The Fiery Wrath of God

                          II Chronicles 35:13 KJB

King Josiah came to the throne of Judah after many years that a dark evil had pervaded the land. The Temple of God had fallen into disrepair, and God's Word, written by Moses, had been hidden in some dark corner of the Temple. King Josiah ordered that the people should return to the worship of God, and he appropriated money to pay workmen to cleanse and repair the Temple of God. While this was happening, a priest named Hilkiah found the Book of the Law where it had been hidden. Hilkiah gave the book to a scribe named Shaphan who read it to the king. King Josiah became distressed because the people of God had not obeyed God's Word for a long time. King Josiah gathered the people, and he read the Law to them, and he commanded that all people who were under his control should serve God and obey His Law. II Chronicles 34:1-33 (KJB). 

This pattern happened many times in God's Word, especially when Jesus came into the world. Every time, just when it seemed that the darkness of evil had almost put out the light of God's Word forever, God would recover His Word, have His people to hear it and experience it, and He would cause His faith to return to His people. In this way, God proves again and again that His Word and His Love can never be destroyed. Psalm 111:7-8; Matthew 24:35; Romans 5:20 (KJB). All of the persecutions of the Jews and Christians by the pagans, atheists, and materialists over the centuries can never put out the light of God's Word. Matthew 16:17-18 (KJB). 

King Josiah had the Passover restored which had been neglected for many years. When the animals were sacrificed, the sin offering was mentioned, but the burnt offering was more emphasized. II Chronicles 35:11-13 (KJB). God commanded Moses to have every family of the Israelites to offer a lamb without blemish for a sin offering which was the shedding of its blood. Then they were to roast the lamb and eat it during the night, and then they were to completely burn up the rest of it in the morning. Exodus 12:1-11 (KJB). The fact that God would forgive the sins of a person who made a burnt offering just as He would for a sin offering can only mean that the burnt offering was just as important to God as was the sin offering. Leviticus 5:6-10 (KJB). God emphasized the burnt offering more during Josiah's Passover because the people needed it more than the sin offering at that time. II Chronicles 35:10-19 (KJB). 

This is the symbolism of the sin and burnt offerings. Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cross just before the night of sin and evil fell onto the world to put out the light of God's Love forever. Sin and evil still plague the human race to this day. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save all humans who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh, just as He did when He shed the blood of an animal to symbolize the eternal salvation of Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). Jesus turned the light back on after darkness had engulfed His cross and the world to symbolize that He had accomplished salvation by His grace. It was still light when Jesus was buried, but He endured the darkness of the grave for three days until He turned the light back on when He rose from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil in order to save the entire human race from eternal death. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. Luke 23:46; I John 2:2 (KJB). This happens to be the burnt offering that God Himself made. And God forgives sins because of the burnt offering. Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). In the end of the world, while the rest of humanity remains engulfed in the night of sin and evil, Jesus will visit all of His living humans that He still loves confined within the regions of death and on the earth, and He will cause them all to partake of His Spirit by faith, like eating roasted flesh in the night, and He will return them all to faith in Him as their Savior, 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 saved lives from their dead natures so that He can recreate their saved lives with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6 (KJB). After God has used His sin offering and His burnt offering to save the entire human race from all sins and evil and eternal death, He will thoroughly burn up and purge all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous, like completely burning the rest of the lamb in the morning. Exodus 12:10; Genesis 8:20-21; II Peter 3:9-13; I John 3:8; Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           II Chronicles 33:6 KJB

King Manasseh of Judah sunk himself into the lowest depths of evil. His father, king Hezekiah, had been a Godly man. So, what happened to king Manasseh? The Devil has not changed any of his lies since he tempted Eve. The Devil's message to Eve and to all humans to this day is that you don't really need God. Humans can have power and wealth and pleasures that are independent of God's care. Humans can be little gods on their own. Genesis 3:1-6 (KJB). Humans simply have a choice. They can try to be little gods independent of God's Love, or they can serve God and become whatever God creates them to be. 

Evidently, king Manasseh looked around him, and he saw that many of the pagan nations that worshipped false gods had become very prosperous and powerful. So, king Manasseh decided to become even more evil than they were. He made his children to pass through the fires of the idols, and he used witchcraft and all the demonic, occult practices. He even put idols in the house of God. King Manasseh saw that the Devil had his own kingdom in the world, and king Manasseh wanted his own little kingdom of evil. II Chronicles 33:1-10 (KJB). To this day, demonic, occult practices often work to give its practitioner power over others and wealth and sinful pleasures because the Devil desires to reward his own. But evil practices can also lead to very bloody acts of murder and mayhem because the Devil hates humans. 

Two curious phrases occur in this account about king Manasseh. Two verses state that king Manasseh worshipped and made altars for "all the host of heaven." II Chronicles 33:3; II Chronicles 33:5 (KJB). These phrases seem to indicate that king Manasseh worshipped actual beings who formerly were in Heaven. All of the idols of the pagans could have represented fallen angels whom God allowed to roam the universe and force lesser beings to worship them. These fallen angels were not those who rebelled with Lucifer because God cast all of them into Hell except for a few whom He chained in the river Euphrates. Revelation 9:1-15 (KJB). God probably cast these fallen angels out of Heaven because they remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer. 

God creates every human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Most humans choose to try to live good lives because they desire to adhere to their good natures and obey God even if they do not know Him or any of His commandments. Nevertheless, because of a weakness in their free will, all humans will inevitably sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). When that happens, the Devil injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans who sin with the hope that sin and evil will so thoroughly sully and mar the righteous natures of humans that they will become totally evil and demonic to the extent that God will have to reject them, and they will be forever dead and lost from God's Love forever. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Job 2:5 (KJB). God creates life. He never causes permanent death. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The "seed" of the Devil can only be a planted spiritual death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But the Devil did not count on God's Love being so great that He would suffer the spiritual deaths of all humans, and the sins and evil that causes it, and bear it all Himself on a cruel cross, and He would rise from the dead to give His own spiritual life to all humans whom He would save by His grace, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up the evil natures of the rest of humanity so that He can recover and recreate their repentant, good natures to live forever on His recreated earth. John 3:3; John 5:24; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

God spoke to king Manasseh and to all who followed him to try to get them to return to faith in Him, but they all refused. II Chronicles 33:10 (KJB). So, God decided to punish king Manasseh by having the evil ruler of Assyria to capture him and put him in prison in Babylon. When king Manasseh experienced the horrors of being separated from feeling God's care, he repented and returned to faith in God. God then forgave him and rescued him from prison and returned him to His kingship in Jerusalem. II Chronicles 33:11-13 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will do the same for all humans who did not become saved by His grace. Christ will visit all of His living humans whom He had to consign to the regions of death and those who remain on the earth because they failed to become saved by grace, and when they see His tremendous majesty and love for them, and they have experienced the horrors of being separated from feeling His love and care, they will all repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Christ will then use His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can 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. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                          II Chronicles 28:3 KJB

Everyone is a sinner. Romans 3:23 (KJB). God has given the Holy Spirit to believers saved by grace, and His presence in their inner beings causes them to hate sin because they recognize that it is slow poison, and He causes them to love purity and godliness which are always creative. Galatians 5:22-26 (KJB). Yet even believers saved by grace will sometimes sin because their flesh is weak and temptations can be strong. Romans 7:18-19 (KJB). But if a believer ever commits a gross sin, such as adultery or thievery, they will become overwhelmed by grief and shame. But if they repent, God will forgive them. I John 1:9 (KJB). Nevertheless, God will often punish believers for their gross sins to remind them that the practice of sin results in pain and destruction, but His Love for them is corrective. Hebrews 12:5-13 (KJB). The Holy Spirit will often just rebuke a minor sin such as telling a white lie. But if a believer defies God and persists in the practice of a minor or major sin, and fails to repent, God may severely punish that believer to remind them that they need to humble themselves to Him. God hates pride above all sins and evil. Pride is a defiance of God's authority. Proverbs 6:16-17 (KJB). God knows that all humans need Him to be saved from eternal death, and therefore, all humans should recognize that God should be in control. 

