The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 104:4 KJB

This Psalm is mostly about God's creative powers, and His recreation after He had destroyed most of the humans and the animals in the great flood, but He recreated it all. God used water to purge the earth of evil humans so that He could preserve a better human race in Noah and his family. The constant goal of God is to purge His creation of all sins, evil, and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). After the great flood, God made the human race better, but each individual human still retained a spiritual death inside of every one of them that the Devil injected into them whenever they sinned. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Noah's sin after the flood proved that to be the case. 

The Psalmist rejoices over the joy and beauty of God's creation as if it had no sin and evil within it. The Psalmist concludes with a plea to God that He consume and purge all sinners and all evil from His creation. Psalm 104:35 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge and cleanse His creation of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). At that time, Christ will visit all of His living humans whom He created in His image who are "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures. Christ will then 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 an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

Since God is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," then the entire human race will eventually repent and be saved because God's Will cannot be thwarted. II Peter 3:9 (KJB). When God uses His fiery wrath to burn the heavens and the earth, He will burn all of the evil works of the Devil, including all of the evil within the inner beings of all humans who did not become saved by God's grace. II Peter 3:10 (KJB). All of God's creation will be dissolved to separate the evil from the good, including all of God's living humans whom He will cause to repent. II Peter 3:11; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). Even living humans saved by grace will be somewhat dissolved because God will wash away all of their sins and evil with the blood of Jesus, and He will annul their spiritual deaths, and He will recreate them from the inside out. I John 1:7; John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17 (KJB). After God has thoroughly purged His entire creation of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, He will recreate it all to be wholly righteous, including all humans whom He has created in His image. II Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

The Psalmist interrupts his paean to the glory of God's creation to relate that God can delegate His fiery power to His angels and His ministers. God can use His angels to punish evil humans, and God can also empower His ministers with His fiery power to preach His Word. Psalm 104:4; II Kings 19:35; Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). 

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 97:3 KJB

God can use His fiery power, which is symbolic of His Almighty Power, in various ways. God can use His fiery power to empower His people to preach His Word, to warn them that He can use His fiery wrath to punish them for their unrepentant attitudes, and to protect His people from attacks by their enemies. Jeremiah 20:9; Acts 2:1-4; Exodus 19:8-25; Numbers 16:35; II Kings 1:9-13 (KJB). God may even use His fiery wrath to temporarily punish His people for their unbelief, but God will never use His fiery wrath to forever burn any of His living humans, all of whom He creates in His image and whom He loves very much. Numbers 11:1-3 (KJB). The burning Hell happens to be only a temporary punishment for God's living humans. God created it to be cast into the eternal lake of fire with the eternal punishment of the Devil, his angels, and all the dead and evil natures that the Devil has planted into the inner beings of all humans. Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

God creates human righteousness, but human righteousness is based on God's own Righteousness and Holiness. God creates humans in His image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). If God ever cast any of His living humans into an eternal lake of fire, that would be as if He admitted that something is wrong with His own Holiness. Everything that God creates goes out as an objective copy of His own Holiness even though it is not as holy as He is, and eventually, it all comes back to Him. Romans 11:36 (KJB). 

God forever burns only His enemies who is the Devil and all evil. Psalm 97:3 (KJB). Jesus taught that God burns the "worms" of humans, not their living natures. Mark 9:43-50 (KJB). The word "worm" in the Bible symbolizes sin and evil itself, not God's living humans. Psalm 22:6; Isaiah 66:22-24 (KJB). God's only enemies are sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge His creations of the Devil and all evil so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God's living humans become soiled and stained by sin and evil that they practice because the Devil has injected the curse of spiritual death into them all. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 64:6 (KJB). That curse would have utterly destroyed humanity, but Christ came to earth to take that curse on Himself and suffer its penalty and rise from the dead with complete victory over all the evil works of the Devil. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; I John 2:2; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ knows exactly how to return every living human that He ever creates to faith that He sacrificed Himself to cleanse and purge them of all sins, evil, and spiritual death so that He can recreate them all to be wholly righteous again. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

Christ gained an absolute and complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil through His death, burial, and resurrection. I Corinthians 15:20-28; II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; I John 2:2; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB), Christ will cleanse with His shed blood the sins and evil, and He will annul the spiritual deaths of all living humans who repent and believe in Him as their Savior while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5 (KJB). Christ will also visit all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth 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; John 11:25 (KJB). When they repent and believe, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to purge their living natures of all sins, evil, and spiritual death so that He can recreate their good and living natures to be wholly righteous again, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).     

