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).   

What Causes Repentance?

                        

The Bible teaches that all humans sin because the Devil has injected them all with an evil nature. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). The Devil has infected all humans with a spiritual death which is totally evil. Evil can never repent because it hates God and seeks to destroy God. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). Unforgivable blasphemy against God consists of a rejection of a call from the Holy Spirit to repent. Evil causes this blasphemy. 

Evil can never repent, but the good natures of humans that God creates and loves can repent because a desire to be reconciled to God can only be good. Romans 10:13 (KJB). Repentance and faith always engender the compassion of God to forgive and reconcile that believer to Him whether that person is physically alive or physically dead. John 11:25; Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). God's Love and compassion never changes.

God promised that because of the sacrifice of His Son, He will "reconcile all things to Himself." Colossians 1:20 (KJB). Since God creates "all things," and all living humans are a part of that creation, then God will cause all of His living humans to repent and believe and become reconciled with Him. All humans alive in the flesh who repent and believe will be saved by God's grace. John 5:24 (KJB). All humans "on the earth, and under the earth" when Christ visits them in the end of the world will repent and believe when they see the majestic Love of Christ for them, and Christ will give them a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; John 12:33; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                         II Samuel 14:30-31 KJB

One of king David's sons named Absalom had been in exile from Judah for three years because he had murdered his brother Amnon for raping his sister Tamar. The General of David's army, named Joab, had persuaded king David to recall Absalom from exile and forgive him. Joab went to Absalom and brought him back from exile, but king David would not see him. After two years, Absalom asked Joab to take him to see the king, but for some reason, Joab just ignored him. 

Then Absalom apparently, just for meanness and spite, had his servants to burn one of Joab's barley fields just to force Joab to talk to him about taking him to see his father. Joab came to Absalom's house to ask him why he had had his barley field burnt, and Absalom admitted that he had done so to get Joab to relent to his request that Joab take him to see the king, and king David kissed Absalom and forgave him. II Samuel 14:32-33 (KJB)

One of the characteristics of a person who has come under the influence of the Devil is that they will sometimes take very cruel actions against their friends and even their families. Their friends and families will often forgive them because they love them, but that love does not soften the criminal heart. God has great patience and compassion for the ordinary sinners because they are just too weak to always resist temptation, but God's patience sometimes runs out for sinners who deliberately suppress their good and living natures in order to become cruel and evil. Even so, most people, who are not Christians or religious Jews, remain as good people because they allow their good and living natures that God created them to be to prevail over their dead and evil natures. 

Whenever a person sincerely repents of his sins and evil and asks God for forgiveness because of Christ's sacrifice for him, and he feels the Holy Spirit come into his heart and cleanse him with the blood of Jesus, then that person's heart will be changed, and he will acquire a desire to be more like Jesus. John 3:16; John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17-18; I John 1:7 (KJB). 

But the person with a criminal mind only sees love and forgiveness as a weakness that he can use to his advantage. Later in his life, Absalom rebelled against his father and led an army to take the kingdom for himself. But in his battle with Joab's army, Absalom got caught by his thick hair in an oak tree, and his former friend Joab killed him. II Samuel 18:14 (KJB). Joab realized that despite king David's continued love for Absalom, he had to die to cleanse David's kingdom of all rebellion. II Samuel 19:1-8 (KJB) 

When God loses His patience with evil, He has no problem killing evil people to cleanse His world of their vile presence. But God still loves their good and living natures that He created them to be. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Just as God used His fiery wrath to dissolve the being of rebellious Lucifer in order to recover all of the goodness that He had put into him so that He could exile his totally evil and empty nature to earth as a negative consciousness called Satan, so God, in the end of the world, will visit all of His living humans whom He had to consign to one of the regions of death because they did not become saved by His grace, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Christ their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their good 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. Ezekiel 28:13-19; 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

                             I Samuel 30:1-14 KJB

For every good work that God does, the Devil has an evil counterpart. God uses His fiery wrath to destroy evil, and the Devil uses his fiery wrath to destroy goodness. The Devil used the Amalekites, who were the greatest haters of the Jews until the Nazis, to invade David's city in Judah called Ziklag and burn it with fire. They took all of the people captives including David's two wives. Often, when the Devil uses his fire to burn a city, he does not have his minions to directly kill the good people, but the Devil has them taken captive so that they can be raped and tortured before being killed. The Nazis burned many of the Jews' houses, and they forced the Jews to ride in closed box cars to the extermination camps, and they selected the pretty girls to be kept and raped. 

