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).