Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Eight

                                                                                                                                              Verse 12 continued

God preached His gospel to the world just prior to His creation of it. God said, "Let there be light" which instantly dispelled the darkness that covered the world. Genesis 1:2-3. God created material light, but that light symbolically represents His spiritual Light which will instantly dispel the evil darkness in the hearts of all believers saved by grace. John 3:21; John 8:12. When God recreates His new Heaven and earth, He will dispel all darkness from His new creations. God will infuse His entire new creations with both material light and spiritual Light. Revelation 21:23-27; Revelation 22:5. God has learned that evil entered His creations through the cover of darkness. God created evil only in the sense that He accidentally allowed evil to enter His creations when He created darkness. Isaiah 45:7. God has an infinite knowledge of only all that is holy and pure. God had no knowledge of evil until it entered His creations through the rebellion of Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:15. God feels guilty about that even though He knows He has no reason to feel that way. Isaiah 45:7. God will infuse His new creations with material light and spiritual Light in order to purge all death and darkness and burn it all in the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. Evil will never be able to enter God's creations again.

God also had the Apostle John to write that His Light will light "every man that cometh into the world." This truth can only mean that God's Spirit will preach the gospel to the hearts of every human who ever lived, and it also means that Christ will light up the dark regions of the dead with His appearance to every living human that He had to confine there in a great worship service near the end of the world. Colossians 1:23; Revelation 5:11-14. The overwhelming Majesty and Love displayed in His appearance will cause all living humans confined there to repent and put their faith in the Lamb of God of their own free will. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their systems in order to separate their repentant, living natures for Him to recreate with new bodies to live forever on His new earth from their dark and dead natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Psalm 75:3; Numbers 31:23; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43.