Job 32:1-22
In chapter 32, a young man named Elihu voices his opinion. Unlike Job's false comforters who dogmatically assumed that Job had to suffer because he was guilty of doing something wrong, Elihu was an honest searcher for truth. The key to understanding the method Elihu used in his search for the truth can be found in Job 32:8. Elihu rightly believed that God had created a good spirit for man, and that by hearing the inspiration that God gives through His image in man, man can gain a better understanding about the nature of God. But where Elihu went wrong was that he failed to take into account the fact that Satan had injected evil into man's being which caused his good spirit to sin which, in turn, clouded man's conscience and caused him to come to false conclusions about God's nature. Elihu's failure caused him, like all other searchers for truth who ignore God's complete revelations, to come to both true and false conclusions about God's nature. Elihu depended to much on his feelings about God instead of simply opening his heart for greater revelations from God, as Job had done.
Job 32:1 provides a perfect example of how God sometimes allows His Word to report how people feel or think about particular conditions or situations instead of the actual facts about them. Job's three friends accused Job of being righteous in his own eyes; that is, self-righteous. But they misunderstood that which Job spoke about his righteousness. Job freely admitted that he was a sinner in Job 7:20 and 9:20. Furthermore, whenever Job spoke about his own righteousness, as in Job 6:29, he always meant the righteousness that God had put into his image when He created him. God called Job a perfect man because he assiduously practiced the righteousness that God had put into his living image. But Job knew that his righteousness, which had been stained by sin, was not good enough to be accepted by God as he admitted in Job 9:20-21. For this very reason, Job looked for a daysman; that is, a mediator who could bridge the gap that his sin had caused between him and God and make him absolutely right with God. Job 9:30-33. God revealed to Job in Job 19:25-27 that He had such a Redeemer for him who could absolutely perfect him and someday bring him into the very presence of God. Job accepted his Redeemer by faith knowing that He would absolutely perfect him and make him acceptable with God. Job 23:10.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty eight
Job 31:1-40
In Job 31:4, Job asks a question of God of which the answer is obvious. God had made Job a righteous man and had guided his steps throughout his life. Job does not deny that he has sinned against God because of his weakness, but he does deny that he has ever deliberately rebelled against God's guidance for his life.
From Job 3:5 to verse 40, Job confessed that if he had ever deliberately practiced evil, then he would have deserved God's severest punishment. In Job 3:6, Job desired that God would test his integrity because he knew that he had always avoided evil and obeyed God. God revealed to Job in verse twelve that if Job had ever practiced evil, then God would someday dissolve his being by the use of His consuming fire and separate his "increase," from him, which meant God's valuable image that God had created and put into Job from the evil within Job. God's revelation to Job constitutes a prophecy that in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate His good image in every human within the regions of the dead from their evil deaths that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29; Matthew 3:11-12.
In verse 33, Job declared that he had always been honest with God and had never tried to hide his sin and evil as Adam had done. Job's attitude reveals God's desire for all humanity. God simply wants all humans to confess that they have committed sin and evil, repent, and call on God's Son to save them from eternal spiritual death from which they cannot save themselves. God has made provision through His Son to save His good image in every human from eternal spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. By these two methods, God will return the entire human race to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.
In Job 31:35, Job expressed his desire that God would reveal His entire truth to him, and by extension to the whole human race. Job referred to God as his "adversary," and he hoped that God would write a book. By his use of the word "adversary," Job meant that he hoped that God would write a book in which He would contend and strive with man to get him to repent of his sin and evil and turn in faith to Christ for his salvation. God gave Job a prophecy that He would write such a book that would be the infallible and inerrant Word of God. (KJB)
In Job 31:4, Job asks a question of God of which the answer is obvious. God had made Job a righteous man and had guided his steps throughout his life. Job does not deny that he has sinned against God because of his weakness, but he does deny that he has ever deliberately rebelled against God's guidance for his life.
From Job 3:5 to verse 40, Job confessed that if he had ever deliberately practiced evil, then he would have deserved God's severest punishment. In Job 3:6, Job desired that God would test his integrity because he knew that he had always avoided evil and obeyed God. God revealed to Job in verse twelve that if Job had ever practiced evil, then God would someday dissolve his being by the use of His consuming fire and separate his "increase," from him, which meant God's valuable image that God had created and put into Job from the evil within Job. God's revelation to Job constitutes a prophecy that in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate His good image in every human within the regions of the dead from their evil deaths that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29; Matthew 3:11-12.
