Job 30:1-31
Satan has gained some control over evil and its annulment powers. Satan seeks to use evil to annul God and become the god of his own universe. Satan has no desire to annul himself.
Satan caused evil to become a part of every humans' being which influenced the good and living image of God in them to become filthy with sin. Isaiah 64:6. But God devised a plan whereby He would be able to cleanse every living human from their sin and separate them from their total evil and by the use of their own free will. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:20; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38.
In their sinful condition, every living human being became doomed to be separated from God forever in eternal spiritual death. When God came looking for Adam and Eve after they hid themselves because of their sins, they were already spiritually dead. But God came to earth in Love to suffer man's sin and eternal spiritual death in the place of every human. Since Christ was sinless and perfect, spiritual death could not hold Him within the regions of the dead, so He rose from the dead to give spiritual life back to every human. A strict reading of John 12:47 can only mean that Christ cannot fail to do exactly that which He said He would do; that is, save the world, meaning all humanity. Hebrews 2:9.
God gives back His spiritual life to every human in different ways. Some humans who read or hear the gospel choose to repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. These believers receive God's highest form of salvation which is salvation by grace. God cleanses and recreates their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh and gives them the very righteousness of Christ Himself which makes them perfect and fit for God to accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
Following their physical deaths, Christ will consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of the dead because their living souls and spirits will still be filthy with sin. Revelation 20:13 informs us that three different regions of the dead exist which are the sea, death, and hell. All three are hellish places, but Christ will probably consign those who led moral lives, but were not saved by grace, to the lesser place of punishment called the sea. Christ will probably consign those who led immoral lives to the greater hellish place called death or the bottomless pit. Christ will also consign those who led evil lives to the worst place that He created for the Devil and his angels called hell. Matthew 26:41. In the end of the world, Christ will cast both death and hell into the lake of fire which will merge them and cause them to become the everlasting abode of all separated total evil which is the same as spiritual death. Revelation 20:14; I Corinthians 15:26. Christ will recover and recreate His living images from all humans within all three of the regions of death. I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Humans who deliberately choose to lead evil lives always know that they are evil. By their words and actions, they always betray the fact that they know they are evil. But even the worst evil humans still retain some goodness and faith within their living souls that God created. Genesis 1:31. God will not fail to cause even these small living souls and spirits to repent of their own free will so that He can recover their lives for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5. God created all things. Revelation 4:11. Therefore, the "all things" that God "makes new" in Revelation 21:5 can only be the same things He created in Genesis 1:31 and which He can never lose according to Ecclesiastes 3:14 and Romans 11:36. Colossians 1:15-20.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty one
Job 30:1-31
Evil entered into God's creations with the rebellion of Lucifer. Such a condition would cause suffering and doubt about God's Love forever if God did nothing about it. Such a condition would also call God's Love for His creations into question because all those who remained loyal to God would continue forever to wonder why God did not do something to get rid of evil. God also could not ban evil from His creations with a summary command because, in His innocence, He did not know how it got into His universe, and also such a summary command would leave His Love untested. Those who contend that if God is Almighty, then He should be able to ban evil from His universe without the need for suffering or the test of His Love, forget that God is also Holy. God's Holiness constrains Him to be creative in everything He does. In other words, God must be careful to get what He does right. If there were any chance that that which God does would make conditions worse instead of better, then God cannot do it.
God discovered that evil came from the bottomless pit, but He did not know how it wormed its way into His creations using the cloak of darkness which He had created in innocence. God had to devise a plan whereby He could use His Love to completely defeat evil, but also He could ban its subtle entrance into His created systems forever.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God knew nothing about evil until after Lucifer had rebelled. God discovered that evil emanates from negative consciousnesses within the bottomless pit which His Word calls devils. God's positive consciousness came to understand that chaotic, negative consciousnesses would have to be the opposite of creative consciousness; that is, it would seek only to destroy by annihilation all creative systems that it may touch. Even though negative consciousness cannot be creative, even its very existence would continuously seek to annul itself since existence itself has to be somewhat positive. This condition means that in some mysterious way which no positive consciousness can ever hope to understand, not even God's, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8. Science has discovered that the universe holds a mathematical principle that both exists and nonexists at the same time that it calls virtual particles. This principle proves that such a condition is possible even though no one can understand it.
God gave the gift of free will to Lucifer so that he would have the liberty to create whatever good systems he desired. True love seeks to liberate, not control. God had no idea that Lucifer could misuse God's gift to choose to introduce evil into God's creations. One aspect of the criminal mind is that it often most harms those who try to be good to it.
