The Fiery Wrath of God

                                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).