Job 28:1-28
Grace is God's highest form of salvation, and His lowest form happens when He resurrects His living images in all humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. But God has also established an intermediate form of salvation between the lowest and the highest forms.
God promised Abraham in Genesis 17:6-8 that He would give him and his seed the land of Canaan forever. God cannot break His promises or transfer them to another group of people. God cannot be deceptive to His people. God will keep His promise to Abraham and his seed forever.
In addition to God's promise to Abraham, God promised Aaron and Moses in Numbers 18:8; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 12:28, and Deuteronomy 33:29 that He will preserve the religion of Judaism forever. But God gave this promise to faithful Jews only; that is, those who worship God and try to live righteous lives according to God's commandments. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all faithful Jews from all of the regions of the dead to be recreated to live in the land of Canaan and to practice Judaism forever. All Jews who accept Christ as their Savior while living their first lives on the earth will be promoted to God's highest form of salvation which is a state of grace.
Ezekiel 20:33-44 records that God will regather all faithful Jews to live in Canaan and practice Judaism forever. But Ezekiel 20:37-39 records that God will purge all unfaithful and unrighteous Jews from the land of Israel and demote them to a recreated life among the Gentiles.
According to Isaiah 59:20-21 and Isaiah 60:1-22, the resurrected nation of Israel will be the only organized nation that God will allow to exist on His recreated earth. Jerusalem will be the capitol of the earth, and all the nations, as unorganized groups of people, will be required to obey all the laws that the righteous Jews will make. Israel will rule God's recreated earth, and all faithful, resurrected Jews will enjoy a higher form of God's lowest form of salvation which will be that of the recreated Gentiles. Isaiah 2:1-4.
No doubt, Job himself did not understand the implications of his prophecy in Job 28:28.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy one
Job 28:1-28
In Luke 23:34, Jesus prayed from the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Jesus prayed for every human who ever lived because the sins of all humans nailed Him to the cross. Acts 4:26-28. It cannot be possible that God, the Father, would fail to give Jesus that for which He prayed. Jesus' prayer can only mean that eventually God will save all living humans but at different levels of salvation.
Luke 20:37-38 plainly informs all readers that all humans are alive to God and that God will raise all the living from the dead. Revelation 20:5.
Many other scriptures attest to the fact that God will eventually completely separate all that He created from all influences of evil, purge all total evil from His universe, and recreate all of His original creations that have been tainted by sin. Romans 8:18-24; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 22:11-12; Daniel 12:2-3; John 5:28-29 and many others.
God has created different levels of salvation with different results for each. Jesus taught about some effects of these levels of salvation in John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24, and Luke 17:33. Those who reject Christ while living in the world do so because they are trying to save their sinful pleasures or their religious practices. But their worldly lives they are trying to save are actually their dead, sinful natures. This fact means that in the end of the world when Christ resurrects their cleansed, living souls that He created, He will dissolve their systems in order to separate their dead, sinful natures from their living souls. This separation will have the effect of destroying their former identities and personalities that they had in their lives on the earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Christ will recreate their living souls to be righteous people living on His recreated earth, but they will possess quite different identities and personalities than they had in their former lives on the earth. Christ will also recreate them to possess only the earthly righteousness that Adam and Eve had before they sinned. I Corinthians 15:40.
On the other hand, Christ taught that all those who hate their sinful lives, repent and accept Him as their Savior, will retain their identities and most of their personalities forever. God will give all persons saved by grace the eternal life of Christ and His perfect righteousness by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:17. The moment those saved by grace become born again, God will wash away the sinful natures of their souls and spirits with the blood of Christ and recreate them. I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5; II Corinthians 5:17. But God will allow them to retain their fleshly, sinful natures which, in His sanctification process, He will daily wash away with the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross as they daily repent and confess their sins. I John 1:8-9. But God will cleanse them and recreate them to live in heaven with Him in such a way as to allow them to retain their former identities and most of their former personalities forever. In other words, Christ will save their lives forever. John 12:25.
In Luke 23:34, Jesus prayed from the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Jesus prayed for every human who ever lived because the sins of all humans nailed Him to the cross. Acts 4:26-28. It cannot be possible that God, the Father, would fail to give Jesus that for which He prayed. Jesus' prayer can only mean that eventually God will save all living humans but at different levels of salvation.
