The Fiery Wrath of God

                                II Kings 25:9 KJB

After Judah's final defeat by the Babylonians, a servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt God's house and all of the houses in Jerusalem. This was the Devil's fiery wrath against God. To this day, those who hate God think that they can destroy God's work on the earth by burning houses of worship. Actually, God wanted His house to be burned because evil kings of Judah had allowed it to become polluted with idols and with false priests. II Kings 25:9 (KJB). After Jesus threw the moneychangers out of His Temple, one can be sure that they came back after Jesus had ascended. The scribes and priests became very angry with Jesus because no doubt they had some stake in the moneychangers' profits. Mark 11:15-18 (KJB). The Temple of God had become polluted, and so God allowed the Romans to burn it in 70 A.D.

Houses of worship, built by humans, always fail to some extent because they allow sinful and evil people to come into them who refuse to repent. But God can build a Temple where only the pure and holy can worship. Jesus' prophecy in John 2:17-22 (KJB) had a double meaning as many scriptures do. Jesus meant that just as the Jews had caused the destruction of the first Temple, and they would cause the destruction of the second Temple, He would raise up a third Temple that cannot be destroyed. Jesus meant both His own body which is God's Temple, and a future Temple that He will build.  

The first and second Temples symbolized Jesus on the cross who took the sins and evil of the whole human race on Himself. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 2:2 (KJB). The sinful and evil natures of humans and the Devil tried to destroy Jesus on the cross, but through His sacrifice, Jesus destroyed them. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save from eternal death all living humans whom He would save by His grace. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). But when Jesus died on the cross, He sent His Spirit to Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could rise from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who would rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). The Holy Spirit has done the work of their salvation, but their salvation cannot be activated until Jesus visits them in the end of the world and returns them to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When Jesus visits them, He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings so that He can save their good and living natures to be recreated to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Habakkuk 2:4; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Thus, the fiery wrath of the Devil always fails, but the fiery wrath of God always succeeds. Hell is the fiery wrath of the Devil, but Christ is the fiery wrath of God. Hebrews 12:29 (KJB).

When God recreates His earth and saves all of His living humans from eternal death, the Jews will not build the third Temple in New Jerusalem. Jesus Himself will build the third Temple in New Jerusalem because it will symbolize His own Being which is the Holy Temple of God. Only pure and holy people will be able to enter this third Temple to worship God. Zechariah 6:12-13; Zechariah 8:1-23; Amos 9:11-15; Acts 15:13-18 (KJB).    

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            II Kings 23:10-11 KJB

King Josiah came to power in Judah after two evil kings had ruled. King Josiah dedicated himself to the service of God. King Josiah thoroughly cleansed all of Judah of all idols, burned everything that had been used in the service of the false gods, and he had all of their priests killed. He also outlawed the terrible practice of the sacrifice of children to these false gods by having them burned in fire. II Kings 23:1-20 (KJB). In ancient Judah, the Devil would often cause evil rulers to take control of the land in their attempts to completely put out the light of God's truth. But when darkness covered the land, God would light it up again by raising up rulers of His people who would revolt against evil and cleanse the land. Romans 5:20 (KJB).

The Devil knows that God has given an inner light to every human He creates. John 1:9 (KJB). God creates every human in His image to be innocent and good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Part of human goodness is faith in God which the Devil has subdued by his injection of spiritual death into every human the moment they sin. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Adam's sin was the first example of this fact. Romans 5:12 (KJB). 

Most children tend to be innocent and good, although they also can sin. The fact that the Devil enjoys having children sacrificed reveals his intention toward the whole human race. The Devil knows that child sacrifice hardens people's hearts because it gives them the idea that if they can just put out God's light in themselves, then they can gain a better life without that hindrance, when, in fact, they will only gain eternal slavery to the Devil. In that day and in this day, child sacrifice reveals the fact that the Devil desires to completely put out the light that God puts into every human, bring absolute darkness into the world, and utterly destroy a part of God's creation, and thereby, prove that God's Love can fail. II Kings 23:10-11 (KJB). 

