What is infinity? The finite mind possesses the idea of the infinite but no means to determine what infinity could be. The finite mind cannot define infinity because the finite mind possesses only finite ideas and experiences that it can use in such an endeavor. Neither mathematics nor anything measured by mathematics can provide any idea of what infinity could be because no matter how much one adds to the finite, one can only obtain a finite result. Some try to reason that since the number one can always be added to the highest possible number then that process can reach infinity, but they fail to realize that that process only reveals the inability of the finite mind to ever understand infinity. If one adds the number one to the number of sub-atomic particles in the universe, that number would still be finite, and so with any enormous number. The finite mind can never reach to the idea of infinity because it simply becomes exhausted in the attempt. Any system formulated by a finite mind to reach to the idea of infinity using finite ideas can only be finite.
Yet, the finite mind possesses the idea of infinity. How is that possible? Only an infinite mind would be able to understand infinity. This fact suggests that the idea of the infinite could only have been given to the finite mind by an Infinite Mind. If the idea of the infinite is real, then an Infinite Mind must exist.
An Infinite Mind would be One that would have to encompass not only all subjective and objective reality, but all possible subjective and objective realities. Nothingness itself could not be a part of the Infinite Mind because that would limit it. The Infinite Mind could possess the idea of nothing because that would be something as an idea. The idea of nothing would be useful to the Infinite Mind as a subjective and objective reality. The usefulness of the idea of nothing would enable the Infinite Mind to create a finite reality since it would be limited by the idea of nothing. The finite mind cannot reach to the idea of the infinite because it becomes exhausted when it arrives at the idea of nothing. Thus, the Infinite Mind would have to encompass all reality and all possible realities.
Some may argue that the idea of the infinite happens to be but an illusion without actual existence. They use the idea of the unlimited as being the same as the idea of infinity, but the idea of the unlimited also becomes limited by the weakness and exhaustion of the finite mind. The finite mind simply cannot understand the idea of the infinite even though it has that idea.
A method may be possible to determine if the idea of the infinite possesses subjective and objective reality, or if it is but an illusion. Certain mathematical calculations result in the idea of the infinite. Could mathematicians devise a test, perhaps by using a computer, to determine if these calculations yield true results, such as 2+2=4, or if they yield false results, such as 2+2=5. Since true calculations can only yield absolute subjective and objective truths, then if such a test proves that calculations that result in the idea of the infinite can only be true calculations, then that test would prove that a subjective and objective infinity must be real. If infinity is real, then an Infinite Mind must exist to make it real.
Monday, January 23, 2023
A Test for the Subjective and Objective Reality of Infinity
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 44-50 continued
Jesus further preached that He would reserve His judgment of unbelievers until the end of the world. He prophesied that he would judge them by His Word. The Apostle John described exactly what that judgment will be like. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5. At that time, Christ will judge the quick and the dead. II Timothy 4:1. Every human happens to be the quick and the dead. Every human possesses a living nature created by God, and a spiritual death injected into their inner beings by the Devil. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17. Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and because of His Majesty and His great Love that they will see, He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him of their own free will as the Lamb of God with the power to save them. Revelation 5:11-14. When they repent and believe, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all their systems, similar to melting gold oar to purify the gold. Christ will use His fiery wrath to separate their cleansed and purified living natures from their dead natures. All of their unbelief that was a sin against Him, He will cleanse and forgive, but their unbelief that went against the Holy Spirit and is totally evil and adheres to their dead natures, He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Job 23:10; Matthew 12:31-32. Christ will resurrect all their saved, living natures for Him to recreate to inhabit forever His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. All of the separated, dead humans will be judged by opened books, which are the Word of God, just as Jesus prophesied. John 12:48; Revelation 20:12.
