Job 30:1-31
In Job 30:1-18, Job complained that even the evil criminals that the good people of his community had driven into the wilderness now held him in derision. Job felt despair because he had become humiliated by the sons of these vile criminals who openly mocked him and bullied him. But these verses constitute a prophecy that even though evil has caused mankind to suffer, one day God will completely separate all evil from all the goodness He has put into man. God will cast all evil into the lake of fire and preserve all of the good systems that He created forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
In Job 30:19-22, Job allowed his despair and dismay to cause him to become angry with God. Job accused God of abandoning him and refusing to hear his prayers. God did not become angry with Job. God understands that humans display a wide range of emotions especially when in states of suffering and despair. God displayed compassion toward Job and patience with him and supplied Job with an answer for his anger and despair.
According to Job 19:25-27, Job knew that he had a Redeemer who had saved him by grace, and who would bring his soul, after his physical death, to stand alive in God's presence. But God had not revealed to Job that he would have a home with Him in heaven forever. But according to Job 30:22-24, God revealed to Job that following his physical death, God would bring him "to the house appointed for all living." In Job's case, "this house;" that is, his eternal place would be with God in heaven, but God did not make that clear to Job. But God's prophecy given to Job also had a deeper meaning which is that "all living" have a "house," or eternal place, for them following their physical deaths. God's revelation confirms God's Word in Genesis 3:20 and in Luke 20:38 that God will preserve forever His living image that He has put into every human even though He must consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Revelation 20:13.
In Job 30:24, God revealed to Job that even though humans cry out to Him from the regions of the dead, God will not pull them out of their graves to restore them to their former lives, but He will destroy them. But God's destruction means that He will dissolve their systems so that He can separate and recover His living images in them from their evil deaths also within them. God's destruction of their systems will mean that they will lose their former identities and personalities, but God will cleanse and preserve their living images for Him to use to recreate a righteous people to live forever on His recreated earth. John 12:25; Revelation 21:1-5.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy seven
Job 29:1-25
God also put into His plan a means whereby the weakness in the free will of man can never cause his eternal, spiritual death. Man can sin and deny his faith which can only temporarily thwart the will of God, but man's sin can never thwart the eternal will of God which is to save all mankind from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day God will effect a tremendous worship service in which all that He ever created will worship Him. All living humans that God consigned to the regions of the dead because they failed to receive Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh will return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. God will resurrect these living humans in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Man sins because of the influence of evil that Satan put into his being. The difference between sin and evil is that God will always cleanse and forgive sin in man when he repents and returns to faith in God his Savior, but God will never forgive evil because it will never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 9:20-21. While evil causes the living image of God in man to sin, nevertheless, evil is foreign to the being of man. God has compassion for fallen man because He recognizes that the weakness in man's free will causes the image of God in him to become tainted by sin caused, in turn, by the influence of evil within his being. Isaiah 1:18 means that the good life from God in man has become stained by sin. God will always cleanse and forgive sins upon repentance and faith in Christ to which all men will return. God will also cleanse all evil from humans and His universe by His use of His consuming fire, but He will never forgive it because it will never repent. In the end of the world, God will cast all total evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
In the book of Job, God used Job to symbolize the history and the fate of all mankind.
God also put into His plan a means whereby the weakness in the free will of man can never cause his eternal, spiritual death. Man can sin and deny his faith which can only temporarily thwart the will of God, but man's sin can never thwart the eternal will of God which is to save all mankind from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that one day God will effect a tremendous worship service in which all that He ever created will worship Him. All living humans that God consigned to the regions of the dead because they failed to receive Christ as their Savior while alive in the flesh will return of their own free will to repentance and faith in Christ as their Savior. God will resurrect these living humans in Revelation 20:5 for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29.
