As Jean Paul Sartre so aptly wrote, "All consciousness is consciousness of something." In the absence of everything of which consciousness can be conscious, consciousness cannot exist, or if it does, it can only be a potential consciousness which equals nonexistence because it is totally non-conscious. If anything exists of which consciousness can never become conscious, then it equals nonexistence, or it possesses only potential existence until such a time as a consciousness can become conscious of it in order to make it real. Unreality only (non)exists in non-consciousness. Unconsciousness, such as being in a coma, still has a limited consciousness of breathing and heartbeat. Reality can only become established when consciousness becomes conscious of something.
Finite consciousness can only establish a temporary reality. Only reality can produce creativity. For this reason, finite consciousness could never evolve from a separation of potential consciousness from potential objectivity because both equal nonexistence. For this reason, reality can only be infinite, and that means its objectivity can only be created and its reality can only be established by an Infinite Consciousness. Genesis 1:1.
Monday, April 25, 2022
The Establishment of Reality
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 31-36 continued
John further taught that because the Father loves His Son, He has "given all things into His hand." Since Jesus created all things which already belong to Him, then this phrase can only mean that the Father gave His Almighty Power to His Son to make the sacrifice and resurrection that is necessary to recover and recreate His entire creation that has been stained and corrupted by sin and evil, and that Jesus would be able to reconcile all living humans that He creates to Himself. Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-23.
John continued his testimony by stating that everyone who believes in Christ will receive everlasting life. John 11:25-26. Since God gives His latent faith to every human He creates in His image, then God knows exactly how to revive that latent faith in every human and save them all, some by His higher form of salvation through His grace and all others He will save with a lesser form of salvation when He purges their sins and evil with His fiery wrath against evil. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 68:2-3.
In verse 36, John taught that unbelievers can never live and that God's wrath will forever be upon them. Since God will revive His latent faith in all living humans, then these unbelievers can only be the separated, spiritual dead that Christ will cast into the lake of fire. The evil that is spiritual death can influence living humans to disbelieve for a time, but God knows how to revive His latent faith that He puts into all humans so that He can cleanse and save them all. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. Total evil continuously rejects the Holy Spirit and can never believe in Christ. Matthew 12:31-32. Christ gives only a temporary punishment to living humans who have been influenced by the evil within them to reject Christ until their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. From the beginning, God meant that living humans would always suffer only temporary punishment for their sins and evil. God Himself would sacrifice Himself to eliminate their eternal suffering and death. Genesis 3:8-21. God promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living, and God will preserve His living humans that He creates forever. Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 15:22; II Timothy 4:1; Genesis 3:20. God also promised that He would save some living humans by His grace. Genesis 3:21. God knows exactly how to cause all living humans living on the earth or confined to the regions of death to choose to believe in Him in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Psalm 111:7-9; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Romans 11:29; Psalm 36:6; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 31-36
In these verses, John the Baptist expressed an even deeper revelation from God as to who Jesus really was. God inspired John to say that Jesus came from Heaven and that He "is above all." Since only God can be above all, this means that John witnessed that Jesus had to be God in human form.
John testified that Jesus preached a message from God, but no one believed His message. But in the very next verse John said that some humans will believe Jesus' testimony. John did not contradict himself. All humans possess a conflicted inner nature: a living soul and spirit created by God and an evil, spiritual death injected into humans by the Devil. This spiritual death, which causes all sin and evil in humans, happens to be a real part of man's inner being although it is foreign to humans. This spiritual death is totally evil and can never believe the gospel. Total evil always rejects Christ. John was correct to say that no one believes in Jesus because the spiritual deaths in all humans rejects faith in Christ. Matthew 12:31-32. The Holy Spirit annuls spiritual death when He recreates the souls and spirits of all living humans marred by sin and evil when they believe and become saved by God's grace. John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17. God also uses His fiery wrath against evil to purge the spiritual deaths of all other living humans just before He raises all repentant, living humans from the regions of the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; II Timothy 4:1.
John further testified that some humans will believe Jesus' gospel, and that God will "seal" those humans with the knowledge that everything that Christ preaches to them is true, and that everything that Christ has done to save them is true. God will activate the latent faith that He put into them when He created them, and they will be saved by His grace. The Holy Spirit will seal these believers with a salvation by grace that they can never lose. Ephesians 1:12-14; Romans 11:29.
John again testified that Jesus is God when He said that Jesus preached the Word of God and that God had given Jesus His entire Holy Spirit. This fact gave Jesus the right to give His Holy Spirit to anyone who ever believes in Him, and eventually all living humans will believe in Him because He gives them His faith when He creates them. God knows exactly how to activate that faith and cause all living humans to come to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will which will prove that His Love is Almighty and that it can never fail. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Romans 12:3; Luke 17:20-21; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 13:8.