In verse 33, Job declared that he had always been honest with God and had never tried to hide his sin and evil as Adam had done. Job's attitude reveals God's desire for all humanity. God simply wants all humans to confess that they have committed sin and evil, repent, and call on God's Son to save them from eternal spiritual death from which they cannot save themselves. God has made provision through His Son to save His good image in every human from eternal spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. By these two methods, God will return the entire human race to repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.
In Job 31:35, Job expressed his desire that God would reveal His entire truth to him, and by extension to the whole human race. Job referred to God as his "adversary," and he hoped that God would write a book. By his use of the word "adversary," Job meant that he hoped that God would write a book in which He would contend and strive with man to get him to repent of his sin and evil and turn in faith to Christ for his salvation. God gave Job a prophecy that He would write such a book that would be the infallible and inerrant Word of God. (KJB)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty seven
Job 31:1-40
God derives His infinite power from faith. God possesses infinite faith in His own power. Hebrews 11:1-3. God made the worlds from things which do not appear. What does not appear? The contents of His Infinite Consciousness does not appear. God's Ideas do not appear. God's Word did not appear until He put it into written form. Although God's written Word connects to the Infinite, it has to be limited to the finite mind of man. The believer may possess the Mind of Christ, but he still cannot think in infinite ways. I Corinthians 2:16. The believer has the Mind of Christ because his faith connects him to the Infinite and infallible Word of God. Objective truth is always limited. Subjective Truth connects directly to Infinite and Almighty Truth. John 14:6.
This truth means that in order for God to be able to save every living person within the regions of the dead, they all must repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior and of their own free will. God has given a measure of faith to all living humans, and God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in Christ of their own free will. Romans 12:3. As God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and in Philippians 2:9-11 and as will be fulfilled in Revelation 5:11-14, God will effect a great worship service in which all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior of their own free will.
Every sin which a person commits becomes evil if he refuses to repent of it precisely because of his lack of faith in God's forgiveness and mercy. Every evil act of which a person repents becomes cleansed and forgiven by God's grace or His consuming fire because his repentance and faith triggers God's compassion for him. Every sin and evil act of which a person refuses to repent adheres to spiritual death which is totally evil and which God will separate from all humans and cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. But God will restore the repentance and faith of all living humans because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Romans 11:36.
God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in His Son of their own free will in order to prove that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer and to the human race was not a mistake. Satan counted on using the free will of man to inject an evil into the being of man so powerful that it would eventually annul the living image of God in man and cause man's eternal separation from God. In this way, the Devil thought he could prove that God made a mistake, and therefore, His Love could not be Almighty. The Devil believed that if he could prove that God is not Almighty, he could get an advantage over Him, eventually murder Him and assume control of His universe. But Satan did not count on the Love of God being so powerful that He would allow the Devil to attempt to murder Him by taking all of the evil, sin, and spiritual deaths of all mankind on Himself on a cross, gain victory over it all by His resurrection from the dead, and thereby display the Almighty power of His Love to cleanse and separate all living humans from all their sin and evil, save them all from spiritual death, restore them all to fellowship with Him, and consign the total evil in every one of them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; John 12:47.
Job considered God's separation of the totally wicked from Himself to be a "strange punishment" probably because he could not comprehend what a lake of fire could be. No one really can. But since Christ took the eternal spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself, then the lake of fire can only be a part of the consuming fire that is God Himself. Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 12:29. Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 4:24.
God derives His infinite power from faith. God possesses infinite faith in His own power. Hebrews 11:1-3. God made the worlds from things which do not appear. What does not appear? The contents of His Infinite Consciousness does not appear. God's Ideas do not appear. God's Word did not appear until He put it into written form. Although God's written Word connects to the Infinite, it has to be limited to the finite mind of man. The believer may possess the Mind of Christ, but he still cannot think in infinite ways. I Corinthians 2:16. The believer has the Mind of Christ because his faith connects him to the Infinite and infallible Word of God. Objective truth is always limited. Subjective Truth connects directly to Infinite and Almighty Truth. John 14:6.
