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).