Friday, April 22, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 28-30
The Old Testament describes God's general resurrection in the end of the world in Daniel 12:1-3 and in Isaiah 66:15-24. God will resurrect "all flesh" which can only mean all living humans that He ever created who did not get saved by grace. They will all come to Jerusalem to worship Him, and they will all be able to "look upon" their own "worms" in the lake of fire which symbolizes their own dead natures which God will separate from them by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. God will have previously resurrected all living humans who obtain salvation by grace: the Old Testament saints when Christ ascended, the Church saints in the Rapture of the Church, and the Tribulation saints when Christ comes to establish His millennial kingdom. Ephesians 4:7-10; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:4.
Daniel and Isaiah's prophecies agree precisely with God's description of His general resurrection and recreations as recorded in Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-15. Their prophecies also perfectly agree with Jesus' teaching in Mark 9:43-50 that only human "worms" will be cast into an everlasting Hell. Jesus also taught in Mark 9:49 that all living humans will be saved either by "fire," symbolic of His fiery wrath against evil which will dissolve all humans systems at that time, or by His "salt," symbolic of His sacrifice and resurrection that saves all who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; II Timothy 4:1; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:24. John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize "with the Holy Ghost and with fire." Since baptism symbolizes salvation, then the Holy Ghost baptism will save living humans by God's grace, and the baptism by God's fire will dissolve all other living humans for Him to separate their living natures from their dead natures so that He can recreate their living natures and cast their dead natures into the lake of fire. Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5.
Hebrews 9:27 simply teaches that Christ judges all unbelievers following their physical deaths. This judgment belongs to Christ alone. No one has the right to assume that Christ always casts living unbelievers into an eternal Hell in this judgment. Believers have the right to judge sin and evil itself when they see it so that they can fight against it, but God expressly forbids believers from making any judgments about the souls and spirits of any human. Matthew 7:1-2; Matthew 7:17-20. Jesus Himself taught that all of His judgments are temporary until His final Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world. John 12:46-48. All living humans saved by grace avoid any judgment by Christ because He allows them to go straight to Heaven following their physical deaths. II Corinthians 5:8.
Revelation describes Christ's final judgment. God will effect an absolute separation of all the good that He ever created from all evil, including the separation of all living humans from their spiritual deaths. Christ will cleanse and recreate His entire creation that has been stained by sin and evil. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12. Christ will judge the spiritual dead according to His Word and cast them into the lake of fire. Life and death are opposites. Living humans cannot be a part of dead humans. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse His entire creation and raise all repentant, living humans from the dead and recreate them all to be righteous. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; II Peter 3:9-13; II Timothy 4:1; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22. When Christ said, "Behold, I make all things new," He had to mean absolutely everything He ever created, including all living humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 28-30
John the Baptist formally informed the Jews that He was not the Messiah, but God sent him to be the forerunner of the Messiah. John's ministry connected the Old Testament to the New Testament. The Jews should have understood him had they properly read the prophets. Malachi 3:1.
John then began to preach about his new understanding of the higher form of salvation that Jesus came to give humanity. The Holy Spirit inspired John to understand that Christ came to form a Bride for Himself which had to be a higher form of salvation than the one which the Old Testament provided. John saw himself as being a kind of best man for Christ's marriage to His Church. John probably did not understand much about this new revelation from God, but it gave him a lot of joy.
When John said, "He must increase, but I must decrease," he did not mean that the Old Testament, which he represented, would become any less in value than the new revelation he had just received. Both are the inerrant and infallible Word of God, equal in value. John simply meant that Jesus, as God in human form, would bring to humanity such a greater form of salvation that the infinite depth of God's Love would become real to all who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; I Peter 1:1-5.
All of God's judgments are temporary as applied to humans except His final judgment which is eternal. But even His temporary judgments are eternal as recorded in His Word. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. In the Old Testament, God consigned all sinful humans who died to one of the regions of death except those Old Testament saints who had some faith that the coming Messiah would provide a higher form of salvation. God consigned those saints to be in Paradise next to Hell. Those saints did not suffer. The Holy Spirit comforted them. Ezekiel 31:16-18; Luke 16:19-31. This passage in Ezekiel teaches that God sent Paradise, which is the garden of Eden, into the depths of the earth for the comfort and safety of His saints whom He sent there. But Pharaoh and his hosts, which symbolize evil humans, will be tormented in Hell. The Bible (KJB) uses Hell as a general term for all three of the regions of death. Revelation 20:13. All three are hellish places. Jesus' Spirit went to the Old Testament saints in Paradise and preached the gospel to them, and when they all fully believed, He resurrected and recreated them to ascend with Him to live in Heaven with Him forever. Ephesians 4:7-10; Matthew 27:51-53.