The ordinary sinner who is not saved by grace may be an atheist, but usually they just try to ignore God because they desire a life of excitement and pleasure. (The atheist may hate the idea of God, but they never ignore Him.) The ordinary sinner does not care if the slow poison of sin causes them to have an early death. God does not punish these unbelievers in this life because He knows that their sins will punish them enough. God desires that they should hear the gospel that Jesus can save them from their sins and evil which will cause their eternal deaths. Romans 6:23 (KJB). When they hear or read the gospel, the Holy Spirit convinces them that they need to repent of their sins and evil and become washed clean in the blood of Christ so that God can give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can lead Godly lives, and God can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:21 (KJB). But sadly, most of them will reject the gospel when they hear it either because they wrongly believe that they are too bad to be saved, or their pride makes them unwilling to humble themselves to God and give up their sinful lifestyles. These unbelievers do not realize that when they suffer physical death, Christ will consign their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death so that they will learn the terrible horrors to which the Devil has brought them. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). 

All evil is sinful, but all sins are not necessarily fully evil. Humans sin because their free will causes a weakness in their flesh and souls and spirits. Genesis 3:6-7 (KJB). God understands that. But when a person willfully decides to practice evil, that person deliberately allies himself with the Devil in his desire to murder God and get rid of Him. A person who practices evil must deliberately and willfully rebel against God, give their lives over to their evil nature, and become cruel and heartless. Some of them will believe the lies of the Devil that cruelty can be necessary to bring about a better world, but deep in their hearts they will know that that is just a lie. The Devil will even convince them that they can have better lives if they murder their unborn children. 

In the Old Testament, the Devil would often cause people to become so evil that they would throw their babies alive into fires that were before idols because of the lie that that would give them a better life. The Devil knows that God uses His fiery wrath to destroy evil. So, the Devil uses his own fiery wrath to destroy the innocent as a mockery of God. II Chronicles 28:3 (KJB). 

God creates all humans in His image to be good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The good and living natures of all humans can never be destroyed because God will never allow anything He has ever created to be destroyed. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Every sin contains an element of evil because disobedience of God demonstrates a desire to become separate from God's protective control. Genesis 3:5-6 (KJB). For this reason, all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans nailed Jesus to the cross. I John 2:2 (KJB). God sacrificed Himself to save all of humanity from eternal death because He is determined to save all that He loves from the Devil's destruction. Christ gained a complete and absolute victory over the Devil and all sins and evil. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). He has saved by His grace, and He has abolished death itself to save the rest of humanity. II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). Every human is alive in His sight, and since He abolished only death, then He must save the lives of every human whom He loves. Luke 20:38 (KJB). God will resurrect to life all of His living humans confined to the regions of death because He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them that He is their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5 (KJB). Christ will absolutely crush the head of the Devil to save all of His living humans from eternal death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB).   

Reality and Illusion

All outward objects; that is, sense objects, and all inward objects; that is, abstract ideas, can only be real because they are all useful to intelligent consciousness in some creative way. Whatever is useful has to be real. Literally everything that humans can experience happens to be useful to humans in some creative way, and therefore, has to be real. 

Even ideas and words that mean nothing nevertheless are real because intelligent consciousness knows to discard them so that they do not clutter the field of human knowledge. The real idea of nothing causes humans to be able to logically deduct that useless ideas and words mean nothing. The idea of nothing is a useful and creative idea. The idea of nothing makes all that is useless useful because it causes humans to know to discard the useless. Useless ideas and words become useful and creative when they are discarded. 

All of this means that everything of which intelligent consciousness can be conscious must be real. Intelligent consciousness happens to be that very engine of the universe that creates reality. Intelligent consciousness can form combinations of sense object and/or thought objects that prove to be useful and creative systems that benefit humanity and increase the field of knowledge. Intelligent consciousness can also form false systems, but because of miscalculation, misapprehension, or hallucination, they always prove to mean nothing. But all systems, whether true or false, always comprise real ideas and /or sense objects. True systems are always real because they benefit humanity. False systems are also always real because, by the use of the idea of nothing that informs that they are useless, they can be usefully and creatively discarded. 

This means false systems cannot be illusions. False systems always comprise true and real ideas and/or sense objects derived from conscious experience but simply put together in a false way. This means that reality happens to be constructed in a way that is very similar to mathematics. 2+3=5 is a useful system. 2+3=6 is a useless system even though every number and sign happens to be real. The false system has been discarded by humans because the idea of nothing informs that it is useless. 

When humans discover that a particular system that they thought would be useful turns out to be useless, they usefully discard the false system, but they never discard the real ideas and/or sense objects that comprise that false system. Whenever humans discover that a particular system is useless, they use the useful and real idea of nothing to conclude that it means nothing, and therefore, must be usefully discarded from the field of human knowledge. 

The skeptics contend that everything could be an illusion because intelligent consciousness cannot, for certain, tell the difference between reality and illusion. But illusion always happens to be found in false combinations of true and useful ideas and/or sense objects. That means illusion never really appears to consciousness. If a square tower appears to be "round" from a distance, that is only a misapprehension, not an illusion because "round" is real in a false system just as it is in a useful system. The real idea of "round" is still useful in other creative systems. Abstract thoughts and feelings are just as real as are sense objects for the same reason that a picture is just as real as is the camera and film that took it. Abstract thoughts and feelings are also useful for the creation of systems solely in the mind. 

Some contend that because the mind cannot be known to be real, then everything is an illusion. But if everything were an illusion, the illusion would work the same as if everything were real. Therefore, one can only be correct if one judges everything as being real. In addition, if everything were an illusion, then that illusion can only be caused by an intelligent consciousness. That means intelligent consciousness can only be real because it alone produces reality, and therefore, it has to be something that is separate from reality, and yet, since it is also included in reality and makes everything it experiences real, then it makes itself real because of self-consciousness. 

Since reality cannot exist without intelligent consciousness, then all universes without intelligent consciousness cannot be real. Therefore, God has always existed to make our universe real.

The Fiery Wrath of God

                         II Chronicles 7:1-3 KJB

King Solomon built a great Temple for the glory of God in Jerusalem, and he made a pious dedication service for it. As the leader of worship in this service, Solomon prayed for his people that when they sinned and turned from faith in God, that if they would turn their faces toward the Temple and repent, then Solomon knew that God would forgive them. II Chronicles 6:1-42 (KJB). 

When Solomon had ended his prayer, the fire of God fell from Heaven and consumed the burnt offering that was apparently on the altar. When the people saw that, they fell on their faces and worshipped God. II Chronicles 7:1-3 (KJB). In the Old Testament, whenever burnt sacrifices were offered, God sometimes burnt them Himself. Judges 6:21; I Kings 8:18-38; I Chronicles 21:26; Leviticus 19:24 (KJB). When He did this, God's purpose seemed to be that He desired to cause His people to repent and return to faith in Him as the only God. Judges 6:24-26; I Kings 18:39; I Chronicles 21:27; Leviticus 9:24 (KJB). Whenever God's fire burnt the burnt offering, that symbolized that God will only burn His enemies, and He will always cause His people to repent and worship Him so that He can save them all alive. God sometimes used His fiery wrath to burn His enemies, but they were not His people. They were rebels who symbolized total evil. Leviticus 10:1-2; Numbers 16:31-35; II Kings 1:8-12 (KJB). 

