Job 17:1-16
God made Job typical of the whole human race. The emotions of humans spans a spectrum that runs from utopian joy and bliss to utter despair and hopelessness. God understood that humans would become this way once they had sinned. But God wants humans to understand that these emotions have nothing to do with faith. Job realized this truth when God inspired him to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him..."Job 13:15. God holds on to the faith that humans put in Him. This fact happens because God is faithful. "...He cannot deny Himself." II Timothy 2:13. God has given "...to every man the measure of faith." Romans 12:3; Hebrews 11:3. God created everything to be good, therefore, the image of God in every person has to have faith. Genesis 1:31.
While II Thessalonians 3:2 does state that "...all men have not faith," taken in context, this phrase means that most humans cannot rise to Christian faith and become saved by grace. Most people are atheists, some by philosophy and most by practice. But this attitude toward God cannot change God's faithfulness toward His creations. God has brought all persons saved by His grace to a consciousness of having faith in Christ, but God has not given up on the rest of humanity. Someday, God will bring all humans not already saved by grace back to a conscious faith in Him of their own free will.
Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophecy that one day all humans still in their graves will return to conscious faith in God and will be saved but with a lesser form of salvation than that of those saved by grace. Joel prophesied that in the last days, "...I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh..." Joel 2:28. God has to mean exactly that which He states. Revelation 5:13 reveals the fulfillment of these prophecies when, at the beginning of the Tribulation period, absolutely every living being that God ever created will praise Him in a tremendous worship service. This great worship service will begin with the angels and the Church in heaven and will be extended to the earth, to the sea, and to under the earth. Revelation 5:11-14. At this time, God will give all humans still in their graves a lesser from of salvation because they will recognize and praise Christ as "the Lamb." They would not be able to recognize Christ as their Savior unless they employed the faith that God gave them when He created them in His image.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty nine
Job 16:1-22
In Job 16:17, God caused Job to realize that he had never been unjust to anyone. Job had been a weak sinner, but he had never been deliberately cruel and wicked. Job had also been honest with God in his prayers. He had not tried to deceive God in any way.
In Job 16:18, Job pled with the earth not to hold his life in the grave, symbolized by his use of the word "blood." He also asked the earth to give no place for his "cry," by which he meant that he desired that his "cry" go to God and not remain in the grave.
In Job 16:19, God answered Job's cry by assuring him that He was keeping a record of Job's witness in heaven. God was keeping a record of all of Job's good works and his witness of his faith.
In Job 16:20-22, Job proclaimed that he did not care that his friends scorned him. Job knew that God had seen his tears, and He cared about him. God revealed to Job that He cared about him by reminding him that an intercessor does exist who can make Job right with Him. But Job had trouble believing God's revelation, and so He continued to plead with God for an intercessor. Job then realized that when he goes to his grave that God will not raise him to his old life. Job began to understand that if he has a record in heaven and if he has an intercessor, then in some way that he cannot quite comprehend, God must raise him from the dead as a new man.
In Job 16:17, God caused Job to realize that he had never been unjust to anyone. Job had been a weak sinner, but he had never been deliberately cruel and wicked. Job had also been honest with God in his prayers. He had not tried to deceive God in any way.
In Job 16:18, Job pled with the earth not to hold his life in the grave, symbolized by his use of the word "blood." He also asked the earth to give no place for his "cry," by which he meant that he desired that his "cry" go to God and not remain in the grave.
In Job 16:19, God answered Job's cry by assuring him that He was keeping a record of Job's witness in heaven. God was keeping a record of all of Job's good works and his witness of his faith.