God knew that He had to devise a plan to permanently defeat and ban all evil from all of His creations. By the use of His Omnipotent Love, He had to prove that the weakness in free will that allowed evil to come into His creations would never be able to annul His Love. God created a good system called the human race and deliberately gave it free will. Satan thought that God had made a huge mistake in doing this. Satan thought he could use that mistake to introduce an evil into man's being that would eventually become so vile in man that it would annul man's faith that God had put into His image in man, and thereby annul God's Love for man since God hates evil. Romans 12:3. In such a case, should Satan prove that God's Love can fail, he would thereby gain an advantage over God which would allow him to eventually murder God and gain control of God's good ideas so that he could misuse them to invent a universe based on evil systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Satan revealed his vile plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
Evil entered into God's creations with the rebellion of Lucifer. Such a condition would cause suffering and doubt about God's Love forever if God did nothing about it. Such a condition would also call God's Love for His creations into question because all those who remained loyal to God would continue forever to wonder why God did not do something to get rid of evil. God also could not ban evil from His creations with a summary command because, in His innocence, He did not know how it got into His universe, and also such a summary command would leave His Love untested. Those who contend that if God is Almighty, then He should be able to ban evil from His universe without the need for suffering or the test of His Love, forget that God is also Holy. God's Holiness constrains Him to be creative in everything He does. In other words, God must be careful to get what He does right. If there were any chance that that which God does would make conditions worse instead of better, then God cannot do it.
God discovered that evil came from the bottomless pit, but He did not know how it wormed its way into His creations using the cloak of darkness which He had created in innocence. God had to devise a plan whereby He could use His Love to completely defeat evil, but also He could ban its subtle entrance into His created systems forever.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God knew nothing about evil until after Lucifer had rebelled. God discovered that evil emanates from negative consciousnesses within the bottomless pit which His Word calls devils. God's positive consciousness came to understand that chaotic, negative consciousnesses would have to be the opposite of creative consciousness; that is, it would seek only to destroy by annihilation all creative systems that it may touch. Even though negative consciousness cannot be creative, even its very existence would continuously seek to annul itself since existence itself has to be somewhat positive. This condition means that in some mysterious way which no positive consciousness can ever hope to understand, not even God's, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8. Science has discovered that the universe holds a mathematical principle that both exists and nonexists at the same time that it calls virtual particles. This principle proves that such a condition is possible even though no one can understand it.
God gave the gift of free will to Lucifer so that he would have the liberty to create whatever good systems he desired. True love seeks to liberate, not control. God had no idea that Lucifer could misuse God's gift to choose to introduce evil into God's creations. One aspect of the criminal mind is that it often most harms those who try to be good to it.
God knew that He had to devise a plan to permanently defeat and ban all evil from all of His creations. By the use of His Omnipotent Love, He had to prove that the weakness in free will that allowed evil to come into His creations would never be able to annul His Love. God created a good system called the human race and deliberately gave it free will. Satan thought that God had made a huge mistake in doing this. Satan thought he could use that mistake to introduce an evil into man's being that would eventually become so vile in man that it would annul man's faith that God had put into His image in man, and thereby annul God's Love for man since God hates evil. Romans 12:3. In such a case, should Satan prove that God's Love can fail, he would thereby gain an advantage over God which would allow him to eventually murder God and gain control of God's good ideas so that he could misuse them to invent a universe based on evil systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Satan revealed his vile plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty
Job 30:1-31
Only the Church will become the Bride of Christ. All of the Old Testament and Tribulation saints saved by grace will have different roles to play in their eternal futures in heaven.
God cannot accept the souls and spirits of living humans not saved by grace into heaven because when they physically die they will still be stained by the filthiness of sin and evil. God will be able to accept the souls and spirits of all spiritual believers into heaven following their physical deaths because He will have already thoroughly cleansed them of all sin and evil by the shed blood of Christ, will have forgiven them, and will have given them the perfect righteousness of Christ by which God can accept them to live with Him in heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
God will dissolve the systems of spiritual believers in such a way as to allow them to retain their identities and most of their personalities forever. God will dissolve the systems of all living humans within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire which will also contain the shed blood and water of Christ. But God will not recreate their same identities and personalities because they will have become excessively marred by sin and evil. God will use the goodness still left in their living souls and spirits to recreate different individual humans to live on His recreated earth. But some of these living humans who led good lives but did not get saved by grace may retain some of their former identities and personalities. John 12:25.
In Job 30:25-31, Job grieved for his suffering, and he could not understand why God had reduced him to such misery when he had only tried to do good in his life. Job's condition symbolizes the fact that God has caused the entire human race to suffer to some extent but for a good reason. God had to allow even the most horrible and cruel suffering of humanity in order to prove that His Love for His living image that He created and put into man can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Satan discovered that he could exploit the free will that God had given man to cause his downfall into evil which would also cause humans to sin. This downfall caused man to be in danger of eternal spiritual separation from God. But God had created man to be good and faith was a part of that goodness. Romans 12:3. God devised a plan whereby the faith that He had put into every human would someday cause every human to freely choose to repent and cry out for reconciliation with God because of the sacrificial suffering of His Son in their place to remove their sin and evil which would cause their eternal spiritual deaths, some saved by grace through faith, and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. In this way, God will prove that His Love can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5.
Only the Church will become the Bride of Christ. All of the Old Testament and Tribulation saints saved by grace will have different roles to play in their eternal futures in heaven.