When David and his army returned to Ziklag from the field, they became very distressed and dismayed because their wives and children were all gone. Their despair was even greater than if they had found their people killed because they knew that the enemy had taken their people captive so they could torture them before they killed them. The Devil has his evil armies to do such cruel acts in order to cause such deep despair among good people that they will give up on fighting back against evil because they will wrongly conclude that evil cannot be defeated. David's army wanted to stone him because even good people feel that if they lose a fight with evil, they often blame their leaders for their loss. 

But David's faith did not fail. David had his priest to pray to the Lord about what he should do. The Lord promised David that if he and his army pursued after the Amalekites, they would recover all that was taken from them. When the good people of Europe and America fought the fascists and Nazis in WWII, they were greatly encouraged by their leaders' prayers for victory. David and his army pursued after the Amalekites, defeated them, and recovered all of their wives and children and all of their spoil. I Samuel 30:1-31 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                             I Samuel 2:28 KJB

In the last days of the judges in Israel, Eli was the high priest in the Tabernacle of the Lord. Although Eli was faithful to the Lord, he failed in his service to God because he allowed his two sons to become corrupt, and he did nothing to stop them. Eli's two sons failed to make proper burnt offering sacrifices to God in accordance with God's instructions, and they seduced some of the women who came to the Tabernacle to worship God. I Samuel 2:12-17; I Samuel 2:22 (KJB). 

A man of God visited Eli in his old age and gave him some warnings from God. He told Eli that God had appointed His priests from the tribe of Levi to make the sin offerings and the burnt offerings for the forgiveness of the sins of God's people. But Eli's sons had profaned these sacrifices by taking the best of them for themselves. God will honor those who honor Him, and He will disown anyone who despises Him. For this reason, God has the right to make anyone who honors Him a priest. The man of God prophesied that God would soon kill Eli's two sons, and He would appoint a faithful priest to take their place. I Samuel 2:27-36 (KJB). 

God called Samuel to be His adopted priest and prophet from the tribe of Ephraim. Samuel was faithful to God as a priest and prophet in Israel, but the people decided that they wanted a king to rule over them. I Samuel 8:21-22 (KJB). 

God appointed His Son Jesus "a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." Psalm 110:1-4 (KJB). This high priest had the power and the right to offer Himself as a sin offering and a burnt offering for the salvation of all of His people whom He created to be little gods; that is, whom He created in His image. John 10:34-36; Psalm 82:6; Genesis 1:26-27; Hebrews 7:11-28. (KJB). Hebrews 7:26-27 teaches that Jesus made both the sin offering and the burnt offering for the forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 7:25 teaches that Jesus will save anyone who comes to Him. They do not have to be alive in the flesh. Romans 10:13 teaches that Christ will save anyone who calls on Him for salvation. They do not have to be alive in the flesh. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, He proved that He could save those who believe in Him even if they are physically dead. John 11:25 (KJB). By contrast, Jesus also taught that those who are alive in the flesh who believe in Him will never have to go to one of the regions of death when they die. John 11:26 (KJB). Jesus "taketh away the sin of the world," not just of those alive in the flesh. John 1:29 (KJB). In the Old Testament, both the sin offering and the burnt offering were made for the forgiveness of sins. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). Jesus made the sin offering for those who become saved by His grace, and His Spirit made the burnt offering for the salvation of the rest of humanity, but with a lesser form of salvation. John 5:24; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). 

Jesus is prophet, priest, and king. Hebrews 7:1-3 (KJB). As king of the world, Jesus has the right to judge the world. But Jesus has reserved His right to judge unbelievers until the end of the world. John 12:47-48 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil while He suffered on the cross. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Jesus will call all humans whom He ever created back to faith in Him as their Savior because He came to save the world. John 12:32; John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit made the burnt offering sacrifice that will save from eternal death all of His living humans who do not become saved by His grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans whom He created to be good who are on the earth and confined to the regions of death. Genesis 1:31; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Because they retain that good nature, they will have the ability to return to faith and repentance toward Christ and be forever saved from eternal death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). They will all repent and believe, and Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to purge them of all evil and spiritual death which He will then cast into the lake of fire. He will then recreate their separated, good natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Unbelievers are totally evil and cannot repent, but Christ will use His fiery wrath to purge this unbelief from His repentant, good humans, and He will cast all unbelievers into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). 

