The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Isaiah 6:6-8 KJB

When Isaiah appeared before God in Heaven, and he saw the purity and holiness of God, he became keenly aware that he was a nasty sinner who had offended his righteous God. So, God sent an angel with a burning coal from off the altar to touch Isaiah's mouth and purge him of all his sins. These verses provide an example of how God holds the power to purge and forgive sins by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). 

God's power to forgive and cleanse sins and evil has to be directly connected to the sacrifice of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, because Jesus took the spiritual deaths, the sins, and the evil of the entire human race on Himself on the cross. I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ purges and forgives the spiritual deaths, sins, and evil of all His living humans whom He saves by His grace by washing them clean with His blood which He shed on the cross. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; Revelation 1:5 (KJB). But that salvation does not become activated until a sinner repents and puts their faith in the power of Christ to save them. When they repent, the Holy Spirit baptizes them into the body of Christ. I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Ghost and with His fire. Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). 

God sacrificed an animal for Adam and Eve to symbolize His shed blood for the salvation of all humans who would become saved by His grace. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But after the great flood, God gave a burnt offering sacrifice of animals to Noah to symbolize His power to use His fiery wrath against evil to save the rest of humanity from sins and evil, but with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). That lesser form of salvation has to be directly connected to the sacrifice of Christ for all of humanity. When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell. Luke 23:46 (KJB). The Holy Spirit had to have had a reason to descend into Hell. The Holy Spirit descended into Hell to accomplish the burnt offering sacrifice for the lesser form of salvation of the rest of humanity. The Holy Spirit had to have borne all of the spiritual deaths, sins, and evil of the rest of humanity into Hell and left them there because He ascended completely uncorrupted from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all spiritual death, sins, evil, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; John 12:31; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; I Peter 3:18 (KJB). But just like salvation by grace, this form of salvation cannot be activated until Christ causes the rest of humanity to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them that He is their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; John 5:28-29; John 11:25-26; Habakkuk 2:4; John 12:32; II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 12:3; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all of His living humans who did not become saved by His grace of all of their sins and evil in the end of the world. Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God" because God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit will save His entire, living human race that He creates in His image and whom He loves. Luke 3:6; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:5; Luke 20:38 (KJB).  

Useless and Useful Universes

When can something become useful? One would think that something can only become useful when it is put into a creative system that produces a helpful result. The only known entity that can produce creative systems is intelligent consciousness. 

Suppose billions of universes exist in which no intelligent consciousness and no life at all exists. Would not such universes be totally useless? It would not matter one bit whether such universes existed or did not exist. 

The only reason that the existence of our universe, or any universe, can matter is when it possesses intelligent consciousness which makes it useful. The atheistic materialists contend that after billions of years of a complicated interaction of the forces of gravity, electro-magnetism, and chemical reactions, our universe evolved life, and over time, intelligent life. But if our universe were totally useless before it evolved life because it did not matter whether it existed or did not exist, it could not have produced any kind of creative system at all. By observation, which is one of the requirements for scientific knowledge, everyone knows that whatever is useless can never produce any kind of useful system. 

Therefore, one can conclude that in order for the existence of a universe to matter, and in order for it to be useful, an Intelligent Consciousness must be in it from its beginning. One can even conclude that no universe can ever come into useful existence without the creative abilities of an Intelligent Consciousness. Genesis 1:1 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                          Isaiah 26:11 KJB

God uses His fiery power to utterly destroy evil and the Devil. Sometimes, God must temporarily destroy something He created which contains evil, but God intends to purge all evil from His creation so that He can recover and recreate it all as being made pure and holy. II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 11:36 (KJB). God only burns His creations temporarily, but He will burn the Devil and all evil in an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 20:10 (KJB). 

Isaiah 26:11 happens to be about how God will deal with humans who have given their lives to the practice of evil. They have suppressed the goodness of God that He put into them when He created them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). They refuse to see when God lifts up His hand to show them His righteousness, but a day will come when God makes them see His Majesty. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). All evil people envy good people. Evil people may think that good people are stupid and naive, but they sometimes secretly admire their goodness. 

When unbelievers in Christ die, God must consign their dirty souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived their lives on the earth. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13 (KJB). Most likely, those who led cruel and evil lives, God will consign to a burning Hell. Satan claimed ownership of Hell when God exiled him to earth. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Contrary to popular opinion, Satan does not reside in Hell. He walks around on the earth wherever he decides to go. Job 1:7 (KJB). But he claims to own the earth, Hell included. Satan knows that when God sends unrepentant sinners to one of the regions of Hell, God must send their suppressed, good natures that He created to Hell as well as their evil natures. Satan hopes to use Hell as one of his ways to so horribly torture their good natures that is still inside of them that he will crush their good natures out of existence and cause them to become totally evil and demonic. By doing that, Satan hopes to prove that God can lose something that He created and loves, and therefore, God cannot be Almighty. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). After Satan had reduced Job to a hellish condition, he influenced his wife to tell Job to "curse God, and die." Job 2:9 (KJB). By doing this, the Devil revealed that he wanted Job to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. Satan hopes to do the same to at least one living human. But God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). 

