The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Psalm 83:13-15 KJB

God has chosen the Jews to be His special people in the world. Over the centuries, most Jews have become faithless and even some have become atheists. But God has always had a remnant of Jews who have been loyal and faithful to God despite being the most hated and persecuted people in the history of the world. God creates humans to be good and creative and to retain some faith in Him. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). That inner goodness in all humans can never be destroyed. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). All faithful Jews symbolize that good and creative nature that evil can never destroy. Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).  

As the Bible relates, in the course of history, the Jews have often been surrounded by enemies that seek to genocide them. These enemies of the Jews are also the enemies of God. These enemies of the Jews and God have become influenced by the Devil to attempt to crush all goodness and faith from the world. Satan seeks to utterly destroy all of the good creations of God and take full control of the world. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9-10; Psalm 83:1-12 (KJB). Satan's attitude toward Job reflects his attitude toward the entire human race. 

But God will eventually burn the Devil and all evil like stubble in the wind. God's fire may burn the forest on the mountain but not the mountain itself. God will burn all evil with a tempest and a fiery storm. Genesis 83:13-15 (KJB). In His Word, God often refers to sin and evil as being like chaff, stubble, thorns, and tares that will be burned, but He will preserve the wheat which symbolizes the goodness that He creates humans to be. Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 10:16-17; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). Jesus was crowned with thorns to symbolize that sin and evil had to be pressed into His perfect body by force. Mark 15:17 (KJB). 

The Psalmist then reveals God's purpose for burning the sin and evil that resides in the inner natures of all humans. God will make them ashamed of themselves so that they will repent and seek to be reconciled with God. God will cause their shameful natures to utterly perish. But all humans will eventually repent and return to faith in God as being their Savior and the true ruler of the earth. Psalm 83:16-18 (KJB). 

The Psalmist prophesied that one day in the future Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" who were never saved by His grace, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 80:16 KJB

In this Psalm, written by a poet named Asaph, he displays great faith that God will never abandon His people. God may severely punish His people when they habitually sin, but He will always turn them back to faith in Him. Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Psalm 80:19 (KJB). 

Asaph wrote about how God had liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, but God's special people were a branch of that people that Asaph called the "vine." Other prophets called the vine the "remnant." Isaiah 16:14 (KJB). Asaph wrote that when the enemy, probably the Babylonians, burned Jerusalem, they burned even God's "vineyard." God caused His own special people to suffer at the hands of His enemies because they failed to stand strong and speak out against the evils that had come to dominate their country. Psalm 80:8-16 (KJB). 

But the "son of man," who is Christ, will always guard and protect God's special people, and He will quicken them. Psalm 80:17-18 (KJB). Christ will always cause God's special people, who are those saved by His grace, to repent and renew their faith in Him whenever they sin. Psalm 80:19 (KJB).

But what about the rest of humanity? Can God also cause them to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can save them as well? The Bible teaches that He can and He will. God creates every living human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God loves His entire creation. I John 4:8 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Jesus taught that God puts His image into every human, and that fact makes every living human a child of God. John 10:33-35; Luke 17:20-21; Psalm 82:6 (KJB). For these reasons, Christ means to save the rest of humanity. In the end of the world, Christ will visit the rest of humanity, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and repentant natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their living natures, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB).  

The Known and the Unknown

What can be known about the unknown? All that can be known about the unknown is that it will contain something and nothing or one or the other just as does present experience. A section of the unknown may be filled with something with no nothing, or it may be filled with nothing with no something. But all this happens to be all that can be known about the unknown. 

Tombs have been opened which contained nothing, and tombs have been opened which contained a body, but no one could know exactly what a tomb would contain until they opened it. A tomb might contain something completely unexpected. This means that observation by an intelligent consciousness happens to be absolutely necessary to determine what a section of the unknown contains or does not contain, and the relationship of its something to its nothing. Schrodinger could know that the cat in the box was dead or alive, but he could not be certain until he opened the box and looked at the cat. 

If our universe were without consciousness before it supposedly evolved life, then it would have been in a state of being completely unknown. No determination whatsoever could be made about the difference between something and nothing. Any point in that universe could be a something or a nothing. The unknown makes something equal to nothing. Could a wave function before consciousness collapses it into a particle simply be a frequency between something and nothing? 

Our universe has to have an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness to experience the difference between something and nothing, and He should possess His Ideas to shape and characterize all of the somethings and subject them to His laws. Genesis 1:1 (KJB). Only intelligent consciousness can create and experience reality by its use of logic, observation, and experimentation. God created man in His own image. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB).  

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Psalm 79:5 KJB

The Psalmist Asaph must have been alive and witnessed the Babylonians burn Jerusalem. Asaph asked God if His jealousy would burn like fire forever. 

