Job 25:1-6
In Bildad's next answer to Job, he contended that God possesses awesome power and huge armies of angels but only for the purpose of establishing peace in His universe. Bildad also conceded that God allows His sun to rise on both the good and the bad of the earth. In his answer, Bildad seemed to yield somewhat to Job's contention that God really cares about His creations, but he also still clung to his idea of a deist God.
In Job 25:4-6, Bildad demonstrated his philosophy of deism when he asserted that no man can become justified or clean in God's eyes. He even portended the beliefs of the future Gnostics when he contended that God did not create a pure and unflawed universe.
God must have given Bildad a little insight into the truth when he proclaimed that man is a "worm." The word "worm" in the Bible (KJV) almost always symbolizes human sin and evil. In Exodus 16:20, when the Israelites tried to save some of the manna until the morning when God had told them not to do so, "it bred worms and stank." These worms symbolized the Israelites filthy disobedience to God. In Isaiah 14:11, the Bible teaches that those whom God consigns to the regions of the dead become immersed in a field of worms which symbolizes the filthiness of their sins. In Acts 12:23, Herod died because he was "eaten of worms" which symbolized the horrible nastiness of his rebellion toward God. In Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah taught that God can cleanse humans from the stain of their sins which he compares with the color "scarlet" and "crimson." The Jews obtained this red dye by crushing certain crimson worms. In this way, God revealed that worms symbolize sin and evil in His Word. Other examples of the word "worm" symbolizing sin and evil can be found in Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 51:8; Isaiah 66:24, and Jonah 4:7.
In all of these passages thus noted, something exists that has been stained and soiled by sin and evil. The manna was good because God gave it to the Israelites for food, but the worms made it filthy. This something which has become stained and soiled by sin and evil can only be the life of every human which God created in His image and gave to every human. God loves all humans, but He hates their sin and evil, so the only something which God can love must be His good image that He put into every human. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Sin and evil is the same as spiritual death. If sin and evil completely replaced the good life that God has given to every human, then all humans would become totally evil and demonic and commit only evil acts, but they do not. Even the worst humans have some good in them which proves that God's good life still remains in them. God still loves every good life that He has put into every human, and He fully intends to recover, rescue, recreate, and reconcile every one of man's good lives to Himself, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 3:16; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:28-29; Romans 11:29; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 13:8.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty
Job 24:1-25
Even though God is innocent, He created that good and useful emotion that leads to repentance called guilt. For this reason, the image of God in parents often causes them to feel guilty if something bad happens to one of their children even though they had no fault at all. God feels guilty about allowing evil to enter His creations although He knew nothing about it at the time. God expressed His feelings of guilt in Isaiah 45:7. But because of God's test of His Love through His creation of mankind, He learns more about evil as time passes. Someday, God will thoroughly purge all evil, including all spiritually dead humans, from all of His creations using His consuming fire, and He will completely prevent it from ever again entering into His new creation of a righteous heaven and earth. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:1-5.
Satan is counting on just one human who will refuse to repent and return to faith in God. Should there ever be one, Satan will forever capture the good image of God in that person and torture it forever until Satan annihilates a part of God's creations that He loves. In that case, Satan will win. But God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. The closest that Satan ever came to completely ruining the good image of God in a man resulted from his influence on Judas Iscariot. God never takes back any good gift He has ever given. Romans 11:29. When Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" in Matthew 26:50, He meant that Judas would be His friend forever. As recorded in Revelation 5:13, someday even the good image of God in Judas Iscariot will cry out to God from the bowels of hell in his desire for repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20.
How can God be sure that His good image in every person will someday choose to return to faith and reconciliation with Him? God knows that His Love for His creations is all-powerful and that means Satan will never be able to annihilate even a small part of it. God has put His good image and measure of faith into even the most cruel atheist so that deep within themselves every person yearns for reconciliation and renewed fellowship with God like Adam and Eve enjoyed in the garden. Romans 12:3. God's gifts of free will, repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation are all attributes of His Almighty Love. For this reason, God knows that every living image of Him in all humans saved by His grace and within the three regions of the dead will freely choose to repent and return to faith in Christ the Lamb as recorded in that great worship service in Revelation 5:11-14. Humans saved by grace will worship Christ because they have already been saved.
