Job 27:1-23
God will eventually cleanse and forgive His living image in every human because it has been marred by sin caused by its weakness to the influence of total evil. God will cleanse and forgive all humans saved by His grace with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. God has given a measure of faith to His living image in all humans. Romans 12:3. For this reason, God will return all living humans not saved by grace to faith and repentance as recorded in Revelation 5:13. In this way, God will save His living image in all humans from spiritual death and eternal separation from Him, some by His grace and all others in their graves by the use of His consuming fire. Galatians 2:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God loves everything He has ever created, and He created everything. For this reason, Revelation 21:5 can only mean that God will recover and recreate every living image in every human. God prophesied about His salvation of all humans still in their graves in Isaiah 45:21-24, Philippians 2:9-11, and in John 5:28-29.
Both God's living image and spiritual death reside in every human heart, but spiritual death is foreign to man and the sins caused by spiritual death cause man to be unacceptable to God until God Himself intervenes in human history to take the spiritual deaths and sins of every human on Himself and pay that eternal debt Himself. God will eventually cleanse and forgive the sins of every living human because He will bring them all back to faith in Him and love for Him. The free will of man can only temporarily block the will of God. God can cause the free will of every human to choose to return to faith in Him and love for Him. II Peter 3:9; Revelation 5:13. When God separates the sins of all living humans from them, He will, at the same time, separate their spiritual deaths from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. Job prophesied about this fate of the totally evil in Job 27:18-23.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty three
Job 27:1-23
In Job 27:1-6, God made Job realize that He had caused Job to suffer so that Job, unlike his friends, would no longer speculate about God but would simply depend on God's revelations to learn truth. In other words, God had to reduce Job's intellect to a state of despair about knowing anything before God could begin to teach him truth. God made Job understand that His Spirit had moved into Job's being, that Job had received a higher form of righteousness than that which he had derived from the image of God within him. Job further realized that the Spirit of God within him had given him a strong desire to never sin again, had given him assurance that His Spirit would never leave him, and that his heart should never condemn him again because God's Spirit had so changed it by His presence in his innermost being. Job could not tell his friends that they were right with God because he knew that they did not have this higher form of righteousness that God had given him. God gave Job this revelation that he possessed His Spirit and His righteousness that he could never lose because of Job's profession of faith in the coming Redeemer as recorded in Job 19:25. God had promoted Job to a state of grace.
In Job 27:7-23, Job spoke about the fate of the wicked who are God's enemies and his. The wicked are always totally evil because they never repent and return to faith in Christ. Matthew 12:31-32. Satan injected total evil, which is the same as spiritual death, into every human who would ever live because of the deliberate disobedience of Adam and Eve. Satan thought that spiritual death in humanity would eventually so overpower their living image of God in them that spiritual death would annihilate spiritual life. In this way, Satan believed that he could prove that God's Love for His creations could fail, prove that God is not Almighty, and therefore, provide him a way to eventually murder God. John 8:44; I Corinthians 13:8. Spiritual death causes the living image of God in every person to sin because of a weakness in their free will. Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will. God has compassion for sins of weakness but not for total evil. Jesus displayed this attitude when He walked the earth.
Job related that the wicked only call upon God when they are in trouble because they only want to use God's power to get them out of trouble. Job related that the wicked never call upon God because they want to delight in Him but only to use Him for their own purposes. Job said that the wicked are vain; that is, they are totally devoid of any goodness. Job related that the wicked often get punished in this world by good people either by criminal justice or in war. Job said that the wicked "shall be buried in death" which amounts to a prophecy about how God will one day cast them all into the second death. Revelation 21:8. Job further prophesied that the just and innocent will inherit all the riches that the wicked will accumulate. In the end of the world, God will recover and recreate His living image in all humans still in their graves to live on His recreated earth. These recreated humans will be the meek that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5:5. These meek will inherit all of the riches that the wicked left behind. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 27:1-6, God made Job realize that He had caused Job to suffer so that Job, unlike his friends, would no longer speculate about God but would simply depend on God's revelations to learn truth. In other words, God had to reduce Job's intellect to a state of despair about knowing anything before God could begin to teach him truth. God made Job understand that His Spirit had moved into Job's being, that Job had received a higher form of righteousness than that which he had derived from the image of God within him. Job further realized that the Spirit of God within him had given him a strong desire to never sin again, had given him assurance that His Spirit would never leave him, and that his heart should never condemn him again because God's Spirit had so changed it by His presence in his innermost being. Job could not tell his friends that they were right with God because he knew that they did not have this higher form of righteousness that God had given him. God gave Job this revelation that he possessed His Spirit and His righteousness that he could never lose because of Job's profession of faith in the coming Redeemer as recorded in Job 19:25. God had promoted Job to a state of grace.
In Job 27:7-23, Job spoke about the fate of the wicked who are God's enemies and his. The wicked are always totally evil because they never repent and return to faith in Christ. Matthew 12:31-32. Satan injected total evil, which is the same as spiritual death, into every human who would ever live because of the deliberate disobedience of Adam and Eve. Satan thought that spiritual death in humanity would eventually so overpower their living image of God in them that spiritual death would annihilate spiritual life. In this way, Satan believed that he could prove that God's Love for His creations could fail, prove that God is not Almighty, and therefore, provide him a way to eventually murder God. John 8:44; I Corinthians 13:8. Spiritual death causes the living image of God in every person to sin because of a weakness in their free will. Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will. God has compassion for sins of weakness but not for total evil. Jesus displayed this attitude when He walked the earth.
Job related that the wicked only call upon God when they are in trouble because they only want to use God's power to get them out of trouble. Job related that the wicked never call upon God because they want to delight in Him but only to use Him for their own purposes. Job said that the wicked are vain; that is, they are totally devoid of any goodness. Job related that the wicked often get punished in this world by good people either by criminal justice or in war. Job said that the wicked "shall be buried in death" which amounts to a prophecy about how God will one day cast them all into the second death. Revelation 21:8. Job further prophesied that the just and innocent will inherit all the riches that the wicked will accumulate. In the end of the world, God will recover and recreate His living image in all humans still in their graves to live on His recreated earth. These recreated humans will be the meek that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5:5. These meek will inherit all of the riches that the wicked left behind. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty two
Job 26:1-14
In Job 26:7, God revealed scientific truths to Job that he could not have possibly known. Astronomers have discovered a vast empty space above the North Pole. By His use of the word "hangeth" in reference to the earth, God could only have referred to the force of gravity. By His use of the word "nothing," God could only have referred to space itself. God provided these scientific truths to Job so that future readers of His Word would have a reason to believe.
In Job 26:8, Job declared a scientific truth that was easily known through observation. Everyone knew that clouds had to hold water because it rained. By this verse, God gave His consent to all of humanity to increase objective, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation. Yet, mankind should always remember that all scientific knowledge, like everything else that God created, belongs solely to Him.
In Job 26:9, God revealed to Job that He hides His throne behind a cloud. But this word does not exactly mean clouds. The word "cloud" symbolizes a barrier between dimensions. Heaven exists at a higher dimension than does the physical universe. Jesus ascended into a cloud in Acts 1:9 to demonstrate to His followers that He was going to a higher dimension. His followers would not have understood this if He had simply disappeared from earth into the higher dimension.
Job 26:10-14 teaches about God's great creative powers. Even heaven itself trembles at the almighty power of God's rebuke. Why would God rebuke heaven? One third of God's angels followed Lucifer when he rebelled against God. For this reason, even heaven evidently retains some taint of sin within it. God must cleanse and recreate heaven as well as earth to a state of perfect righteousness in the end of the world. Revelation 21:1.
Genesis 1:1 has often been misquoted. This verse does not say "heavens" as misquoted. This verse simply says "heaven," singular. The singular word "heaven" in scripture almost always refers to the place of God's throne where He and His angels abide. The word "heavens" in scripture almost always refers to God's physical universe of galaxies and stars. But the word "heavens" can also include God's heaven. Genesis 1:1 actually means that God created His heaven and His earth long after He created His universe.
