Job 17:1-16
God made Job typical of the whole human race. The emotions of humans spans a spectrum that runs from utopian joy and bliss to utter despair and hopelessness. God understood that humans would become this way once they had sinned. But God wants humans to understand that these emotions have nothing to do with faith. Job realized this truth when God inspired him to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him..."Job 13:15. God holds on to the faith that humans put in Him. This fact happens because God is faithful. "...He cannot deny Himself." II Timothy 2:13. God has given "...to every man the measure of faith." Romans 12:3; Hebrews 11:3. God created everything to be good, therefore, the image of God in every person has to have faith. Genesis 1:31.
While II Thessalonians 3:2 does state that "...all men have not faith," taken in context, this phrase means that most humans cannot rise to Christian faith and become saved by grace. Most people are atheists, some by philosophy and most by practice. But this attitude toward God cannot change God's faithfulness toward His creations. God has brought all persons saved by His grace to a consciousness of having faith in Christ, but God has not given up on the rest of humanity. Someday, God will bring all humans not already saved by grace back to a conscious faith in Him of their own free will.
Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophecy that one day all humans still in their graves will return to conscious faith in God and will be saved but with a lesser form of salvation than that of those saved by grace. Joel prophesied that in the last days, "...I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh..." Joel 2:28. God has to mean exactly that which He states. Revelation 5:13 reveals the fulfillment of these prophecies when, at the beginning of the Tribulation period, absolutely every living being that God ever created will praise Him in a tremendous worship service. This great worship service will begin with the angels and the Church in heaven and will be extended to the earth, to the sea, and to under the earth. Revelation 5:11-14. At this time, God will give all humans still in their graves a lesser from of salvation because they will recognize and praise Christ as "the Lamb." They would not be able to recognize Christ as their Savior unless they employed the faith that God gave them when He created them in His image.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty nine
Job 16:1-22
In Job 16:17, God caused Job to realize that he had never been unjust to anyone. Job had been a weak sinner, but he had never been deliberately cruel and wicked. Job had also been honest with God in his prayers. He had not tried to deceive God in any way.
In Job 16:18, Job pled with the earth not to hold his life in the grave, symbolized by his use of the word "blood." He also asked the earth to give no place for his "cry," by which he meant that he desired that his "cry" go to God and not remain in the grave.
In Job 16:19, God answered Job's cry by assuring him that He was keeping a record of Job's witness in heaven. God was keeping a record of all of Job's good works and his witness of his faith.
In Job 16:20-22, Job proclaimed that he did not care that his friends scorned him. Job knew that God had seen his tears, and He cared about him. God revealed to Job that He cared about him by reminding him that an intercessor does exist who can make Job right with Him. But Job had trouble believing God's revelation, and so He continued to plead with God for an intercessor. Job then realized that when he goes to his grave that God will not raise him to his old life. Job began to understand that if he has a record in heaven and if he has an intercessor, then in some way that he cannot quite comprehend, God must raise him from the dead as a new man.
In Job 16:17, God caused Job to realize that he had never been unjust to anyone. Job had been a weak sinner, but he had never been deliberately cruel and wicked. Job had also been honest with God in his prayers. He had not tried to deceive God in any way.
In Job 16:18, Job pled with the earth not to hold his life in the grave, symbolized by his use of the word "blood." He also asked the earth to give no place for his "cry," by which he meant that he desired that his "cry" go to God and not remain in the grave.
In Job 16:19, God answered Job's cry by assuring him that He was keeping a record of Job's witness in heaven. God was keeping a record of all of Job's good works and his witness of his faith.
In Job 16:20-22, Job proclaimed that he did not care that his friends scorned him. Job knew that God had seen his tears, and He cared about him. God revealed to Job that He cared about him by reminding him that an intercessor does exist who can make Job right with Him. But Job had trouble believing God's revelation, and so He continued to plead with God for an intercessor. Job then realized that when he goes to his grave that God will not raise him to his old life. Job began to understand that if he has a record in heaven and if he has an intercessor, then in some way that he cannot quite comprehend, God must raise him from the dead as a new man.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty eight
Job 16:1-22
After God learns the secret manner in which evil influences His righteous creations, He will loose Satan from his prison to allow him again to roam the earth and teach these sinful people that they must unite into an army to defeat Christ's army in order to at least get rid of God in His world and establish a world in which they can indulge in their depraved pleasures with impunity. Actually, Satan will have lied to them. Satan's only desire will be to gain control over them so that he can torture them forever in his attempt to completely ruin the good image of God still in them. Satan will use them in his continuous attempts to destroy God by his annihilation of a part of that which God loves. But God will be using Satan as His tool to cause the secret source of evil to become fully exposed and concentrated in one place and people so that He can send a bolt of His consuming fire from above to completely expunge all evil in humans and seal off its secret entrance into His creations. Revelation 20:7-10.
