Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 32-39

The scripture to which Jesus referred that states that God created humans to be "gods" means He has put His image into all humans. Would God ever allow His image to be destroyed? Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Psalm 82:6. This same verse states that all humans are God's children. God loves all of His children, and since God's Love is Almighty, then the good natures that He has put into all humans can never be utterly destroyed. Jesus "shall save His people from their sins." Every living human that God ever created must be His people because He put His indestructible image within them. Matthew 1:21. Living humans can commit sins and even practice evil, but God will utterly destroy the dead, evil natures of all humans, and upon a restored repentance and faith, He will forgive and cleanse all sins. The Devil will cause excruciating pain and suffering to humans in his attempt to get even one living human to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever, but God will not lose a single living human. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Proverbs 10:12.

These same scriptures state that God will "judge the earth," and He "shalt inherit all nations." Psalm 82:8. The only judgment that God makes of the whole earth occurs with Jesus' final judgment in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 20:11. Every human has the "quick and the dead" and the "tares and the wheat" inside of them. Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 15:13. Jesus will appear to all His good, living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all their systems in order to melt them so that he can separate their repentant, good natures from their evil natures. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13. Christ will resurrect all of His good, living humans from the regions of the dead and recreate them all to live forever on His new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Christ will cast all of their separated, evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. Psalm 82:8 further prophesies that God "shalt inherit all nations" which can only mean that God will provide a lesser form of salvation than that of grace to every living human that He ever created confined to the regions of death. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29.

                                                                                                                                            Verses 40-42

After Jesus had caused the good natures of those who hated Him to win out over their evil natures, He returned to the Jordan river where He had been baptized by John the Baptist. There He found people who believed the preaching of John the Baptist that Jesus was the "Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. Jesus found some temporary rest from His spiritual battles with evil among His followers who were saved by His grace.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 32-39

When the Jews heard Jesus' claim to be God, they took up stones to stone Him to death. Jesus told them that they had seen Him do many good works, and He asked them for what good works they desired to stone Him. Jesus was trying to make them realize that they had never seen Him do anything but good works. Jesus had used the power of the Holy Spirit to convince the Jews that they could not find one sin that Jesus had committed. John 8:46. The Jews accused Jesus of blasphemy, even though they knew that Jesus had never wronged anyone, and they knew also that Jesus had never done anything but good works. Based on these facts, they should have known that their charge of blasphemy had to be false, and since Jesus had proved Himself to be absolutely perfect, then He had to be God.

These Jews admitted to Jesus that they knew that Jesus had only done good works, but they nevertheless had to stone Him for blasphemy. They ignored the blatant contradiction in their answer. They had accused Jesus of having a demon, but they ignored the fact that demons can never do good works.

Because Jesus loved them, as He does all humans, He actually became conciliatory in His answer to them. Jesus reminded them that their own scriptures had taught them that God had made them gods. Psalm 82:6. Jesus meant that He creates all humans in His image which means He puts goodness and faith into their living souls and spirits, that all humans are His children, and that God loves all of His creations, including these Jews who hated Jesus. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Jesus appealed to their inner good natures to come to the realization that since He had only done good works and had never sinned, then He had to be God in human form. Every human either listens to their good inner nature; that is, the god that God put into them which is their conscience, or they give in to their evil nature that the Devil put into them. Jesus informed them that they knew that His Father had sanctified Him which meant He had to be absolutely perfect. Jesus told them that if He had done no good works of His Father, then they had every right to disbelieve in Him.

Jesus then appealed to their faith in God their Father. Jesus told them that if they could not believe that He was God in human form, then they should at least believe that God their Father had done all His good works through Jesus which could only mean that Jesus had to have come from God. Jesus knew that this kind of faith could not save them by grace, but at least this faith would arouse their good natures to win out over their evil natures that caused them to hate Him. Their hatred for Jesus obviously caused Him tremendous grief.

Jesus succeeded in His appeal to their good natures that He had put into them because He simply walked away from them, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit caused none of them to throw any stones at Him.