Job 26:10-14 recounts various aspects of God's Almighty Power. God created the earth and divided the sea from the land. God created the universe and made it beautiful before He created the earth. God created all life forms including serpents. God knows exactly how to completely defeat and destroy excessive pride which is the source of all evil. But Job reveals in verse 14 that humans can only know a small part of God's Almighty Power. God happens to be far greater in power than anyone can possibly imagine. I Corinthians 13:12.
In Job 26:7, God revealed scientific truths to Job that he could not have possibly known. Astronomers have discovered a vast empty space above the North Pole. By His use of the word "hangeth" in reference to the earth, God could only have referred to the force of gravity. By His use of the word "nothing," God could only have referred to space itself. God provided these scientific truths to Job so that future readers of His Word would have a reason to believe.
In Job 26:8, Job declared a scientific truth that was easily known through observation. Everyone knew that clouds had to hold water because it rained. By this verse, God gave His consent to all of humanity to increase objective, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation. Yet, mankind should always remember that all scientific knowledge, like everything else that God created, belongs solely to Him.
In Job 26:9, God revealed to Job that He hides His throne behind a cloud. But this word does not exactly mean clouds. The word "cloud" symbolizes a barrier between dimensions. Heaven exists at a higher dimension than does the physical universe. Jesus ascended into a cloud in Acts 1:9 to demonstrate to His followers that He was going to a higher dimension. His followers would not have understood this if He had simply disappeared from earth into the higher dimension.
Job 26:10-14 teaches about God's great creative powers. Even heaven itself trembles at the almighty power of God's rebuke. Why would God rebuke heaven? One third of God's angels followed Lucifer when he rebelled against God. For this reason, even heaven evidently retains some taint of sin within it. God must cleanse and recreate heaven as well as earth to a state of perfect righteousness in the end of the world. Revelation 21:1.
Genesis 1:1 has often been misquoted. This verse does not say "heavens" as misquoted. This verse simply says "heaven," singular. The singular word "heaven" in scripture almost always refers to the place of God's throne where He and His angels abide. The word "heavens" in scripture almost always refers to God's physical universe of galaxies and stars. But the word "heavens" can also include God's heaven. Genesis 1:1 actually means that God created His heaven and His earth long after He created His universe.
Job 26:10-14 recounts various aspects of God's Almighty Power. God created the earth and divided the sea from the land. God created the universe and made it beautiful before He created the earth. God created all life forms including serpents. God knows exactly how to completely defeat and destroy excessive pride which is the source of all evil. But Job reveals in verse 14 that humans can only know a small part of God's Almighty Power. God happens to be far greater in power than anyone can possibly imagine. I Corinthians 13:12.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Commentary on the Book of of Job part sixty one
Job 26:1-14
In Job 26:1-4, Job agreed with Bildad that man has no power, or strength, or wisdom to save himself. But Job put his answer to Bildad in the form of questions to God. Job wondered how God saves man. Job implied in his questions to God that He evidently saves all mankind since every human possesses no power or wisdom to save himself. Job hinted that God helps and saves all humans since he did not refer to any permanently lost humans. In light of Job's conclusions, the obvious answers to Job's questions in verse four must be that God has written His Word for every human and that God has given life to every human in the form of His image which is the spirit of every human. God created the spirit of man to be good, and God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
In Job 26:5-6, God revealed to Job the existence of two of the places of the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:13. Revelation 20:13 reveals that God calls the dead out for judgment from three distinct and different regions of the dead; that is, the Sea, Death, and Hell. But Job also spoke about the "inhabitants" of the Sea. The word "inhabitants" implied that these dead must also retain some life in them. God will recover and recreate every life that He created from the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Immediately following physical death, Christ judges the spirits and souls of all humans. Hebrews 9:27. God allows those saved by His grace to go to heaven because they have already been cleansed and separated from all their sins by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. However, backslidden believers who have unconfessed sins in their lives, Christ may temporarily consign to the region of Death until they repent of all their unconfessed sins and Christ restores them by washing them in the water of His Word. Matthew 25:30; Matthew 5:25-26; Matthew 18:32-35; Matthew 24:48-51.
Humans who physically die not saved by grace, Christ will consign their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of the dead depending on how they lived. But all of these unbelievers will still retain their living souls and spirits that God created and that He can never lose. The image of God still within these spiritually dead humans will still contain some love for God and faith in Him. Even the worst of humanity within the region of Hell will still retain a very dim light of faith in and love for God. Romans 12:3; Luke 17:20-21. God has devised a plan to reawaken the life and faith that He has put into every human within the three regions of the dead as recorded in Revelation 5:13. Based on their reawakened faith, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and separate their living images which He created and can never lose from their deaths, which is totally evil, for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5 records the resurrection of all those cleansed and living images of God for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 20:11-15 records God's judgment of the separated dead whom He will cast into the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
In Job 26:1-4, Job agreed with Bildad that man has no power, or strength, or wisdom to save himself. But Job put his answer to Bildad in the form of questions to God. Job wondered how God saves man. Job implied in his questions to God that He evidently saves all mankind since every human possesses no power or wisdom to save himself. Job hinted that God helps and saves all humans since he did not refer to any permanently lost humans. In light of Job's conclusions, the obvious answers to Job's questions in verse four must be that God has written His Word for every human and that God has given life to every human in the form of His image which is the spirit of every human. God created the spirit of man to be good, and God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
In Job 26:5-6, God revealed to Job the existence of two of the places of the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:13. Revelation 20:13 reveals that God calls the dead out for judgment from three distinct and different regions of the dead; that is, the Sea, Death, and Hell. But Job also spoke about the "inhabitants" of the Sea. The word "inhabitants" implied that these dead must also retain some life in them. God will recover and recreate every life that He created from the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Immediately following physical death, Christ judges the spirits and souls of all humans. Hebrews 9:27. God allows those saved by His grace to go to heaven because they have already been cleansed and separated from all their sins by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. However, backslidden believers who have unconfessed sins in their lives, Christ may temporarily consign to the region of Death until they repent of all their unconfessed sins and Christ restores them by washing them in the water of His Word. Matthew 25:30; Matthew 5:25-26; Matthew 18:32-35; Matthew 24:48-51.
Humans who physically die not saved by grace, Christ will consign their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of the dead depending on how they lived. But all of these unbelievers will still retain their living souls and spirits that God created and that He can never lose. The image of God still within these spiritually dead humans will still contain some love for God and faith in Him. Even the worst of humanity within the region of Hell will still retain a very dim light of faith in and love for God. Romans 12:3; Luke 17:20-21. God has devised a plan to reawaken the life and faith that He has put into every human within the three regions of the dead as recorded in Revelation 5:13. Based on their reawakened faith, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and separate their living images which He created and can never lose from their deaths, which is totally evil, for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5 records the resurrection of all those cleansed and living images of God for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 20:11-15 records God's judgment of the separated dead whom He will cast into the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty
Job 25:1-6
But when Christ returns to defeat and capture the Beast and the False Prophet in the battle of Armageddon, He will send an angel to dig that coward, the Devil, out of whatever hole he is hiding in to cast him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Jesus will then begin His thousand year reign on the earth. But even Jesus' thousand year reign will not cause the final end of all influence of evil on humans. Even though God will have blocked any influence of the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet over humans for a thousand years, somehow, some kind of negative spirit will remain in the world to cause people to again return to evil. This had to have been that same kind of evil spirit, or negative consciousness, that somehow entered heaven and caused the downfall of Lucifer. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has given to man, cannot understand what a negative consciousness could be because it seems to be less than nothing; that is, absolute nothingness. God has an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. For this reason, evil is a mystery to God because it seems to be anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7. God's Word consistently calls evil "vanity" which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness.
This mystery of evil to God could account for God's statement in Isaiah 45:7. This verse demonstrates that God may feel guilty because while He created everything that is good, He may have at the same time inadvertently and unknowingly allowed a realm of nonexistence which contains all evil. God created both light and darkness for good purposes, but unknown to Him the darkness may also contain a realm of absolute nothingness.
But during Christ's thousand year reign God will be watching humanity, and He will learn how evil spirits get into His creations. Toward the end of Christ's reign, millions of humans will again fall under the influence of evil. They will be ready for the Devil to deceive them and mislead them when God releases him from his prison. But by this time, God will have learned how this evil influence got around Christ's perfect reign to again cause spiritual death in humans. Revelation 20:7-10.
