The quote does not completely reflect what biblical scripture actually says.
In creating, God essentially imagined and created more to know.
In creating beings with individual decision-making ability, God created some UN-knowns
(
Genesis 22:11-12"Just then, the Angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the Angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from Me.”)
God's plan is to make ALL individuals trustworthy and incorruptible.
(I Cor 15
20But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21For since by man
came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead.
22For
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24Then
cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death)
The meek will not inherit heaven -the present seat of God's throne -but "THE EARTH" and "THE HEAVENS" which "WERE FORMED TO BE INHABITED"
(John 3:13 And
no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,
even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Acts 2:34 For
David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
I Thess 4
:15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that
we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds
Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and
we shall reign on the earth.
Isa 45:
18For
thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it,
he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the LORD; and
there is none else.
Rom 8:
18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19For
the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21that
h the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.)
What some do not realize is that
God WILL ALSO MAKE MEEK THOSE WHO ARE NOT MEEK.
(Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Isa 2:
11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
Isa 13:And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir)
The idea that some were predestined to go to heaven and some to hell "forever" is not actually biblical.
"I Cor 3:13-15Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
Those "in Christ" already -who were called, predestined and who overcame sin in their lives -the dead and the living -will be made immortal at his return -and will then reign with him on Earth (initially) as kings and priests.
THE REST OF THE DEAD live not again until the thousand years are finished. THEN SOME whose works were not good will have their part in the lake of fire.
Rev 20:4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
Rev 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
God is ABLE to destroy both body and spirit in Gehenna (lake of fire), but that is not to say that is what he WILL do.
It is also an ultimatum and the last stage of purifying those who did not respond to anything else.
(Rev 20:13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and
they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
I Cor 15:24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