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                                 Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 22-31

As Jesus walked in the Temple, some of the Jews came to Him and demanded that He tell them plainly that He was their Messiah. Jesus replied that He had told them many times that He was God in human form which also meant that He had to be their Messiah. He also told them that He had performed many miracles in His Father's name to prove that He was God in human form. But Jesus did not happen to be the kind of Messiah that the Jews wanted. They wanted an ordinary human who could use the power of God to liberate them from the Romans. They ignored the fact that their own scriptures prophesied that their Messiah would be God in human form, and who would sacrifice Himself for them to provide for them a spiritual salvation. Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 53:1-12.

Jesus replied that He came as their Messiah to give them a spiritual liberation, not a political one. Jesus told them that He came to call His own sheep out of the sheepfold to follow Him, and these Jews were not His special sheep because they did not hear His voice. Jesus preached His spiritual message that these Jews did not want to hear. Jesus came to change the hearts of humans to make them loving and kind, not to cause them to wage political war.

Jesus then described His spiritual message. Jesus told them that if they would only believe that He was the Son of God and their Shepherd and follow Him, He could immediately give them eternal life that they could never lose. John 5:24. Jesus and His Father would provide absolute, eternal protection for them by holding them in His hand. No one can ever break the absolute power of God's hand. Jesus again proclaimed that He was God in human form because He said that He was One with His Father which could only mean that His hand and His Father's hand had to be the same hand. Since the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are One, then the Holy Spirit can immediately give eternal life to believers in Christ in the Church Age just as Jesus could do while He was on the earth. The Holy Spirit is Jesus in spiritual form, and Jesus never changes. Hebrews 13:8. The Holy Spirit can provide a spiritual baptism which water baptism only symbolizes. Luke 3:16; I Corinthians 6:11; Hebrews 13:8; I John 5:6-8.

These Jews became enraged with Jesus' claim to be their God and spiritual Savior. They picked up stones to stone Him for blasphemy. They did not want a spiritual Savior. They only wanted a Messiah to liberate them from the Romans so that they could possess even more ability to exercise their lust for wealth and power over the people. Even today, people often become angry when a Christian tries to tell them that they need Jesus and the spiritual transformation that only He can give them. They become angry because they feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit that they are wrong, and they need to be made right. John 16:7-11.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 19-21

Jesus preaching caused a division among the Jews. Some of them thought that Jesus had a devil and was insane. Many think this way, especially the atheists and the materialists. They take the prideful position that they only have intelligence, and all other people tend to be stupid and gullible. They deny that miracles are possible even when they are confronted with them. They believe that devils exist in the form of superstition, but they do not believe that evil exists. Even so, many of them are perfectly willing to practice evil through murder and torture and waging war in order to bring into being their imagined, future materialists' utopia. They believe that every human should be brainwashed to think exactly like they think, and anyone who refuses to think like they think must be somewhat insane.

The other Jews knew that only someone sent from God could do miracles. But they were willing to believe that Jesus could only be some kind of prophet, not the Son of God. All of Jesus' disciples, except Judas Iscariot, believed, like Peter, that Jesus had to be the Son of God; that is, God in human form. They believed this as a revelation from the Holy Spirit. Matthew 16:13-18. In order to be saved by grace, a person must believe that Jesus was born of a virgin and that He is the Son of God and that He is that individual's personal Savior. Matthew 1:18-25; I Corinthians 15:1-4.

When a person hears or reads the gospel, even though they may never have heard of Jesus, and that person repents of their sins and believes in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus for their personal salvation by grace, they will be forever saved by the power of the Holy Spirit to bring Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection to them in spiritual form. The Holy Spirit will also empower them to believe the Word of God so that if they ever read or hear that Jesus was born of a virgin, that He led a sinless life, and He is the Son of God, they will always believe that as well. But if a person becomes saved only by the preaching of the Holy Spirit and that person never has a Bible (KJB) to read or a way to hear the Word of God preached, God will still save that person by His grace because the Holy Spirit will impute to his spirit every belief he needs to be saved. I Corinthians 15:1-4; I Corinthians 6:11; Colossians 1:23.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 15-18

Jesus proclaimed that His Father knew Him because He demonstrated His Father's Love and power through the miracles that He did. Jesus further proclaimed that He knew the infinite power of His Father. Psalm 147:5. In other words, Jesus again asserted that He was God. Jesus then proclaimed that He, as God, would lay down His life for His sheep. The Old Testament teaches that all humans are God's sheep and that God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ezekiel 34:31; Psalm 100:1-3; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 119:89-91; Ecclesiastes 3:14. If all humans are God's servants then they all must be God's sheep. Jesus could only have meant that He, as God, would lay down His life to save the entire human race, some by His grace and all others with a lesser from of salvation.