God will allow the Devil to lead this massive evil army to attack His beloved city, Jerusalem, and all of His loyal saints within it. But at this time, God will have already learned how to completely separate all evil, and even any possible influence of evil, from all of His creations forever. God will use His consuming fire, which is the lake of fire, to devour all of their systems in order to absolutely separate their spiritual deaths from their living images which God put into them. The fact that God used the word "devour" means that God will consume and dissolve their systems in order to recover their living images that He created and completely eliminate their spiritual deaths which are totally evil. Revelation 20:9-10; Isaiah 66:22-24.
God will then cast the Devil alive into the lake of fire just as He did the Beast and the False Prophet. The fact that God used the word "alive" means that He will inject a positive consciousness into them so that they will fully feel forever all of the pain and agony that evil can cause a positive consciousness to suffer. God will fully repay the Devil for the suffering of His Son on the cross. In this way, God will cause their minds to become so preoccupied with torment that they will never be able to think of any way to inject evil into God's creations again. God will also block any possible evil influence over His creations forever. In this way, God will be able to create righteous systems; that is, a new heaven and earth that He will be able to protect from any evil influences forever. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God will not allow the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet to retain their negative consciousnesses because negative consciousness, being the opposite of positive consciousness, may actually enjoy pain and suffering because they believe it will lead to annihilation. Satan, having learned this fact from the influence of evil over him, invented false systems of excessive but destructive pleasures by misusing some of God's good ideas. By causing humans to become addicted to systems of excessive pleasure, Satan sought to enhance their desire for annihilation. As a fact, many humans know that the poison of excessive pleasures will lead them to destruction which they hope will be annihilation.
Bildad did not realize that God had touched him to be a prophet in Job 25:6 to reveal man's ruined condition and a future Savior who would rescue all of humanity from its fall.
But when Christ returns to defeat and capture the Beast and the False Prophet in the battle of Armageddon, He will send an angel to dig that coward, the Devil, out of whatever hole he is hiding in to cast him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Jesus will then begin His thousand year reign on the earth. But even Jesus' thousand year reign will not cause the final end of all influence of evil on humans. Even though God will have blocked any influence of the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet over humans for a thousand years, somehow, some kind of negative spirit will remain in the world to cause people to again return to evil. This had to have been that same kind of evil spirit, or negative consciousness, that somehow entered heaven and caused the downfall of Lucifer. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has given to man, cannot understand what a negative consciousness could be because it seems to be less than nothing; that is, absolute nothingness. God has an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. For this reason, evil is a mystery to God because it seems to be anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7. God's Word consistently calls evil "vanity" which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness.
This mystery of evil to God could account for God's statement in Isaiah 45:7. This verse demonstrates that God may feel guilty because while He created everything that is good, He may have at the same time inadvertently and unknowingly allowed a realm of nonexistence which contains all evil. God created both light and darkness for good purposes, but unknown to Him the darkness may also contain a realm of absolute nothingness.
But during Christ's thousand year reign God will be watching humanity, and He will learn how evil spirits get into His creations. Toward the end of Christ's reign, millions of humans will again fall under the influence of evil. They will be ready for the Devil to deceive them and mislead them when God releases him from his prison. But by this time, God will have learned how this evil influence got around Christ's perfect reign to again cause spiritual death in humans. Revelation 20:7-10.
God will allow the Devil to lead this massive evil army to attack His beloved city, Jerusalem, and all of His loyal saints within it. But at this time, God will have already learned how to completely separate all evil, and even any possible influence of evil, from all of His creations forever. God will use His consuming fire, which is the lake of fire, to devour all of their systems in order to absolutely separate their spiritual deaths from their living images which God put into them. The fact that God used the word "devour" means that God will consume and dissolve their systems in order to recover their living images that He created and completely eliminate their spiritual deaths which are totally evil. Revelation 20:9-10; Isaiah 66:22-24.
God will then cast the Devil alive into the lake of fire just as He did the Beast and the False Prophet. The fact that God used the word "alive" means that He will inject a positive consciousness into them so that they will fully feel forever all of the pain and agony that evil can cause a positive consciousness to suffer. God will fully repay the Devil for the suffering of His Son on the cross. In this way, God will cause their minds to become so preoccupied with torment that they will never be able to think of any way to inject evil into God's creations again. God will also block any possible evil influence over His creations forever. In this way, God will be able to create righteous systems; that is, a new heaven and earth that He will be able to protect from any evil influences forever. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God will not allow the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet to retain their negative consciousnesses because negative consciousness, being the opposite of positive consciousness, may actually enjoy pain and suffering because they believe it will lead to annihilation. Satan, having learned this fact from the influence of evil over him, invented false systems of excessive but destructive pleasures by misusing some of God's good ideas. By causing humans to become addicted to systems of excessive pleasure, Satan sought to enhance their desire for annihilation. As a fact, many humans know that the poison of excessive pleasures will lead them to destruction which they hope will be annihilation.
Bildad did not realize that God had touched him to be a prophet in Job 25:6 to reveal man's ruined condition and a future Savior who would rescue all of humanity from its fall.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty nine
Job 25:1-6
In Luke 8:29-33, when Jesus cast the devils out of the maniac of Gadara, the devils begged Jesus not to cast them into the deep; that is, the bottomless pit, the area of absolute nothingness because they did not desire the torment of forever being conscious of only absolute nothingness. They begged Jesus to cast them into a nearby herd of swine knowing that their torment of the swine would cause them to seek self-destruction. The devils hoped that the swine's self-destruction of their consciousnesses would somehow cause the annihilation of their own negative consciousnesses. The devils desired to merger with absolute nothingness. The atheistic materialists demonstrate a similar desire for the annihilation of their own consciousnesses in their theory of the heat death of the universe where, like a cooling cup of coffee, the whole universe cools to a level of absolute coldness and deadness devoid of all consciousness. Proverbs 8:36.
The Devil, however, not only seeks to annihilate God's Love and creativity; he seeks the annihilation of all negative consciousness as well, except his own. Satan desires to become a god and invent his own universe based on his misuse of God's ideas in order to invent systems of excessive pride and pleasure.
The Devil demonstrated his desire to replace God and invent his own perverted kind of universe in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11. In verses 3-4, the Devil tempted Christ to misuse His own power in order to satisfy His hunger before His trial in the desert was completed. Jesus countered the Devil's temptation by quoting the scripture which states that man's eternal life comes from belief in God's Word and not from bread which God gives to sustain only man's temporary, physical life. Deuteronomy 8:3. In verses 5-7, the Devil directly tempted Jesus to attempt self-annihilation by misusing a scripture that states that God will always protect Him. Psalm 91:11-12. Jesus countered this temptation by quoting the scripture that states that God cannot be tempted to do evil. Deuteronomy 6:16. Finally, in verses 8-11, the Devil sought to bribe Jesus by offering Him control over his perverted realm of greed and power that he had invented for the earth. But the Devil only sought to seduce Jesus for the moment because if Jesus had accepted his bribe, the Devil would have just immediately murdered Him and regained control for himself. Jesus countered this temptation by quoting the scripture which commands humans to worship and serve God only. Deuteronomy 5:7; Deuteronomy 10:20.
Of all the negative consciousnesses that exist, the Devil alone does not seek self-annihilation. He desires to annihilate God and all of His positive creations so that he can become a god and invent his own nasty universe. But the Devil has learnt that since Christ gained victory over him by rising from the dead, he has but a short time left on the earth. Revelation 12:12. Satan happens to be so desperate to save himself that he will cause a time of terrible destruction and evil called the Tribulation period. The Devil will send two vile versions of himself, one called the Anti-Christ or the Beast and the other called the False Prophet to do his dirty work of attempting to utterly destroy God's creations on the earth. But the false trinity of the Devil happens to be the exact opposite of the absolute unity that is God's Trinity. The Devil will have no love or loyalty to the Beast and the False Prophet. He will only seek to use them to try to protect himself. The Devil will demonstrate his cowardice at the battle of Armageddon where he will allow the Beast and the False Prophet to be destroyed by Christ while he hides in a hole somewhere. Christ will have to send an angel to find him and cast him into the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1-3.