Man sins because of the influence of evil that Satan put into his being. The difference between sin and evil is that God will always cleanse and forgive sin in man when he repents and returns to faith in God his Savior, but God will never forgive evil because it will never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 9:20-21. While evil causes the living image of God in man to sin, nevertheless, evil is foreign to the being of man. God has compassion for fallen man because He recognizes that the weakness in man's free will causes the image of God in him to become tainted by sin caused, in turn, by the influence of evil within his being. Isaiah 1:18 means that the good life from God in man has become stained by sin. God will always cleanse and forgive sins upon repentance and faith in Christ to which all men will return. God will also cleanse all evil from humans and His universe by His use of His consuming fire, but He will never forgive it because it will never repent. In the end of the world, God will cast all total evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
In the book of Job, God used Job to symbolize the history and the fate of all mankind.
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy six
Job 29:1-25
God gives free will to every human, but no human can use that free will to thwart the will of God forever. God knows exactly how to return the lives of every human to renewed faith in Him of their own free will. II Peter 3:9.
Evil emerged from the chaos that still remained in darkness, of which God knew nothing, to touch the free will that God had given Lucifer and make him realize that he could choose to disobey God by inventing false systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Lucifer refused to repent which caused God to have to strip him of all the goodness He had put into him and exile him to earth as a totally evil negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
Satan believed God had made a mistake when He gave free will to mankind. Satan thought he could use God's supposed mistake to get an advantage over God. Satan knew that he could use the weakness in man's free will to cause him to disobey God which would put evil into man's being. Satan expected that evil in man to become so foul that it would eventually annul the image of God in man and thereby prove that God's protective Love cannot be Almighty. Satan further believed that he could use this supposed weakness in God's Love to obtain an advantage over God so that he could one day murder Him and take control of His universe as he had already partly taken control of the earth. John 8:44; John 12:31.
But Satan did not know that God had given free will to man in order to test His Love to prove that His Love can never fail. God possesses Infinite Wisdom, and therefore, He certainly possesses the capability to devise a plan whereby He can rescue His image in every human by causing them to return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. God saves some humans by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Doubt about God's Love had entered God's creations because of Lucifer's rebellion. Because of this doubt, Lucifer had been able to persuade one third of God's angels to follow him. As long as doubt remained in God's universe, evil would also remain. But God devised a plan to dispel all doubt from His universe and all the evil that results from it. John 20:24-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
God had allowed the Devil to put the image of God in man in danger of eternal separation from Him in spiritual death. But God outwitted the Devil by devising a plan to rescue the lives of all humans by His loving sacrifice of Himself on a cross and His descent into hell followed by His resurrection. God suffered the eternal spiritual deaths of every human in their place in order to liberate all of them from that horrible fate and return them to fellowship with Him. Hebrews 2:9; John 12:47; Colossians 1:15-20.
God gives free will to every human, but no human can use that free will to thwart the will of God forever. God knows exactly how to return the lives of every human to renewed faith in Him of their own free will. II Peter 3:9.
Evil emerged from the chaos that still remained in darkness, of which God knew nothing, to touch the free will that God had given Lucifer and make him realize that he could choose to disobey God by inventing false systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Lucifer refused to repent which caused God to have to strip him of all the goodness He had put into him and exile him to earth as a totally evil negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
Satan believed God had made a mistake when He gave free will to mankind. Satan thought he could use God's supposed mistake to get an advantage over God. Satan knew that he could use the weakness in man's free will to cause him to disobey God which would put evil into man's being. Satan expected that evil in man to become so foul that it would eventually annul the image of God in man and thereby prove that God's protective Love cannot be Almighty. Satan further believed that he could use this supposed weakness in God's Love to obtain an advantage over God so that he could one day murder Him and take control of His universe as he had already partly taken control of the earth. John 8:44; John 12:31.
