Chapter One
Verses 11-13
God originally intended that only the Hebrew people would obtain salvation by His grace. But when most of the Hebrew people of Jesus' day rejected Him as their Messiah, then God sent His Apostles to preach the gospel to the Gentiles so that one Gentile would be saved by grace for every Israelite who ever rejected salvation by grace. Romans 11:7-25.
Every Jew or Gentile who repents and believes that Christ has saved them by His grace becomes a son of God. They possess the righteousness of Christ Himself by which they can be accepted by God to live in Heaven with Him forever. God can only accept absolute perfection into His presence. II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 1:3-4. Although they will never be equal to Christ, God will give them some of the powers and privileges of Christ Himself. They will possess spiritual bodies like that of Christ. They will be able to will themselves to be spirit, travel to any part of the universe in an instant, and then will themselves to return to a physical body. God will supply all their needs so that every wife and her husband will be able to make love. God will assign every wife to her husband just as He did with Adam and Eve. Marriage ceremonies are a human invention. I John 3:1-2; Philippians 4:19. All of the rest of humanity who receive a lesser form of salvation, God will recreate to live on His recreated earth with physical bodies only, but with the same created righteousness that He gave to Adam and Eve. I Corinthians 15:35-50.
Verse 13 teaches that human will and human efforts have no part whatsoever in God's salvation by grace. The Holy Spirit brings conviction of sin, and He imparts spiritual salvation by grace to the believer the moment that believer repents and puts their faith in Christ's power to save them. John 16:7-11; I Corinthians 6:11. The believer does nothing for his salvation. He only pleads for God to give it to him. If God should will, he could withhold His salvation by grace even then, but He never does that. God has promised that He will give His salvation by grace to everyone who sincerely pleads for it. John 6:37; Romans 10:13. The believer saved by grace happens to be "born of God" by the power of the Holy Spirit. John 1:13; I John 5:1.
Monday, January 31, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 9-10
John 1:9 has a double meaning. It means that God has put the light of His created image into every living human, but it also means that Christ will provide an opportunity for all living humans to become saved by His grace. The Holy Spirit certainly has the power to preach the gospel of salvation by grace to every human who ever lived, and in fact He does. Colossians 1:27. Christ did command His believers saved by grace to be a witness for Him and preach His gospel to the lost. But that command happens to be only one of the methods that the Holy Spirit uses to get the gospel to the world. Christ commanded His followers to preach His gospel so that those who obey Him will receive great rewards in Heaven. I Timothy 5:18. Christ also desired that His followers form local churches composed of believers who confess Him and get baptized in water so that those members of those churches can grow in grace as they worship God and hear the Word of God preached, and as they regularly read His Word and pray. Matthew 28:18-20. All living humans who have never heard the gospel, Christ may give them an opportunity to repent and believe in Him immediately after their physical deaths. Most of them will refuse to believe in Christ even then because the atheists will think they are just having an hallucination, and the others will still cling to their false religions. Hebrews 9:27 means a judgment by Christ, not an immediate condemnation.
In verse 10, the phrase "and the world knew Him not" means that the evil, spiritual deaths that the Devil has injected into all living humans has blinded most of them to the fact that God created them and loves them. Romans 1:18-23; Matthew 13:39. Only a small minority will ever become saved by grace because only they will be capable of rejecting the lies of the Devil and hearing and believing the gospel of Christ. Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 16:13-16.
Lucifer's rebellion against God caused doubt about the Almighty Power of God's Love to enter into His creations. Genesis 4:1-5; John 20:24-25. God decided to make a plan to prove that His Love can never fail to save all of His creations that He loves by His creation of a human race in His image with free will that He would allow to be put in danger of eternal separation from His Love and that would suffer terribly from sin and evil. Yet, because God Himself in His Love would suffer that eternal death for all of them, then God would be able to prove that His Love is Almighty and can never fail by devising a plan that will cause every one of them to return to faith in Him of their own free will. Their terrible suffering caused by sin and evil will never cause them to lose the faith that God put into them when He created them in His image. Hebrews 2:9-15; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 5:11-14. As God made His plan, He noticed that some living humans were capable of believing in His loving sacrifice for them while they were still alive in the flesh. God provided His blood and water that He shed on the cross to cleanse and save these believers by His grace and give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that He could accept them into a home in Heaven with Him forever. Revelation 1:5; II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 1:2-5. All living humans who become saved by grace actually chose their salvation in God's plan before He ever created the world. I Corinthians 2:7; Acts 15:18; II Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 4:3.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 4-8
In the King James Bible which is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, in the phrase in John 1:4, "the life was the light of men," the word "light" is not capitalized. God meant for this verse to be written this way to indicate that He created His humans in His good image; that is, with His "light" inside of them, but as objects of His Consciousness. God meant that His created life that He put into humans should be a "light" to them; that is, a consciousness of their need to choose to be righteous.