Luke 20:37-38 plainly informs all readers that all humans are alive to God and that God will raise all the living from the dead. Revelation 20:5.
Many other scriptures attest to the fact that God will eventually completely separate all that He created from all influences of evil, purge all total evil from His universe, and recreate all of His original creations that have been tainted by sin. Romans 8:18-24; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 22:11-12; Daniel 12:2-3; John 5:28-29 and many others.
God has created different levels of salvation with different results for each. Jesus taught about some effects of these levels of salvation in John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24, and Luke 17:33. Those who reject Christ while living in the world do so because they are trying to save their sinful pleasures or their religious practices. But their worldly lives they are trying to save are actually their dead, sinful natures. This fact means that in the end of the world when Christ resurrects their cleansed, living souls that He created, He will dissolve their systems in order to separate their dead, sinful natures from their living souls. This separation will have the effect of destroying their former identities and personalities that they had in their lives on the earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Christ will recreate their living souls to be righteous people living on His recreated earth, but they will possess quite different identities and personalities than they had in their former lives on the earth. Christ will also recreate them to possess only the earthly righteousness that Adam and Eve had before they sinned. I Corinthians 15:40.
On the other hand, Christ taught that all those who hate their sinful lives, repent and accept Him as their Savior, will retain their identities and most of their personalities forever. God will give all persons saved by grace the eternal life of Christ and His perfect righteousness by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:17. The moment those saved by grace become born again, God will wash away the sinful natures of their souls and spirits with the blood of Christ and recreate them. I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5; II Corinthians 5:17. But God will allow them to retain their fleshly, sinful natures which, in His sanctification process, He will daily wash away with the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross as they daily repent and confess their sins. I John 1:8-9. But God will cleanse them and recreate them to live in heaven with Him in such a way as to allow them to retain their former identities and most of their former personalities forever. In other words, Christ will save their lives forever. John 12:25.
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy
Job 28:1-28
Isaiah prophesied about a general resurrection in the end of the world when God will separate all of His living humans from all dead ones. Isaiah 66:22-24. The word "worm" that Isaiah used symbolizes the total evil in all dead humans that God will burn forever in the lake of fire. Jesus used this same meaning for the word "worm" in His teaching in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48. Isaiah and Jesus' use of the word "worm" could mean that dead humans in the lake of fire will retain a tiny level of negative consciousness.
The Apostle John declared in I John 3:8 that Jesus came "to destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans whom He created. God loves the sinner but hates his sin.
I Timothy 4:10 openly declares that Christ "is the Savior of all men..." The Word of God cannot be deceptive. Therefore, in order for this verse to be true, Christ must actually save all men, especially those who believe while still in the flesh and obtain salvation by grace.
Acts 10:42, II Timothy 4:1, and I Peter 4:5 all state that a day will come when Christ will judge "the quick and the dead." This has to refer to a particular judgment which can have no connection to any of the resurrections of those saved by grace since no dead are judged in any of them. This particular judgment can only be the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. The "quick" can only be the living humans whom God raises from the regions of the dead, and the "dead" can only be the totally evil nature of humans that Christ casts into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
II Peter 3:9 assures all readers that God's will is that all humans should repent and be saved. Who can thwart God's will? If God wills that all humans come to repentance and back to faith, then they all certainly will, but at different times and at different levels of salvation. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy that a time will come when God will save all living humans not already saved by grace, and Revelation 5:11-14 records the fulfillment of these prophecies.
Isaiah prophesied about a general resurrection in the end of the world when God will separate all of His living humans from all dead ones. Isaiah 66:22-24. The word "worm" that Isaiah used symbolizes the total evil in all dead humans that God will burn forever in the lake of fire. Jesus used this same meaning for the word "worm" in His teaching in Mark 9:44, 46, and 48. Isaiah and Jesus' use of the word "worm" could mean that dead humans in the lake of fire will retain a tiny level of negative consciousness.
The Apostle John declared in I John 3:8 that Jesus came "to destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans whom He created. God loves the sinner but hates his sin.
I Timothy 4:10 openly declares that Christ "is the Savior of all men..." The Word of God cannot be deceptive. Therefore, in order for this verse to be true, Christ must actually save all men, especially those who believe while still in the flesh and obtain salvation by grace.