This return of all living humans within the regions of the dead to reconciliation with God results from God using His consuming fire to forever separate all good and living humans from all the total evil in all dead humans in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29. God will recover all of His living images in dead humans for Him to recreate to live on His recreated and righteous earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:28-29; John 12:44-48; John 11:25. God will separate all of the totally dead and evil humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire forever, which is the second death because God will have already destroyed the first death. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8. Note that in John 1:29, John the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus "taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans. Note that in Genesis 3:14-20, God cursed the Devil and total evil, not living humans.
Even though God is innocent, He created that good and useful emotion that leads to repentance called guilt. For this reason, the image of God in parents often causes them to feel guilty if something bad happens to one of their children even though they had no fault at all. God feels guilty about allowing evil to enter His creations although He knew nothing about it at the time. God expressed His feelings of guilt in Isaiah 45:7. But because of God's test of His Love through His creation of mankind, He learns more about evil as time passes. Someday, God will thoroughly purge all evil, including all spiritually dead humans, from all of His creations using His consuming fire, and He will completely prevent it from ever again entering into His new creation of a righteous heaven and earth. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:1-5.
Satan is counting on just one human who will refuse to repent and return to faith in God. Should there ever be one, Satan will forever capture the good image of God in that person and torture it forever until Satan annihilates a part of God's creations that He loves. In that case, Satan will win. But God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. The closest that Satan ever came to completely ruining the good image of God in a man resulted from his influence on Judas Iscariot. God never takes back any good gift He has ever given. Romans 11:29. When Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" in Matthew 26:50, He meant that Judas would be His friend forever. As recorded in Revelation 5:13, someday even the good image of God in Judas Iscariot will cry out to God from the bowels of hell in his desire for repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20.
How can God be sure that His good image in every person will someday choose to return to faith and reconciliation with Him? God knows that His Love for His creations is all-powerful and that means Satan will never be able to annihilate even a small part of it. God has put His good image and measure of faith into even the most cruel atheist so that deep within themselves every person yearns for reconciliation and renewed fellowship with God like Adam and Eve enjoyed in the garden. Romans 12:3. God's gifts of free will, repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation are all attributes of His Almighty Love. For this reason, God knows that every living image of Him in all humans saved by His grace and within the three regions of the dead will freely choose to repent and return to faith in Christ the Lamb as recorded in that great worship service in Revelation 5:11-14. Humans saved by grace will worship Christ because they have already been saved.
This return of all living humans within the regions of the dead to reconciliation with God results from God using His consuming fire to forever separate all good and living humans from all the total evil in all dead humans in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29. God will recover all of His living images in dead humans for Him to recreate to live on His recreated and righteous earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:28-29; John 12:44-48; John 11:25. God will separate all of the totally dead and evil humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire forever, which is the second death because God will have already destroyed the first death. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8. Note that in John 1:29, John the Baptist proclaimed that Jesus "taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans. Note that in Genesis 3:14-20, God cursed the Devil and total evil, not living humans.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part forty nine
Job 24:1-25
God, knowing that Satan had this goal, decided to accept Satan's challenge and put His loving gift of free will in man to an eternal test. Satan knew that if he could get man to use his free will to soil the image of God in him by choosing to sin, then a Holy God would never be able to accept him into His presence again, and Satan would thus gain complete control of the image of God in man so that he could torture man forever until he succeeded in utterly destroying God's image in man. In such a case, Satan would gain some power over God so that he would eventually be able to kill Him. Satan also knew that once man sinned, he would never have the power within himself to save himself from spiritual death which results in an eternal separation from God and complete control by the Devil. Satan believed that if he could just get man's good image to sin, He would gain some control over God Himself.
But all of the time that Satan plotted his evil scheme, he did not know that God was using him to prove that God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Satan did not count on God Himself suffering all of man's sin and eternal spiritual death in man's place on a cruel cross and rising from the dead to give His eternal life back to man. In this way, God proved that His Love can never fail and that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 11:36. The Devil believed that God had made a mistake in giving free will to man, and he could use that mistake to completely ruin humans forever and eventually murder God as well. For this reason, God had to devise a plan to bring all the good images that He created in man back to love for Him and faith in him of their own free will. In this way, God would prove that His Almighty Love cannot be diminished and that His gift of free will to man was not a mistake.