God cannot accept the souls and spirits of living humans not saved by grace into heaven because when they physically die they will still be stained by the filthiness of sin and evil. God will be able to accept the souls and spirits of all spiritual believers into heaven following their physical deaths because He will have already thoroughly cleansed them of all sin and evil by the shed blood of Christ, will have forgiven them, and will have given them the perfect righteousness of Christ by which God can accept them to live with Him in heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
God will dissolve the systems of spiritual believers in such a way as to allow them to retain their identities and most of their personalities forever. God will dissolve the systems of all living humans within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire which will also contain the shed blood and water of Christ. But God will not recreate their same identities and personalities because they will have become excessively marred by sin and evil. God will use the goodness still left in their living souls and spirits to recreate different individual humans to live on His recreated earth. But some of these living humans who led good lives but did not get saved by grace may retain some of their former identities and personalities. John 12:25.
In Job 30:25-31, Job grieved for his suffering, and he could not understand why God had reduced him to such misery when he had only tried to do good in his life. Job's condition symbolizes the fact that God has caused the entire human race to suffer to some extent but for a good reason. God had to allow even the most horrible and cruel suffering of humanity in order to prove that His Love for His living image that He created and put into man can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Satan discovered that he could exploit the free will that God had given man to cause his downfall into evil which would also cause humans to sin. This downfall caused man to be in danger of eternal spiritual separation from God. But God had created man to be good and faith was a part of that goodness. Romans 12:3. God devised a plan whereby the faith that He had put into every human would someday cause every human to freely choose to repent and cry out for reconciliation with God because of the sacrificial suffering of His Son in their place to remove their sin and evil which would cause their eternal spiritual deaths, some saved by grace through faith, and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. In this way, God will prove that His Love can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy nine
Job 30:1-31
In Job 30:22, God revealed to Job that He will also dissolve his system but in a much different way than how He will dissolve the systems of those within the regions of the dead. Job lauded God for lifting him up and causing him to ride on the wind. Job's words constitute an apt, symbolic description of how God dissolves the systems of those who become saved by grace. The "wind" symbolizes the Holy Spirit who saves the believers in Christ while they are still in the flesh by washing their souls and spirits clean of all sin and evil with the blood of Christ and recreating them. In this way, God separates the sin and evil within their inner beings from them so that He can recreate their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh. In Job's case, God gave him the Holy Spirit when he believed in Christ, but Christ did not wash him inside with His blood and water until He visited him in Paradise and preached the gospel to him, and all the Old Testament saints, following His death on the cross. God also recreated Job's body to be fit for heaven, and translated him to heaven following Jesus' resurrection. Ephesians 4:8-10; Matthew 27:52-53. In the case of Church Age saints, the Holy Spirit immediately washes their souls and spirits clean the moment they repent and believe in Christ. The believer who experiences this spiritual rebirth will immediately know that God has cleansed his inner being and changed him, and he will know the joy and peace that the Holy Spirit gives. But God allows Church Age believers to retain their fleshly sinful nature so that they can remain in the world, but He will recreate their bodies to be fit for heaven at the Rapture of the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 2:4-6.
Spiritual believers will not be able to sin in their recreated souls and spirits while still alive in the flesh, but their fleshly natures will still be able to sin, or even commit evil acts, while still in the flesh in the world. I John 1:7-8; I John 3:9. But God will cleanse and forgive the fleshly sins of spiritual believers with the water that Jesus shed on the cross as they daily confess and repent of them. I John 1:9. Believers saved by grace can never lose their heavenly salvation because God never rescinds His promises. But at the Rapture of the Church, God will cast spiritual believers who have refused to daily repent into the bottomless pit until their anguish and remorse cause them to repent of all their fleshly sins, and even evil acts. After they have fully repented, God will forgive them and bring them out of that region of death to restore them to His cleansed Church in heaven. Matthew 18:32-35; Matthew 24:48-51; Ephesians 5:26-27. God will also severely punish spiritual believers who commit evil acts even after they repent of them. Hebrews 12:5-8.
All spiritual believers constitute the Body of Christ in the Church Age which is His universal Church. God has promised that He will thoroughly cleanse His entire Church by washing it in the water of His Word to make it fit to be His Bride in heaven. Only the Church will be the Bride of Christ. Christ can never lose a single member of His Church. Ephesians 4:4-6; Ephesians 5:25-27; John 10:27-30.
Christ will perfect His Church at the Rapture. Christ will eventually recreate His entire Church in body, soul, and spirit to be fit to live with Him in heaven forever. I Thessalonians 4:13-18. However, at the Rapture, Christ will have to cast backsliders into the bottomless pit until their remorse and anguish cause them to repent of all their fleshly sins and evil acts. Matthew 24:48-51; Matthew 18:34. God never fails to complete whatever He creates. Philippians 1:6. Eventually, all backsliders will repent, and Christ will thoroughly cleanse them, forgive them, and restore them fit to be members of His Bride at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Revelation 19:7-9.