Since these Jews believed that they alone were God's sheep, Jesus informed them that He would bring many other sheep into His sheepfold. Jesus actually informed them that the entire human race was God's one sheepfold. Jesus had to have meant this because He had told these Jews that they were God's sheep even though only His disciples among them believed to the extent of being saved by grace. In other words, Jesus told them that while it was true that they were God's sheep even though they were not saved by grace, the whole human race were also God's sheep.

Jesus then prophesied that His Father had given Him the power to lay down His life and to resurrect Himself from the dead. Because of the influence of evil in the hearts of every human, the entire human race attempted to murder their God, but they failed. Acts 4:25-28. Even so, Christ forgave them all as He hung upon the cross. Luke 23:34. Jesus does everything His Father does. God forgives in order to reconcile. Colossians 1:20. God has forgiven, and God will reconcile the entire human race to Himself. Colossians 1:15-23. Jesus voluntarily laid down His life, and He gave His Spirit back to His Father when He died on the cross. Luke 23:46. Jesus' Father sent His Spirit to the regions of death to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of that part of the human race who do not become saved by grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-28; I John 2:2. Having thus become immaculate, the Holy Spirit rose from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over all sins and evil and spiritual death itself. I Peter 3:18; Revelation 1:17-18. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized the descent of the Spirit into Hell to save all living humans confined there. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10. God will bring all living humans confined to the regions of death back to faith in Him as the Lamb of God, and He will resurrect them all from the dead to a new life on His new earth. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; I Corinthians 15:22.

God has abolished death itself. I Timothy 1:10. This can only mean that all living humans that God has created and loves can never become permanently dead. God has prophesied that He will "quicken all things," which can only mean that He can never lose to permanent death any living human that He ever created. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38. Everything that God creates can only be eternal. Psalm 111:7-8. God has promised to bring all living humans who become temporarily dead back to life. I Corinthians 15:22. God has plainly taught that He "is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe," which can only mean that He will save by His grace, and He will also save all other living humans confined to the regions of death. I Timothy 4:10. Christ "shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom." The quick and the dead reside within every human, and they are the exact opposites. II Timothy 4:1. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human system confined to the regions of death in order to recover and recreate His repentant, living humans and cast their separated, spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-5; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

God has promised "to reconcile all things unto Himself..." in earth and Heaven, and God created all things. Colossians 1:15-23. Christ has promised that He will raise all good humans back to life from their graves, and He will condemn their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. John 5:28-29. This resurrection cannot be at the Rapture of the Church because the Christians thus raised will not be all that are in their graves, and Christ will have already annulled their dead natures when they became saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) states that the physical deaths of humans prevents God from saving His living humans. John 11:25; II Peter 3:9. If God wills that all living humans should come to repentance, then He will certainly accomplish His Will. No one can thwart God's Will.

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                                  Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 12-14