"The fire of thine enemies shall devour them" means that God will use the fires of Hell along with His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their good natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal fires of Hell. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will merge the lake of fire with Hell. Moses prophesied about that. Deuteronomy 32:22 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all unrepentant humans, and He will make them all see His Majesty and His Love for them which will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). 

When Christ rose from the dead, He gained complete and absolute victory over spiritual death, sins, evil, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Christ regained His power and ownership over all that He created, not that he had ever really lost it. Matthew 28:18 (KJB). Christ will use that Almighty Power to liberate every living human He ever created. God will use His fiery wrath to purge His entire creation of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be righteous, including all of His living humans. Luke 20:38; Luke 3:6; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                       Isaiah 10:16-17 KJB

Isaiah wrote these verses in the middle of his prophecy that God would destroy the wicked nation of Assyria. But these two verses look forward to God's eventual destruction of all evil, and His salvation of humanity. 

God's "fat ones" would be all of God's people whom He will bless. God will send "leanness" to them to spiritually shape them up and get them ready for His coming final war against evil and the Devil. God will empower them with His fire to be able to spread His gospel to the whole world, as He did on the day of Pentecost. Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). The Apostle John seems to have prophesied that the Church at Philadelphia, which would symbolize the final universal Church in the last days of the Church Age, God will provide with an "open door" which cannot be shut to preach the gospel to the whole world just before Christ Raptures His Church. Revelation 3:1-11; Matthew 24:14 (KJB). The Church at Laodicea might be a half-hearted and lukewarm attempt to continue the Church into at least the first 31/2 years of the Tribulation period. 

Fire has two purposes. It can destroy, and it can give some light and heat. God lit a fire in the Israelites to light the world by writing His Word and bringing His Messiah into the world. But the "Holy One," who is the Messiah, became God's greatest flame because He became the "Light of the world" who, through His sacrifice and resurrection, will save His entire, living human race from eternal death which the Devil desires to inflict on them. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). As He does throughout the Bible, God refers to evil as being like "thorns" and "briers." When living humans become saved by God's grace, He annuls their spiritual deaths, and He gives them the everlasting and perfect righteousness of Christ Himself. John 3:3; John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:21 (KJB). But the "thorns" and "briers" and "tares," which symbolize evil, still cling to all living humans whom God must consign to one of the three regions of death when they die because God cannot accept the filthiness of sin and evil. But Christ will visit all unbelievers "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith in Him as their Savior that He put into them when He created them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their "thorns" and "tares," which are their evil and spiritual deaths, from their repentant, living 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. Isaiah 10:16-17; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

Christ never changes. Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). His Love and compassion never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ will have just as much compassion to save repentant sinners after their physical deaths as He does for those who repent while physically alive. John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9; I Timothy 2:4; Revelation 5:11-14; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).  

How Jesus Used the Word "World."

The word "world" in the Greek language means "an ordered system." Whenever Jesus used the word "world," He used His own language. But whatever word or words Jesus used for "world," God had them translated into the Greek word for "world." 

As the part is, so is the whole. God creates every human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But whenever humans sin, the Devil plants spiritual death, which is evil, into their inner beings. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The same is true of the world. When God cast Satan out of Heaven, he established his own evil kingdom in the world. Luke 4:5-8; II Corinthians 4:4 (KJB). But the kingdom of God also exists in the world in the hearts of every human. Luke 17:20-21; John 10:34-35 (KJB). Thus, humans can choose to live good lives or evil lives. But all humans are also sinners which means that only God can save them from eternal death. Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23 (KJB). The kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan coexist in this world. 

Jesus taught that when He would hang on the cross, He would do so to judge the world and the Devil in order to cast out all evil from His world. John 12:31 (KJB). Jesus also taught that He would go to the cross to "draw all men unto me," meaning all of His living humans that He creates and loves. John 12:32 (KJB). Jesus did not contradict Himself when He taught that "I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus clearly had different meanings for His use of the word "world" in these two different statements, and the context in which He said them clearly shows what meanings He used. When Jesus said that He would judge the world and the Devil, He clearly meant that He would "cast out" the Devil's kingdom from the world. John 12:31; I John 3:8 (KJB). When Jesus said He would not judge the world, but save the world, He clearly referred to His statement that He would "draw all men unto me," which means He would go to the cross to save every human that He ever created. John 12:47 (KJB). In this meaning of the word "world," it means the same as humanity. Christ will save the entire kingdom of God, and He will utterly and forever destroy the kingdom of Satan. 