After God has accomplished this victory, He will throw Satan alive into the lake of fire to so preoccupy his mind with torment forever that he will never be able to think of any other way to use evil to corrupt God's creations again. After God has thoroughly purged His heaven and earth of every possible influence of evil, He will destroy the heaven and the earth, and He will recreate a righteous heaven and earth which can never be corrupted by evil again. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God's destruction of the present heaven and earth by the use of His consuming fire will be His way of separating out all evil and sealing off all evil influences from His new creations of a righteous heaven and earth. At this time, God will also use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all humans still in their graves from their dead nature. In order to do this, God will dissolve every individual human system. God will use the good and living images of Him in these humans to recreate a new, righteous human race to inhabit His recreated earth. God will judge the separated, totally evil dead according to their evil works as recorded in His books and cast them into the lake of fire forever. For this reason, Jesus did not state that living humans would be in the lake of fire in Mark 9:44,46 and 48. Jesus said that their "worm" would be there. In the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" symbolizes evil itself. Like worms, the dead in the lake of fire will have very little consciousness and that will be a negative consciousness like that of the demons. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has created in humans, can get no idea of how negative consciousness operates except that it adheres to absolute nothingness. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29.
In this way, God will destroy all the works of the Devil, permanently purge all of His creations of all sin and evil, destroy death itself, and preserve all that He ever created to be recreated and sealed off from any further possible influence from evil forever. I John 3:8; II Peter 3:12-13; John 1:29; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20.
After God learns the secret manner in which evil influences His righteous creations, He will loose Satan from his prison to allow him again to roam the earth and teach these sinful people that they must unite into an army to defeat Christ's army in order to at least get rid of God in His world and establish a world in which they can indulge in their depraved pleasures with impunity. Actually, Satan will have lied to them. Satan's only desire will be to gain control over them so that he can torture them forever in his attempt to completely ruin the good image of God still in them. Satan will use them in his continuous attempts to destroy God by his annihilation of a part of that which God loves. But God will be using Satan as His tool to cause the secret source of evil to become fully exposed and concentrated in one place and people so that He can send a bolt of His consuming fire from above to completely expunge all evil in humans and seal off its secret entrance into His creations. Revelation 20:7-10.
After God has accomplished this victory, He will throw Satan alive into the lake of fire to so preoccupy his mind with torment forever that he will never be able to think of any other way to use evil to corrupt God's creations again. After God has thoroughly purged His heaven and earth of every possible influence of evil, He will destroy the heaven and the earth, and He will recreate a righteous heaven and earth which can never be corrupted by evil again. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God's destruction of the present heaven and earth by the use of His consuming fire will be His way of separating out all evil and sealing off all evil influences from His new creations of a righteous heaven and earth. At this time, God will also use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all humans still in their graves from their dead nature. In order to do this, God will dissolve every individual human system. God will use the good and living images of Him in these humans to recreate a new, righteous human race to inhabit His recreated earth. God will judge the separated, totally evil dead according to their evil works as recorded in His books and cast them into the lake of fire forever. For this reason, Jesus did not state that living humans would be in the lake of fire in Mark 9:44,46 and 48. Jesus said that their "worm" would be there. In the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" symbolizes evil itself. Like worms, the dead in the lake of fire will have very little consciousness and that will be a negative consciousness like that of the demons. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has created in humans, can get no idea of how negative consciousness operates except that it adheres to absolute nothingness. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29.
In this way, God will destroy all the works of the Devil, permanently purge all of His creations of all sin and evil, destroy death itself, and preserve all that He ever created to be recreated and sealed off from any further possible influence from evil forever. I John 3:8; II Peter 3:12-13; John 1:29; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty seven
Job 16:1-22
God is innocent. He knows nothing about absolute nothingness except that it is a destructive and negative force that has invaded His positive creations by some secret means. But God has devised a plan by which He will be able to learn the insidious means by which evil gets into His creations so that He can destroy that means. In the Battle of Armageddon, as recorded in Revelation 19:17-21, Christ will capture the beast and the false prophet, and He will cast them alive into the lake of fire so that their torment will prevent them from ever having any influence over humans forever. Immediately following this battle, God will send an angel to dig that coward Satan out of whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him and seal him in the bottomless pit so that he will have no influence over humans to turn them to evil.