Acts 10:42, II Timothy 4:1, and I Peter 4:5 all state that a day will come when Christ will judge "the quick and the dead." This has to refer to a particular judgment which can have no connection to any of the resurrections of those saved by grace since no dead are judged in any of them. This particular judgment can only be the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. The "quick" can only be the living humans whom God raises from the regions of the dead, and the "dead" can only be the totally evil nature of humans that Christ casts into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
II Peter 3:9 assures all readers that God's will is that all humans should repent and be saved. Who can thwart God's will? If God wills that all humans come to repentance and back to faith, then they all certainly will, but at different times and at different levels of salvation. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy that a time will come when God will save all living humans not already saved by grace, and Revelation 5:11-14 records the fulfillment of these prophecies.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty nine
Job 28:1-28
In Acts 2:1-4, the Holy Spirit baptized the Church with the power to preach the gospel and spread Christianity to the whole world. The Church had already received the Holy Spirit to complete their salvation by grace. John 20:22. Therefore, the "cloven tongues like as of fire" that also appeared to them had to symbolize God's lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by the use of His consuming fire.
John the Baptist further explained God's lesser form of salvation by the use of His consuming fire in Luke 3:17. John taught that God "will thoroughly purge His floor." This phrase symbolizes the fact that God will completely cleanse all of His creations from all evil that has corrupted it. God will "gather the wheat into His garner." This phrase symbolizes the fact that God will recover every living soul that He ever created by separating all of them from the influence of evil, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. But the "chaff" which God will separate from the "wheat" is totally useless and symbolizes the dead and totally evil part of man's nature which God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8. Revelation 22:11-12 also recounts that God will absolutely separate all of His good creations from all that is totally evil in the end of the world.
In John 1:29, when John the Baptist first saw Jesus arrive on the scene, he declared that the Lamb of God was He "which taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans whom He created. John's phrase meant that Jesus would remove the sin and evil from all living humans, not the living humans themselves. Jesus agreed with John in John 12:47-48. Jesus cannot judge living humans to any form of eternal separation from Him because He came to save all of them. Revelation 20:5. But the Word of God will judge those who reject Christ in the end of the world because they are dead and totally evil. Revelation 20:11-15. In these verses, Christ prophesied that in the end of the world, He will effect an absolute separation of all of His living images of Himself in all humans from all of their total evil which resides in their total rejection of Him. Jesus provided a similar prophecy in John 5:28-29.
The Apostle Paul agreed with Jesus in Acts 24:15. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, the just will be resurrected in Revelation 20:5. The unjust will be judged by the Word of God in Revelation 20:11-15. In his prophecy, Paul could not have meant any of the resurrections of those saved by grace because no unjust persons are raised in any of these resurrections.
In Acts 2:1-4, the Holy Spirit baptized the Church with the power to preach the gospel and spread Christianity to the whole world. The Church had already received the Holy Spirit to complete their salvation by grace. John 20:22. Therefore, the "cloven tongues like as of fire" that also appeared to them had to symbolize God's lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by the use of His consuming fire.
John the Baptist further explained God's lesser form of salvation by the use of His consuming fire in Luke 3:17. John taught that God "will thoroughly purge His floor." This phrase symbolizes the fact that God will completely cleanse all of His creations from all evil that has corrupted it. God will "gather the wheat into His garner." This phrase symbolizes the fact that God will recover every living soul that He ever created by separating all of them from the influence of evil, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. But the "chaff" which God will separate from the "wheat" is totally useless and symbolizes the dead and totally evil part of man's nature which God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8. Revelation 22:11-12 also recounts that God will absolutely separate all of His good creations from all that is totally evil in the end of the world.
In John 1:29, when John the Baptist first saw Jesus arrive on the scene, he declared that the Lamb of God was He "which taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans whom He created. John's phrase meant that Jesus would remove the sin and evil from all living humans, not the living humans themselves. Jesus agreed with John in John 12:47-48. Jesus cannot judge living humans to any form of eternal separation from Him because He came to save all of them. Revelation 20:5. But the Word of God will judge those who reject Christ in the end of the world because they are dead and totally evil. Revelation 20:11-15. In these verses, Christ prophesied that in the end of the world, He will effect an absolute separation of all of His living images of Himself in all humans from all of their total evil which resides in their total rejection of Him. Jesus provided a similar prophecy in John 5:28-29.
