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.