Numbers 21:28 KJB
God chose the Israelites to be His special people above all of the peoples of the earth because He could dwell with them, and He could give them His Laws. Abraham had a talent for being able to hear God when He spoke to him, and he had a willingness to obey. Genesis 12:1-3 (KJB). God knew that most of Abraham's descendants would also possess that talent which meant His prophets would be able to write the Word of God. God taught Moses that He had created humans in His image, and He had put His goodness into them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Most of the Hebrews inherited this talent of being able to hear God when He speaks which caused them to be a people who tended to choose to live righteous lives in accordance with the goodness that God had put into them. But the Hebrews would also sometimes disobey God even when they heard Him.
But most of the other peoples of the world chose to refuse to hear God's Word. They rejected God's authority and chose to go their own prideful and evil ways. They rebelled against God, and they allowed their evil natures, which the Devil had injected into them all, to dominate their lives. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). They chose to believe in gods who were just as evil as they were. When God saw that some of them were no longer able to hear His Word, He gave up on them, and He either directly used His fiery wrath to utterly destroy them, or He commanded the Israelite army to destroy them by burning their cities. God uses the Israelite army to do the same today. Romans 1:18-32 (KJB).
But God has not forgotten the good and creative natures that He has put into every human that He creates in His image. Because of their good and creative natures, many humans have invented good systems that have been of great benefit to the human race. But many other humans have invented cruel and destructive systems because of their evil natures. But humans never create new ideas. Humans always use the good and real ideas that God has given them to invent creative systems, but they also misuse those same good and real ideas when they invent evil systems. God knows that if He allows evil to persist in His creations, then it will eventually utterly destroy the good and living natures of some humans which means God will lose a part of His creation to the Devil and that condition will allow the Devil to eventually be able to murder God Himself. John 8:42-47 (KJB). God knows that evil will persist in the beings of humans forever unless He finds a way to purge it from their beings and use His fiery wrath against evil to purge it from His recreation forever. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
God knows that evil never repents, but He also knows that the goodness that He has put into the inner beings of every human He creates is capable of repentance and reconciliation with Him. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). The evil inside of every human is also spiritual death which will eventually utterly destroy the good natures of some humans and cause them to be lost from God's Love and protection forever. But God's Love can never fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).
God sent His Son to the world to take the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself on a cruel cross and suffer it all in the place of all humans so that He could purge it all with His shed blood and water from every human who repents and believes while still alive in the flesh, and He could also rise from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil because He turned eternal, spiritual death into only a temporary death. Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). All sins and evil are only temporary to God and so is spiritual death. For this reason, God has not forgotten the good and living natures of the rest of humanity who did not become saved by His grace. Because He has abolished death, and because He has gained a complete victory over the Devil, and because He has promised "to make all things new," Christ dismissed His Spirit when He died on the cross to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace. Luke 23:46; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:5; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Christ will visit them in the end of the world, and He will 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 new earth. Only goodness can repent. Evil can never repent. When they all see His great majesty and His tremendous Love for them, they will all repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
When God had the Israelite army burn the cities of some of the evil people of their day, that happened to be a prophecy of that which God will do to His entire creation to purge it of all evil and the Devil in the end of the world. Numbers 21:28; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
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