The Fiery Wrath of God

                          Proverbs 26:20-21 KJB

In these verses, the word "fire" is used as symbolic of the destructive effects of sin and evil. In order for sin and evil to continue to be destructive, it must be continuously fed with sinful and evil acts. The Devil feeds this fire. The Devil plants spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans because all humans, except for infants who die before they can sin, possess a weak free will that causes them to sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 15:13 (KJB). God creates all humans to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The Devil aims to cause spiritual death to so utterly corrupt the good and living natures of humans to the extent that they become totally evil. The Devil can then claim them for his own and torture them forever. The Devil believes that if he can completely destroy a part of God's creation, then he can weaken God to the point that he will finally be able to murder God. Isaiah 14:12-17; John 8:44 (KJB). The Devil revealed his plan in the book of Job when he told God that if He allowed everything that God had blessed Job with to be taken from him, then Job would "curse God, and die." Job 2:9 (KJB). The Devil meant that the good nature of Job would become so evil that he would become lost from God in eternal death. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:4-6 (KJB). God knew that the Devil really wanted to destroy Job's life. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Matthew 15:13; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). When God told the Devil that he could not take Job's life, God meant that the Devil would never be able to take the good life of Job or any other human.  

God gives humans free will when He creates them. God already knew that free will can cause rebellion because Lucifer had chosen to rebel. Ezekiel 28:15 (KJB). Satan believed that God had made a mistake when He gave free will to Adam and Eve. Satan thought that he could use what he thought was a mistake to cause humans to sin to the extent that it would so weaken them that he could inject spiritual death into every one of them which would eventually cause them to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God knew all that when He created Adam and Eve and all of humanity. But God has a plan to prove that His gift of free will was not a mistake because He is able to cause every human that He would ever create to choose of their own free will to return to the faith in Him that He creates them to possess. Romans 12:3; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God has proven and will prove that His Love for humanity, and all humans love for Him, can only be true and genuine. God will prove that His gift of free will is stronger than any scheme of the Devil. I Corinthians 1:25 (KJB). 

But before God could return all of humanity to faith in Him, He had to do something about the spiritual death that the Devil injects into every human who sins because humans happen to be far too weak to save themselves from its utter destruction. God's Love caused Him to come to earth and sacrifice Himself by taking the spiritual deaths of all mankind on Himself on a cruel cross and suffer it Himself so that He could rise from the dead with complete and absolute victory over the Devil and all evil. Christ turned eternal death into only a temporary death, and He also suffered all of the sins and evil that causes it in order to completely eradicate all evil from His creation. Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9-18; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8; I John 2:2; John 5:28-29; John 11:25-26 (KJB). 

All humans saved by God's grace suffer only physical death because they go directly to Heaven when they die. All humans who die in their sins, God must send their dirty souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). But all of these deaths are only temporary. Christ will visit all humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will 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 living natures with everlasting life on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Proverbs 25:21-22 KJB

Since God commands that His people feed their enemies, then God feeds His enemies. Proverbs 25:21; Matthew 5:34 (KJB). When Jesus fed the five thousand and the four thousand, He surely must have fed some of His enemies. God provides food for the just and for the unjust. Matthew 5:45 (KJB). Yet God hates evil, and He expects His people to hate evil. Hebrews 1:9; Psalm 5:5; Psalm 45:7; Psalm 97:10 (KJB). But there is no contradiction in this. God meets the physical needs of all humans because He creates them, and He loves them. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). However, God might send a famine into a land where most of the people practice evil in order to punish them. When humans practice evil, God hates the evil that they practice. God does not hate their physical bodies that He creates and loves, even though evil may have caused their bodies to practice evil. 

