Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                 Proverbs 25:4-5 (KJB)


These verses constitute a prophecy about how God will purge His entire creation of all evil. All that God creates can only be very valuable, like silver. But because sin and evil has entered into God's creation, His creation has become impure. But just as pure silver can be extracted from its dross by a smelting process, so God will purify His entire creation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. Just as all of the silver will be recovered and purified from a proper smelting process, so God will recover and recreate His entire creation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world. God has promised that "Behold, I make all things new." This promise can only mean that God will recover and purify all of His living humans that He has created in His image. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:18-23; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-23; Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

The king in this verse symbolizes God. In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans that He created in His image who are confined to the regions of death who happen to be impure because of sin and evil still in their lives, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to smelt them in order to recover and purify their good souls and spirits, and He will cast their dross which is their sins and evil, which is also the dead natures of them, into an eternal lake of fire. Matthew 3:10-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). Christ will then resurrect and recreate all of His purified, living humans to an eternal life on His purified and recreated earth. God will purge His soiled creation and return it all to an absolute righteousness. II Peter 3:9-13; Proverbs 25:4-5 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                 Proverbs 20:27 (KJB)

This verse reveals that God uses the spirit of humans that He creates to search the inner beings of every human to discover the qualities of every person's personality and soul. God creates the spirit and soul of every human to be good, but God also knows that every human will eventually sin which means every human will develop a personality and soul that modern science calls "emergent," An emergent quality means that elements of a system can produce a quite unexpected result. For example, when two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, are combined, they produce an unexpected result which is a liquid called water. In a similar way, the good spirits of humans combined with their evil natures can produce in each individual unique and unexpected personality traits.

Apparently, God uses the spirit of each individual human to discover the emergent qualities of of their personalities. The good spirit of each individual cannot be corrupted by evil unless a person becomes an atheist because the spirit of each person happens to be that person's direct connection to the Infinite Spirit of God. Nevertheless, God can use even the spirit of the atheist to search his inner being. The good souls of humans will always be corrupted by sin and evil. The interaction between the good spirits and souls of each individual with their sinful and evil natures produces the unexpected personality of each individual. God uses the spirits of each person to search their inner beings so that He can discover exactly what their emergent personality happens to be.

God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). This means that God can never lose the good spirit and soul of every human He creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Some humans can become quite evil, but their evil can corrupt but never utterly destroy their good souls and spirits. In the end of the world in God's final judgment, He could never cast the living soul and spirit of any human confined to the regions of death into an eternal lake of fire because He would have to destroy a part of His own creation. God could never do that. In God's final judgment, He casts only dead and evil humans whom He has separated from His living humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

In addition, the evil natures of humans can never overwhelm their good and living natures to the extent that they become totally evil because if that happened, they would become demonic and incapable of doing any good at all. God can never lose any part of His creation. Even the maniac of Gadara proved that he still retained his good and living soul and spirit when he ran to Jesus to be cleansed and healed and restored to a good and normal nature. Luke 8:26-39 (KJB).

That which Christ did for the maniac of Gadara, He will do for every living soul and spirit of every human He ever creates. God will thoroughly purge all sin and evil, and the eternal death that causes it, from the inner beings of every human because of His Love for them, which also means He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God came to earth in human form and suffered all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of every human on a cross in their place so that He could thoroughly purge every sin, evil, and spiritual death from every living human that He creates and loves. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). Jesus completed His purge when He rose from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

But in order to be eternally saved, every living human must return to the faith that God put into them when He created them; that is, that Christ has the power through His necessary sacrifice and resurrection to save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will make certain that every living human returns to that faith of their own free will. A free choice to love God proves that God's Love is real. God will cause some living humans to return to that faith while they are still alive in the flesh so that He can cleanse the sins and evil from their souls and spirits with the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross, and He can forgive them and annul their spiritual deaths. Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9; John 5:24 (KJB). But they still will be able to sin because God will cause them to retain their fleshly natures which He will purge in the Rapture of the Church. Romans 7:18; Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJB).

