The Fiery Wrath of God

                                  I Peter 4:12-14 (KJB)

On a day called Pentecost approximately 50 days after Jesus' ascension, the Holy Spirit fell on the Church who were assembled together in one place. The Holy Spirit fell on them to give them the supernatural power that they needed to begin to spread the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem ultimately to the whole world. Acts 1:8 (KJB). These Christians were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit like "a mighty rushing wind." They began to be able to speak in the languages of the many different people who were in Jerusalem, and there appeared to them "cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." Acts 2:3 (KJB). One can understand why these ordinary people were given this supernatural power to spread the gospel to all languages, but why were they given the cloven tongues of fire?

Later, in one of the Apostle Peter's epistles, the Holy Spirit gave him the reason for the appearance of the tongues of fire. I Peter 4:12-14 (KJB). The tongues of fire endowed the Church with the strength and endurance that they would need to be able to suffer the persecution that would happen to them. Peter told the Church that they should rejoice when they were persecuted because that would provide further evidence to them that they were saved by God's grace. The tongues of fire represented God's fiery wrath against anyone who persecuted His Church.

But Christians are not saved by a fiery trial but by the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. Revelation 1:5 (KJB). But all unbelievers will be saved with a lesser form of salvation by a fiery trial sent from God to burn up their dead and evil deeds and natures so that God can raise their good and living natures back to life. This event will happen in the end of the world when Jesus appears to all unbelievers, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). One of the promises of God is that He wills that all humans become saved. What can thwart the Will of God? God cannot lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God has Almighty Power, and His Will cannot be thwarted. I Peter 3:9 (KJB).

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                                 Hebrews 10:26-39 (KJB)

In these verses. the Apostle Paul compares believers saved by grace to those who willfully and deliberately reject the gospel of Christ when they hear it. That is more than sin; that is evil. Many people when they hear the gospel become convinced by the presence of the Holy Spirit that they are sinners in need of Jesus their Savior, but they put off their decision to come to faith in Him because of pride or because they feel themselves to be unworthy of the grace of God. They fail to realize that the very purpose of God's grace is to save the unworthy because everyone is unworthy. God usually gives these types of unbelievers another opportunity to accept Christ as their Savior the next time they hear the gospel.

But there is another type of unbeliever who willfully and deliberately rejects Christ when they hear the gospel. These unbelievers usually become atheists and develop a hatred for God. God usually does not give them another chance to accept Christ the next time they hear the gospel. When these unbelievers die and face God's judgment, He will be angry with them, and He may consign their souls and spirits to a burning Hell because they willfully rejected faith in Christ who loves them with all His heart. Hebrews 9:27; Hebrews 10:26-31 (KJB). But nowhere in these verses does God relate that He will leave those who hate Him in Hell forever. In fact, verse 30 relates that "The Lord shall judge His people." God still considers these unbelievers who hate Him to be His people because they still retain a subdued good and living nature that God created them to be, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Christ will cause even these atheists to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior when He visits them in their burning Hell near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

The Apostle Paul then commends and praises those believers saved by grace to whom he wrote this letter for their patient endurance under persecution and for having compassion for him by sending him whatever he needed while in prison. Paul reminded them that they will receive great rewards when Jesus comes for them. Hebrews 10:32-37 (KJB).

Paul then reminds these believers that "the just shall live by faith," and that the Lord takes no pleasure in consigning unbelievers to one of the three regions of death when they die. But the Apostle never stated in any of these verses that God will ever consign the good natures of unbelievers to an eternal lake of fire. Hebrews 10:38-39 (KJB). Christ will visit all unbelievers within the regions of death near the end of the world, and He will cause them all to return to the faith in Him that He put into them when He created them. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from them so that He can recreate them with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will consign only their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God knows exactly how to return all of His good and living humans to faith in Him so that He can save them all, some by His grace and all others by His mercy. Christ only abolished death itself, not any of His living humans who live in His sight forever. II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; Luke 14:12-14 (KJB).