God has made every living human saved by His grace a priest who, because of the intercession of Christ, can talk directly with God at any time. I Peter 2:9-10; Romans 8:34 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Judges 20:48 KJB

All of the tribes of Israel went to war with the tribe of Benjamin because a group of evil men in that tribe had raped and murdered two women, and the rulers of the tribe of Benjamin refused to deliver up the men for judgment who had committed this terrible crime. Judges 20:12-13 (KJB). In addition, the husband of one of the women had cut her dead body into twelve pieces and had sent those pieces to the twelve tribes. All of this darkness and evil caused by the Devil brought a kind of madness to all the people of Israel who responded by going to a civil war with the people of Benjamin. Judges 20:1-17 (KJB). Sometimes in the history of humanity, the Devil becomes able to inflict a terrible, dark evil on the minds of large numbers of people, and he will cause them to afflict each other with cruel crimes. This often happens in revolutions and in such events as the Salem witch trials. Stories of dark crimes, such as cutting a woman into twelve pieces, often makes the madness much worse. Hitler's lies about awful crimes that the Jews did not commit made the madness of the Nazi revolution much worse. These types of insane events cannot seem to stop until some people come to their senses and ask the question, "What are we doing?" 

Just as people who are addicted to certain sins must hit rock bottom before they realize that they must either die or get right with God, so when insanity grips large numbers of people, then they must do their worst to each other before some of them begin to come to their senses. God knows this, and so He allowed these armies to defeat each other in several battles until only 600 men were left of the tribe of Benjamin. Judges 20:14-47 (KJB). God also allowed the armies of Israel to burn the cities of Benjamin because God knows that His fiery wrath purges evil, and when evil is purged, then humans caught in madness will begin to return to their senses. Judges 20:48 (KJB). 

The armies of Israel began to return to their senses when they realized that they were on the verge of the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin. To remedy that condition, they concocted various ways to supply the 600 men of Benjamin who were trapped in the rock of Rimmon with wives so that they could multiply and save the tribe of Benjamin from genocide. Judges 21:1-25 (KJB). 

All of sin and evil is a type of madness, but 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 the sanity of faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all sin and evil from every one of them in order to save them from extermination by the Devil. Christ will then recreate their repentant, living souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

           Judges 14:15 Judges 15:4-5 Judges 15:6 (KJB)

Evil people will use any cruel method that they see fit to get what they want. They have no qualms about inflicting pain on innocent people. God's enemies threatened to burn Samson's wife's and her father's house just so they could win a bet with Samson.

When Samson's wife's father took her away from Samson and gave her to one of his companions, Samson was grieved, and he decided to take revenge on the Philistines because he knew that his enemies had  induced  his wife's father to take her away from him. So, Samson caught 300 foxes and attached firebrands to their tails, and he turned them loose into the wheat fields and vineyards of the Philistines and burnt them. Although Samson had decided to do this on his own, God allowed him to do it because God, being Holy, has every right to use His fiery wrath to punish evildoers for their evil deeds. God often uses the same methods that evildoers use, but He does that for righteous purposes. 

When the Philistines heard that Samson had burnt their fields, they were evidently afraid to directly confront Samson. So, they burned Samson's wife's and father's house with them in it and murdered them even though they had enticed her father to take her away from Samson. When Samson heard of this very cruel and evil deed, he began to kill the Philistines by the thousands. But God was working through the mighty strength of Samson to kill His, and His people's enemies.

Just like Samson burnt the fields of the Philistines, in the end of the world, God will burn His entire creation to purge it of all evil and the Devil, and He will recreate it all, including all of His living humans that He created in His image, to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Since God is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," then God will make sure that all of His living humans will come to repentance because His Will cannot be thwarted. II Peter 3:9; I Timothy 2:4; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 4:5; II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14. (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Judges 12:1 KJB

Jephthah was the son of a harlot and when his father's sons were grown, they cast Jephthah out of their family, and he became an outcast. He had no way to feed himself, and so he formed a band of outlaws that lived by force. Apparently, he gained a reputation as a good leader and a good fighter with a sword. Jephthah's father's name was Gilead, and apparently, that family had become so prominent in that region that the people of that land called themselves Gileadites. Judges 11:1-3 (KJB). 

The Gileadites heard that the Ammonites had formed an army to make war against Israel. The elders of Gilead realized that they needed a good leader and fighter to form an army to fight against Ammon. So, they went to Jephthah who lived in a land called Tob, and they asked him to come and be their leader and form an army to fight against Ammon. Jephthah asked them why they wanted him to be their leader since they had cast him out of their land. The elders replied that the needed him. So, Jephthah forgave his people, and he agreed to come to them, and be their leader in their fight with Ammon. Jephthah had every reason to hate his people and refuse to be their leader, and yet he forgave them and agreed to their request. Even though he had been an outcast and an outlaw, Jephthah forgave his people because he believed in God. God had control of Jephthah's heart. Judges 11:4-11 (KJB). 

