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.                                           

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Isaiah 9:5 KJB

Isaiah 5:1-7 happens to be a prophecy about the coming of the Messiah. But in the middle of this prophecy, Isaiah inserts a verse about how wars are fought. This verse also had to be a part of his prophecy, but what did it have to do with the Messiah? Verse four may supply a part of the answer. The "yoke of his burden" that Jesus bore were all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of the entire human race. I John 2:2 (KJB). But the Father broke that "yoke" when Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus gained a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil when He rose from the dead. The Father also broke "the staff of his shoulder" which means the cross that Jesus bore. The cross was meant to put Jesus to death permanently. But Jesus broke that permanent death when He rose from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). Jesus also broke "the rod of his oppressor" which means He gained complete victory over the Devil because Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil when He hung on the cross. Jesus Himself revealed His purpose for going to the cross. Jesus hung on the cross to judge the Devil and all of his evil works, and as a result of that, He would draw all of His living humans to Himself because they all are alive in His sight. John 12:31-32; Luke 20:38; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Jesus did not contradict Himself when He said He came "not to judge the world, but to save the world." Jesus meant that He came to save the entire human race by His judgment of the Devil and all evil. Jesus clearly taught that He would not judge unbelievers until the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). The phrase "as in the day of Midian" could refer to the fact that the Israelites killed their oppressor, named Balaam, in a battle with the Midianites. Numbers 31:8 (KJB). 

All of this means verse five could be about God's war with the Devil and all evil. The direct battle with Satan started with Jesus' shed blood on the cross which saves all believers by His grace, but the battle will end "with burning and fuel of fire." In the end of the world, Christ will visit all unbelievers "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. This will be His judgment of unbelievers. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He can forever save and recreate their living natures which He created in His image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:47-48; Luke 20:38; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Isaiah 5:24 KJB

This verse, like many other verses in the Bible, describes evil as being like stubble or chaff or tares. Useless stuff that should be burned. God plants the good "seed" of the woman in every living human whom He creates in His image. The Devil plants the "seed" of spiritual death into every human because free will causes every human to sin except for infants who die before they can sin. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to separate the "tares" from the "wheat" both of which are inside of every human so that He can burn the "tares" and save the "wheat." Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). God will save His entire creation. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). God will save every plant that He has ever planted, and He will root up and destroy every plant that the Devil has ever planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). Christ baptizes "with the Holy Ghost" those whom He saves by His grace. But when Christ will "thoroughly purge His floor," meaning in the end of the world, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to save His "wheat" inside of every human, and He will burn the "chaff" which is their spiritual death and evil. Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 3:6 (KJB). "Every man" not already saved by grace will be tried by God's fire and will be saved by that fire. Christians are never saved by fire but by the Spirit of God. I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). Every man's evil works will be burned, and their good works and their good lives created by God will be saved by a fiery trial. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; I Corinthians 4:5; II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 3:6 (KJB).

The phrase "the root shall be as rottenness" refers to the spiritual death that the Devil has planted into every human who sins. The phrase "their blossom shall go up as dust" refers to their recreated life that God will give them. God created Adam "from the dust of the ground." Genesis 2:7 (KJB). Isaiah 5:24 happens to be about how God will use His fiery wrath against evil to save and recreate all of His living humans, and He will forever burn their evil natures. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Isaiah 4:5 KJB

This verse happens to be about how Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to guard His people in Jerusalem from the influence of sin and evil during His thousand-year reign on earth. God used His fiery wrath to protect His people from the Egyptian army and to guard them as they wandered in the desert for forty years. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge the people of Jerusalem of all their sins and evil. Isaiah 4:3-4 (KJB). 

God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve and the Israelites to symbolize that He can purge sins and evil by the use of His own shed blood on the cross. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But God also gave the burnt offering to Noah and the Israelites to symbolize that He can also use His fiery wrath to purge sins and evil. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). Jesus accomplished the sin offering when He shed His blood and water on the cross to wash away the sins and evil of all His living humans who would become saved by His grace. The Holy Spirit accomplished the burnt offering when He descended into a burning Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

During His millennial reign, Christ will rule the world from Jerusalem. The world will know that Jesus reigns, and that knowledge will keep most of them from sins and evil. Christ will use His fiery wrath to purge the people of Jerusalem to purify His capitol and to just give a special blessing to the people of Jerusalem. Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit for the thousand-year reign of Christ, but sin and evil will still have an influence in the world because many demons will still be loose in the world. Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB). Toward the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ, the influence of evil will finally cause an evil army to form in rebellion to Christ's rule. Christ will allow Satan to be loosed from his prison to lead this evil army against Jerusalem. Christ will allow Satan to lead this evil army so that Christ will be able to utterly destroy all sins and evil with one mighty fiery blast. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB). But Christ will go even further than this. Christ will then use His fiery wrath to thoroughly purge all vestiges of sins and evil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous, including all of His living humans whom He created in His image because He will have visited them "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will have caused them to repent and return to faith in Him so that He will be able to recreate them all to be righteous. God's purge of all sins, evil, and the Devil from His entire creation requires terrible suffering on His part, and it requires very complicated and special moves by God as in a chess game. For this reason, God often in the Old Testament had whole evil nations extinguished because the cancer of them had to be removed. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Philippians 2:9-11; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).