Job 37:1-24
In verse 24, Elihu admitted that men fear God's terrible judgments, but Elihu also avowed that God cares nothing about any man's search for wisdom or truth. Elihu's conclusion was right in the first half of his sentence, but he was wrong in the second half. The Apostle James assures us in James 1:5-6 that God will give wisdom to any person who asks Him for it with faith. But in order to know wisdom, each person must first find out the truth. Christ assures us in John 14:6 that He is the Truth. When any person accepts Christ as their Savior by faith, they will acquire wisdom and truth. Those saved persons will acquire the Mind of Christ and by that connection to the Infinite Love of God, they will discover God to be a personal friend who has saved them forever by His grace, but if they listen closely to God's Word, they will also discover that God will save the rest of humanity with a lesser salvation through His mercy and forgiveness. I Corinthians 2:15-16; John 15:15; Matthew 26:50; II Peter 3:9; John 5:28-29.
God has revealed in His infallible Word that He desires personal fellowship with every human like He enjoyed with Adam and Eve before they sinned. God can never fail to attain whatever He desires. God intervened in human history to restore that fellowship by the self-sacrifice of His Son on a cruel cross. By His loving self-sacrifice, Christ took away every person's sin and eternal death that had entered into their beings through Adam's sin and rebellion which means God will restore all humans to eternal life. God will save some by His grace and give them a home in heaven with Him, but God will also save His created lives in the rest of mankind within the regions of the dead by His resurrection of them in Christ's final judgment in the end of the world. God will return every one of them of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24; II Timothy 4:1; Luke 19:10; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
But many humans exist who, like Elihu, see God as being far away because they push Him away. They may be very religious and profess great admiration for God's powers of creation, but they do not desire to know God as a merciful friend and Savior. Their condition emerges from the rebellious part of man's being that is wholly evil and dead. God never forgives this eternal death in man because it never repents and puts its faith in Christ. This eternal death is foreign to mankind because God created man in His own image, but it causes men to sin. God will cleanse and forgive all sin because all men will eventually repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior. But God will purge all total evil from His recreated earth when He casts the dead into the lake of fire. That part of Elihu that rejected fellowship with God by faith symbolizes all of the evil dead that God will forever purge from His new creations. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15.
God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God created His good and living image that He put into every human, and God will recover and recreate that living image in every human by causing every living human to freely choose to return to fellowship with Him through repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. God will save some by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh, and God will save the lives of the rest of humanity through a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will effect an absolute and eternal separation and recovery of all His good creations from all taint of evil, all of the quick that He created from all of the evil dead that has soiled their goodness, and all that is filthy and unjust from all that is clean and righteous in His final judgment in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Timothy 4:1; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 13:30.
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