Because God created man in His own image, many of the attributes of God that issues from His Love can be found in man's good life. This means repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation form a part of the measure of faith that God has given to every man. Romans 12:3. Jesus reminded the sinful Pharisees of His good image in them when He told them "the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:20-21.
Satan counted on there being at least one good image of God in man who would never choose to return to God in repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Lucifer misused his gift of free will to choose to rebel against God. He also chose to refuse to ever repent, and he hoped he could cause mankind to do the same. God could see that Lucifer would never repent and return to His Love. Therefore, God stripped the system called Lucifer of all the good elements that He had put into him and exiled him to earth as a totally evil and demonic being. Ezekiel 28:13-19. Because God loved Lucifer, He recovered all of His goodness He had put into his system, perhaps to use to create a new cherub.
God cast Satan to the ground as being equal to absolute nothingness. God recovered even the useful and creative idea of nothing from Lucifer. This means absolute nothingness can only be equal to less than nothing. Isaiah 40:17; Luke 8:18. God created everything except absolute nothingness which emerges from negative consciousness (whatever that is or more properly is not) within the bowels of the abyss which the Bible calls the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3.
Somehow, a negative consciousness, also called a devil, emerged from the bottomless pit to cause Lucifer to sin by acting on the good gift of free will that God had given him. A demon, in some unknown way, entered into God's good creations and caused Lucifer to choose to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15. God is completely innocent. God knew nothing about this realm of negative consciousness and total evil until it suddenly emerged in heaven to cause Lucifer to sin. II Thessalonians 2:7. God's Love did not fail when Lucifer rebelled because He was totally innocent, and He found that He hated the total evil in Satan which proved the usefulness of the emotion that He created called hate. Satan charged God with a failure of His Love, but God proved the eternal value of His Love by creating a creature who would sin but whom God would rescue from eternal death by His own sacrifice which would cause this creature to return to love for God and faith in God of its own free will. John 6:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
God, knowing that Satan had this goal, decided to accept Satan's challenge and put His loving gift of free will in man to an eternal test. Satan knew that if he could get man to use his free will to soil the image of God in him by choosing to sin, then a Holy God would never be able to accept him into His presence again, and Satan would thus gain complete control of the image of God in man so that he could torture man forever until he succeeded in utterly destroying God's image in man. In such a case, Satan would gain some power over God so that he would eventually be able to kill Him. Satan also knew that once man sinned, he would never have the power within himself to save himself from spiritual death which results in an eternal separation from God and complete control by the Devil. Satan believed that if he could just get man's good image to sin, He would gain some control over God Himself.
But all of the time that Satan plotted his evil scheme, he did not know that God was using him to prove that God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Satan did not count on God Himself suffering all of man's sin and eternal spiritual death in man's place on a cruel cross and rising from the dead to give His eternal life back to man. In this way, God proved that His Love can never fail and that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 11:36. The Devil believed that God had made a mistake in giving free will to man, and he could use that mistake to completely ruin humans forever and eventually murder God as well. For this reason, God had to devise a plan to bring all the good images that He created in man back to love for Him and faith in him of their own free will. In this way, God would prove that His Almighty Love cannot be diminished and that His gift of free will to man was not a mistake.
Because God created man in His own image, many of the attributes of God that issues from His Love can be found in man's good life. This means repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation form a part of the measure of faith that God has given to every man. Romans 12:3. Jesus reminded the sinful Pharisees of His good image in them when He told them "the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:20-21.
Satan counted on there being at least one good image of God in man who would never choose to return to God in repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Lucifer misused his gift of free will to choose to rebel against God. He also chose to refuse to ever repent, and he hoped he could cause mankind to do the same. God could see that Lucifer would never repent and return to His Love. Therefore, God stripped the system called Lucifer of all the good elements that He had put into him and exiled him to earth as a totally evil and demonic being. Ezekiel 28:13-19. Because God loved Lucifer, He recovered all of His goodness He had put into his system, perhaps to use to create a new cherub.
God cast Satan to the ground as being equal to absolute nothingness. God recovered even the useful and creative idea of nothing from Lucifer. This means absolute nothingness can only be equal to less than nothing. Isaiah 40:17; Luke 8:18. God created everything except absolute nothingness which emerges from negative consciousness (whatever that is or more properly is not) within the bowels of the abyss which the Bible calls the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3.
