Commentary on the Book of Job part thirty seven

                                    Job 20:1-29

But even though God must consign the souls and spirits of unrepentant sinners to one of three hellish places following their physical deaths because sin and evil still clings to, and soils, the pure image of God that He created them to be, nevertheless, God still loves His image in man, and He will never relinquish everlasting control of that good image to the Devil. Should the Devil ever gain everlasting control over God's image in man, then he would win his war against God because He would prove that God's Love can fail. But, praise be to God, Christ has tasted death for every man, has destroyed all the works of the Devil, and has gained control of the keys of Hell and Death. Hebrews 2:8-9; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18.

God can never lose permanent control over any of His creations, including mankind. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Although the Devil has gained temporary control over unrepentant sinners, God, through the finished work of His Son, has completely broken the Devil's hold on the image of God that He created in man, and God will eventually recover and recreate all that He has lost to the Devil. God is secretly using even the Devil to prove that His Love can never fail. Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:5.

At the beginning of the Tribulation period, God will reactivate the faith in Him that lies dormant in God's image in every unrepentant sinner on the earth, under the earth, and in the sea in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. At that time, all the images of God in all unrepentant sinners will recognize Christ as their Savior of their own free will because of their reactivated faith that God put into them. They will become so overwhelmed by the awesome majesty of their vision of God that they will not be able to resist choosing to love and worship God again. Humans sometimes experience this same effect when they cannot help but choose to fall in love with someone. Revelation 5:13; Romans 12:3; John 11:25.

At the end of the millennial reign of Christ, God will raise all of His recovered, living images in mankind from all of the regions of the dead, imbue them with everlasting life, and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. All of the leftover deadness in man, which was solely the work of the Devil, God will raise to stand before Him to be judged for their evil works and be cast into an eternal lake of fire along with Hell and Death itself. This will be the second death which is the destruction of the first death. I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26. God will probably also destroy the Sea in the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1.