The World and the Word

                                          The Fall

God revealed His and Satan's plans for all of humanity in the first book of the Bible that God caused to be written, the book of Job. Job and his comforters symbolize the entire human race. God allowed Satan to cause Job to suffer to the worst degree possible. But God did not allow Satan to take Job's life which symbolizes the fact that God will not allow Satan to permanently claim the good life that God created and put into every human even if Satan tortures humans to the utmost.

Satan believed that he could cause Job to suffer so horribly because of evil that even Job's good life would finally become so overwhelmed by evil that he would finally just "curse God and die." Job 2:9. Satan sought the permanent death of the good life of Job to prove that God's Love can fail. But God had put a faith in the good life of Job that cannot fail, and God has put that faith into the good lives of every human He has created. Genesis 1:31; Romans 12:3; I Corinthians 13:8.

God has proven that despite man's suffering, the Devil will never succeed in annulling man's good life in the image of God that He created. The Devil believed that he could use the weakness in man's free will to cause such terrible suffering to man that he would finally completely surrender to evil to the extent that God's good life in man would become totally evil and dead and lost from God forever. Should the Devil succeed in his plan, he would win his war with God, eventually murder Him, and take control of His universe. John 8:44.

The Devil seeks to annul a part of God's good creations, the good lives of mankind. But God, in His infinite Love and Wisdom, has devised a plan whereby He will return every human's good life that He created to faith in Him of their own free will. All humans would certainly lose their war with the Devil and evil if God did not intervene in history to save them. God's Love came to the rescue of mankind. God will prove that the weakness in man's free will that caused evil to become a part of his being will never cause the permanent death of his life and faith. John 12:47; Luke 9;56.

God knew that man cannot overcome evil on his own. Evil will eventually overpower and annul the good life in man unless God intervened in man's behalf. God became a sinless man in order to suffer man's eternal death in man's place and remove the sin and evil that will cause that permanent death. God allowed His perfect Son to be nailed to a cruel cross to suffer the sin and evil and permanent death of all mankind in his place. God proved that His Love is far more powerful than that of sin and evil and permanent death. II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9.

The Devil believed that if Christ suffered the entire weight of all of the sins and evil of all mankind, then that would be enough to murder even God and cause His permanent death. The blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross washed away all of the sins and evil of all living humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. Being thus cleansed and saved by grace, they could never suffer permanent death. Revelation 1:5. When Christ died, His Spirit descended into hell to leave behind there the sins and evil of the rest of humanity confined within the regions of death. When Christ arose immaculate from the dead, He had cleansed and saved the good lives of the entire human race. John 12:47; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 2:14-15.

Because His Spirit is innocent, pure, and Holy, God the Father would not allow Him to remain in hell. Psalm 16:10. Christ's Spirit rose from hell to be rejoined to His sinless body completely victorious over sin, evil, and eternal death. Romans 5:10; Colossians 1:15-23.