Christ will appear to all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death in the end of the world in order to cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His new earth forever, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Thus with a higher and a lesser form of salvation, God will cleanse and save forever every soul and spirit, with recreated bodies, of every living human He has ever created. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

When God destroys any human or causes them to perish, that only means that He purges their emergent personalities and souls of all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He can recreate them to be wholly righteous and good. The living souls and spirits of humans saved by grace do not perish because God purges their souls and spirits with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross while they are still alive in the flesh. Because they were predestined to be saved by grace, their sins and evil affected their personalities, but it never became a part of their inner beings. They profit from a condition called prevenient grace. But living humans confined to the regions of death must have their emergent personalities purged with the fiery wrath of God in order to be saved. Their emergent personalities must perish. John 3:16; John 12:25 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                Proverbs 28:18 (KJB)

King Solomon wrote the Proverbs. King Solomon was probably not saved by grace because in all of his writings, speeches, and prayers, he gave no indication that he was so saved. Had Solomon been saved by grace, he would not have written that "Whoso walketh uprighty shall be saved" unless he knew of a lesser form of salvation. Solomon would have had at least some knowledge that salvation by grace happens to be solely a gift from God apart from any good works that a person may do. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). Solomon's father, king David, prophesied that he knew something about salvation by grace when He wrote about a suffering Messiah who had become his shepherd. Psalms 22, 23, and 24. In all of Solomon's writings, speeches, and prayers, he only spoke about repentance toward God the Father, obedience to His Commandments, and restoration to the land that God had given his people. In other words, Solomon knew only about a lesser form of salvation that God would provide.

Since king Solomon had to have been inspired by the Holy Spirit in whatever he wrote and said in the Bible, then he must have meant that God supplies a form of salvation to "whoso walketh uprighty," which can only mean those who do good works. Psalm 50:23 (KJB). King Solomon did know that God creates every human in His image which means every human has a good nature. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). He also knew that God had given the Ten Commandments to his people, the Israelites, for them to teach to the whole world. Exodus 20:1-17 (KJB). King Solomon also knew that every human has an evil nature because he exhorted his people to repent of their sins and return to faith in God and obedience to God in order to be restored to the land that God had given them. I Kings 8:22-66; II Chronicles 6:12-42 (KJB).

Solomon prophesied that a day will come when God will judge every human work whether it be good or evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJB). Solomon prophesied about the final judgment of Christ. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Solomon knew that the evil natures of humans will cause them all to sin, but he also knew that the good natures of humans will cause them all to do at least some good works in their lives that God had given them to do. I Kings 8:46-50; Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). The fact that Solomon also prayed that God would forgive the "strangers" who dwelt among his people when they repented proves that God will extend his merciful salvation to all of His living humans. I Kings 8:41-43; II Chronicles 6:32-33 (KJB).

All of this points to the fact that Christ will appear to all of His living humans "on the earth and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith He put into them when He created them so that He can give His merciful salvation to all of His living humans who were not already saved by grace. Christ will restore to His faithful Jews the land that He promised to Abraham, and He will give the rest of the earth to all the other living humans whom He raises from the dead. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-15; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                                 Proverbs 24:12 (KJB)

God knows the heart of every individual human much better than they know it themselves. God creates every living human in His image which means every human has a good nature. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). Evil humans suppress their good natures, and they may commit very cruel and evil acts. But God keeps their souls, and even every evil person has done some good in their lives that God gave them to do. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). Jesus taught that God will reward even the smallest good work. Matthew 10:42 (KJB). If God should ever cast any living human into an eternal lake of fire, then that human could never receive any rewards for his good deeds at all. Only living humans can receive rewards. In fact, the Bible teaches that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, and He will give rewards to all of His living humans for their good works. But God must raise all living humans back to life so that He can give them rewards. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 4:5 (KJB).

Jesus taught that He would not judge any human while He was in the world, not even for their unbelief. Jesus taught that He would reserve His judgment of humans until His final judgment in the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil as He hung on the cross. Jesus judged no humans on the cross because He suffered and died on the cross to save all of humanity from eternal death and the evil that causes it. John 12:31-32; John 6:32-33; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). Both salvation by grace and the salvation of the rest of humanity can be seen in these verses. Jesus utterly destroyed the Devil and his power of eternal death to save all of His living humans alive. I Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB).