God creates humans with a body, soul, and spirit. Genesis 1:26-27; I Thessalonians 5:23 (KJB). God loves His creations. When humans sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into them, and it is evil, and it causes all humans to commit sins, and it causes some humans to turn to the practice of evil. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God hates spiritual death, sins, evil, and the Devil, not any of His living humans whom He loves. Humans happen to be far too weak to overcome that spiritual death which will utterly destroy them all. Romans 5:6 (KJB). But God's Love caused Him to come to the rescue of humans when He took all of their spiritual deaths, and the sins and evil that causes it, on Himself on a cruel cross and turned permanent death into only a temporary death when He rose from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all spiritual death, sins, evil, and the Devil. Romans 5:8; Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

God commands His people to feed their enemies because that "will heap coals of fire on his head." Proverbs 25:22 (KJB). That kindness shown will remind their enemies that God is good, that He loves them, and that they need to repent and be reconciled with God. God has two ways to purge spiritual death, sins, and evil from the inner beings of all His living humans. God uses the shed blood of Christ to cleanse and save by His grace all humans who repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). The Old Testament sin offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). But the Holy Spirit made a burnt offering sacrifice for the rest of humanity when He descended into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. I John 2:2; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Because of the sacrifice of the Holy Spirit, Christ can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge the rest of humanity of all their spiritual deaths, sins, and evil so that He can save them all with a lesser form of salvation. But in order to save them, Christ must return them to the faith He put into them when He created them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). Christ will cause them all to repent when He visits them in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will save all humans whom He does not save by His grace. Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 3:16-17; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Philippians 2:9-11; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). God purged Isaiah's sins with a coal of fire. Isaiah 6:6-7 (KJB). God's Love purges all sins. The word "all" in Proverbs 10:12 can only mean the entire set of sins that has ever been committed. The word "the" in I Peter 4:8 can only mean all sins that will ever be committed. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Proverbs 16:27 KJB

The ungodly man deliberately looks for ways to be evil and cruel. He seeks to be destructive, like a burning fire. God uses His fiery wrath against evil to purge all evil from His creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The Devil always tries to copy whatever God does, but his motive is to utterly destroy God's creation, particularly His living humans, and subject it all to his cruel control. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). The ungodly man gets his destroying fire from the Devil. 

The Devil is greedy for power and cruel control of God's creation. The Devil has his own kingdom in this world, and some of the subjects of his kingdom become greedy for cruel control of others just like their master. Luke 4:5-6 (KJB). Jesus taught that one of the main weaknesses of the Devil's kingdom is that it will cause conflict and wars among evil rulers. Luke 11:17-18 (KJB). Much of the history of the world has been about evil armies fighting other evil armies. God is pleased with this condition because it weakens the Devil's ability to gain control of the entire earth, and it saves the lives of many of His faithful people. Luke 11:19-23 (KJB). Despite all of the cruelty and evil in the world, God has always had His faithful people who have loved Him, and they have loved kindness, liberty, and creativity. I Peter 2:9-10; Exodus 19:5-6 (KJB). 

Despite the fact that many humans have deliberately chosen to be cruel and evil, God still loves them because He created them in His image, and that light of faith in Him and love for Him within them can be greatly dimmed by evil, but it can never be put out. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 12:3; John 1:9 (KJB). If God wills that all humans come to repentance, then one can be sure that God has made a way for all of His living humans to repent and return to faith in Him because no one can thwart His Will. II Peter 3:9 (KJB). Since all humans are alive in God's sight, then no living human can ever become permanently dead. Luke 20:38 (KJB). Since God has given all power to His Son in Heaven and on earth, then one can be sure that He will utterly destroy Satan's kingdom, and He will recover and recreate His entire creation that has been soiled by sin and evil. Matthew 28:18; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Since Christ has all power, then He will certainly use it. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). 

A Conversation about Universes

A believer preaching on the street is confronted by an atheist.

Atheist: Why do you preach that silly stuff? There is no evidence that God exists. 

Believer: Look around you. How could all of this come into being without a Creator? 

Atheist: It all came into being from the big bang of the universe.

Believer: And what caused the big bang?

Atheist: Nobody knows, but it wasn't God.

Believer: How do you know that?

Atheist: Real scientists believe it wasn't God. 

Believer: So, you have faith that it wasn't God.

Atheist: I believe the real scientists.

Believer: But what if the real scientists are wrong, and God really created the universe? 