Every individual human has an inner good nature created by God, and an inner evil nature injected into them by the Devil because they sin. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). That which is true of the part is true of the whole. The nation of Judah had allowed evil to dominate their culture just as an individual human can allow evil to dominate his life. God had chosen the people of Judah to be His special people in the world who would bring the truth of His Holy Word to the world. For this reason, God expected His people to allow their good and creative natures to dominate their culture so that they would display the goodness and mercy of God to the world. At times, God gave them good kings and leaders to make sure that faithfulness to God and worship of Him would dominate their culture. But over time, evil kings had allowed idol worship to dominate Judah, and so God punished Judah by allowing the Babylonians to conquer Judah. God also punished His faithful people for allowing evil to dominate their culture. 

God's jealousy means God's use of His power to protect His people even if they have become somewhat faithless. God's consuming fire means the Almighty Power of God. God can use His fiery power to protect His people from the destruction of evil. Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB). Even when God is angry with His people, and He punishes them, He will still protect them. That is God's jealousy. Exodus 20:5 (KJB). The books of Daniel and Esther relate how God protects His people. 

But that which is true of the whole is also true of each individual. God creates every individual human to have a good and creative nature. 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 every living human must be a child of God. John 10:33-36; Luke 17:20-21; Psalm 82:6 (KJB). The evil spiritual death that the Devil injects into the inner beings of all humans will become eternal death. Romans 6:23 (KJB). But God came to earth in human form to take that eternal death on Himself on a cruel cross, with all the sins and evil that causes it, in order to provide His jealous protection for every living human whom He ever creates and loves. Christ rose from the dead to conquer eternal death and turn it into only a temporary death. The Devil and all evil are God's enemies, never His living humans whom He creates and loves. Christ abolished eternal death itself, not any of His living humans. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Christ knows exactly how to cause every living human to return to faith in Him as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 78:14,21,63 KJB

"For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29 (KJB). God has a fiery nature, and He always uses that nature to consume something. God uses His fiery nature in many ways. God used His fiery nature to lead His people through the wilderness after He had freed them from slavery in Egypt. He consumed their lostness. Psalm 78:14 (KJB). God used His fiery nature to warn His people that He could destroy them for their unbelief. Psalm 78:21-22; Exodus 19:56-63 (KJB). God consumed their faithlessness. God sometimes used His fiery wrath to kill some of His people who practiced idolatry. Psalm 78:56-63 (KJB). Whenever God kills an evil person, He kills their good nature which He created in His image, and He kills their dead and evil nature injected into them by the Devil at the same time. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But since God can never lose anything He has ever created, He only temporarily kills their good nature to punish them for allowing sin and evil to dominate their lives. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). He makes them experience what death is like so that they will be ready to repent and believe in Him as their Savior when He visits them in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). After they repent, Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures for Him to recreate from their dead and evil natures which He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-5; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

God gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve for their sin and evil. The woman would have pain in childbearing, but after that joy that she had birthed new life into the world. The man would have to labor in life, but after his labor, he could rest. This fact would indicate that God always intended to only temporarily punish His entire, living human race for their sins and evil. Genesis 3:16-19 (KJB). God made Eve the mother of all living, and since all humans are alive in God's sight, then He must save all of His living humans from eternal death. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). The spiritual death that the Devil injects into all humans who sin is an eternal death, but through His death, burial, and resurrection, Christ has abolished death itself. Genesis 3:15; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26 (KJB). Christ can save by His grace, and He can also save every living human whom He had to temporarily consign to the regions of death. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ has promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). 

God also uses His fiery nature to empower His people to preach His Word so that some of those who hear will repent and believe. Jeremiah 20:9; Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). God can consume the weaknesses of His people and give them His strength. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                  Psalm 74:7-8 KJB

When the Babylonians conquered Judah, they burned the Temple of God in Jerusalem and all of the houses of worship in the land. God allowed His Temple, although it was a great work of art, to be destroyed because evil had misused it by putting idols into it to be worshipped. The Babylonians also burned all of the synagogues because they thought that that would put an end to Judaism. Even today, evil humans think that they can destroy Christianity by burning churches. But God does not reside in houses of worship. He lives in the hearts of His believers. Psalm 51:10-11 (KJB). 

The Babylonians deported to Babylon many Jews who worshipped idols, and they also deported many Jews who believed in God and worshipped Him. Over some time, God allowed the Persians to conquer Babylon. Persian law tended to be more tolerant than Babylonian law. So, after 70 years in exile, a Persian king named Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple. Ezra 1:1-4 (KJB). Most of the Jews who returned to Jerusalem were those who had remained faithful to God and still worshipped Him. Those Jews who worshipped idols remained in Babylon because they had become prosperous there. For centuries, idol worship had plagued the Jewish people, but God used the Babylonians to purify His people when mostly faithful Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild God's Temple. Although since that day, many Jews have become faithless and even atheists, very few Jews have returned to direct idol worship. 

