The Fiery Wrath of God

                                  Genesis 8:20-21

In Noah's day, the entire human race had become wicked and violent. The only righteous persons left in the earth were Noah and his family who walked with God and had found grace in God's sight. Genesis 6:8-10 (KJB). God, who is pure and holy, cannot abide evil. God knows that evil must be utterly destroyed. God decided to destroy the entire human race in a world-wide flood except for Noah and his family, but it greatly grieved Him to do so because every evil human also had a good and living nature that God had created and loved. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But they all had allowed their evil natures to dominate their good natures to the extent that their good natures no longer had any effect on their lives. Genesis 6:5-7; Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). God delights in destroying evil itself, but God became grieved because He had to destroy the good natures of those evil humans along with their evil natures. God could not separate their good natures from their evil natures because their good natures had become stained with evil, and they all had refused to repent of that fact.

God had given the sin offering to Adam and Eve and all of humanity to symbolize God's salvation from sin and evil through the shed blood of the coming Messiah, and Noah and his family still practiced that sacrifice. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But the rest of humanity had lost all outward faith in God because of their evil, but their suppressed good and living natures still retained that faith in a latent form. When God destroyed this evil, human race, they all descended into the cursed regions of death within the ground, and that fact greatly grieved God because all of their suppressed good and living natures were in danger of being lost from God's Love forever. Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:20 (KJB).

God knew that He had used His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve Lucifer's being after he had rebelled in order to separate from him and recover all of the good elements that God had put into his system so that God could exile his totally evil and empty nature to earth. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created because of His Almighty Love. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). But God cannot save from eternal death any of His living humans until they all return to faith in His power and self-sacrifice that is needed to save them. God also knew that only some of the descendants of Noah would ever come to faith in the shed blood of the Messiah that would forever save them from sin, evil, and eternal death. This meant that God had to devise a plan whereby He could use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of every human who would not become saved by His grace, but He would also need to return them all to faith in His power to save them.

So God gave to Noah the burnt offering sacrifice to symbolize the fact that God intends to save all of His living humans not already saved by grace from sin, evil, and eternal death by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. God would send His Son to  preach to all of His living humans whom He destroyed in the flood about His sacrifice for them and His fiery salvation that will return them all to faith in His power to save them. I Peter 3:18-22 (KJB). John the Baptist taught that Jesus would save not only by a baptism with His Spirit, but He would also save by a baptism with His fire. Luke 3:16-17; I Peter 3:21 (KJB).

God had Noah to sacrifice clean animals in the burnt sacrifice to symbolize the fact that God will save all of His living humans that He will cleanse by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. That caused God to smell a sweet odor. God removed the curse of the ground from humanity which meant that God will save all of His living humans from the regions of death. God will save all of His living humans confined to the regions of death despite the evil that they have practiced because God will burn all of their dead and evil natures with His fiery wrath when they all return to faith in Him as their Savior. The burnt offering symbolized that God will never again "smite" any of His living humans whom He loves. The Hebrew word for "smite" means to kill. Christ will effect His burnt offering salvation for all of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He appears to them near the end of the world and causes them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Genesis 3:1-24 (KJB)

God created Adam and Eve in His image; that is, He created them to have a good and creative nature. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God loves the good natures of every human He ever creates, and God can never lose anything He ever creates and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).

God relates in His Word that He intends to save every living human He ever creates from the sin, evil, and spiritual death into which they all would fall. God warned Adam who warned Eve that if they disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit, they would die on that same day. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:2-3 (KJB). God knew that the Devil was in the world and that he held the power of evil and spiritual death, and if Adam and Eve disobeyed God, then the Devil would have the right to inject spiritual death that causes sin and evil into the inner beings of Adam and Eve and all of their descendants. The Devil believed that the power of spiritual death would eventually overcome the power of God's Love, and the living natures of humans would become totally evil and subject to the tortures of Hell forever. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9-10 (KJB). Job, being the first written book of the Bible, reveals the intention of Satan toward the human race. Satan seeks to utterly destroy a part of God's creation; that is, living humans, to prove that God's Love can fail. But God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). If the Devil could prove that God's Love is not Almighty, then he would be able to take complete control of at least the world that God created, and he would be able to torture all humans within it forever. Satan's temptation of Jesus also shows that he intends to take complete control of God's world. Luke 4:5-8 (KJB).