In Job 30:22, God revealed to Job that He will also dissolve his system but in a much different way than how He will dissolve the systems of those within the regions of the dead. Job lauded God for lifting him up and causing him to ride on the wind. Job's words constitute an apt, symbolic description of how God dissolves the systems of those who become saved by grace. The "wind" symbolizes the Holy Spirit who saves the believers in Christ while they are still in the flesh by washing their souls and spirits clean of all sin and evil with the blood of Christ and recreating them. In this way, God separates the sin and evil within their inner beings from them so that He can recreate their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh. In Job's case, God gave him the Holy Spirit when he believed in Christ, but Christ did not wash him inside with His blood and water until He visited him in Paradise and preached the gospel to him, and all the Old Testament saints, following His death on the cross. God also recreated Job's body to be fit for heaven, and translated him to heaven following Jesus' resurrection. Ephesians 4:8-10; Matthew 27:52-53. In the case of Church Age saints, the Holy Spirit immediately washes their souls and spirits clean the moment they repent and believe in Christ. The believer who experiences this spiritual rebirth will immediately know that God has cleansed his inner being and changed him, and he will know the joy and peace that the Holy Spirit gives. But God allows Church Age believers to retain their fleshly sinful nature so that they can remain in the world, but He will recreate their bodies to be fit for heaven at the Rapture of the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 2:4-6.
Spiritual believers will not be able to sin in their recreated souls and spirits while still alive in the flesh, but their fleshly natures will still be able to sin, or even commit evil acts, while still in the flesh in the world. I John 1:7-8; I John 3:9. But God will cleanse and forgive the fleshly sins of spiritual believers with the water that Jesus shed on the cross as they daily confess and repent of them. I John 1:9. Believers saved by grace can never lose their heavenly salvation because God never rescinds His promises. But at the Rapture of the Church, God will cast spiritual believers who have refused to daily repent into the bottomless pit until their anguish and remorse cause them to repent of all their fleshly sins, and even evil acts. After they have fully repented, God will forgive them and bring them out of that region of death to restore them to His cleansed Church in heaven. Matthew 18:32-35; Matthew 24:48-51; Ephesians 5:26-27. God will also severely punish spiritual believers who commit evil acts even after they repent of them. Hebrews 12:5-8.
All spiritual believers constitute the Body of Christ in the Church Age which is His universal Church. God has promised that He will thoroughly cleanse His entire Church by washing it in the water of His Word to make it fit to be His Bride in heaven. Only the Church will be the Bride of Christ. Christ can never lose a single member of His Church. Ephesians 4:4-6; Ephesians 5:25-27; John 10:27-30.
Christ will perfect His Church at the Rapture. Christ will eventually recreate His entire Church in body, soul, and spirit to be fit to live with Him in heaven forever. I Thessalonians 4:13-18. However, at the Rapture, Christ will have to cast backsliders into the bottomless pit until their remorse and anguish cause them to repent of all their fleshly sins and evil acts. Matthew 24:48-51; Matthew 18:34. God never fails to complete whatever He creates. Philippians 1:6. Eventually, all backsliders will repent, and Christ will thoroughly cleanse them, forgive them, and restore them fit to be members of His Bride at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Revelation 19:7-9.
Monday, September 23, 2019
A Scientific Unrealized Admission
Scientists state that before the big bang that started the universe, time and space did not exist. Time and space only began with the big bang. But the only way they could know that time and space began with the big bang is by the use of their consciousnesses. This fact makes consciousness absolutely necessary for the establishment of reality.
Scientists also cannot say that before the big bang only nothing existed because the idea of nothing is necessary as an idea to consciousness so that consciousness can tell the difference between something and nothing. The opposites of something and nothing form the basis of all reality. Without the idea of nothing and the appearance of something, space and time cannot exist.
All this means that no difference between something and nothing could have existed before the big bang because the idea of nothing could not have existed.
But then what did exist before the big bang? The answer can only be absolute nothingness; that is, no difference whatsoever between something and nothing. Whatever existed both existed and nonexisted at the same time. Scientists have discovered a particle that both exists and nonexists at the same time called a virtual particle. All of this can only mean that the only entity that can separate the awareness of something from the useful idea of nothing is consciousness.
Experiments in quantum mechanics have demonstrated that at the edge of consciousness particles exist as a wave function; that is, they ride the line between existence and nonexistence. Such experiments have further shown that only consciousness can collapse the wave function to a particle that is real in time and space. Since there could have been no difference between existence and nonexistence before the big bang, then a Consciousness had to exist to collapse its wave function to matter and expand the universe into time and space.
Therefore, a Consciousness had to exist at the start of the big bang to establish reality and the existence of time and space. Such a Consciousness would have to possess infinite knowledge and power in order to be able to establish universal reality. That part of Isaiah 40:22 that states "...that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain...," can only refer to the expansion of the universe.
The Bible consistently refers to evil as being equal to vanity which means both emptiness and excessive pride. Excessive pride is the source of all sin. Therefore, evil had to have existed and nonexisted before the big bang and somehow gained entrance into God's good creations from the chaos called absolute nothingness. For this reason, reality contains elements of chaos and evil.
