If Jesus came to save us from the Lake of Fire He would be working against the Father's judgment. This shall never happen! Until Jesus has delivered us from the behaviors that rightfully belong in the Lake of Fire, the Lake of Fire has authority over us.

The victorious Christian has the guarantee in writing that the second death cannot harm him or her.

The believer who is walking in the sins of the flesh has no such guarantee.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:21)

The penalty for walking in sinful behavior is "shall not inherit the kingdom of God." This warning was addressed to the Christians living in Galatia.

All rebellion and sin, whether practiced by angels or human beings, finally will be confined for eternity in the Lake of Fire. This prison will be available throughout eternity as an object lesson for all of God's creatures.

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. (Isaiah 66:23,24)

Conclusion

The entire material creation is a response to a rebellion that took place in eons past. Whether the Father understood, when He through the Logos created the spirit inhabitants of the heavens, that His spirit creatures would rebel, and always had the material creation in mind as an ultimate solution, we do not know. The writer's guess is that the Father did plan all of this in advance—that the material world governed by a kingdom that is both internal and external always was His ultimate purpose.

The Father is wise enough and powerful enough for such an undertaking.

Present Christian teaching attacks the moral nature of God by claiming that if we take the correct doctrinal position we can continue in rebellion and sin without dying spiritually. We can sow sin and reap eternal life and righteousness. If this were true it would signify a change in the Nature of God. A change in the Nature of God would be a catastrophe of such magnitude that the most blessed of all creatures would be those who never had come into existence—be they angels or people.

No, the moral Nature of the God of Israel has never changed and shall never change. It is His creatures who must change. God will not permit rebellion or sin of any kind whatever to exist in His creation, except in confinement in an area from which all love, all joy, all peace have been walled off forever—to the ages of ages.

To be continued.