Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                      Verses 20-29 continued

When Jesus taught that His Father judges no man, He meant that His Father had committed all final judgments to His Son. Jesus makes no final judgments until the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. The Father often judged humans in the Old Testament with His fiery wrath against evil, or He used the Israeli army to destroy evil people in order to eliminate some of the lasting effects of evil in His world. God judged evil in order to shorten His work in the world. Romans 9:28. If God had not shortened His work in the world by purging evil from it, then human suffering would have lasted much longer, and God would have had to cast many more people into the regions of death. All of God's judgments in the Old Testament were only temporary. Christ's judgments of living humans immediately following their physical deaths are also only temporary. Hebrews 9:27. God means to permanently purge all spiritual deaths with all of its sins from every living human whom He has created in His image and preserve them all forever. Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 36:6. God will save some by His grace, and all others in a great worship service just prior to His final judgment. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to dissolve every human system consigned to one of the three regions of death in order to permanently separate their repentant, living natures from their evil natures so that He can recreate their cleansed, living natures to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead, evil natures into the lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. God can never lose anything He has ever created, including the lives of all humans. Everything that an Almighty God creates can only last forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:5; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; Psalm 111:7-8.

When Jesus proclaimed that all humans should honor the Son to the same extent that they honor the Father, He undoubtedly claimed to be God. When Jesus taught "That all men should honor the Son," He meant that they all had a choice in this matter. But the Bible (KJB) also teaches that God desires to save every living human. II Peter 3:9. No scripture exists within the entire Bible that teaches that the will of humans can countermand the Will of God. But God has provided scriptures which teach that an Almighty God can certainly devise a plan that will cause all living humans that He ever created to repent and believe in His Son of their own free will. Isaiah 45:20-25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 86:9; II Peter 3:9; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 13:8. Since God's Love can never fail, then He certainly cannot fail to save every living human whom He loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus actually prophesied in this verse that eventually all living humans will honor the Son to the same extent that they will honor the Father. John 5:23.