Commentary on the Book of Job part one

                                  Job 1:1-5

Two levels of perfection exist, a finite perfection and an infinite perfection. The infinite perfection can also be called Holiness which belongs only to God. The Bible (KJB) informs us that Job possessed finite perfection which simply means that he was as good and moral as it is possible for a sinful man to be. Job 7:20; Job 1:1.

The book of Job predates all other books of the Bible including Genesis. Verse five informs us that Job offered burnt offerings to God for forgiveness of his and his family's sins. This information provides proof that burnt offerings symbolize one of the methods that God uses to eliminate sin and evil from a person's life. Such Old Testament passages as Leviticus 9:7; Numbers 31:23; Deuteronomy 4:24 and 32:22 provide symbolic proof that God can use His consuming fire to purge sins from the lives of believers. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides further proof that God can cleanse sin from the lives of His believers by the use of His consuming fire. But at the time that Job offered his burnt offerings, he had not as yet received a revelation from God that a blood sacrifice must precede the burnt offering in order for the burnt offering to be effective for the removal of sin. Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 13:10-13.

I Corinthians 3:11-15 teaches us that God will eventually purge sin from the lives of every human, not just those saved by grace. God preserves the good works of every human for reward, but God will burn forever the dead works of all humans including the sins of believers saved by grace for which they have never repented. God purges and forgives sins in the souls and spirits of believers saved by grace with the blood of Jesus the moment they believe. God daily purges and forgives the fleshly sins of believers saved by grace with the water from Jesus' side as they daily repent of them.

God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 that a day will come when all humans not already saved by grace will repent and believe in Jesus. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-13. Jesus had to have sacrificed Himself on the cross before His Spirit could descend into hell to leave behind the sins of all mankind which He had to have done because He rose immaculate from the grave. Christ's descent into hell constitutes the purging of the sins of all mankind not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. Jesus prophesied in Matthew 16:27 that God will reward every man according to his works. Romans 2:9-10 proves that God gives only positive rewards for good works, and that every man must be alive in order to receive these positive rewards. These teachings can only mean that God will recreate the good and living parts of all humans not already saved by grace to inhabit His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 22:11-12 teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all His created goodness in every human from all of their dead sins in His final judgment of those still in their graves. John 5:28-29. All humans saved by grace will have already been resurrected to eternal life with God in heaven. Revelation 5:8-12.