No living human can be saved from eternal death except through faith in the power of Christ to save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). But God has made certain that He will cause every living human to return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Christ will save some living humans by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh, and He will save the rest of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He appears to them in the end of the world. In the majesty of His appearance, He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them in His image. Christ will then raise all of His living humans from their graves to eternal lives on His new earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Proverbs 24:12 agrees completely with Christ's final judgment in the end of the world. God will "render to every man according to his works" since He judges every man. Christ will judge every evil and dead nature of humans and cast them into the lake of fire, and He will return all of His repentant, living humans to life, and He will reward them all for their good works. John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                           Proverbs 16:4 (KJB) finish

One of the thoughts of evil humans is that all humans have their price. They believe every human will sell out their honesty for the right price. Satan certainly has that idea. Satan would have known that his temptation of Jesus would be useless if he thought that Jesus had an Almighty Righteousness that could never be shaken. Satan knew that Jesus possessed free will, and knowing that free will has a weakness, Satan believed he could cause Jesus to sin if he could just tempt Jesus in the right way. But Jesus relied on God's Word to pass His test of faith. The Devil then "departed from Him for a season," which meant he would return to tempt Jesus again as He hung on the cross. Luke 4:1-13 (KJB).

Jesus led an absolutely sinless life while He was on the earth which made Him the perfect sacrifice to take away all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans by suffering it all in their place on His cross. II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). Hell could not hold the innocent Spirit of Jesus and the grave could not hold the perfect body of Jesus, and so He rose from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual deaths, and the Devil. The Bible shows that God always wins complete victories, never partial ones. Acts 2:25-31; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

God plans to restore all of His living humans whom He creates and loves to faith in Him as their Savior despite the weakness that they have in their free wills. God will cause all of His living humans to freely choose to return to faith in His Son's sacrifice for them. God will forever save those living humans who return to faith in His Son while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). They will be saved by His grace. God will save all of His other living humans whom He had to confine to the regions of death; that is, Hell, when they died in their sins. Christ will appear to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will also appear to all humans alive on the earth, and He will save them in the same way. Christ will resurrect and recreate all of these living humans with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). All God requires of any human for their salvation is faith in His power to take away their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). Repentance is a part of faith. Physical death cannot bar the Almighty Power of God's Love. John 11:25; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

Jesus Himself taught that God will save all of His living and righteous humans. Jesus taught that in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate the "tares" from the "wheat." The "tares" and the "wheat" represent the evil and the good inside every human. God sows the wheat, and the Devil sows the tares. God will cast the separated, evil natures of all humans confined to the regions of death into the lake of fire, and He will save their repentant, righteous natures alive. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus taught that "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." This fact can only mean that God will eradicate all that the Devil has planted, such as spiritual death, and He will save all that He has planted, such as the righteous natures of all His living humans. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). Jesus taught that He would judge only the Devil and all of his evil works on the cross, not any of His living humans. John 12:31-32; John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus taught that in the end of the world, He will raise from the dead all of His good humans, and He will condemn all their spiritual deaths to the lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Jesus taught that all dead humans who believe in Him, He will resurrect back to life. John 11:25; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

No matter how evil any human may become, they nevertheless retain a subdued righteous nature that God created and His Love can never lose. Genesis 1:27; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Jesus even called Judas Iscariot His "friend" when Judas came with a mob to arrest Him. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). Jesus sacrificed Himself to save all of His friends. John 15:13 (KJB).

God outwitted the Devil. The very free will that the Devil thought would be weak enough to cause the destruction of humanity and eventually of God Himself, God used to cause all of fallen humanity to return to faith in Him of their own free will so that He could save them all, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. I Corinthians 1:25; I Corinthians 15:42-43; II Corinthians 12:9-10; II Corinthians 13:4; I Corinthians 1:27; Romans 11:33 (KJB). Even the weakness in God's creation happens to be far more powerful than all of the evil works of the Devil. I John 3:8 (KJB). The Infinite and Almighty Power of God can and will bring all evil to a finite condition. God will certainly take great pleasure when He purges all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from all of His creation. Revelation 4:11 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                  Proverbs 16:4 (KJB) to be continued

God had a persistent problem with evil. Some of His angels began to doubt that God had Almighty Power since God had given free will to Lucifer that had caused him to choose to become evil. Perhaps God had created a weakness. Some of God's angels followed Lucifer because of this doubt. Satan aims to exploit that which he considers a weakness in God's Creative powers so that he can invent a way to annul a part of God's creation and cause future rebellions against God which would eventually give him a chance to murder God and take His place. Ezekiel 28:13-19; John 8:44 (KJB). As long as Satan and doubt remained in God's creation, that would last forever, just as does God's creation. God had to devise a plan to eradicate all evil from His creation. God could not just summarily annul Satan and all evil because that would mean He would have to deny that free will had a weakness in it. God cannot lie.