But the Old Testament also plainly teaches that in God's final judgment, He will effect a general resurrection of all living humans created in His image for Him to recreate to live on His new earth. When that time comes, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all living human systems on the earth and within the regions of the dead for Him to separate the living from the dead. God will cleanse His living humans from all sin and evil for them to live on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, evil natures into the lake of fire. Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 66:15-24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29. Just before this general resurrection, God will cause all living humans on the earth and under the earth to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will in a great worship service. Isaiah 45:21-25; Revelation 5:11-14. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this lesser form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 1:3-4; Job 42:7-9; Leviticus 5:10. Even the most evil humans have done some good in life that God gave them to do. God will resurrect and recreate even their small souls and spirits to live on His new earth although their rewards will be few, and their recreated lives will not enjoy the best that God has to offer. Jesus taught that He will reward even the least good work. Matthew 10:42; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-12.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 24-27 continued
Man's trouble happens to be that the Devil has injected spiritual death, which is totally evil, into the inner beings of all humans. This spiritual death influences all humans to practice false combinations of good gifts from God which are sinful and destructive. God has created all things including all ideas, and they are all useful in creative combinations. Colossians 1:16. The visible is the world of the senses, and the invisible are thoughts and ideas. The Devil can create nothing. The Devil can only misuse God's good gifts by inventing false systems called sin such as excessive pride or excessive pleasure. Psalm 99:8; Romans 1:30. Pleasure, in itself, when practiced according to God's rules happens to be creative and good. Excessive, in itself, can also be a useful idea in some creative systems. But an invented false combination of these good ideas called "excessive pleasure," such as taking drugs, only proves eventually to be destructive. Pride, in itself, such as pride in one's family, promotes greater love, but the false combination called "excessive pride" happens to be the attitude that one can make oneself great and wise to the extent that one no longer needs God. Genesis 3:1-7. All sins proceed from excessive pride. Man's excessive pride nailed Jesus to the cross in its allied attempt with the Devil to murder God. Acts 4:23-28. The Bible (KJB) consistently refers to sin and evil as being "vanity," which means both emptiness and excessive pride.
Sin caused the Devil to inject evil into the inner beings of humans, and evil in turn, causes sin. Romans 5:12. Evil seeks to reduce God's good gifts to nothing, but since nothing also happens to be a good idea given by God, then evil seeks to go beyond the idea of nothing to annul God's good gifts; that is, reduce God's good gifts to an absolute nothingness. The Devil seeks to annul the good souls and spirits of humans by causing them to become totally evil. The worst human who ever lived can never become totally evil, and the best sinful human who ever lived can never make himself totally good. The bottomless pit (non)exists as a place of absolute nothingness. The Devil seeks to trap the living souls and spirits of humans forever in one of the regions of death, and thereby completely destroy a part of God's creations. But God has promised in His Word that He has devised a plan, accomplished through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, to protect and preserve all of His good gifts that He ever created, including the good lives of all His living humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 8:18-23; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 21:1-5. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve, cleanse, and recreate His entire creation stained by sin and evil, including all living humans consigned to the regions of death because they failed to obtain salvation by grace. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5. God will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will which will prove the Almighty Power of God's Love. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45: 21-25; Philippians 3:9-11; II Peter 3:9; How can God's Love and Will fail? Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Monday, April 18, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 24-27
John the Baptist was martyred for his faith in Christ when Herod cast him into prison and later executed him. But the soul and spirit of John did not go directly to Heaven. He went into Paradise which at that time was located next to Hell to wait there for the Holy Spirit to come and preach the gospel to him and all of the Old Testament saints who were confined there so that they all would fully believe the gospel which they already partly believed, become saved by grace, be resurrected after Jesus' resurrection, and be transported to Heaven when Jesus ascended. Matthew 27:52-53; Luke 16:19-26; Ephesians 4:7-19. This truth explains why Jesus told His disciples that the least of them in the Kingdom of God was greater in position than John the Baptist whom His Father would send to Paradise. Matthew 11:11. Jesus knew that He would give His Holy Spirit to all of His disciples except Judas Iscariot, and that that fact put them already in the Kingdom of Heaven and greater in position, but not in value, to John the Baptist. John 20:22. Every living human saved by grace has been thoroughly cleansed of all sin and evil by the blood of Christ, has been recreated in soul and spirit by the Holy Spirit, and has received by faith the very righteousness of Christ Himself by means of which those believers can be accepted by God to live with Him in Heaven forever, and in that sense, they already inhabit the Kingdom of Heaven even as they live on the earth. Ephesians 1:1-14.
