Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter One

                                                                                                                                          Verse 29

Special attention must be given to exactly that which John the Baptist said about Jesus in this verse. John said that Jesus came as the sacrificial Lamb of God "which taketh away the sin of the world," not living humans. The meaning of the word "world" here includes every human who ever lived. Jesus came to take the sin and evil away from every living human whom He ever creates and loves, never to cast living humans into a lake of fire. In fact, Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that Christ will cast only dead and evil humans into the lake of fire. God made a similar statement in Proverbs 10:12. "But love covereth all sins" has to be a promise from God that He will provide a means to take away the entire set of sins ever committed by all humans and the evil that causes those sins.

Every human possesses both a living and a dead inner nature. Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:17. All humans saved by grace while still alive in the flesh, Christ cleanses them of all their sins and annuls their spiritual deaths with His blood and water that He shed on the cross. All other living humans whom He must confine to the regions of death or who live on the earth, Christ will save with a lesser form of salvation when He uses His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their systems to separate their cleansed living natures from their dead, evil natures. Psalm 75:3; Psalm 107:9-15; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13. All humans must repent and believe in Christ of their own free will in order to be saved with a higher or lower form of salvation. But the Infinite Intellect of God knows exactly how to cause every human who ever lived to repent and believe of their own free will. In the end of the world in a general resurrection, Christ will prepare all living humans on earth or within the regions of death to receive His lesser form of salvation by His fiery wrath when He causes them all to repent and believe of their own free will in the Lamb of God as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Once Christ has dissolved all of their systems by His use of His fiery wrath, He will raise all of their separated, living natures from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, and He will confine all of their dead, evil natures to the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.