The World and the Word

                                                            The Wheat and the Chaff

In Proverbs 24:20 the phrase "candle of the wicked" can only refer to that part of every human which  is totally evil and spiritually dead. In Proverbs 20:27 the phrase "candle of the Lord" can only refer to the righteous image of God which He puts into every human. Genesis 1:27. In the end of the world, God will put out the "candle of the wicked" in every human still in their graves, and He will relight "the candle of the Lord" and recreate their righteous lives to live on His recreated earth. No human can be totally evil because if they were they could only do evil. No human can be totally righteous, except Jesus, because if they were they could save themselves. God purges the sin and evil from the soul and spirit of every human saved by His grace with the blood of Christ the moment they repent and believe, and they receive the absolutely perfect righteousness of Christ so that God can accept them to live in Heaven with Him. John 3:3; John 5:24; I John 1:7; Romans 8:14-17.

In Ecclesiastes 3:16-22, God gave a revelation to Solomon that describes the inner being of every individual human. Every human happens to be both the wicked and the righteous. God also gave Solomon a prophecy that in the final Judgment of God, He will separate the "beast" in every human from his spirit. The word "beast" symbolizes the total evil in every human which God likens to "vanity;" that is, the absolute nothingness of evil. Isaiah 40:17. The dead physical bodies of both man and beast decay in the earth, but the spirit of man that belongs to God goes upward for Him to judge and recreate, and the spiritual death of every human within the regions of death goes downward into the lake of fire. Solomon further informs every human that they can rejoice in their good works because in the end God will reward every recreated human for their good works. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Revelation 22:11-12.