But Satan did not know that God had given free will to man in order to test His Love to prove that His Love can never fail. God possesses Infinite Wisdom, and therefore, He certainly possesses the capability to devise a plan whereby He can rescue His image in every human by causing them to return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will. God saves some humans by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Doubt about God's Love had entered God's creations because of Lucifer's rebellion. Because of this doubt, Lucifer had been able to persuade one third of God's angels to follow him. As long as doubt remained in God's universe, evil would also remain. But God devised a plan to dispel all doubt from His universe and all the evil that results from it. John 20:24-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
God had allowed the Devil to put the image of God in man in danger of eternal separation from Him in spiritual death. But God outwitted the Devil by devising a plan to rescue the lives of all humans by His loving sacrifice of Himself on a cross and His descent into hell followed by His resurrection. God suffered the eternal spiritual deaths of every human in their place in order to liberate all of them from that horrible fate and return them to fellowship with Him. Hebrews 2:9; John 12:47; Colossians 1:15-20.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy five
Job 29:1-25
Someday, God will learn exactly how evil emerges from the darkness of the bottomless pit to infect His creations. At that time, God will use His consuming fire to absolutely separate and recover all of the goodness that He created, cleanse it of all of the taint of sin and the corruption of evil, and recreate a righteous heaven and earth. God will also cast separated death, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
But the mystery which the positive Consciousness of God will never be able to understand is exactly how any form of consciousness, even if negative, could form within chaos. One can speculate that negative consciousness would have to be the opposite of positive consciousness; that is, destructive instead of creative. But that would mean that negative consciousness would seek to annul itself. In some mysterious way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8-9.
Job yearned for his former days of joyful fellowship with God, prosperity, and the respect of others. Yet, God allowed the Devil to take it all from him except his life. Why? Job 2:6.
Job happens to be symbolic of the fate of the entire human race. Few humans have ever suffered the loss of everything they love, and yet all humans must suffer to some extent because of their sins and the attacks of the Devil. But the one thing that God will never allow the Devil to take is the life of any person. God created that life in His image and put it into every person. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Because God created man's life to be good, then a measure of faith still resides within the life of every human. Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20.
Many humans claim to be atheists, but a spark of God's faith still resides within the image of God still within the inner being of every one of them. God knows exactly how to reawaken that faith in every human, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Someday, God will learn exactly how evil emerges from the darkness of the bottomless pit to infect His creations. At that time, God will use His consuming fire to absolutely separate and recover all of the goodness that He created, cleanse it of all of the taint of sin and the corruption of evil, and recreate a righteous heaven and earth. God will also cast separated death, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
But the mystery which the positive Consciousness of God will never be able to understand is exactly how any form of consciousness, even if negative, could form within chaos. One can speculate that negative consciousness would have to be the opposite of positive consciousness; that is, destructive instead of creative. But that would mean that negative consciousness would seek to annul itself. In some mysterious way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8-9.
Job yearned for his former days of joyful fellowship with God, prosperity, and the respect of others. Yet, God allowed the Devil to take it all from him except his life. Why? Job 2:6.
Job happens to be symbolic of the fate of the entire human race. Few humans have ever suffered the loss of everything they love, and yet all humans must suffer to some extent because of their sins and the attacks of the Devil. But the one thing that God will never allow the Devil to take is the life of any person. God created that life in His image and put it into every person. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Because God created man's life to be good, then a measure of faith still resides within the life of every human. Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20.
Many humans claim to be atheists, but a spark of God's faith still resides within the image of God still within the inner being of every one of them. God knows exactly how to reawaken that faith in every human, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy four
Job 29:1-25
God learned about evil when Lucifer rebelled. God also learned that somehow evil emerged from a dark chaos that nonexists nowhere and at no time, called the bottomless pit. Through God's creation of the history of mankind, He is in the process of learning the mystery of how negative consciousnesses called demons could have emerged from the bottomless pit and through the darkness to corrupt His creations.
Evil seeks to annul everything it touches by reverting it back to chaos. Lucifer became corrupted by this mysterious evil, and God recovered all of His goodness He had put into him so that he became Satan who is totally empty and vain. God used His consuming fire to separate His goodness in Lucifer from his evil. Ezekiel 28:17-19.
But Satan has no desire to annul himself. Satan seeks only to gain power over evil so that he can use it to annul God's creations, and eventually God Himself so that he will be free to invent his own universe based on invented systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Both pleasure and pride are good ideas that God knows how to rightly use to create good and useful systems. Satan has no power to create anything. Satan seeks only to murder God and co-opt all of His good ideas in order to misuse them to invent evil systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Satan openly revealed his evil plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.