The Devil will have children burned in a fire or burn them with a saline solution and have them aborted, but God has a fiery wrath of His own. God cannot lose anything He has ever created, and His Love cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ sacrificed Himself on a cross and shed His blood and water to save all humans whom He would save by His grace, but when He died, He sent His Spirit to Hell to accomplish the salvation of the rest of humanity. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit left behind in Hell all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross so that He could rise immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead having obtained an absolute victory over all sins, evil, the Devil, and spiritual death. John 5:24; I Peter 3:18; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 2:2 (KJB). Genesis 8:20-21 symbolizes this fiery salvation that Christ has provided for all humans who do not become saved by His grace. In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of these living humans, 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 that He created from their dead and evil natures. He will recreate their repentant, 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. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

King Josiah symbolized God Himself when he burned all that was evil, and he saved the lives of the innocent. II Kings 23:10-11 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                       II Kings 21:6 KJB

God gives free will to every normal and intelligent human. For this reason, Godly parents can have children who choose to become evil. King Manasseh became an evil tyrant even though he was the son of a Godly father, king Hezekiah. Manasseh chose to worship idols, and he even put some idols into the house of God, the Temple. II Kings 21:1-5 (KJB). 

Some opponents of God claim that they have no desire to serve God because they say that God is overbearing and domineering. But the truth of the matter is that God has given every normal individual free will which means every person can live whatever life they choose to live, whether a good life, a sinful life, or even an evil life. That God is overbearing is a lie from the Devil. The conviction of the Holy Spirit that their sinful lives are wrong makes them blame God for their guilt. Free humans do not realize that no matter what they do, a merciful God is still in control. The good person brings glory to God because they try to obey God and fight against evil. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Humans saved by grace bring glory to God because they believe that God's Love caused Him to shed His blood on a cross to wash away their sins and give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can live with Him in Heaven forever. John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; I Peter 1:3-5 (KJB). All humans are sinful, but even a sinful person also brings glory to God because when they hear the gospel about how God's Love and compassion can save them from their sins and evil, they come under the conviction that they are sinful and only God is righteous. John 16:7-10 (KJB). But even the evil person ultimately brings glory to God because every time God defeats evil in the history of the world, and when He completely defeats evil in the end of the world, they will play their part in their demonstration that they were evil to prove that God has the power to completely destroy all evil. Romans 9:14-24 (KJB). 

King Manasseh became so evil that "he made his son pass through the fire." II Kings 21:6 (KJB). In our day, humans will sacrifice their own unborn sons and daughters to ensure that they will have a prosperous life. That is the opposite of love and self-sacrifice. God sent a prophet to king Manasseh to warn him that God would severely punish Judah for the evil that it had allowed. Judah would be turned over to its enemies. Yet, the patience and longsuffering of God allowed Manasseh to live to an old age and die a peaceful death. II Kings 21:10-18. God will wait to make His final judgment until the end of the world. 

Christ will make His final judgment of the "quick and the dead" in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; John 12:47-48 (KJB). Christ's final judgment of all humans saved by His grace will be that He will exempt them from a final judgment because He has already annulled their spiritual deaths, and He has given them His own righteousness and eternal life with Him. John 5:24; John 6:40 (KJB). Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause all of His living and good humans whom He created in His image to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge their beings of all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths, and He will recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Christ will cast their purged dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

All humans can choose to live however they desire to live, but in the end, Christ will cause their good and living natures to choose to repent for the glory of God, and their separated, sinful and evil natures He will cast into the eternal lake of fire for the glory of God. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                             II Kings 19:17-18 KJB

The king of Assyria had besieged Jerusalem, and king Hezekiah of Judah, who was a servant of the Lord, prayed fervently that God would deliver Jerusalem. King Sennacherib of Assyria had sent a letter to king Hezekiah in which he bragged that none of the gods of all the nations that he had conquered had been able to save them from his army, and therefore, the God of Hezekiah would not be able to deliver Jerusalem from his army. This letter was a great insult to the power of God. II Kings 19:8-16 (KJB). 