This truth means that in order for God to be able to save every living person within the regions of the dead, they all must repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior and of their own free will. God has given a measure of faith to all living humans, and God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in Christ of their own free will. Romans 12:3. As God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and in Philippians 2:9-11 and as will be fulfilled in Revelation 5:11-14, God will effect a great worship service in which all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior of their own free will.
Every sin which a person commits becomes evil if he refuses to repent of it precisely because of his lack of faith in God's forgiveness and mercy. Every evil act of which a person repents becomes cleansed and forgiven by God's grace or His consuming fire because his repentance and faith triggers God's compassion for him. Every sin and evil act of which a person refuses to repent adheres to spiritual death which is totally evil and which God will separate from all humans and cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. But God will restore the repentance and faith of all living humans because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Romans 11:36.
God knows exactly how to return every living human to faith in His Son of their own free will in order to prove that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer and to the human race was not a mistake. Satan counted on using the free will of man to inject an evil into the being of man so powerful that it would eventually annul the living image of God in man and cause man's eternal separation from God. In this way, the Devil thought he could prove that God made a mistake, and therefore, His Love could not be Almighty. The Devil believed that if he could prove that God is not Almighty, he could get an advantage over Him, eventually murder Him and assume control of His universe. But Satan did not count on the Love of God being so powerful that He would allow the Devil to attempt to murder Him by taking all of the evil, sin, and spiritual deaths of all mankind on Himself on a cross, gain victory over it all by His resurrection from the dead, and thereby display the Almighty power of His Love to cleanse and separate all living humans from all their sin and evil, save them all from spiritual death, restore them all to fellowship with Him, and consign the total evil in every one of them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; John 12:47.
Job considered God's separation of the totally wicked from Himself to be a "strange punishment" probably because he could not comprehend what a lake of fire could be. No one really can. But since Christ took the eternal spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself, then the lake of fire can only be a part of the consuming fire that is God Himself. Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 12:29. Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 4:24.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty six
Job 31:1-40
In Job 31:1-3, Job began to rise somewhat above his confusion when he called to remembrance all that God had done for him. Job remembered that God had caused him to be a loving and moral person. In verse two, Job asked two questions of God. What does God give the believer? And what does the believer inherit from God? God provided Job with His answer to the first question in the rest of the chapter by reminding Job that He had caused him to become a believer who happened to be good and loving and moral. God did not provide Job with an answer to the second question perhaps because God did not want to reveal in the Old Testament that a believer in the Redeemer receives heaven as his inheritance. Perhaps God desired to reserve that revelation for the New Testament.
In verse three, God gave Job a prophecy about that which He will do with the wicked who happen to be the same as the evil dead in Revelation 20:11-15. Those who deliberately give themselves to practice evil become dead within themselves. They reflect this fact in their belief in nihilism. Proverbs 8:36. They almost always believe that physical death annuls their souls and spirits which is exactly that which the forces of evil want them to believe.
But even the evil dead still possess a living soul and spirit that God created and put into them. Genesis 1:27. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38. Every sinner still retains the living image of God within their beings even though they all have become stained by the influence of evil that the Devil has injected into the being of every human. Isaiah 64:6. Nowhere does the Bible declare that God will cast sinners into the lake of fire, only the unclean, evil dead. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. But God will cleanse all sinners in order to rescue their living souls and spirits from spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; John 1:29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 3:11-12; John 5:28-29.
God knows exactly how to cleanse and preserve the souls and spirits and bodies of every sinner, protect them from eternal spiritual death, and restore them all to reconciliation with Him. Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:5. God accomplished this monumental task through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. John 12:47; Hebrews 2:8-9; I Timothy 4:10. God reserves His highest form of salvation for those who repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. But God will also provide a lesser form of salvation for the souls, spirits, and bodies of all humans who died in their sins, whom He had to consign to one of the regions of the dead. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse His living images within them and raise them all from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5.