Somehow, a negative consciousness, also called a devil, emerged from the bottomless pit to cause Lucifer to sin by acting on the good gift of free will that God had given him. A demon, in some unknown way, entered into God's good creations and caused Lucifer to choose to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15. God is completely innocent. God knew nothing about this realm of negative consciousness and total evil until it suddenly emerged in heaven to cause Lucifer to sin. II Thessalonians 2:7. God's Love did not fail when Lucifer rebelled because He was totally innocent, and He found that He hated the total evil in Satan which proved the usefulness of the emotion that He created called hate. Satan charged God with a failure of His Love, but God proved the eternal value of His Love by creating a creature who would sin but whom God would rescue from eternal death by His own sacrifice which would cause this creature to return to love for God and faith in God of its own free will. John 6:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part forty eight
Job 24:1-25
Every Old Testament burnt offering symbolized God's ability to cleanse sin by the use of His consuming fire. God cleansed Isaiah with His consuming fire when he appeared before Him in heaven. Isaiah 6:5-7. Jesus bore the sins of all mankind when He suffered on the cross. Isaiah 53:6. All humans who would become saved by grace, Christ cleansed with His blood and water that flowed from His body on the cross. I John 5:4-8. But Jesus still bore the sins of the rest of humanity when He descended into hell. Ephesians 4:9. Yet, Christ rose immaculate from the grave. Therefore, Christ had to have left all of the sins of the rest of humanity not saved by grace behind in hell when He rose from the dead.
The Word of God has to mean exactly that which it states. When the Apostles used the word "we" or "ye" in their epistles, they meant the Church; that is, those saved by grace. When the Apostles used the phrase "every man" or the word "world," they meant all of mankind. In I Corinthians 3:9-16, the Apostle Paul spoke about salvation by grace when he used the words "we" and "ye," and he spoke about salvation by God's consuming fire for the rest of humanity when he used the phrases "every man" or "any man." When those saved by grace face the judgment of Christ following their physical deaths, God may also cleanse their unconfessed sins by the use of His consuming fire. Since there can be no remission of sins without the shedding of Christ's blood, then God's consuming fire must also contain the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:22. Hebrews 13:11-13 would seem to indicate this fact.
Christ alone provides for the salvation of all mankind through His sacrifice, descent into hell, and His resurrection. John 14:6. All those who believe that Christ's blood and water will cleanse them of all their sins receive salvation by grace while still alive in the flesh. The rest of humanity whom God must temporarily consign to one of the three regions of spiritual death because their images of God within them still remains soiled by sin when they die will be saved by God's consuming fire in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Christ's shed blood and water saved all who believe by His grace as it flowed from His cross, but the Holy Spirit does not make that salvation actual until the moment of the faith of the believer. In a similar way, Christ cleansed all of the rest of humanity of their sins when He descended into hell, but He does not make that salvation actual until the general resurrection of the living from the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:5. The difference between those saved by grace and those saved in the general resurrection will be that those saved by grace receive the gift of the righteousness of Christ Himself when they believe by which God will accept them to live with Him in heaven just as He accepts His own Son, and the rest of humanity God will recreate with only an earthly perfection, like that of Adam and Eve, to live on His recreated earth. II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:14-17; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:35-49.
No salvation is possible without faith in Christ's power to save from sin and eternal spiritual death. John 14:6. For this reason, God will renew the measure of faith that He has put into His good and living image that He created in all humans. Romans 12:3. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy that one day all mankind still in their graves will return to faith in Christ as their Savior of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14 records the fulfillment of this prophecy when all of humanity in heaven and within the three regions of spiritual death will worship Christ as "the Lamb." Those within the regions of the dead would never be able to recognize Jesus as the Lamb unless God renews their dormant faith. God will renew their faith because they will become overwhelmed by God's awesome majesty and His Almighty Love for them when He reveals Himself to them. They could choose to look away, but God knows that they will all choose to look to Him for their salvation. In this way, God will prove that His gift of free will to man was not a mistake.
Satan recognizes that God's gift of free will contains a weakness that causes humans to sin, just as it did with him when he was Lucifer. Satan counted on using that weakness to completely overpower the good and living image of God in every human to the extent that he could annihilate that image and thus prove that God's Love is not Almighty. Satan believed that if he could ruin humans forever and torture them in hell forever, then he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty, gain a advantage over God, and eventually cause God's death. God gave him his chance when His Son was nailed to the cross.
