelation 5:11-14. At that time, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their individual systems in order to separate and save their living souls and spirits from their evil, dead natures which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13. By these two methods, Jesus succeeded in cleansing all living humans from all their sins and evil that would have caused all of their spiritual deaths forever. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38.

God did not die on the cross, but He certainly suffered greatly. Humans only suffer temporarily for their sins because of Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus forever removed man's potential eternal suffering in Hell. If living humans do not belong to God, then the Devil can claim them. Satan thought that he could kill God on the cross, and God did die but only as a perfect man who did not deserve eternal death. As a perfect human being, God died on the cross, and yet, Almighty God cannot die. This fact forms a paradox that only God can understand. God, the Father, suffered greatly when He turned His face away from His Son on the cross. Matthew 27:46. Jesus suffered greatly when He saw His Father turn away because Jesus had to die as if He were a sinful human whom His Father could not accept. Christ's Spirit had to have suffered greatly from the tremendous heat of Hell when He descended there.

God suffered for man, but because Christ had died as a perfect and sinless human, God had every right to raise Him from the dead and transform His perfect body into a spiritual body which He will also give to every living human who becomes saved by His grace. I John 3:2. God annuls the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by grace and casts their sins into the Sea of forgetfulness the moment they believe. John 5:24; Micah 7:19. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate all of the sins and eternal deaths of all living humans confined to the regions of death from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire when they repent and believe. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:15. By these means, God will give the evil, eternal deaths of all humans back to the Devil, but God will save all of His living souls and spirits that He creates and loves. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Hebrews 2:9; John 5:28-29; Matthew 15:13. Christ came to the cross, and His judgment fell on Himself. II Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 2:9; I Peter 3:18.

The World and the Word

             The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

God came to king David and made a covenant with him that He would establish David's throne forever. God kept His promise to David by making Christ the eternal king of Israel. God always keeps His part of any covenant He makes. Psalm 89:34. God's judgment fell on king David when God punished him for his sins, but He still kept His part of His covenant with him. God will certainly punish living humans for their sins and evil, but He will also certainly keep His covenant with Adam and Eve and Noah that He will forever preserve the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 8:20-21.

Jesus came to the earth to be born as a baby in Bethlehem. Angels announced to shepherds and the rest of humanity the reason Jesus came. The angels said that Jesus came to be a Savior and a joy to all people. Luke 2:10. But Jesus has certainly never been a joy to those who hate Him. The angels also prophesied that Jesus came to bring "peace" and "good will toward men." Christ could only fulfill these prophecies if the angels meant that Christ will eventually save all humans either by His grace or by His revelation to all living humans confined to the regions of death in order to cause their repentance and faith so that He can resurrect them and recreate them to inhabit a new earth created in righteousness. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:10-13; John 11:25. God's judgment fell when He allowed Herod to murder all of the babies in Bethlehem. The Devil tried to murder God at that time, but he only succeeded in being used of God to provide a prophecy that an innocent Christ would die on a cross to save all of humanity. Matthew 2:16-18. One day, even the puny, living soul and spirit of Herod will cry out to Christ for mercy from the bowels of Hell. Revelation 5:11-14.

Jesus came and walked the earth "and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him." Acts 10:38. Jesus demonstrated compassion for all humans because He had created the good souls and spirits of them all. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7; Luke 17:21. The story of Jesus' return to His home town of Nazareth to preach but "could there do no mighty work" does not mean that His friends' lack of faith prevented Him from doing mighty works. Jesus did heal a few sick folk. Jesus chose not to do miracles for them because He became a little angry with them because they were His own people who did not believe. Mark 6:1-6. Jesus healed the man whose ear Peter cut off. and that man certainly did not believe in Jesus. Luke 22:50-51. God certainly moves with compassion to heal and save when He sees faith, but that does not mean that God cannot heal or save when He does not see faith. Nevertheless, God will not provide eternal salvation for those he saves by grace or to those confined within the regions of death until He sees their repentance and faith because their repentance and faith will demonstrate that they all desire to be rid of their sins and evil and to become reconciled with God. God's goal is to thoroughly purge all sin and evil from all of His creations and recreate all of it to be righteous. Jesus came to save all living humans from the power of the Devil with a higher and a lower form of salvation. II Peter 3:10-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8.

The World and the Word

              The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Christ came to the Israelites in slavery in Egypt and gave them a sin offering of a slain lamb. God's judgment fell on the firstborn of the Egyptians which symbolized His wrath against sin and evil which has enslaved the human race. God commanded the Israelites to put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts in the symbolic form of a cross to represent all humans who would ever become saved by the blood of Christ. God commanded that the rest of the lamb be made a burnt sacrifice to symbolize His lesser form of salvation for all living humans not saved by grace. The Israelites represented the entire human race because all humans are slaves to sin and evil. The liberation of the Israelites symbolized God's liberation of the entire human race from slavery to sin and evil. The slain firstborn Egyptians represented sin and evil itself which God will purge from the whole human race. Exodus 12:1-3.

