In John 5:26, Jesus taught that the power of life belongs to His Father. His teaching can only mean that God can never lose any life He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. Jesus further taught that His Father had given this same power of life to His Son. This means that Christ holds the power to give His life for His believers so that He can miraculously birth them into the family of God. Because Jesus has absolute power over life, He also has gained absolute power over death. Galatians 4:4-7; Revelation 1:18.
In verse 27, Jesus taught that because He is the perfect man, He alone holds the authority "to execute judgment." The imperfect never holds power to make eternal judgments about anyone. This teaching means that all believers should refrain from making any final judgments. Matthew 7:1-2.
Jesus prophesied in verse 28 that a day will come "in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice,..." Jesus' prophecy can only refer to a general resurrection of the dead from their graves in the end of the world when God becomes ready to recreate absolutely everything He ever created in the first place, including the lives of all humans. Revelation 21:5. By this prophecy, Jesus had to have meant the lives all dead humans left in their graves. He could not have meant the Old Testament saints because God resurrected them when Jesus resurrected. Matthew 27:52-53. He could not have meant the Church Age saints because they will be resurrected at the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:16. He also could not have meant the Tribulation saints because they will be resurrected at the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. Revelation 20:4. Jesus' prophecy can only mean that in the end of the world God will resurrect the lives of all dead humans still in their graves for him to use to recreate a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated earth. All life belongs to God, and God created all life to be good. Therefore, God will reclaim the souls and spirits of all dead humans within the regions of the dead for Him to recreate. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:3-5.
In verse 29, Jesus prophesied that He will resurrect the goodness of those left in their graves to be recreated to a new life. In order to do this, God will use His consuming fire to separate the goodness in the dead from their total evil which has sullied their goodness. Christ regained His power over sin and death that holds the lives that He created within the regions of the dead when He descended into hell. The Old Testament burnt offerings were symbolic of Christ's power to use His consuming fire to separate and reclaim all the lives of the dead that he originally created. I Corinthians 3:12-15. Goodness and life are synonymous. God created man in His own image to reflect His goodness. Life can only be good and exists only within God's Love. God can never lose any life He has ever created. Only deadness causes sin in man. Life always causes man to do good. God will cleanse and recover by the use of His consuming fire all of His goodness and life that He ever put into man for Him to recreate. Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 22:11-12; Isaiah 6:5-7. God will separate out and condemn only the total evil and deadness within the dead and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.
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