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.