Christ will then establish His millennial kingdom on the earth. Christ will first raise His martyred Tribulation saints to reign with Him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:4. Then, according to Matthew 25:31-46, Christ will judge the living nations and separate the good images that God put into them which He calls "the sheep" from their evil nature which He calls "the goats." In order to do this, Christ will dissolve the individual systems of each person. Christ will judge each individual strictly according to their good works and their evil works. Christ will preserve their good works because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Christ will cast their separated evil works, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, into the lake of fire. Christ will then use His recovered good works to recreate a righteous human race to live in His millennial kingdom.
God created Lucifer to be a wholly good and righteous system, and yet, evil somehow suddenly took hold of him. This means evil itself predates Lucifer. For this reason, God will know that the righteous people who inhabit Christ's kingdom will still be subject to the secret influence of evil even though He has barred the false trinity called the Devil from any possibility of infecting them with evil. Toward the end of Christ's millennial reign, many of these righteous people will begin to sin again because of the secret method by which evil will emerge to influence them. But God will be watching the bottomless pit, and He will learn the exact secret manner by which evil emerges from it to corrupt God's righteous creations. The ultimate goal of all evil is to kill God and completely annihilate all of His good creations.
God is innocent. He knows nothing about absolute nothingness except that it is a destructive and negative force that has invaded His positive creations by some secret means. But God has devised a plan by which He will be able to learn the insidious means by which evil gets into His creations so that He can destroy that means. In the Battle of Armageddon, as recorded in Revelation 19:17-21, Christ will capture the beast and the false prophet, and He will cast them alive into the lake of fire so that their torment will prevent them from ever having any influence over humans forever. Immediately following this battle, God will send an angel to dig that coward Satan out of whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him and seal him in the bottomless pit so that he will have no influence over humans to turn them to evil.
Christ will then establish His millennial kingdom on the earth. Christ will first raise His martyred Tribulation saints to reign with Him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:4. Then, according to Matthew 25:31-46, Christ will judge the living nations and separate the good images that God put into them which He calls "the sheep" from their evil nature which He calls "the goats." In order to do this, Christ will dissolve the individual systems of each person. Christ will judge each individual strictly according to their good works and their evil works. Christ will preserve their good works because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Christ will cast their separated evil works, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, into the lake of fire. Christ will then use His recovered good works to recreate a righteous human race to live in His millennial kingdom.
God created Lucifer to be a wholly good and righteous system, and yet, evil somehow suddenly took hold of him. This means evil itself predates Lucifer. For this reason, God will know that the righteous people who inhabit Christ's kingdom will still be subject to the secret influence of evil even though He has barred the false trinity called the Devil from any possibility of infecting them with evil. Toward the end of Christ's millennial reign, many of these righteous people will begin to sin again because of the secret method by which evil will emerge to influence them. But God will be watching the bottomless pit, and He will learn the exact secret manner by which evil emerges from it to corrupt God's righteous creations. The ultimate goal of all evil is to kill God and completely annihilate all of His good creations.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty six
Job 16:1-22
In Job 16:1-10, Job complained that his comforters had failed to comfort him. Job complained that their words had made his suffering worse. Job rebuked them by telling them that if they were in his place, he would do his best to try to truly comfort them and ease their grief. That which Job spoke in verses 7-10 reminds one of the old adage, "With friends like these, a man would not need any enemies." Job suspected that his friends actually secretly hated him because they were envious of his fellowship with God in which God comforted and strengthened him.
In Job 16:11-16, Job complained to God that He had allowed everything that Job loved to be taken from him. God had allowed Job's children to be taken, had allowed his wife to turn against him, had taken his health, and had even allowed his ungodly friends to mock him. By his use of the phrase "shadow of death," Job realized that he had been reduced to a state of absolute nothingness except for his good life which barely rose above the darkness of death like a shadow on his eyelids. The Bible (KJB) often uses the phrase "shadow of death" and the word "darkness" to symbolize a place of total evil and emptiness called Death in Revelation 20:13. The Bible clearly denotes three different places of the dead called the Sea, Death, and Hell in Revelation 20:13. All forms of sin and evil have secretly emerged into God's creations from this abyss, this place of chaos and absolute nothingness called "the deep" in Luke 8:31, "the bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:3, the "prison" in Revelation 20:7, and Death in Revelation 6:8 and Revelation 20:13.