Atheist: I just believe the real scientists. 

Believer: But you just admitted that no one knows how the big bang started. So, the real scientists could be wrong. 

Atheist: But we do know that from the big bang, the universe evolved into stars and galaxies, and the stars produced the chemical elements that on a planet with a lot of water life evolved. This all took billions of years. 

Believer: Intelligent life too?

Atheist: Yes.

Believer: Life evolved in a nonconscious universe?

Atheist: Over billions of years, yes. 

Believer: Science works by observation and experimentation, right?

Atheist: Right.

Believer: Has anyone ever observed a nonconscious object produce anything?

Atheist: A corpse produces fertilizer. 

Believer: But that is a natural process. Nonconscious objects never produce complex, creative systems. 

Atheist: But it could over billions of years. 

Believer: But if no one ever observes a nonconscious object produce any complex, creative system, would it not be safe to conclude, by inductive reasoning, that nonconscious objects never produce complex, creative systems. 

Atheist: But anything can happen in billions of years.

Believer: But is that not just your faith?

Atheist: Well, I believe that God does not exist all right.

Believer: Did you know that science has discovered that our universe happens to be extremely fine-tuned to certain mathematical constants that makes life, and intelligent life, possible. Without that exact tuning, life could not exist. 

Atheist: Yes, but that simply means that out of an infinite number of possible universes, ours just happened to be the one that was fine-tuned so that life could evolve into existence. 

Believer: But isn't that all just a matter of your faith?

Atheist: Well, I certainly don't believe in God.

Believer: But you do believe that a nonconscious process produced an infinite number of possible universes out of which one was selected to be fine-tuned to the extent that it could evolve life. Isn't that nonconscious process really your God? 

Atheist: But our universe was nonconscious before life came into being. 

Believer: How do you know that?

Atheist: Because I can look into the past of our universe, and I can see that it evolved until it produced life. 

Believer: But how do you know that that process was nonconscious? 

Atheist: Because I can see that that process took place in the past. 

Believer: You used the word quote "see." That means you had to use your imagination, which is a product of your consciousness, to overcome the supposed nonconsciousness of our universe in order to trace the processes in our universe that you believe evolved life. 

Atheist: But can't I imagine a nonconscious universe?

Believer: No, you cannot because as soon as you imagine it, you annul its nonconsciousness.

Atheist: But I believe I can.

Believer: You used the word "see." That word was necessary for the universe that you imagined. That proves that no universe can exist without the creation of an intelligent consciousness, even if only in the imagination. 

Atheist: Well, I am determined to disbelieve. 

Believer: Our universe had to have had an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness to create it, but with more than just imagination. God objectified His goodness to create our universe, including all living humans. Read Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Hebrews 11:3, and Romans 11:36. (KJB). 

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How precious is the smiling child

Who wobbles through the world.

Whether it's a little boy,

Or whether it's a little girl.  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            Proverbs 6:27-29 KJB 

One would think that if a person took fire into his bosom, then his belly and his clothes would be burned. And if a person walked on fiery coals, then his feet would be burned. But there are people who walk on fiery coals, and their feet do not get burned. But they report that they have strange feelings after they do that. These verses liken sin to fire which a person may play with for a while and not get burned, but their conscience and their innocence will always be burned. 

The person who commits adultery may seem to get away with that sin, but his innocence is damaged. Many people play around with sin for a long time, and they enjoy its pleasures for a season, but in time their sins will start to severely burn them. Sin will eventually take their health, their money, and they may even wind up in prison. But even if they seem to get away with sin, it always hardens their conscience. 

God understands that humans are too weak to avoid sin. All humans inevitably sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). For this reason, God often does not directly punish a person for their sins, but He will allow the destructive effects of continued sin to break a person so that they may turn to Him when they hear the gospel and repent and put their faith in Christ who alone can save them from their sins. Romans 5:5-9 (KJB). God will also sometimes save young people who were raised in Christian homes because He makes them understand how destructive sin will be in their lives and that God will send them to one of the three regions of death if they do not repent. II Timothy 3:14-15 (KJB). All humans saved by grace try very hard to avoid sin because they love the Lord, and they hate sin. Yet even humans saved by grace sometimes sin, but God will always forgive them when they confess and repent. I John 1:5-10 (KJB). 

