Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              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.