Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty four

                                    Job 30:1-31

Satan knew that once he had injected evil into man's being that man would then be helpless to ever overcome that evil and make himself clean again. Satan counted on the overwhelming power of evil to eventually cause a permanent separation of God's image in man from God's Love for man. In other words, Satan desired to cause permanent spiritual death of God's image in man. God allows mankind to temporarily suffer for their sins, but God will never allow the Devil to cause living humans to become totally evil and separated from Him in hell forever. God hates evil. Living humans have become stained by sin, but God will always cleanse and forgive those sins when every living human eventually repents and puts their faith in Christ to save them. Sins of which a human never repents becomes a part of  his spiritual death that God will cast into the lake of fire. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 12:31-32.

But that which Satan did not count on and that which he could not comprehend was that God would become a man Himself, and because of His Almighty Love, would suffer man's eternal separation from God in man's place. God's Son suffered on a cross and shed His blood and water to cleanse and forgive all living humans who would repent and believe in Him from all their sins and evil and recreate them while they are still alive in the flesh. I Corinthians 6:11. God's Son also descended into hell to leave  behind the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could use His consuming fire in the end of the world to permanently separate the living part of every human there from their spiritual deaths which are totally evil because they never repent. God designed every living human to be capable of repentance and faith in His Son who alone can save them from eternal spiritual death, but evil is foreign to man's being even though Satan injected it into man's being. I Peter 3:18; I Corinthians 3:11-15.

Every temptation that every human faces in life happens to be a test of the faith that God put into him when He created him. Romans 12:3. If a person passes his test, he will earn God's approval and reward, but he cannot earn his own salvation. Only Christ can save every human from their sins and eternal deaths. If a person fails his test, then his sin will cause him temporary suffering in life, but never eternal separation from God. Evil causes temporary suffering in all humans regardless of whether they sin or not.

Satan thought that he could use the weakness in man's free will that God had given him to inject evil into his being which would permanently ruin him and from which he could never recover. In this way, Satan thought he could prove that God makes mistakes, and therefore, something would be wrong with God's Love. But God knew exactly how to cause His living image in every person to freely choose to return to repentance and faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.