God, the Father, had the preeminence in the Old Testament just as Jesus Christ had the preeminence when He was on the earth, and the Holy Spirit has the preeminence in this Age of Grace. The Father did not seem to have a desire to have a close, spiritual relationship with every one of His believers as does the Holy Spirit in the Church Age. The Father did seem to have somewhat of a spiritual relationship with some of His priests, His true prophets, and some of the best kings of Israel and Judah. As a result, the Father tended to cause His people to repent and return to faith in Him by His use of outward miracles that everyone could see. Jesus preferred to use both outward and inward miracles. He healed and He saved by His grace. The Holy Spirit prefers to use mostly inward miracles such as saving people by His grace. The Trinity has always been united, but in the end of the world, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit will equally share the preeminence in God's desire to use His fiery wrath to purge the world of all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, and Christ's desire to cause all of His living humans to repent and return to faith in Him, and the Holy Spirit's desire that all of God's people enjoy a spiritual relationship with God. God's people are every human whom He ever created in His image and whom He loves. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34-36 (KJB). The Father will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly purge the Heaven and the earth of all vestiges of sin and evil so that He can save all of His people from eternal death. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of all of His living humans not already saved by His grace so that He can recreate their living natures and consign their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. The Holy Spirit, who will have already filled God's people saved by grace with His Spirit, will give His Spirit to all the rest of repentant humanity so that they can enjoy righteous lives on God's recreated earth. God will burn all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, not any of His living humans because He will cause them all to repent. II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 20:38; Hebrews 2:9-18; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I Timothy 4:10; Joel 2:28-29; I John 3:8 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                         I Chronicles 21:26-27 KJB

Because king David had disobeyed God, God sent an angel who used his sword to destroy a part of Jerusalem. But God stopped the angel when he got to the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. I Chronicles 21:15-16 (KJB). King David then prayed that God would punish him alone for his sin and that he would leave his people alone. King David was willing to sacrifice himself for his people. I Chronicles 21:16-17 (KJB). This was probably the reason why God loved David so much because he, like God's own Son, was willing to sacrifice himself. The angel then commanded the prophet Gad to tell king David to build an altar to God on this threshingfloor. I Chronicles 21:18-19 (KJB). King David then bought this threshingfloor from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. I Chronicles 21:20-25 (KJB). 

King David then built an altar there and made peace offerings and burnt offerings on it. The peace offerings were another name for the sin offerings, but even the peace offerings were followed by a burnt offering. Leviticus 3:1-17 (KJB). King David did not even have to lite the burnt offering because God sent fire from Heaven to consume the burnt offering. I Chronicles 21:26 (KJB). 

God then commanded the angel to put his sword back into its sheath because God had evidently become satisfied that the proper sacrifices had been made, and therefore, His anger had become assuaged. God had done this before. God had an angel to make a burnt offering sacrifice for Gideon, and God had made a burnt offering sacrifice for Elijah. Judges 6:21; I Kings 18:38 (KJB). Clearly, the sin offerings and the burnt offerings were different, but both had the same result. With the sin offering, the wrath of God symbolically fell on the sacrificed animal, and after its blood was shed, God became satisfied that the proper sacrifice had been made, and God forgave the sins. Christ sacrificed Himself on a cross and shed His blood and water to forgive humans and save them by His grace. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). With the burnt offering, the internal organs, the meat, and the bones of the sacrificed animal were completely burned which symbolically means that God's wrath falls on evil itself, and when the clean ashes are preserved for God's recreation, then God is satisfied and the sins are forgiven. Leviticus 5:7-10; Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He sent His Spirit to Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could rise from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I Peter 3:18 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil, which the burnt offerings symbolize, to dissolve the beings of all humans not already saved by grace, so that He can separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that, like the clean ashes, He can recreate their good and living natures that He created to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire which is the eternal, consuming fire of God that utterly destroys all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Hebrews 12:29; II Peter 3:9-13; Deuteronomy 32:22; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

God does not win partial victories. Christ will utterly crush the head of the Devil, and He will save all that He has created from all evil, and He will recreate it all to be righteous, including all living humans that He creates. God gave the burnt offering to Noah as a prophecy that he will use His fiery wrath to purge His world and destroy all evil, but He will never again "smite," that is, permanently kill any of His living humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 8:20-21; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 75:3; Luke 3:6; Romans 11:36; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8; II Peter 3:9-13; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           I Chronicles 14:12 KJB

King David loved God with all his heart, and God honored him for it. But king David had many wives which could only have been an adulterous situation since God only allows one man to have one wife. Genesis 2:23-25 (KJB). But when king David had a man murdered so that he could have his wife, that happened to be a cruel and evil act that angered God, and so God severely punished king David for this sin and evil. But God also knew that when He sent His prophet Nathan to make king David aware of how evil He had been, that King David's love for Him would cause him to repent. II Samuel 12:1-23 (KJB). Loving parents often overlook most of the mischievous ways of their children because they get that attitude from God, but when a child does something that is especially wrong, a parent will usually punish that child to correct its bad behavior. God deals with His own children in much of the same way. God expects His children to repent of their sins and evil every day, and He will forgive, but when one of His children falls back into a life of sins and evil, God will punish that person, and sometimes severely, for their correction. I John 1:8-9; Hebrews 12:3-14 (KJB). But just as God knew that king David would repent, God knows that sooner or later He will cause all of His children saved by His grace to repent and return to a deeper love for Him so that He can make them as perfect as is His Son so that He can accept them into Heaven to live with Him there forever. John 17:23-26; Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJB). 

God has found that His direction of His people saved by His grace toward absolute perfection happens to be much easier that His correction of those humans who ignore Him or even hate Him. Just as king David had to often fight against the pagan Philistines, so God expects His people to fight against evil. All unbelievers have their own gods. Just as God had king David to burn the idols of the Philistines, so God has His people to preach the gospel of Christ to unbelievers to burn their gods in their hearts so that they will repent and believe that Christ has suffered and died for them on a cross, and rose from the dead, to save them forever from eternal death that sin and evil causes. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24; John 16:7-9 (KJB). 

Even so, most people who hear the gospel do not repent. But God creates all humans in His image, and He loves them all. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God's Almighty Love can never fail, which also means that God can never give up on His desire to save the entire human race from eternal death. I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). God is not a quitter. Christ prophesied that He will not judge unbelievers until the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). 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 the faith He put into them when He created them that He is the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 12:3 (KJB). The moment they believe, Christ will use His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their belief from their unbelief. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Christ will recreate their believing souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their unbelieving, dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Christ will give all humans saved by His grace His own absolute perfection, but Christ will only recreate all other humans with the earthly perfection that He gave to Adam and Eve. Nevertheless, God will save His entire, living human race from sins, evil, eternal death, and the Devil. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9; I John 3:8; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

Good and loving parents could never cast one of their bad and recalcitrant children into a fire. So, a Perfect and Almighty Love could never cast one of His living humans into an eternal lake of fire. But God knows exactly how to return every one of His living humans to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God loves all of His living children the same, and all are His children. Psalm 82:6; Psalm 100:5; John 10:33-36; Luke 17:20-21; Luke 20:38; Luke 3:6 (KJB).  

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                II Kings 25:9 KJB

After Judah's final defeat by the Babylonians, a servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt God's house and all of the houses in Jerusalem. This was the Devil's fiery wrath against God. To this day, those who hate God think that they can destroy God's work on the earth by burning houses of worship. Actually, God wanted His house to be burned because evil kings of Judah had allowed it to become polluted with idols and with false priests. II Kings 25:9 (KJB). After Jesus threw the moneychangers out of His Temple, one can be sure that they came back after Jesus had ascended. The scribes and priests became very angry with Jesus because no doubt they had some stake in the moneychangers' profits. Mark 11:15-18 (KJB). The Temple of God had become polluted, and so God allowed the Romans to burn it in 70 A.D.

Houses of worship, built by humans, always fail to some extent because they allow sinful and evil people to come into them who refuse to repent. But God can build a Temple where only the pure and holy can worship. Jesus' prophecy in John 2:17-22 (KJB) had a double meaning as many scriptures do. Jesus meant that just as the Jews had caused the destruction of the first Temple, and they would cause the destruction of the second Temple, He would raise up a third Temple that cannot be destroyed. Jesus meant both His own body which is God's Temple, and a future Temple that He will build.  

