Commentary on Luke 3:5-6

Luke 3:6 must be interpreted in light of the context of verse 5. Verse 5 prophesies about God's recreation of the world after He destroys it in Revelation 21:1. God never destroys in order to simply reduce something to nothing. God always destroys in order to recreate.

Mountains and valleys are beautiful. One cannot imagine that God would recreate the world without them. This means the language of verse 5 must be symbolic indicating that God will reduce all pride and raise the spirits of all the lowly when He recreates humanity.

The word "crooked" in this verse becomes especially significant. This word means sin. God will eliminate all sin from His recreated world. All humans are the creation of God and belong solely to God, not the Devil. The work of the Devil inheres in his injection of sin into the being of humanity to sully God's goodness in humanity for the purpose of the complete ruination of mankind forever. God intends to rescue all of His creations, including all humans, from being ruined by sin which equates with spiritual death. Deuteronomy 32:22; John 1:29; Ephesians 6:12; I John 3:8; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5.

These facts indicate that verse 6 can only mean that all men will participate in some form of God's salvation and not just observe it. God will dissolve all men not saved by grace within the regions of the dead in order to eliminate all sin from their systems so that He can recover their basic elements to use to recreate a new, righteous humanity to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God's wrath resides within His judgments, but His infinite power resides within His Love. God loves all men equally. So how can God allow man's decisions to reject Him to overcome His all-powerful Love for them? God will use His consuming fire to destroy unsaved sinners' individualities within the regions of the dead to separate their complete rejection of Him which is totally evil to be cast into the lake of fire. Then, God will recreate the separated goodness and lives of humanity that He created in the first place. Luke 17:33; I Corinthians 3:12-15; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 21:1-5; John 12:47.