Jephthah desired to make peace with Ammon. Ammon claimed that they wanted to take back the land that Israel had taken from them. Jephthah wrote letters to the king of Ammon, and he explained to him that while the Israelites had taken any land that God had told them to take, they had not taken any land from Ammon. Besides that, Jephthah wrote, the Israelites had lived in the land that Ammon claimed for 300 years which certainly would make it their land. The king of Ammon probably knew that Jephthah's history was correct, but he rejected Jephthah's peace proposal and went to war because of his greed for the land of Israel. God can use even outlaws if their heart is right with God. God caused Jephthah to be a peacemaker. Matthew 5:9; Judges 11:12-28 (KJB). The Spirit of God came upon Jephthah just before he went to battle with the Ammonites. That probably meant that God had saved Jephthah by His grace. Judges 11:29 (KJB). God gives His salvation by His grace to any person He chooses who has faith in Him. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). 

Jephthah and the Gileadites gained a great victory over the Ammonites because God was with them. Judges 11:32-33 (KJB).

Apparently, the people of Gilead dwelt among the Ephraimites, and they came with an army and threatened to burn down Jephthah's house because they claimed he had not called them to the battle. Jephthah replied that he had called them to the battle, and they had ignored him. The real reason that the Ephraimites wanted to burn Jephthah's house and make war with the Gileadites was that the Gileadites were now a people with their own land, and the Ephraimites desired to take it back under their control. They were also jealous of the victory of the Gileadites over Ammon. The Gileadites then gained a great victory over the Ephraimites in battle. Judges 12:1-7 (KJB). 

This story proves that God uses people who have faith in Him to tell the truth and desire peace, but God will also use His fiery wrath in war against the fiery wrath of evil people who lie and use greed and jealousy to get what they want. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Judges 9:15,20,52 KJB

Sometimes, a group of basically good people will select a murderous criminal to be their leader because they mistake his pretense of being a strong man with his being a wise leader. These evil leaders have a talent for persuasion. They convince the people that they have a certain group of enemies that if they allow the evil ruler to get rid of, then the people will be liberated from their threat, and they will have a better life. Such evil leaders will appoint other evil men to authority in every position in their society to protect themselves from the good people who will sooner or later realize that they are being led by criminals. Too often good people also happen to be naive. The Bible records that an evil man named Abimelech convinced the people of the city of Shechem that he should be their king because the seventy sons of Gideon were their enemies. The people gave him money which he used to hire other evil men to follow him. He and his evil followers then murdered seventy of Gideon's sons who were actually his own half- brothers.  Judges 9:1-6 (KJB).

But one of the sons of Gideon named Jotham escaped from this slaughter and from a safe distance he shouted out a prophetic parable to the people of Shechem. Jotham related that the trees, which symbolized a society, asked two fruit bearing trees and a grape vine to be their kings. Being bearers of fruit, they symbolized good people, but they all refrained from being leaders because they just wanted to tend to their own business. Too often, good people reject being leaders because politics can be an ugly business. Jotham further related that then the trees asked a worthless bramble, which symbolized Abimelech, to be their king. The bramble replied that he would be their king if they would "trust in my shadow" which meant he would provide no real protection for them. But if they made him king, and then rejected him, he would burn them with fire which meant he would slaughter as many of them as needed in order to stay in power. Judges 9:7-21 (KJB). God sometimes uses His fiery wrath to temporarily kill evil people, and even good people who serve them, but, in the end of the world, He will cause all of their good natures to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior because He created them all in His image, and they all belong to Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). But the Devil also has his fiery wrath which he uses to kill good people in the hope that they will remain dead for eternity. But God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 2:17; Romans 7:23-25; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). 

Jotham reminded the people of Shechem that his father, Gideon, had liberated them from the tyranny of the Midianites, and therefore, his sons should have been their leaders, but they allowed Abimelech to kill them all except for him. Jotham then sarcastically appealed to their conscience when he told them that if they had been right in making Abimelech their king, they should rejoice over it. Jotham then made a prophecy which is universally true. He prophesied that evil leaders will often raise up followers who will fight will each other for dominance in their societies. This is an evil fire that comes from the Devil. Jotham's prophecy came true because Abimelech had to go to war with other evil leaders who desired to take his place. Abimelech used the fire of the Devil to kill a lot of people. Finally, Abimelech used fire to burn the door of a tower that held some of his enemies, but a woman threw down a millstone that mortally wounded Abimelech. He knew he was dying but being too proud to have been killed by a woman, he ordered his amourbearer to finish him off with his sword. God sometimes gets tired of the fire of the Devil, and God will use other means to kill evil people, sometimes in ways that humiliate them. Judges 9:22-57 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Judges 6:21 KJB

