Job 31:1-40
God derives His infinite power from faith. God possesses infinite faith in His own power. Hebrews 11:1-3. God made the worlds from things which do not appear. What does not appear? The contents of His Infinite Consciousness does not appear. God's Ideas do not appear. God's Word did not appear until He put it into written form. Although God's written Word connects to the Infinite, it has to be limited to the finite mind of man. The believer may possess the Mind of Christ, but he still cannot think in infinite ways. I Corinthians 2:16. The believer has the Mind of Christ because his faith connects him to the Infinite and infallible Word of God. Objective truth is always limited. Subjective Truth connects directly to Infinite and Almighty Truth. John 14:6.
This truth means that in order for God to be able to save every living person within the regions of the dead, they all must repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior and of their own free will. God has given a measure of faith to all living humans, and God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in Christ of their own free will. Romans 12:3. As God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and in Philippians 2:9-11 and as will be fulfilled in Revelation 5:11-14, God will effect a great worship service in which all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior of their own free will.
Every sin which a person commits becomes evil if he refuses to repent of it precisely because of his lack of faith in God's forgiveness and mercy. Every evil act of which a person repents becomes cleansed and forgiven by God's grace or His consuming fire because his repentance and faith triggers God's compassion for him. Every sin and evil act of which a person refuses to repent adheres to spiritual death which is totally evil and which God will separate from all humans and cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. But God will restore the repentance and faith of all living humans because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Romans 11:36.
God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in His Son of their own free will in order to prove that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer and to the human race was not a mistake. Satan counted on using the free will of man to inject an evil into the being of man so powerful that it would eventually annul the living image of God in man and cause man's eternal separation from God. In this way, the Devil thought he could prove that God made a mistake, and therefore, His Love could not be Almighty. The Devil believed that if he could prove that God is not Almighty, he could get an advantage over Him, eventually murder Him and assume control of His universe. But Satan did not count on the Love of God being so powerful that He would allow the Devil to attempt to murder Him by taking all of the evil, sin, and spiritual deaths of all mankind on Himself on a cross, gain victory over it all by His resurrection from the dead, and thereby display the Almighty power of His Love to cleanse and separate all living humans from all their sin and evil, save them all from spiritual death, restore them all to fellowship with Him, and consign the total evil in every one of them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; John 12:47.
Job considered God's separation of the totally wicked from Himself to be a "strange punishment" probably because he could not comprehend what a lake of fire could be. No one really can. But since Christ took the eternal spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself, then the lake of fire can only be a part of the consuming fire that is God Himself. Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 12:29. Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 4:24.
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