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.
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