In Luke 8:29-33, when Jesus cast the devils out of the maniac of Gadara, the devils begged Jesus not to cast them into the deep; that is, the bottomless pit, the area of absolute nothingness because they did not desire the torment of forever being conscious of only absolute nothingness. They begged Jesus to cast them into a nearby herd of swine knowing that their torment of the swine would cause them to seek self-destruction. The devils hoped that the swine's self-destruction of their consciousnesses would somehow cause the annihilation of their own negative consciousnesses. The devils desired to merger with absolute nothingness. The atheistic materialists demonstrate a similar desire for the annihilation of their own consciousnesses in their theory of the heat death of the universe where, like a cooling cup of coffee, the whole universe cools to a level of absolute coldness and deadness devoid of all consciousness. Proverbs 8:36.
The Devil, however, not only seeks to annihilate God's Love and creativity; he seeks the annihilation of all negative consciousness as well, except his own. Satan desires to become a god and invent his own universe based on his misuse of God's ideas in order to invent systems of excessive pride and pleasure.
The Devil demonstrated his desire to replace God and invent his own perverted kind of universe in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11. In verses 3-4, the Devil tempted Christ to misuse His own power in order to satisfy His hunger before His trial in the desert was completed. Jesus countered the Devil's temptation by quoting the scripture which states that man's eternal life comes from belief in God's Word and not from bread which God gives to sustain only man's temporary, physical life. Deuteronomy 8:3. In verses 5-7, the Devil directly tempted Jesus to attempt self-annihilation by misusing a scripture that states that God will always protect Him. Psalm 91:11-12. Jesus countered this temptation by quoting the scripture that states that God cannot be tempted to do evil. Deuteronomy 6:16. Finally, in verses 8-11, the Devil sought to bribe Jesus by offering Him control over his perverted realm of greed and power that he had invented for the earth. But the Devil only sought to seduce Jesus for the moment because if Jesus had accepted his bribe, the Devil would have just immediately murdered Him and regained control for himself. Jesus countered this temptation by quoting the scripture which commands humans to worship and serve God only. Deuteronomy 5:7; Deuteronomy 10:20.
Of all the negative consciousnesses that exist, the Devil alone does not seek self-annihilation. He desires to annihilate God and all of His positive creations so that he can become a god and invent his own nasty universe. But the Devil has learnt that since Christ gained victory over him by rising from the dead, he has but a short time left on the earth. Revelation 12:12. Satan happens to be so desperate to save himself that he will cause a time of terrible destruction and evil called the Tribulation period. The Devil will send two vile versions of himself, one called the Anti-Christ or the Beast and the other called the False Prophet to do his dirty work of attempting to utterly destroy God's creations on the earth. But the false trinity of the Devil happens to be the exact opposite of the absolute unity that is God's Trinity. The Devil will have no love or loyalty to the Beast and the False Prophet. He will only seek to use them to try to protect himself. The Devil will demonstrate his cowardice at the battle of Armageddon where he will allow the Beast and the False Prophet to be destroyed by Christ while he hides in a hole somewhere. Christ will have to send an angel to find him and cast him into the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1-3.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty eight
Job 25:1-6
When Jesus taught that the "worm" of man, which symbolizes his spiritual death, "dieth not," He had to have meant that every "worm" in the lake of fire possesses only a negative consciousness. They become wholly demonic with a hatred for all that is creative and good. This condition could mean that in some strange way, they could actually enjoy suffering since suffering seeks to destroy positive consciousness. Jesus suffered on the cross because that negative consciousness called Satan attempted to reduce Christ's perfect positive consciousness to a negative one. Mark 9: 44, 46 and 48.
The being of every person possesses a positive consciousness and a negative consciousness inherited from the fall of Adam and Eve. The living image of God in every person, which is his positive consciousness, sins whenever it yields to the influence of its negative consciousness. All evil is also sin, but the difference between sin and evil is that sin happens because of a weakness in the free will of man, but evil can only be a deliberate rebellion against God. For this reason, sinful acts usually contain some elements of goodness, but deliberately cruel and selfish acts, of which a person refuses to repent, demonstrate that such a person has consciously yielded to the control of his negative consciousness in rebellion against God. God will forgive even the worst acts of rebellion against Him if a person seeks reconciliation with Him through repentance and faith in Christ. God's Love never fails. Jesus taught that God will forgive every act of sin and rebellion when a person repents and believes, but when a person rejects the Holy Spirit who calls him to repentance, then God will never forgive that rebellion. Matthew 12:31-32.
Eve's good life sinned because of a weakness in her free will when she was deceived by the Devil. But she deliberately committed an act of rebellion against God when she selfishly gave the forbidden fruit to Adam to eat because she wanted him to be fallen with her. Adam sinned when his good life had compassion on Eve's fallen condition, and he desired to fall with her so that he could protect her as best as he could. But Adam committed a deliberate act of rebellion against God when he desired to not lose his physical love with Eve, and He also knew fully well that he was deliberately disobeying God. I Timothy 2:14.
God fully explained the difference between sin and evil in Numbers 15:23-36. The sins of ignorance in these verses denote God's ability to cleanse and forgive these sins symbolized by the burnt offerings and sin offerings. But these verses also indicate that God will never forgive presumptuous sins, and He will separate that evil in man from Himself forever. Revelation 20:15. God commanded that the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath be executed because he refused to repent by asking for a burnt offering or a sin offering for himself. God will cleanse and forgive all acts of sin and evil if sinners will avail themselves of Christ's Love and Mercy in repentance and faith. Even the worst acts of evil that a person can do become sins of weakness when a sinner repents, puts his faith in Christ's power to cleanse and forgive, and submits himself to the grace and mercy of God. God has given every person a measure of faith and repentance. Romans 12:3.
Because of this fact, God knows that the free will of every image of God in every person, which also contains his weakness for sin, will one day chose to return to repentance and faith in Christ as the Lamb who has already done all the work necessary to cleanse and forgive them of all their sins and save their good lives forever, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. But the total evil in man, which is his spiritual death of which he never repents, God will separate from him and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 12:31-32.
Positive consciousness, being creative, seeks eternal life and/or immortality based on God's grace and mercy. Negative consciousness, being destructive, seeks even its own annihilation. Negative consciousness realizes that it must contain some form of misused self-consciousness because it recognizes that it is separate from absolute nothingness. It also realizes that it seeks the utter destruction of positive consciousness and creativity. Negative consciousness realizes its total evil, and therefore, it does not enjoy being conscious at all because even a misused self-consciousness comes to close to being creative. Negative consciousness actually seeks only annihilation. It seeks to merge with absolute nothingness. People who commit suicide do not seek a negative consciousness. They seek an annihilation of consciousness.
When Jesus taught that the "worm" of man, which symbolizes his spiritual death, "dieth not," He had to have meant that every "worm" in the lake of fire possesses only a negative consciousness. They become wholly demonic with a hatred for all that is creative and good. This condition could mean that in some strange way, they could actually enjoy suffering since suffering seeks to destroy positive consciousness. Jesus suffered on the cross because that negative consciousness called Satan attempted to reduce Christ's perfect positive consciousness to a negative one. Mark 9: 44, 46 and 48.
The being of every person possesses a positive consciousness and a negative consciousness inherited from the fall of Adam and Eve. The living image of God in every person, which is his positive consciousness, sins whenever it yields to the influence of its negative consciousness. All evil is also sin, but the difference between sin and evil is that sin happens because of a weakness in the free will of man, but evil can only be a deliberate rebellion against God. For this reason, sinful acts usually contain some elements of goodness, but deliberately cruel and selfish acts, of which a person refuses to repent, demonstrate that such a person has consciously yielded to the control of his negative consciousness in rebellion against God. God will forgive even the worst acts of rebellion against Him if a person seeks reconciliation with Him through repentance and faith in Christ. God's Love never fails. Jesus taught that God will forgive every act of sin and rebellion when a person repents and believes, but when a person rejects the Holy Spirit who calls him to repentance, then God will never forgive that rebellion. Matthew 12:31-32.