In Job 31:1-3, Job began to rise somewhat above his confusion when he called to remembrance all that God had done for him. Job remembered that God had caused him to be a loving and moral person. In verse two, Job asked two questions of God. What does God give the believer? And what does the believer inherit from God? God provided Job with His answer to the first question in the rest of the chapter by reminding Job that He had caused him to become a believer who happened to be good and loving and moral. God did not provide Job with an answer to the second question perhaps because God did not want to reveal in the Old Testament that a believer in the Redeemer receives heaven as his inheritance. Perhaps God desired to reserve that revelation for the New Testament.
In verse three, God gave Job a prophecy about that which He will do with the wicked who happen to be the same as the evil dead in Revelation 20:11-15. Those who deliberately give themselves to practice evil become dead within themselves. They reflect this fact in their belief in nihilism. Proverbs 8:36. They almost always believe that physical death annuls their souls and spirits which is exactly that which the forces of evil want them to believe.
But even the evil dead still possess a living soul and spirit that God created and put into them. Genesis 1:27. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38. Every sinner still retains the living image of God within their beings even though they all have become stained by the influence of evil that the Devil has injected into the being of every human. Isaiah 64:6. Nowhere does the Bible declare that God will cast sinners into the lake of fire, only the unclean, evil dead. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12. But God will cleanse all sinners in order to rescue their living souls and spirits from spiritual death, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; John 1:29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 3:11-12; John 5:28-29.
God knows exactly how to cleanse and preserve the souls and spirits and bodies of every sinner, protect them from eternal spiritual death, and restore them all to reconciliation with Him. Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:5. God accomplished this monumental task through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. John 12:47; Hebrews 2:8-9; I Timothy 4:10. God reserves His highest form of salvation for those who repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. But God will also provide a lesser form of salvation for the souls, spirits, and bodies of all humans who died in their sins, whom He had to consign to one of the regions of the dead. God will use His consuming fire to cleanse His living images within them and raise them all from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty five
Job 30:1-31
God had to test His Love in order to overcome doubt about it in His creations caused by Lucifer's rebellion. If God did not test His Love, then evil would remain forever within His creations causing permanent suffering. God could not ban evil by a summary command because that would leave His Love untested. Satan thought that by injecting evil into living humans, he would be able to hold them in hell forever and cause a failure of God's Love. An Almighty Love cannot fail to save everything that it loves.
God allowed temporary suffering for sin and evil in man's life so that, regardless of whether each human failed or passed the tests of his faith, God could still exert His Almighty Love to suffer man's sin and evil in his place in order to save his life from permanent separation from Him. In this way, God would pass the test of His own Love. When a person passed a test of his faith, then God would be pleased with him and spare him the suffering that that sin would cause, but it would not save him forever. Every person sins and fails a test of his faith and suffers for it, but that does not cause God to lose His Love for him manifested in His suffering his permanent death and the sin and evil that would cause that eternal separation from Him in his place. John 12:47; Hebrews 2:9.
God also knew exactly how to use the faith that He had put into His living image in every person to cause every person to freely choose to return to love for Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others within the regions of the dead by a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Revelation 4:11 reveals that God created everything for His own pleasure. That statement can only mean His eternal pleasure. God could not possibly enjoy any eternal pleasure should His living image that He created and put into man suffer forever in an eternal hell. God must save all of humanity, but at different levels of salvation.
Job suffered confusion about why God had made him suffer in Job 30:25-31. Job could not understand that God had a good reason for his suffering. God had to prove that Job's temporary suffering for his sin and evil could never cause a permanent separation from Him because God's Love would suffer that permanent separation for Job and for all mankind. Job could not understand that God had already rescued Job forever when Job confessed his faith in His coming Redeemer in Job 19:25.
God had to test His Love in order to overcome doubt about it in His creations caused by Lucifer's rebellion. If God did not test His Love, then evil would remain forever within His creations causing permanent suffering. God could not ban evil by a summary command because that would leave His Love untested. Satan thought that by injecting evil into living humans, he would be able to hold them in hell forever and cause a failure of God's Love. An Almighty Love cannot fail to save everything that it loves.