Every Old Testament burnt offering symbolized God's ability to cleanse sin by the use of His consuming fire. God cleansed Isaiah with His consuming fire when he appeared before Him in heaven. Isaiah 6:5-7. Jesus bore the sins of all mankind when He suffered on the cross. Isaiah 53:6. All humans who would become saved by grace, Christ cleansed with His blood and water that flowed from His body on the cross. I John 5:4-8. But Jesus still bore the sins of the rest of humanity when He descended into hell. Ephesians 4:9. Yet, Christ rose immaculate from the grave. Therefore, Christ had to have left all of the sins of the rest of humanity not saved by grace behind in hell when He rose from the dead.
The Word of God has to mean exactly that which it states. When the Apostles used the word "we" or "ye" in their epistles, they meant the Church; that is, those saved by grace. When the Apostles used the phrase "every man" or the word "world," they meant all of mankind. In I Corinthians 3:9-16, the Apostle Paul spoke about salvation by grace when he used the words "we" and "ye," and he spoke about salvation by God's consuming fire for the rest of humanity when he used the phrases "every man" or "any man." When those saved by grace face the judgment of Christ following their physical deaths, God may also cleanse their unconfessed sins by the use of His consuming fire. Since there can be no remission of sins without the shedding of Christ's blood, then God's consuming fire must also contain the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:22. Hebrews 13:11-13 would seem to indicate this fact.
Christ alone provides for the salvation of all mankind through His sacrifice, descent into hell, and His resurrection. John 14:6. All those who believe that Christ's blood and water will cleanse them of all their sins receive salvation by grace while still alive in the flesh. The rest of humanity whom God must temporarily consign to one of the three regions of spiritual death because their images of God within them still remains soiled by sin when they die will be saved by God's consuming fire in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Christ's shed blood and water saved all who believe by His grace as it flowed from His cross, but the Holy Spirit does not make that salvation actual until the moment of the faith of the believer. In a similar way, Christ cleansed all of the rest of humanity of their sins when He descended into hell, but He does not make that salvation actual until the general resurrection of the living from the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:5. The difference between those saved by grace and those saved in the general resurrection will be that those saved by grace receive the gift of the righteousness of Christ Himself when they believe by which God will accept them to live with Him in heaven just as He accepts His own Son, and the rest of humanity God will recreate with only an earthly perfection, like that of Adam and Eve, to live on His recreated earth. II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:14-17; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:35-49.
No salvation is possible without faith in Christ's power to save from sin and eternal spiritual death. John 14:6. For this reason, God will renew the measure of faith that He has put into His good and living image that He created in all humans. Romans 12:3. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy that one day all mankind still in their graves will return to faith in Christ as their Savior of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14 records the fulfillment of this prophecy when all of humanity in heaven and within the three regions of spiritual death will worship Christ as "the Lamb." Those within the regions of the dead would never be able to recognize Jesus as the Lamb unless God renews their dormant faith. God will renew their faith because they will become overwhelmed by God's awesome majesty and His Almighty Love for them when He reveals Himself to them. They could choose to look away, but God knows that they will all choose to look to Him for their salvation. In this way, God will prove that His gift of free will to man was not a mistake.
Satan recognizes that God's gift of free will contains a weakness that causes humans to sin, just as it did with him when he was Lucifer. Satan counted on using that weakness to completely overpower the good and living image of God in every human to the extent that he could annihilate that image and thus prove that God's Love is not Almighty. Satan believed that if he could ruin humans forever and torture them in hell forever, then he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty, gain a advantage over God, and eventually cause God's death. God gave him his chance when His Son was nailed to the cross.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part forty seven
Job 24:1-25
In Job 24:1, Job perceived that all time; that is, all of eternity, belongs to God, and those who know Him can see what God is doing as His days pass through His created time.
In Job 24:2-25, God provided Job with a poetic description of the entire fallen condition of the human race as it passes through the days of its history. Two key verses elucidate the cause of man's fallen condition, verses thirteen and seventeen. Verse thirteen reveals that man exists in a state of rebellion against God. This fallen condition entered into the very being of mankind when Adam and Eve deliberately disobeyed God in the garden of Eden. This rebellion caused spiritual death to enter into the living being of every person who would ever be born. Verse seventeen describes the fact that every person has to live with the terror of this "shadow of death" within their living beings every day of their lives.
