Commentary on the Book of Job part two

                               Job 1:1-5

In the general resurrection of the dead that Jesus prophesied about in John 5:28-29, God will use His consuming fire to separate out and resurrect the good and living parts of all humans confined within one of the three regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:13. In addition to hell, two other regions of the dead exist, one called the sea and the other called death. Christ will resurrect the good and living parts of all humans within each region of the dead because they worshipped Him and put their faith in Him as their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:13. God will recreate these living humans created in His image to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.

Resurrection can only mean to be brought back to life. In Revelation 20:11-15, God does not say that the dead are resurrected but that they do stand before God to be judged for their evil works. Spiritual death means permanent separation from God. God separates these dead from Himself forever by casting them into the lake of fire because in their spiritual deadness they were allied with Satan in his rebellion by refusing to ever repent of their sin and evil and put their faith in Christ. Unrepentant sin and evil and spiritual death are one and the same. Revelation 20:15. God promised in I Corinthians 15:26 that the last enemy that He will destroy will be death. God will fulfill this prophecy in Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-5 when He purges all spiritual death from His recreated universe by casting it into the lake of fire which lies outside of God's creations in a region of absolute chaos and negative consciousness. For this reason, it is called the second death.

God will destroy the regions of death called hell and death by casting them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14. In Revelation 21:1, God will eliminate the region of the dead called the sea by a means not specified. God has washed all of the spiritual deadness of believers saved by grace into the sea of forgetfulness which is probably the same as the sea of death. Micah 7:19. The dead that God casts into the lake of fire will retain some form of demonic, negative consciousness which will cause them to suffer in some unknown way. But Revelation 19:20 and Revelation 20:10 teaches us that the devil, the beast, and the false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire alive to be tormented forever. This fact can only mean that God will supply them with a positive consciousness which will suffer severe pain as God's creations now do because of sin. They will be so preoccupied with tremendous pain forever that they will never be able to concoct a plan to infect God's creations with sin again.

In Hebrews 9:14, God has promised those saved by grace that He will "purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" This revelation seems to indicate that God will eliminate even their consciousness of their former spiritual deaths.

Hebrews 8:12 reveals that God will completely forget the sins and evil of all those saved by His grace. If the sea of death and the sea of forgetfulness is the same place, then God will eliminate the sea of death by forgetting all of the sin and evil of those saved by grace contained therein. This condition must also mean that God will forever nullify any conscious suffering of spiritual death by His believers saved by grace because He will have put their sins completely out of His Mind.