God allowed temporary suffering for sin and evil in man's life so that, regardless of whether each human failed or passed the tests of his faith, God could still exert His Almighty Love to suffer man's sin and evil in his place in order to save his life from permanent separation from Him. In this way, God would pass the test of His own Love. When a person passed a test of his faith, then God would be pleased with him and spare him the suffering that that sin would cause, but it would not save him forever. Every person sins and fails a test of his faith and suffers for it, but that does not cause God to lose His Love for him manifested in His suffering his permanent death and the sin and evil that would cause that eternal separation from Him in his place. John 12:47; Hebrews 2:9.
God also knew exactly how to use the faith that He had put into His living image in every person to cause every person to freely choose to return to love for Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others within the regions of the dead by a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Revelation 4:11 reveals that God created everything for His own pleasure. That statement can only mean His eternal pleasure. God could not possibly enjoy any eternal pleasure should His living image that He created and put into man suffer forever in an eternal hell. God must save all of humanity, but at different levels of salvation.
Job suffered confusion about why God had made him suffer in Job 30:25-31. Job could not understand that God had a good reason for his suffering. God had to prove that Job's temporary suffering for his sin and evil could never cause a permanent separation from Him because God's Love would suffer that permanent separation for Job and for all mankind. Job could not understand that God had already rescued Job forever when Job confessed his faith in His coming Redeemer in Job 19:25.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty four
Job 30:1-31
Satan knew that once he had injected evil into man's being that man would then be helpless to ever overcome that evil and make himself clean again. Satan counted on the overwhelming power of evil to eventually cause a permanent separation of God's image in man from God's Love for man. In other words, Satan desired to cause permanent spiritual death of God's image in man. God allows mankind to temporarily suffer for their sins, but God will never allow the Devil to cause living humans to become totally evil and separated from Him in hell forever. God hates evil. Living humans have become stained by sin, but God will always cleanse and forgive those sins when every living human eventually repents and puts their faith in Christ to save them. Sins of which a human never repents becomes a part of his spiritual death that God will cast into the lake of fire. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 12:31-32.
But that which Satan did not count on and that which he could not comprehend was that God would become a man Himself, and because of His Almighty Love, would suffer man's eternal separation from God in man's place. God's Son suffered on a cross and shed His blood and water to cleanse and forgive all living humans who would repent and believe in Him from all their sins and evil and recreate them while they are still alive in the flesh. I Corinthians 6:11. God's Son also descended into hell to leave behind the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could use His consuming fire in the end of the world to permanently separate the living part of every human there from their spiritual deaths which are totally evil because they never repent. God designed every living human to be capable of repentance and faith in His Son who alone can save them from eternal spiritual death, but evil is foreign to man's being even though Satan injected it into man's being. I Peter 3:18; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
Every temptation that every human faces in life happens to be a test of the faith that God put into him when He created him. Romans 12:3. If a person passes his test, he will earn God's approval and reward, but he cannot earn his own salvation. Only Christ can save every human from their sins and eternal deaths. If a person fails his test, then his sin will cause him temporary suffering in life, but never eternal separation from God. Evil causes temporary suffering in all humans regardless of whether they sin or not.
Satan thought that he could use the weakness in man's free will that God had given him to inject evil into his being which would permanently ruin him and from which he could never recover. In this way, Satan thought he could prove that God makes mistakes, and therefore, something would be wrong with God's Love. But God knew exactly how to cause His living image in every person to freely choose to return to repentance and faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Satan knew that once he had injected evil into man's being that man would then be helpless to ever overcome that evil and make himself clean again. Satan counted on the overwhelming power of evil to eventually cause a permanent separation of God's image in man from God's Love for man. In other words, Satan desired to cause permanent spiritual death of God's image in man. God allows mankind to temporarily suffer for their sins, but God will never allow the Devil to cause living humans to become totally evil and separated from Him in hell forever. God hates evil. Living humans have become stained by sin, but God will always cleanse and forgive those sins when every living human eventually repents and puts their faith in Christ to save them. Sins of which a human never repents becomes a part of his spiritual death that God will cast into the lake of fire. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 12:31-32.
