Job 12:1-25
In Job 12:14-21, Job revealed that he understood that God can create or destroy all that belongs to Him as He wills. When God destroys, He reduces His systems soiled by sin to their constituent elements so that He can recreate righteous systems from those elements. Sin equals nothing. Sin results from a misuse of God's righteous elements to invent soiled systems. God can reduce soiled systems to nothing, but His elements of those systems are always righteous. God never annihilates anything. Even the lake of fire burns total evil forever.
God allows men to make fools of themselves as they play out their history. Yet, both the deceived and the deceiver belong to Him. This fact means that God has overall control of history, and in the end, He will purge His creations of all sin and evil and recreate the earth, and all of living humanity, to be righteous systems. Revelation 21:1-5. In order to recreate all living humans, God will use His consuming fire, which also contains the shed blood and water from Christ, to cleanse every living human and raise them from their graves so that He can recreate their purified elements into righteous systems to live on His recreated earth. Humans cleansed by the blood and water of Christ while still alive in the flesh will go to heaven when they die. All humans still in their graves will come to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:13. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:12.
In Job 12:22, God revealed to Job that He is in a process of learning about the sin and evil that emerges from the darkness and shadow of death. All through the Bible, darkness and the shadow of death symbolize the sin and evil that emerges from the abyss; that is, the place called Death. Revelation 20:13. God is innocent. God knows everything that can be known about all creative ideas and systems. God knew nothing about the destructive effects of sin and evil until He suddenly found excessive pride in Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:15. God still does not fully understand the mystery of how sin and evil could emerge from the abyss to infect Lucifer and through Satan all of humanity. II Thessalonians 2:7. But God is learning. In the end, God will learn how to completely purge all sin and evil from His universe and recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:12-13.
Although God happens to be completely innocent and blameless about the sudden emergence of sin and excessive pride in Lucifer and its infection of His creations through the deceptions of Satan, He nevertheless feels guilty about allowing this destructive evil to affect all that He loves. God expressed His frustration and guilt in Isaiah 45:7. For this reason, it happens to be quite natural for an innocent person to feel guilty when something bad happens to someone they love.
In Job 12:23-25, God caused Job to understand that even though God allows mankind to wander in the wilderness and darkness, God nevertheless retains complete control over history. God can destroy nations or allow them to become great. But in the end, God will guide all nations of humans back to faith in Him and of their own free will. Revelation 5:13.
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