In verses 6-8, God sent John the Baptist to be a witness of the "Light," which word is capitalized. This Light can only be the Lord Jesus Christ who came into the world to save sinners. Luke 19:10. In verse 7, the phrase "that all men through Him might believe" indicates the possibility that all humans can be saved with some form of salvation. But if God can never lose anything He has ever created, and if "the things which are impossible with men are possible with God," and if God "is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," then it must stand to reason that God will find a way to cause all humans to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will which will prove that God's Love is Real and Almighty. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 18:27; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 13:8. God will save by His grace all who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh, and God will save all of the rest of humanity who live on the earth and under the earth in the regions of the dead when they see His Majesty as the Lamb of God in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will recreate these humans in body, soul, and spirit to live on His recreated earth. Humans saved by grace will enjoy a higher form of salvation, and all other humans will enjoy a lesser form of salvation.
The word "might" in verse 7 cannot mean that God will save some humans and lose others because God can never lose any part of His creations that He loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5. If God's Love makes all good things possible, would God ever fail to devise a plan to save everything that He has ever created and loves? Revelation 21:5; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-22. In Colossians 1:20, the Apostle Paul teaches that God will "reconcile all things unto Himself." In Colossians 1:16, Paul teaches that "by Him were all things created." In Colossians 1:21, Paul assures Christian believers that God has already reconciled them to Himself when they repented and believed.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 3-5 continued
God puts the light of His image in every human whom He creates. This light may shine bright in righteous persons, and it may be very dim in evil humans, but it can never be put out. For six thousand years, the Devil has tried to put that light out completely in at least one human, but he has always failed, and he cannot understand why. Satan rightly reasons that if the image of God in humans is external to God; that is, an object to God's Consciousness, then God cannot have full control over it. Since the light has freedom to go its own way, then it would seem that it can be made subject to spiritual death and darkness which will put that light out completely, and separate living humans from God's Love forever. John 1:3-5. The Devil cannot understand to this day why spiritual darkness cannot put out the light of the image of God in humans.
The Devil cannot understand because he does not comprehend the Almighty Power of God's Love. God must allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that His Love cannot fail under any circumstances. I Corinthians 13:8. God's Love cannot allow Him to ever lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5. The Devil cannot put that light out no matter what he does. At this time, God does not have complete control over humanity. The spiritual death and darkness within every human causes every human to choose to sin and even rebel against God. But God's Love knows exactly how to cause that same free will in every human who ever lived to choose to return to the faith and repentance that He put into His image in every one of them. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; Psalm 107:10-15; Psalm 36:6; John 5:28-29; John 11:25.
God demonstrated the Almighty Power of His Love when He put Himself between a lost humanity and the Devil. In effect, God said to the Devil that if he seeks to completely destroy the faith and light that He puts into His image in all humans, then the Devil must first go through Him. Genesis 3:15. Self-sacrifice is the greatest expression of love. John 15:13; Matthew 26:50. God told the Devil that He would allow all the forces of evil to injure Him, but the permanent effects of evil which would be the eternal deaths of all living humans, He would suffer for all living humans and take it away from all living humans. God would allow the Devil and all the forces of evil to cause unimaginable pain and suffering to Him on a cruel cross, but because He happens to be completely innocent and cannot deserve permanent death, then He would rise from the dead victorious over all sin and evil and able to crush the Devil's head. Christ's willingness to subject Himself to permanent death for all living humans became that permanent death. Hebrews 2:9-15. Proverbs 10:12 clearly teaches that "love covereth all sins," not just some sins.
Humans must suffer for their sins, but always only temporarily. Genesis 3:16-19. The Almighty Power of Christ's Love and self-sacrifice has rescued all living humans from permanent spiritual death and separation from fellowship with God. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 6:13; I Corinthians 15:22; John 11:25; John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. The Old Testament sin offerings symbolized salvation by grace, and the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized the salvation of the rest of humanity.