But that which Satan did not count on and that which he could not comprehend was that God would become a man Himself, and because of His Almighty Love, would suffer man's eternal separation from God in man's place. God's Son suffered on a cross and shed His blood and water to cleanse and forgive all living humans who would repent and believe in Him from all their sins and evil and recreate them while they are still alive in the flesh. I Corinthians 6:11. God's Son also descended into hell to leave behind the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could use His consuming fire in the end of the world to permanently separate the living part of every human there from their spiritual deaths which are totally evil because they never repent. God designed every living human to be capable of repentance and faith in His Son who alone can save them from eternal spiritual death, but evil is foreign to man's being even though Satan injected it into man's being. I Peter 3:18; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
Every temptation that every human faces in life happens to be a test of the faith that God put into him when He created him. Romans 12:3. If a person passes his test, he will earn God's approval and reward, but he cannot earn his own salvation. Only Christ can save every human from their sins and eternal deaths. If a person fails his test, then his sin will cause him temporary suffering in life, but never eternal separation from God. Evil causes temporary suffering in all humans regardless of whether they sin or not.
Satan thought that he could use the weakness in man's free will that God had given him to inject evil into his being which would permanently ruin him and from which he could never recover. In this way, Satan thought he could prove that God makes mistakes, and therefore, something would be wrong with God's Love. But God knew exactly how to cause His living image in every person to freely choose to return to repentance and faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part eighty three
Job 30:1-31
No matter how good or evil any human may be within the regions of the dead, each one still retains a measure of faith that God has supplied to every living image of God that He put into every one of them. Romans 12:3. One day in the future, God will reactivate that faith still within their living images to worship Him in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Their living images will all freely choose to recognize Christ as the Lamb of God who has the power to rescue their living images from all of the regions of the dead. Christ will use His consuming fire to cleanse them of all sin and separate their totally evil deaths from them. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In Revelation 20:5, Christ will resurrect their cleansed living images from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Christ will cast their separated, totally evil deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will completely cleanse and recreate all that He originally created, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 22:11-12; Acts 24:15; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; I Timothy 4:10; Matthew 3:11-12 and many other scriptures.
In Job 30:25-31, Job displayed confusion. He wondered why he had been made to suffer so much when he had tried to do good works and be faithful to the Lord. Satan caused his suffering, but the Lord allowed it. Why?
Satan has wagered that he can use evil, over which he has partially gained control, to so horribly cause the human race to suffer that that evil will eventually annul some of God's good images that God created and put into every person. Satan believes that if he can cause genocide, war, famine, slavery, and all other forms of horrible acts of inhumanity, then he can absolutely destroy and annul the good image of God in at least one person, causing God's Love to fail and man's faith that God put into man to also fail. Should Satan succeed in his evil plan, he would prove that God's Love is not Almighty, get an advantage over God that he can use to eventually find a way to murder Him, and invent his own evil universe. Satan revealed his plan for the human race in Job 2:9, and his plan for God in Matthew 4:1-11.
No matter how good or evil any human may be within the regions of the dead, each one still retains a measure of faith that God has supplied to every living image of God that He put into every one of them. Romans 12:3. One day in the future, God will reactivate that faith still within their living images to worship Him in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Their living images will all freely choose to recognize Christ as the Lamb of God who has the power to rescue their living images from all of the regions of the dead. Christ will use His consuming fire to cleanse them of all sin and separate their totally evil deaths from them. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In Revelation 20:5, Christ will resurrect their cleansed living images from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Christ will cast their separated, totally evil deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will completely cleanse and recreate all that He originally created, some by His grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 22:11-12; Acts 24:15; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; I Timothy 4:10; Matthew 3:11-12 and many other scriptures.
In Job 30:25-31, Job displayed confusion. He wondered why he had been made to suffer so much when he had tried to do good works and be faithful to the Lord. Satan caused his suffering, but the Lord allowed it. Why?
Satan has wagered that he can use evil, over which he has partially gained control, to so horribly cause the human race to suffer that that evil will eventually annul some of God's good images that God created and put into every person. Satan believes that if he can cause genocide, war, famine, slavery, and all other forms of horrible acts of inhumanity, then he can absolutely destroy and annul the good image of God in at least one person, causing God's Love to fail and man's faith that God put into man to also fail. Should Satan succeed in his evil plan, he would prove that God's Love is not Almighty, get an advantage over God that he can use to eventually find a way to murder Him, and invent his own evil universe. Satan revealed his plan for the human race in Job 2:9, and his plan for God in Matthew 4:1-11.
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