The Apostle Paul agreed with Jesus in Acts 24:15. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, the just will be resurrected in Revelation 20:5. The unjust will be judged by the Word of God in Revelation 20:11-15. In his prophecy, Paul could not have meant any of the resurrections of those saved by grace because no unjust persons are raised in any of these resurrections.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty eight
Job 28:1-28
In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus informed some evil Pharisees that "the kingdom of God is within you." By this statement, Jesus could only have meant that they retained a good and living image of God within each of them even though they had given themselves to evil practices.
Luke 3:2-18 relates the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist. At first, John the Baptist preached water baptism to symbolize repentance for the remission of sins. The water symbolized the power of the Holy Spirit to daily cleanse repentant sinners. John knew that water baptism did not accomplish a complete, spiritual salvation. So when those whom he baptized asked him what they should then do, John advised them to depart from evil and to do good works.
John seemed to realize that his water baptism did not represent a complete, spiritual salvation, but it did seem to represent some form of salvation. In Luke 3:6 John said: "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." By the word "flesh," John had to have meant all humans who are alive with recreated bodies. The word "see" here means "to gaze at with awe and wonder." John the Baptist may have prophesied about the great worship service in Revelation 5:11-14 and the resurrection of the living from the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5. In this tremendous worship service, God will reveal Himself to all He has ever created, including those "under the earth;" that is, all of His living souls and spirits confined within the regions of the dead. These living souls will become so overpowered with the awesome majesty of God and His Love for them that they will all chose to repent and return to faith in the Lamb of God whom they will recognize as the only One who can save them. These same living souls God will resurrect in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
John the Baptist also taught in Luke 3:9 that a time will come when God will gather His "good fruit" from His "trees." The word "trees" symbolizes every human. The "good fruit" symbolizes the good works of all of God's living souls that He created. But John also taught that a "tree" exists within every human that bears no fruit at all. This barren "tree" symbolizes the totally evil part of every humans' nature which God will separate from His living souls in the end of the world for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8. Because John the Baptist seemed to feel that those whom he baptized would in the future receive a lesser form of salvation, he advised them to do good works so that they would receive greater rewards from God whenever this lesser form of salvation would occur. Revelation 22:11-12.
But when John the Baptist saw Jesus arrive, he immediately recognized that Jesus was the Savior who would provide a complete, spiritual salvation for all who would believe in Him because He would baptize them with the Holy Spirit. In other words, John recognized that Jesus could provide salvation by grace which is the highest form of salvation. But John also said that Jesus would "baptize with fire." By this phrase, John seemed to feel that Jesus also held the power to provide a lesser form of salvation; that is, a salvation in which He will use His consuming fire to separate His living image in all humans that He created and can never lose from their dead and totally evil natures for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:8.
In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus informed some evil Pharisees that "the kingdom of God is within you." By this statement, Jesus could only have meant that they retained a good and living image of God within each of them even though they had given themselves to evil practices.
Luke 3:2-18 relates the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist. At first, John the Baptist preached water baptism to symbolize repentance for the remission of sins. The water symbolized the power of the Holy Spirit to daily cleanse repentant sinners. John knew that water baptism did not accomplish a complete, spiritual salvation. So when those whom he baptized asked him what they should then do, John advised them to depart from evil and to do good works.
John seemed to realize that his water baptism did not represent a complete, spiritual salvation, but it did seem to represent some form of salvation. In Luke 3:6 John said: "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." By the word "flesh," John had to have meant all humans who are alive with recreated bodies. The word "see" here means "to gaze at with awe and wonder." John the Baptist may have prophesied about the great worship service in Revelation 5:11-14 and the resurrection of the living from the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5. In this tremendous worship service, God will reveal Himself to all He has ever created, including those "under the earth;" that is, all of His living souls and spirits confined within the regions of the dead. These living souls will become so overpowered with the awesome majesty of God and His Love for them that they will all chose to repent and return to faith in the Lamb of God whom they will recognize as the only One who can save them. These same living souls God will resurrect in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
John the Baptist also taught in Luke 3:9 that a time will come when God will gather His "good fruit" from His "trees." The word "trees" symbolizes every human. The "good fruit" symbolizes the good works of all of God's living souls that He created. But John also taught that a "tree" exists within every human that bears no fruit at all. This barren "tree" symbolizes the totally evil part of every humans' nature which God will separate from His living souls in the end of the world for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8. Because John the Baptist seemed to feel that those whom he baptized would in the future receive a lesser form of salvation, he advised them to do good works so that they would receive greater rewards from God whenever this lesser form of salvation would occur. Revelation 22:11-12.