Eve's good life sinned because of a weakness in her free will when she was deceived by the Devil. But she deliberately committed an act of rebellion against God when she selfishly gave the forbidden fruit to Adam to eat because she wanted him to be fallen with her. Adam sinned when his good life had compassion on Eve's fallen condition, and he desired to fall with her so that he could protect her as best as he could. But Adam committed a deliberate act of rebellion against God when he desired to not lose his physical love with Eve, and He also knew fully well that he was deliberately disobeying God. I Timothy 2:14.
God fully explained the difference between sin and evil in Numbers 15:23-36. The sins of ignorance in these verses denote God's ability to cleanse and forgive these sins symbolized by the burnt offerings and sin offerings. But these verses also indicate that God will never forgive presumptuous sins, and He will separate that evil in man from Himself forever. Revelation 20:15. God commanded that the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath be executed because he refused to repent by asking for a burnt offering or a sin offering for himself. God will cleanse and forgive all acts of sin and evil if sinners will avail themselves of Christ's Love and Mercy in repentance and faith. Even the worst acts of evil that a person can do become sins of weakness when a sinner repents, puts his faith in Christ's power to cleanse and forgive, and submits himself to the grace and mercy of God. God has given every person a measure of faith and repentance. Romans 12:3.
Because of this fact, God knows that the free will of every image of God in every person, which also contains his weakness for sin, will one day chose to return to repentance and faith in Christ as the Lamb who has already done all the work necessary to cleanse and forgive them of all their sins and save their good lives forever, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. But the total evil in man, which is his spiritual death of which he never repents, God will separate from him and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 12:31-32.
Positive consciousness, being creative, seeks eternal life and/or immortality based on God's grace and mercy. Negative consciousness, being destructive, seeks even its own annihilation. Negative consciousness realizes that it must contain some form of misused self-consciousness because it recognizes that it is separate from absolute nothingness. It also realizes that it seeks the utter destruction of positive consciousness and creativity. Negative consciousness realizes its total evil, and therefore, it does not enjoy being conscious at all because even a misused self-consciousness comes to close to being creative. Negative consciousness actually seeks only annihilation. It seeks to merge with absolute nothingness. People who commit suicide do not seek a negative consciousness. They seek an annihilation of consciousness.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty seven
Job 25:1-6
God created mankind as good and living systems. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Satan sought to annihilate these good and living systems by reducing them to absolute nothingness and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. God allowed Satan to reduce humanity to a hopeless condition for self-salvation when Satan caused Adam and Eve's good and living systems to become soiled and stained by sin which has an evil effect on man's living systems. Satan knew that a Holy God would never be able to accept them again into His fellowship as long as they were marred by sin. Because of their fallen condition, Satan counted on holding them in hell forever.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will. God was not responsible for this weakness since He had no idea whatsoever that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer could be misused. The good and living systems of all humanity became soiled by the influence of evil. Before evil entered heaven and then humanity, God had and has infinite knowledge of all that is creative and holy. This fact means God is omniscient since evil is a kind of anti-knowledge which seeks to utterly destroy all that is good and creative, reducing it to absolute nothingness. But God provided Himself as a Lamb who would sacrifice Himself in man's place to become man's sin and spiritual death so that He could cleanse and forgive the good and living systems of all humans, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His use of His consuming fire.
God holds the power to save all living humans from the sin that causes spiritual death by cleansing and forgiving them and by His power to recreate their good systems that has been marred by sin. God employed repentance and faith as the means whereby every living human will sooner or later return to the protection of His Love. Evil is total rebellion against God and therefore never repents. All evil is totally evil and is the spiritual death which God will separate from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. Because Christ became the sin and spiritual deaths of all humans, He can separate the total evil in all humans from them for its destruction in the lake of fire, and He can cleanse and forgive all the sin that soils man's living systems when they repent and put their faith in His power to save them. The absolute dividing line between spiritual death and salvation is repentance and faith which returns the living systems of humans to the protection of God's Love. God has given every living human a measure of faith which He will renew in every person, some by His grace when they repent and believe while still in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Romans 12:3.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will, but they also deliberately disobeyed God. God provided a plan to save their good and living systems from the stain of sin by giving them, and all humans, repentance and faith in His power through His sacrifice to return them to the protection of His Love. Total evil in man never repents, but God will separate this spiritual death from man and cast it into the lake of fire. In the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate and recover all living humans not already saved by grace from spiritual death by casting it into the lake of fire which is also God's eternal consuming fire. God can make this separation because Christ suffered man's eternal spiritual separation from God in man's place. Matthew 27:46; Hebrews 2:9. God saved the living systems of all mankind from the sin that would eternally soil it and claim it and reduce it to eternal spiritual death. Christ also saved the living systems of every man by becoming his spiritual death in his place. That part of Christ's Spirit which suffered man's eternal spiritual death has become the eternal lake of fire which forever separates man's eternal life from his eternal death. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. This verse clearly states that God is a consuming fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Colossians 1:15-20; I John 3:8; John 11:25-26.
God created mankind as good and living systems. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Satan sought to annihilate these good and living systems by reducing them to absolute nothingness and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. God allowed Satan to reduce humanity to a hopeless condition for self-salvation when Satan caused Adam and Eve's good and living systems to become soiled and stained by sin which has an evil effect on man's living systems. Satan knew that a Holy God would never be able to accept them again into His fellowship as long as they were marred by sin. Because of their fallen condition, Satan counted on holding them in hell forever.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will. God was not responsible for this weakness since He had no idea whatsoever that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer could be misused. The good and living systems of all humanity became soiled by the influence of evil. Before evil entered heaven and then humanity, God had and has infinite knowledge of all that is creative and holy. This fact means God is omniscient since evil is a kind of anti-knowledge which seeks to utterly destroy all that is good and creative, reducing it to absolute nothingness. But God provided Himself as a Lamb who would sacrifice Himself in man's place to become man's sin and spiritual death so that He could cleanse and forgive the good and living systems of all humans, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His use of His consuming fire.
God holds the power to save all living humans from the sin that causes spiritual death by cleansing and forgiving them and by His power to recreate their good systems that has been marred by sin. God employed repentance and faith as the means whereby every living human will sooner or later return to the protection of His Love. Evil is total rebellion against God and therefore never repents. All evil is totally evil and is the spiritual death which God will separate from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. Because Christ became the sin and spiritual deaths of all humans, He can separate the total evil in all humans from them for its destruction in the lake of fire, and He can cleanse and forgive all the sin that soils man's living systems when they repent and put their faith in His power to save them. The absolute dividing line between spiritual death and salvation is repentance and faith which returns the living systems of humans to the protection of God's Love. God has given every living human a measure of faith which He will renew in every person, some by His grace when they repent and believe while still in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Romans 12:3.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will, but they also deliberately disobeyed God. God provided a plan to save their good and living systems from the stain of sin by giving them, and all humans, repentance and faith in His power through His sacrifice to return them to the protection of His Love. Total evil in man never repents, but God will separate this spiritual death from man and cast it into the lake of fire. In the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate and recover all living humans not already saved by grace from spiritual death by casting it into the lake of fire which is also God's eternal consuming fire. God can make this separation because Christ suffered man's eternal spiritual separation from God in man's place. Matthew 27:46; Hebrews 2:9. God saved the living systems of all mankind from the sin that would eternally soil it and claim it and reduce it to eternal spiritual death. Christ also saved the living systems of every man by becoming his spiritual death in his place. That part of Christ's Spirit which suffered man's eternal spiritual death has become the eternal lake of fire which forever separates man's eternal life from his eternal death. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. This verse clearly states that God is a consuming fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Colossians 1:15-20; I John 3:8; John 11:25-26.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty six
Job 25:1-6
These facts mean that total evil has to be less than the idea of nothing because it is totally useless. In fact, total evil has to be the exact opposite of creativity because it seeks to annihilate anything that God has created, especially humanity. Total evil could also be called absolute nothingness because it happens to be totally useless and chaotic. Job provided a fairly good description of the place of absolute nothingness in Job 10:21-22.
