Looking at the world, it does appear that there is a battle between good and evil.
It is believed that we must choose between good and evil, and our eternal destiny is determined by our choices. Christians believe that God sent Jesus to help us make it to Heaven, but it is still up to us to accept the opportunity that Jesus provides us.
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure
The God of the Bible has far more power than people seem to believe. The God of the Bible gets everything He wants. Everything has gone and will go as expected.
This does not mean we do not have “free will”, but our free choices will not prevent God from doing all His pleasure.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The God of the Bible is far more righteous than us, and far more intelligent. God may create the illusion of a battle between good and evil, but God will do all His pleasure. Every single person that God wants to be in Heaven, will be there.
Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Jesus was not hoping for the will of God to be done in the earth, He was stating that the will of God will be done in the earth. This is as sure as the coming of His kingdom. This is consistent with the Jewish Scriptures.
Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
God loves the sparrows.
We cannot comprehend the infinite righteousness of God. We cannot thank God enough. We cannot praise God enough. We cannot be thankful enough for the infinite righteousness of God.
It is a glorious thing, that God will do all His pleasure.
A Summary:
- God intentionally created a world of good and evil, so He go with the humans in life. God did this to experience sorrow, loneliness and many other emotions through the humans. God feels what we feel.
- Satan and the demons influence humans causing the humans to sin to result in the ultimate death of the humans. Evil spirits do this to grieve God, and they do it without committing a sin themselves. Satan is still in Heaven.
- This means that God must expose the hidden hatred of Satan (number 9), and God must redeem all the good humans (number 10).
- The Day of Judgment is when God destroys all evil.
- All goodness is rewarded, and all sin is punished before the Day of Judgment in what is called temporal judgment. Temporal judgment can be before or after death. These two different applications of justice explain the confusion in the Bible concerning heaven, hell, judgment and being saved. Sometimes the Bible is talking about temporal judgment.
- God the Father transcends time and space.
- God the Holy Spirit is a consciousness of God in Heaven.
- God the Son is a consciousness of God at a level of reality that transcends Heaven. God the Son was born into the world as a human named Jesus. He lived and died, rose from the dead and returned to the transcending level of Heaven which is called the Right Hand of God.
- When Jesus was on the cross, God looked away. Satan openly cursed God not knowing that Jesus transcends Heaven. Satan and the demons are all thereby condemned as Jesus is a witness against them.
- On the Day of Judgment, Jesus will lay down His body and this will allow the humans to do the same. There is a great abundance of separation in the Bible associated with redemption. It should be obvious, but the Gnostics were sent as a distraction.