The World and the Word

                                 God's Plan

God has a plan to save the entire human race from spiritual death caused by sin and evil. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-28; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; Revelation 20:5; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 4:10. The Devil planned to destroy God's plan. Job 2:9. Job represents the entire human race that the Devil seeks to completely destroy. The Devil tempted Job's living spirit that God created to curse God and become completely ruined and lost in spiritual death forever. But God commanded Satan twice that he could do his worst to Job, but Satan could not take his life. Job 1:12; Job 2:6. These verses symbolize the fact that God will allow the Devil to do his worst to humans in order to prove that His Love cannot fail, but God will never allow the Devil to permanently destroy any living human. God can never lose anything He has ever created including His image of Himself that He has ever and will ever put into every human. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Psalm 36:6. The Devil plans to so completely ruin the righteous image of God in humans that he will be able to annul it and cause its spiritual death to last forever in a burning lake of fire. In this way, the Devil could prove that God's Love for His creations could fail. But God's Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:8. The book of Job reveals Satan's plan for the human race. Job 1:11; Job 2:4-5. But Job also reveals God's plan for the entire human race. Job 1:12; Job 2:6.

Because God knows that He can always defeat the Devil at his own game, He therefore has planned every detail of the history of the human race. Acts 15:18; Isaiah 42:9. At the same time, God, in every moment of time creates new ways to defeat every challenge of the Devil to His Omnipotent Power. Isaiah 48:5-7.

The Devil injected evil, which is spiritual death, into every human because of sin. Romans 5:12; Romans 7:15-23. A weakness in free will causes sin which causes eternal death which, in turn, causes more sin. God created free will which causes the Devil to believe that he can use the weakness in free will to eventually completely destroy God. John 8:44. Every time a human sins that strengthens the evil inside of him, and the strengthened evil causes humans to commit more sins. The Devil counts on evil becoming so strong in humans that it overpowers the living part of humans to the extent that it causes the eternal deaths of at least some living humans. But Jesus came to the world to save all living humans from eternal death. Romans 7:24-25; Hebrews 2:9; John 12:47-48; John 6:33; I Timothy 4:10. Jesus came to the world to destroy the Devil and all of his evil works, not living humans whom He creates and loves. Hebrew 2:14-15; John 6:33; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; John 1:29; John 11:25. Christ will destroy the first death by casting it into the second death which is the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1. Christ will destroy the first death in order to save all living humans. Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20. Christ will resurrect and recreate all living humans confined to the regions of death upon their repentance and faith in Him as the Lamb of God. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 21:5.

God causes every human to do good works because of His righteousness that He puts into them when He creates them, and He also allows every human to sin, and even commit evil acts, because of the influence of evil that the Devil injects into them. This condition is free will. Genesis 2:16-17. But regardless of whether individual humans choose to do good or choose to sin, God still holds complete control of the entire history of the human race, and He knows that He can recover from the fall and recreate all that He created in the first place. This condition is predestination. Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23.