Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Six

                                                                                                                                      Verses 45-51 continued

God is a Spirit, but He holds the power to change from Spirit to a physical body and from a physical body back to a Spirit. John 4:24; Luke 24:36-43. Jesus preached to these unbelievers, who knew that God is a Spirit, that He is the "living bread," which is also His flesh, that He would "give for the life of the world," which can only mean all mankind. Jesus tried to awaken their spiritual natures to realize that He is God who came from Heaven to become flesh, but since He is also Spirit, then they could partake of His "living bread," which is spiritual food, by faith and receive everlasting life while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24.

Since Jesus preached that He would "give His flesh for the life of the world," then He must eventually cause all living humans to return to faith in Him, partake of His spiritual food and become rescued from eternal, spiritual death. Jesus never preached that He would give His life to save only by His grace. Jesus specifically preached that He would give His flesh to save the lives of all mankind. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. Since God's Love cannot fail, then He must save His entire creation that He created and loves. Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36.

Jesus will fulfill His prophecy near the end of the world when He appears to all living humans confined to the regions of death, and in a tremendous worship service, He will cause all living humans to return to the faith that He put into them when He created them, and He will cause them all to repent of their own free will so that He can resurrect them all from their graves and recreate them all to have righteous lives on His new earth. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 45:20-25; II Peter 3:9-13.

When Jesus said that He would "give His flesh for the life of the world," He meant to do exactly that which He said He would do. No one should ever read into this scripture, or any similar scripture, that Christ will save only by His grace, and He will cast all living unbelievers into an eternal lake of fire. Jesus never said that nor does any other scripture in the entire Bible (KJB) teach that. In fact, Numbers 23:19 teaches that God must make His Word good. Jesus will cast the unbelievers, who are the spiritual dead, into the lake of fire after He has dissolved all human systems within the regions of the dead in order to separate their living natures that He created and loves from their dead natures. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15.  Jesus taught that He will cast human "worms," symbolic of spiritual death, into the lake of fire. Mark 9:44, 46, 48. Isaiah prophesied that all living humans raised in the general resurrection will be able to see their "worms" in the lake of fire. Isaiah 66:22-24. Isaiah also prophesied that God will save the entire living human race. Isaiah 45:20-25. Is it reasonable to assume that God's Love and compassion will only be extended to those who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh, and He will ignore those living humans who repent and believe while confined to the regions of death? God's Love and compassion cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Luke 23:34.