Lucifer's rebellion against God caused doubt about the Almighty Power of God's Love to enter into His creations. But through the Almighty Power of His self-sacrificial Love, God proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that His Love can and will rescue His entire creations from the permanent effects of all sin and evil. Thomas did not just doubt Christ's resurrection. He also doubted that Christ's self-sacrifice had overcome sin and evil. Thomas displayed that doubt that pervades all of God's creations. Just as Christ brought Thomas back to faith in Him, so He will bring His entire creations back to faith in Him. John 20:24-29; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-21; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 22:11-12.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 3-5 continued
God gave a created system of life to humans which is an object to God's Consciousness. This meant that the free will that He gave to Adam and Eve could only be independent of God's control. They had every right to decide for themselves what they would do. The Devil thought that God had made a huge mistake by allowing them to have this freedom. The Devil knew that he, being much more clever than humans, could exploit their free will, cause them to disobey God by eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and sin against God. Genesis 3:1-6.
The Devil also knew that if he could cause Adam and Eve to sin, then their sin would cause somewhat of a disconnection of them from God's protective power since God cannot accept sin. Their resultant weakness would then give the Devil the right to inject spiritual death into their inner beings which they would pass on to all their posterity. This inherited evil would weaken all humanity to the extent that all humans would be unable to avoid sin. God had already warned Adam and Eve that this effect would result from their sin. Genesis 2:17.
Satan revealed his plans for the whole human race in Job the first written book of the Bible (KJB). The Devil believed that if he could somehow separate humans from God's protective power, then he could utterly destroy even the good life that God puts into humans, and thereby, prove that God's Love can be weak and that God can be defeated and eventually murdered. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. God allowed Satan to do whatever he wanted to Job, just as God allows the Devil to do whatever he wants to humanity, but just as God would not allow the Devil to take Job's life, so God will not allow the Devil to ever annul the good life of any human that God has ever created. God had to allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that His faith and love that He puts into all living humans can never be destroyed under any circumstances, and thereby, also prove that God's Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Numbers 23:19; I Corinthians 13:8.
Job was as righteous as any ordinary human can be because he strictly adhered to the faith that God had put into his good soul and spirit. Job 1:1. But Job was also a sinner as are all humans. He said so himself. Job 7:20. But Job found redemption by God's grace when he came to faith in the coming Redeemer. Job 19:25-27. Job and his friends represent the entire human race because God commanded Job's friends to bring a burnt offering for Job to make for them so that they too could be forgiven and provided with a lesser form of salvation. Job 42:7-9.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 3-5
One day in God's eternal timescale, He decided to create a Heaven, a universe and all life forms. Genesis 1:1. It all had a beginning. Science has discovered that beginning which it calls the big bang. But there was no explosion. There was only an expansion of the universe. The big bang indicates the existence of God because it confirms that the universe had a beginning just as Genesis 1:1 states. Although all that God has created, including true science, happens to be a message to mankind, and therefore, a part of the Word of God, believers should rely on the written Word of God to confirm that God created the universe. Romans 1:18-20. Isaiah 40:22 clearly states that God "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" which can only refer to the expansion of the universe. Believers should also believe that the earth is a sphere because this same verse says so. Science has only confirmed the truth that God has given in His Word.
God created the universe and life to be external from Himself. Even though the Holy Spirit happens to be present to even the smallest particles of God's creations, nevertheless, the Holy Spirit is Infinite Consciousness and the smallest particles happen to be objects to that Consciousness. Romans 11:36.
When God created humans in His own image, He made reality objective to them. God put His ideas and principles inside of them even though He made their good souls and spirits external to Himself. In other words, God created the good souls and spirits of humans as the objects of His Consciousness. God desired that the holy principles of His life that He put into humans should be a light to them; that is, a guide for them to always be righteous.
