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.
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