In Job 16:20-22, Job proclaimed that he did not care that his friends scorned him. Job knew that God had seen his tears, and He cared about him. God revealed to Job that He cared about him by reminding him that an intercessor does exist who can make Job right with Him. But Job had trouble believing God's revelation, and so He continued to plead with God for an intercessor. Job then realized that when he goes to his grave that God will not raise him to his old life. Job began to understand that if he has a record in heaven and if he has an intercessor, then in some way that he cannot quite comprehend, God must raise him from the dead as a new man.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty eight
Job 16:1-22
After God learns the secret manner in which evil influences His righteous creations, He will loose Satan from his prison to allow him again to roam the earth and teach these sinful people that they must unite into an army to defeat Christ's army in order to at least get rid of God in His world and establish a world in which they can indulge in their depraved pleasures with impunity. Actually, Satan will have lied to them. Satan's only desire will be to gain control over them so that he can torture them forever in his attempt to completely ruin the good image of God still in them. Satan will use them in his continuous attempts to destroy God by his annihilation of a part of that which God loves. But God will be using Satan as His tool to cause the secret source of evil to become fully exposed and concentrated in one place and people so that He can send a bolt of His consuming fire from above to completely expunge all evil in humans and seal off its secret entrance into His creations. Revelation 20:7-10.
After God has accomplished this victory, He will throw Satan alive into the lake of fire to so preoccupy his mind with torment forever that he will never be able to think of any other way to use evil to corrupt God's creations again. After God has thoroughly purged His heaven and earth of every possible influence of evil, He will destroy the heaven and the earth, and He will recreate a righteous heaven and earth which can never be corrupted by evil again. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God's destruction of the present heaven and earth by the use of His consuming fire will be His way of separating out all evil and sealing off all evil influences from His new creations of a righteous heaven and earth. At this time, God will also use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all humans still in their graves from their dead nature. In order to do this, God will dissolve every individual human system. God will use the good and living images of Him in these humans to recreate a new, righteous human race to inhabit His recreated earth. God will judge the separated, totally evil dead according to their evil works as recorded in His books and cast them into the lake of fire forever. For this reason, Jesus did not state that living humans would be in the lake of fire in Mark 9:44,46 and 48. Jesus said that their "worm" would be there. In the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" symbolizes evil itself. Like worms, the dead in the lake of fire will have very little consciousness and that will be a negative consciousness like that of the demons. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has created in humans, can get no idea of how negative consciousness operates except that it adheres to absolute nothingness. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29.
In this way, God will destroy all the works of the Devil, permanently purge all of His creations of all sin and evil, destroy death itself, and preserve all that He ever created to be recreated and sealed off from any further possible influence from evil forever. I John 3:8; II Peter 3:12-13; John 1:29; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20.
After God learns the secret manner in which evil influences His righteous creations, He will loose Satan from his prison to allow him again to roam the earth and teach these sinful people that they must unite into an army to defeat Christ's army in order to at least get rid of God in His world and establish a world in which they can indulge in their depraved pleasures with impunity. Actually, Satan will have lied to them. Satan's only desire will be to gain control over them so that he can torture them forever in his attempt to completely ruin the good image of God still in them. Satan will use them in his continuous attempts to destroy God by his annihilation of a part of that which God loves. But God will be using Satan as His tool to cause the secret source of evil to become fully exposed and concentrated in one place and people so that He can send a bolt of His consuming fire from above to completely expunge all evil in humans and seal off its secret entrance into His creations. Revelation 20:7-10.
After God has accomplished this victory, He will throw Satan alive into the lake of fire to so preoccupy his mind with torment forever that he will never be able to think of any other way to use evil to corrupt God's creations again. After God has thoroughly purged His heaven and earth of every possible influence of evil, He will destroy the heaven and the earth, and He will recreate a righteous heaven and earth which can never be corrupted by evil again. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:1-5.
God's destruction of the present heaven and earth by the use of His consuming fire will be His way of separating out all evil and sealing off all evil influences from His new creations of a righteous heaven and earth. At this time, God will also use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all humans still in their graves from their dead nature. In order to do this, God will dissolve every individual human system. God will use the good and living images of Him in these humans to recreate a new, righteous human race to inhabit His recreated earth. God will judge the separated, totally evil dead according to their evil works as recorded in His books and cast them into the lake of fire forever. For this reason, Jesus did not state that living humans would be in the lake of fire in Mark 9:44,46 and 48. Jesus said that their "worm" would be there. In the Bible (KJB), the word "worm" symbolizes evil itself. Like worms, the dead in the lake of fire will have very little consciousness and that will be a negative consciousness like that of the demons. Positive consciousness, which God is and which He has created in humans, can get no idea of how negative consciousness operates except that it adheres to absolute nothingness. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29.