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                                                Daniel 7:9-14 (KJB)

The entire history of the human race consists in a continuous conflict between the kingdom of God and the Devil's kingdom. The Devil possesses a kingdom of greed, power, and pure evil. In fact, the Bible calls the Devil "the god of this world." II Corinthians 4:4 (KJB). This conflict sometimes results in open warfare, but more often it results in the subtle lies of demons who tempt humans to practice sin and evil which will always sooner or later ruin their lives even though the demons make them think that they will gain greater power or pleasure. Most often good people have had to suffer under the oppression of evil people, but occasionally good people have been able to gain greater personal and spiritual freedom. But in the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to thoroughly purge all sins, evil, and the Devil from His entire creation, including the evil in all living humans whom He creates and loves, and He will recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

For these reasons, Daniel 7:9-14 cannot be about the second coming of Christ and the battle of Armageddon. The battle of Armageddon and the thousand year reign of Christ will not completely eradicate all evil from God's world. Near the end of the world, evil will once again arise to assemble an army, led by the Devil, to attack Christ's kingdom, but God will utterly destroy that evil army and the Devil by His use of His fiery wrath. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB). Christ will then set up His Great White Throne, and He will then proceed with His final judgment of all of mankind except for those saved by His grace. Daniel 7:9-14 can only be about that final judgment.

In these verses, Christ does not ride a white horse or lead an army from Heaven. All of the thrones of humans will be cast down, which will not happen following the battle of Armageddon. Christ will sit on a throne of fire which has wheels. Christ will set up His judgment, "and the books were opened." This same phrase occurs in Revelation 20:12 (KJB). In his vision, Daniel observed the Devil being cast alive into the lake of fire, but the other beasts, who will be humans who have totally given themselves over to the practice of evil, will be kept alive until the final judgment of Christ. In Daniel 7:13, the Ancient of days and the Son of man are declared to be the same person which affirms the Deity of Christ. John 10:30 (KJB). The Father will then give His Son an everlasting kingdom which He did not receive during His thousand year reign. "All people, nations, and languages should serve Him," which can only mean that Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly purge all evil from all of His living humans, except those saved by His grace, of all sins, evil, and spiritual death after He has caused them all to return to the faith He put into them when He created them that He is the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can recreate them all with new bodies to live with Him forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast all of their separated, spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

However, Christ will not judge any of His living humans saved by His grace because He will have already taken their judgment on Himself on the cross and purged them of all sin and evil with His blood that He shed there, and when they die He allows them to go directly to Heaven. John 5:24; I Peter 3:18; I Peter 1:3-5; Revelation 1:5 (KJB). Since Christ will exempt all humans saved by His grace from this final judgment, then the phrase about all nations serving Christ can only mean the rest of Christ's living humans whom He will raise alive from the regions of death. Daniel 7:14 (KJB).

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                                 Daniel 3:1-37 (KJB).

The Devil influenced king Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, who was king of much of the world at that time, to set up an idol of gold, which represented the Devil's kingdom of greed and power, and Nebuchadnezzer would cause all people to worship it at the sound of a certain kind of music. The Devil knew that Nebuchadnezzer ruled over a lot of God's people, and he knew that many of God's faithful people would refuse to worship this golden idol. The Devil also knew that God had a fiery wrath that He used to destroy evil. The Devil tries to copy a lot of what God does but for evil purposes. Therefore, the Devil had king Nebuchadnezzer create a fiery furnace into which he would cast any person who refused to worship this golden idol. The Devil sought to so terrorize God's people that they would give up their faith in God all over the world, and that would cause the Devil to become the sole master of the whole world. In other words, the Devil sought to use his own fiery furnace to completely defeat God and take complete control of God's earth.

Nebuchadnezzer had gathered a huge multitude of people to worship this golden image. The Devil knew that the news of this huge assembly would spread to the whole world, and the fiery furnace would terrorize everyone to worship this golden idol. The Devil also had certain men in this crowd who would search out the Jews who would refuse to worship this idol. These men found three Jews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who refused to worship this golden idol. Nebuchadnezzer threatened to cast them into the fiery furnace if they refused. The most horrible death imaginable is to be burned alive. These three Jews demonstrated incredible faith and courage when they told Nebuchadnezzer that God was able to deliver them from this fiery furnace and even if He did not, they would not worship his idol. Daniel 3:16-18 (KJB). Nebuchadnezzer ordered that this furnace be heated seven times hotter. He must have used some kind of oil to do that. It was so hot that it killed the men who cast these three Jews into it.