As king Hezekiah prayed, he mentioned that as king Sennacherib had conquered many nations, he had thrown their idol gods into fires and burned them. Evil armies happen to be so greedy and rapacious that they will often fight against each other for wealth and power. God knows that that is a great weakness in the power of evil, and God uses that weakness against the evil powers. Jesus taught that Satan had that weakness in his kingdom. Luke 11:14-23 (KJB). The 9th chapter of Revelation prophesies that an evil army will be released from the bottomless pit under the earth to wage war against an evil army on the earth, and six fallen angels will be released from being bound in the river Euphrates to kill a third part of another evil army by using fire and brimstone. Revelation 9:1-20 (KJB). The fact that the beast who came out of the earth caused the beast out of the sea to live and be able to speak so that the beast out of the earth could control him, could very well indicate that the beast out of the sea had been wounded to death by the beast out of the earth. Revelation 13:1-13 (KJB). 

In our age, the evil Nazi army and the evil communist army conquered Poland and divided it. Then they engaged in a horrific war with each other that saved the lives of millions in the good armies which enabled the good armies to win the war. 

God sent one angel to destroy 185 thousand in the Assyrian army to save Jerusalem, but God had already used king Sennacherib to burn many idols and destroy many pagan peoples. II Kings 20:35; II Kings 19:17-18 (KJB). God knows exactly how to fight fire with fire. He uses His fiery wrath against evil in different ways. God can use the weaknesses in evil forces to accomplish His Will. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           II Kings 17:17,31 KJB

By far, the most important outcome for the history of the human race would be for God to defeat Satan and all evil, and He saves His human race from an eternal death which the Devil desires to impose upon every living human. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The Devil has far more power than any human, which means no human can save themselves from the Devil's eternal death. Romans 7:23-24 (KJB). The Devil has confidence in his power to utterly destroy the human race. The Devil bragged to God that he could go anywhere in the world that he chose to go, and he could do whatever he wanted to do. Job 1:6-7 (KJB). But just as God did not allow the Devil to take the life of Job, so God will not allow the Devil to take the lives of any of His living humans whom He creates in His image. Job 2:6; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God promised that He would send His Messiah, who is Himself, to utterly crush the head of the serpent; that is, the Devil, so that He can purge all evil from His world and save His entire, living human race from eternal death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The phrase in this verse, "it shall bruise thy head," means that the Messiah will overwhelm the Devil to the extent that He will win an absolute and complete victory over him. God does not win partial victories. 

God allows the Devil to do his worst to the human race to prove that evil can never put out the light of God's love and faith that He puts into every living human that He creates. Genesis 1:31; John 1:9 (KJB). God chose the Hebrew people to be His chosen people who would write His Word and bring His Messiah into the world. God saved them from slavery in Egypt and gave them His commandments for them to obey so that they could have good lives free from evil. But from time to time, the Hebrews would become influenced by the Devil's power to the extent that they would begin to worship idols, and they would even throw their babies into the fires that were inside of these false gods. II Kings 17:17; II Kings 17:31 (KJB). The Devil knew that God sometimes uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy evil, so the Devil enjoys mocking God by using his own fiery wrath to destroy the innocence and goodness that God creates. But the Devil cannot permanently destroy anything God creates. The Devil believes that one day his fiery wrath will utterly destroy forever at least some of the goodness and love that God has put into every human. Job 1:7-12 (KJB). God knew that Job was a sinner like every human, but God called him perfect because Job tried very hard to live in accordance with the love and faith that God had put into him when He created him. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). 

