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.