The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Leviticus 10:1-20 KJB

God expects His people to believe in Him and worship Him according to the dictates of the Word of God. When the Israelites were in the wilderness, God appointed Moses to relate God's instructions to the priests and the people as to what kind of faith they should have and what kind of worship they should perform.

Nadab and Abihu, two of Aaron's sons, offered "strange fire" in worship of the Lord which went directly against Moses' instructions. Because they violated the Word of God, God sent fire down that "devoured them." Moses then warned Aaron that God had said that He "will be sanctified in them that come nigh me," which means His Holy Spirit will be in the hearts of all humans who become saved by His grace. John 5:24 (KJB). Moses also told Aaron that God will be glorified "before all the people" which can only mean that all people will one day believe in God and will worship Him who are not saved by grace. Revelation 5:11-14; Proverbs 15:24 (KJB).

Moses instructed two men to carry the bodies of Nadab and Abihu out of the camp. Nadab and Abihu were like all those who have started cults which have plagued both Judaism and Christianity since the beginnings of these true faiths. Cults always have beliefs that go directly against the basic and fundamental teachings of the Word of God. For this reason, God used the examples of Nadab and Abihu to warn all persons who start cults that He will send them to a burning Hell when they die. God uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy evil, but God will not cause even these types of evil people to remain in Hell forever. They possess a spirit and soul that God created and loves, and God possesses Almighty Love which cannot fail, and so He will provide a way to rescue all of His living humans whom He creates and loves from the regions of death when Christ appears to them near the end of the world, and He causes them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14; Proverbs 15:24 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings in order to separate their repentant, good and living natures that Christ will save from eternal death forever from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will one day save the living souls and spirits of Nadab and Abihu and even of Judas Iscariot, but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace.

Moses then commanded Aaron and his sons to conduct all of their worship services and animal sacrifices strictly in accordance with his instructions that he received from God. They were not to drink strong drinks when they worshiped because that could cause them to make errors. Leviticus 10:5-15 (KJB).

All Christians, of whatever denomination, must adhere to the basic and fundamental teachings of God's Word in order to be Christians. They must believe in the Deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His sacrifice of Himself to save all who would become saved by His grace, His descent into Hell, and in His resurrection from the dead in victory over death and the Devil at least for those saved by His grace. I Corinthias 15:1-4 (KJB). I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came "to destroy the works of the Devil." All of the souls and spirits that God creates in His image and whom He loves can never be the work of the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Therefore, God must save all of His living humans either by His grace or with a lesser form of salvation.

Moses discovered that Aaron and his sons had made an error in the way they had made a certain animal sacrifice. He became angry, and he reviled Aaron's sons for making this mistake. But Aaron answered him by saying that his sons, the priests, had faithfully made all of their sacrifices that day, and so they should not have been reviled for making one mistake. Aaron also objected that if he had eaten a part of a lamb that had not been properly sacrificed, then would God have accepted that? Moses became content with Aaron's answer which probably meant that God was also content. All of this means that there exists a distinct difference in an error in faith and a deliberate denial of the right kind of faith.

Jesus taught that God can do mighty works through even the smallest amount of faith in a believer. Matthew 17:20 (KJB). If a Catholic receives the Eucharist as merely a rite of religion, then he has no faith that the shed blood of Christ can save him from his sins. But if he receives the Eucharist with true faith that it is the actual blood of Jesus that cleanses him of his sins, then God will save him by His grace because of his faith, and God will ignore the fact that he did not receive the actual blood of Christ, but he did receive the spiritual blood of Christ. His faith was just weak. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). Those who believe that they must add their own good works to the finished work of Christ in order to be saved simply suffer from a weakness in their faith. They are still saved by grace. John 19:30; Hebrews 1:3 (KJB). Those who believe that they can lose their salvation after being saved by grace simply suffer from a weakness in their faith. They are still saved by grace. John 10:28-30 (KJB). Those who believe that they must be baptized in water in order to complete their salvation simply suffer from a weakness in their faith. They are still saved by grace. John 3:3; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). Those who believe that God will not save from eternal death any unbeliever who physically dies, even though no verse in the entire Bible teaches that, suffers from a weakness in their faith. They are still saved by God's grace. John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; John 16:33; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). But those who believe in the entire truth of God's Word should believe that God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). They should also believe that God can never lose to eternal death anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-9 (KJB). They should believe that God has an Infinite Intellect so that He can devise a plan to cause every living human that He creates to eventually return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can save them all either by His grace or by His mercy in the end of the world. Psalm 147:5; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Psalm 36:6; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). Believers saved by grace should believe in the Absolute Almighty Power and Compassion of God. I Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 4:5; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 21:5 (KJB