Two types of unbelief exist. The first type is the sin of unbelief that soils the living natures of all humans who reject the grace of God while still alive in the flesh, and whom Christ must consign to one of the regions of death after their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But this type of unbelief happens to be a sin against Christ which He can cleanse and forgive upon repentance and faith. Matthew 12:31-32. Because Christ took the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans on Himself on a cross, and he sent His Spirit into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans confined there, and He rose from the dead to gain victory over it all, then He holds the power to cleanse and forgive the entire human race. I John 2:2; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:25-31; Hebrews 2:9-15; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8. He washes some living humans with His blood and water that He shed on the cross, forgives them, saves them by His grace, and takes them straight to Heaven when they die. John 5:24. Christ purges the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans confined to the regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath against evil, and He will resurrect them all for Him to recreate to live on His new earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15. The Old Testament sin offering symbolizes His salvation by grace, and the Old Testament burnt offering symbolizes His lesser form of salvation for all living humans confined to the regions of death. Exodus 12:3-11; Genesis 3:21; Leviticus 5:5-10; Genesis 8:20-21.
The second type of unbelief is that which attaches itself wholly to spiritual death. It is totally evil and demonic, and it hates God and all of His eternal creations. This type of unbelief attempts to transform living humans into itself and thereby utterly destroy living humans by causing them to become totally evil and demonic. This constitutes the Devil's attempt to utterly destroy God Himself by annulling His Love for His creations. This happens to be the type of unbelief that the Devil tried to inflict on Job, who by extension represents the entire human race. Satan told God that if He allowed him to take away everything Job had, then Job would curse God to His face, which means Job would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. The Devil even influenced Job's wife to tempt him to curse God. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. God allowed the Devil to take everything from Job, including his health and his wife's respect for him, but not his life. Job 2:6. The fact that God would not allow the Devil to take Job's life symbolizes God's eventual salvation of the entire human race. God allows the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that no matter what he does, he can never utterly destroy the good lives of humans that God creates and loves. Job symbolizes that fact. Genesis 1:31. The earthly perfection of Job symbolizes the goodness and faith that God creates in His image in every human, that He can never lose, and that He will eventually reawaken in every living human despite their sin and evil that mars their living natures. He will purge that sin and evil from all of them, some by His sin offering and all others by His burnt offering. Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20-21; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15. But this second type of unbelief totally rejects the Holy Spirit who is God. This type of unbelief God will never forgive because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. This type of unbelief is spiritual death itself which God will purge from every living human that He ever created by causing them all to repent and believe in the Lamb of God. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God will cast this type of unbelief into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. But God has promised that He "will make all things new" which must include all living humans that He ever created and loves. Revelation 21:5; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 4:11.
Jesus further taught that His Father gave Him a commandment to preach "life everlasting." Not just everlasting life for some humans saved by grace, but He was to preach "life everlasting" itself which can only mean that He will eventually restore His created life which has been threatened by spiritual death. Christ will eventually cause all living humans to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God with the power to save them. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 22:11-12.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 44-50
Jesus returned to the Jews and preached again. Jesus emphasized the necessity for faith in Him as being God in human form. Jesus consistently countered the belief of many of the Jews that He was just a prophet. Jesus plainly told them that when they saw Him, they saw their Father. Jesus' bold claim to be their God among them must have stunned them and enraged the Pharisees. But Jesus knew that faith in Him as being God in human form happened to be absolutely necessary for anyone to become saved by His grace. Jesus greatly desires that all who hear or read His Word would believe in Him as their God and spiritual Savior and become saved by grace. But He also knows that few that hear His gospel will ever repent and believe that He is God who laid down His life to save them by His grace. Matthew 7:13-14.
Jesus then preached about what faith in Him as their Savior and God would do for them. Faith in Him would be like turning on a light in a very dark place. His spiritual light would dispel all of the darkness of evil inside every believer. When any person repents of their sins, and no one can truly repent without faith, and believes in Christ as their God and Savior, then the Holy Spirit comes into the inner being of that believer and turns on the light of God's Love and forgiveness. The Holy Spirit washes away all of that believer's sins and evil within their soul and spirit with the blood of Christ, and He recreates that believer's soul and spirit by giving that believer the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself. This recreation by the Holy Spirit also annuls the believer's spiritual death. When this spiritual salvation happens to a believer, that person will know that God's Light has been turned on inside of them, and that believer will now see the world with the Light of God's Love. John3:3; John 5:24; I John 1:7; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 5:22-24; I John 3:24.
