Job 40:1-24
In verse 14, God seemed to contradict Himself. God had made Job realize that He had saved him by His grace, grace being wholly a gift of God which He bestows on those who repent and put their faith in Christ while still alive in the flesh. Ephesians 2:8-9. But God told Job in this verse that "thine own right hand can save thee." God seemed to be telling Job that even if He had not saved him by His grace, He would still have saved Job by the righteousness which He put into Job when He created him. The phrase "right hand" symbolized a righteousness which Job already possessed. God will save all of humanity within the regions of the dead with a lesser form of salvation by causing them to return of their own free will to faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God called Job a "perfect man" because he assiduously adhered to the righteousness that God had put into His image in him. God will resurrect all of His living images of Himself from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
Humans saved by grace will enjoy God's highest form of salvation which constitutes cleansing of all their sins by the blood of Jesus and the absolute righteousness of Christ given to their hearts by which God will accept them to live in heaven with Him forever. II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17. The rest of humanity will enjoy a lesser form of salvation. God will raise all of His living images from the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5 and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36.
Revelation 22:11-12 records that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is holy and good from all that is filthy and evil in the end of the world. Verse 12 teaches that God will provide a positive reward for the good works of every living human whom He raises from the dead. According to Romans 2:6-11, God can only give positive rewards for the good works of every living person, never negative ones. Negative rewards, such as a cooler place in hell, cannot be rewards at all. God will resurrect and recreate all living humans from the regions of the dead and provide them with positive rewards for their good works. In other words, their "own right hand" will save them. Job 40:14.
In the rest of this chapter, God described to Job a creature He called a "behemoth." God described this creature as being so big and powerful that it can do whatever it desires. God informed Job that He made this creature to be "the chief of the ways of God." Mankind happens to be God's greatest creation, but He used the behemoth to be a symbol of His own ways; that is, that God has all power to do whatever He wants at any time. God simply gave Job a simple illustration that Job could understand. God wanted Job to know that if the behemoth can do whatever it desires, then certainly God could save Job forever by any means He desired.
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