God created Adam and Eve in His image and put them into a beautiful garden and gave them a blissful life. But Satan was there, and he brought darkness, which represents the evils of spiritual death, into that perfect garden. Satan also knew that God had given free will to Adam and Eve because he observed that God had given them a choice between eating of the Tree of Life or eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan knew that he could use their free will against them, cause them to disobey God which would cause a loss of fellowship between them and God which would weaken them to the extent that he would be able to inject the evils of spiritual death into their inner beings. Satan believed that that spiritual death would eventually overpower and annul their spiritual life and cause them to be lost from God's Love forever. In his rebellion against God, Satan would be able to prove that God is not Almighty, and Satan believed that that result would weaken God to the point that Satan would be able to murder God and take His place. John 8:44. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Absolutely everything that God has ever created goes out from Him, and eventually, it all comes back to Him. Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter One
Verses 1-2
Just as a computer needs a power source to operate, so the Father happens to be the power source of the Trinity. Just as there can be no computer without computation and a picture, so the Logos, which means thought and reason, happens to be the Infinite Contents of the Mind of the Trinity. Since God's Mind occupies eternity and infinity, then the Holy Spirit happens to be the Omnipresence of the Trinity. God is One in Being. But He has to possess an Almighty Power source, an Infinite Mind filled with an infinite set of ideas with the reason necessary to put those ideas together to create useful systems, and an Eternal and Infinite Presence in order to be God that is One in Being.
If God's Power is not eternal and infinite, then He cannot be Almighty. If God cannot use the infinite contents of His Mind to create any good and useful system that He desires, then He cannot be Almighty. These facts can only mean that the Word of God must be equally correct when it states that the Holy Spirit, the Father, or the Son created the universe and all life. Whenever the Bible (KJB) speaks about One Person in the Trinity, it necessarily includes the other two.
God can compute, but He is not a computer. God is an individual person who happens to be the embodiment of Love, and the power of Love raised to an infinite degree. I John 4:8.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
The Old Testament Offerings part eleven
Jesus' statement in John 12:32 that His sacrifice on the cross "will draw all men unto Me" indicates that He will renew the latent faith that He has put into the inner beings of all humans. Genesis 1:27; Romans 12:3. Jesus' prayer to His Father from the cross for Him to forgive all humans whose sins and evil had nailed Him there indicates that Christ will renew the latent faith that He puts into all living humans. Luke 23:34. Jesus' statement, "For He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him" indicates that God will renew the latent faith that He has put into all living humans that He has created and will create. Luke 20:38. This verse accounts for the fact that in Christ's final Judgment, He will raise all living humans from the dead, and He will cast all separated, dead humans into the lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
The sin offerings of the Old Testament symbolized the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross to save all living humans who repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized Christ's descent into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:25-31. Since Jesus bore the sins and evil of all humanity on the cross, then His Spirit had to have left all the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus and raise Him from the grave victorious over all sin and evil. Romans 5:6-8; Revelation 1:17-18. Just as the Spirit of Christ makes Christ's salvation by grace actual only in the moment a living person in the flesh repents and believes, so Christ will make the lesser salvation of all believers confined to the regions of death actual when He causes them to repent and believe in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will then be able, in His final Judgment, to use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every individual system there in order to separate their believing, living souls and spirits from their dead natures. Christ will recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. Christ will cast their separated, spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5. Since Christ promised in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," and He created all things including all living humans, then He must purge all sin and evil from His entire creations and recreate it all to be righteous. Revelation 4:11; II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 8:18-23; Psalm 75:3; John 5:28-29.
Monday, January 3, 2022
The Old Testament Offerings part ten
When God recreates the world in Christ's final Judgment, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve His entire creations, including all humans. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3. Christ will dissolve every individual human being confined to one of the three regions of death by His Judgment following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. Christ allows all humans saved by grace to go straight to Heaven following their physical deaths. II Corinthians 5:8. God will, in a sense, melt down every individual human confined to the regions of death to separate their good and living souls and spirits from their evil natures. God puts faith into every good and living human whom He creates and loves, and He will renew that faith in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Romans 12:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will raise all of His repentant, living souls and spirits from the regions of the dead, and He will recreate them to live righteous lives on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Christ will judge and cast all of the separated, unrepentant, dead and evil natures of every individual human into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. The Devil injects an evil, spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans. This spiritual death happens to be foreign to the good, inner beings of all humans. Matthew 15:13; Genesis 2:17. God allowed the Devil to inject spiritual death into every human because of the fall of Adam and Eve. The Devil believes that this evil, spiritual death will eventually overcome and annul the good souls and spirits of humans, and thereby completely destroy a part of God's creations. Should the Devil succeed, he would prove that God's Love is not Almighty, and he would then be able to murder God on a cross. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God knows that His Love cannot fail, and so He promised the Devil that he would be able to injure Him on the cross, but He would crush the Devil's head and rid all of His creations of all evil that the Devil injected into it, including all living humans. Genesis 3:15; Romans 8:18-23; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
Nowhere does the Bible (KJB) teach that God will cast His living souls and spirits, whom He created in His image and loves, into an eternal lake of fire. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36. John the Baptist did teach in John 3:36 that the wrath of God abides on unbelievers. But unbelievers never become believers. Unbelief indicates the evil, spiritual deaths inside all humans that God will separate from all humans in the regions of death for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Eventually, God will renew the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all humans that He has created. Matthew 12:31-32; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-24. God has said that He will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, and He can only mean exactly that which He states. Jesus did tell some unbelievers in John 8:21-24 that "ye shall die in your sins," but He did not tell them that they would be dead forever. In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus taught some unbelieving Pharisees that "the kingdom of God is within you," by which He could only have meant the faith that still remained within their living souls and spirits.