An argument arose between the Jews and some of John's disciples about how to be purified; that is, cleansed of sins. The Jews probably contended that obedience to the Ten Commandments and animal sacrifices was necessary, while John's disciples averred that repentance and water baptism were all that one needed to be cleansed. These Jews went straight to John to ask him about water baptism, and they mistakenly assumed that Jesus baptized and preached the same message that John preached.
John's answer to these Jews revealed that his views about how a person could be cleansed from sins had radically changed. John told them that every good gift that any human can possess can only come to them from God, which implied that being cleansed from sins was one of those gifts. James 1:17. Everything that any human can possess that is good and joyful and beautiful can only come to that person as a gift from God. Life itself, love, food, clothing, marriage between one man and one woman, and all other good gifts can only come from God. God makes humans work for their food and clothing as a punishment for their sins, but the food and clothing itself could not exist without the creative acts of God. Genesis 3:17-19. All that God has created, He can never lose, including the lives of every human that He creates in His image. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:1-5.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 22-23 continued
The people who came to John to be baptized asked John what they should do after their baptism. Before God revealed to John that Jesus the Messiah could also save humans by His grace, John preached a different message. John advised them to be sure to do good works presumably because in the general resurrection, God would give them a better life with greater rewards than He would give to those who had led evil lives. Luke 3:6-14. Like some faithful Jews, John believed that in the end God will effect a general resurrection of His goodness in all humans so that He can recreate them to live forever on His recreated earth. Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 66:18-24. These scriptures reveal the truth that God will effect a general resurrection in the end of the world. God will give all those who led good lives, and who did a lot of good works, a much better life on the new earth with great rewards for their good works. But God will also recover and recreate even that small amount of goodness that He put into even those who were rebellious and practiced evil, but the rewards that He gives them will be very limited. God will recover and recreate all of His goodness that has been influenced by evil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Psalm 50:23; Psalm 37:29; Psalm 25:12-13; Proverbs 28:18; Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107:10-15; Psalm 103:19; Psalm 86:9; Revelation 21:1-5.
But when John saw Jesus come to him for baptism, then God caused him to recognize that Jesus was the Savior who could provide a much greater salvation for living humans while they were still in the flesh. John realized that Jesus could not only save by a baptism with His fiery wrath to separate all of His goodness from all evil, but He could also save by His baptism with the Holy Spirit; that is, Christ could save by His grace all believers while they were still alive in the flesh. Luke 3:16. John further taught that by these two different baptisms, Christ will "thoroughly purge His floor," which has the symbolic meaning that God will completely eliminate all evil from His creation. Christ will recover all the "wheat" which means He will recreate all living humans with either a greater form of salvation or a lesser form of salvation, and He will burn the "chaff" with unquenchable fire which means He will cast all of the dead and evil natures of all humans not saved by grace into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. God will not save anyone who does not believe that He can save them, but He will also cause every living human whom He ever created and loves to repent and believe of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-4. God will annul the spiritual deaths in the souls and spirits of all living humans who become saved by His grace the moment they believe and become baptized by the Holy Spirit, but He will allow sin to remain in their fleshly natures. John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 7:17-18.
All of this put together illustrates the exact truth that John the Baptist spoke when He saw Jesus come to be baptized, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." God must make His Word good. Numbers 23:19. Jesus came to save the entire world which means every living human whom He ever created and loves. John 6:33. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Christ will "thoroughly purge His floor," which happens to be a poetic way of saying that He will purge all sins, evil, and spiritual death from all of His creation, and He will provide a higher from of salvation by His grace and a lower form of salvation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. John 5:24; II Peter 3:9-13. Revelation 5:11-14 records that all living humans on the earth and under the earth in the regions of the dead will worship Christ as the Lamb of God which requires faith that He can save them. Faith and repentance always arouses the compassion of God, and He will provide for them a lesser form of salvation which will be a recreated life on His new earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 22-23 continued
Before John the Baptist recognized Jesus as the Savior who would save by His grace as well as by His being able to recover all of His goodness that He puts into every human He ever creates, John preached a different message. John preached that God sent him to baptize in water to demonstrate "repentance for the remission of sins." John did not preach salvation by grace before he recognized Jesus as the Savior. Since God sent John to baptize in water to symbolize remission of sins upon repentance, then God must have forgiven all who repented and were baptized by John. This fact can only mean that God will provide a lesser form of salvation for all humans in the end of the world because He will cause all humans on the earth and within the regions of the dead to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. God has predestined all humans to be saved by a higher and lesser form of salvation, and at the same time, all humans will choose of their own free will to be saved. Luke 3:3; John 1:33; Revelation 5:11-14; Acts 15:18; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:29.
