The Fiery Wrath of God

                                         Numbers 9:15-16 KJB

A cloud covered the Tabernacle of the Israelites during the daytime. The cloud symbolized the presence of God. Whenever the cloud moved from off the Tabernacle, the Israelites had to follow the cloud wherever it went, and they had to rest in their tents wherever the cloud stopped moving, and they had to erect the Tabernacle wherever the cloud stopped. The cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the Israelites had to remain at that place even for months. All of this symbolized the fact that all followers of God must move when He says move, and they must rest when He says rest. 

The daytime symbolizes God engaged in creative work with His people following Him. In the six days of creation, God created during the daytime, and the evening, and the morning completed each day.  Genesis 1:3-5 (KJB). Jesus taught that God does His creative work in the daytime, but humans do not work at night. John 9:3-5 (KJB). Nighttime and darkness symbolize humans at play committing sinful and evil acts. Proverbs 2:12-14; Matthew 27:45 (KJB). 

But at night in the Tabernacle, the appearance of fire burned until the morning. This appearance of fire symbolized that God uses His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. While it is true that God, in the Old Testament, sometimes used His fiery wrath against evil to kill evil humans, that does not mean that they will be permanently dead. God creates all humans in His image to be good and creative, and God can never lose to darkness anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:26-27; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Just as God led all of the Israelites during the daytime, God's Love cannot fail, and He knows exactly how to save and restore to His Light all of His good and living humans confined to the regions of death or on the earth in the end of the world. I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 21:22-27; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). According to Revelation 21:22-27, all living humans on the earth will walk in the light of the city of God, but only living humans saved by grace will be allowed to live in the New Jerusalem. God promised in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new." That promise can only mean that God will save and recreate everything that He ever created, including all of His living humans, by purging it all of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).