This fiery furnace must have been a place below ground because the king and his people could look down into it. The king declared that he saw four men walking in the fire with no hurt and that the fourth man was like the Son of God. The Holy Spirit deliberately inspired the king to say that in that exact way because that fourth man had to be Jesus in angelic form. Daniel 3:24-25 (KJB). These faithful Jews emerged from that fire without their hair being singed or even the smell of smoke on their clothes. Even king Nebuchadnezzer became converted to faith in God because of this miracle. Daniel 3:27-30 (KJB).

God proved that the Devil can never use any ersatz copy of any of God's creations to defeat God. The Devil cannot create anything. The Devil can only misuse God's creative ideas to invent destructive systems. When God uses His fiery wrath to destroy evil, that happens to be a creative system because that protects all creative systems. The Devil can even misuse the idea and emotion of love to hide a person's true motive which is just lust.

God used this story of this miracle to prove that He will always defeat the false systems of the Devil with His message that His Son has power over all of the evils of the Devil, and that that message can convert even the worst humans to faith in God. God also proved that He will always have faithful people who will never give in to the terror of the Devil.

In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans that He created and loves who are confined to the three regions of death, including the Devil's burning Hell, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can forever save their living souls from eternal death with recreated bodies to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into His fiery wrath against evil which is the lake of fire. Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

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                                Psalm 21:8-12 (KJB)

The enemies of God are those who hate Him. Psalm 21:8 (KJB). Some humans hate God because they have turned their lives over to practice evil. They have allied themselves with Satan, and like Satan, they desire to destroy God. They have chosen to become evil because they possess free will. But the evil that they choose to live by is already within them because the Devil has injected the curse of spiritual death into their inner beings. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But God creates humans in His image to be good and to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then no matter how evil a person may choose to become, that person will never be able to extinguish that little light of goodness that God created that person to be. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Every human has a good and living nature created by God, and also a dead and evil nature injected into their inner beings by the Devil. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Most humans choose to lead good lives even though they cannot avoid choosing to sin because of their evil natures, and some humans choose to lead evil lives because they turn against their good natures and God. Yet, they can never put out that little light of goodness within them.

The danger that humans face happens to be that no human is able to purge his evil nature that inevitably causes him to sin or to practice evil. Their dual nature means that God can never accept them because of their dead nature. God can only accept purity and holiness. Anything less is destructive. Habakkuk 1:12-13 (KJB). God can never accept humans in their sinful condition. That fact causes all humans to be in danger of being swallowed up by evil and spiritual death and lost from God's Love forever. But God's love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God Himself took care of that human problem when He sent His Son to take upon Himself all of their spiritual deaths, and all of the sin and evil that causes it in their place, and rise from the dead victorious over it all. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-18; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Jesus had to have suffered and died on the cross and rise from the dead to liberate all of His good and living humans from the danger of eternal death because God's Love can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).

All of this can only mean that God's only enemies are the Devil, sin, evil, and eternal death. This fact means that God will utterly destroy only the Devil, sin, evil, and spiritual death themselves, never any of His living humans. God will subject only evil itself to His eternal fiery wrath. Psalm 21:9; Matthew 25:41-46 (KJB). God will destroy only the evil fruit of humans, not their living natures. Psalm 21:10; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God will destroy only the evil "seed" that the Devil has planted into every living human. Psalm 21:10; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Jesus promised that "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." That promise can only mean that God will purge only sin, evil, eternal death, and the Devil from His creation, never any living human that He creates. Matthew 15:13 (KJB).

But in order to save all of His good and living humans from evil and eternal death, God must return them all to an active faith in His power to save them through the sacrifice and resurrection of His Son. Habukkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will save some humans by His grace the moment they come to faith in Christ while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). Christ will also 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 faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their good natures to everlasting and righteous lives on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire that He created for the Devil and his angels. Matthew 25:41; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:1-3; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). Christ promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Numbers 21:5-9 (KJB)

One of the human sins that most angers God happens to be when people whom God has liberated from slavery complains about how God is treating them. The Israelites complained about the manna that God had given them to eat, but they had forgotten that God had promised them a land flowing with milk and honey. They may not have had as much water as they desired, but they must have had enough because no one of them died of thirst.

