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).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Psalm 66:12 KJB

The first part of Psalm 66 contains prophecies about God's recreation of the earth, and the worship of all of His recreated people. Psalm 66:1; Psalm 66:4; Psalm 66:8 (KJB). God's recreation of His entire human race has to happen because Christ has promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). God creates all humans in His image, and He holds on to all those good souls forever. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 66:9 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will dissolve the beings of all of His living humans who were not saved by grace after He has caused them to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. He will melt them with His fiery wrath to separate their dead and evil natures from their good and living natures so that He can save and recreate their good and living natures, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 66:10; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Even living humans saved by grace, God will somewhat dissolve because God recreates their souls and spirits the moment they believe in Christ, and He annuls their dead and evil natures. God can recreate them without changing their identities or much of their personalities. John 5:24; Galatians 2:20; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). 

God must have given David a vision of God's punishment of all humans who do not become saved by His grace. When they die, their souls and spirits become trapped, like in a net. They suffer affliction. Psalm 66:11 (KJB). Men ride over their heads because they are under the earth. They become immersed in fire and water. Two of the three regions of death are the Sea and a burning Hell. Psalm 66:12; Revelation 20:13 (KJB). But when Christ visits them in the end of the world, He will cause them all to return to faith in Him as their Savior, and He will cleanse them all with His fiery wrath, and He will resurrect them all, and He will recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Psalm 66:12; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

David then realized that this resurrection must in some way be symbolized by the burnt offerings. David vowed to make more burnt sacrifices to symbolize God's resurrection of all of His living humans from the regions of death. Psalm 66:13-15 (KJB). God gave the burnt offering to Noah and the Israelites to symbolize the fact that He will use His fiery wrath against evil to save all of His living humans who fail to become saved by His grace. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve and the Israelites to symbolize His salvation by His grace. Genesis 3:20-21; Leviticus 5:5-9 (KJB).

God had saved David by His grace, and although David felt that at times, he did not understand what that meant. But David, like all faithful Jews, did believe that God would resurrect him in a general resurrection. Psalm 66:16-20; Psalm 16:9-11 (KJB). Just as God has extended His grace to the Gentiles, God has extended His final resurrection to all of His living humans because He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; John 11:25; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

Christ will save by His grace any of His living humans no matter how evil they may be. Acts 9:1-6 (KJB). The love and compassion of Christ never changes. Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). Therefore, Christ will save by His mercy all humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth when they repent in the end of the world no matter how evil they may be. Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25; John 5:28-29; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            Psalm 57:4 KJB

King David had confidence that God would save him from his enemies. David and his followers had to hide in caves to protect themselves from king Saul and his men who searched for David in order to kill him. David and his men had gained great fame in Israel because they were fierce fighters against the Philistines who were the enemies of Israel. King Saul hated David because he knew that David would one day become the king of Israel instead of his own son Johnathan. 

David briefly described his enemies as being "set on fire," which was a simile about the fierceness of their hatred for him. Just as God can inspire his people to preach for Him with an inner feeling that is like an inner fire, the Devil can inspire people with a hatred that is like an inner fire. Jeremiah 20:9; Psalm 57:4 (KJB). For every good and creative act of God, the Devil has his evil counterpart. But one day, God will purge His creations of all evil when He casts the Devil into an actual, burning lake of fire. Revelation 20:10; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 50:3 KJB

Psalm 50:3 can only be a prophecy about God's judgment in the end of the world. God makes judgments about humans throughout the course of history, but those judgments all lead to the final and irrevocable judgments of Christ in the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will settle everything. For example, the Bible teaches that Christ judges every human when they die. Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Humans saved by grace go directly to Heaven, but because of the filthiness of their sins and evil, Christ cannot accept all humans not saved by grace. Isaiah 64:6 (KJB). Christ will consign these unbelievers to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived their lives, but He makes no final judgments about them until the end of the world. Revelation 20:13; John 12:47-48 (KJB). Christ will visit all of His living humans that He created in His image in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith He put into them when He created them that He is 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 living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their good and 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. Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

In the end of the world, Christ will judge all of His living humans not already saved by His grace according to His Word, and His Word teaches that He can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. John 12:47-48; Psalm 36:6; Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ came to save the world, and he means exactly that. He will save all that He ever created from eternal destruction. Romans 8:18-25; John 12:47-48 (KJB). Not only will Christ use His fiery wrath to purge all of His living humans not saved by His grace of all their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths, but He will also use His fiery wrath to burn up Heaven and the earth to purge it of all vestiges of evil and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous. Psalm 50:3-6; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Psalm 50:23 teaches that God has a lesser form of salvation than that of grace for the good and living natures of all of His living humans. No matter how evil any human may become, they will always retain at least a small portion of that good nature that God put into them when He creates them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God will cause all of their good and living natures to repent and return to faith in Him. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ has promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Psalm 46:9 KJB

God protects the entire human race from utter destruction. God uses His fiery wrath against evil to bring wars to an end all over the earth. God causes wars to cease because He makes humans to become sick and tired of death and destruction. The Devil causes wars because he injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans because they all sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Spiritual death can cause humans to become evil and gain a desire to obtain control over others even if by force. James 4:1-2 (KJB). War happens to be another example of how the Devil desires to utterly destroy the entire human race because God creates it and loves it. War and all evil happen to be a manifestation of the Devil's hatred of the human race. If the Devil had his way, wars would continue all over the earth until humanity became annihilated. 

God creates humans to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God influences the good natures of humans to make wars to cease. Most humans try to be good because of God's influence in their souls and spirits. But evil humans sometimes gain control over a country, and they, and their evil gang, force even the good people of their country to go to war. This fact provides an example of how good people, who are sinful themselves, never possess enough strength to overcome evil. No doubt, the Devil became glad when nuclear weapons were invented. He thought they would wipe out the human race. But every time nuclear weapons became in danger of being used, humans backed off from using them because their good natures let them know that their use would probably annihilate the human race. 

The Devil injects spiritual death into every human who sins because when they die, he hopes that their souls and spirits that God created will be trapped within the regions of death forever, and God will forever lose to the Devil a part of His creation. God allows the Devil to do his worst to humanity, including causing wars, to prove that His Love for His creations and His protection of them can never be destroyed. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9-10; I Corinthians 13:8; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). God knows exactly how to renew the faith that He puts into every human that He creates. Job 1:21 (KJB). Humans are far too weak to overcome spiritual death and the Devil, but God's Almighty Love and Power have already completely defeated the Devil and all evil. Christ took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself on a cruel cross, and He rose from the dead having gained a complete and absolute victory over the Devil and all evil. Hebrews 2:9-18; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Christ paid the eternal penalty for sins and evil, and He turned eternal spiritual death into only a temporary death for all of His living humans. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ judged only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross. John 12:31-32 (KJB). 

The Holy Spirit must and will return all of His living humans to the faith that He puts into them when He creates them. Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17 (KJB). In this Church Age, the Holy Spirit saves His living humans by His grace when He causes them to hear the gospel and repent and believe that Christ shed His blood on the cross to wash away their sins and evil, and He gives them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can be accepted by God to live with Him in Heaven forever. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; Revelation 1:5; II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:23-24 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and when they all see His Majesty and His Almighty Love for them, they will all repent and return to the faith that Christ put into them when He created them that He is their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). Christ will then be able to use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures for Him to recreate to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).