From time to time in the history of mankind whenever the people of God became few in number, and the darkness of evil became predominant, and the light of God's Word seemed to be on the verge of being put out for good, then God moved among His faithful people, and He caused them to rise up and fight against evil and win great victories even though greatly outnumbered. Noah and his family fought against evil by obeying God and building an Ark that saved them from the great flood that God used to destroy all evil people from the world. Genesis 6:8-14 (KJB). In the days of Elijah when God's people were few, and a man named Obadiah, who had kept his faith in God a secret, hid a hundred prophets in a cave to keep the evil king Ahab and his evil queen Jezebel from killing them, God raised up His prophet Elijah who gained a great victory over evil and caused a renewal of faith among God's people. I Kings 18:1-41 (KJB). When a small number of God's people returned to Jerusalem from their captivity in Babylon, they won a great victory over evil. Most of God's people remained in Babylon and lost their faith. Ezra 1:1-5 (KJB). 

In almost every example of when God saved a small number of His people from extinction by evil, He either had them to make a burnt offering or He made one Himself. God commanded Noah to make a burnt offering sacrifice after the great flood. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God sent fire from Heaven to burn the sacrifice that Elijah had made to turn God's people back to faith in Him. I Kings 18:30-41 (KJB). When a small number of God's people returned to Jerusalem from their captivity in Babylon where they may have turned to other gods and been lost from God's protection forever, the priests built an altar and made many burnt sacrifices. Ezra 3:1-3 (KJB). King Hezekiah started a great revival among God's people in Jerusalem, and he had the priests to make many sin offerings and burnt offerings to the Lord. II Chronicles 29:20-36 (KJB). Shortly thereafter, the king of Assyria invaded with a mighty army and conquered most of Judah, and he trapped a small number of God's people in Jerusalem where he threatened to extinguish God's people and faith in God forever from the earth. But the prophet Isaiah and king Hezekiah and the people remained faithful, and God sent an angel to utterly destroy that evil army. II Chronicles 32:21 (KJB). In the time of the Judges, when most of God's people had begun to worship false gods, God allowed the Midianites to dominate the Israelites and impoverish them, and God's faithful people were few in number. Then an angel, who was actually the Lord Himself, appeared to a man named Gideon and called him to lead God's people in revolt. Judges 6:1-17 (KJB). Gideon then killed a kid and made unleavened bread and a broth, and he brought them to the Lord. The Lord commanded Gideon to put the kid and the unleavened cakes on a rock and pour the broth on them. The Lord then touched this offering with His staff, and a fire rose up and consumed this offering. This was a burnt offering. Judges 6:18-24 (KJB). God then had Gideon to lead an army of only 300 men to defeat a vast multitude of the Midianites. Judges 7:16-25 (KJB). 

All of this can only mean that the sin offering, and the burnt offering, had great, but different, symbolic meanings for God's salvation of His people. God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve and the Israelites to symbolize that God's Messiah would shed His blood to save some of God's people by His grace. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But God gave the burnt offering to Noah and the Israelites for a different reason. God told Noah, and all who read the Bible, that the next time He destroys evil from the earth, He will use His fiery wrath, but He will utterly destroy only evil itself, and He will recreate all of His creation, including all living humans, whom He creates in His image, to be righteous. Genesis 1:26-27; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God made Eve the mother of all living humans which can only mean that they all belong to Him which makes them all His people no matter how evil they may become. Luke 20:38; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34-35; Genesis 3:20 (KJB). In the end of the world, the Messiah will appear to all of His living humans, whom He did not save by His grace, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their living natures for Him to recreate from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). God made this promise to Noah and to all of humanity that when He burns the earth, He will never "again smite;" that is, permanently kill any of His living humans that He creates and loves. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. It all comes back to Him to be cleansed and recreated. Romans 11:36 (KJB). God promised in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." That can only mean that He will thoroughly purge all evil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous, including all of His living humans whom He will return to faith in Him. Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-23; I Corinthians 15:20-26; John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).  