The first and second Temples symbolized Jesus on the cross who took the sins and evil of the whole human race on Himself. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 2:2 (KJB). The sinful and evil natures of humans and the Devil tried to destroy Jesus on the cross, but through His sacrifice, Jesus destroyed them. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save from eternal death all living humans whom He would save by His grace. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). But when Jesus died on the cross, He sent His Spirit to Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could rise from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who would rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). The Holy Spirit has done the work of their salvation, but their salvation cannot be activated until Jesus visits them in the end of the world and returns them to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When Jesus visits them, He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings so that He can save their good and living natures to be recreated to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Habakkuk 2:4; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Thus, the fiery wrath of the Devil always fails, but the fiery wrath of God always succeeds. Hell is the fiery wrath of the Devil, but Christ is the fiery wrath of God. Hebrews 12:29 (KJB).

When God recreates His earth and saves all of His living humans from eternal death, the Jews will not build the third Temple in New Jerusalem. Jesus Himself will build the third Temple in New Jerusalem because it will symbolize His own Being which is the Holy Temple of God. Only pure and holy people will be able to enter this third Temple to worship God. Zechariah 6:12-13; Zechariah 8:1-23; Amos 9:11-15; Acts 15:13-18 (KJB).    

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            II Kings 23:10-11 KJB

King Josiah came to power in Judah after two evil kings had ruled. King Josiah dedicated himself to the service of God. King Josiah thoroughly cleansed all of Judah of all idols, burned everything that had been used in the service of the false gods, and he had all of their priests killed. He also outlawed the terrible practice of the sacrifice of children to these false gods by having them burned in fire. II Kings 23:1-20 (KJB). In ancient Judah, the Devil would often cause evil rulers to take control of the land in their attempts to completely put out the light of God's truth. But when darkness covered the land, God would light it up again by raising up rulers of His people who would revolt against evil and cleanse the land. Romans 5:20 (KJB).

The Devil knows that God has given an inner light to every human He creates. John 1:9 (KJB). God creates every human in His image to be innocent and good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Part of human goodness is faith in God which the Devil has subdued by his injection of spiritual death into every human the moment they sin. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Adam's sin was the first example of this fact. Romans 5:12 (KJB). 

Most children tend to be innocent and good, although they also can sin. The fact that the Devil enjoys having children sacrificed reveals his intention toward the whole human race. The Devil knows that child sacrifice hardens people's hearts because it gives them the idea that if they can just put out God's light in themselves, then they can gain a better life without that hindrance, when, in fact, they will only gain eternal slavery to the Devil. In that day and in this day, child sacrifice reveals the fact that the Devil desires to completely put out the light that God puts into every human, bring absolute darkness into the world, and utterly destroy a part of God's creation, and thereby, prove that God's Love can fail. II Kings 23:10-11 (KJB). 

The Devil will have children burned in a fire or burn them with a saline solution and have them aborted, but God has a fiery wrath of His own. God cannot lose anything He has ever created, and His Love cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ sacrificed Himself on a cross and shed His blood and water to save all humans whom He would save by His grace, but when He died, He sent His Spirit to Hell to accomplish the salvation of the rest of humanity. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit left behind in Hell all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross so that He could rise immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead having obtained an absolute victory over all sins, evil, the Devil, and spiritual death. John 5:24; I Peter 3:18; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 2:2 (KJB). Genesis 8:20-21 symbolizes this fiery salvation that Christ has provided for all humans who do not become saved by His grace. In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of these living humans, 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 that He created from their dead and evil natures. He will recreate their repentant, good and 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; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

King Josiah symbolized God Himself when he burned all that was evil, and he saved the lives of the innocent. II Kings 23:10-11 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                       II Kings 21:6 KJB

God gives free will to every normal and intelligent human. For this reason, Godly parents can have children who choose to become evil. King Manasseh became an evil tyrant even though he was the son of a Godly father, king Hezekiah. Manasseh chose to worship idols, and he even put some idols into the house of God, the Temple. II Kings 21:1-5 (KJB). 

Some opponents of God claim that they have no desire to serve God because they say that God is overbearing and domineering. But the truth of the matter is that God has given every normal individual free will which means every person can live whatever life they choose to live, whether a good life, a sinful life, or even an evil life. That God is overbearing is a lie from the Devil. The conviction of the Holy Spirit that their sinful lives are wrong makes them blame God for their guilt. Free humans do not realize that no matter what they do, a merciful God is still in control. The good person brings glory to God because they try to obey God and fight against evil. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Humans saved by grace bring glory to God because they believe that God's Love caused Him to shed His blood on a cross to wash away their sins and give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can live with Him in Heaven forever. John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; I Peter 1:3-5 (KJB). All humans are sinful, but even a sinful person also brings glory to God because when they hear the gospel about how God's Love and compassion can save them from their sins and evil, they come under the conviction that they are sinful and only God is righteous. John 16:7-10 (KJB). But even the evil person ultimately brings glory to God because every time God defeats evil in the history of the world, and when He completely defeats evil in the end of the world, they will play their part in their demonstration that they were evil to prove that God has the power to completely destroy all evil. Romans 9:14-24 (KJB). 

King Manasseh became so evil that "he made his son pass through the fire." II Kings 21:6 (KJB). In our day, humans will sacrifice their own unborn sons and daughters to ensure that they will have a prosperous life. That is the opposite of love and self-sacrifice. God sent a prophet to king Manasseh to warn him that God would severely punish Judah for the evil that it had allowed. Judah would be turned over to its enemies. Yet, the patience and longsuffering of God allowed Manasseh to live to an old age and die a peaceful death. II Kings 21:10-18. God will wait to make His final judgment until the end of the world. 

Christ will make His final judgment of the "quick and the dead" in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; John 12:47-48 (KJB). Christ's final judgment of all humans saved by His grace will be that He will exempt them from a final judgment because He has already annulled their spiritual deaths, and He has given them His own righteousness and eternal life with Him. John 5:24; John 6:40 (KJB). Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause all of His living and good humans whom He created in His image to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge their beings of all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths, and He will recreate them all with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Christ will cast their purged dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

All humans can choose to live however they desire to live, but in the end, Christ will cause their good and living natures to choose to repent for the glory of God, and their separated, sinful and evil natures He will cast into the eternal lake of fire for the glory of God. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                             II Kings 19:17-18 KJB

The king of Assyria had besieged Jerusalem, and king Hezekiah of Judah, who was a servant of the Lord, prayed fervently that God would deliver Jerusalem. King Sennacherib of Assyria had sent a letter to king Hezekiah in which he bragged that none of the gods of all the nations that he had conquered had been able to save them from his army, and therefore, the God of Hezekiah would not be able to deliver Jerusalem from his army. This letter was a great insult to the power of God. II Kings 19:8-16 (KJB). 

As king Hezekiah prayed, he mentioned that as king Sennacherib had conquered many nations, he had thrown their idol gods into fires and burned them. Evil armies happen to be so greedy and rapacious that they will often fight against each other for wealth and power. God knows that that is a great weakness in the power of evil, and God uses that weakness against the evil powers. Jesus taught that Satan had that weakness in his kingdom. Luke 11:14-23 (KJB). The 9th chapter of Revelation prophesies that an evil army will be released from the bottomless pit under the earth to wage war against an evil army on the earth, and six fallen angels will be released from being bound in the river Euphrates to kill a third part of another evil army by using fire and brimstone. Revelation 9:1-20 (KJB). The fact that the beast who came out of the earth caused the beast out of the sea to live and be able to speak so that the beast out of the earth could control him, could very well indicate that the beast out of the sea had been wounded to death by the beast out of the earth. Revelation 13:1-13 (KJB). 

In our age, the evil Nazi army and the evil communist army conquered Poland and divided it. Then they engaged in a horrific war with each other that saved the lives of millions in the good armies which enabled the good armies to win the war. 