As Jesus draws all men unto Him, He will save by His grace all of His living humans who repent and believe in Him as their Savior while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; John 3:3 (KJB). But Jesus also taught that He would reserve His judgment of all unbelievers until the end of the world. John 12:48 (KJB). He will judge them by His Word, and according to His Word, He came to save the world, meaning every living human He ever created. Christ will visit all unbelievers "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their good 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; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 13:8; John 11:25-26; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

"God so loved the world," meaning every living human He ever created, and He will make certain that they all return to faith in Him as their Savior because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). No living human will ever "perish" into eternal death. John 3:16 (KJB). Jesus will never "condemn the world" because He came to save the world, meaning His entire, living human race. John 3:17; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Believers saved by grace are not condemned, but God will have to cast unbelievers into one of the three regions of death when they die. John 3:18 (KJB). Jesus described the condemnation of unbelievers, and it is not an eternal condemnation. This condemnation simply means that they remain in the "darkness" of the Devil's world until they return to faith in the "Light of the world," John 3:19-21 (KJB). Christ will visit all unbelievers in the end of the world, and He will make certain that they all return to faith in the Light. John 1:9; John 1:29 (KJB). 

Jesus "giveth life unto the world," meaning every living human that He ever created. John 6:33 (KJB). God's gifts are always eternal. Romans 11:29 (KJB). Jesus sacrificed Himself "for the life of the world," not just for those whom He would save by His grace. John 6:51 (KJB). The world, meaning the Devil's kingdom, hates Jesus. John 7:7 (KJB). Unbelievers will "die in your sins" because they are "of the world," meaning the Devil's kingdom. John 8:23-24 (KJB). Jesus did not say that they would be dead forever. The world, meaning the Devil's kingdom, cannot give peace to Jesus' followers. John 14:27 (KJB). There is the "prince of this world," meaning the Devil's kingdom, and there is the "world," meaning those in the kingdom of God who will know that Jesus loves His Father. John 14:30-31 (KJB). Jesus has "overcome the world" that causes tribulation, meaning the Devil's kingdom. John 16:33 (KJB). The word "overcome" in the Greek means to subdue, conquer, and prevail. Christ gained a complete and absolute victory over the Devil, spiritual death, and all evil when He rose from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18; Matthew 28:18; I John 3:8; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). 

Jesus clearly had two different meanings for when He used the word "world," and that which He meant can be easily discerned by the context in which He used that word.  

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Isaiah 9:18-19 KJB

These verses provide another example of how God compares the burning of wickedness to the burning of "briers" and "thorns." Jesus taught about how in the end of the world the "wheat" will be preserved, and the "tares" will be burned.  Matthew 13:24-30 (KJB). John the Baptist taught that when Jesus baptizes with fire, He will preserve the "wheat" and burn the "chaff." Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). Jesus taught that His Father would root up every plant that He has not planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). All through the Bible, God relates that evil has been planted in His creation, is foreign to His creation, and is useless and destructive and worthy of only being burned. In the end of the world, God will thoroughly burn His polluted creation, but He will only burn the evil that the Devil has planted in His creation. God will preserve His creation that He has cleansed by the use of His fiery wrath so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God desires that all of His living humans that He creates in His image should repent so that He can burn the evil that the Devil has planted in them, and He can then recreate their cleansed, living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Since God's Will is Almighty and cannot be thwarted, then He will save His entire, living human race from spiritual death planted in them by the Devil, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world when Christ visits with them and causes them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. II Peter 3:9; Luke 20:38; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

God creates humans in His image to be good, creative, loving, and faithful. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 12:3 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). When free will causes humans to sin, the Devil plants spiritual death into their inner beings which will cause them to commit further sins and acts of evil. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). This means every human has within them the "wheat" of God's creation and the "tares" of evil and spiritual death planted into them by the Devil. Matthew 13:24-30 (KJB). The good and living natures of humans will always be soiled by sin and evil, but their good and living natures can never be annulled by spiritual death because their good and living natures were created by an Almighty God. The Devil seeks to use spiritual death to utterly destroy the good and living natures of humans in his attempt to prove that God's Love is not Almighty. Job 2:9 (KJB). The book of Job is about how God will never allow that to happen. For this reason, God could never cast any good and living nature of any human into the eternal lake of fire because if He did, He would have to utterly destroy His creation that He loves which happens to be based on His own Almighty Love. In fact, the Bible records that God will cast only dead and evil human natures into the eternal lake of fire. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate and cleanse their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB). God has promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God creates all things for His pleasure. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). God could certainly get no pleasure from His living humans burning in an eternal lake of fire. God will cast only that which is totally evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8; Matthew 7:16-19; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Everything that God creates goes out from Him, and everything eventually comes back to Him. Romans 11:36 (KJB). Since God's Love and His Will are Almighty, then nothing can stop God from saving whatever He loves. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

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Those who come to Jesus Christ 

From sin

Will find release.

And as they labor in the world

Find rest 

In joyful peace.