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 89:46 KJB

This Psalm is about God's covenant with king David that God will establish David's throne forever. God promised to be faithful to that covenant even though some of the future kings of Israel and Judah would be evil men. At about the time of the prophet Zechariah, God transferred the throne of David to His Son Jesus. Zechariah 6:9-15 (KJB). Since the Father has given to His Son all power in the earth and in Heaven, then Jesus happens to be not just the king of the Jews, but also the king of the whole world. Matthew 28:18; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Psalm 89:27 (KJB). God promised that He will raise to life all faithful Jews in a general resurrection, but since Christ happens to be the king of the entire human race, then He has extended that promise to all humans who fail to become saved by His grace. Daniel 12:1-3; I Corinthains 15:20-28; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

God creates every human to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But when God's people allow sin and evil to control their lives, God's fiery wrath can burn towards them, just as it does toward evil. Psalm 89:46 (KJB). God will punish His people for their sins and evil. The answer to the Psalmist's question about God having "made all men in vain?" can only be absolutely not. Psalm 89:47 (KJB). Would God ever cast His living humans whom He creates and loves into an eternal fire because they were soiled by sin? God would never do that. God always only temporarily punishes His created people. Genesis 3:16-19 (KJB). All of God's created people are alive in His sight. Luke 20:38 (KJB). That can only mean that they can never become forever dead. God knows exactly how to bring all of His living humans back to faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others when Christ visits them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). When Christ visits all of His living humans in the end of the world, He will preach to them and bring them all back to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Then, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge them all of their dead and evil natures which He will cast into an eternal fire, and He will save their repentant, good and creative natures for Him to recreate to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Psalm 83:13-15 KJB

God has chosen the Jews to be His special people in the world. Over the centuries, most Jews have become faithless and even some have become atheists. But God has always had a remnant of Jews who have been loyal and faithful to God despite being the most hated and persecuted people in the history of the world. God creates humans to be good and creative and to retain some faith in Him. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). That inner goodness in all humans can never be destroyed. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). All faithful Jews symbolize that good and creative nature that evil can never destroy. Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).  

As the Bible relates, in the course of history, the Jews have often been surrounded by enemies that seek to genocide them. These enemies of the Jews are also the enemies of God. These enemies of the Jews and God have become influenced by the Devil to attempt to crush all goodness and faith from the world. Satan seeks to utterly destroy all of the good creations of God and take full control of the world. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9-10; Psalm 83:1-12 (KJB). Satan's attitude toward Job reflects his attitude toward the entire human race. 

But God will eventually burn the Devil and all evil like stubble in the wind. God's fire may burn the forest on the mountain but not the mountain itself. God will burn all evil with a tempest and a fiery storm. Genesis 83:13-15 (KJB). In His Word, God often refers to sin and evil as being like chaff, stubble, thorns, and tares that will be burned, but He will preserve the wheat which symbolizes the goodness that He creates humans to be. Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 10:16-17; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). Jesus was crowned with thorns to symbolize that sin and evil had to be pressed into His perfect body by force. Mark 15:17 (KJB). 

The Psalmist then reveals God's purpose for burning the sin and evil that resides in the inner natures of all humans. God will make them ashamed of themselves so that they will repent and seek to be reconciled with God. God will cause their shameful natures to utterly perish. But all humans will eventually repent and return to faith in God as being their Savior and the true ruler of the earth. Psalm 83:16-18 (KJB). 

The Psalmist prophesied that one day in the future Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" who were never saved by His grace, 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 from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their 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; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           Psalm 80:16 KJB

In this Psalm, written by a poet named Asaph, he displays great faith that God will never abandon His people. God may severely punish His people when they habitually sin, but He will always turn them back to faith in Him. Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Psalm 80:19 (KJB). 

Asaph wrote about how God had liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, but God's special people were a branch of that people that Asaph called the "vine." Other prophets called the vine the "remnant." Isaiah 16:14 (KJB). Asaph wrote that when the enemy, probably the Babylonians, burned Jerusalem, they burned even God's "vineyard." God caused His own special people to suffer at the hands of His enemies because they failed to stand strong and speak out against the evils that had come to dominate their country. Psalm 80:8-16 (KJB). 

