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.
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