Deuteronomy 18: 1,10,16 KJB
Verses one and sixteen in this chapter denotes how God uses His fiery wrath against evil for the benefit of humans. Verse ten describes how the Devil misuses fire to tell a lie about God. All through the Bible, God tells the truth, and the Devil tells lies about God. John 8:39-45 (KJB).
Verse one teaches that if the Levites, who were priests, would eat a part of the roasted meat before it became the burnt offering sacrifice, they will obtain a better inheritance from the Lord than would the ordinary, faithful Israelite. God will give them the special blessings of an eternal ministry to all the faithful Jews who will inherit an eternal possession of the promised land after the final resurrection in the end of the world. Deuteronomy 18:5; Isaiah 66:10-24 (KJB). God will recover and recreate all of His living Jews and Gentiles "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will give the Levites and the priests a place of special blessings on His new earth that He will recreate. Isaiah 66:21 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans that He loves, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures, that He created, from their dead and evil natures put into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:15; Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to purge His entire creation of all evil and the Devil so that He can recreate it all, including all of His living humans, to be forever righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The Levites, who were priests, will enjoy a place of special blessings on God's new earth. When the priests ate the roasted meat that preceded the burnt offering, that symbolized that they would partake of the Spirit of Christ in the final resurrection, and they will enjoy a special form of blessings as they serve God on His new earth.
Verse sixteen relates that God used His fiery wrath as He spoke to His people from Mount Horeb to cause them to become afraid of His punishments for their practice of sin and evil. In verse thirteen, God informed His people that He expected them to be "perfect" in His sight which meant that He expected them to try to obey His commandments, but He also expected them to make a sin offering or a burnt offering for their forgiveness whenever they inevitably failed to obey Him. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). The Ten Commandments thus teaches every human that they are sinners before God, but the sin offering and the burnt offering symbolized that God would provide the sacrifice of Himself for the salvation of all of His living humans. But God used His fiery wrath against evil to cause His people to be afraid of Him so that they would sin less and not become subject to God's severest punishment which would be if God had to cast them into a burning Hell.
Moses gave the people this warning from God about His fiery wrath at the same time that he gave them his great prophecy about the coming Messiah. Moses told his people that those who refused to hear or believe God's Messiah, "I will require it of him." This sentence implies that the punishment for disbelief in the Messiah would be only a temporary punishment, even for a person whom God had to cast into a burning Hell. Deuteronomy 18:19; Luke 12:58-59; John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29 (KJB). Moses even informed his people that a false prophet who speaks for other gods, "thou shalt not be afraid of him." God may cast such an evil person into a burning Hell, but Moses did not say that that would be an eternal punishment. Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (KJB).
For every manifestation of God's power, the Devil has formed a lie to try to replace it. In verse ten, Moses warned God's people to never make their son or daughter "to pass through the fire" in the worship of false gods. This practice is similar to people who walk on strips of fiery coals even to this day. They usually do not get hurt because the Devil actually protects them from harm. The message of the Devil in protecting these people is that humans do not have to fear the fiery wrath of God because He does not exist. This is the Devil's sub-conscious message to people who walk on strips of fiery coals.