John quoted Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 40:3-5 who expressed, in poetic form, that when God's glory is fully revealed, which can only happen in the end of the world, that everything that is wrong will be made right. Luke 3:4-6. Isaiah also prophesied that "all flesh shall see it together" which can only be a prophecy about God's revelation of Himself for the recovery and repentance of all living humans as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Isaiah made similar prophesies in Isaiah 45:20-24 and in Isaiah 66:18-24.
John also prophesied, "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God," which, in light of Isaiah's prophesies, can only mean that God will cause to repent, resurrect and recreate every living human whom He has ever created. Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 3:6; Ecclesiastes 3:14. John called those who came to repent "vipers" which could only refer to their evil, spiritual natures. Luke 3:7. John taught that these people were not good just because they were the children of Abraham. God could create children of Abraham out of stones. John preached that they all needed to repent and be baptized. Luke 3:8.
John further taught that God will cut down every "tree" that bears no good fruit whatsoever, and He will cast it into the fire. This "tree" that bears no good fruit can only symbolize the evil, spiritual nature of humans. John actually prophesied that God will cast only the dead and evil natures of humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God creates all humans in His image to be good and to do some good works. All humans have done some good works, even the worst humans. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. All of God's good creations belong to God and will return to God. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36. Jesus promised that even the least good work will not lose its reward. Matthew 10:42. God will have to recover and recreate all living humans for that to be true. Revelation 22:11-12. The evil, spiritual nature of humans can do no good whatsoever. John actually prophesied, in parabolic form, that God will cut out from its roots every evil spiritual nature of every human for Him to cast into the eternal lake of fire. Luke 3:9; Revelation 20:15.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 22-23 continued
No doubt John the Baptist had heard from his cousin Mary, the mother of Jesus, that Jesus could do miracles, but he did not know for certain that Jesus was the Messiah until that day that the Holy Spirit revealed that truth to him when Jesus came to be baptized by him. John 1:29. At that time, John seemed to have suddenly realized for certain that Jesus was the Savior.
Before John realized who Jesus was, he preached a different message. John did not preach salvation by grace. He preached that his baptism in water demonstrated a "repentance for the remission of sins." John 3:3. This baptism was different from the baptism with the Spirit that only the Savior could provide. John did preach that the Messiah was coming who "shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." Luke 3:16. The Holy Ghost baptism would be for salvation by grace, but the fire baptism would be for the Messiah to separate the "wheat" from the "chaff." The word "wheat" symbolized all of the good things that God ever created, including the souls and spirits of all humans. The word "chaff" symbolized the separated evil nature of all humans not saved by grace that Christ will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Luke 3:15-18. John actually prophesied that in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve His entire creation, including all living humans, in order to cleanse and separate all of His goodness from all evil and recreate it all to be righteous. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:5; John 5:28-29.
Jesus Himself preached this same doctrine in His parables of the "good seed" and the "tares" in Matthew 13:36-43, and He taught it in His parable of the separation of the good fish from the bad fish. Matthew 13:47-50. Jesus also prophesied that "every one shall be salted with fire" by which He meant that every living human will be saved. Genesis 8:20-21. Since Jesus sacrificed Himself to save every human, then His prophecy that "every sacrifice shall be salted with salt" can only mean that Christ will preserve every living human He ever created. Psalm 36:6; Psalm 75:3; Leviticus 2:13. When Jesus taught that "if the salt have lost his saltness," He meant that God will not preserve anything He did not create. God will purge all evil from His creations. When Jesus taught "Have salt in yourselves," He meant those who become saved by His grace. Mark 9:49-50. Jesus taught that these judgments would happen "in the end of the world." In the end of the world, Christ will effect an absolute separation, by the use of His fiery wrath against evil, to dissolve and separate all of the good that He has ever created from all of the evil that infects His creations, including all living humans who did not become saved by His grace. God will cause every living human on the earth and under the earth to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. At that time, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every living human system in order to separate and preserve all of the goodness that He put into them for Him to recreate, and He will cast all their separated evil into the lake of fire. Ecclesiastes 3:14; II Timothy 4:1; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5.
Monday, April 11, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 22-23
When verse 22 states that Jesus baptized with water, it only reported a false rumor that had spread among the people. John 4:1. Jesus did not baptize with water, but He instructed His disciples to baptize with water. John 4:2. Jesus only baptizes with the Holy Spirit for salvation by His grace, but He will also baptize the rest of humanity with His fiery wrath against evil which will dissolve their human systems to separate the "wheat," symbolic of all living humans not saved by grace whom He creates and loves, from the "chaff," symbolic of spiritual death which He will separate from all dissolved humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Luke 3:16-18; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:15; Acts 11:16. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized God's provision of a lesser form of salvation for all living humans who fail to get saved by His grace. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10. God's enemies are the Devil and evil, spiritual death, never living humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 3:14-15; Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 1:17-18; John 12:31-32; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; I John 3:8. No scripture in the entire Bible (KJB) states that Christ will cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire. Jesus did teach that He would cast human "worms" into the lake of fire, but these "worms" symbolize evil, spiritual death, not living humans. Mark 9: 44, 46, 48; Isaiah 66: 22-24.