Scientists also cannot say that before the big bang only nothing existed because the idea of nothing is necessary as an idea to consciousness so that consciousness can tell the difference between something and nothing. The opposites of something and nothing form the basis of all reality. Without the idea of nothing and the appearance of something, space and time cannot exist.
All this means that no difference between something and nothing could have existed before the big bang because the idea of nothing could not have existed.
But then what did exist before the big bang? The answer can only be absolute nothingness; that is, no difference whatsoever between something and nothing. Whatever existed both existed and nonexisted at the same time. Scientists have discovered a particle that both exists and nonexists at the same time called a virtual particle. All of this can only mean that the only entity that can separate the awareness of something from the useful idea of nothing is consciousness.
Experiments in quantum mechanics have demonstrated that at the edge of consciousness particles exist as a wave function; that is, they ride the line between existence and nonexistence. Such experiments have further shown that only consciousness can collapse the wave function to a particle that is real in time and space. Since there could have been no difference between existence and nonexistence before the big bang, then a Consciousness had to exist to collapse its wave function to matter and expand the universe into time and space.
Therefore, a Consciousness had to exist at the start of the big bang to establish reality and the existence of time and space. Such a Consciousness would have to possess infinite knowledge and power in order to be able to establish universal reality. That part of Isaiah 40:22 that states "...that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain...," can only refer to the expansion of the universe.
The Bible consistently refers to evil as being equal to vanity which means both emptiness and excessive pride. Excessive pride is the source of all sin. Therefore, evil had to have existed and nonexisted before the big bang and somehow gained entrance into God's good creations from the chaos called absolute nothingness. For this reason, reality contains elements of chaos and evil.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy eight
Job 30:1-31
In Job 30:1-18, Job complained that even the evil criminals that the good people of his community had driven into the wilderness now held him in derision. Job felt despair because he had become humiliated by the sons of these vile criminals who openly mocked him and bullied him. But these verses constitute a prophecy that even though evil has caused mankind to suffer, one day God will completely separate all evil from all the goodness He has put into man. God will cast all evil into the lake of fire and preserve all of the good systems that He created forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
In Job 30:19-22, Job allowed his despair and dismay to cause him to become angry with God. Job accused God of abandoning him and refusing to hear his prayers. God did not become angry with Job. God understands that humans display a wide range of emotions especially when in states of suffering and despair. God displayed compassion toward Job and patience with him and supplied Job with an answer for his anger and despair.
According to Job 19:25-27, Job knew that he had a Redeemer who had saved him by grace, and who would bring his soul, after his physical death, to stand alive in God's presence. But God had not revealed to Job that he would have a home with Him in heaven forever. But according to Job 30:22-24, God revealed to Job that following his physical death, God would bring him "to the house appointed for all living." In Job's case, "this house;" that is, his eternal place would be with God in heaven, but God did not make that clear to Job. But God's prophecy given to Job also had a deeper meaning which is that "all living" have a "house," or eternal place, for them following their physical deaths. God's revelation confirms God's Word in Genesis 3:20 and in Luke 20:38 that God will preserve forever His living image that He has put into every human even though He must consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Revelation 20:13.
In Job 30:24, God revealed to Job that even though humans cry out to Him from the regions of the dead, God will not pull them out of their graves to restore them to their former lives, but He will destroy them. But God's destruction means that He will dissolve their systems so that He can separate and recover His living images in them from their evil deaths also within them. God's destruction of their systems will mean that they will lose their former identities and personalities, but God will cleanse and preserve their living images for Him to use to recreate a righteous people to live forever on His recreated earth. John 12:25; Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 30:1-18, Job complained that even the evil criminals that the good people of his community had driven into the wilderness now held him in derision. Job felt despair because he had become humiliated by the sons of these vile criminals who openly mocked him and bullied him. But these verses constitute a prophecy that even though evil has caused mankind to suffer, one day God will completely separate all evil from all the goodness He has put into man. God will cast all evil into the lake of fire and preserve all of the good systems that He created forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
In Job 30:19-22, Job allowed his despair and dismay to cause him to become angry with God. Job accused God of abandoning him and refusing to hear his prayers. God did not become angry with Job. God understands that humans display a wide range of emotions especially when in states of suffering and despair. God displayed compassion toward Job and patience with him and supplied Job with an answer for his anger and despair.
According to Job 19:25-27, Job knew that he had a Redeemer who had saved him by grace, and who would bring his soul, after his physical death, to stand alive in God's presence. But God had not revealed to Job that he would have a home with Him in heaven forever. But according to Job 30:22-24, God revealed to Job that following his physical death, God would bring him "to the house appointed for all living." In Job's case, "this house;" that is, his eternal place would be with God in heaven, but God did not make that clear to Job. But God's prophecy given to Job also had a deeper meaning which is that "all living" have a "house," or eternal place, for them following their physical deaths. God's revelation confirms God's Word in Genesis 3:20 and in Luke 20:38 that God will preserve forever His living image that He has put into every human even though He must consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Revelation 20:13.