God admitted in Isaiah 45:7 that He created both light and darkness. He also admitted that He created all good systems such as the one called "peace." But God also revealed that He feels guilty because he feels responsible for the creation of evil even though He knew nothing about it. Guilt is a good system. It causes one to avoid evil. But God's feeling of guilt only serves to prove that He is absolutely Holy and innocent. He absolutely rejects evil. For this same reason, parents, created in the image of God, often feel guilty about bad things that happen to their children even though they had no knowledge of or control over the hurtful event.
God learned about evil when Lucifer rebelled. God also learned that somehow evil emerged from a dark chaos that nonexists nowhere and at no time, called the bottomless pit. Through God's creation of the history of mankind, He is in the process of learning the mystery of how negative consciousnesses called demons could have emerged from the bottomless pit and through the darkness to corrupt His creations.
Evil seeks to annul everything it touches by reverting it back to chaos. Lucifer became corrupted by this mysterious evil, and God recovered all of His goodness He had put into him so that he became Satan who is totally empty and vain. God used His consuming fire to separate His goodness in Lucifer from his evil. Ezekiel 28:17-19.
But Satan has no desire to annul himself. Satan seeks only to gain power over evil so that he can use it to annul God's creations, and eventually God Himself so that he will be free to invent his own universe based on invented systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Both pleasure and pride are good ideas that God knows how to rightly use to create good and useful systems. Satan has no power to create anything. Satan seeks only to murder God and co-opt all of His good ideas in order to misuse them to invent evil systems of excessive pleasure and pride. Satan openly revealed his evil plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.
God admitted in Isaiah 45:7 that He created both light and darkness. He also admitted that He created all good systems such as the one called "peace." But God also revealed that He feels guilty because he feels responsible for the creation of evil even though He knew nothing about it. Guilt is a good system. It causes one to avoid evil. But God's feeling of guilt only serves to prove that He is absolutely Holy and innocent. He absolutely rejects evil. For this same reason, parents, created in the image of God, often feel guilty about bad things that happen to their children even though they had no knowledge of or control over the hurtful event.
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy three
Job 29:1-25
In this chapter, Job yearned to return to his former days when he lived in God's favor, had prosperity, respect, and authority in his community. Evidently, according to verses 17 and 25, Job held some authority as a chief in his community because he punished the wicked. He also ruled in righteousness because he personally took care of the poor and the widows.
In Job 29:3, Job revealed that he understood that God guides the man of God by His light through a dark world. Jesus often taught that the man of God must emerge from darkness into God's glorious light. John 3:19-21.
In Genesis 1:2-5, God created the good light to penetrate the darkness of the earth that already existed. God created the light so that He could also create life which the light sustains. God also divided the light from the darkness so that He could create Day and Night for useful purposes, the Day for work and play and the Night for rest and sleep.
God had to have created darkness long before He created light. Genesis 1:2 reveals that the darkness of the earth concealed a condition called chaos. Chaos is the opposite of creativity. God is wholly creative and innocent. God did not know that that darkness hid the seeds of evil that would infect Lucifer and cause corruption to enter His good creations.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses and infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God could not have known when He created the heaven and the earth that the darkness would continue to hide chaos which is the source of all the evil that has corrupted God's creations. Knowledge and wisdom are always creative, therefore, God could not have known about the evil hidden in darkness which, being wholly destructive, can only be a type of anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7.
In this chapter, Job yearned to return to his former days when he lived in God's favor, had prosperity, respect, and authority in his community. Evidently, according to verses 17 and 25, Job held some authority as a chief in his community because he punished the wicked. He also ruled in righteousness because he personally took care of the poor and the widows.
In Job 29:3, Job revealed that he understood that God guides the man of God by His light through a dark world. Jesus often taught that the man of God must emerge from darkness into God's glorious light. John 3:19-21.
In Genesis 1:2-5, God created the good light to penetrate the darkness of the earth that already existed. God created the light so that He could also create life which the light sustains. God also divided the light from the darkness so that He could create Day and Night for useful purposes, the Day for work and play and the Night for rest and sleep.
