The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Exodus 29:10-46 (KJB)

In these verses, God instructs the priests to offer several different clean animals as sacrifices to God. With each animal, they were to offer a blood sacrifice followed by a burnt offering sacrifice. Both types of sacrifices were meant to symbolize the forgiveness of sins. Exodus 29:21; Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). The blood of a ram was to be applied to Aaron and his sons, the priests, to symbolize all humans who would ever believe in Christ as their Savior while still alive in the flesh, and His Spirit would wash away all of their sins and evil with the spiritual blood of Christ. Exodus 29:20-21; I Corinthians 6:11; I John 1:7 (KJB). God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve and to the Israelites to symbolize God's salvation by His grace, and He gave the burnt offering to Noah and the Israelites to symbolize God's lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). Exodus 29:14 records that the burnt offering was a sin offering, and Leviticus 5:10 records that God would forgive sins because of a burnt offering. That can only mean that the burnt offering had to symbolize a different form of salvation than that of grace because salvation by grace only comes from being washed in the blood of Christ. Revelation 1:5 (KJB).

Christ accomplished the salvation of all living humans who become saved by His grace with His shed blood and water on the cross, and then He turned the salvation of the rest of humanity over to His Spirit when He died. Luke 23:46 (KJB). The Holy Spirit accomplished the burnt offering sacrifice for the rest of humanity when He descended into a burning Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus had borne on the cross. I John 2:2 (KJB). But being absolutely pure and holy, Hell could not hold Christ's Spirit, and so He rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the grave victorious over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-10; Acts 2:25-31; I Corinthians 15:20-26; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Note that the prophet David, not having an understanding that he was already saved by grace, nevertheless believed that God would raise him from death in Hell.  

All of God's enemies are sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, not any of His living humans whom He creates in His image and whom He loves. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). This fact can only mean that God will save His entire creation, including all living humans, from sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). God has promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5; Revelation 4:11 (KJB).

Thoughts about Freedom

 Robots and zombies do whatever they do aut0matically without even thinking about what they are doing. They never realize that they could do what they do differently from the way they are doing them. But humans with an active consciousness and intelligence can see many different ways of doing most of what they do. In other words, they can make choices. They have freedom.

If humans were really programmed to do whatever they do, then they, like robots or zombies, would never even think that choices were possible. If an intelligent person thinks about his choices, then that would prove that when he thinks he has freedom, then he actually has it. His intelligence causes him to have freedom. Intelligence cannot exist without freedom, and freedom cannot exist without intelligence.

Tyrants do not like anybody's freedom but their own. They enjoy having power over others. They seek to program people's minds to think and make choices strictly within the confines of their own political philosophy. In other words, they desire as much as is possible, to program people to be political robots. For this reason, all societies controlled by kings and tyrants become stagnant. But when a particular society acquires political freedom, then the people become physically and mentally free to create the most astounding, beneficial systems that are possible. Such societies achieve progress.

But the most important type of freedom that a person can acquire is spiritual freedom. The Devil has injected spiritual death into the lives of every person. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). That evil seeks to program a person to make choices that are destructive and addictive. In other words, the Devil causes a person to misuse his freedom in a way that will destroy his freedom. But God creates every human in His own image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). In other words, God creates humans to have the intelligence needed to always choose to create any kind of beneficial system. That is the very purpose of freedom. Nevertheless, the power of the influence of sin and evil inside of every person inevitably causes every human to sin except those who die before they can sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). Every human has become trapped in spiritual slavery from which they cannot liberate themselves. But every human must become liberated from this spiritual slavery or it will eventually utterly destroy them forever.