In John 3:17-21, Jesus referred to those who love truth as coming to the light, and those whom God condemns as being in evil darkness. In Revelation 9:1-3, God sent a fallen angel to open the bottomless pit to allow all the demonic beings there, like a cloud of locusts, to emerge to torment all men who have not been sealed in their foreheads by God for their protection. God will have a good reason for doing this. God will desire to gather all the forces of evil to the Battle of Armageddon so that He can destroy most of them at one time. Revelation 19:17-21; Ezekiel 39:2. In Genesis 1:3-5, God created the light but not the darkness. God created the light to overcome the darkness. John 1:5. The light symbolizes goodness and righteousness. The darkness symbolizes the evil abyss, the place of absolute nothingness, the place of demonic beings who possess negative consciousness. God possesses infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative and righteous. God created humans to possess only positive consciousness. God raises the idea of nothing to a level of positive consciousness slightly above absolute nothingness as a useful idea in His creations of good systems. God knew nothing about absolute nothingness until it suddenly emerged into Lucifer as recorded in Ezekiel 28:15. Not even God knows how evil emerged from the bottomless pit to infect His creations because God only knows positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. The forces of evil have some secret way of getting into God's creations.
In Job 16:1-10, Job complained that his comforters had failed to comfort him. Job complained that their words had made his suffering worse. Job rebuked them by telling them that if they were in his place, he would do his best to try to truly comfort them and ease their grief. That which Job spoke in verses 7-10 reminds one of the old adage, "With friends like these, a man would not need any enemies." Job suspected that his friends actually secretly hated him because they were envious of his fellowship with God in which God comforted and strengthened him.
In Job 16:11-16, Job complained to God that He had allowed everything that Job loved to be taken from him. God had allowed Job's children to be taken, had allowed his wife to turn against him, had taken his health, and had even allowed his ungodly friends to mock him. By his use of the phrase "shadow of death," Job realized that he had been reduced to a state of absolute nothingness except for his good life which barely rose above the darkness of death like a shadow on his eyelids. The Bible (KJB) often uses the phrase "shadow of death" and the word "darkness" to symbolize a place of total evil and emptiness called Death in Revelation 20:13. The Bible clearly denotes three different places of the dead called the Sea, Death, and Hell in Revelation 20:13. All forms of sin and evil have secretly emerged into God's creations from this abyss, this place of chaos and absolute nothingness called "the deep" in Luke 8:31, "the bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:3, the "prison" in Revelation 20:7, and Death in Revelation 6:8 and Revelation 20:13.
In John 3:17-21, Jesus referred to those who love truth as coming to the light, and those whom God condemns as being in evil darkness. In Revelation 9:1-3, God sent a fallen angel to open the bottomless pit to allow all the demonic beings there, like a cloud of locusts, to emerge to torment all men who have not been sealed in their foreheads by God for their protection. God will have a good reason for doing this. God will desire to gather all the forces of evil to the Battle of Armageddon so that He can destroy most of them at one time. Revelation 19:17-21; Ezekiel 39:2. In Genesis 1:3-5, God created the light but not the darkness. God created the light to overcome the darkness. John 1:5. The light symbolizes goodness and righteousness. The darkness symbolizes the evil abyss, the place of absolute nothingness, the place of demonic beings who possess negative consciousness. God possesses infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative and righteous. God created humans to possess only positive consciousness. God raises the idea of nothing to a level of positive consciousness slightly above absolute nothingness as a useful idea in His creations of good systems. God knew nothing about absolute nothingness until it suddenly emerged into Lucifer as recorded in Ezekiel 28:15. Not even God knows how evil emerged from the bottomless pit to infect His creations because God only knows positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. The forces of evil have some secret way of getting into God's creations.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty five
Job 15:1-35
Some men become terribly cruel and evil. But even the worst of men has done some good which proves that the good and living image of God within them has not been fully extinguished. Even Judas Iscariot demonstrated that some goodness still remained in him when he became remorseful for his evil act of betraying Jesus. Even though he refused to repent to God, he still revealed that the good and living image of God within him still hated evil. Jesus recognized the good image of God that still remained in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Even though Jesus severely reproved the Pharisees and Sadducees for their cruel oppression of others, He nevertheless recognized the good and living image of God in them by what He said to them in Luke 17:20-21.