Sin happens to be inevitable, but the practice of evil is not inevitable. A person becomes evil because their conscience becomes so hardened that they become capable of committing terrible acts of cruelty to their fellow humans. Evil humans decide to become evil. Extremely evil humans seldom become saved by grace because they hate God. The Bible records that the only evil person who became saved by grace was Saul of Tarsus. Acts 9:1-6 (KJB). 

Those who hate God will also hate His believers. John 17:14 (KJB). Yet Jesus commanded His believers to "Love your enemies." Luke 6:27 (KJB). His commandment can only mean God loves His enemies. But God also hates evil. Psalm 45:6-7 (KJB). Like God, Christians should hate sins and evil, but, like God, Christians can love their enemies because God creates every human in His image with the capability of repentance, love for God, and reconciliation with God. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; II Peter 3:9 (KJB). The Holy Spirit has written that God will "reconcile all things to Himself." Colossians 1:20 (KJB). Christ has promised: "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). This Word of God can only mean that God has a plan to cause all of His living humans eventually to repent and return to faith in Christ as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

God never uses His fiery wrath to permanently burn anything except sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:10 (KJB). God uses His fiery wrath against evil to permanently purge His creation of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous, including all of His living humans who have been soiled by sin and evil. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Psalm 148:8 KJB

In this Psalm, the Psalmist exhorts God's entire creation to praise Him forever. God created His entire creation to last forever. Psalm 148:6 (KJB). His entire creation includes "all people" who will praise Him forever. Psalm 148:11 (KJB). This fact can only mean that God will save the entire human race that He creates in His image, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world but with a lesser form of salvation. Genesis 1:26-27; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God describes His recreation of all that He created in Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). In verse five, He promised "Behold, I make all things new." This promise must include the entire human race. 

God can use "hail," "snow," "vapour," and "stormy wind" in creative ways, but God will use His fiery wrath to destroy all evil from His creation. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 148:8 (KJB). God's fiery wrath is a part of who God is. Hebrews 12:29 (KJB). When God creates or destroys, He objectifies a part of Himself. Hebrews 11:3 (KJB). God's creations will be good, but they will never be as Holy as He is. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). 

God creates humans in His image, but when humans sin, the Devil plants spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans which is an evil that causes all humans to sin unavoidably. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Humans cannot overcome this spiritual death. Romans 5:6 (KJB). This spiritual death will utterly destroy all living humans unless God comes to man's rescue. Christ suffered that spiritual death, and all of the sins and evil that causes it and that it causes, on a cruel cross in the place of all humanity, I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ shed His blood and water on the cross to save all living humans whom He would save by His grace. Matthew 26:28; I John 1:7; John 5:24 (KJB). But when Christ died on the cross, He sent His Spirit into Hell to complete the salvation of the rest of humanity. Luke 23:46 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). He will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate His repentant, living humans from their dead and evil natures so that He can cleanse and save His living humans from eternal death, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal fire of Hell. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). The Holy Spirit made this possible because He took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace that Jesus bore on the cross to a burning Hell where they would be trapped forever. I John 2:2; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31. The Holy Spirit sacrificed Himself to cause Christ to be able to use His fiery wrath to save the rest of humanity not saved by grace. The Holy Spirit then rose immaculate from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18; I Peter 3:18; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; I Timothy 4:10; Matthew 15:13 (KJB). 

If Christ saves only by His grace, then II Timothy 1:10 would have to state that Christ "abolished death" for only humans whom He saves by His grace. But II Timothy 1:10 teaches that Christ "abolished death" itself, and that can only mean that since all humans are alive in His sight, then He will save His entire, living humans race from eternal death. The descent of the Holy Spirit into Hell is also a part of the gospel. I Corinthians 15:26; Luke 20:38 (KJB).