God sent one angel to destroy 185 thousand in the Assyrian army to save Jerusalem, but God had already used king Sennacherib to burn many idols and destroy many pagan peoples. II Kings 20:35; II Kings 19:17-18 (KJB). God knows exactly how to fight fire with fire. He uses His fiery wrath against evil in different ways. God can use the weaknesses in evil forces to accomplish His Will. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           II Kings 17:17,31 KJB

By far, the most important outcome for the history of the human race would be for God to defeat Satan and all evil, and He saves His human race from an eternal death which the Devil desires to impose upon every living human. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The Devil has far more power than any human, which means no human can save themselves from the Devil's eternal death. Romans 7:23-24 (KJB). The Devil has confidence in his power to utterly destroy the human race. The Devil bragged to God that he could go anywhere in the world that he chose to go, and he could do whatever he wanted to do. Job 1:6-7 (KJB). But just as God did not allow the Devil to take the life of Job, so God will not allow the Devil to take the lives of any of His living humans whom He creates in His image. Job 2:6; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God promised that He would send His Messiah, who is Himself, to utterly crush the head of the serpent; that is, the Devil, so that He can purge all evil from His world and save His entire, living human race from eternal death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The phrase in this verse, "it shall bruise thy head," means that the Messiah will overwhelm the Devil to the extent that He will win an absolute and complete victory over him. God does not win partial victories. 

God allows the Devil to do his worst to the human race to prove that evil can never put out the light of God's love and faith that He puts into every living human that He creates. Genesis 1:31; John 1:9 (KJB). God chose the Hebrew people to be His chosen people who would write His Word and bring His Messiah into the world. God saved them from slavery in Egypt and gave them His commandments for them to obey so that they could have good lives free from evil. But from time to time, the Hebrews would become influenced by the Devil's power to the extent that they would begin to worship idols, and they would even throw their babies into the fires that were inside of these false gods. II Kings 17:17; II Kings 17:31 (KJB). The Devil knew that God sometimes uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy evil, so the Devil enjoys mocking God by using his own fiery wrath to destroy the innocence and goodness that God creates. But the Devil cannot permanently destroy anything God creates. The Devil believes that one day his fiery wrath will utterly destroy forever at least some of the goodness and love that God has put into every human. Job 1:7-12 (KJB). God knew that Job was a sinner like every human, but God called him perfect because Job tried very hard to live in accordance with the love and faith that God had put into him when He created him. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love cannot fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). 

Humans cannot save themselves, but Christ can. Romans 7:24-25 (KJB). Christ took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of the entire human race on Himself on the cross so that through His death, burial, and resurrection, He could save the entire human race. I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ will save by His grace all humans who believe in Him while they are still alive in the flesh. John 3:3; John 5:24 (KJB). Christ judged and cast out only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross, but He did so to liberate all of His living humans from the Devil's eternal death. John 12:31-32; John 16:11 (KJB). Christ reserved His final judgment of the entire human race until the end of the world. John 12:44-48 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ has abolished death itself, not any of His living humans. I Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ will resurrect His Church in the Rapture, and then in the end of the world He will resurrect the rest of the human race back to life, and then He will gain a complete victory over all His enemies, which are the Devil and all evil, and then He will destroy the last enemy which is eternal death itself, not any of His living humans. I Corinthians 15:20-28 (KJB). Christ will save the entire human race with a special salvation for all humans whom He will save by His grace. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).   

On Purpose and Meaning

The theory of multiple universes contends that if an infinite number of universes exist, then it becomes inevitable that one of those universes would be so fine-tuned that life would evolve and eventually become intelligent and creative life. That universe is our universe. The only purpose of all the other universes would be to ensure that the universe of life would come into being. In addition, the anthropic principle would ensure that our universe, as a whole, would possess the values, meanings, and purposes that intelligent and creative life would attach to it. Also, intelligent life can understand that the purpose of all the other universes was to ensure the existence of the life universe and that all those other universes would have no purpose if they never produced the life universe. In other words, all those other universes could have no purpose unless it became a known purpose to an intelligent consciousness. The only way that all of those other universes could acquire purpose would be if they ensured the existence of intelligent life who would be able to recognize that they had that purpose. So much for the philosophy that the universe and life have no meaning or purpose. 

Nevertheless, those who believe that the universe and life have no meaning adds that value to the universe, whether that belief is true or false. Similarly, those who believe in God add all of His values to the universe whether He exists or not. The point is that creative intelligence, by its very nature, cannot avoid attaching purpose and meaning to everything that it experiences, even if that absolute purpose and meaning is that it has no purpose or meaning. 

All of this means that purpose, meaning, and values cannot be detached from an intelligent and creative consciousness. Our universe happens to be governed by a set of fine-tuned mathematical and physical rules and laws. Such rules and laws could not exist unless an Intelligent Consciousness has a purpose and a meaning for them.  Intelligent finite and creative life could not exist without an extremely complex set of chemical and electrical interactions. Only an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness could have created this intelligent life with a meaning and with a purpose for every individual life. Complex systems that produce creative results cannot exist without meaning and purpose. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               II Kings 16:13 KJB

All Christian cults center on the attempt to combine the worship of a false god with the worship of the true and living God. A king of Judah named Ahaz made an alliance with a pagan king of Assyria to help him in his war with Syria and Israel. Ahaz failed to pray to God for help. The king of Assyria won the war for the king of Judah. The king of Judah then went to Damascus to visit the king of Assyria, and he saw there a pagan altar, and he was quite impressed with it. He then sent a message to Urijah the chief priest in Jerusalem and instructed him to make an altar exactly like the one he had seen in Damascus. He also instructed Urijah to move the brazen altar from before the Temple and replace it with this pagan altar. When king Ahaz returned from Damascus, he offered on this pagan altar all of the sin offerings and all of the burnt offerings that God had commanded to be offered on the simple, brazen altar before the Temple. II Kings 16:5-18 (KJB). 

All Christian cults begin with someone who attempts to replace some part of the Word of God with some sort of pagan beliefs. Quite often, they try to reduce Jesus to being someone who is less than God which makes Him no more than any pagan god. The Devil does not care if these cults practice the Lord's supper or baptism if they just keep people from believing that Jesus is God their Savior. The brazen altar before the Temple on which the sin offerings and the burnt offerings were to be made symbolized the cross of Christ where God poured out His blood and water to save some humans by His grace, and He sent His Spirit to Hell when He died to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could save them by His mercy. Acts 20:28; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Luke 23:46; Luke 3:6; John 5:28-29 (KJB). When the Holy Spirit rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus, He rose from the dead with an absolute and complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ, who is Almighty God, cannot fail to save from eternal death all of His living humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ "hath put all enemies under His feet." I Corinthians 15:25 (KJB). God's enemies are the Devil and all evil, never any of His living humans whom He loves. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            II Kings 8:12 KJB 

God is patient and longsuffering with evil humans, but when His patience runs out, He will use war and fire to destroy evil humans. Exodus 15:3 (KJB). The Devil also uses fire in his wars against God's people. But the Devil will use fire indiscriminately to kill evil people as well as good ones. The Devil hates the goodness that God puts into every human He creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The Devil hates God and anything God creates. 

God revealed to Elisha that a servant of the king of Syria, named Hazael, would become the king of Syria and that he would commit some terrible atrocities against women and children. At first, Hazael did not believe Elisha, but when he returned to Syria, he evidently decided to give in to the evil nature inside of him, and so he murdered the king of Syria and became the king. He then fulfilled the prophecy of Elisha. II Kings 13:3 (KJB). 

Hazael actually also destroyed many evil humans because many of the people of Israel at that time worshipped idols. In all wars, good and evil humans are both destroyed. God allows evil armies to destroy other evil armies because that diminishes evil in the world and that causes less suffering for the human race in the long run. Romans 9:28 (KJB). God also allows good people to be killed in wars to prove that no matter how brutal and cruel the Devil can be, he can never utterly destroy anything that God has created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He creates. Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). The Devil knows that when he kills evil people, he also kills their good natures as well and that is what he seeks to permanently destroy. 