Jesus then clearly proclaimed that He would not judge unbelievers while He was in the world in human form. This can only mean that He did not judge unbelievers while He hung on the cross. This revelation by Jesus reinforced His description of what kind of judgment He would make when He would be nailed to the cross. Jesus specifically said that in His crucifixion He would cast out the Devil and all of his evil works, not living humans whom He creates and loves. Just as Jesus refused to put a curse on Adam and Eve and all of their descendants in the garden, so He would not put a curse on any unbeliever when He hung on the cross by condemning their souls and spirits to an eternal lake of fire in a future judgment. Jesus will cast only dead humans, separated from every living human by His fiery wrath against evil, into the lake of fire in His final judgment. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Jesus taught that two types of unbelief exist. There exists an unbelief which is a sin against Him committed by living humans under the influence of their dead, spiritual natures. Christ can and will cleanse and forgive this type of unbelief because He will eventually cause all living humans to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God. He will save some by His grace and all others confined to the regions of death in a great worship service in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. The other type of unbelief happens to be a complete rejection of the Holy Spirit which is totally evil and can never be forgiven. This type of unbelief adheres only to the spiritual death that the Devil has injected into all living humans. God will eventually cause all of His living humans to repent and believe so that he can cleanse and forgive them of the unbelief that stains their living natures, and He will cast their dead natures, along with their totally evil unbelief, into the lake of fire. Matthew 12:31-32.
Jesus then proclaimed that He did not come to judge the world, meaning every living human who will ever live. He clearly revealed that He came to save the world, meaning every living human who will ever live. Jesus suffered and bore the sins and evil of every living human who would ever live on His cross and died in their place so that He could purge them all of the influence of the Devil that he exerts through the spiritual death that he has injected into their inner natures. Christ will save some living humans by His grace when they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh, and He will save the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death with a lesser form of salvation when He appears to them in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. If Jesus had not come to the world to take the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans on Himself on a cruel cross and gain complete victory over all evil, spiritual death, and the Devil himself by His resurrection from the dead, then the Devil would win by causing all living humans to become confined to the regions of death, become totally evil, and lost from God's Love forever. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 21:5.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 42-43
These verses relate that many of the chief rulers believed in Jesus, but they were afraid that the Pharisees would put them out of the synagogue. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus had to be among those chief rulers. John 19:38-42. A person becomes saved by grace when they believe in their heart that Christ has provided for their spiritual salvation through His death, burial, and resurrection for them personally. Romans 10:13; I Corinthians 15:1-4. Confession of faith is a good work, but no one can be saved by good works, only by repentance and faith in Christ's sacrifice for them. Luke 13:3; Ephesians 2:8-9. Repentance is a part of faith. Yet, the Bible (KJB) also teaches that a confession of faith is necessary for salvation by grace. Romans 10:8-11. Can there be a contradiction in this?
Jesus did teach that a person can make a false confession of faith. Jesus taught that there will be some people who will profess their faith in Him, but they will base their salvation on their own good works. Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus will dismiss them because He never knew them in a personal way. To be saved by grace, a person must trust in Christ alone for their salvation, commit their whole life to His service, and they must know Him in a personal way. The Bible (KJB) therefore teaches that a confession of faith is necessary for salvation because God always causes a person who believes in their heart, has committed their life to Christ, and whom He has already saved by His grace, to make a profession of faith at some time in their earthly life. God always causes a person saved by grace to do at least one good work which will demonstrate their salvation. Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus made their professions of faith in Christ when they demonstrated their love for Him when they took His body from the cross to bury Him. They could not avoid making their professions of faith because God caused them to do it. This means that any person who fails to make a profession of faith in Christ alone as their Savior, or who tries to base their salvation on their own good works, then that person cannot be saved by grace. Those who truly become saved by grace will not be able to avoid making a profession of faith at some time in their earthly lives. A person's strong desire to be baptized in water indicates that that person has truly been saved by grace.
Both Jesus and the Apostle Paul taught that a person can have an empty faith. Matthew 13:20-21; I Corinthians 15:1. These persons acquire a temporary, superficial faith, but when they discover that they will be persecuted, or even just mocked, they quickly give up their false faith. Those chief rulers who would not confess their superficial faith because they were afraid of being put out of the synagogue were precisely those types who fail to commit their whole lives to Christ, and who do not become saved by grace. Christ knows exactly who His true believers are. John 10:25-27.
Friday, January 13, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 34-41
The people who heard Jesus prophesy that He would be lifted up did not understand Him. They understood the Old Testament prophecy that the Messiah would endure forever to mean that He would liberate their nation from foreign control, and He would rule the world forever. Psalm 72:17. They missed the Old Testament prophecies of Isaiah and David that their Messiah would suffer for them to provide a spiritual liberation for them. Psalm 22:1-31; Isaiah 53:1-12; Isaiah 55:1-7. When they asked Jesus who the Son of man was, they really meant what would He do.
Jesus replied to them with a spiritual message. Jesus referred to His former claim that He is the "Light of the world." John 8:12. The Jews should have understood that God attached a spiritual meaning to the word "light" even from the beginning when He said "Let there be light." Genesis 1:3. Light, which symbolizes a spiritual revelation, dispels darkness, which symbolizes evil. If the Jews had paid close attention to the symbolic meaning of God's Word, they would have realized that God often used the word "light" to mean a spiritual awakening that would dispel the "darkness" in their lives. Psalm 27:1; Psalm 36:9; Psalm 97:10-11; Psalm 119:105. Jesus told them that as the Light of God, He would only be with them for a "little while." The Jews believed that their Messiah would come to them in physical form and be with them forever. But Jesus informed them that He, their Messiah, would not be with them forever to give them only physical and political liberation. Jesus taught them that while He was with them, they should believe that He could dispel their spiritual darkness with the light of His salvation, and He could make them the spiritual children of God which means He could save them by His grace.
Jesus then departed from these Jews and hid Himself until the time for His sacrifice should come.
But even though Jesus had done so many miracles that they had seen, and even though He had repeatedly claimed to be God and their Messiah, most of the Jews could not believe that Jesus came to be their spiritual Savior instead of their political savior. But in their unbelief, they fulfilled a prophecy of Isaiah who wrote that most of the Jews would harden their hearts and refuse to believe that their Messiah would come to be their spiritual Savior. Isaiah 6:9-13.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 28-33 continued
Jesus then perfectly described exactly what God's judgment of the world; that is, the entire human race would be like. Jesus would suffer on a cross, be buried, His Spirit would descend into Hell, and He would rise from the dead to cast out the Devil and all of his evil works, including spiritual death, from the lives of all living humans whom He creates and loves, the materialists and the spiritualists alike. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8. Jesus' judged the Devil and all evil in order to separate it all from all living humans whom He creates and loves. Jesus judged all living humans by taking their eternal punishment for their sins and evil on Himself so that He could liberate them all from eternal separation from Him. Jesus judged Himself in the place of all humans.
Jesus then prophesied that when He would be lifted up on the cross, he would draw all humans to Him. In other words, He would suffer and die and rise again to save the entire human race, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. When Jesus spoke of being lifted up on a cross, He referred to the time when God told Moses to make a brazen serpent on a pole so that all who looked upon it would be saved from death in a plague of fiery serpents. John 3:14; Numbers 21:5-9. Some of the people died from the poisonous bites of the fiery serpents before Moses made the brazen serpent on a pole, but God did not say they would be dead forever. All those who looked at the brazen serpent on a pole symbolized every living human who would become saved by grace while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. But those who died of the poisonous bites symbolized those whom God must condemn to the regions of death because of their sins and evil that still adheres to their living natures. Hebrews 9:27. But even they will look upon Christ when He appears to them in a great worship service near the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God of their own free will so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil, symbolized by the fiery serpent, to dissolve their systems in order to separate their cleansed and forgiven living natures for Him to recreate and resurrect from their evil, spiritual deaths that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.
No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) teaches that living humans who reject faith in Christ and salvation by grace until their physical deaths, God will cast into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. This verse clearly teaches that Christ will cast only dead humans that He has separated from living humans into an eternal lake of fire. God casts only dead humans into the lake of fire because He will have already used His fiery wrath against evil, which is Hell itself, to dissolve the systems of all humans confined to the regions of death to separate their living natures whom He has created and loves for Him to resurrect and recreate from their evil, spiritual deaths that He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. When Jesus said He will draw all humans to Himself on the cross, He meant he will eventually save all living humans from evil and eternal death. Christ meant that from the beginning when He refused to curse Adam and Eve, made Eve the mother of all living, and cursed only the Devil and the regions of death. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22.