Idol worship and child sacrifice indicate the depths of human depravity. God informs that idol worship is vanity which means both emptiness and pride. Isaiah 44:9 (KJB). God has even said that vanity is "less than nothing" which can only mean an absolute nothingness. Isaiah 40:17 (KJB). One does not have to have an idol in his house to practice idolatry. Idolatry is the attitude that one no longer needs God. One believes that one can create a good and prosperous life for oneself without God's love and care. The atheistic communists believe this. But idolatry only leads to inner feelings of a vast emptiness. Romans 8:20; Ephesians 4:17-18 (KJB). 

Humans have this feeling of vanity because the Devil injects spiritual death into them the moment that they sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But God creates humans to be good and creative, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). Humans do not become willingly vain. They do not deliberately seek vanity. Humans become vain when they fall into sin because of a weakness in their free will. The Devil injects vanity into humans which can cause them to become vain deliberately. God can never lose the good and creative natures that He creates humans to be. God has subjected all humans to the hope that He can save them from eternal death. Romans 8:20 (KJB). God knows exactly how to use human free will to cause all of His living humans to choose to return to faith in Him as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The Devil thought he could use the weakness of human free will to utterly destroy the human race forever, but God turned free will into an eternal strength. God can save by His grace humans who believe that the shed blood of Christ can cleanse them of all sin and evil, and He can also provide a lesser form of salvation by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Matthew 26:28; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The Old Testament sin offerings and the burnt offerings symbolize these two forms of salvation. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God will save and recreate His entire creation, including all of His living humans, in the end of the world. Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Psalm 68:2-3 KJB

God creates every human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God loves His entire creation, and He can never lose anything He ever creates. I John 4:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). God's creations have become stained and weakened by sin and evil, but God knows exactly how to one day use His fiery wrath to purge His entire creation of all sins, evil, and the Devil. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). These facts mean that whatever God creates can never become His enemy. God hates only the Devil and all evil. Psalm 45:7 (KJB). 

All humans sin because of a weakness in their free will, and when they sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into their inner beings which causes humans to continue to commit sinful and evil acts. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But all humans still retain their good and creative natures that God creates them to be. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). No matter how evil a human may become, they can never put out that inner light. John 1:9 (KJB). Every good and living nature of humans becomes stained and filthy with the effects of sin and evil. Isaiah 64:6 (KJB). But God knows exactly how to use free will to cause every living human that He ever creates to choose to return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death, some by His grace and all others when He visits them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

Psalm 68:2 happens to be a prophecy that God will, by His use of His fiery wrath against evil, dissolve the beings of most of His living humans to drive their evil away as smoke and cause their wickedness to perish. Psalm 68:3 happens to be a prophecy that God will save all of those living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and they will rejoice and praise God. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Throughout the Bible, God consistently refers to evil as being something useless that needs to be burned. Jesus' parable about the tares and wheat, and His explanation of that parable, can only be about His judgment in the end of the world. The "good seed" are the living humans that God creates to be good and creative. The "tares" are the evil, spiritual deaths that the Devil injects into all humans who sin. In the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath to separate their repentant, righteous natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their lives and burn their spiritual deaths. Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). 

John the Baptist prophesied that Christ would save all living humans with one of two spiritual baptisms. Christ will baptize with the Holy Spirit and save by His grace, and He will also baptize and save the rest of humanity with His fiery wrath against evil. He will "thoroughly purge His floor," which means He will purge His entire creation of all sins, evil, and the Devil. He will gather His "wheat," which means all of His repentant, living humans that he has created, and He will burn the "chaff," which means their separated deaths and evil, in an eternal fire. Luke 3:16-17; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

I Corinthians 3:11-15 cannot be about salvation by grace because humans saved by grace become completely saved by being washed clean of all sins and evil by the shed blood of Christ and never by any kind of fire. I Peter 1:18-19 (KJB). But these verses are about "any man" whose works are burned but he is saved by fire. This can only be a prophecy that "every man" not saved by grace will be saved by being dissolved by the fiery wrath of God so that God will save their living natures and cast their dead natures into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

God's knowledge of all of His living humans whom He will save by His grace prevents any of them from ever being a captive of the Devil. But when Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, He received the gifts of being able to release from captivity to the Devil all of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He visits them in the end of the world. He will cause even those humans who were rebellious to repent and believe. Psalm 68:18; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).