God has a good reason to allow good people and evil people to be killed. God has determined that He will sort it all out, and He will make His final judgment in the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). When He was on the earth, Christ did not judge the world because He creates every good and living human in the history of mankind. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). Christ judged only the Devil and all evil on His cross. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Christ gained a complete victory over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil in His death, burial, and resurrection. I Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Therefore, Christ must forever save all of His living humans that He creates and loves, some by His grace, and all others in His final judgment in the end of the world. John 5:24; II Timothy 4:1 (KJB). Every human who has given their lives to the service of evil also has a good and living nature created by God. God intends to save that good and living nature from eternal death.  In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures for Him to recreate 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 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). II Peter 3:9 relates that God is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." This verse can only mean that Christ must forever save all of His living humans because His Will cannot be thwarted. I Timothy 2:4 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            II Kings 6:17 (KJB)

The king of Syria invaded Israel with his army and sought to conquer Israel. Apparently, his army happened to be much larger than the Israeli army because he tried several times to trap the Israeli army and overwhelm it and defeat it. But the prophet Elisha received messages from God, and he informed the king of Israel who was able to move his army in ways that avoided being trapped. The king of Syria thought that someone in his army was a traitor, but his officers informed him that Elisha told the king of Israel every move that the Syrian army would make and every word that the Syrian king would speak. II Kings 6:8-12 (KJB). 

The Syrian king knew that his army might just wander around in Israel and be slowly worn down by the hit and run tactics of the Israeli army, and that the only way he would ever conquer Israel would be to force the Israeli army into a direct battle. So, the Syrian king decided that he would find Elisha and kill him. The Syrian king's informants had found out that Elisha was in a city called Dothan, and so he came with his army and surrounded Dothan. A young man who was a servant of Elisha woke up early in the morning, and when he saw that a huge army surrounded the city, he became very afraid, and he pleaded with Elisha as to what they would do. Elisha comforted this young man by telling him that his army was greater than the army that surrounded them. Elisha then prayed and asked God to open the eyes of the young man, and he saw that God's army was around Dothan in chariots of fire and with horses of fire. Clearly, God opened more than just the eyes of this young man. God opened his mind as well. God's fiery army symbolized the fact that God uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy His and His people's enemies. II Kings 6:13-17; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB)

Apparently, the Syrians sent a band of soldiers with an officer to arrest Elisha because they thought that the leaders of the city would give up Elisha rather than having their city destroyed. But Elisha prayed that God would blind these men, and He did. The ordinary response of any person who was blinded by another person would be to try to get away from that person, but God had blinded more than just the eyes of these men. God is able to control the minds of humans. Jesus simply walked through a mob who intended to throw Him off a cliff because He made them forget what they were doing. Luke 4:28-30 (KJB). Elisha led these men out of Dothan and all the way to Samaria because God had control of their minds, and they did not know what they were doing. When they got to Samaria, Elisha prayed that God would open their eyes, and then they understood what had happened to them and where they were. The king of Israel, who lived in Samaria, asked Elisha if he should kill them. As a man of God, Elisha replied with compassion that prisoners of war should be fed and given water. Matthew 5:44 (KJB). The king of Israel fed these soldiers and then sent them back to the Syrian army. This particular war ended in victory for Israel because of God's fiery wrath against evil and because of His compassion that He demonstrated through His prophet Elisha. II Kings 6:18-23 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                        II Kings 2:11 KJB

No human can go to Heaven unless God thoroughly cleanses that person of all sins, and evil, and annuls their spiritual deaths that the Devil has injected into them. The Bible records that God translated Enoch, Elijah, and the Apostle John to Heaven before their physical deaths. Genesis 5:24; II Kings 2:11; Revelation 4:1 (KJB). The Bible prophesies that God will translate His Church to Heaven from their graves along with those who are alive on the earth. I Thessalonians 4:14-18 (KJB). God translated Enoch to Heaven which meant that God changed him from one type of being to another type of being. Hebrews 11:5 (KJB). 

God is absolutely Pure and Holy which means that God can only accept persons to live with Him in Heaven who are absolutely perfect, just as His Son is absolutely perfect. Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8; John 17:23-24 (KJB). At present, Heaven is still slightly tainted with the smell of impurity because of Lucifer's rebellion. Ezekiel 28:18 (KJB). But God used His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse His Heaven of Lucifer's evil, and God cast him to earth as an empty and evil consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:18-19 (KJB). But a day will come when God uses His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly burn and purge Heaven and earth of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil so that He can recreate it all to be absolutely righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

But a difference exists between heavenly righteousness, which is the absolute perfection of God Himself, and earthly perfection which is a creation of God given to every human that God creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God said that Job was perfect, and the Apostle James wrote that a Christian can be perfect. Job 1:1; James 3:2 (KJB). But earthly perfection simply means that a believer can be as righteous as it is possible for a sinful person to be. God created Adam and Eve, and all humans in His image with earthly righteousness, but also with the weakness of free will which He knew will cause all humans to eventually sin. Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12 (KJB). But that was all a part of God's plan to prove that while the weakness of free will will cause all humans to sin, the Devil will never be able to use sin and evil to ever utterly destroy living humans because Christ has sacrificed Himself to save all of His living humans from utter destruction. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Since God made Eve the mother of all living and all humans are alive in His sight, then He certainly means to save all of His living humans from eternal death. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26 (KJB). Eventually, God will cause all of His living humans to use their free will to return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5 (KJB)

God translated Enoch because he "walked with God." Genesis 5:24 (KJB). There can be no condemnation for Christians because they "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Romans 8:1 (KJB) A person cannot "walk with God" unless that person has been cleansed of all sin and evil by the blood of Jesus. Matthew 26:28 (KJB). Enoch could only become acceptable to God in Heaven because God had washed him thoroughly clean with the blood of Jesus. 

Being washed in the blood of Jesus ensures that God will accept that believer into Heaven because God gives that believer the absolute perfect righteousness of Christ. II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:23-24 (KJB). But some believers backslide on God and return to a life of sin and even evil. Nevertheless, God knows exactly how to return every backslider to repentance and faith before He Raptures His Church. Christ will thoroughly cleanse His Church with "the washing of water by the Word." Christ will wash every believer of their unrepentant sins and evil and return them to absolute purity with the water He shed on the cross. Christ will make His entire Church acceptable to His Father in Heaven. John 13:1-10; John 17:17; John 17:23; Ephesians 5:25-27; I John 5:4-8 (KJB). 

God uses His fiery wrath to utterly destroy all of His enemies, but He also uses it to cleanse all of His living humans, not already saved by His grace, of all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths when He causes them all to return to faith in Him as their Savior from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6 (KJB). All of God's living humans whom He creates and loves can never be His enemies. 

God translated Elijah to Heaven in a fiery chariot with fiery horses in a tornado. The tornado symbolized the power of God, and the fire of God represented that God had thoroughly cleansed Elijah of all of his sins, evil, spiritual death in order to make him absolutely perfect so that God could accept him into Heaven. II Kings 2:11 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                           II Kings 1:10-14

The son of Ahab, king Ahaziah, had been badly injured in an accidental fall. He sent messengers to inquire of the god Baal-zebub whether or not he would recover. God sent Elijah to meet those messengers as they went, and he rebuked them for going to a false god for answers when they had a true God of Israel. Elijah also prophesied that king Ahaziah would die of his injuries. These messengers turned back from their mission and told king Ahaziah the prophecy of Elijah. II Kings 1:1-8 (KJB). 