Still, in order for the image of God in every person to be saved, all humans must return to faith in God as their Savior. Someday, all unrepentant sinners will return to faith in Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 45:22-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. God will recover His good images that He has put into every unrepentant sinner with a general resurrection at the end of the world as recorded in Revelation 20:5. God will dissolve every one of their individual systems by His use of His consuming fire. God will recover the elements of goodness and life within each person to be recreated, and He will cast their separated, totally evil spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will recover even the dim light of His image still left in Judas Iscariot. All of the terribly wicked in hell, including Judas Iscariot, will completely lose their former identities and personalities when God dissolves their systems. Every person constitutes a system comprised of basic elements. But God will still use the elements of His image still in them as a part of His recreation of a righteous race to live on His new earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Those dead humans within the other regions of the dead who conformed their lives to the image of God within them but were not saved by grace, but who nevertheless led good lives, were good parents and citizens, will retain some of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Yet, none of the living humans raised from the three regions of the dead will retain their complete, former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Revelation 20:13; Revelation 20:5. Humans saved by grace will retain their complete, former identities and most of their former personalities in heaven. John 12:24-26.
Some men become terribly cruel and evil. But even the worst of men has done some good which proves that the good and living image of God within them has not been fully extinguished. Even Judas Iscariot demonstrated that some goodness still remained in him when he became remorseful for his evil act of betraying Jesus. Even though he refused to repent to God, he still revealed that the good and living image of God within him still hated evil. Jesus recognized the good image of God that still remained in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Even though Jesus severely reproved the Pharisees and Sadducees for their cruel oppression of others, He nevertheless recognized the good and living image of God in them by what He said to them in Luke 17:20-21.
Still, in order for the image of God in every person to be saved, all humans must return to faith in God as their Savior. Someday, all unrepentant sinners will return to faith in Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 45:22-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. God will recover His good images that He has put into every unrepentant sinner with a general resurrection at the end of the world as recorded in Revelation 20:5. God will dissolve every one of their individual systems by His use of His consuming fire. God will recover the elements of goodness and life within each person to be recreated, and He will cast their separated, totally evil spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will recover even the dim light of His image still left in Judas Iscariot. All of the terribly wicked in hell, including Judas Iscariot, will completely lose their former identities and personalities when God dissolves their systems. Every person constitutes a system comprised of basic elements. But God will still use the elements of His image still in them as a part of His recreation of a righteous race to live on His new earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Those dead humans within the other regions of the dead who conformed their lives to the image of God within them but were not saved by grace, but who nevertheless led good lives, were good parents and citizens, will retain some of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Yet, none of the living humans raised from the three regions of the dead will retain their complete, former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Revelation 20:13; Revelation 20:5. Humans saved by grace will retain their complete, former identities and most of their former personalities in heaven. John 12:24-26.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty four
Job 15:1-35
Eliphaz became angry with Job because Job claimed that God had told Job that He can remove Job's sin and raise him from the dead a new man. Eliphaz also became envious of Job because Job seemed to have become less fearful and more peaceful with God. Eliphaz accused Job of not being fully honest with God when he talked with Him.
Eliphaz was afraid to talk to God. Eliphaz was a deist. Like many of the ancients, he did not believe that even God was righteous. Eliphaz charged Job with being wicked and that God had no desire to do anything about it. Eliphaz contended that God does not care about those who try to be righteous, and He does nothing about cleansing heaven or mankind of the filth of sin.
Satan then inspired Eliphaz to mock Job by telling him that he was hopelessly wicked, and God could not help him. Eliphaz turned against Job and angrily predicted that Job would remain in darkness and suffering and emptiness forever. Eliphaz was doing to Job what his wife had done. In effect, Eliphaz told Job that his faith in God was useless and that he might as well "curse God and die."
That which the Devil attempted to do to Job through Eliphaz symbolizes that which the Devil wants to do to the whole human race. Satan desires to completely destroy the image of God which He has put into every man by causing every bit of that image to become totally evil. The Devil seeks to annihilate a part of God's creation. Should the Devil succeed with even one person, then he would prove that God's Almighty Love for His creations had failed, and that putative weakness in God would give the Devil the crack in God's armor that the Devil needed to finally defeat God and assume power over His universe. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.
But God's Love will never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God has put His good image into every person, and though that image has become soiled by sin and evil, nevertheless, God will eventually cleanse that sin in every person and recover His living image for Him to recreate, some by His grace and all others still in their graves by His use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; I Corinthians 15:22.
Eliphaz became angry with Job because Job claimed that God had told Job that He can remove Job's sin and raise him from the dead a new man. Eliphaz also became envious of Job because Job seemed to have become less fearful and more peaceful with God. Eliphaz accused Job of not being fully honest with God when he talked with Him.
Eliphaz was afraid to talk to God. Eliphaz was a deist. Like many of the ancients, he did not believe that even God was righteous. Eliphaz charged Job with being wicked and that God had no desire to do anything about it. Eliphaz contended that God does not care about those who try to be righteous, and He does nothing about cleansing heaven or mankind of the filth of sin.