But when John the Baptist saw Jesus arrive, he immediately recognized that Jesus was the Savior who would provide a complete, spiritual salvation for all who would believe in Him because He would baptize them with the Holy Spirit. In other words, John recognized that Jesus could provide salvation by grace which is the highest form of salvation. But John also said that Jesus would "baptize with fire." By this phrase, John seemed to feel that Jesus also held the power to provide a lesser form of salvation; that is, a salvation in which He will use His consuming fire to separate His living image in all humans that He created and can never lose from their dead and totally evil natures for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:8.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty seven
Job 28:1-28
Jesus taught in several places in the gospels that God will save all sinners from their punishments in the regions of death. In Luke 12:54-59, Jesus taught people whom He referred to as hypocrites because they did not try to understand His message. Jesus gave these unbelievers a little parable about how they must agree with their adversary while they had time or the judge would cast them into prison. Jesus used the word "adversary" to symbolize Himself since unbelievers consider Jesus' message of grace to be irrelevant to them. Jesus used the word "agree" to mean that unbelievers must believe in Him in order to avoid the sentence of the judge. Jesus used the word "prison" to symbolize the place of outer darkness, or the bottomless pit, as recorded in Revelation 20:3 and 7. But Jesus then taught these unbelievers that they would eventually depart from this prison after they had endured the full punishment for their sins. But since unbelief is an eternal evil worthy only of eternal death, Jesus had to have meant that their living souls whom He had created would emerge from the regions of death after their return to faith, and He had cleansed them of all their sins.
In Luke 14:12-14, Jesus spoke directly to an evil Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner for the sole purpose of trying to trap Jesus into saying something that he could use for a blasphemy charge. Jesus advised this evil Pharisee to do some good works in his life for which God would bless him. Jesus further informed him that God would reward him "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus had to have meant that this evil Pharisee had a part of him that was "just;" that is, his living image of God that Jesus had created. Jesus also had to have meant that God would effect a general resurrection of all the just and unjust in the end of the world. Jesus also could not have meant any of the resurrections of those saved by grace since this Pharisee was an unbeliever. Jesus had to have also meant that in the end of the world, God will dissolve the systems of all sinners within the regions of the dead, completely separate their good and living images that Jesus called "the just" from their totally evil natures, called the dead, whom God will cast into the lake of fire. Jesus referred directly to this general resurrection and judgment in John 5:28-29. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
Jesus also taught this evil Pharisee that he would receive a positive reward for his good works after his resurrection. God provides only positive rewards for living persons, not lesser punishments for living persons in an eternal hell. Matthew 16:27; Revelation 22:12. No verse in the Bible (KJB) states that God casts living persons into the lake of fire, only dead ones. A lesser punishment in an eternal hell could not possibly be any kind of reward, especially from a positive Creator. God possesses Infinite Wisdom which means God certainly has to be capable of devising a plan to rescue His entire creation, including His living images in every person, from utter destruction despite the weakness in their free will that causes them to sin and their temporary loss of faith. God will one day cause the measure of faith that He has put into every living image of Him still in their graves to fully return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. Revelation 5:13; Revelation 22:11-12.
These are the just that God will resurrect to a lesser form of salvation in that He will recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God said: "Behold, I make all things new." This statement can only mean that God will cleanse and recreate everything He has ever created that has been tainted by the influence of evil. Romans 12:3; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 5:13.
Jesus taught in several places in the gospels that God will save all sinners from their punishments in the regions of death. In Luke 12:54-59, Jesus taught people whom He referred to as hypocrites because they did not try to understand His message. Jesus gave these unbelievers a little parable about how they must agree with their adversary while they had time or the judge would cast them into prison. Jesus used the word "adversary" to symbolize Himself since unbelievers consider Jesus' message of grace to be irrelevant to them. Jesus used the word "agree" to mean that unbelievers must believe in Him in order to avoid the sentence of the judge. Jesus used the word "prison" to symbolize the place of outer darkness, or the bottomless pit, as recorded in Revelation 20:3 and 7. But Jesus then taught these unbelievers that they would eventually depart from this prison after they had endured the full punishment for their sins. But since unbelief is an eternal evil worthy only of eternal death, Jesus had to have meant that their living souls whom He had created would emerge from the regions of death after their return to faith, and He had cleansed them of all their sins.