Humans cannot liberate themselves, but God can. Romans 5:6-8 (KJB). God's Son Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cruel cross, and He took all of the spiritual deaths, sin, and evil of every human on Himself and died their spiritual deaths in their places, and He rose from the dead victorious over all spiritual death, sin, evil, and the Devil. Genesis 3:15; Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; John 12:31-32; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). But humans can only become liberated from spiritual slavery when they return to the faith that God put into them when He created them that God has all the power needed to liberate them. Genesis 1:31; Romans 1:17 (KJB). God will return all humans to faith in Him in two different ways. Those who return to faith in Christ while still alive in the flesh will become immediately saved by God's grace. John 5:24; Luke 23:39-43 (KJB). But since God has Almighty Love which cannot fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created, then He must have a plan to save the rest of humanity that fails to become saved by grace. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in a great worship service that will cause all humans who did not obtain salvation by grace to choose to return to faith in Christ as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will save them all from spiritual slavery but with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 8:32 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Exodus 13:21-22 KJB

These verses record that God used His fiery wrath to guide and protect His people. He guided them in their journeys by a "pillar of a cloud" in the daytime and by a "pillar of fire" in the night. God used the cloud and the fire to hold up the Egyptian army long enough for the Israelites to cross the Red Sea. Exodus 14:19-20 (KJB). God always directs His fiery wrath outward toward His and His people's enemies. The cloud could symbolize that it uses His Holy Spirit to guide His people with the daylight of His Word. On the day of Pentecost, God put His fiery wrath above the heads of each of His believers to let them know that His Church was under His protection. Acts 2:1-4; I Peter 4:12-14 (KJB).

                                                                                                                                                                                             Exodus 19:18 KJB

God displayed His fiery wrath toward His people at Mount Sinai, but He did not kill any of them. God directed His fiery wrath toward the sin and evil within them and not toward His good and living natures that He had put into all of them. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God had already told them that He had liberated them from slavery in Egypt which symbolized the fact that He had also liberated them from slavery to sin and evil. But the people rejected God's salvation by His grace and mercy, and they demanded that Moses obtain commandments from God for them to obey. In their pride, they sought to prove that they could make themselves righteous enough to deserve liberation from slavery. Exodus 19:3-8 (KJB). Their pride only ignited the fiery wrath of God who used it to warn His people that if they were unwilling to accept His grace and mercy that they already possessed, then they would subject themselves to His wrath against their sins and evil from which they would never be able to save themselves through their own efforts. Exodus 19:9-24 (KJB). But God answered their request and gave them the Ten Commandments to teach them that the sins and evil within them would prevent them from ever being able to perfectly keep them, and therefore, make themselves perfectly righteous. But God also gave them the sin offering and the burnt offering to demonstrate that He alone could save them from sins and evil by His shed blood that could wash away their sins and evil or by His fiery wrath that could burn up their sins and evil and leave them alive and righteous as He had created them to be. Exodus 20:1-26; Leviticus 5:7-10; Exodus 12:1-13; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Exodus 12:1-13 (KJB)

God commanded the Israelites to make a passover sacrifice of a perfect lamb when He liberated them from slavery in Egypt. Every family was to apply the blood of their lamb to the doorposts of their houses so that the death angel whom God would send to kill the firstborn of every family in Egypt would pass over the Israelites and spare their firstborn. God would judge the gods of Egypt and the Egyptians who believed in them because they symbolized that part of human nature which is spiritually dead and totally evil. The shed blood of the lamb symbolized that God would send His own Son to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross and shed His blood to wash away the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans who would repent and believe in His Son while still alive in the flesh. Just as God would liberate His people from slavery in Egypt by the blood of a lamb, He would liberate from slavery to the Devil all who would believe in the power of the shed blood of the Lamb of God to wash away their sins. God had given this sin offering to Adam and Eve, and He extended it to the Israelites. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB).

But God also gave the burnt offering to Noah after the worldwide flood and later to the Israelites as well. The burnt offering always had to follow the sin offering, but God would forgive sins by the use of either offering. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). God instructed Noah as to the symbolic meaning of the burnt offering. The burnt offering was God's promise that He would not "smite;" that is, kill, any future humans and send their souls and spirits to the regions of death without any plan for their salvation as He had done with all the evil people when He killed them in the worldwide flood. "Neither will I again smite any more every living thing, as I have done." God creates the good and living natures of every human. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Even though God knows that every human also has an evil nature, God will extend this salvation to all those He killed in the worldwide flood as well because He will remove the "curse" of the ground which are the regions of death, and He will liberate all of His living humans from their slavery who are confined there. God will save all of His living humans despite the fact that "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God will cause them all to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

