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.
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