In Luke 14:12-14, Jesus spoke directly to an evil Pharisee who had invited Him to dinner for the sole purpose of trying to trap Jesus into saying something that he could use for a blasphemy charge. Jesus advised this evil Pharisee to do some good works in his life for which God would bless him. Jesus further informed him that God would reward him "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus had to have meant that this evil Pharisee had a part of him that was "just;" that is, his living image of God that Jesus had created. Jesus also had to have meant that God would effect a general resurrection of all the just and unjust in the end of the world. Jesus also could not have meant any of the resurrections of those saved by grace since this Pharisee was an unbeliever. Jesus had to have also meant that in the end of the world, God will dissolve the systems of all sinners within the regions of the dead, completely separate their good and living images that Jesus called "the just" from their totally evil natures, called the dead, whom God will cast into the lake of fire. Jesus referred directly to this general resurrection and judgment in John 5:28-29. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
Jesus also taught this evil Pharisee that he would receive a positive reward for his good works after his resurrection. God provides only positive rewards for living persons, not lesser punishments for living persons in an eternal hell. Matthew 16:27; Revelation 22:12. No verse in the Bible (KJB) states that God casts living persons into the lake of fire, only dead ones. A lesser punishment in an eternal hell could not possibly be any kind of reward, especially from a positive Creator. God possesses Infinite Wisdom which means God certainly has to be capable of devising a plan to rescue His entire creation, including His living images in every person, from utter destruction despite the weakness in their free will that causes them to sin and their temporary loss of faith. God will one day cause the measure of faith that He has put into every living image of Him still in their graves to fully return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. Revelation 5:13; Revelation 22:11-12.
These are the just that God will resurrect to a lesser form of salvation in that He will recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God said: "Behold, I make all things new." This statement can only mean that God will cleanse and recreate everything He has ever created that has been tainted by the influence of evil. Romans 12:3; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 5:13.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty six
Job 28:1-28
Since God has given to every person a measure of faith, He has a plan to provide a lower form of salvation for every living image of God in every human not saved by grace. God will one day reactivate the faith of all living humans whom God has punished by His judgment following their physical deaths when He consigns them to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies about a tremendous worship service in which all that God ever created, including all His living humans within the regions of the dead, will return to faith in God the Lamb and submit to the Savior of the world. John 12:47. God's Word also prophesies about this lower form of salvation of the just in Isaiah 45:21-24, Philippians 2:9-11, and in John 5:28-29.
God will use His consuming fire, which also contains the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, to cleanse and forgive all living humans within the regions of the dead so that God can recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolize God's power to cleanse sins by the use of His consuming fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides an example of how God can purge sin by the use of His consuming fire.
When Jesus walked the earth, He was both God and man in His physical form. Jesus also fully possessed the Holy Spirit who was also both God and a perfect human spirit at the same time. John 3:34. All living humans must suffer an eternal spiritual death and separation from God if God did not intervene to save them. Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, including His image that He put into every human. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus bore the sins of the whole world on the cross and by the descent of His Spirit into hell. I John 2:2; John 1:29. Those who obtain salvation by grace, Christ saved while on His cross, but His Spirit had to have left the rest of the sins of mankind behind Him in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. This fact can only mean that Christ will save all of humanity not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-14.
Jesus suffered the eternal, spiritual deaths of all living humans in their place. Hebrews 2:9. Isaiah 53:4 and Matthew 8:17 teach that Jesus took our infirmities on Himself, which includes our sins. Since man's sins cause eternal death and Christ suffered that eternal death in man's place, then in some way, the Spirit of Christ must eternally suffer for man's salvation. Eternal God cannot die, but the perfect human Spirit of Christ could suffer in man's place for eternity. All that was required for man's eternal salvation was that a perfect human die in their place. In other words, the innocent must suffer to let the guilty go free. I Peter 3:18. These facts can only mean that the perfect, human Spirit of Christ has become the lake of fire which eternally engulfs and neutralizes the eternal deaths of all mankind. Hebrews 12:29. Note that this verse does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire.