God commanded the Israelites to make a burnt offering following the sin offering. They were to roast the lamb, eat it, and completely burn all that was left of it before the morning. The burnt offering had to have the same symbolic meaning that God had given to Noah. They were to roast it and eat it which meant they would have faith that the burnt offering symbolized their faith in God's power to save them from eternal death. John 6:50-51 (KJB). They were to completely burn the rest of it before morning, which meant that God would completely destroy all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He could forgive them and save them from eternal death. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB).

The sin offering and the burnt offering of the lamb had to symbolize Christ's salvation of the living souls and spirits of the entire human race. When Jesus suffered and died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to the care of His Father. Luke 23:46 (KJB). This meant that Jesus prayed that His Father would use His power to take care of His Spirit who had to make the burnt sacrifice necessary to save the rest of humanity who did not obtain salvation by God's grace. Jesus' Spirit descended into the burning Hell, but because He was absolutely pure, Hell could not hold Him. The Holy Spirit left all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths behind in Hell, and He rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead completely victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual deaths, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Ephesians 4:7-10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26 (KJB).

God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God loves all of His living humans whom He creates in His image, and therefore, He cannot lose a single one of them, certainly not to the Devil. When I John 3:8 states that Jesus came "to destroy the works of the Devil," that can only mean that He destroys all of the evil works of the Devil, not just some of them. God does nothing halfway. When I Corinthians 15:22 states, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," the "all" in that verse can only mean the entire, living human race because the same "all" humans died in Adam. When God promises, "Behold, I make all things new," that can only mean that He will recreate the entire human race because it has to be a part of the "all things" that God created. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 4:11 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Exodus 3:2 (KJB)

God appeared to Moses in a "flame of fire" which did not consume a bush. If the bush represented God's people, then God's message to Moses was that He would use His fiery wrath to liberate His people from slavery in Egypt. God would direct His fiery wrath toward punishing Pharaoh and his taskmasters and the Egpytian people, but He would inflame His people with a zeal for God and liberty.

Pharaoh and the Egyptians worshiped false gods which demonstrated that they had become evil. God always directs His fiery wrath toward evil, but He also uses it to protect His people. Exodus 9:23-24; Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). God creates every living human in His image, even those Egpytian people, and He loves every living human that He creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 100:1-3 (KJB). God's Love is Almighty, and it can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God can never lose to evil anything He ever creates. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). But every human has an evil nature injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Whether a human happens to be a good person or an evil person depends on whether they allow their good natures to dominate their lives or their evil natures to dominate. God always directs His fiery wrath against the evil in humans, never toward His good and living humans whom He loves. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to purge all evil from every living human not already saved by His grace, and He will recreate them all to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Genesis 22:1-14 (KJB)

Some people, who disbelieve in God anyway, have charged God with being cruel for commanding Abraham to offer his son as a burnt offering to God. But the context of the story indicates that Abraham suffered no agony whatsoever because He relied on the faith that God had given him that he would not have to kill his son. Abraham demonstrated his faith when he told his young servants who traveled with him that he and Isaac would return to them after their worship on the mountain. Genesis 22:5 (KJB). Abraham again demonstrated his faith in God when he told his son that God would provide Himself as a lamb for the burnt offering. God gave Abraham this prophecy that God would provide His own Son to be a burnt offering for the salvation of the human race. Genesis 22:8 (KJB).