In verse 23, John the Baptist baptized Jesus' disciples in water. Jesus had already been baptized by John to symbolize His own death, burial, and resurrection for the salvation of all living humans. Matthew 3:13-17; Luke 3:16-17. Christ had John baptize His disciples as their witness to the world that they had faith in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection for their salvation by His grace. With their water baptism, Jesus formed His own local church. Jesus commanded all local churches to baptize its members in water to witness to the world that they have the faith in Christ that saves by grace. Matthew 28:18-20. Jesus commanded that His believers saved by grace should form themselves into local churches by a confession of faith and the witness of water baptism in order to worship Him together, to strengthen and encourage each other by teaching and preaching His Word, and to spread His gospel to the world. Local churches do not save anyone. Local churches only spread the good news that Christ alone can save by His grace. John 14:6.
Only the Holy Spirit can convince a person who hears or reads the gospel that they are sinners whom only Christ can save by His grace. John 16:7-11. Those who teach that lost sinners go to Hell because the churches fail to spread the gospel do so in error. Only the gospel saves by grace, not the churches. Christ can never lose a single living human that He saves by His grace whether they become members of His Church or not. John 10:27-30. The Holy Spirit saves them all. Christ desires that His local churches spread His gospel so that He can give them great rewards in Heaven for their obedience. Churches that fail to spread the gospel simply lose their rewards. The Holy Spirit merely inspires the churches to spread the gospel. The Holy Spirit does the salvation by grace. God has appointed a time and place for every living human who obtains salvation by His grace. God uses His churches to spread His gospel, but He does not need the churches. The Holy Spirit preaches the gospel to the whole world. Those who obtain salvation by grace by a direct preaching by the Holy Spirit will feel that something in their inner beings has changed, and they will desire to be good people, but they will not become fully aware that they have been saved by grace until they see Jesus after their physical deaths. John 1:9; Colossians 1:23.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 17-21 continued
In verse 19, Jesus described the kind of judgment He would make while He was in the world. He came as the Light to the world to draw all living humans out of the darkness of evil into His salvation by His grace. But He prophesied that most living humans would remain in the darkness of evil and refuse to come to His Light to be saved by His grace.
In verse 20, Jesus prophesied that most living humans will hate Him because they will desire to cling to their sins and evil. They will refuse to repent and believe in His Light that will completely vanquish their darkness.
In verse 21, Jesus taught that there will be certain types of living humans who will love the Truth, and who will have a desire to come to the Light to be saved by His grace. Jesus taught that their additional good deeds which He would give them to do will become manifested to the whole world as a witness that they have become saved by His grace. But God also gives goodness to every living human whom He ever creates. That goodness can never be lost. Genesis 1:31; Romans 11:29. No living human will ever become totally evil, not even the maniac of Gadara or even Judas Iscariot. Luke 8:27-28; Matthew 26:48-50. The Devil desires to turn at least one good, living human entirely to evil and thereby prove that God's Love for His creations can fail. Job 1:9-11. But God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. All human systems consist of a combination of the good image of God and the total evil of spiritual death. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17. Spiritual death will cause tremendous, but temporary, suffering and horror to all living humans, but evil can never overcome the goodness of God given in His grace and mercy. The Holy Spirit abolishes the spiritual death in the souls and spirits of all living humans who choose to become saved by His grace, but He allows evil to remain in their fleshly natures which will cause them to sin. II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 7:18. But God will cleanse their bodies of all sins and recreate them to be like Jesus when He Raptures the Church. I John 3:2; Ephesians 5:25-27. But God will also provide a lesser form of salvation for all living humans not saved by grace when He will cause them to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will close to the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; John 11:25; John 5:28-29.