Since God has given to every person a measure of faith, He has a plan to provide a lower form of salvation for every living image of God in every human not saved by grace. God will one day reactivate the faith of all living humans whom God has punished by His judgment following their physical deaths when He consigns them to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies about a tremendous worship service in which all that God ever created, including all His living humans within the regions of the dead, will return to faith in God the Lamb and submit to the Savior of the world. John 12:47. God's Word also prophesies about this lower form of salvation of the just in Isaiah 45:21-24, Philippians 2:9-11, and in John 5:28-29.
God will use His consuming fire, which also contains the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, to cleanse and forgive all living humans within the regions of the dead so that God can recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolize God's power to cleanse sins by the use of His consuming fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides an example of how God can purge sin by the use of His consuming fire.
When Jesus walked the earth, He was both God and man in His physical form. Jesus also fully possessed the Holy Spirit who was also both God and a perfect human spirit at the same time. John 3:34. All living humans must suffer an eternal spiritual death and separation from God if God did not intervene to save them. Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, including His image that He put into every human. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus bore the sins of the whole world on the cross and by the descent of His Spirit into hell. I John 2:2; John 1:29. Those who obtain salvation by grace, Christ saved while on His cross, but His Spirit had to have left the rest of the sins of mankind behind Him in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. This fact can only mean that Christ will save all of humanity not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-14.
Jesus suffered the eternal, spiritual deaths of all living humans in their place. Hebrews 2:9. Isaiah 53:4 and Matthew 8:17 teach that Jesus took our infirmities on Himself, which includes our sins. Since man's sins cause eternal death and Christ suffered that eternal death in man's place, then in some way, the Spirit of Christ must eternally suffer for man's salvation. Eternal God cannot die, but the perfect human Spirit of Christ could suffer in man's place for eternity. All that was required for man's eternal salvation was that a perfect human die in their place. In other words, the innocent must suffer to let the guilty go free. I Peter 3:18. These facts can only mean that the perfect, human Spirit of Christ has become the lake of fire which eternally engulfs and neutralizes the eternal deaths of all mankind. Hebrews 12:29. Note that this verse does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. It clearly states that He is a consuming fire.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part sixty five
Job 28:1-28
In Job 28:1-11, God taught Job that God can see and bring to light every good system that He has ever created that has been engulfed by darkness and the shadow of death. Whenever the Bible uses the word "darkness" or the phrase "shadow of death," it usually means the regions of evil, such as the bottomless pit and the fires of hell, that exert a detrimental influence over all of God's good creations. Jesus often referred to the evil that abides in darkness and influences living humans on the earth. John 3:19-20. The earth which grows good bread also conceals the fires of hell beneath. But God holds the Almighty Power to extract all of His good creations from all the influences of evil, cleanse it all by the use of His consuming fire, and recreate the heaven and the earth to be permanently free from all influences of evil. Jesus taught in John 3:17 that He did not come "to condemn the world," meaning all mankind, but to save the world. Since Almighty God can never fail to accomplish whatever He starts to do, this phrase can only mean that God will never condemn the world but will provide a way to save all of humanity. John 12:47; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 8:18-23; II Peter 3:10-13; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 28:12-28, God taught Job that Wisdom happens to be far more valuable than anything He has, and only mankind can receive it. In Proverbs, Solomon wrote that Wisdom only comes from God. God, the Father, happens to be the Almighty Power of an Infinite Consciousness, and Christ happens to be the Infinite Word of that Infinite Consciousness. John 1:1. The Holy Spirit happens to be the absolute unity of God's Infinite Reality which can only be everywhere in a positive universe. In other words, Jesus is the Infinite Contents of God's Infinite Consciousness. This fact can only mean that all Wisdom resides in Christ. Job 28:28 provides the key to understand this part of Job's speech. God gives Wisdom, which is the Mind of Christ, to everyone who believes in Him and departs from evil. The phrase "the fear of the Lord" indirectly indicates that one must trust in the Lord's mercy and grace in order to avoid His severe punishments for practicing evil. I Corinthians 2:16; Luke 12:5.
