Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy two

                                   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.