Satan then inspired Eliphaz to mock Job by telling him that he was hopelessly wicked, and God could not help him. Eliphaz turned against Job and angrily predicted that Job would remain in darkness and suffering and emptiness forever. Eliphaz was doing to Job what his wife had done. In effect, Eliphaz told Job that his faith in God was useless and that he might as well "curse God and die."
That which the Devil attempted to do to Job through Eliphaz symbolizes that which the Devil wants to do to the whole human race. Satan desires to completely destroy the image of God which He has put into every man by causing every bit of that image to become totally evil. The Devil seeks to annihilate a part of God's creation. Should the Devil succeed with even one person, then he would prove that God's Almighty Love for His creations had failed, and that putative weakness in God would give the Devil the crack in God's armor that the Devil needed to finally defeat God and assume power over His universe. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.
But God's Love will never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God has put His good image into every person, and though that image has become soiled by sin and evil, nevertheless, God will eventually cleanse that sin in every person and recover His living image for Him to recreate, some by His grace and all others still in their graves by His use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; I Corinthians 15:22.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty three
Job 14:1-22
In Job 14:20-22, the phrase "sendest them away" has a double meaning. It means God will recreate those whom He raises from their graves on the last day for Him to send away to live on His recreated earth. But it also means that God will judge them following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God will receive into heaven when they die all humans who have repented of their sins and have put their faith in the power of Christ to cleanse their souls and spirits with His blood that He shed on the cross. These humans are thoroughly clean and have been saved by God's grace. God cannot accept into heaven any humans who are not in a state of grace when they die. Heaven is a holy and immaculate place. God cannot accept the filth of sin and evil into His heaven. God cannot accept into heaven those who have not been cleansed of sin: those whom the filth still soils their souls and spirits that God created in His image. When these filthy humans die, God must separate them from His presence and consign their soiled souls and spirits to one of the three regions of the dead according to how they lived. Revelation 20:13. But God still loves them and since love never fails, He will never give up on them. I Corinthians 13:8. In the last day, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse them of their sins, and He will raise their clean, living souls and spirits from the grave, give them new bodies, and send them to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
In Job 20:21-22, God revealed to Job that man's suffering for his sins is always only temporary. Christ suffered the eternal penalty for man's sins. Hebrews 2:9. Christ saved the living parts of all men from eternal torture for their sins. Violations of the law curses every man to eternal spiritual death because he cannot cleanse himself, but Christ suffered that eternal penalty in man's place. Galatians 3:10-13. The goal of the Devil is to cause the good and living part of man to become so filthy with sin and evil that he rebels against God and becomes as totally evil as the Devil himself is. Satan revealed his goal when he told Job's wife to tell Job "curse God and die." Job 2:9. God loves all of His creations including His good image that He put into man that constitutes the living part of all men. God can never lose the living parts of all humans whom He loves. Luke 20:38. Because God's Love is Almighty and His mercy endures forever, then in the end of the world, God will cleanse, recover, recreate, and reconcile all that He has ever created including every living human. Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; Romans 11:36. God will cast into the lake of fire only the separated, totally evil dead that He never created. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. The Devil will never be able to claim forever anything that God has created because Christ has destroyed all of the evil works of the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22.
I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came to destroy only the works of the Devil. Living humans are not the works of the Devil. Therefore, God will save all living humans from the regions of the dead in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5.
In Job 14:20-22, the phrase "sendest them away" has a double meaning. It means God will recreate those whom He raises from their graves on the last day for Him to send away to live on His recreated earth. But it also means that God will judge them following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God will receive into heaven when they die all humans who have repented of their sins and have put their faith in the power of Christ to cleanse their souls and spirits with His blood that He shed on the cross. These humans are thoroughly clean and have been saved by God's grace. God cannot accept into heaven any humans who are not in a state of grace when they die. Heaven is a holy and immaculate place. God cannot accept the filth of sin and evil into His heaven. God cannot accept into heaven those who have not been cleansed of sin: those whom the filth still soils their souls and spirits that God created in His image. When these filthy humans die, God must separate them from His presence and consign their soiled souls and spirits to one of the three regions of the dead according to how they lived. Revelation 20:13. But God still loves them and since love never fails, He will never give up on them. I Corinthians 13:8. In the last day, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse them of their sins, and He will raise their clean, living souls and spirits from the grave, give them new bodies, and send them to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
In Job 20:21-22, God revealed to Job that man's suffering for his sins is always only temporary. Christ suffered the eternal penalty for man's sins. Hebrews 2:9. Christ saved the living parts of all men from eternal torture for their sins. Violations of the law curses every man to eternal spiritual death because he cannot cleanse himself, but Christ suffered that eternal penalty in man's place. Galatians 3:10-13. The goal of the Devil is to cause the good and living part of man to become so filthy with sin and evil that he rebels against God and becomes as totally evil as the Devil himself is. Satan revealed his goal when he told Job's wife to tell Job "curse God and die." Job 2:9. God loves all of His creations including His good image that He put into man that constitutes the living part of all men. God can never lose the living parts of all humans whom He loves. Luke 20:38. Because God's Love is Almighty and His mercy endures forever, then in the end of the world, God will cleanse, recover, recreate, and reconcile all that He has ever created including every living human. Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; Romans 11:36. God will cast into the lake of fire only the separated, totally evil dead that He never created. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. The Devil will never be able to claim forever anything that God has created because Christ has destroyed all of the evil works of the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22.
