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.