Jesus and His Apostles taught that Jesus came to purge and completely destroy the Devil and all spiritual death from all of His creations. John 12:31-32; John 16:11; Hebrews 2:9-15; I John 3:8. Jesus came to save and recreate His entire creations besmirched by evil. Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
The Old Testament Offerings part nine
Moses wrote that the sin offering and the burnt offering would make an "atonement" for those who offered them. This word means "at one with God." But this word had a prophetic meaning only. Animal sacrifices could never make any person one with God. Hebrews 10:4. No one ever becomes one with God in the New Age sense. Jesus did pray that His believers would be one in Him and His Father, but He meant that in a subordinate sense. Jesus sometimes spoke as if He were a mere man, and so He emphasized the subordinate role of humans when He said "for my Father is greater than I." John 14:28. At other times, Jesus spoke as God and openly declared Himself to be One with His Father. John 10:30.
In Exodus 29:32-33, Aaron and his sons ate part of the sin offering which was a symbolic prophecy that believers saved by grace must spiritually partake of Christ in order to receive God's grace. God did not allow the stranger to eat because he symbolized all humans who fail to obtain salvation by grace.
Moses also wrote in Leviticus 1:4 that the person who offered a burnt sacrifice would also achieve "atonement" with God. Leviticus 5:10 also relates that that person would be forgiven by God. But these verses constitute a prophecy fulfilled in the New Testament that all humans not saved by grace will achieve a lesser form of salvation through the descent of the Spirit of Christ into Hell which the burnt offering symbolized.
The Apostle Paul used the word "atonement" in its Old Testament prophetic sense in Romans 5:11 to mean reconciliation with God. The Old Testament word "atonement" has this prophetic meaning. In this verse, Paul wrote only of salvation by grace, but in Romans 5:18-19, Paul wrote that Christ's sacrifice actually saves all humans. Paul's first use of the word "many" in Romans 5:19 can only mean "all humans" since all humans are sinners. Romans 3:23. This fact can also only mean that Paul's second use of the word "many" in this verse can only mean that God will provide for the salvation of all humans. Paul also used the word "reconcile" in Colossians 1:20 to mean that God will save all things that He has created in Heaven and in Earth, including all living humans. Paul wrote in Romans 11:36 that all that went out from God in His creations will come back to Him in recreation, including all humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14. In I Timothy 4:10, Paul flatly states that God will save all humans, especially those who believe while still alive in the flesh which is God's highest form of salvation. In I Corinthians 15:22, Paul outright teaches that Christ will restore to life all humans who are subject to death. I Timothy 6:13.
In John 10:10, Jesus taught that He came to give His life back to all humans, especially His abundant life which He gives to all humans saved by His grace. Jesus taught in John 12:31-32 and in John 16:11 that He came to defeat His enemies which happens to be Satan and all evil, not living humans. Christ said the same to Adam and Eve in the beginning when He cursed Satan and promised to crush his head, but He put no curse on living humans. Genesis 3:14-20. I John 3:8 teaches that Jesus came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. In fact, God promised Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and in Luke 20:38 Jesus taught that "all live unto Him." Genesis 3:20. Revelation 20:11-15 teaches that Christ will cast only the separated, evil dead into the lake of fire.