But the "son of man," who is Christ, will always guard and protect God's special people, and He will quicken them. Psalm 80:17-18 (KJB). Christ will always cause God's special people, who are those saved by His grace, to repent and renew their faith in Him whenever they sin. Psalm 80:19 (KJB).

But what about the rest of humanity? Can God also cause them to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can save them as well? The Bible teaches that He can and He will. God creates every living human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God loves His entire creation. I John 4:8 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Jesus taught that God puts His image into every human, and that fact makes every living human a child of God. John 10:33-35; Luke 17:20-21; Psalm 82:6 (KJB). For these reasons, Christ means to save the rest of humanity. In the end of the world, Christ will visit the rest of humanity, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as 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 repentant natures from their dead and evil 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. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB).  

The Known and the Unknown

What can be known about the unknown? All that can be known about the unknown is that it will contain something and nothing or one or the other just as does present experience. A section of the unknown may be filled with something with no nothing, or it may be filled with nothing with no something. But all this happens to be all that can be known about the unknown. 

Tombs have been opened which contained nothing, and tombs have been opened which contained a body, but no one could know exactly what a tomb would contain until they opened it. A tomb might contain something completely unexpected. This means that observation by an intelligent consciousness happens to be absolutely necessary to determine what a section of the unknown contains or does not contain, and the relationship of its something to its nothing. Schrodinger could know that the cat in the box was dead or alive, but he could not be certain until he opened the box and looked at the cat. 

If our universe were without consciousness before it supposedly evolved life, then it would have been in a state of being completely unknown. No determination whatsoever could be made about the difference between something and nothing. Any point in that universe could be a something or a nothing. The unknown makes something equal to nothing. Could a wave function before consciousness collapses it into a particle simply be a frequency between something and nothing? 

Our universe has to have an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness to experience the difference between something and nothing, and He should possess His Ideas to shape and characterize all of the somethings and subject them to His laws. Genesis 1:1 (KJB). Only intelligent consciousness can create and experience reality by its use of logic, observation, and experimentation. God created man in His own image. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB).  

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Psalm 79:5 KJB

The Psalmist Asaph must have been alive and witnessed the Babylonians burn Jerusalem. Asaph asked God if His jealousy would burn like fire forever. 

Every individual human has an inner good nature created by God, and an inner evil nature injected into them by the Devil because they sin. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). That which is true of the part is true of the whole. The nation of Judah had allowed evil to dominate their culture just as an individual human can allow evil to dominate his life. God had chosen the people of Judah to be His special people in the world who would bring the truth of His Holy Word to the world. For this reason, God expected His people to allow their good and creative natures to dominate their culture so that they would display the goodness and mercy of God to the world. At times, God gave them good kings and leaders to make sure that faithfulness to God and worship of Him would dominate their culture. But over time, evil kings had allowed idol worship to dominate Judah, and so God punished Judah by allowing the Babylonians to conquer Judah. God also punished His faithful people for allowing evil to dominate their culture. 

God's jealousy means God's use of His power to protect His people even if they have become somewhat faithless. God's consuming fire means the Almighty Power of God. God can use His fiery power to protect His people from the destruction of evil. Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB). Even when God is angry with His people, and He punishes them, He will still protect them. That is God's jealousy. Exodus 20:5 (KJB). The books of Daniel and Esther relate how God protects His people. 

But that which is true of the whole is also true of each individual. God creates every individual human to have a good and creative nature. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). This fact can only mean that every living human must be a child of God. John 10:33-36; Luke 17:20-21; Psalm 82:6 (KJB). The evil spiritual death that the Devil injects into the inner beings of all humans will become eternal death. Romans 6:23 (KJB). But God came to earth in human form to take that eternal death on Himself on a cruel cross, with all the sins and evil that causes it, in order to provide His jealous protection for every living human whom He ever creates and loves. Christ rose from the dead to conquer eternal death and turn it into only a temporary death. The Devil and all evil are God's enemies, never His living humans whom He creates and loves. Christ abolished eternal death itself, not any of His living humans. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Christ knows exactly how to cause every living human to return to faith in Him as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB).