Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Sixteen

                                                                                                                                              Verses 16-22

Jesus then informed His disciples that they would not see Him for a "little while," and then after a "little while" they would see Him again. Jesus referred to the three days He would be in the grave before His resurrection. Jesus also informed His disciples that during the time that they would not see Him, He would go to His Father. After Jesus' death on the cross, His Spirit descended into Hell, but His Spirit also went home to visit His Father. This was no problem for God's Spirit because He happens to be everywhere at the same time. In the words of those who study Quantum Mechanics, God would be non-local. To these scientists, the word "non-local" means that they have discovered that one particle, such as an electron, can become two entangled particles which are still the same particle, and yet, these particles can be in two separate places at the same time. This fact happens to be counterintuitive, but it is true nevertheless.

When Jesus died on the cross, He commended His Spirit to the care of His Father. Luke 23:46. Jesus' Father caused His Spirit to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all humans that Jesus bore on the cross who do not become saved by grace. Acts 2:25-31. Since Jesus' Spirit did not see corruption, then He had to have risen immaculate from Hell to reanimate Jesus' perfect body so that He could rise from the dead victorious over the Devil and all of his evil works. Revelation 1:17-18. But while Jesus' body was in the grave, God also brought Jesus' Spirit home to Him in Heaven. Jesus' perfect Spirit did not die in Hell, and His Spirit also went home to Heaven. This fact can only mean that God Himself can never die. But the perfect life and body of Jesus, who is God in human form, could die the spiritual deaths that all humans possess in their places, and because of His innocence, could rise victorious over all sin, evil, and spiritual death to give all humans His eternal life. Romans 5:10; Hebrews 2:9. The Holy Spirit created a perfect body for God in the womb of the virgin Mary so that the sinless life of Jesus could be nailed to a cross to purge all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from all living humans, and so that the Living Spirit of God, coming back to Jesus from Heaven and from Hell, could reanimate His perfect and innocent body so that He, in eternal human form, would gain complete victory over the Devil and all of his evil works. Christ was not in human form until the Holy Spirit conceived Him in Mary's virgin womb. Numbers 23:19; Matthew 1:18-25. But Christ is now in human form forever in order to make His eternal salvation of the human race effective forever. Romans 5:10; Hebrews 2:9. Since all living humans belong to Jesus, then He had to have saved the entire living human race by destroying the Devil and all of his evil works. I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:5; I John 3:8; John 12:31-32. God used a perfect and sinless body, not subject to sin and spiritual death, to save the entire human race by destroying all sin, evil, and spiritual death, all of which are the evil works of the Devil. Hebrews 2:9-15; I John 3:8; John 12:31-32.

Where do the purged sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all living humans that Christ saves from the regions of death go? They are all a part of all of the dead humans that Christ casts in to the lake of fire which is the second death which follows spiritual death. Revelation 20:11-15.

By their answer to Jesus, His disciples demonstrated that they had become greatly confused by what Jesus had taught them. They could not understand Jesus.

Jesus told them that they would experience great grief and sorrow when He died and was buried. When Jesus said that during this short time, "the world shall rejoice," He had to have meant the evil natures of humans and the totally evil nature of Satan. Jesus then compared His suffering on the cross to a woman who gives birth to a baby. She may suffer great anguish and pain, but she will have joy when her baby is born. Jesus used this metaphor to describe how He would suffer on the cross, die and be buried, and rise again from  the dead. Jesus told His disciples that they may now have sorrow, but that sorrow would only last a "little while," and then they all will be filled with a joy that the world will never be able to take away from them.