In this way, God will destroy all the works of the Devil, permanently purge all of His creations of all sin and evil, destroy death itself, and preserve all that He ever created to be recreated and sealed off from any further possible influence from evil forever. I John 3:8; II Peter 3:12-13; John 1:29; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:15-20.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty seven
Job 16:1-22
God is innocent. He knows nothing about absolute nothingness except that it is a destructive and negative force that has invaded His positive creations by some secret means. But God has devised a plan by which He will be able to learn the insidious means by which evil gets into His creations so that He can destroy that means. In the Battle of Armageddon, as recorded in Revelation 19:17-21, Christ will capture the beast and the false prophet, and He will cast them alive into the lake of fire so that their torment will prevent them from ever having any influence over humans forever. Immediately following this battle, God will send an angel to dig that coward Satan out of whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him and seal him in the bottomless pit so that he will have no influence over humans to turn them to evil.
Christ will then establish His millennial kingdom on the earth. Christ will first raise His martyred Tribulation saints to reign with Him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:4. Then, according to Matthew 25:31-46, Christ will judge the living nations and separate the good images that God put into them which He calls "the sheep" from their evil nature which He calls "the goats." In order to do this, Christ will dissolve the individual systems of each person. Christ will judge each individual strictly according to their good works and their evil works. Christ will preserve their good works because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Christ will cast their separated evil works, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, into the lake of fire. Christ will then use His recovered good works to recreate a righteous human race to live in His millennial kingdom.
God created Lucifer to be a wholly good and righteous system, and yet, evil somehow suddenly took hold of him. This means evil itself predates Lucifer. For this reason, God will know that the righteous people who inhabit Christ's kingdom will still be subject to the secret influence of evil even though He has barred the false trinity called the Devil from any possibility of infecting them with evil. Toward the end of Christ's millennial reign, many of these righteous people will begin to sin again because of the secret method by which evil will emerge to influence them. But God will be watching the bottomless pit, and He will learn the exact secret manner by which evil emerges from it to corrupt God's righteous creations. The ultimate goal of all evil is to kill God and completely annihilate all of His good creations.
God is innocent. He knows nothing about absolute nothingness except that it is a destructive and negative force that has invaded His positive creations by some secret means. But God has devised a plan by which He will be able to learn the insidious means by which evil gets into His creations so that He can destroy that means. In the Battle of Armageddon, as recorded in Revelation 19:17-21, Christ will capture the beast and the false prophet, and He will cast them alive into the lake of fire so that their torment will prevent them from ever having any influence over humans forever. Immediately following this battle, God will send an angel to dig that coward Satan out of whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him and seal him in the bottomless pit so that he will have no influence over humans to turn them to evil.
Christ will then establish His millennial kingdom on the earth. Christ will first raise His martyred Tribulation saints to reign with Him for a thousand years. Revelation 20:4. Then, according to Matthew 25:31-46, Christ will judge the living nations and separate the good images that God put into them which He calls "the sheep" from their evil nature which He calls "the goats." In order to do this, Christ will dissolve the individual systems of each person. Christ will judge each individual strictly according to their good works and their evil works. Christ will preserve their good works because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Christ will cast their separated evil works, which is the same as their spiritual deaths, into the lake of fire. Christ will then use His recovered good works to recreate a righteous human race to live in His millennial kingdom.