God has promised that He will "make all things new." Revelation 21:5. Since God made all things, then He must cleanse and recreate all living humans who have become soiled by sin, evil, and spiritual death. Revelation 4:11; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-12.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 28-33
Jesus then called on His Father to glorify His name which would also glorify Jesus. His Father answered Him from Heaven that He had already glorified His name through the love and compassion that His Son had shown in the miracles that He had done, and He would again glorify His name through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son for the salvation of all humanity.
God spoke in an audible voice, but some of the people could not understand what He said. They thought they heard only thunder. Others understood God's voice, but they thought that only an angel had spoken to Jesus. The human race happens to be divided into two basic philosophies. The materialists cannot believe in a spiritual realm. They believe everything has to be either matter or energy. These were those who only heard thunder. These kinds of people tend to become atheists and scientists. Very few of these types of people ever become saved by grace because they have trouble believing that God is a Spirit. John 4:24. But the Apostle Thomas was one of these types who became saved by grace. John 20:24-29.
The other basic philosophy of humans happens to be that a spiritual realm does exist. But many of these types also cannot become saved by grace because they tend to believe in spirits but not in God. These types often join religions and cults. These were those who said an angel spoke to Jesus. But the vast majority of humans who become saved by grace are those who believe in a spiritual realm and that God is a Spirit.
Jesus answered the people and told them that God's voice came to them, not Him. God spoke to the people there who symbolized the entire human race. Jesus knew that the gospel of John would speak to the entire human race.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 23-27 continued
In the second part of Jesus' statement in John 12:25, He spoke about those who would hate their sinful natures while on the earth, and who would repent and believe in Him as their Savior while they were still alive in the flesh. Matthew 10:39. Those living humans become saved by grace. The Holy Spirit washes away all of their sins from their souls and spirits with the blood of Christ, and He annuls their spiritual deaths that cause them to sin in their souls and spirits, and He will give them the perfect, eternal life of Christ Himself by means of which God can accept them into Heaven to live with Him there forever. I John 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5; II Corinthians 5:21. Humans saved by grace can no longer sin in their recreated souls and spirits, but God will allow them to still be able to sin in their fleshly natures. I John 3:9; Romans 7:15-25. The Holy Spirit cleanses and forgives the fleshly sins of believers saved by grace with the water that Jesus shed on the cross as they daily repent of them. John 13:1-11; I John 1:8-9.
Jesus then described how persons saved by grace should lead their lives. They should simply follow Jesus. They should be guided by the Holy Spirit, who is Jesus in spiritual form, to read the Word of God in order to learn more about Jesus so that they can become more like Him. They should pray for Christ to show them what He wants them to do and to give them whatever they need to do His Will. They should go to church to worship and praise Christ for His salvation and goodness to them and for just being their Holy God. They should respond to the guidance of the Holy Spirit who will make them more and more like Jesus as He fills them with His love and compassion. In other words, wherever Jesus happens to be, His followers should also be. Galatians 5:22-24.