God decided to create good humans on His earth and give them free will. God knew that Satan was there to tempt them. God gave them a choice that they could disobey Him and eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or they could choose to eat of the tree of life and live forever free of all sin and evil. God knew that Satan would tempt them, put doubt into their minds about the Almighty Power of God's Love and His Word, and they would choose to disobey God by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thus fall into sin and evil. Genesis 3:1-7 (KJB). God had warned Adam that if he ate of the forbidden fruit, he would die that same day. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Adam and Eve did not physically die that day, but Satan became able to inject spiritual death into their inner beings. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The planted "seed" of the Devil is spiritual death.

Adam and Eve had free will, but they were innocent. They did not know that God had created them to be good. They also had fellowship with God every evening which meant they had faith in Him. But God had aptly named the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because after they ate of the forbidden fruit, they became fully aware that they had a good nature within them created by God, and they also became aware that they had an evil, spiritual nature injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 3:7 (KJB). This knowledge made them intelligent because they became aware that they could use their minds to create good and useful systems or evil and destructive systems.

All humans inherited Adam's weakness in his free will that would cause them all to sin and some to commit acts of evil except for innocent babies who would die before they could sin. Romans 5:12 (KJB). Sin causes spiritual death in all humans who sin, even in those humans whom God would not hold accountable for their sins because they had never heard of God's Law that informed them that they had sinned against God. Romans 5:12-14 (KJB).

Satan thought that God had made a huge mistake in giving free will to humans. Satan believed that he could cause at least one human to become so evil that his spiritual death would annul all the goodness that God had put into him, and God would have to reject that human who would be lost from God's Love forever. Psalm 5:4-5 (KJB). Satan believed he could cause God's Love to fail which would expose a weakness in God's power which would give him a chance to find a way to murder God. Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-10 (KJB. God gave the Devil his chance when God allowed all of the sins and evil of all mankind to nail His Son to a cross. Luke 22:53 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                           Proverbs 16:4 (KJB) to be continued

God created "all things" for His own glory and for His own pleasure. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). Since God is Holy, He can create only good systems. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God's Intellect is Almighty and Omniscient. Psalm 147:5 (KJB). Being Pure and Holy, God knows only an infinite set of ideas that He can use to create good systems. But being Pure, God is also wholly innocent. Habakukk 1:12-13 (KJB). Being wholly innocent, God knew nothing about evil until Lucifer's rebellion. Ezekiel 28:15 (KJB). This verse seems to indicate that God was shocked when He discovered that Lucifer had suddenly become evil. The fact that God knew nothing about evil until Lucifer's rebellion does not impinge at all on God's Omniscience. God possesses an infinite knowledge of only all that is good and creative. Evil is wholly destructive. Evil seeks to destroy God and all of His creations. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB).

After Lucifer's rebellion, God began to investigate to find out from where evil came and how it got started. God discovered that He, in all innosence, had actually accidentally created evil. Isaiah 45:7 (KJB). God created the light, but He also created darkness. That darkness happened to be the hiding place for all evil. But God did not know that. When God created the universe, life, and all good systems in it, He did not know that He had also created a void which is the opposite of creation. God could not have known about this void because, in some strange way, nothing can be known about it except that it seeks to be wholly destructive of God's creations. God knows only about how to be creative, not destructive. Evil is a mystery to all creative and positive consciousnesses, including God's. II Thessalonians 2:7 (KJB).

Since evil seeks to destroy all of creation, it seeks to destroy knowledge itself. It is a kind of anti-knowledge. For this reason, nothing can really be known about it except that its effects on positive creation is wholly destructive. Because it seeks to be destructive, this void can somehow engender destructive forces. It may cause the force of gravity which seeks to crush all matter out of existence. It can also form destructive, negative consciousnesses that the Bible calls devils. Luke 8:30 (KJB). But Jesus proved that He holds all power over all destructive forces when He cast a legion of devils out of the maniac of Gadara. Luke 8:26-39 (KJB).

When Lucifer rebelled, God took immediate control of the situation. God used His fiery wrath against evil to strip all of the good elements that He had put into Lucifer's system from him, and He exiled him to earth as a wholly negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Because God is Almighty, He took immediate control over all evil when Lucifer rebelled. When God destroyed Lucifer's system, God learned that He could use the idea of destruction in creative ways. God may have used the destructive force of gravity to coalesce matter into stars and galaxies when He created the universe. All through the Bible, God often used destructive forces to eventually form good systems.