The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Leviticus 13:1-59 KJB

The Holy Spirit wrote God's Word for the benefit of all who would ever read it and not for just the ancient Israelites. For that reason, the Bible contains much symbolic language.

Thus the plague of leprosy probably symbolizes the effects of all sins and evil. God appointed a special priest who would diligently study the differences between a case of leprosy and a mere skin infection that would heal on its own. This priest knew that the cases of leprosy had to be separated from the camp because leprosy would infect many other people. Leviticus 13:45-46 (KJB). This priest would examine any person with a skin problem, and he would be able to tell the difference between those who had leprosy and those who had an ordinary skin infection that would heal.

Sin and evil spreads like a plague from person to person. The Church of Jesus Christ must separate all persons in the Church who openly practice sin and evil from the congregation because they will tend to infect others in the congregation. II Corinthians 6:11-18 (KJB).

If the priest had had all lepers put to death and burned their bodies, then they would probably have rid themselves of that plague altogether. But they put them outside the camp, fed them, and allowed them to live. In a similar manner, God sends all humans who cling to their sins and evil to one of the regions of death when they die because they did not become cleansed by the blood of Christ, but He still allows them to live because He created their lives to be good, and He loves them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ will appear to all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" near the end of the world, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to forever burn all of their sins and evil so that He can save and recreate their repentant, living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His recreated earth forever. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

This priest also had to deal with any garments that the lepers wore because they could infect with leprosy any person who might wear them. The priest could either wash them or He must burn them. This priest had been trained to recognize the difference between a garment that had been cleansed of leprosy by being washed from that garment which had to be burned. Similarly, any living human in the flesh can be cleansed of all of his sins and evil by putting his faith in Christ so that he can be washed clean of all sins and evil by the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; Revelation 7:9-14 (KJB). But when the priest had to burn an infected garment, he burnt only the garment and not the living person who wore that garment. Similarly, all living humans are forever alive to God, and all those whom He does not save by His grace He will make a way to save them all from the eternal death that sin and evil causes by His use of His fiery wrath against evil to burn only their dead and sinful natures after He causes them all to repent and return to faith in Christ as their Savior. Luke 20:38; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The only enemies of God are the Devil and all evil, and God will utterly burn and forever destroy only the Devil and all sins and evil, not any of His living humans whom He creates and loves because He will sooner or later cause them all to repent and accept Christ as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 15:20-26; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:1-5; John 12:31-32 (KJB).