I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came to destroy only the works of the Devil. Living humans are not the works of the Devil. Therefore, God will save all living humans from the regions of the dead in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty two
Job 14:1-22
In Job 14:13-15, God continued to answer Job's question in verse 10. God assured Job with a sublime revelation that one day God's punishment of him would pass, and He would call Job out of his grave and raise him to life again. In verse 15, God reminded Job that He had created him in His image and that God desired to renew and recreate His original work. This same desire applies to all humans because God has created every human in His image. This revelation was a prophecy that every man's life belongs to God, and He will someday raise every living human still in their graves back to life for Him to recreate. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 14:16-17, Job wondered about his sin. If God raises him from the dead and recreates him, what will God do about his sin? In verse 17, God assured Job that He would separate his sin from his raised life and so confine his sin that it will never affect Job again forever. God promised Job that He will provide Job with a righteous recreation. According to Revelation 21:1-5, God will provide every living human raised from the dead with a righteous recreation. Revelation 22:11-12.
In Job 14:18-19, God gave Job a vision that someday He will destroy the earth. At that time, God will wash away all the filth of the earth so that He can recreate a righteous earth. In this process, God will destroy "the hope of man." The hope of man is that somehow he will be able to enjoy a life of sinful power and pleasure on earth forever while ignoring God. God will use His consuming fire to separate every man's unrepentant and rebellious sins from their raised lives, and He will cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:25; Revelation 20:11-15.
In Job 14:20, God informed Job that He never gives up on mankind. Even after physical death, God will "change his countenance," which means God will recover and recreate His living image that He put into every person that He created. Revelation 21:1-5. But after God has recreated the lives of those He recovers from their graves when He recreates the heavens and the earth, He "sends them away." This judgment of God means that He will not allow them to live with Him in heaven. God has reserved that highest form of salvation only for those He has saved by His grace. God will send those whom He raises from the dead and recreates back to live on His recreated earth. But God will still visit with them and fellowship with them every day just as He did with Adam and Eve.
In Job 14:13-15, God continued to answer Job's question in verse 10. God assured Job with a sublime revelation that one day God's punishment of him would pass, and He would call Job out of his grave and raise him to life again. In verse 15, God reminded Job that He had created him in His image and that God desired to renew and recreate His original work. This same desire applies to all humans because God has created every human in His image. This revelation was a prophecy that every man's life belongs to God, and He will someday raise every living human still in their graves back to life for Him to recreate. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 14:16-17, Job wondered about his sin. If God raises him from the dead and recreates him, what will God do about his sin? In verse 17, God assured Job that He would separate his sin from his raised life and so confine his sin that it will never affect Job again forever. God promised Job that He will provide Job with a righteous recreation. According to Revelation 21:1-5, God will provide every living human raised from the dead with a righteous recreation. Revelation 22:11-12.
In Job 14:18-19, God gave Job a vision that someday He will destroy the earth. At that time, God will wash away all the filth of the earth so that He can recreate a righteous earth. In this process, God will destroy "the hope of man." The hope of man is that somehow he will be able to enjoy a life of sinful power and pleasure on earth forever while ignoring God. God will use His consuming fire to separate every man's unrepentant and rebellious sins from their raised lives, and He will cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:25; Revelation 20:11-15.
In Job 14:20, God informed Job that He never gives up on mankind. Even after physical death, God will "change his countenance," which means God will recover and recreate His living image that He put into every person that He created. Revelation 21:1-5. But after God has recreated the lives of those He recovers from their graves when He recreates the heavens and the earth, He "sends them away." This judgment of God means that He will not allow them to live with Him in heaven. God has reserved that highest form of salvation only for those He has saved by His grace. God will send those whom He raises from the dead and recreates back to live on His recreated earth. But God will still visit with them and fellowship with them every day just as He did with Adam and Eve.