Positive consciousness can only refer to absolute nothingness as being a place, but actually, absolute nothingness, being the opposite of creativity and reality, can only nonexist nowhere and at no time. The Bible refers to this nonexistent place as being a bottomless pit or prison. Revelation 20:3; Revelation 20:7. In some strange way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, absolute nothingness contains a force which actively seeks to utterly destroy God's good creations. Since this force would have to know what it is doing, it could be called negative consciousness; that is, devils or demons. God is completely innocent. God, being Holy and wholly creative, knew absolutely nothing about absolute nothingness until in some mysterious way which even God cannot understand until after He recreates the heaven and earth, a devil emerged from absolute nothingness to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God. II Thessalonians 2:7; Ezekiel 28:15. God reduced Lucifer's system to useless ashes. God recovered all of His good ideas that He had put into Lucifer's system, reduced Lucifer to a negative consciousness called Satan and exiled him to earth for God to use to test His Love for all of His creations. Ezekiel 28:12-19.
Lucifer's rebellion introduced doubt about the power of God's Love into His creations. The story of the doubter Thomas in John 20:24-29 provides a symbolic example of that doubt. God never doubted Himself, but He had to cure this doubt in His creations. Otherwise, evil would remain a part of His creations forever.
Satan believed that because God had allowed him to gain some control of the world, he had also gained some power to annihilate a part of God's creations. When Satan observed God creating humans and giving them free will, he believed God had made a huge mistake. Satan knew he could use their free will to seduce them to rebel against God, eventually annihilate all of God's life and goodness He had put into them, and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. The Devil also believed that he could use God's failure to eventually gain enough power to murder God Himself. John 8:44.
But Satan did not realize that God was simply using him to prove to His creations that God's Love can never fail. God would demonstrate the Almighty Power of His Love for His image that He had put into man by becoming a man and sacrificing Himself by taking man's eternal death on Himself on a cruel cross. God had the power and the infinite imagination to devise a plan whereby He could return the whole human race, like He did Thomas, to faith in Him and love for Him of their own free will. Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5.
God loves everything He has ever created, and therefore, He cannot lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love is Infinite and Almighty, and therefore, He can never lose anything to the Devil.
These facts mean that total evil has to be less than the idea of nothing because it is totally useless. In fact, total evil has to be the exact opposite of creativity because it seeks to annihilate anything that God has created, especially humanity. Total evil could also be called absolute nothingness because it happens to be totally useless and chaotic. Job provided a fairly good description of the place of absolute nothingness in Job 10:21-22.
Positive consciousness can only refer to absolute nothingness as being a place, but actually, absolute nothingness, being the opposite of creativity and reality, can only nonexist nowhere and at no time. The Bible refers to this nonexistent place as being a bottomless pit or prison. Revelation 20:3; Revelation 20:7. In some strange way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, absolute nothingness contains a force which actively seeks to utterly destroy God's good creations. Since this force would have to know what it is doing, it could be called negative consciousness; that is, devils or demons. God is completely innocent. God, being Holy and wholly creative, knew absolutely nothing about absolute nothingness until in some mysterious way which even God cannot understand until after He recreates the heaven and earth, a devil emerged from absolute nothingness to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God. II Thessalonians 2:7; Ezekiel 28:15. God reduced Lucifer's system to useless ashes. God recovered all of His good ideas that He had put into Lucifer's system, reduced Lucifer to a negative consciousness called Satan and exiled him to earth for God to use to test His Love for all of His creations. Ezekiel 28:12-19.
Lucifer's rebellion introduced doubt about the power of God's Love into His creations. The story of the doubter Thomas in John 20:24-29 provides a symbolic example of that doubt. God never doubted Himself, but He had to cure this doubt in His creations. Otherwise, evil would remain a part of His creations forever.
Satan believed that because God had allowed him to gain some control of the world, he had also gained some power to annihilate a part of God's creations. When Satan observed God creating humans and giving them free will, he believed God had made a huge mistake. Satan knew he could use their free will to seduce them to rebel against God, eventually annihilate all of God's life and goodness He had put into them, and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. The Devil also believed that he could use God's failure to eventually gain enough power to murder God Himself. John 8:44.
But Satan did not realize that God was simply using him to prove to His creations that God's Love can never fail. God would demonstrate the Almighty Power of His Love for His image that He had put into man by becoming a man and sacrificing Himself by taking man's eternal death on Himself on a cruel cross. God had the power and the infinite imagination to devise a plan whereby He could return the whole human race, like He did Thomas, to faith in Him and love for Him of their own free will. Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5.
God loves everything He has ever created, and therefore, He cannot lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love is Infinite and Almighty, and therefore, He can never lose anything to the Devil.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty five
Job 25:1-6
In Mark 9:50, Jesus further taught that "Salt is good...," which means that Christ is the perfect Preservative who can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. But when Jesus used the phrase "if the salt have lost his saltness," He did not mean that Christ could ever lose any of His preservative power. He simply meant whatever has no preservative in it cannot be preserved. That part of man which has no preservative in it is his spiritual death which is totally evil and which Christ will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15.
In the second part of Mark 9:50, Jesus urges His hearers to receive His "salt" while still alive in the flesh and become saved by His grace. Only those saved by grace get to go to heaven. Those saved by God's consuming fire only get to be recreated to live on God's recreated and renewed earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
In Mark 9:44, 46 and 48, Jesus taught that the "worm," which symbolizes total evil, while in the lake of fire "dieth not." All through the Bible, it teaches that sin and evil equal vanity; that is, both total emptiness and excessive pride. This constitutes a perfect description of that which Satan became.
These facts can only mean that total evil cannot equal nothing. Isaiah 40:17. Total evil has to be less than nothing because the idea of nothing happens to be a perfectly good and useful idea in the Mind of God. God uses the idea of nothing every time He creates a good system because He must exclude; that is, consider as equal to nothing, any idea which will not work in that particular system that He is creating. God does not negate any of the ideas He excludes. They might be useful in other systems He intends to create. He simply considers all excluded ideas to be not apt for a particular system that He is creating. He considers all excluded ideas to be equal to the idea of nothing.
The idea of nothing is absolutely essential for the establishment of reality for both God and man. For example, any person with normal consciousness can only identify oneself and become self-conscious by the realization that this particular person can be no other person in the world but oneself. In other words, one must consider all others to be equal to nothing as far as one's own system is concerned. The others cannot be negated. They can only be excluded from one's own system by the use of the idea of nothing.
In Mark 9:50, Jesus further taught that "Salt is good...," which means that Christ is the perfect Preservative who can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. But when Jesus used the phrase "if the salt have lost his saltness," He did not mean that Christ could ever lose any of His preservative power. He simply meant whatever has no preservative in it cannot be preserved. That part of man which has no preservative in it is his spiritual death which is totally evil and which Christ will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15.
In the second part of Mark 9:50, Jesus urges His hearers to receive His "salt" while still alive in the flesh and become saved by His grace. Only those saved by grace get to go to heaven. Those saved by God's consuming fire only get to be recreated to live on God's recreated and renewed earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
In Mark 9:44, 46 and 48, Jesus taught that the "worm," which symbolizes total evil, while in the lake of fire "dieth not." All through the Bible, it teaches that sin and evil equal vanity; that is, both total emptiness and excessive pride. This constitutes a perfect description of that which Satan became.
These facts can only mean that total evil cannot equal nothing. Isaiah 40:17. Total evil has to be less than nothing because the idea of nothing happens to be a perfectly good and useful idea in the Mind of God. God uses the idea of nothing every time He creates a good system because He must exclude; that is, consider as equal to nothing, any idea which will not work in that particular system that He is creating. God does not negate any of the ideas He excludes. They might be useful in other systems He intends to create. He simply considers all excluded ideas to be not apt for a particular system that He is creating. He considers all excluded ideas to be equal to the idea of nothing.
The idea of nothing is absolutely essential for the establishment of reality for both God and man. For example, any person with normal consciousness can only identify oneself and become self-conscious by the realization that this particular person can be no other person in the world but oneself. In other words, one must consider all others to be equal to nothing as far as one's own system is concerned. The others cannot be negated. They can only be excluded from one's own system by the use of the idea of nothing.