But when Jesus died on the cross, His body was not burned but buried. So how did Jesus suffer the burnt offering sacrifice? His Spirit suffered it. God commanded the Israelites who were slaves in Egypt when He liberated them from slavery to sacrifice a lamb and apply its blood to the doorposts of their houses so that the death angel who would kill the firstborn of every Egpytian would pass over them and spare their firstborn. But God also commanded that they roast the lamb with fire, eat it, and completely burn the rest of it with fire before the morning. Exodus 12:1-13 (KJB). But the sin offering must always precede the burnt offering. This prophecy from God clearly revealed two different purposes for these two offerings. The coming Messiah would shed His blood for one form of salvation, the new birth, and He would suffer a burnt offering sacrifice for another form of salvation, the rest of humanity. Matthew 26:26-29; John 6:32-33; John 6:63; Luke 23:46; Acts 2:25-31; Ephesians 4:8-10; Psalm 16:9-11; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). When Jesus suffered on the cross, the Father also suffered, and He had to turn His face away from Jesus on the cross because His pure Son had become immersed in the filth of sin and evil. Psalm 22:6; Matthew 27:46 (KJB). The Spirit of Christ also suffered from His descent into the filthiness of Hell, but He did that to leave behind there all of the sins and evil that Jesus bore on the cross that He had not already purged with His shed blood so that He could rise immaculate from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the grave victorious over all sin, evil, and spiritual death which would save the entire human race not already saved by being cleansed by His shed blood. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 1:17-18; Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve, and to the Israelites, to symbolize the fact that He would save some humans through the blood that Christ would shed on the cross. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But God also gave the burnt offering to Noah after the flood, and also to the Israelites, to symbolize the fact that He will use His fiery wrath against evil to save the rest of humanity, which the Spirit of Christ accomplished by His descent into Hell. Genesis 8:20-21; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Since all humans must have faith in the power of God to save them, then some humans will be saved from evil and spiritual death when they hear the gospel and put their faith in the shed blood of Christ to cleanse them. John 5:24; I John 1:7 (KJB). But all other living humans "on the earth and under the earth" will be saved with a lesser form of salvation when Christ appears to them in the end of the world and brings them back to faith in Him as the Lamb of God who was burned for their salvation. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). In the Old Testament, an Israelite could bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priests, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and that person would be forgiven of their sins by either offering. This fact clearly proves that the sin offering and the burnt offering were meant for two different forms of salvation. Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Genesis 19:24-26 (KJB)

God rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy those wicked people. Because Lot happened to be a man of faith in God, God spared his wife from being burned alive and turned her into a "pillar of salt." Although Lot and two of his daughters later proved to be just as immoral as was the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, God spared their lives because they displayed some modicum of faith in a righteous God. God proved that He has all power over all sin and evil for those who have some faith in Him. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB).

Whenever the Bible states that God used His fiery wrath to destroy evil humans, He only destroys their bodies. He relates nothing about what happens to their souls and spirits. When God used His fiery wrath to destroy 250 men who rebelled against Moses, He opened up the earth which swallowed their bodies and, supposedly, their souls and spirits as well. Numbers 16:28-35 (KJB). When God used His fiery wrath to consume two sets of fifty soldiers who came to arrest Elijah, He destroyed their bodies, but one can assume that He also sent their souls and spirits to a burning Hell. II Kings 1:3-12 (KJB).

God created the lake of fire for the Devil and his angels; that is, only for evil itself. Matthew 25:41 (KJB). But all humans possess a good nature created by God and an evil nature injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). The burning Hell already existed when God created the eternal lake of fire. Deuteronomy 32:22 (KJB). So why would God consign the evil souls and spirits of humans to a burning Hell only to dump that Hell and all the evil souls and spirits within it to an eternal lake of fire in the end of the world, which would be just another form of a burning Hell? That does not make much sense. Why would God not just send their evil souls and spirits to the lake of fire to begin with?

The only possible answer must be that when evil humans die, God consigns their subdued good and living natures within them to a burning Hell to punish them for allowing evil to dominate their good and living natures. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). This fact can only mean that in the end of the world, God will send His Son to the burning Hell, and He will cause all of His good and living natures of all humans consigned there to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB). Christ will then 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 to an eternal life on His recreated earth, and He will consign their dead and evil natures injected into them by the Devil to the eternal lake of fire. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 25:31-46; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The Bible clearly teaches that God will cast only dead and evil humans into the eternal lake of fire, and He will raise all of His repentant, living humans back to life. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-5; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-12; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). God will utterly destroy all evil, and only evil, in His eternal lake of fire.