When Jesus spoke about the "hireling" who runs and allows the "wolf" to scatter the sheep, He meant every false preacher and every false religion in the history of mankind, including apostate Christianity. The "wolf" represents the Devil who puts false doctrines and false ceremonies into every religion, including apostate Christianity. Although true Christianity has some ceremonies and traditions, true Christianity always points directly to Christ as being the only way to obtain salvation by grace. John 14:6; John 1:29. True Christianity preaches that a person can only become born into the family of God by personal repentance, faith, and a  commitment of one's whole life to the service of Christ. Matthew 16:16; Acts 9:6. Any teaching that one must first go through the teachings of a church or a ceremony to get to Christ is a false doctrine. Any person who hears the gospel and becomes convinced by a visit of the Holy Spirit that that person is a sinner in need of Christ's salvation can make a direct appeal to Christ in faith, and Christ will hear and immediately save that person forever. Romans 10:13; Romans 10:17. Yet, because God has miraculously preserved His true doctrine of salvation by grace even within apostate Christianity, some people within these religions may come to a personal faith in the power of the blood of Christ to save them, and they will come to a commitment of their lives to Christ by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Apostate Christianity misleads people by getting them to trust in ceremonies and traditions instead of putting their trust in Christ Himself. Some people can become saved by grace by reading the Bible (KJB), and some by reading a gospel tract that someone gives them, and others who have never even heard of Christ by a direct visit from the Holy Spirit. Christ has many ways to bring people into a personal friendship with Him.

Some persons who have never heard the name of Jesus can become saved by grace because the Holy Spirit visits with them. This certainty exists. Humans can become saved by grace only when the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel to them. The Holy Spirit can use missionaries and preachers to preach the gospel to the inner beings of humans as those preachers serve Christ. No one ever goes to the regions of death because no preacher came to preach to them. Colossians 1:23; I Corinthians 15:1-4. Nevertheless, true Christianity should obey the command of Christ and send missionaries and preachers to preach the gospel to the whole world because that happens to be one of the methods that the Holy Spirit uses to save people by His grace. In addition, Christ desires to greatly reward churches and preachers for their obedience to Him. Matthew 28:18-20. But no church should ever get the idea that people go to Hell because no preacher came to preach to them.

The false preachers flee when the Devil comes because they do not care about the souls and spirits of their followers. They only care about the controls that their false religion gives them over their followers.

The Devil can never permanently scatter the sheep that Jesus leads out of the sheepfold because He personally guards them. But the Devil can scatter the sheep within the sheepfold by misleading them with false preachers and false religions. This fact further indicates that Jesus meant that the sheep within the sheepfold represents the entire human race.

Jesus knows His sheep that He leads out of the sheepfold, and they know Him. This can only mean that they enjoy a personal friendship with Him. Since Jesus knows every one of His sheep that He leads out of the sheepfold, then it cannot be possible that anyone will go to the regions of death because no preacher came to preach to them. To preach otherwise makes the preacher a necessary part of the gospel. The only gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as preached by the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 15:1-4.

Jesus also knows His sheep that He created in His image that remain within the sheepfold. He loves all of them, and since His Love cannot fail, He will visit all of them who reside within the regions of death, and He will cause all of them to come to know Him as the Lamb of God who can save them and resurrect them. Christ will provide a lesser form of salvation for them because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 13:8; Luke 3:6; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 21:1-5.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 6-11 continued

Jesus again spoke of Himself as being the "door" by which His sheep enter into His sheepfold and come out of His sheepfold. All of the sheep who enter into the sheepfold through the "door" can only represent the entire human race. To enter through a "door" can only symbolize being created by God. All of the sheep who enter the sheepfold through the "door" can only represent the entire human race. They go into the sheepfold, and they can come out of the sheepfold to find pastures, but those pastures only represent earthly pleasures that are not sinful. These are not the special sheep that Jesus calls out of His sheepfold to spiritual pastures and waters.

Jesus again spoke about the "thief," but this time He meant the Devil himself who seeks to completely destroy the lives of humans whom God creates and loves. But Jesus came to earth to save the lives of the entire human race. He will give His abundant life to those whom He saves by His grace. Genesis 3:21; John 5:24. He will also restore the lives of all human who do not obtain salvation by grace. God has a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all of humanity. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14. The fact that everything that God creates can only be eternal, and God's Love can never fail, means that God puts a mandatory obligation on Himself to save all of humanity from the inner spiritual death that seeks to completely destroy them. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 13:8.

Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cross to save the entire human race with a higher and a lesser form of salvation. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus forever removed all humans' spiritual deaths from them, with all the sins and evil that it causes, so that He could rescue the lives of the entire human race from eternal separation from Him. He is the good Shepherd who gave His life for all the sheep in the sheepfold, and His abundant life to all His sheep whom He leads out of His sheepfold. John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22; Hebrews 2:9-15; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 4:10; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 11:25; Matthew 13:36-43.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 6-11

Those who heard Jesus speak this parable about the sheep did not understand it. But in Matthew 13:10-16, Jesus explained to His disciples exactly why He often used parables when He preached. God knows all of His works from the foundation of the world. Acts 15:18. Jesus knows every human who will become saved by His grace, and every human who will not. Jesus often spoke in parables to those who would not believe to be saved by grace precisely because they would not understand. Jesus had the future in mind when He spoke in parables. Jesus commended His disciples for seeing and hearing His parables although He knew that they too did not understand much about them. But Jesus' disciples did at least understand that Jesus put some spiritual meaning into His parables. Jesus' disciples opened their hearts to God. Matthew 13:16. Those who rejected or ignored Jesus' parables would never be able to complain because they were given an equal opportunity to believe, but they closed their hearts to God. Jesus knew that His disciples would be faithful to write His parables in His Word so that in the future His Church would be able, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to at least partly understand them, and in the end of the world, the whole human race will come to understand at least as much as humans are capable of understanding. The greatest blessings of the parables come to believers when they pray and strive to understand them, not when they believe they have understood them.

Jesus again asserted that He is the very "door" of the sheepfold. He is the only way into the sheepfold and the only way out. When Jesus spoke of Himself as being the shepherd of the sheep, He called His own sheep out of the sheepfold to spiritual pastures and waters. But when Jesus spoke of Himself as being the "door" of the sheepfold, He spoke of Himself as being the shepherd of the entire human race. Jesus is the "door" of the sheepfold because He is the creator of the entire human race. Jesus has given life to every human which He can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.

When Jesus spoke of "thieves and robbers," He meant all of the demonic forces that are trying to completely ruin humanity to beyond any hope of redemption. The spiritual death that the Devil has injected into the inner beings of all humans causes all humans to sin and some of them to practice evil, but those who become saved by grace will hear only the voice of Jesus, and in the end of the world, the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death will see and hear only Jesus when He reveals Himself to them in a great worship service. Jesus will cause them all to repent and believe of their own free will, and He will resurrect them to a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5.

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                                   Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 1-5 continued

In Matthew 15:13, Jesus taught that God will root up; that is, separate every plant that He has not planted. God creates only good systems. God did not plant evil in the hearts of humans. The Devil did that. This verse can only mean that God will separate and recover all things that He ever created, and He will root up and cast away all the evil from the hearts of all humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5.

Jesus came to destroy only sin and evil itself, not living humans whom He creates and loves. No verse anywhere in the Bible (KJB) teaches that God will cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire. Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Luke 3:16-17; Psalm 36:6; John 5:28-29; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:1-5. The Bible consistently teaches that God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He ever created that has been marred by sin and evil. God will utterly destroy only His enemies which are sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 22:11-12 clearly teaches that in the end of the world God will effect an absolute separation of all He has created from all that is evil.

Jesus taught that "the porter," symbolic of the Holy Spirit with all of His creative powers, opens the "door," which is Christ Himself, to enter into the sheepfold. This can only mean that a Triune God created the human race so that he could be the Shepherd of the sheepfold which is the entire human race. The sheep that go into the sheepfold represent the entire human race, but the sheep that Christ calls out of the sheepfold represents His special sheep that He saves by His grace.

God separated the light from the darkness in the beginning of His creations, but He will again separate the light from the darkness in the end of the world. Throughout the history of mankind, both the light and the darkness has been within the inner beings of every human. Genesis 1:1-5; Genesis 3:15; Revelation 21:23-25; Revelation 22:5.