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty four
Job 25:1-6
In Mark 9:44, 46 and 48, Jesus did not teach that living humans would die in the fire that cannot be quenched. He taught that only their "worm" would never die. All through the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" almost always symbolizes sin and evil which is the same as spiritual death. When Jesus referred to "the fire that is not quenched," He could only have meant the lake of fire since God will destroy hell by casting it into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14. In His teaching about the "worm" of human life, Jesus paraphrased Isaiah 66:22-24. In these verses, the word "worm" clearly symbolizes the eternally spiritually dead part of all humans. Isaiah 66:22-23 clearly teaches that after God recreates the heaven and the earth that "all flesh shall come to worship before me." The Word of God must mean exactly that which it states. The phrase "all flesh" can only mean all living humans whom He has recovered from all of the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:13; Revelation 21:1-5.
In addition, in Jesus' teaching about the "worm" of man, He prophesied about His judgment of the spiritual dead in Revelation 20:11-15. In this Great White Throne Judgment, Christ will cast only the "worm" of man, which is the same as his spiritual death, into the lake of fire. This fact can only mean that God will resurrect all living humans in Revelation 20:5 to separate their good lives that God created from their deadness which He will cast into the lake of fire. II Timothy 4:1; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Genesis 3:20.
Jesus further taught in Mark 9:49 that "every one shall be salted with fire." Jesus' prophecy here fully comports with the Apostle Paul's prophecy in I Corinthians 3:11-15. The "every one" of Jesus" prophecy and the "every man" of Paul's prophecy can only mean exactly that which it states. The "salt" of Jesus" teaching can only mean Christ Himself who is the Creator and Preserver of all living humans. Jesus and Paul's prophesies prove that God will separate and preserve, by the use of His consuming fire, all His living humans from their graves as prophesied in Revelation 20:5. These prophesies also prove that the "salt" who is Christ is also God's consuming fire.
Jesus further taught in this verse that "every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." By His phrase "every sacrifice," Jesus meant all humans who would ever repent of their sins and trust in His sacrifice for them while He was on the cross. While they are still alive in the flesh, God will wash these believers clean of all their sins with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and God will save their holy lives by the preservative of His grace to live with Him in heaven forever. I Peter 1:4. These believers will gain the right to live in heaven because God will give them the absolutely pure righteousness of Christ by which they will become joint-heirs with Christ Himself. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
In Mark 9:44, 46 and 48, Jesus did not teach that living humans would die in the fire that cannot be quenched. He taught that only their "worm" would never die. All through the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" almost always symbolizes sin and evil which is the same as spiritual death. When Jesus referred to "the fire that is not quenched," He could only have meant the lake of fire since God will destroy hell by casting it into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14. In His teaching about the "worm" of human life, Jesus paraphrased Isaiah 66:22-24. In these verses, the word "worm" clearly symbolizes the eternally spiritually dead part of all humans. Isaiah 66:22-23 clearly teaches that after God recreates the heaven and the earth that "all flesh shall come to worship before me." The Word of God must mean exactly that which it states. The phrase "all flesh" can only mean all living humans whom He has recovered from all of the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:13; Revelation 21:1-5.
In addition, in Jesus' teaching about the "worm" of man, He prophesied about His judgment of the spiritual dead in Revelation 20:11-15. In this Great White Throne Judgment, Christ will cast only the "worm" of man, which is the same as his spiritual death, into the lake of fire. This fact can only mean that God will resurrect all living humans in Revelation 20:5 to separate their good lives that God created from their deadness which He will cast into the lake of fire. II Timothy 4:1; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Genesis 3:20.
Jesus further taught in Mark 9:49 that "every one shall be salted with fire." Jesus' prophecy here fully comports with the Apostle Paul's prophecy in I Corinthians 3:11-15. The "every one" of Jesus" prophecy and the "every man" of Paul's prophecy can only mean exactly that which it states. The "salt" of Jesus" teaching can only mean Christ Himself who is the Creator and Preserver of all living humans. Jesus and Paul's prophesies prove that God will separate and preserve, by the use of His consuming fire, all His living humans from their graves as prophesied in Revelation 20:5. These prophesies also prove that the "salt" who is Christ is also God's consuming fire.
Jesus further taught in this verse that "every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." By His phrase "every sacrifice," Jesus meant all humans who would ever repent of their sins and trust in His sacrifice for them while He was on the cross. While they are still alive in the flesh, God will wash these believers clean of all their sins with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and God will save their holy lives by the preservative of His grace to live with Him in heaven forever. I Peter 1:4. These believers will gain the right to live in heaven because God will give them the absolutely pure righteousness of Christ by which they will become joint-heirs with Christ Himself. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty three
Acts 25:1-6
God's eternal Life and Love arose from the dead to recover His good life that He had put into every human because He had already separated their eternal deaths from them. He had left all of their sin and evil behind Him when He descended into hell and recovered their images of God when He rose from the dead. Hebrews 2:9; John 11:25-26; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8.
In John 15:13, Jesus taught His disciples the very reason why His Love can never fail. The greatest expression of love happens in self-sacrifice. Christ sacrificed His human life by allowing it to become the sin and evil of all humans who are the dead that He casts into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Christ's Love happens to be in that fire forever in order to separate man's eternal death from his eternal life which God created and put into him. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God will recover and recreate every life of every human, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 3:16. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire. Part of the work of the Spirit of Christ is that He became the lake of fire so that He could forever separate the eternal death of man from his eternal life. Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47. The lake of fire also prevents evil from ever being able to enter into God's new creations again. II Peter 3:12-13.
Satan knew that as long as sin and evil existed as a part of man's being, then a Holy God would never be able to accept filthy humans again into reconciliation and renewed fellowship with Him. Satan knew that if God had to reject the sin and evil in man then He would also have to reject His soiled image that He had put into man. Since no other powers exist except those of good and evil, the Devil obtained the right to claim the soiled images of God in every human as his own to torture forever in hell until he succeeded in annihilating a part of God's creations and thus prove that God's Love can fail. But the Devil did not count on God expressing His Love by becoming a human and taking all of the sin and evil of mankind, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, upon Himself and suffer man's eternal spiritual death in man's place. The Devil did not count on the loving self-sacrifice of Christ. Through His loving self-sacrifice, God renewed His power to cleanse all of humanity of all its sin and evil, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His consuming fire when Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead.
Matthew 25:41 teaches that God created hell only for the Devil and his angels, and only the cursed belong there. God never cursed His living humans whom He loves. God cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains hell. These facts can only mean that in a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and recover His living images in all humans within the three regions of the dead. God loves everything He has ever created, and He can never lose any of it. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
God's eternal Life and Love arose from the dead to recover His good life that He had put into every human because He had already separated their eternal deaths from them. He had left all of their sin and evil behind Him when He descended into hell and recovered their images of God when He rose from the dead. Hebrews 2:9; John 11:25-26; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8.
In John 15:13, Jesus taught His disciples the very reason why His Love can never fail. The greatest expression of love happens in self-sacrifice. Christ sacrificed His human life by allowing it to become the sin and evil of all humans who are the dead that He casts into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Christ's Love happens to be in that fire forever in order to separate man's eternal death from his eternal life which God created and put into him. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God will recover and recreate every life of every human, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 3:16. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire. Part of the work of the Spirit of Christ is that He became the lake of fire so that He could forever separate the eternal death of man from his eternal life. Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47. The lake of fire also prevents evil from ever being able to enter into God's new creations again. II Peter 3:12-13.
Satan knew that as long as sin and evil existed as a part of man's being, then a Holy God would never be able to accept filthy humans again into reconciliation and renewed fellowship with Him. Satan knew that if God had to reject the sin and evil in man then He would also have to reject His soiled image that He had put into man. Since no other powers exist except those of good and evil, the Devil obtained the right to claim the soiled images of God in every human as his own to torture forever in hell until he succeeded in annihilating a part of God's creations and thus prove that God's Love can fail. But the Devil did not count on God expressing His Love by becoming a human and taking all of the sin and evil of mankind, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, upon Himself and suffer man's eternal spiritual death in man's place. The Devil did not count on the loving self-sacrifice of Christ. Through His loving self-sacrifice, God renewed His power to cleanse all of humanity of all its sin and evil, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His consuming fire when Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead.