At the end of Jesus' sermon, He became troubled in His Spirit. He dreaded the terrible suffering and pain He would have to endure to save all of His living humans from sin, evil, and spiritual death. Not only would He suffer, but His Father and His Spirit would suffer as well. His Father would suffer in grief when He had to turn His face away from Jesus as He bore the sins and evil of the entire human race on the cross. Matthew 27:46. His Spirit had to suffer with His descent into the regions of death to leave behind all of the sins and evil of all humans who do not become saved by grace. Ephesians 4:8-10; Psalm 68:18. Not only did Jesus ascend to Heaven, but His Spirit also ascended from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus. I Peter 3:18. The Spirit had to have left all of the sins and evil that Jesus bore on the cross behind in the regions of death because He had to have ascended immaculate from the regions of death to resurrect Jesus. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:25-31. Jesus wondered, as a man would, if His Father's Will could be that He should pray for deliverance from that awful trial, but as God, He knew that His Father had sent Him to the world to suffer and die in the place of all humans so that He could save the entire living, human race that He creates and loves from sin, evil, and spiritual death. Matthew 26:38-46; Matthew 26:53-54; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 8:18-23; I Timothy 4:10; II Peter 3:9; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 23-27 continued
God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve, but He gave the burnt offering to Noah after He had destroyed the evil human race in the flood. Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20-21. The burnt offering symbolizes God's salvation of all living humans that He creates and loves who do not become saved by grace. The sin offering symbolizes all humans whom God saves by His grace. God grieved over the loss of the living natures of all the living humans that He had destroyed in the flood. Genesis 6:5-7. So God made a way to save all living humans who do not become saved by grace. God symbolized this lesser form of salvation by the burnt offering He gave to Noah. Noah had to slay the animals first which symbolized the sin offering, and then he burnt the animals to symbolize God's salvation of all humans who do not obtain the salvation symbolized by the sin offering.
God told Noah the reasons why He had him make the burnt offering. First, the burnt offering symbolized God's removal of the curse of the ground which holds the regions of death for all living humans not saved by grace who would be confined there. Three regions of death exist. Revelation 20:13. God's removal of the curse meant that He had opened the regions of death so that He could resurrect all living humans confined there after He would revive their repentance and faith in the Lamb of God. Genesis 3:17; Genesis 8:21; Revelation 5:11-14. Second, God promised that He would remove the curse even though those confined to the regions of death still retained their evil natures. This promise had to mean that the burnt offering symbolized a way for God to dissolve all human systems there in order to separate their repentant, living natures from their evil natures. Genesis 8:21; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13. God has promised to save the repentant, living natures of even those evil humans who were rebellious toward Him and hated Him while they lived on the earth. Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107:10-21. Third, God promised that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill all living humans with no way to save their living souls and spirits from the regions of death. Genesis 8:21. But through the burnt offering, God provided even a way for Christ to visit and preach to all those humans killed in the flood so that He could save them as well. I Peter 3:18-20.
Thus, in the first part of Jesus' statement in John 12:25, He spoke about those who loved their sinful lives on the earth, and who failed to repent and believe in His power to save them by His grace. Confined to the regions of death, they will nevertheless one day repent and believe in Christ who will appear to them. Revelation 5:11-14. When Christ uses His fiery wrath against evil to separate their living natures from their evil natures, they will lose their sinful natures that they enjoyed while they lived on the earth. Their sinful natures formed a part of their personalities when they lived on the earth. This means that when Christ recreates their living natures to live on His recreated earth, they will possess much different personalities than those they had while they lived on the earth. This is that which Christ meant when He said that they would lose their lives.
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 23-27 continued
Just as salvation by grace does not become active for the believer until the moment that believer repents and believes, and the Holy Spirit washes away the sins of that believer with the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross, so the salvation of living humans confined to the regions of death does not become active until they repent and believe in the power of the Lamb to save them. Jesus will appear to them in a great worship service near the end of the world, and when they see His Majesty and Glory and His tremendous Love for them, they will all repent and believe that the Lamb of God will save them. Revelation 5:11-4.
The Holy Spirit had already left all their sins and spiritual deaths behind in the fires of Hell when He ascended, but at that time God did not dissolve their systems with His fiery wrath against evil, which is Hell itself. God waits to use His fiery wrath to dissolve their systems to separate their living natures, which He cannot lose, from their evil natures at the time when they will all repent and believe in Christ when He appears to them. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Deuteronomy 32:22. God will resurrect their repentant, living natures from the regions of death for Him to recreate to live forever on His new earth, and He will use the fires of Hell to carry their separated dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15. Life and death are exact opposites. No one should read into the Word of God that He casts living humans into the lake of fire because God's Word clearly states that He casts only dead humans into the lake of fire. God will recover and recreate their lives that He created and loves. God cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8. God has promised that He will "make all things new." Revelation 21:5.
