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.