At no time in Jesus' discussion with Nicodemus, and the rest of us who read His Word, did Jesus ever relate that He would ever cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire. Beside His message that one must be "born again" to enter the Kingdom of God, that message would have been the second most important part of His teachings, but Jesus did not mention it. Jesus did not mention it because God will never cast His living humans into an eternal lake of fire, only the spiritual dead humans. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 17-21
While Jesus was in the world, He did not judge the world. The word "condemn" that He used means "to judge." Jesus did not judge at that time because He came to save the world, not to make final judgments. If God's mission was to save the world, then how could He fail to save the entire world, including all living humans whom He creates and loves? Christ makes only one final judgment which happens in the end of the world. John 12:47-48; II Timothy 4:1. II Timothy 4:1 states that Christ will "judge the quick and the dead" in His final judgment. This verse can only mean that Christ will effect a complete separation of all living humans whom He will save from all dead humans whom He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
In Christ's final judgment, He will judge by His written Word and by the Book of Life. His judgment will consist of a fiery wrath against evil that will dissolve every human system on the earth and under the earth to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths. Christ will save every repentant, living human for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth because their names will be found in the Book of Life, and He will consign their separated, spiritual deaths to an eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Every living human that God has ever created will eventually repent and believe in Christ their Savior because His goodness and faith that God put into their inner beings will cause them all to choose to repent and believe. God, who possesses an Infinite Intellect, knew exactly how to design His creations to act this way. Humanity's feeble will cannot equal God's Almighty Will. II Peter 3:9. God will separate the spiritual deaths from every human for Him to cast into the lake of fire because they are totally evil and can never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:15; I Timothy 1:10; Matthew 13:35-43; John 5:28-29. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5; Romans 8:18-23. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Romans 8:21 can only mean that God's entire creation will be delivered from its bondage to sin and evil. Colossians 1:20 can 0nly mean that God will eventually reconcile everything He has ever created to Himself. Romans 11:36 can only mean that everything that God has ever created goes out from Him and will return to Him.
In the first part of verse 18, Jesus refers to living humans who become saved by His grace. God removes all eternal judgments from living humans whom He saves by His grace. Romans 8:1. Christ will consign living humans who fail to obtain salvation by grace to the regions of death, but that will not be a final judgment. Hebrews 9:27. Christ's final judgment will only fall on the separated, spiritual deaths of humans because they refuse to believe. Matthew 12:31-32. Living humans are not God's enemies. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. God's enemies are the Devil and evil itself. Genesis 3:15; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8. God has devised a plan that will cause every living human eventually to repent and believe in Christ, the Lamb of God, of their own free will which will prove the great value of God's Love. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; Psalm 86:9. God will save some humans by His grace and give them an eternal home with Him in Heaven. I Peter 1:1-5. God will save all other living humans with a lesser form of salvation which will be His recreation of them to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verse 9-16 continued
Jesus also taught that whoever would fail to believe in Him to be saved by grace would "perish." But that word "perish" does not mean that Christ will cast their living souls and spirits into an eternal lake of fire. In the end of the world, Jesus will cast only the spiritual dead into the lake of fire. Death is the exact opposite of life. Revelation 20:11-15.
The word "perish" that Jesus used means "to die" or "to be marred." Christ judges unbelievers when they physically die. Hebrews 9:27. Jesus alone has the right to make this judgment. For one to presume that Jesus casts the souls and spirits of those unbelievers He judges into an eternal Hell means that that presumption violates a commandment of Christ. Matthew 7:1-2. Christ withholds all of His final judgments until the end of the world. Revelation 20:11; John 12:47-48. In His final judgment, Jesus dissolves the systems of every person on earth and within the regions of the dead to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits for Him to resurrect to recreate in body, soul, and spirit to live on His recreated earth, and Jesus will cast their separated, dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Timothy 4:1; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22. Jesus meant by His use of the word "perish" that when marred humans die, God will dissolve their systems in the end of the world. II Peter 3:9-13. Moreover, Christ cannot cast living humans into the lake of fire because His Word teaches that He will cleanse from evil, preserve, recover, and recreate everything that He created in the first place. Ecclesiastes 3:14; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 36:6; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5.
In John 12:25, Jesus used other words to teach this same doctrine which He also taught in Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24 and Luke 17:33. When a teaching of Jesus repeats in all four Gospels, it has to be very important. In these verses, Jesus taught that those who attempt to save their earthly lives, with all their sins and spiritual deaths, will lose their lives. In the end of the world, Jesus will dissolve their earthly lives to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits from their evil, spiritual deaths. When Jesus recreates their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, they will be completely different persons than they were when they lived on the former earth. Christ will recreate them to be righteous. Christ will use His fiery wrath to purge all of their sins and evil from them, especially their excessive pride which caused them to reject faith in Him, and He will recreate them to be meek and righteous persons on the new earth. Matthew 5:5; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:5. They will lose their former identities and personalities that they had on the former earth, and they will probably not even remember them. Revelation 21:1-5. In other words, their former lives on the earth will have perished.