Monday, March 4, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty one
Job 14:1-22
In Job 14:1-2, Job spoke of the obvious but important fact that man's life on earth is short and full of sorrow.
In Job 14:3, Job sought answers from God about man's condition on earth. Why does man suffer in life? God assured Job that He would bring Job into judgment with Him, and by extension, all humans.
In Job 14:4, Job wondered about God's judgment of humans. Since no human can cleanse himself of sin, what effect will that have on God's judgment?
In Job 14:5, Job realized that God has set the bounds of every person's life; that is, the length of his life, his nation, his family, and all the conditions of his environment throughout his life that he cannot change, and yet, God deals with every person as a free individual. Every person possesses free will, but each person can exercise their free will only within the bounds of the restrictions that God has put on his life. When God judges every human, He will certainly require him to answer for how he chose to live his life, but God will also take into consideration the restrictions on his life that influenced his decisions. Since God is good and merciful, He will be scrupulously meticulous and supremely fair in every judgment. Matthew 10:26.
In Job 14:6, Job imagined that if God stopped caring about man and refrained from bringing him into judgment, then perhaps man could find rest from all the turmoil and confusion that results from his reflections on his relationship with God. But then Job realized that if God abandoned man, man would simply live out his days as a slave to sin and be lost forever. God caused Job to understand all this as He answered Job's prayers.
In Job 14:7-10, God provided Job with a vision and a parable about how when a tree has been cut down, it will sprout again when it gets some water. In scripture, water symbolizes God's ability to give life. God created all life and it all belongs to Him. God can never lose it. God was trying to make Job realize that He will bring every man back to life after His physical death. Luke 20:38; Romans 11:29.
In Job 11:11-15, God cleared up some of Job's confusion and answered his question in verse 10. In verse 11, Job compared the drying of the great flood to man's death and burial. Just as a tree needs water to live again, so man needs God to live again. Job imagined that if the heavens last forever, then man will never be raised from the dead because it all has been infected by sin. Job did not fully comprehend that God had given him a hidden prophecy that the heavens will not last forever and that someday God's wrath will pass. God provided Job with a hidden prophecy that one day He will dissolve the heavens and the earth, call Job, who represents all mankind, from the grave to life, and recreate a righteous earth and humanity. II Peter 3:12-13.
In Job 14:1-2, Job spoke of the obvious but important fact that man's life on earth is short and full of sorrow.
In Job 14:3, Job sought answers from God about man's condition on earth. Why does man suffer in life? God assured Job that He would bring Job into judgment with Him, and by extension, all humans.
In Job 14:4, Job wondered about God's judgment of humans. Since no human can cleanse himself of sin, what effect will that have on God's judgment?
In Job 14:5, Job realized that God has set the bounds of every person's life; that is, the length of his life, his nation, his family, and all the conditions of his environment throughout his life that he cannot change, and yet, God deals with every person as a free individual. Every person possesses free will, but each person can exercise their free will only within the bounds of the restrictions that God has put on his life. When God judges every human, He will certainly require him to answer for how he chose to live his life, but God will also take into consideration the restrictions on his life that influenced his decisions. Since God is good and merciful, He will be scrupulously meticulous and supremely fair in every judgment. Matthew 10:26.
In Job 14:6, Job imagined that if God stopped caring about man and refrained from bringing him into judgment, then perhaps man could find rest from all the turmoil and confusion that results from his reflections on his relationship with God. But then Job realized that if God abandoned man, man would simply live out his days as a slave to sin and be lost forever. God caused Job to understand all this as He answered Job's prayers.
In Job 14:7-10, God provided Job with a vision and a parable about how when a tree has been cut down, it will sprout again when it gets some water. In scripture, water symbolizes God's ability to give life. God created all life and it all belongs to Him. God can never lose it. God was trying to make Job realize that He will bring every man back to life after His physical death. Luke 20:38; Romans 11:29.
In Job 11:11-15, God cleared up some of Job's confusion and answered his question in verse 10. In verse 11, Job compared the drying of the great flood to man's death and burial. Just as a tree needs water to live again, so man needs God to live again. Job imagined that if the heavens last forever, then man will never be raised from the dead because it all has been infected by sin. Job did not fully comprehend that God had given him a hidden prophecy that the heavens will not last forever and that someday God's wrath will pass. God provided Job with a hidden prophecy that one day He will dissolve the heavens and the earth, call Job, who represents all mankind, from the grave to life, and recreate a righteous earth and humanity. II Peter 3:12-13.
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