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Joshua 13:14 KJB

God uses His fiery wrath to destroy evil, but He also uses His fiery wrath to cleanse the souls and spirits of humans from all sins and evil so that He can save their living natures from being forever destroyed by the Devil. God creates the souls and spirits of all humans in His image. He creates them to be living and good, and God can never lose anything He has ever created to the Devil. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38 (KJB). God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve, which was the blood sacrifice of an animal, to symbolize that the coming Savior would be able to use His shed blood to cleanse the souls and spirits of all humans of all their sins and evil who would put their faith in Him while still alive in the flesh. Genesis 3:20-21; Matthew 26:28 (KJB). But God gave the burnt offering of animals to Noah after the flood, and God determined in His heart that He would remove the curse of the ground so that He could raise all of His repentant, living humans from the regions of death. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). God also understood that all humans have an evil nature injected into them by the Devil, but God also determined that He would never again permanently kill any of His living humans that He creates and loves as He had done with the flood. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 6:5-7 (KJB). All of this means that the burnt offering had to symbolize that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all of His living humans who do not become saved by His grace of all their sins and evil when He returns them to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). Christ will even go and preach to those living humans whom He killed in the flood so that He can save them. I Peter 3:19-20 (KJB). Christ will resurrect and recreate all of His repentant, living humans to an eternal life on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

In His eternal nature, God knows absolutely everything that can be known, but as He passes through time with the history of the human race, He learns what it means to be human. Acts 15:18; Luke 2:52 (KJB). Jesus learned what it means to be human. Hebrews 4:15 (KJB). 

God also gave the sin offering and the burnt offering to the Israelites. God gave an inheritance of parts of the promised land to the various tribes of Israel, but God gave only the inheritance of the burnt offering sacrifice to the Levites. Joshua 13:14 (KJB). The Levites, some of whom were the priests, symbolized the soul and spirit of the nation of Israel. At times, God allowed the Levites to eat part of the roasted meat that became the burnt offering, and He also allowed them to eat part of the meat offering when it became the burnt offering. Leviticus 6:14-18; Exodus 29:31-32 (KJB). This symbolized that those who partake of the Spirit of Christ by faith will receive either salvation by grace, or they will receive a lesser form of salvation accomplished by the burnt offering sacrifice made by the Spirit of Christ when He descended into a burning Hell. John 6:33; John 6:51; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB) 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 all of their souls and spirits to partake of His Spirit by faith so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge them of all sins, evil, and spiritual death so that He can recreate them with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The Levites symbolized the souls and spirits of humans, and the other tribes of Israel symbolized the recreated bodies of all living humans who will inherit a new life on God's recreated earth.  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Joshua 8:8,19 KJB

When the Israelite army had conquered AI, God had them to burn the city and kill every man, woman, and child in it. God allowed them to keep the cattle as a spoil because they were wholly innocent. But the people of AI were totally given to the practice of evil. For over 400 years, while the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Canaanites had practiced idolatry and child sacrifice. God is longsuffering and merciful, but when His patience becomes exhausted, He moves to utterly destroy evil in the earth. Romans 9:22 (KJB). God knows that that which is of utmost importance to the eternal survival of the human race must be the total eradication of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

The Israelites were a righteous army because they were used by God in righteous ways even though every man in it was a sinner. In this modern age, God has often become fed up with evil and atheistic ideologies, such as fascism and communism, and He has used His righteous armies to kill them and burn their cities. Every man, woman, and child has been burned in some cities in Japan and Germany. Nevertheless, in this Church Age, God has demonstrated His great longsuffering and mercy because He has commanded His Church to preach the gospel of salvation by His grace that He has provided for every human through His death, burial, and resurrection. Matthew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJB). 

But just because God sometimes uses His righteous armies to utterly destroy some evil people, that does not mean that He has given up on His salvation of the good and righteous natures of those evil people that He creates and loves. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). 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 (KJB). People become evil and atheistic because they allow the Devil to influence them to suppress their good and living natures that God created them to be. The Devil desires that sin and evil eventually annul the good and living natures of at least some humans so that they will forever be lost from God's Love in a burning Hell. In this way, the Devil hopes to weaken God which would give the Devil a chance to murder Him. John 8:44 (KJB). The Devil took his chance to murder God when the Father allowed all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of all humans to be placed on Jesus on the cross so that He could suffer it all in the place of every human, and He could rise from the dead having purged all sins and evil from every living human and having turned their eternal deaths into temporary deaths. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 2:2; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will return every living human to faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others when Christ visits them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