God punished them for their sins by sending fiery serpents among them and their bites killed some of the people. God's punishment for sin is always temporary, never eternal. The Bible relates that every time God killed humans with His fiery wrath He never said it was eternal. God provided only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve and so to all of their descendants. The fact that God made Eve "the mother of all living," and all humans are alive in God's sight proves that God never consigns eternal punishment to any living human. Genesis 3:14-20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). This fact does not mean that living humans were not in danger of eternal death injected into them by the Devil. But God sent His Son to take that eternal death, along with all the sins and evil that causes it, upon Himself on a cruel cross and rose from the dead victorious over it all. Genesis 3:15; John 6:33; John 12:31-32; John 12:47; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

II Timothy 1:10 clearly teaches that Jesus came to abolish death itself, not any living human. This verse further states that Jesus "brought life and immortality to light" through His death, burial, and resurrection. Christ has made a way to save all of His living humans from eternal death, some by His grace and all others when He appears to them within the regions of death in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

When the people confessed to God that they had sinned, God instructed Moses to make a fiery serpent and put it on a pole so that everyone who looked at it would be saved from the death that the serpents bite caused. The crawling serpents were fiery and the brass serpent on the pole looked fiery because they symbolized the fact that the Devil had injected sin, evil, and eternal death in a burning Hell into the inner beings of every human whom God creates. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But the fiery brass serpent also represented Christ nailed to a cross to save all humans who look to Him in faith that only His power over evil and the Devil can save them. John 12:47; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell and left behind there all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths that Jesus had borne on the cross. The Father and the Spirit also suffered to save humanity. Psalm 16:10-11; Acts 2:25-31; Luke 23:46; Matthew 27:46 (KJB). This can only mean that any living human who looks to Christ in faith while still alive in the flesh will be saved by God's grace, and every living human "on the earth and under the earth" who looks to Jesus in faith when He visits them in the end of the world will be saved by God's mercy, and God will give them an eternal life with new bodies on His recreated earth. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 8:20-21; John 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

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                                 Deuteronomy 32:22

Mathew 25:41 clearly relates that God created the everlasting lake of fire for the Devil and his angels and for all who have been cursed. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God made Eve "the mother of all living." Genesis 3:14-20 (KJB). God creates all living humans in His image which means He creates all living humans to be good and to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God loves all of His living humans, and He could never curse them. All of God's living humans are forever alive to Him. Luke 20:38 (KJB). The curse from which all humans suffer comes to them from the Devil the moment they sin, and all humans sin except for those who die before they can sin. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The curse that plagues all living humans is eternal death that causes humans to sin and in some cases to become evil. That curse happens to be the "seed" of the Devil that he plants into the inner beings of all humans who sin. The "seed" of the woman is the Messiah who will forever save all of God's living humans whom He loves. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God cursed only the Devil and the ground which holds the regions of death. Genesis 3:14 and 17 (KJB).

In Deuteronomy 32, Moses was preaching against idolatry when he suddenly obtained a prophetic revelation about how God will destroy the earth with fire in the end of the world. Deuteronomy 32:22; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Moses prophesied that God's fire will "burn unto the lowest Hell," and it will be engendered by God's fiery wrath against evil. All idolatry is evil. Since evil can only be a part of the curse that the Devil injects into every living human who sins, then God will burn only the dead and evil natures of all humans in the lake of fire that He will create. Thus in the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus had to have meant that the sheep represent the living and righteous natures of all humans whom God loves and will save from eternal death, and the goats represent the dead and evil natures of all humans whom God will forever burn in the lake of fire that He created for the Devil and his angels.

