Job 21:1-34
Sin causes the being of man to be subject to spiritual death which attempts to annihilate the good image that God put into him. Genesis 2:17; Romans 6:23. Satan's hope was that man's fate would be that his good image would become totally absorbed in evil and lost from God forever. But God was simply using Satan to test His Love and prove that His Love can never be destroyed. God's love for man caused Him to intervene in man's history to rescue him from that terrible fate. God suffered man's eternal spiritual death and separation from Himself in man's place on a cruel cross. Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Hebrews 2:9.
Repentance, faith, and reconciliation are all a part of God's Love and the goodness that He put into man. Although sin has soiled God's good image in man and has threatened to annihilate it, God has devised a plan to renew the repentance, faith, and reconciliation that He has put into His image in all humans. Romans 12:3; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:5. But God will rescue all humans through different forms of salvation.
God has given some humans repentance and faith in His power to take away their sins while they still live in the flesh. God cleanses these humans of all their sins with the blood and water that flowed from Christ on the cross, and they become saved by grace and reconciled to God of their own free will. John 3:16; John 11:26; John 5:24; I John 5:5-6. Humans saved by grace receive the free gift of the eternal life and righteousness of Christ which makes them fit to live with God in heaven forever. Romans 6:23; II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 1:3-4. Salvation by grace constitutes God's highest form of salvation.
As prophesied in scripture, one day in the future God will renew the faith and repentance that He put into His image in all humans that He had to consign to one of the regions of spiritual death because He could not accept the filth of their sins which still clung to their image. Isaiah 45:21-24; Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 20:13; Revelation 5:13. In a tremendous worship service, they all will recognize Christ as their Savior of their own free will, and God will resurrect their good, living images in them for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse them from all their sins which directly connects to the descent of Christ to hell where He left behind all of the sins of man not saved by grace. Jesus had to have done this because He bore all of the sins of mankind on the cross, but He rose immaculate from the dead. I Corinthians 3:11-15. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Isaiah 6:5-7 proves that God can use His consuming fire to cleanse sins. God will recreate these living humans to be good and pure like Adam and Eve were. They will be immortal in spirit and soul but not immune from physical death. Jesus did not attach much importance to physical death when He walked the earth. Luke 8:52; John 11:4; John 11:26. God often referred to His Church as being asleep, not physically dead. I Thessalonians 4:15.
In this general resurrection of all living humans from spiritual death in the end of the world, God will also effect a complete separation of spiritual death itself, which is totally evil, from all that is good and living. God will forever remove spiritual death and all the regions of evil from His renewed creations by casting them into the lake of fire. In this way, God will forever prove that He can never lose anything that He loves and has created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 11:36; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-15; John 5:28-29.
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