The World and the Word

                            The Results of the Fall

In Genesis 6:3, God removed the special protection of His Spirit that suppressed the fleshly nature of humans which meant the evil side of their natures that caused them to sin. God allowed the evil side of man's nature to compete with his good side on an equal basis. God did this to prove that even the worst that Satan could do to humans could never cause the living souls and spirits of humans to ever choose to become totally evil, spiritually dead, and lost from God's Love forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. The fact that God allowed the Devil to take absolutely everything from Job except his life symbolized the fact that God knew that the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all humans will, sooner or later, cause every human who ever lived to choose to return to repentance and faith in God their Savior. Romans 12:3; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14. Satan disobeyed God's command to spare Job's life and tried to annul it. Job 2:9.

In his suffering, Job sometimes despaired and believed that he would lose his life. Job 3:1-26; Job 10:19-22. Yet, the faith that God had put into his living soul, though greatly subdued, never failed. Job 13:15-16. Likewise, the faith that God has put into the living souls of every human cannot fail. Romans 12:3. God will renew that faith in all humans saved by grace when they repent and believe that Jesus has washed away all their sins and evil with His holy blood that He shed on the cross. The moment they believe, God extends His special protection to them. Some of them may suffer greatly in life, but they can never lose their salvation by grace. John 10:27-30. God will allow the Devil to do his worst to all humans not saved by grace when He must consign their good and evil natures to one of the regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God will renew His faith in all humans tormented in the regions of the dead when He reveals Himself to them in a great worship service as the Lamb of God who can resurrect them alive from the dead. Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Luke 20:38.

Over time, because evil "men of renown" ruled the human race, and the living souls and spirits of humans proved to be too weak to successfully combat their evil natures, all humans became wicked except for Noah and his family. Noah and his family continued to offer the blood sacrifices which symbolized the fact that while the light of faith that God has put into every living human can be greatly suppressed, it can never entirely be put out. Genesis 6:8-9. Even though God had to destroy the evil natures of the pre-Adamic race and that part of the Adamic race that had intermarried with them in a great flood that symbolized the cleansing water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He had to consign their sinful spirits to the bottomless pit, they never lost that little light of faith that God had put into their living spirits. God proved this fact when Jesus came to preach the gospel to them after His resurrection to renew their faith and rescue them from that region of death. I Peter 3:18-22.