The king then sent an officer with fifty men to arrest Elijah. Being an enemy of his father and himself, the king probably desired to have Elijah put to death. I Kings 21:20 (KJB). Elijah called for God to send down fire from Heaven and burn this captain and his fifty men, and God did that. The king sent another captain of fifty men, and at the request of Elijah, God consumed them with fire. The third captain of fifty, being very afraid and very wise, fell on his knees before Elijah and begged him to spare the lives of himself and his fifty men. An angel of God told Elijah to go with them, and he came to the king. Apparently, the king had also become very afraid of Elijah because he did not order him to be killed. Elijah repeated his prophecy that because the king had inquired of a false god instead of the true God of Israel, he would die in his bed, and he did. II Kings 1:9-18 (KJB). 

The atheists criticize God for this story because they claim that God had innocent men killed. God creates humans in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Most people are basically good because they try to adhere to the good nature that God has put into them. But all humans are also sinners because the Devil injects spiritual death into their inner beings which causes them to sin. Sin causes spiritual death and spiritual death, in turn, causes sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). God gives all humans free will, and so some humans choose to deliberately practice heartless cruelty toward their fellow humans. They become evil, and the smart ones can sometimes gain power over others by terrorizing them or confusing them with lies and propaganda. Most of the people over whom evil rulers gain power are basically good people, but because of the weakness that their sins cause, they follow and obey their evil rulers. This fact makes good people who obey evil rulers also responsible for evil. 

The Bible records that God has no problem with killing evil humans and the good people who follow them because the weakness of the good people assists the evil rulers to gain more power over other people. Therefore, God had no problem killing the two fifties with their captains because they were obeying an evil king. 

Most countries where the people rule usually have good rulers because they will not obey evil rulers. Nevertheless, all humans are sinners. Romans 3:23 (KJB). When free countries sometimes have to go to war against evil countries, some people in the free countries claim to be so good that they can be conscientious objectors. If most people were conscientious objectors, evil would rule the world. Conscientious objectors actually assist evil in gaining power in the world. God expects good people, even though they are also sinners, to fight against evil just as He taught in the Old Testament. Any fight against evil requires self-sacrifice. One becomes willing to sacrifice one's life, limb, or even mental health. One becomes willing to become extremely depressed if one has to kill the good people who follow the evil rulers. One becomes willing to become self-sacrificial in whatever way is needed in order to defeat evil. The only valid conscientious objector is a good person who refuses to follow or obey an evil ruler. 

Christ sacrificed Himself to save all of humanity from sin, evil, and spiritual death. Humans have no power whatsoever to overcome their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths which will become eternal death. Romans 5:6 (KJB). Humans cannot even begin to imagine the tremendous suffering that the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans caused Christ on that cross. I John 2:2 (KJB). Christ shed His blood on the cross to save those humans whom He would save by His grace, but He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could save them as well. Matthew 26:28; Luke 23:46; John 5:24; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ's Spirit rose immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; Hebrews 2:9-18; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Christ has liberated all sinful humans from eternal death because in His resurrection He changed eternal death to only a temporary death. II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," 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 purge them all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths for Him to cast into the lake of fire, and He will recreate their repentant, good and living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Christ, being Almighty God and Almighty Love that cannot fail, cannot fail to win a complete and absolute victory over the Devil and all of his evil works. I Corinthians 13:8; I John 3:8; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                             I Kings 19:12-13 KJB

Apparently, when Elijah prayed to God on Mount Carmel, and God sent fire from Heaven to completely burn the burnt sacrifice that Elijah had prepared, and all of the people who had formerly worshipped Baal fell on their faces and began to worship God, and Elijah had had the 450 prophets of Baal killed, then Elijah evidently thought that a great change would take place. From what Elijah later said to God, one can surmise that Elijah had thought that after God had shown Himself to be the only true God, that the majority of the people of Israel would turn to the worship of God, and king Ahab and his evil wife Jezebel would no longer be able to murder God's prophets and control the people of God by terrorizing them. I Kings 18:17-46 (KJB).  

But Elijah soon discovered that not much had really changed. When the evil queen Jezebel threatened to kill him, apparently no one stood with Elijah and promised to protect him. Jezebel actually demonstrated that she was afraid of Elijah, because if she had been serious, she would have just sent an assassin to kill him without warning him instead of just threatening him. Nevertheless, Elijah panicked and ran for is life. I Kings 19:1-3 (KJB). 

Elijah fell into a state of despair and wanted to die, but God was not angry with him. God displayed His compassion for him, and He sent an angel to cook food for him and give him water because God knew that Elijah was taking a long journey to Mount Horeb. Apparently, Elijah wanted to die on the mountain of God where He had given Moses the Ten Commandments. Elijah came to the mountain and hid in a cave there, but God asked him why he was there. Elijah replied that he believed that the forces of evil had won in Israel and that he alone was left to serve God. God told him to come out of the cave and stand on the top of the mountain. God then displayed to Elijah some of His destructive forces. God sent the powerful forces of wind, an earthquake, and a fire, but God was not in any of them because God wanted Elijah to know that His destructive forces were not directed toward Elijah. God wanted Elijah to know that where evil was concerned, God still had destructive control over it. God then spoke to Elijah in "a still small voice;" that is, a voice of love and compassion. God asked Elijah again why he was there, and Elijah again replied that he thought that he alone was left in Israel to serve God. I Kings 19:4-14 (KJB). 

God's remedy for Elijah's despair and depression was that God simply told him to get back to work. God had kings for him to anoint, and a prophet for him to anoint to take his place when God called him home. As for Elijah's self-pity, God informed him that He had seven thousand in Israel who still served Him and not Baal. God's message to Elijah was clear. God still had Almighty Power over evil, and although God's people would always be in the minority in the earth, they would still win out over evil in the end. I Kings 19:15-18 (KJB). 

One of the destructive forces that God demonstrated to Elijah was a fire that God was not in. I Kings 19:12 (KJB). But God is in His fiery wrath that He uses to utterly destroy evil. Hebrews 12:29 (KJB). The lake of fire is a part of God's nature that He uses to so preoccupy with pain all death and evil to the extent that it, and the Devil, can never influence His creation again. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:10 (KJB). God's fiery wrath is actually creative because it causes God to be able to recreate Heaven and earth to be righteous after He has cleansed them with His fiery wrath including all of His repentant, living humans whom He created in His image to be good. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God promised in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." Since His living humans must be a part of the "all things" that God has created, then God must know a way to cause all of His living humans to repent and return to faith in Christ their Savior so that He can either save them by His grace or by a lesser form of salvation in the end of the world. Revelation 4:11; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24; John 5:28-29 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              I Kings 18:23-25,38

At times when the darkness of sin and evil threaten to overwhelm the earth, and the light of God's Word seems about to be put out, then God moves in miraculous ways to strengthen His people. In Elijah's day, most of the people of Israel had turned to the worship of the god Baal, so God sent His prophet Elijah to do a miracle that would show that He was the real God. King Ahab and his wife Jezebel had murdered many of God's prophets to the extent that his governor, Obadiah, who was a secret servant of God, had hid 100 of God's prophets in a cave to protect them. I Kings 18:3-4 (KJB). Elijah's first miracle was that when he confronted king Ahab, Ahab did not order him to be killed because God had put a great fear of Elijah into king Ahab. Ahab even obeyed Elijah's command that he gather the people of Israel and the prophets of Baal to Mount Carmel for a reason that Elijah did not tell Ahab. I Kings 18:17-20 (KJB). 

When the king and the people and 450 prophets of Baal were gathered to the top of Mount Carmel, Elijah proposed a contest between their god and his true and living God. Elijah instructed that two altars of stone be built, and two bullocks cut up and their pieces laid on both altars, but they should put no fire under them. Elijah then challenged the people, and they agreed, that they should pray to their gods for fire to fall on their altar, and Elijah would pray to God for fire to fall on his altar, and the God that answered would be the true God. The people prayed to their gods and cut themselves with knives from morning until evening, but no fire fell on Baal's altar. Elijah was brave enough to mock their gods. Elijah then told the people to gather close to him. He then repaired an altar of God that evidently was already there, and he added twelve stones to it, and he ordered a trench to be dug around it, and he put the pieces of the bullock on the wood on the altar, and he had four barrels of water poured three times on the altar so that the water filled the trench. Elijah then made a short prayer to God that He would show the people that He is the only true God and fire fell from God and consumed the bullock, the wood, and even the stones and dust, and evaporated all of the water in the trench. And the Lord said that it was a "burnt sacrifice." Then all the people, who had been worshippers of Baal, fell on their faces and worshipped God except for the 450 prophets of Baal. Elijah had those 450 prophets of Baal executed. I Kings 18:21-40 (KJB). 

