Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                Chapter Nine

                                                                                                                                               Verses 1-5 continued

When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell. Luke 23:46; Acts 2:27. Jesus gave His Spirit back to His Father, but His Father's Will was to send His Holy Spirit into the regions of death. The Father had to have a reason for doing this. The burnt offering sacrifice evidently symbolizes this reason. Genesis 8:20-21. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross for every living human He would save by His grace, but His Spirit descended into Hell to leave behind there all of the evil and spiritual deaths of all living humans that Jesus bore on the cross. I John 2:2. The Holy Spirit then ascended immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over all sin and evil, and He could become the Savior of all living humans. Psalm 16:9-10; I Peter 3:18; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10.

Near the end of the world, God will renew the faith in the Lamb of God of all living humans confined to the regions of death so that He can save and resurrect them with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5. Jesus saved by His grace all living humans when He shed His blood and water on the cross who will believe in Him while still alive in the flesh, but that salvation does not become active until the Holy Spirit delivers Jesus' blood to cleanse and forgive them on the day that they repent and believe in Jesus as their Savior. They must also repent from time to time to be cleansed by the water that Jesus shed on the cross. In this same way, the Holy Spirit accomplished the lesser form of salvation of all living humans confined to the regions of death when He left all of their evil and spiritual deaths behind there when He rose immaculate from the dead, but their salvation does not become active until Christ appears to them and causes them all to repent and believe in the power of the Lamb to save them. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15. On this future day when they repent and believe, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve and separate their saved living souls and spirits that He will recreate from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.

This man was blind simply because God must allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity so that God can prove that the faith that He puts into every living human can never fail because God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Jesus taught His disciples that this man was blind so that God could display His Love and compassion for him when Jesus healed him. Every human suffers from the effects of sin and evil so that God can show His Love and compassion for them when He heals and saves them. This blind man later became saved by grace, but Jesus healed him before he became saved by grace. Jesus healed many persons who never became saved by grace. Matthew 12:15. Jesus' underlying message to all who read the gospel of John is that God will heal and save all living humans ravaged by sin and evil whether their condition was their fault or not. John 5:14.

Jesus further taught His disciples and the rest of humanity that He is "the light of the world." Jesus said that He is the light of all mankind, not just those saved by His grace. John 1:9. It cannot make sense that Jesus would heal many who did not become saved by grace only to later cast them into a lake of fire.

While Jesus was in the world, He was the direct light of the world, but He remains the light of the world through His believers saved by grace; that is, His Church. Matthew 5:14-16. Jesus is "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." John 1:9. In other words, Jesus provides a higher and a lesser form of salvation for every living human that He ever creates.

Jesus further taught that He would do the good and compassionate work of His Father while it was day; that is, in the light. When the night comes, which symbolizes spiritual darkness, no man can do any good works. Darkness covers the sins and evil that humans do. But Jesus came to bring all of His living humans to His Light, and He will condemn only their dead and evil natures within the dark regions of death to the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. Spiritual death is totally evil, and total evil can never repent, but living humans retain the faith that God puts into them, and they can repent. John 3:17-21; Matthew 12:31-32; I John 3:8; John 11:25; Revelation 5:11-14. John 12:31-32 relates that Christ judged the world from His cross in order to cast out total evil and to bring all of His living humans back to faith in Him.