Hebrews 2:10-13 relates that God will save some humans by His grace, but Hebrews 2:14-18 relates that God will also save the rest of humanity with a lesser form of salvation. Taste is a temporary experience. That means that Hebrews 2:9 can only mean that Christ turned the eternal deaths of all humans into only temporary deaths. I John 2:2 relates that Christ satisfied His Father that He paid the sin debt of all living humans, not just those He saved by His grace. II Timothy 1:10 relates that Christ has "abolished death" itself, and since all humans are alive in God's sight, then Christ must have saved all living humans from eternal death. Luke 20:38 (KJB). I Timothy 4:10 relates that Christ exists "as the Savior of all men" which can only mean that He has saved all of His living humans and not that He just desires to save them. How can anyone get around Revelation 21:5 in which God promises "Behold, I make all things new.?" Living humans are a part of the "all things" that God has created. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). God knows exactly how to return every human He has ever created to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Joshua 7:15, 25 KJB

In this story about Achan, God directed His fiery wrath against one of His own people who had committed a deliberate and willful sin against God. Achan had stolen gold and silver that belonged to God. God commanded that he, and all that he had, to be burned with fire. But God actually had him, and his family, stoned to death before their bodies were burned. Being stoned to death is certainly not a pleasant way to die, but it is much better than being burned alive. 

God's war is with the Devil and all evil, not with any of His living humans that He creates and loves. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20 (KJB). God intends to make a short work on the earth in order to cause as little suffering to the human race as possible. Romans 9:28 (KJB). The Devil desires to burn all living humans alive forever. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God will never lose a single, living human to the Devil's desire. I Corinthians 13:8; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5 (KJB). 

In Israel's past, when most of them had been rebellious against God, God threatened to destroy the whole nation and through Moses raise up a new people to serve Him. But God had Moses to plead for his people and defend them, and so God forgave them. Numbers 14:11-20 (KJB). If God had actually destroyed His people and had raised up a new people to serve Him, then even more doubt about God's power would have spread through the world, and God's final triumph over the Devil and all evil would have taken a much longer history of humanity. That longer history would have caused much more suffering for much more people. God had to allow the Devil to do his worst to humans to prove that he can never finally break the faith that God puts into every human that He creates in His image. Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1-10 (KJB). But God will make that suffering that the Devil causes to be as short as possible. All humans sin, including Job, but God considers His image that He puts into every human to be perfect. Job 1:1 (KJB). Just as God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job, God will allow him to do his worst to the whole human race. But just as God did not allow the Devil to take Job's life, so God will not allow the Devil to take a single life of any living human that God ever creates. God knows exactly how to return all of His living humans created in His image to faith in Him in this life or in the end of the world when He makes His final judgment. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Timothy 4:1 (KJB). 

God had to have Achan and is family put to death and burned with fire to put fear of Him into the hearts of His people to prevent them from any possible future rebellion against Him. God had to have Achan's family put to death because they would have defended Achan. God had to prevent any future rebellion among His people because He might have to destroy them all and raise up a new people to serve Him. But such an event would have meant a much longer period of suffering in human history, and God intends to make a short history to cause as little suffering as possible. Romans 9:28 (KJB).

One may object that since God is Almighty, He could just summarily ban Satan and all evil from all of His creations. But that would just leave doubt in God's creations about the power of His Love which from time to time would have caused rebellion against God. But God could intervene into human history and become human so that He could prove that His Love is all-powerful and everlasting by allowing Himself to be nailed to a cruel cross and suffer all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of all humans in their place, and He could rise from the dead with complete victory over the Devil and all evil. Having thus proved that His Love can never fail, He could present that fact to all of His living humans and return them all to faith in Him as their Savior while in this life or in the end of the world. I Corinthians 13:8; John 20:24-29; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Joshua 6:24 KJB

God had the Israelite army to burn the city of Jericho to destroy the evil, pagan nature of the place. But God also had them to save the precious metals and put them into the treasury of the Lord. Even as wicked as Jericho was, it had some good in it. This same theme occurs again and again throughout the Bible. God punishes sin and evil, and sometimes destroys it with His fiery wrath, but something good always seems to be preserved. The harlot Rahab came to faith in God and hid two of Joshua's spies from the enemy and saved their lives. When the Israelites destroyed Jericho, Joshua saved her and her family alive. Joshua 6:25 (KJB). 

God creates all humans in His image to be good and alive. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created which means His living humans must live forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38 (KJB). But in order to live forever, every human must return to the faith that God put into them when He created them that God can save them alive forever. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). No matter how evil a human may become, he will still retain a small amount of that faith and goodness that God created him to be. Even Judas Iscariot became remorseful for his betrayal of Jesus, even though he refused to repent. Only goodness can be remorseful. Evil can never be remorseful. Matthew 27:3-5 (KJB). Jesus spoke to that spark of goodness still left in Judas Iscariot when Jesus called him "Friend." Matthew 26:50 (KJB). 