God created Lucifer to be a wholly good and righteous system, and yet, evil somehow suddenly took hold of him. This means evil itself predates Lucifer. For this reason, God will know that the righteous people who inhabit Christ's kingdom will still be subject to the secret influence of evil even though He has barred the false trinity called the Devil from any possibility of infecting them with evil. Toward the end of Christ's millennial reign, many of these righteous people will begin to sin again because of the secret method by which evil will emerge to influence them. But God will be watching the bottomless pit, and He will learn the exact secret manner by which evil emerges from it to corrupt God's righteous creations. The ultimate goal of all evil is to kill God and completely annihilate all of His good creations.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty six
Job 16:1-22
In Job 16:1-10, Job complained that his comforters had failed to comfort him. Job complained that their words had made his suffering worse. Job rebuked them by telling them that if they were in his place, he would do his best to try to truly comfort them and ease their grief. That which Job spoke in verses 7-10 reminds one of the old adage, "With friends like these, a man would not need any enemies." Job suspected that his friends actually secretly hated him because they were envious of his fellowship with God in which God comforted and strengthened him.
In Job 16:11-16, Job complained to God that He had allowed everything that Job loved to be taken from him. God had allowed Job's children to be taken, had allowed his wife to turn against him, had taken his health, and had even allowed his ungodly friends to mock him. By his use of the phrase "shadow of death," Job realized that he had been reduced to a state of absolute nothingness except for his good life which barely rose above the darkness of death like a shadow on his eyelids. The Bible (KJB) often uses the phrase "shadow of death" and the word "darkness" to symbolize a place of total evil and emptiness called Death in Revelation 20:13. The Bible clearly denotes three different places of the dead called the Sea, Death, and Hell in Revelation 20:13. All forms of sin and evil have secretly emerged into God's creations from this abyss, this place of chaos and absolute nothingness called "the deep" in Luke 8:31, "the bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:3, the "prison" in Revelation 20:7, and Death in Revelation 6:8 and Revelation 20:13.
In John 3:17-21, Jesus referred to those who love truth as coming to the light, and those whom God condemns as being in evil darkness. In Revelation 9:1-3, God sent a fallen angel to open the bottomless pit to allow all the demonic beings there, like a cloud of locusts, to emerge to torment all men who have not been sealed in their foreheads by God for their protection. God will have a good reason for doing this. God will desire to gather all the forces of evil to the Battle of Armageddon so that He can destroy most of them at one time. Revelation 19:17-21; Ezekiel 39:2. In Genesis 1:3-5, God created the light but not the darkness. God created the light to overcome the darkness. John 1:5. The light symbolizes goodness and righteousness. The darkness symbolizes the evil abyss, the place of absolute nothingness, the place of demonic beings who possess negative consciousness. God possesses infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative and righteous. God created humans to possess only positive consciousness. God raises the idea of nothing to a level of positive consciousness slightly above absolute nothingness as a useful idea in His creations of good systems. God knew nothing about absolute nothingness until it suddenly emerged into Lucifer as recorded in Ezekiel 28:15. Not even God knows how evil emerged from the bottomless pit to infect His creations because God only knows positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. The forces of evil have some secret way of getting into God's creations.
In Job 16:1-10, Job complained that his comforters had failed to comfort him. Job complained that their words had made his suffering worse. Job rebuked them by telling them that if they were in his place, he would do his best to try to truly comfort them and ease their grief. That which Job spoke in verses 7-10 reminds one of the old adage, "With friends like these, a man would not need any enemies." Job suspected that his friends actually secretly hated him because they were envious of his fellowship with God in which God comforted and strengthened him.
In Job 16:11-16, Job complained to God that He had allowed everything that Job loved to be taken from him. God had allowed Job's children to be taken, had allowed his wife to turn against him, had taken his health, and had even allowed his ungodly friends to mock him. By his use of the phrase "shadow of death," Job realized that he had been reduced to a state of absolute nothingness except for his good life which barely rose above the darkness of death like a shadow on his eyelids. The Bible (KJB) often uses the phrase "shadow of death" and the word "darkness" to symbolize a place of total evil and emptiness called Death in Revelation 20:13. The Bible clearly denotes three different places of the dead called the Sea, Death, and Hell in Revelation 20:13. All forms of sin and evil have secretly emerged into God's creations from this abyss, this place of chaos and absolute nothingness called "the deep" in Luke 8:31, "the bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:3, the "prison" in Revelation 20:7, and Death in Revelation 6:8 and Revelation 20:13.