In Job 30:24, God revealed to Job that even though humans cry out to Him from the regions of the dead, God will not pull them out of their graves to restore them to their former lives, but He will destroy them. But God's destruction means that He will dissolve their systems so that He can separate and recover His living images in them from their evil deaths also within them. God's destruction of their systems will mean that they will lose their former identities and personalities, but God will cleanse and preserve their living images for Him to use to recreate a righteous people to live forever on His recreated earth. John 12:25; Revelation 21:1-5.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy seven
Job 29:1-25
God also put into His plan a means whereby the weakness in the free will of man can never cause his eternal, spiritual death. Man can sin and deny his faith which can only temporarily thwart the will of God, but man's sin can never thwart the eternal will of God which is to save all mankind from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day God will effect a tremendous worship service in which all that He ever created will worship Him. All living humans that God consigned to the regions of the dead because they failed to receive Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh will return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. God will resurrect these living humans in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Man sins because of the influence of evil that Satan put into his being. The difference between sin and evil is that God will always cleanse and forgive sin in man when he repents and returns to faith in God his Savior, but God will never forgive evil because it will never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 9:20-21. While evil causes the living image of God in man to sin, nevertheless, evil is foreign to the being of man. God has compassion for fallen man because He recognizes that the weakness in man's free will causes the image of God in him to become tainted by sin caused, in turn, by the influence of evil within his being. Isaiah 1:18 means that the good life from God in man has become stained by sin. God will always cleanse and forgive sins upon repentance and faith in Christ to which all men will return. God will also cleanse all evil from humans and His universe by His use of His consuming fire, but He will never forgive it because it will never repent. In the end of the world, God will cast all total evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
In the book of Job, God used Job to symbolize the history and the fate of all mankind.
God also put into His plan a means whereby the weakness in the free will of man can never cause his eternal, spiritual death. Man can sin and deny his faith which can only temporarily thwart the will of God, but man's sin can never thwart the eternal will of God which is to save all mankind from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day God will effect a tremendous worship service in which all that He ever created will worship Him. All living humans that God consigned to the regions of the dead because they failed to receive Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh will return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. God will resurrect these living humans in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Man sins because of the influence of evil that Satan put into his being. The difference between sin and evil is that God will always cleanse and forgive sin in man when he repents and returns to faith in God his Savior, but God will never forgive evil because it will never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 9:20-21. While evil causes the living image of God in man to sin, nevertheless, evil is foreign to the being of man. God has compassion for fallen man because He recognizes that the weakness in man's free will causes the image of God in him to become tainted by sin caused, in turn, by the influence of evil within his being. Isaiah 1:18 means that the good life from God in man has become stained by sin. God will always cleanse and forgive sins upon repentance and faith in Christ to which all men will return. God will also cleanse all evil from humans and His universe by His use of His consuming fire, but He will never forgive it because it will never repent. In the end of the world, God will cast all total evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
In the book of Job, God used Job to symbolize the history and the fate of all mankind.
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy six
Job 29:1-25
God gives free will to every human, but no human can use that free will to thwart the will of God forever. God knows exactly how to return the lives of every human to renewed faith in Him of their own free will. II Peter 3:9.
Evil emerged from the chaos that still remained in darkness, of which God knew nothing, to touch the free will that God had given Lucifer and make him realize that he could choose to disobey God by inventing false systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Lucifer refused to repent which caused God to have to strip him of all the goodness He had put into him and exile him to earth as a totally evil negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
Satan believed God had made a mistake when He gave free will to mankind. Satan thought he could use God's supposed mistake to get an advantage over God. Satan knew that he could use the weakness in man's free will to cause him to disobey God which would put evil into man's being. Satan expected that evil in man to become so foul that it would eventually annul the image of God in man and thereby prove that God's protective Love cannot be Almighty. Satan further believed that he could use this supposed weakness in God's Love to obtain an advantage over God so that he could one day murder Him and take control of His universe as he had already partly taken control of the earth. John 8:44; John 12:31.
But Satan did not know that God had given free will to man in order to test His Love to prove that His Love can never fail. God possesses Infinite Wisdom, and therefore, He certainly possesses the capability to devise a plan whereby He can rescue His image in every human by causing them to return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. God saves some humans by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Doubt about God's Love had entered God's creations because of Lucifer's rebellion. Because of this doubt, Lucifer had been able to persuade one third of God's angels to follow him. As long as doubt remained in God's universe, evil would also remain. But God devised a plan to dispel all doubt from His universe and all the evil that results from it. John 20:24-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
God had allowed the Devil to put the image of God in man in danger of eternal separation from Him in spiritual death. But God outwitted the Devil by devising a plan to rescue the lives of all humans by His loving sacrifice of Himself on a cross and His descent into hell followed by His resurrection. God suffered the eternal spiritual deaths of every human in their place in order to liberate all of them from that horrible fate and return them to fellowship with Him. Hebrews 2:9; John 12:47; Colossians 1:15-20.
God gives free will to every human, but no human can use that free will to thwart the will of God forever. God knows exactly how to return the lives of every human to renewed faith in Him of their own free will. II Peter 3:9.
