Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   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.