Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                      Verses 20-29 continued

The Jews correctly believed that God is the source of all life, and Jesus claimed that His Father had given Him that same source of life. In this statement, Jesus made an unquestionable claim that He is God. Jesus claimed to be Life itself. God is Truth, Love, and Life itself. John 14:6. God created man in His own image which means He gives humans a limited copy of His own love, righteousness, faith, and life. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8.

The Father has given to His Son the authority to execute all judgments. Jesus taught that He will make no final judgments until the end of the world. John 12:47-48. Jesus clearly taught that He would make no judgments of unbelievers while He was still in the world. This fact can only mean that all of Jesus' judgments prior to His final judgment can only be temporary. Hebrews 9:27. Jesus taught that He would only make a final judgment of unbelievers in the end of the world. Revelation 20:11-15 exactly describes that judgment. Jesus will cast only the unbelievers; that is, the spiritual dead separated from every living human by God's fiery wrath, into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:11-15. Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, and since He has promised "to make all things new," then God must cause all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-4; Revelation 21:1-5. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every system to separate their repentant, living natures for Him to recreate from their evil, dead natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5. Just prior to Christ's final judgment, He will raise all repentant, living humans from the dead for Him to recreate in soul, spirit, and body to live forever on his recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:1-5; I Timothy 6:13.

Jesus then returned to a better explanation of His prophecy in verse 25. Jesus said that "the hour is coming" in both verses which can only mean that He will effect a general resurrection of the living and the dead in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43. Jesus prophesied that "all that are in the graves shall hear His voice." This prophecy can only refer to a general resurrection in the end of the world because all of the saints saved by grace God will have already resurrected which are: the resurrection of the Old Testament saints, the coming resurrection of the New Testament saints, and the coming resurrection of the Tribulation saints. Matthew 27:52-53; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:4.

Jesus further prophesied that He will resurrect back to life all living humans who have done some good. Jesus could not have been speaking about any resurrection of saints saved by grace because God does not resurrect these saints because of their good works. God resurrects them only because they are in a state of grace. Christ will raise back to life even the most evil and rebellious humans because they all will repent and believe in the Lamb. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107:10-15. All living humans have done some good no matter how evil they may be. Jesus has promised that He will reward even the least good work that any living human has done. Matthew 10:42; Revelation 22:11-12. But evil humans possess a small, living nature whom Christ will resurrect with few rewards and a restricted life on His new earth. John 12:25. No living human can ever become totally evil because God will not allow that to happen. In that case, God would lose a part of His good creations, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus also prophesied that He will cast all of the separated, evil natures of all humans in this final resurrection into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.