God had to have created darkness long before He created light. Genesis 1:2 reveals that the darkness of the earth concealed a condition called chaos. Chaos is the opposite of creativity. God is wholly creative and innocent. God did not know that that darkness hid the seeds of evil that would infect Lucifer and cause corruption to enter His good creations.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses and infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God could not have known when He created the heaven and the earth that the darkness would continue to hide chaos which is the source of all the evil that has corrupted God's creations. Knowledge and wisdom are always creative, therefore, God could not have known about the evil hidden in darkness which, being wholly destructive, can only be a type of anti-knowledge. II Thessalonians 2:7.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy two
Job 28:1-28
Grace is God's highest form of salvation, and His lowest form happens when He resurrects His living images in all humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. But God has also established an intermediate form of salvation between the lowest and the highest forms.
God promised Abraham in Genesis 17:6-8 that He would give him and his seed the land of Canaan forever. God cannot break His promises or transfer them to another group of people. God cannot be deceptive to His people. God will keep His promise to Abraham and his seed forever.
In addition to God's promise to Abraham, God promised Aaron and Moses in Numbers 18:8; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 12:28, and Deuteronomy 33:29 that He will preserve the religion of Judaism forever. But God gave this promise to faithful Jews only; that is, those who worship God and try to live righteous lives according to God's commandments. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all faithful Jews from all of the regions of the dead to be recreated to live in the land of Canaan and to practice Judaism forever. All Jews who accept Christ as their Savior while living their first lives on the earth will be promoted to God's highest form of salvation which is a state of grace.
Ezekiel 20:33-44 records that God will regather all faithful Jews to live in Canaan and practice Judaism forever. But Ezekiel 20:37-39 records that God will purge all unfaithful and unrighteous Jews from the land of Israel and demote them to a recreated life among the Gentiles.
According to Isaiah 59:20-21 and Isaiah 60:1-22, the resurrected nation of Israel will be the only organized nation that God will allow to exist on His recreated earth. Jerusalem will be the capitol of the earth, and all the nations, as unorganized groups of people, will be required to obey all the laws that the righteous Jews will make. Israel will rule God's recreated earth, and all faithful, resurrected Jews will enjoy a higher form of God's lowest form of salvation which will be that of the recreated Gentiles. Isaiah 2:1-4.
No doubt, Job himself did not understand the implications of his prophecy in Job 28:28.
Grace is God's highest form of salvation, and His lowest form happens when He resurrects His living images in all humans confined to the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. But God has also established an intermediate form of salvation between the lowest and the highest forms.
God promised Abraham in Genesis 17:6-8 that He would give him and his seed the land of Canaan forever. God cannot break His promises or transfer them to another group of people. God cannot be deceptive to His people. God will keep His promise to Abraham and his seed forever.
In addition to God's promise to Abraham, God promised Aaron and Moses in Numbers 18:8; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 12:28, and Deuteronomy 33:29 that He will preserve the religion of Judaism forever. But God gave this promise to faithful Jews only; that is, those who worship God and try to live righteous lives according to God's commandments. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all faithful Jews from all of the regions of the dead to be recreated to live in the land of Canaan and to practice Judaism forever. All Jews who accept Christ as their Savior while living their first lives on the earth will be promoted to God's highest form of salvation which is a state of grace.
Ezekiel 20:33-44 records that God will regather all faithful Jews to live in Canaan and practice Judaism forever. But Ezekiel 20:37-39 records that God will purge all unfaithful and unrighteous Jews from the land of Israel and demote them to a recreated life among the Gentiles.
According to Isaiah 59:20-21 and Isaiah 60:1-22, the resurrected nation of Israel will be the only organized nation that God will allow to exist on His recreated earth. Jerusalem will be the capitol of the earth, and all the nations, as unorganized groups of people, will be required to obey all the laws that the righteous Jews will make. Israel will rule God's recreated earth, and all faithful, resurrected Jews will enjoy a higher form of God's lowest form of salvation which will be that of the recreated Gentiles. Isaiah 2:1-4.
No doubt, Job himself did not understand the implications of his prophecy in Job 28:28.
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