Matthew 25:41 teaches that God created hell only for the Devil and his angels, and only the cursed belong there. God never cursed His living humans whom He loves. God cursed only the Devil and the ground which contains hell. These facts can only mean that in a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and recover His living images in all humans within the three regions of the dead. God loves everything He has ever created, and He can never lose any of it. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Monday, July 1, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty two
Job 25:1-6
In Job 25:6, God must have touched Bildad because He gave him a prophecy similar to that which He gave King David in Psalm 22:6. Bildad spoke about the son of man becoming a worm, and Jesus often called Himself "the son of man." In Psalm 22:6 and II Corinthians 5:21, the Word of God relates the amazing fact that Christ did not just bear the sins of all mankind, he actually became that sin and evil. This fact can only mean that the very life of God in man had become the eternal death of mankind when Christ died on the cross and descended into hell. Jesus proclaimed that the eternal death of His life in man was happening by His cry from the cross in Matthew 27:46. But Christ only died the eternal death of man in man's place. God Himself cannot die. Christ's physical body could not decay because it was perfect, and the Holy Spirit could not remain in hell because God is absolutely pure and holy. God had the right to raise Jesus from the dead and transform His perfect body into a spiritual body which He will also give to all His saints saved by His grace. John 10:17-18; Philippians 3:20-21.
The Devil has a claim on the living image of God that He put into every human. Satan has reasoned that because he injected sin and evil into the living image of God in every person, then all humans belong to him, and he therefore has the right to torture every human in hell forever until he annihilates the good lives of every human. In this way, Satan can prove that God's Almighty Love can fail, and this fact will give him an advantage over a wounded God which will lead to God's eventual death. God gave the Devil his chance to murder Him when all of the sin and evil in mankind nailed Jesus to the cross. But God outwitted the Devil because Christ's loving self-sacrifice proved that God's Love cannot fail. For this reason, Christ must provide some form of salvation for all mankind. John 6:33. The Devil thought that he could annihilate the good lives of both God and man when He suffered and died on the cross. No doubt the Devil rejoiced when he saw Jesus die and His Spirit descend into hell because he believed that that was where Christ would remain forever since Christ had become sin and evil itself. But in a self-sacrificial act of pure Love, Christ had become man's sin and evil only. God Himself remained pure and holy. John 12:31-32; John 15:13; John 16:19-22. The Love in the self-sacrifice of God proved that He remained pure and holy.
Jesus succeeded in leaving all of the sin and evil of mankind that He had become behind in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. How was this possible? How did Christ become man's sin and evil without God being annihilated by it? How did God become eternally spiritually separated from Himself as a man and yet totally recover His own eternal life?
The answer simply adheres to the Almighty Power of God's Love. The Devil miscalculated. In fact, every evil thing that he does amounts to but a misuse of some of God's good ideas. God always uses His good ideas to create good systems. Satan misuses God's good ideas to invent false systems. The Devil cannot create anything. The Devil believed that if he could use sin and evil to annihilate the life of Christ, then he could eventually annihilate God Himself. But the Devil was wrong. Jesus was both God and man at the same time and in the same body. Matthew 1:23. This fact means that when Jesus became man's sin and evil, He annihilated sin and evil in the lives of all humans, not His own eternal life. John 10:17-18; II Corinthians 5:21; I Corinthians 15:22.
Christ, being God, was and is completely innocent and pure. This fact means that God, not being responsible for sin and evil, possessed the power to separate His eternal life from the eternal death of man that He had become and rise immaculate from the dead to reclaim the good lives of all humans that He had created. God only died an eternal death in man's place as a perfect human that death had no power over. God Himself cannot die. In this way, God saved all humanity by both His self-sacrificial death and His Holy Life. Because God was wholly human on earth, He could experience man's eternal death, but in His perfection and Holiness, He could not. II Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 1:15-20.
Sin and evil entered into Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity because of their disobedience of God. But Jesus allowed the eternal death of all mankind to enter into His being on the cross in perfect obedience to His Father. Jesus, the perfect man, died man's eternal death in man's place, but Jesus, who is God's Almighty Love, rose from the dead in victory over eternal death for the salvation of the good lives of every human. God can never fail to accomplish whatever He does. John 12:44-48; Hebrews 2:9.
In Job 25:6, God must have touched Bildad because He gave him a prophecy similar to that which He gave King David in Psalm 22:6. Bildad spoke about the son of man becoming a worm, and Jesus often called Himself "the son of man." In Psalm 22:6 and II Corinthians 5:21, the Word of God relates the amazing fact that Christ did not just bear the sins of all mankind, he actually became that sin and evil. This fact can only mean that the very life of God in man had become the eternal death of mankind when Christ died on the cross and descended into hell. Jesus proclaimed that the eternal death of His life in man was happening by His cry from the cross in Matthew 27:46. But Christ only died the eternal death of man in man's place. God Himself cannot die. Christ's physical body could not decay because it was perfect, and the Holy Spirit could not remain in hell because God is absolutely pure and holy. God had the right to raise Jesus from the dead and transform His perfect body into a spiritual body which He will also give to all His saints saved by His grace. John 10:17-18; Philippians 3:20-21.
The Devil has a claim on the living image of God that He put into every human. Satan has reasoned that because he injected sin and evil into the living image of God in every person, then all humans belong to him, and he therefore has the right to torture every human in hell forever until he annihilates the good lives of every human. In this way, Satan can prove that God's Almighty Love can fail, and this fact will give him an advantage over a wounded God which will lead to God's eventual death. God gave the Devil his chance to murder Him when all of the sin and evil in mankind nailed Jesus to the cross. But God outwitted the Devil because Christ's loving self-sacrifice proved that God's Love cannot fail. For this reason, Christ must provide some form of salvation for all mankind. John 6:33. The Devil thought that he could annihilate the good lives of both God and man when He suffered and died on the cross. No doubt the Devil rejoiced when he saw Jesus die and His Spirit descend into hell because he believed that that was where Christ would remain forever since Christ had become sin and evil itself. But in a self-sacrificial act of pure Love, Christ had become man's sin and evil only. God Himself remained pure and holy. John 12:31-32; John 15:13; John 16:19-22. The Love in the self-sacrifice of God proved that He remained pure and holy.
Jesus succeeded in leaving all of the sin and evil of mankind that He had become behind in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. How was this possible? How did Christ become man's sin and evil without God being annihilated by it? How did God become eternally spiritually separated from Himself as a man and yet totally recover His own eternal life?
The answer simply adheres to the Almighty Power of God's Love. The Devil miscalculated. In fact, every evil thing that he does amounts to but a misuse of some of God's good ideas. God always uses His good ideas to create good systems. Satan misuses God's good ideas to invent false systems. The Devil cannot create anything. The Devil believed that if he could use sin and evil to annihilate the life of Christ, then he could eventually annihilate God Himself. But the Devil was wrong. Jesus was both God and man at the same time and in the same body. Matthew 1:23. This fact means that when Jesus became man's sin and evil, He annihilated sin and evil in the lives of all humans, not His own eternal life. John 10:17-18; II Corinthians 5:21; I Corinthians 15:22.
Christ, being God, was and is completely innocent and pure. This fact means that God, not being responsible for sin and evil, possessed the power to separate His eternal life from the eternal death of man that He had become and rise immaculate from the dead to reclaim the good lives of all humans that He had created. God only died an eternal death in man's place as a perfect human that death had no power over. God Himself cannot die. In this way, God saved all humanity by both His self-sacrificial death and His Holy Life. Because God was wholly human on earth, He could experience man's eternal death, but in His perfection and Holiness, He could not. II Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 1:15-20.
Sin and evil entered into Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity because of their disobedience of God. But Jesus allowed the eternal death of all mankind to enter into His being on the cross in perfect obedience to His Father. Jesus, the perfect man, died man's eternal death in man's place, but Jesus, who is God's Almighty Love, rose from the dead in victory over eternal death for the salvation of the good lives of every human. God can never fail to accomplish whatever He does. John 12:44-48; Hebrews 2:9.
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