Much of the history of mankind stems from man yielding his life to the power of this spiritual death within him. This evil, which is the same as spiritual death, has caused all of man's greed for wealth and power over others. Man has been willing to use the worst cruelty and horrors against his fellow man in order to gain wealth and power. Wars and horror on a grand scale develop from evil individuals who convince others to yield to the evil inside of them, for as the part is so is the whole.
Nevertheless, as verses thirteen and seventeen indicate, every individual possesses an inner life, created for them and given to them by God but which has been made filthy by contact with sin and which has been forced to live with the spiritual death within them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; I Timothy 4:4. God can never lose anything He has ever created, including the good life He has put into every person. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Only humans saved by grace gain victory over this spiritual death while still alive in the flesh because the blood of Christ washes all of their sins and evil away, and God recreates their cleansed souls and spirits. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17.
God created everything to be good; that is, it emits love and beauty and true creativity from itself. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Whenever man's spiritual death, which is evil itself, within each person touches the good life within that person, it causes man's good life to sin. Man's good life sins because it has been made weak by its possession of free will and its proximity to spiritual death. Adam and Eve's rebellion against God caused spiritual death in man, and whenever that evil in man influences his good life, it cause man's good life to sin.
Sin causes filthiness in the good life of man. Adam and Eve, like Lucifer, rebelled against God and caused spiritual death in humans, but their good life sinned because of its weakness caused by their gift of free will. Because God cannot lose anything He has ever created, He has devised a plan to cleanse, recover, and recreate His good life in every human, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Luke 20:38; John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5. In this general resurrection, God will use His consuming fire to separate the totally dead and evil part of every man within the regions of the dead from his living part and cast the dead parts into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. God will cleanse, recover, and recreate the living part of every human because He will cause every living human to return to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. Repentance and faith emanate from God's Love. II Peter 3:9; Revelation 5:11-14; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38.
In Job 24:1, Job perceived that all time; that is, all of eternity, belongs to God, and those who know Him can see what God is doing as His days pass through His created time.
In Job 24:2-25, God provided Job with a poetic description of the entire fallen condition of the human race as it passes through the days of its history. Two key verses elucidate the cause of man's fallen condition, verses thirteen and seventeen. Verse thirteen reveals that man exists in a state of rebellion against God. This fallen condition entered into the very being of mankind when Adam and Eve deliberately disobeyed God in the garden of Eden. This rebellion caused spiritual death to enter into the living being of every person who would ever be born. Verse seventeen describes the fact that every person has to live with the terror of this "shadow of death" within their living beings every day of their lives.
Much of the history of mankind stems from man yielding his life to the power of this spiritual death within him. This evil, which is the same as spiritual death, has caused all of man's greed for wealth and power over others. Man has been willing to use the worst cruelty and horrors against his fellow man in order to gain wealth and power. Wars and horror on a grand scale develop from evil individuals who convince others to yield to the evil inside of them, for as the part is so is the whole.
Nevertheless, as verses thirteen and seventeen indicate, every individual possesses an inner life, created for them and given to them by God but which has been made filthy by contact with sin and which has been forced to live with the spiritual death within them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; I Timothy 4:4. God can never lose anything He has ever created, including the good life He has put into every person. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Only humans saved by grace gain victory over this spiritual death while still alive in the flesh because the blood of Christ washes all of their sins and evil away, and God recreates their cleansed souls and spirits. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17.
God created everything to be good; that is, it emits love and beauty and true creativity from itself. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Whenever man's spiritual death, which is evil itself, within each person touches the good life within that person, it causes man's good life to sin. Man's good life sins because it has been made weak by its possession of free will and its proximity to spiritual death. Adam and Eve's rebellion against God caused spiritual death in man, and whenever that evil in man influences his good life, it cause man's good life to sin.
Sin causes filthiness in the good life of man. Adam and Eve, like Lucifer, rebelled against God and caused spiritual death in humans, but their good life sinned because of its weakness caused by their gift of free will. Because God cannot lose anything He has ever created, He has devised a plan to cleanse, recover, and recreate His good life in every human, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Luke 20:38; John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5. In this general resurrection, God will use His consuming fire to separate the totally dead and evil part of every man within the regions of the dead from his living part and cast the dead parts into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. God will cleanse, recover, and recreate the living part of every human because He will cause every living human to return to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. Repentance and faith emanate from God's Love. II Peter 3:9; Revelation 5:11-14; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38.
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