Evil emerged from the chaos that still remained in darkness, of which God knew nothing, to touch the free will that God had given Lucifer and make him realize that he could choose to disobey God by inventing false systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Lucifer refused to repent which caused God to have to strip him of all the goodness He had put into him and exile him to earth as a totally evil negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
Satan believed God had made a mistake when He gave free will to mankind. Satan thought he could use God's supposed mistake to get an advantage over God. Satan knew that he could use the weakness in man's free will to cause him to disobey God which would put evil into man's being. Satan expected that evil in man to become so foul that it would eventually annul the image of God in man and thereby prove that God's protective Love cannot be Almighty. Satan further believed that he could use this supposed weakness in God's Love to obtain an advantage over God so that he could one day murder Him and take control of His universe as he had already partly taken control of the earth. John 8:44; John 12:31.
But Satan did not know that God had given free will to man in order to test His Love to prove that His Love can never fail. God possesses Infinite Wisdom, and therefore, He certainly possesses the capability to devise a plan whereby He can rescue His image in every human by causing them to return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. God saves some humans by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Doubt about God's Love had entered God's creations because of Lucifer's rebellion. Because of this doubt, Lucifer had been able to persuade one third of God's angels to follow him. As long as doubt remained in God's universe, evil would also remain. But God devised a plan to dispel all doubt from His universe and all the evil that results from it. John 20:24-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
God had allowed the Devil to put the image of God in man in danger of eternal separation from Him in spiritual death. But God outwitted the Devil by devising a plan to rescue the lives of all humans by His loving sacrifice of Himself on a cross and His descent into hell followed by His resurrection. God suffered the eternal spiritual deaths of every human in their place in order to liberate all of them from that horrible fate and return them to fellowship with Him. Hebrews 2:9; John 12:47; Colossians 1:15-20.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy five
Job 29:1-25
Someday, God will learn exactly how evil emerges from the darkness of the bottomless pit to infect His creations. At that time, God will use His consuming fire to absolutely separate and recover all of the goodness that He created, cleanse it of all of the taint of sin and the corruption of evil, and recreate a righteous heaven and earth. God will also cast separated death, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
But the mystery which the positive Consciousness of God will never be able to understand is exactly how any form of consciousness, even if negative, could form within chaos. One can speculate that negative consciousness would have to be the opposite of positive consciousness; that is, destructive instead of creative. But that would mean that negative consciousness would seek to annul itself. In some mysterious way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8-9.
Job yearned for his former days of joyful fellowship with God, prosperity, and the respect of others. Yet, God allowed the Devil to take it all from him except his life. Why? Job 2:6.
Job happens to be symbolic of the fate of the entire human race. Few humans have ever suffered the loss of everything they love, and yet all humans must suffer to some extent because of their sins and the attacks of the Devil. But the one thing that God will never allow the Devil to take is the life of any person. God created that life in His image and put it into every person. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Because God created man's life to be good, then a measure of faith still resides within the life of every human. Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20.
Many humans claim to be atheists, but a spark of God's faith still resides within the image of God still within the inner being of every one of them. God knows exactly how to reawaken that faith in every human, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Someday, God will learn exactly how evil emerges from the darkness of the bottomless pit to infect His creations. At that time, God will use His consuming fire to absolutely separate and recover all of the goodness that He created, cleanse it of all of the taint of sin and the corruption of evil, and recreate a righteous heaven and earth. God will also cast separated death, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
But the mystery which the positive Consciousness of God will never be able to understand is exactly how any form of consciousness, even if negative, could form within chaos. One can speculate that negative consciousness would have to be the opposite of positive consciousness; that is, destructive instead of creative. But that would mean that negative consciousness would seek to annul itself. In some mysterious way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8-9.
Job yearned for his former days of joyful fellowship with God, prosperity, and the respect of others. Yet, God allowed the Devil to take it all from him except his life. Why? Job 2:6.
Job happens to be symbolic of the fate of the entire human race. Few humans have ever suffered the loss of everything they love, and yet all humans must suffer to some extent because of their sins and the attacks of the Devil. But the one thing that God will never allow the Devil to take is the life of any person. God created that life in His image and put it into every person. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Because God created man's life to be good, then a measure of faith still resides within the life of every human. Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20.
Many humans claim to be atheists, but a spark of God's faith still resides within the image of God still within the inner being of every one of them. God knows exactly how to reawaken that faith in every human, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy four
Job 29:1-25
God learned about evil when Lucifer rebelled. God also learned that somehow evil emerged from a dark chaos that nonexists nowhere and at no time, called the bottomless pit. Through God's creation of the history of mankind, He is in the process of learning the mystery of how negative consciousnesses called demons could have emerged from the bottomless pit and through the darkness to corrupt His creations.
Evil seeks to annul everything it touches by reverting it back to chaos. Lucifer became corrupted by this mysterious evil, and God recovered all of His goodness He had put into him so that he became Satan who is totally empty and vain. God used His consuming fire to separate His goodness in Lucifer from his evil. Ezekiel 28:17-19.