Adam and Eve sinned for the same reason that all humans sin, because they had a weakness in their free will. God gives free will to every human He creates who are mature and intelligent. The Devil exploits that free will to cause every mature and intelligent human to sin, and when they sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into them all. The evil of spiritual death causes all humans to commit even worse sins and evils. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:1-7; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). The Devil has planted the "seed" of spiritual death into every human who sins. But Jesus promised that His Father will root up every plant that He has not planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). This promise of Jesus can only mean that God will save every living human that He ever creates. 

The Devil looks for a way to weaken God and eventually murder Him. John 8:44 (KJB). The Devil believes that God made a mistake in giving free will to humans because the Devil can misuse that free will to cause humans to choose to sin which becomes spiritual death which will eventually become eternal death which means God will lose a part of His creation that He loves forever and that loss will weaken God's power. The Devil also knows that no human will ever have the strength needed to get rid of his spiritual death, and so the Devil believed that he had trapped God into His eventual destruction. If God ever becomes weak, then He becomes subject to being murdered. But God, being Almighty and having all power over Satan and all evil, came to earth as a human and took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths, that would have become eternal death, of all humans on Himself on a cross and suffered it all in the place of every human, and He rose from the dead with a complete victory over all sins, evil, and the Devil by turning eternal death into temporary death for all humans. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). 

God will prove that He did not make a mistake in giving free will to humans because He knows exactly how to cause every living human to return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Christ will save some of His living humans when they return to faith in Him that He washed away all of their sins and evil and annulled their spiritual deaths when He shed His blood and water on the cross for them. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB). But Christ will also visit all of the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death and on the earth in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return of their own free will to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                            Deuteronomy 32:22 KJB

In Moses' final address to the Israelites, he gave them a prophecy about the fiery wrath of God. Moses prophesied that the fiery wrath of God would one day become a lake of fire which would burn to the "lowest Hell" and burn the entire earth. Moses' prophecy agrees exactly with Revelation 20:14 (KJB) and with II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The lake of fire happens to be that part of God's nature which will utterly destroy all evil and the Devil in the end of the world so that God can recreate His entire creation to be righteous, including all of His living humans that He creates in His image. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23 (KJB). The phrase "lowest Hell" in this verse implies that there exist higher regions of Hell. Revelation 20:13 informs that in His final judgment God will call all dead humans, whom He has separated from His living humans, from the three regions of Hell called the Sea, Death, and Hell for Him to judge. When Adam and Eve sinned, God cursed the Devil and the ground which holds the three regions of death which the Devil had evidently filled with his devils. God did not curse Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). In fact, God made Eve the mother of all living which can only mean that God intends to save all of His living humans that He creates and loves from the curse that the Devil infected them, and all humans with, when they inevitably sin. This curse is spiritual death which threatens to become eternal death. Genesis 3:20; Genesis 2:17; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). 

Jesus' parable about the sheep and the goats describes His final judgment in the end of the world. Matthew 25:31-46(KJB). The sheep represent the good and living natures of all humans that God creates. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). The goats represent the dead and evil natures of all humans that the Devil injects into the inner beings of all humans who sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The sheep do at least some of the good works that God has given them to do, but the goats do no good works at all. Isaiah 26:12; Matthew 25:42-45 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created which means in His final judgment He will save all of His sheep who represent all of His living humans whom He has not already saved by His grace. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Matthew 13:43 (KJB). But the cursed nature of His living humans that the Devil has injected into them, God will separate from them for Him to cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 (KJB). God casts only dead humans into the lake of fire because He saves their living natures forever. God prepared the lake of fire for the Devil, his angels, and all evil, not for any of His good and living humans that He creates and loves. God's Love can never fail. Matthew 25:41; I John 3:8; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). 

Since it is quite impossible for humans to save themselves from the curse that threatens to eventually utterly destroy their good natures forever, God came to earth and took that curse on Himself on a cruel cross so that He could wash it all away with His blood and water that He shed so that He can forever save from eternal death, and all of the sin and evil that causes it, all living humans who would believe in Him as their Savior while still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). Only the good and living nature of humans can repent with a desire to be reconciled with God. The dead and evil nature of humans can never repent. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). 

But since Christ intends to save all of the rest of humanity not saved by His grace, He dismissed His Spirit when He died on the cross for Him to descend into a burning Hell to leave behind there all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He could rise immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who rose from the dead with an absolute and complete victory over all sins, evil, the Devil, and spiritual death. I Peter 3:18; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18; Acts 2:25-31; Psalm 16:9-11; I John 2:2 (KJB). But in order to make this salvation effective, Christ will visit all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures that He will recreate to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 25:46; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).