Job 2:9-10
Although Satan completely ruined Job, including his health, Satan did not succeed in causing the good life that God had given Job to rebel against God and become totally evil. But the Devil still was not finished with Job. Satan turned Job's wife against him so that Job no longer felt the support that love supplies. Of all of Satan's attacks against Job, this was the cruelest of all. Job's wife no longer wanted a poor, sick old man. She wanted Job to die. Satan directed his desire to ruin forever the good life that God put into Job to the heart of his wife when she told Job, "...curse God and die." When she referred to Job's "integrity," she meant the good life that God had put into him. Job's wife's cruel statement to Job reveals in God's Word Satan's goal for the entire human race. Should the Devil ever succeed in wholly turning even one good life that God has put into every human to curse God and become totally evil, then he will have succeeded in annulling a part of God's creations, a part of God's Word, and proving that God's Love is not Almighty. But the Devil failed with Job and he will fail with the rest of humanity. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Numbers 23:19; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36.
Many weak and evil men have cursed God, but they did not lose the good life that God put into them. Satan exerts his supernatural influence to cause weak men who have already turned to evil to curse God. But God counters Satan's attacks with His own supernatural influence to protect the good life that He put into them. Even Judas Iscariot displayed some goodness when he felt remorse and tired to reverse his betrayal of innocent Jesus although he did not repent to God for his evil sin. Satan knows that he must defeat God's best man because God has invested most of His goodness into the faith of that best man. For this reason, God did not send an angel to strengthen Jesus when He was tempted by the Devil in the desert until the temptation was over. God turned away from Jesus on the cross because Jesus' faith had to triumph over sin and spiritual death by means of its own strength.
Proof that God will rescue His good life that He has put into every man can be realized by a comparison of Revelation 4:11 with Revelation 21:5. Revelation 4:11 teaches us that God created all things for His pleasure. God created the good and living parts of all persons in His image. Should any of these living parts of men be tortured in the flames of hell forever, God could certainly get no pleasure from that. God has promised in Revelation 21:5 that He will recreate all things that He ever created, including all humans. In order for God to recover and recreate the living parts of all humans, He must devise a plan to thoroughly cleanse them of all sin and evil that has defiled them so that He can recover and recreate their cleansed and forgiven persons for His eternal pleasure.
God accomplished His plan through the sinless life, death, burial, descent into hell, and resurrection of His Son. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will recover all the living parts of all humans within the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29. God will also use His consuming fire to separate the total sin and evil within their lives from their living parts and cast their deadness into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God will make all this possible by returning the living parts of all humans not already saved by grace to faith in God as Lord and Savior in a great worship service for Him of all God's creations as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
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