When the Israelites came to Mount Sinai, God told Moses to get the Israelites to accept His covenant of grace by which He liberated them. The Israelites only had to keep this covenant by their sin offering at Passover to symbolize their faith in God's grace. God instructed Moses to tell the Israelites that if they would simply practice their faith by the sin offering, then God would take care of their sanctification, and He would make them "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" which is exactly the same gift that He has given to the Church Age saints. If the Israelites had accepted God's offer of salvation by grace, then the only living humans who would have ever been saved by grace would have been the Israelites, and all of the Gentiles would have had to be content with God's lesser form of salvation which is resurrection to be recreated to live on God's new earth. Exodus 19:1-7; Revelation 1:4-6.

But the Israelites summarily rejected God's covenant of grace, and they asked God to give them some laws to obey so that they could prove that they could make themselves good enough to be accepted by God. They should have humbled themselves to God and realized that God alone had saved them and that self-salvation was quite impossible. By their rejection of God's grace, they demonstrated that they still clung to the sin of excessive pride which is a condition from which all other sins emerge. Exodus 19:8; Luke 18:9-14.

God responded to their rejection of His grace by demonstrating His fiery wrath against sin and evil from the top of Mount Sinai. God commanded Moses to instruct the people to sanctify themselves by washing their clothes and by staying away from the mountain. By washing their clothes, the Israelites symbolized that they each possessed a good and clean soul and spirit that God had put into them when He created them. By staying away from the mountain, the Israelites demonstrated the fact that God will never allow the the good image of Himself within every human to ever be permanently destroyed. God directed His fiery wrath only against the sin and evil that had infected them. God did punish the Israelites by making them greatly afraid of His power to destroy them if He so chose to do, but He did not kill any of them which symbolized the fact that He will save the good souls and spirits of all humans confined to the regions of death. Exodus 19:9-24.

God then gave Moses the law for the people to obey, but He also gave the people animal sacrifices for their forgiveness when they failed to obey. God gave them peace offerings which was added to the sin offering to symbolize all living humans who would ever be saved by grace. God gives all living humans saved by grace peace in their hearts with God. God also gave them His burnt offerings which symbolized that one day, in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His repentant, living humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day in the Tribulation period close to the end of the world, God will reveal Himself to all living humans confined to the regions of death, and His glory and majesty will cause them all to choose to repent and put their faith in the Lamb whom they will realize that only He can save them and resurrect them to a recreated life. Exodus 20:1-26; Revelation 21:1-5.

The World and the Word

          The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Controversy exists as to whether Genesis 6:1-4 records either the inter-marriage of the fallen Adamic race with the pre-Adamic race or the fornication of fallen angels with human women. Both accounts are true. Genesis 6:1-2 records the inter-marriages between the fallen Adamic race and the pre-Adamic race that produced normal children as Genesis 6:3 confirms. Genesis 6:4 records that fornication between fallen angels and human women produced "giants" and "men of renown" which inter-marriage between normal humans could not have produced. This story proves that angels are not sexless. These fallen angels cannot be the same persons as the rebellious angels who followed Lucifer because God chained all of them in the bottomless pit except for four whom He chained in the river Euphrates. Jude 1:6; Revelation 9:14. God exiled these fallen angels from Heaven because they remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer. They roam God's universe doing some good things and some sinful things. Some of them desire to be friends with humans, some are neutral toward humans, and some are somewhat hostile toward humans.

Christ came to Abraham and made a covenant with him that He would give him and all of his descendants the land of Canaan forever. God promised Abraham that His judgment would fall on all those who would hate and do harm to Abraham's descendants. God also promised Abraham that he and his descendants would become a blessing to "all families of the earth," which can only mean the living natures of every human who would ever live. God's message to Abraham constituted a prophecy that God will one day separate the repentant, living nature of every human from their evil nature, some by His grace and all others from the regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 17:6-8; John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12.

The seed of Abraham can only be those Israelites who have been faithful to the Jews' religion. Romans 2:28-29. In Christ's judgment in the end of the world, He will raise all faithful Jews who did not get saved by grace from the regions of the dead, recreate them, and give them citizenship in the eternal nation of Israel that will rule the earth. Isaiah 66:10-14. God will also raise and recreate all unfaithful Jews, but He will judge them with His "rod" and demote them to have to live with the recreated Gentiles. Ezekiel 20:37-38. Israel will forever be the nation that rules the recreated earth, but it will be populated only by those who were faithful to Judaism. Romans 11:26-27.

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.