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.