Since God created all sheep, then all the sheep in the sheepfold must represent the entire human race. Jesus taught that He calls His own sheep by name to follow Him out of the sheepfold which implies that there are sheep who remain in the sheepfold who do not hear His voice. The sheep who hear Jesus' voice and follow Him represent all humans who become saved by grace whom Jesus will lead to special, spiritual pastures and waters that the sheep left in the sheepfold cannot enjoy. In the Rapture of the Church, Jesus will make sure that all His special sheep who strayed from His voice will hear Him again, and they will flee from all false preachers and religious leaders that has misled them, and they will again follow only Jesus. Ephesians 5:25-27. However, Christ may very well provide some corrective punishment for all backsliders before He causes them to repent, and He forgives them. Matthew 18:34-35.

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                                                                                                                                              Verses 1-5

In these verses, Jesus preached about His sheepfold, and who has the right to enter into His sheepfold. Jesus taught that anyone who tries to get into His sheepfold in some other way than through the door can only be "a thief and a robber." Jesus could only have meant by using the words "thieves and robbers" all false prophets and false religious leaders who ever lived who mislead people into believing that some religion can cause them to become one of God's sheep. Jesus taught that the only way that any human could ever get to Heaven would be through faith in Him. John 14:6.

In verse two, Jesus proclaimed that the only person who has the right to enter the sheepfold through the "door" can only be the Shepherd of the sheep. But in verse seven, Jesus taught that He is also the "door" by means of which the Shepherd enters the sheepfold. In other words, Jesus happens to be both the Shepherd of the sheep, and also the means by which any sheep can enter the sheepfold or be called out of the sheepfold. The "porter," which must symbolize the Holy Spirit, opens the "door" so that the Shepherd can call His own sheep out of the sheepfold.

Everything God creates can only be eternal. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8. God creates every living human in His image which means the lives of every human can never become permanently dead. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. This fact can only mean that Christ is the "door" into the sheepfold because He creates every living human to be one of His sheep. Ezekiel 34:31; Psalm 119:91. Christ creates His sheep to enter the sheepfold, and He also calls His own special sheep out of the sheepfold to lead them to spiritual pastures and waters in the world. These latter sheep represent all living humans that Christ saves by His grace.

In Jesus' parable in Matthew 18:11-14, He teaches that after the shepherd has found the one lost sheep gone astray and returns it to the sheepfold, then there are no more lost sheep outside the sheepfold. This can only mean that Christ can never lose any living human that He ever created. Jesus also taught that God's Will is that no "little one" should perish. All of God's living humans are His little ones. Psalm 100:1-5 can only be a prophecy that a day will come when "all lands," which can only mean all living humans that God ever created will worship and praise the Lord. Revelation 5:11-14. According to verse three, all living humans who worship Him in the end of the world are His sheep. Verse four informs that "God's mercy is everlasting" and that "His truth endureth to all generations" which can only mean that in the end of the world God will save and recreate every living human who failed to become saved by grace because they all are His sheep. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.

God reveals some of His Word in His creations. Psalm 19:1-4; Romans 1:19-20. The physical laws of the universe reflect a truth about God's Word. Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed except by God. This fact can only mean that when the Bible (KJB) uses the words "perish" or "destroy," these words never mean annihilation. The basic elements of God which are the basis of God's creations are eternal, and God can create good systems by combining copies of these basic elements. God created living humans from copies of these basic elements to be good systems. Genesis 1:31. God has the right to create good systems or to dissolve good systems to their basic elements as He Wills, but God will never allow any of His creations or the basic elements of those creations to ever be annihilated. Ecclesiastes 3:14. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human system confined to the regions of death to separate them from death so that He can recreate them into new. good systems that can never be infected with spiritual death again. The Devil has attempted to use spiritual death, which is the source of evil, to annihilate the good, living nature of humans, but God will not allow him to succeed. God will cast the separated, evil natures of all humans confined to the regions of death into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 20:15 clearly teaches that God will cast only separated, dead humans into the lake of fire, not living humans. It is impossible that living humans could be a part of dead humans. They are exact opposites. Christ came to destroy only the evil works of the Devil, never living humans. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:14-15; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8. Living humans have never been nor can they ever become the works of the Devil. Luke 20:38. Christ has promised that He will "make all things new," which can only mean all that He ever created, including all living humans. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 4:11. God could certainly never get any pleasure from living humans burning in a lake of fire.