Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Six

                                                                                                                                              Verses 52-59 continued

Satan believed that he would eventually defeat God and take His place when he caused Adam and Eve to sin. Because the Devil brought sin into God's world, he gained the power to inject spiritual death into every living human that God would ever create. "For the wages of sin is death..." Romans 6:23. That spiritual death, in turn, would cause all humans to sin, and eventually, as the Devil believed, some humans would become so corrupt and evil that the Devil would be able to annul their spiritual lives and completely destroy a part of God's creation and thereby prove that God's Love is not real and not Almighty. This was the Devil's plan to eventually destroy God Himself. But the Devil did not count on God's Love being so mighty that He would sacrifice Himself on a cross to take the spiritual deaths and sins away from all living humans so that He could give them all His eternal life through His resurrection from the dead. Genesis 3:15. God told the Devil that he would be able to wound Him, but that He would crush the Devil's head. God would completely destroy the Devil and all evil, not living humans. II Peter 3:9-13. Although the Devil had injected the curse into all living humans, God promised Adam and Eve, and all future living humans, that He would take that curse away. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38. God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve to symbolize salvation by His grace through the shed blood of the Lamb on the cross. God gave the burnt offering to Noah to symbolize the salvation of the rest of humanity by the descent of the Holy Spirit into the regions of death to leave all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity behind there so that God could use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all human systems there to separate their repentant living souls and spirits for Him to save forever from their evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 16:10; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. The Holy Spirit had to have borne all of the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace when He descended into Hell, and He had to be absolutely immaculate when He reanimated the perfect body of Jesus to raise Him from the dead victorious over all sin and evil. Revelation 1:17-18. Because of God's prophecy, the Devil knew the reason why Jesus came to the world, so he actually tried to defeat God by tempting Jesus to sin, but Jesus prevailed. Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13.

When Jesus told these unbelievers that they had to eat His flesh and drink His blood or they would have no life, He did not mean that they would lose the image of God that He had put into them, and they would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus meant that they could have no immediate salvation by grace. In the next verse 54, and also verse 27, Jesus assured all who read or hear His Word that they all will eat His flesh and drink His blood, and He will raise them all "in the last day." Jesus had a double meaning when He said, "I will raise him up at the last day." He meant the last days of the resurrections of His firstfruits: His Old Testament saints, His New Testament saints, and His Tribulation saints. I Corinthians 15:20-23. But Jesus also meant that "in the last day," which will be His final judgment, He will raise all living humans that He created and loves from their graves because He will cause them all to repent and believe of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29. God will allow all living humans saved by His grace to live with Him in Heaven because He will give them the perfect life of Christ Himself. Romans 8:14-17; II Corinthians 5:21. God will recreate all living humans whom He will raise from the dead with eternal, earthly lives to live on His new earth, and He will protect them from sin and evil forever because He will have purged all sin and evil from His entire recreation forever. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.