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.
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