In John 3:17-21, Jesus referred to those who love truth as coming to the light, and those whom God condemns as being in evil darkness. In Revelation 9:1-3, God sent a fallen angel to open the bottomless pit to allow all the demonic beings there, like a cloud of locusts, to emerge to torment all men who have not been sealed in their foreheads by God for their protection. God will have a good reason for doing this. God will desire to gather all the forces of evil to the Battle of Armageddon so that He can destroy most of them at one time. Revelation 19:17-21; Ezekiel 39:2. In Genesis 1:3-5, God created the light but not the darkness. God created the light to overcome the darkness. John 1:5. The light symbolizes goodness and righteousness. The darkness symbolizes the evil abyss, the place of absolute nothingness, the place of demonic beings who possess negative consciousness. God possesses infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative and righteous. God created humans to possess only positive consciousness. God raises the idea of nothing to a level of positive consciousness slightly above absolute nothingness as a useful idea in His creations of good systems. God knew nothing about absolute nothingness until it suddenly emerged into Lucifer as recorded in Ezekiel 28:15. Not even God knows how evil emerged from the bottomless pit to infect His creations because God only knows positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. The forces of evil have some secret way of getting into God's creations.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty five
Job 15:1-35
Some men become terribly cruel and evil. But even the worst of men has done some good which proves that the good and living image of God within them has not been fully extinguished. Even Judas Iscariot demonstrated that some goodness still remained in him when he became remorseful for his evil act of betraying Jesus. Even though he refused to repent to God, he still revealed that the good and living image of God within him still hated evil. Jesus recognized the good image of God that still remained in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Even though Jesus severely reproved the Pharisees and Sadducees for their cruel oppression of others, He nevertheless recognized the good and living image of God in them by what He said to them in Luke 17:20-21.
Still, in order for the image of God in every person to be saved, all humans must return to faith in God as their Savior. Someday, all unrepentant sinners will return to faith in Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 45:22-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. God will recover His good images that He has put into every unrepentant sinner with a general resurrection at the end of the world as recorded in Revelation 20:5. God will dissolve every one of their individual systems by His use of His consuming fire. God will recover the elements of goodness and life within each person to be recreated, and He will cast their separated, totally evil spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will recover even the dim light of His image still left in Judas Iscariot. All of the terribly wicked in hell, including Judas Iscariot, will completely lose their former identities and personalities when God dissolves their systems. Every person constitutes a system comprised of basic elements. But God will still use the elements of His image still in them as a part of His recreation of a righteous race to live on His new earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Those dead humans within the other regions of the dead who conformed their lives to the image of God within them but were not saved by grace, but who nevertheless led good lives, were good parents and citizens, will retain some of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Yet, none of the living humans raised from the three regions of the dead will retain their complete, former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Revelation 20:13; Revelation 20:5. Humans saved by grace will retain their complete, former identities and most of their former personalities in heaven. John 12:24-26.
Some men become terribly cruel and evil. But even the worst of men has done some good which proves that the good and living image of God within them has not been fully extinguished. Even Judas Iscariot demonstrated that some goodness still remained in him when he became remorseful for his evil act of betraying Jesus. Even though he refused to repent to God, he still revealed that the good and living image of God within him still hated evil. Jesus recognized the good image of God that still remained in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Even though Jesus severely reproved the Pharisees and Sadducees for their cruel oppression of others, He nevertheless recognized the good and living image of God in them by what He said to them in Luke 17:20-21.
Still, in order for the image of God in every person to be saved, all humans must return to faith in God as their Savior. Someday, all unrepentant sinners will return to faith in Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 45:22-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. God will recover His good images that He has put into every unrepentant sinner with a general resurrection at the end of the world as recorded in Revelation 20:5. God will dissolve every one of their individual systems by His use of His consuming fire. God will recover the elements of goodness and life within each person to be recreated, and He will cast their separated, totally evil spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15.