Moses prophesied that God's lake of fire will "burn unto the lowest Hell" which can only mean that Hell will already exist when God creates His lake of fire. Scientists have discovered that a huge ocean exists underneath the earth. They have also discovered that huge caverns of emptiness exist under the earth. The earth also spews out huge amounts of fiery magma from volcanoes. These areas happen to be material representations of the three regions of death called the Sea, the Bottomless Pit, and the burning Hell, all of which exist in another dimension. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). In the end of the world when God burns the earth with His fiery wrath He will do so to purge all evil from it. He will also use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy the Bottomless Pit and the burning Hell, and He will probably boil the Sea away so that He can recreate the earth and all of His repentant, living humans whom He will raise from the dead to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:10-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

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                                Exodus 19:1-25

In the third month of their liberation from slavery in Egypt, the Israelites arrived at Mount Sinai. God called Moses to climb the mountain so that God could tell him that which God wanted the Israelites to know. God informed Moses that the Israelites did not have to do anything to earn God's approval or His acceptance. God had already liberated them from slavery in Egypt, and they could simply rest in their faith in the shed blood of the lamb that God had commanded them to apply to their doorposts so that the death angel would pass over them. The death angel killed all of the first born in every family in Egypt. This was the covenant that the Israelites already had with God. Exodus 12:1-13 (KJB). God told Moses to tell the Israelites that if they would just keep that covenant, then they would be God's "peculiar treasure," and God would make every individual Israelite a priest which meant every individual would have a personal and spiritual relationship with God. In other words, every individual Israelite would be saved by God's grace.

God has extended His covenant of grace to His Church composed of both Jews and Gentiles. Christ purchased His Church with His own blood as the Lamb of God, and every Christian simply believes that Christ alone liberated them from slavery to sin, evil, and the Devil. Acts 20:28; Hebrews 1:1-3 (KJB). To these believers who have accepted God's covenant of grace by their faith, God has made them a "peculiar people" and a "royal priesthood" with a personal and spiritual relationship with God through the presence of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. I Peter 2:9-10; I Corinthians 6:9-11 (KJB).

Humans happen to be totally helpless to save themselves from the power of sin, evil, and the Devil. Romans 5:5-8 (KJB). But humans also suffer from the sin of pride, and that pride tells them that surely they must be able to do something that will at least partially save them from sin, evil, the Devil, and eternal death. They feel that they must do something to make God accept them and the Devil to reject them. They cannot believe that God has completely saved them through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. I Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJB).

So the Israelites could not believe that God had already saved them, and in their pride, they demanded that Moses ask God to give them His Commandments which they thought they could obey and thereby make themselves acceptable with God. In other words, they demanded that God allow them to participate in their own salvation. But when they adopted this attitude, they immediately encountered God's wrath against evil. God began to speak to the people from the mountain in thunder and fire. God gave them His Commandments which He knew they could not keep because of their sin which made them to weak to be able to obey them. God also wanted them to know that He must judge sinful people with His fiery wrath against evil.

So if God ever desired to save all of His living humans whom He creates and loves from eternal death, then He must bring them to the realization that only Christ can save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God saves some of His living humans by His grace when they come to Christ their Savior while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). But God never meant that His fiery wrath against evil would ever utterly destroy forever any of His living humans that He creates and loves. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God gave them only temporary punishments for their sins and evil, but He did curse the Devil and the ground that holds the regions of death. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). Whenever God kills any human with His fiery wrath, He makes that only a temporary punishment. God consigns all living humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of death when they die, but God made Eve the mother of all living, and when Christ appears to their living natures in the end of the world, and they all see His Majesty and His great Love for them, then they will realize without a doubt that only Christ the Lamb of God can save them, and He will. Christ 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 recreate their living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:1-3; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Every personality of every human happens to be determined by a combination of their good and living natures with their dead and evil natures. So when the Bible states that unbelieving sinners will perish, it simply means that God will dissolve their personalities to purge their evil natures and recreate their good and living natures. Exodus 19:21; John 3:16; John 12:25 (KJB). In the case of believers saved by grace, God can recreate most of their personalities in such a way that they remain the same persons, and they do not perish. But when God uses His fiery wrath to dissolve the personalities of sinners confined to the regions of death, then their personalities do perish, but God recreates their living natures to be completely righteous, and therefore, different persons. John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:24-25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33 (KJB).