God has abolished death itself, not just for humans saved by grace but for all living humans. For God to abolish death can only mean that all living humans remain alive. I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26. All living humans are forever alive to God. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Christ will recover all living humans from their spiritual deaths that threatens to extinguish their living natures, some by His grace and all others by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. I Corinthians 15:20-28; John 5:28-29; John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God made the Old Testament burnt offering useful for the forgiveness of sins just as He did the sin offering. Leviticus 5:6-10. But the sin offering must always precede the burnt offering. Christ had to suffer and die on the cross before His Spirit could descend into Hell to make the burnt offering for the forgiveness and salvation of all confined to the regions of death. Revelation 20:13. Salvation by grace precedes the lesser form of salvation that God has provided for the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death. I Corinthians 15:20-28; Colossians 1:15-20; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:5.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 23-27
Jesus answered these Greeks by preaching the gospel to them. Jesus told them that His time had come for His Father to glorify Him because of His self-sacrifice for the whole human race. Jesus preached that, like a seed of corn, He would die, be put into the ground, but He would rise again to bring salvation to all who would believe in Him. God will eventually cause all humans to believe in Christ. Everything God does can only be eternal. Since Christ bore the sins and evil of the whole human race on the cross, then God must save the entire fallen, human race. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Revelation 21:5.
Jesus taught them that those who love their earthly lives; that is, those who love their lives of sin will lose their lives. But Jesus did not say they would lose their lives forever. Jesus must consign unrepentant sinners to the regions of death after their physical deaths because God cannot accept the nastiness of their sins which still adheres to their lives. Hebrews 9:27. But God created their lives to be good although they became stained by sin. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 4:7. God cannot lose their good lives that He creates and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. God has provided a means to cleanse their good lives from all their sins and the spiritual deaths that stain them. God told Noah to make a burnt offering. Genesis 8:20-21. The burnt offering symbolizes God's use of His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the systems of all humans confined to the regions of death so that He can separate their sins. their evil, and their spiritual deaths from their good lives which He will recreate, and He will cast their spiritual deaths, with all their sins and evil, into the eternal lake of fire. God will recreate their good lives for them to live forever on His new earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5.
God's plan for this process follows. Jesus bore the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans when He suffered and died on the cross. I John 2:2; Hebrews 2:9. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save by His grace all who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5; I Corinthians 6:11. When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell bearing the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans who did not become saved by grace. Luke 27:46; Ephesians 4:8-10. The Holy Spirit had to have borne the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans not saved by grace to the regions of death because they could not have just disappeared nor could Jesus' sacrifice for them have become ineffective. I John 2:2; Hebrews 2:9. The Holy Spirit had to have left all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans not saved by grace behind in the fires of Hell because He ascended immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over Hell, the Devil, and all spiritual death. Psalm 16:9-10; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Twelve
Verses 12-19
Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy when He rode into Jerusalem on a borrowed ass. Psalm 118:25-26; Zechariah 9:9. The people worshiped Him as the King of Israel, not as their spiritual Savior. They believed Jesus had miraculous power because of the witness of those who had seen Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead. But they only believed Jesus had miraculous power like that of a prophet. They believed Jesus came from God but not that He was God. Most of them probably hoped that as King of Israel, Jesus would use His miraculous power to free them from the Romans.
The Pharisees, who witnessed Jesus' entrance to Jerusalem, became afraid that if the people made Jesus their King, then He would annul their power over the people. The Holy Spirit then influenced these Pharisees to make a prophecy that they could not understand. Without their conscious understanding, the Holy Spirit had them prophecy that not just the nation of Israel would come to believe in Jesus, but the whole world would eventually come to faith in Jesus. This prophecy will come true. Jesus came to save the entire human race, even those who would be rebellious in their earthly lives. Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107: 9-21; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:47-48; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43. I Timothy 4:10 clearly states that Jesus exists as the Savior of all men, especially of those who become saved by grace. II Peter 3:9 clearly states that God's Will happens to be that all humans will repent. God would never allow the puny will of humans to thwart His Will. God will save all humans because He wills it.
Verses 20-22
As further confirmation of the prophecy of the Pharisees, these verses relate that certain Greeks came to Philip and asked him to give them an audience with Jesus. God sent these Greeks, and He made them symbolic of the entire human race who would eventually come to Jesus for their spiritual and physical salvation, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.