God will recover even the dim light of His image still left in Judas Iscariot. All of the terribly wicked in hell, including Judas Iscariot, will completely lose their former identities and personalities when God dissolves their systems. Every person constitutes a system comprised of basic elements. But God will still use the elements of His image still in them as a part of His recreation of a righteous race to live on His new earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Those dead humans within the other regions of the dead who conformed their lives to the image of God within them but were not saved by grace, but who nevertheless led good lives, were good parents and citizens, will retain some of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Yet, none of the living humans raised from the three regions of the dead will retain their complete, former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Revelation 20:13; Revelation 20:5. Humans saved by grace will retain their complete, former identities and most of their former personalities in heaven. John 12:24-26.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part twenty four
Job 15:1-35
Eliphaz became angry with Job because Job claimed that God had told Job that He can remove Job's sin and raise him from the dead a new man. Eliphaz also became envious of Job because Job seemed to have become less fearful and more peaceful with God. Eliphaz accused Job of not being fully honest with God when he talked with Him.
Eliphaz was afraid to talk to God. Eliphaz was a deist. Like many of the ancients, he did not believe that even God was righteous. Eliphaz charged Job with being wicked and that God had no desire to do anything about it. Eliphaz contended that God does not care about those who try to be righteous, and He does nothing about cleansing heaven or mankind of the filth of sin.
Satan then inspired Eliphaz to mock Job by telling him that he was hopelessly wicked, and God could not help him. Eliphaz turned against Job and angrily predicted that Job would remain in darkness and suffering and emptiness forever. Eliphaz was doing to Job what his wife had done. In effect, Eliphaz told Job that his faith in God was useless and that he might as well "curse God and die."
That which the Devil attempted to do to Job through Eliphaz symbolizes that which the Devil wants to do to the whole human race. Satan desires to completely destroy the image of God which He has put into every man by causing every bit of that image to become totally evil. The Devil seeks to annihilate a part of God's creation. Should the Devil succeed with even one person, then he would prove that God's Almighty Love for His creations had failed, and that putative weakness in God would give the Devil the crack in God's armor that the Devil needed to finally defeat God and assume power over His universe. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.
But God's Love will never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God has put His good image into every person, and though that image has become soiled by sin and evil, nevertheless, God will eventually cleanse that sin in every person and recover His living image for Him to recreate, some by His grace and all others still in their graves by His use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; I Corinthians 15:22.
Eliphaz became angry with Job because Job claimed that God had told Job that He can remove Job's sin and raise him from the dead a new man. Eliphaz also became envious of Job because Job seemed to have become less fearful and more peaceful with God. Eliphaz accused Job of not being fully honest with God when he talked with Him.
Eliphaz was afraid to talk to God. Eliphaz was a deist. Like many of the ancients, he did not believe that even God was righteous. Eliphaz charged Job with being wicked and that God had no desire to do anything about it. Eliphaz contended that God does not care about those who try to be righteous, and He does nothing about cleansing heaven or mankind of the filth of sin.
Satan then inspired Eliphaz to mock Job by telling him that he was hopelessly wicked, and God could not help him. Eliphaz turned against Job and angrily predicted that Job would remain in darkness and suffering and emptiness forever. Eliphaz was doing to Job what his wife had done. In effect, Eliphaz told Job that his faith in God was useless and that he might as well "curse God and die."
That which the Devil attempted to do to Job through Eliphaz symbolizes that which the Devil wants to do to the whole human race. Satan desires to completely destroy the image of God which He has put into every man by causing every bit of that image to become totally evil. The Devil seeks to annihilate a part of God's creation. Should the Devil succeed with even one person, then he would prove that God's Almighty Love for His creations had failed, and that putative weakness in God would give the Devil the crack in God's armor that the Devil needed to finally defeat God and assume power over His universe. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.
But God's Love will never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God has put His good image into every person, and though that image has become soiled by sin and evil, nevertheless, God will eventually cleanse that sin in every person and recover His living image for Him to recreate, some by His grace and all others still in their graves by His use of His consuming fire. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; I Corinthians 15:22.
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