But those humans who hate their earthly lives of sins and evil and repent of them, and who put their faith in Christ as their Savior from their sins and evil, He will save their lives by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh. I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5; John 5:24. The Holy Spirit will cleanse their living souls and spirits with the spiritual blood of Christ, and He will recreate their souls and spirits to be new, righteous persons, and He will give them the eternal life and righteousness of Christ Himself by which they can be accepted by God to live with Him forever in Heaven. II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:24; Romans 8:17-24. Yet, the Holy Spirit possesses the ability to save by His grace and recreate all living humans who put their faith in Christ, and at the same time, He also holds the power to cause them to retain their former identities and most of their former personalities that they had on the former earth. In other words, Christ will save their lives. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." John 12:25.
Monday, April 4, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 9-16
In effect, Nicodemus asked Jesus what causes the "born again" experience. What causes the Holy Spirit to enter into a person? Jesus told Nicodemus that he should already know something about the spiritual new birth because he had read and studied Isaiah and the other Old Testament prophets who wrote about a suffering Messiah and the spiritual new birth. Isaiah 53:1-12; Isaiah 55:1-13.
Jesus compared earthly events like being born into the world and feeling the wind blow to the spiritual event of being "born again" in order to make it easier for Nicodemus to believe in Him. But Jesus sensed that Nicodemus found it hard to believe in Jesus as his Savior. Jesus chided Nicodemus a little because Jesus had taught him earthly truths that were similar to spiritual truths, but Nicodemus had not used his imagination and intellect to come to a spiritual understanding. All through His ministry, Jesus often taught in parables, and He sometimes became annoyed when people failed to realize that His teachings about material events should illustrate spiritual truths. Humans often know far more in their unconscious minds that they are willing to admit into their conscious minds. Jesus became annoyed with the people He taught because they should have recognized His spiritual Truths, but they still clung to their false beliefs through their stubborn pride. Women seemed to be able to comprehend Jesus' spiritual teachings much quicker that did men.
Because Nicodemus was confused, Jesus began to directly teach him about who He was and what He would do to cause the new birth. Jesus taught Nicodemus that He was the Messiah who descended from Heaven. Jesus also told Nicodemus that He was on the earth, and at the same time, He was in Heaven. Nicodemus should have understood that Jesus claimed to be One with His Father united together by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus reminded Nicodemus that Moses had lifted up a fiery serpent of brass in the wilderness that symbolized the people's sins, and when any person looked at that symbol, they would be saved from death. Numbers 21:5-9. Since Nicodemus knew that the fiery serpent of brass symbolized the people's sins, then he should have understood Jesus when He said that He would be lifted up like that fiery serpent and that Nicodemus could be saved in the flesh by looking at Jesus by his faith when Jesus would be lifted up. Jesus further taught Nicodemus that whosoever looked to Jesus in faith lifted up would receive eternal life while still in the flesh which was an exact definition of being "born again."
Jesus also taught that His Love for humanity would cause Him to be lifted up to suffer for the sins and spiritual deaths of all humanity so that whosoever believed in Him would be saved from eternal death forever. God has proved in many scripture passages that He will save every living human that He ever created and loves, some by His grace and all others when they repent and believe in the Lamb while in the regions of death when He appears to them in a great worship service. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; Philippians 2:9-11; Psalm 107:9-14; Psalm 86:9; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Acts 3:20-21; Revelation 21:1-5 and many others.
Friday, April 1, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Three
Verses 1-8 continued
Every human possesses a soul and spirit created in the image of God, and God can never lose anything that He has created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. All humans not saved by grace will eventually repent and believe in Christ of their own free wills, and He will give them a lesser form of salvation. He will recover and recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. God cannot give rewards for good works to dead people. God can only give rewards for good works to living humans whom He has resurrected back to life. Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-2. Jesus taught that even those living humans who did the smallest amount of good works will not lose their rewards even though those rewards will be few. Matthew 10:42; Matthew 16:27.
Jesus told Nicodemus that he had to be "born again," that is, "born of the Spirit" in order to enter the Kingdom of God while still alive in the flesh. Jesus described this experience as like feeling the wind blow. Apparently, Nicodemus had trouble understanding spiritual matters because he asked Jesus if a man could be born again from his mother's womb, so Jesus gave him a material example that compares with spiritual birth. A person knows when they become "born again" because they feel the Holy Spirit move into their inner being, similar to feeling the wind blow, and that person feels cleansed and forgiven of all their sins, and they feel that they have entered into a new world. Jesus did not mention water baptism as being necessary to feel this move of the Holy Spirit. When Peter preached the gospel to Cornelius and some of his kinsman and friends, the Holy Spirit fell on them immediately as soon as they believed in Jesus. Water baptisms followed their salvation by grace. This event provides only one example in the scriptures that confirms that spiritual truth that Jesus taught Nicodemus. Acts 10:34-48; John 3:7-8. Jesus clearly taught that just as a person can suddenly feel the wind blow, so a person can immediately be "born of the Spirit." Water baptism only follows this spiritual salvation as a witness to it.