Just as God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job, but He did not allow the Devil to take his life, so God allows the Devil to do his worst to the entire human race, but God will save the good lives of every human He ever creates. The Devil plants the "seed" of spiritual death within the inner beings of every human, but God sent the "seed" of the woman, a perfect human named Jesus, who was not subject to spiritual death, and He suffered the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all living humans to crush the power of the Devil over all of the "seed" of the woman which are their living souls and spirits that God creates and loves. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God gave Eve the right to be the "mother of all living," and since all humans are alive in God's sight, then no living human will ever suffer eternal, spiritual death because Jesus has saved them all from it. Had Jesus not saved them from it, then they all would suffer spiritual death forever. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Jesus taught that His Father will root up every plant that He did not plant. That can only mean that God will utterly destroy the spiritual death and evil that the Devil has planted into every living human, but God will forever save the spiritual life that He plants into every human. Matthew 15:13 (KJB).

Further evidence that God intends to save the living souls and spirits of the entire human race lies in the fact that God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the three regions of death. Hell is actually divided into three regions of death called the Sea, Death or the Bottomless Pit, and the burning Hell. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). God gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve and their descendants. Humans who fail to accept Jesus as their Savior while still alive in the flesh, God will consign them to a temporary punishment in the regions of death when they physically die. Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Whatever God curses He intends to utterly destroy, and God will utterly destroy the Devil and all three regions of death in the end of the world. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 21:1 (KJB). The curse that Adam and Eve and all of their descendants acquired and suffered was the curse of spiritual death given to them by the Devil, not by God. But God sent His Son to save the entire, living human race from the curse of spiritual death through His death, burial, and resurrection. John 12:31-32; John 12:47 (KJB). If God ever intended to utterly destroy any of His living souls and spirits by casting them into an eternal lake of fire, He would have certainly told Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity.

But all living humans must return to the faith that God puts into them when when He creates them in order to be saved. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will make sure that all living humans return to that faith in the power of God's Love that caused Him to make the sacrifice necessary to save them all from eternal death. God killed an animal and shed its blood to make coats for Adam and Eve. That symbolized that God will save some humans by washing them in the blood that Jesus shed on the cross when they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Genesis 3:21; I John 1:7 (KJB). Christ will save the rest of His living humans that He had to consign to the regions of death when He appears to them near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can resurrect their living natures for Him to recreate with new bodies to inherit eternal life on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB).

After God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, He assigned an angel with a flaming sword to guard the Tree of Life, This symbolizes the fact that God uses His fiery wrath against evil to forever protect the Tree of Life from all evil so that it can supply all the nations of the world with health and eternal life. Genesis 3:22-24; Revelation 22:1-3; Psalm 82:8 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

 "For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB).

"For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29 (KJB).

The Bible reveals that "God is Love" itself. I John 4:8 (KJB). God's Almighty Love can never fail.  I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God creates every human in His image which means He creates every human to be good. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose to evil anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). God has promised that in the end of the world He will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly purge His entire creation of all evil, and He will recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God has promised that in the end of the world He will "make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). In order to keep His promise, God will have already saved from evil all of His saints saved by His grace, but He must also visit all of His living humans left on the earth and confined to the regions of death to cause them all to return to the faith that He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures that He created and loves from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their living natures to a righteous life on His recreated earth, and He will consign their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God is "a jealous God." That means God uses His fiery wrath to thoroughly cleanse and purge all of His living humans of all sin and evil that seeks to utterly destroy and annul the living natures of humans that God creates and loves. Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB). God uses His fiery wrath to protect and guard His people from the ravages of sin and evil. All living humans that God creates and loves are His people. Psalm 100:1-5 (KJB). God will cleanse and purge all of His living humans not saved by grace from all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the influence of the Devil, and He will inspire His people saved by His grace to a greater devotion to Him. Exodus 13:21-23; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). Whatever God creates, including all of His living humans, can never become the enemies of God. God's only enemies are sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Jesus judged no humans while He was on the earth. John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil when He was nailed to the cross. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Jesus suffered and died on the cross to liberate all of His living humans from all sin, evil, and the power of the Devil, not to judge them. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Jesus abolished death itself when He was nailed to the cross and rose from the dead, not any living humans. II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). The exception to the fact that God saves by His use of His fiery wrath against evil happens to be that when God saves His living humans by His grace, He cleanses their inner beings of all sin and evil and annuls their spiritual deaths with His blood that He shed on the cross. I John 1:7 (KJB).

The Hebrew word for "consuming" in Deuteronomy 4:24 literally means "to eat food." That is quite appropriate because when one eats food, part of it is used to sustain life and that which is not so used is expelled from the body. God uses His consuming fire to save the lives of all of His living humans not already saved by His grace, and He purges all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them after He has caused them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-15 (KJB).