God always cleanses and forgives sin when a living person repents and submits himself to God's grace and mercy. God never forgives evil because it never repents but remains in a state of total rebellion against God. God will cleanse and forgive even the most cruel and horrible acts of humans when they repent and submit to God. This happens because repentance and faith triggers the compassion of God and causes Him to yearn to be reconciled with lost humans whom He loves so much. God recognizes that weakness in the submissive, living human caused him to commit such terrible sins, and their renewed faith allows God to cleanse and forgive them, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by the use of His consuming fire. However, God seldom saves by His grace lost humans who have yielded to the control of evil. Of all the evil Pharisees, the Bible records that God saved only Saul of Tarsus by His grace. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus were saved by grace, but the Bible seems to indicate that they were already good men who never committed themselves to evil. Even today, very few evil humans ever get saved by God's grace.
The Bible (KJB) clearly teaches in four places that: "The just shall live by faith." Romans 1:17. But Romans 12:3 teaches that God has given to every person "the measure of faith." This truth can only mean that God put faith into His living image that He created and put into every human, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Humans saved by grace through faith receive God's highest form of salvation because God gives them the eternal life and righteousness of Christ by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. God also preserves forever the same identity and most of the personality of every human saved by grace. John 12:24-26.
In Job 28:1-11, God taught Job that God can see and bring to light every good system that He has ever created that has been engulfed by darkness and the shadow of death. Whenever the Bible uses the word "darkness" or the phrase "shadow of death," it usually means the regions of evil, such as the bottomless pit and the fires of hell, that exert a detrimental influence over all of God's good creations. Jesus often referred to the evil that abides in darkness and influences living humans on the earth. John 3:19-20. The earth which grows good bread also conceals the fires of hell beneath. But God holds the Almighty Power to extract all of His good creations from all the influences of evil, cleanse it all by the use of His consuming fire, and recreate the heaven and the earth to be permanently free from all influences of evil. Jesus taught in John 3:17 that He did not come "to condemn the world," meaning all mankind, but to save the world. Since Almighty God can never fail to accomplish whatever He starts to do, this phrase can only mean that God will never condemn the world but will provide a way to save all of humanity. John 12:47; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 8:18-23; II Peter 3:10-13; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 28:12-28, God taught Job that Wisdom happens to be far more valuable than anything He has, and only mankind can receive it. In Proverbs, Solomon wrote that Wisdom only comes from God. God, the Father, happens to be the Almighty Power of an Infinite Consciousness, and Christ happens to be the Infinite Word of that Infinite Consciousness. John 1:1. The Holy Spirit happens to be the absolute unity of God's Infinite Reality which can only be everywhere in a positive universe. In other words, Jesus is the Infinite Contents of God's Infinite Consciousness. This fact can only mean that all Wisdom resides in Christ. Job 28:28 provides the key to understand this part of Job's speech. God gives Wisdom, which is the Mind of Christ, to everyone who believes in Him and departs from evil. The phrase "the fear of the Lord" indirectly indicates that one must trust in the Lord's mercy and grace in order to avoid His severe punishments for practicing evil. I Corinthians 2:16; Luke 12:5.
God always cleanses and forgives sin when a living person repents and submits himself to God's grace and mercy. God never forgives evil because it never repents but remains in a state of total rebellion against God. God will cleanse and forgive even the most cruel and horrible acts of humans when they repent and submit to God. This happens because repentance and faith triggers the compassion of God and causes Him to yearn to be reconciled with lost humans whom He loves so much. God recognizes that weakness in the submissive, living human caused him to commit such terrible sins, and their renewed faith allows God to cleanse and forgive them, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by the use of His consuming fire. However, God seldom saves by His grace lost humans who have yielded to the control of evil. Of all the evil Pharisees, the Bible records that God saved only Saul of Tarsus by His grace. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus were saved by grace, but the Bible seems to indicate that they were already good men who never committed themselves to evil. Even today, very few evil humans ever get saved by God's grace.
The Bible (KJB) clearly teaches in four places that: "The just shall live by faith." Romans 1:17. But Romans 12:3 teaches that God has given to every person "the measure of faith." This truth can only mean that God put faith into His living image that He created and put into every human, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Humans saved by grace through faith receive God's highest form of salvation because God gives them the eternal life and righteousness of Christ by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. God also preserves forever the same identity and most of the personality of every human saved by grace. John 12:24-26.
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