God gave the burnt offering to Noah and the Israelites for a specific purpose. God promised Noah, and all who read the Bible, that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill all of His living humans whom He creates in His image, and whom He loves, as He had done with the worldwide flood. God often kills people who allow evil to dominate their lives, but He never permanently kills their subdued good natures that He has created in His image. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God knows exactly how to cause all of the good natures of all humans to repent and return to faith in Him of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

God caused Elijah to use a burnt sacrifice to divide the people between the believers and the unbelievers. God will do the same with His fiery wrath against evil and unbelief in the end of the world. Christ will appear to all living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," 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 unbelieving natures. God will then recreate their believing natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and unbelieving natures into the eternal lake of fire. 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). 

Jesus promised that He would not judge believers and unbelievers until the end of the world. John 12:46-48; II Timothy 4:1 (KJB). Every human is a believer and an unbeliever in their inner beings. God will reawaken the faith of all of His living humans so that He can save them from eternal death. He will be able to do that because of His death, burial, and resurrection. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Unbelief is totally evil and can never repent. So, God will utterly destroy the dead and evil natures of all humans. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

The people who returned to faith in God because of Elijah's burnt sacrifice represent the entire, living human race that God will save. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Baal's 450 prophets that Elijah had killed represent the evil unbelief of all dead humans that God will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               II Samuel 23:1-7 KJB

As usual, God gave king David very poetic language as he spoke his last words. God inspired king David to say that whoever rules over humans must be a just ruler who fears God. King David admitted that he had not always been a just ruler, but he remembered that God had made a covenant with him that his throne would last forever, and it would be "ordered in all things" which meant it would have a perfect ruler. King David further prophesied that that perfect ruler would be the source of his salvation. King David prophesied about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

King David then turned his prophecy to the final judgment that this perfect ruler would make. David said that evil humans would be "as thorns thrust away" which meant they would be separated from humans so they could no longer touch humans and influence and injure their lives. Jesus said that "tares" would be separated from the "wheat." Matthew 13:30 (KJB). John the Baptist said that Jesus would separate the "wheat" from the "chaff," and He would burn the "chaff." Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). Jesus taught that, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Matthew 15:13 (KJB). God told Adam that "thorns also and thistles" would plague his life. Genesis 3:17-18 (KJB). The Bible often relates that evil is like worthless but injurious stuff that will be burned. Jesus was crowned with thorns which symbolized that He was taking all of the evil and sins of the human race on Himself. Matthew 27:29 (KJB). 

God creates all of His living humans to be good, and He can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:31; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Therefore, God will make a way to return all of His living humans to the faith that He put into them when He created them so that He can save them all, and He will either annul their spiritual deaths for all living humans that He saves by His grace, or He will separate their repentant, good and living natures from their evil and worthless natures that, like thorns, He will burn in an everlasting fire. Habakkuk 2:4; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Sin, evil, and spiritual death inside of every human would have eventually caused eternal death, but Jesus took all sins, evil, and eternal death on Himself on a cross and died in the place of all living humans so that He could rise from the dead having turned eternal death into only a temporary death for the sake of the salvation of all living humans. Hebrews 2:9-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Hebrews 2:9-13 relates about God's salvation by His grace, but Hebrews 2:14-18 relates about God's salvation of the rest of humanity. All humans are God's children. Psalm 82:6 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil as He suffered on the cross. John 12:31; John 16:11 (KJB). But Christ will not judge His living humans until the end of the world. John 12:46-47; II Timothy 4:1 (KJB).   

King David further prophesied that this perfect ruler will be able to touch the "thorns" because He will possess a perfect defense against them, and He will have a "spear" which means He will be able to force the "thorns" into the fire. All of these "thorns" will be "utterly burned with fire in the same place." This prophecy can only mean that God will purge with His fiery wrath all of the sins, evil, spiritual deaths, and the Devil from the lives of all of His living humans not already saved by grace in the end of the world. Then He will recreate His entire creation to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                         II Samuel 22:8-9, 13

Being a prophet, king David often received visions and poems from God. II Samuel chapter 22 happens to be a vision and a poem about when God will use His fiery wrath to burn the world to purge it of all evil, and He will recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; II Samuel 20:8-9; II Samuel 22:13 (KJB). Although king David happened to be saved by God's grace, he never seemed to indicate that he understood exactly what that meant. God did give him, and Isaiah, visions about the coming of the suffering Messiah, but they never indicated that they understood exactly how Christ's suffering applied to them. Psalm 22:1-21 (KJB). 

God wrote the Old Testament to the Hebrew people to whom He promised to save in a general resurrection. Being a Jew, king David believed that he would be saved in that general resurrection. Daniel 12:2-3; Ezekiel 37:1-14 (KJB). God knew that He would resurrect king David with all of the Old Testament saints saved by His grace when He resurrected Jesus, but God did not need to make king David, or any of the Old Testament saints understand that. Matthew 27:51-53 (KJB). King David only needed to know that one day God would save him from the regions of death. King David had a fear of the regions of death. II Samuel 22:1-7 (KJB). But he also had faith that God would raise him from Hell, along with the Holy One, even though he did not know that that would be the resurrection of Jesus. Psalm 16:9-11 (KJB). King David never went to Hell, but he did go to a place called Paradise that God had located next to Hell. Luke 16:19-21 (KJB). King David also imagined that God would resurrect him from "many waters" which was his vision of that region of death called the Sea. II Samuel 22:17 (KJB). Hell is actually divided into three regions of death: the Sea, Death, and the burning Hell. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). 

Jesus taught about the general resurrection. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Jesus assured a Pharisee, who could not possibly have been saved by grace, that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:12-14 (KJB). Jesus taught that, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Matthew 15:13 (KJB). His teaching can only mean that a day will come when God purges all evil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). In Jesus' explanation of His parable of the tares and wheat, He explicitly declared, "The field is the world," and the "good seed" can only be all humans that God creates to be good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The "tares" are the evil, spiritual deaths that the Devil has planted into the hearts of every human. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). In "the end of the world," Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all sin and evil from the hearts of all His repentant, living humans so that He can save them from eternal death which sin and evil causes, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus taught that God would reward even the least good works. Matthew 10:41-42 (KJB). Even the most evil human who ever lived has done something good in their life. Only a live human can receive a reward. A dead human cannot. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). 

King David further revealed that he believed God would save him "according to my righteousness," which can only mean the righteousness that God put into him when He created him. II Samuel 22:21-25; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). This has to be a lesser form of salvation than that of grace because salvation by grace never happens because of good works. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). In salvation by grace, God freely gives the perfect righteousness of Christ to the believer so that He can accept him into Heaven to live with Him there forever. II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:24 (KJB). The Father and Jesus taught about a lesser form of salvation for all living humans because of their good works. Psalm 50:23; John 5:28-29 (KJB). The Father and the Son also taught that every living human would have to return to repentance and faith in Christ in order to be saved by grace or with a lesser form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). 

King David bragged that he had "kept the ways of the Lord," when in actuality, he had committed many sins and had done some evil. II Samuel 22:22-25 (KJB). Nevertheless, since king David had relied on the sin offerings and the burnt offerings made by the priests on his behalf, then he had demonstrated that he had faith in the mercy and forgiveness of God. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will cause all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death by His mercy. Christ will cast only their separated, eternal deaths into the lake of fire. God's fiery wrath only purges sin, evil, eternal death, and the Devil from His creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).