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.
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