But Satan has no desire to annul himself. Satan seeks only to gain power over evil so that he can use it to annul God's creations, and eventually God Himself so that he will be free to invent his own universe based on invented systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Both pleasure and pride are good ideas that God knows how to rightly use to create good and useful systems. Satan has no power to create anything. Satan seeks only to murder God and co-opt all of His good ideas in order to misuse them to invent evil systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Satan openly revealed his evil plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.
God admitted in Isaiah 45:7 that He created both light and darkness. He also admitted that He created all good systems such as the one called "peace." But God also revealed that He feels guilty because he feels responsible for the creation of evil even though He knew nothing about it. Guilt is a good system. It causes one to avoid evil. But God's feeling of guilt only serves to prove that He is absolutely Holy and innocent. He absolutely rejects evil. For this same reason, parents, created in the image of God, often feel guilty about bad things that happen to their children even though they had no knowledge of or control over the hurtful event.
God learned about evil when Lucifer rebelled. God also learned that somehow evil emerged from a dark chaos that nonexists nowhere and at no time, called the bottomless pit. Through God's creation of the history of mankind, He is in the process of learning the mystery of how negative consciousnesses called demons could have emerged from the bottomless pit and through the darkness to corrupt His creations.
Evil seeks to annul everything it touches by reverting it back to chaos. Lucifer became corrupted by this mysterious evil, and God recovered all of His goodness He had put into him so that he became Satan who is totally empty and vain. God used His consuming fire to separate His goodness in Lucifer from his evil. Ezekiel 28:17-19.
But Satan has no desire to annul himself. Satan seeks only to gain power over evil so that he can use it to annul God's creations, and eventually God Himself so that he will be free to invent his own universe based on invented systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Both pleasure and pride are good ideas that God knows how to rightly use to create good and useful systems. Satan has no power to create anything. Satan seeks only to murder God and co-opt all of His good ideas in order to misuse them to invent evil systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Satan openly revealed his evil plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.
God admitted in Isaiah 45:7 that He created both light and darkness. He also admitted that He created all good systems such as the one called "peace." But God also revealed that He feels guilty because he feels responsible for the creation of evil even though He knew nothing about it. Guilt is a good system. It causes one to avoid evil. But God's feeling of guilt only serves to prove that He is absolutely Holy and innocent. He absolutely rejects evil. For this same reason, parents, created in the image of God, often feel guilty about bad things that happen to their children even though they had no knowledge of or control over the hurtful event.
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy three
Job 29:1-25
In this chapter, Job yearned to return to his former days when he lived in God's favor, had prosperity, respect, and authority in his community. Evidently, according to verses 17 and 25, Job held some authority as a chief in his community because he punished the wicked. He also ruled in righteousness because he personally took care of the poor and the widows.
In Job 29:3, Job revealed that he understood that God guides the man of God by His light through a dark world. Jesus often taught that the man of God must emerge from darkness into God's glorious light. John 3:19-21.
In Genesis 1:2-5, God created the good light to penetrate the darkness of the earth that already existed. God created the light so that He could also create life which the light sustains. God also divided the light from the darkness so that He could create Day and Night for useful purposes, the Day for work and play and the Night for rest and sleep.
God had to have created darkness long before He created light. Genesis 1:2 reveals that the darkness of the earth concealed a condition called chaos. Chaos is the opposite of creativity. God is wholly creative and innocent. God did not know that that darkness hid the seeds of evil that would infect Lucifer and cause corruption to enter His good creations.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses and infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God could not have known when He created the heaven and the earth that the darkness would continue to hide chaos which is the source of all the evil that has corrupted God's creations. Knowledge and wisdom are always creative, therefore, God could not have known about the evil hidden in darkness which, being wholly destructive, can only be a type of anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7.
In this chapter, Job yearned to return to his former days when he lived in God's favor, had prosperity, respect, and authority in his community. Evidently, according to verses 17 and 25, Job held some authority as a chief in his community because he punished the wicked. He also ruled in righteousness because he personally took care of the poor and the widows.
In Job 29:3, Job revealed that he understood that God guides the man of God by His light through a dark world. Jesus often taught that the man of God must emerge from darkness into God's glorious light. John 3:19-21.
In Genesis 1:2-5, God created the good light to penetrate the darkness of the earth that already existed. God created the light so that He could also create life which the light sustains. God also divided the light from the darkness so that He could create Day and Night for useful purposes, the Day for work and play and the Night for rest and sleep.
God had to have created darkness long before He created light. Genesis 1:2 reveals that the darkness of the earth concealed a condition called chaos. Chaos is the opposite of creativity. God is wholly creative and innocent. God did not know that that darkness hid the seeds of evil that would infect Lucifer and cause corruption to enter His good creations.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses and infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God could not have known when He created the heaven and the earth that the darkness would continue to hide chaos which is the source of all the evil that has corrupted God's creations. Knowledge and wisdom are always creative, therefore, God could not have known about the evil hidden in darkness which, being wholly destructive, can only be a type of anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7.
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