Humans cannot save themselves, but Christ can. Romans 7:24-25 (KJB). Christ took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of the entire human race on Himself on the cross so that through His death, burial, and resurrection, He could save the entire human race. I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ will save by His grace all humans who believe in Him while they are still alive in the flesh. John 3:3; John 5:24 (KJB). Christ judged and cast out only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross, but He did so to liberate all of His living humans from the Devil's eternal death. John 12:31-32; John 16:11 (KJB). Christ reserved His final judgment of the entire human race until the end of the world. John 12:44-48 (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 He will cause them all to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ has abolished death itself, not any of His living humans. I Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ will resurrect His Church in the Rapture, and then in the end of the world He will resurrect the rest of the human race back to life, and then He will gain a complete victory over all His enemies, which are the Devil and all evil, and then He will destroy the last enemy which is eternal death itself, not any of His living humans. I Corinthians 15:20-28 (KJB). Christ will save the entire human race with a special salvation for all humans whom He will save by His grace. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).   

On Purpose and Meaning

The theory of multiple universes contends that if an infinite number of universes exist, then it becomes inevitable that one of those universes would be so fine-tuned that life would evolve and eventually become intelligent and creative life. That universe is our universe. The only purpose of all the other universes would be to ensure that the universe of life would come into being. In addition, the anthropic principle would ensure that our universe, as a whole, would possess the values, meanings, and purposes that intelligent and creative life would attach to it. Also, intelligent life can understand that the purpose of all the other universes was to ensure the existence of the life universe and that all those other universes would have no purpose if they never produced the life universe. In other words, all those other universes could have no purpose unless it became a known purpose to an intelligent consciousness. The only way that all of those other universes could acquire purpose would be if they ensured the existence of intelligent life who would be able to recognize that they had that purpose. So much for the philosophy that the universe and life have no meaning or purpose. 

Nevertheless, those who believe that the universe and life have no meaning adds that value to the universe, whether that belief is true or false. Similarly, those who believe in God add all of His values to the universe whether He exists or not. The point is that creative intelligence, by its very nature, cannot avoid attaching purpose and meaning to everything that it experiences, even if that absolute purpose and meaning is that it has no purpose or meaning. 

All of this means that purpose, meaning, and values cannot be detached from an intelligent and creative consciousness. Our universe happens to be governed by a set of fine-tuned mathematical and physical rules and laws. Such rules and laws could not exist unless an Intelligent Consciousness has a purpose and a meaning for them.  Intelligent finite and creative life could not exist without an extremely complex set of chemical and electrical interactions. Only an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness could have created this intelligent life with a meaning and with a purpose for every individual life. Complex systems that produce creative results cannot exist without meaning and purpose. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               II Kings 16:13 KJB

All Christian cults center on the attempt to combine the worship of a false god with the worship of the true and living God. A king of Judah named Ahaz made an alliance with a pagan king of Assyria to help him in his war with Syria and Israel. Ahaz failed to pray to God for help. The king of Assyria won the war for the king of Judah. The king of Judah then went to Damascus to visit the king of Assyria, and he saw there a pagan altar, and he was quite impressed with it. He then sent a message to Urijah the chief priest in Jerusalem and instructed him to make an altar exactly like the one he had seen in Damascus. He also instructed Urijah to move the brazen altar from before the Temple and replace it with this pagan altar. When king Ahaz returned from Damascus, he offered on this pagan altar all of the sin offerings and all of the burnt offerings that God had commanded to be offered on the simple, brazen altar before the Temple. II Kings 16:5-18 (KJB). 

All Christian cults begin with someone who attempts to replace some part of the Word of God with some sort of pagan beliefs. Quite often, they try to reduce Jesus to being someone who is less than God which makes Him no more than any pagan god. The Devil does not care if these cults practice the Lord's supper or baptism if they just keep people from believing that Jesus is God their Savior. The brazen altar before the Temple on which the sin offerings and the burnt offerings were to be made symbolized the cross of Christ where God poured out His blood and water to save some humans by His grace, and He sent His Spirit to Hell when He died to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could save them by His mercy. Acts 20:28; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Luke 23:46; Luke 3:6; John 5:28-29 (KJB). When the Holy Spirit rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus, He rose from the dead with an absolute and complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ, who is Almighty God, cannot fail to save from eternal death all of His living humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ "hath put all enemies under His feet." I Corinthians 15:25 (KJB). God's enemies are the Devil and all evil, never any of His living humans whom He loves. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).