The Fiery Wrath of God

                               Deuteronomy 5:5,25 KJB

Just before Moses turned the leadership of the Israelites over to Joshua, he preached his final message to the second generation of Israelites, and he informed them that God had made a covenant with them that He had not made with their fathers. Deuteronomy 5:1-3 (KJB). God made a covenant with those Israelites who were alive, and who heard Moses. Their fathers had failed to have faith that God would give them the promised land, and so they died in the wilderness. Numbers 14:4 (KJB). Nevertheless, God had liberated those faithless Israelites from slavery to the evil Egyptians. All of this symbolizes the fact that God will give a new life and an entrance into the kingdom of God to all living humans who accept His grace by their faith. John 3:3; John 5:24 (KJB). But in addition, God will also liberate all of His living humans who fail to have faith in His grace from slavery to the Devil and total evil. 

Moses reminded them that God had spoken to them from His fiery wrath against evil to make them afraid of His judgment of evil so that they would obey God which would always cause them to allow their good and living natures that God had created them to be to dominate their dead and evil natures. Deuteronomy 5:4-5; Deuteronomy 5:24-26 (KJB). That was God's method of sanctification at that time. The Holy Spirit sanctifies living humans saved by grace. Galatians 5:22-26 (KJB). Moses reminded them of God's Ten Commandments that He expected them to obey, but when they inevitably sinned because of their evil natures inside of them, God also gave them His judgments that they should bring a sin offering or a burnt offering to the priests who would sacrifice them to show the sinner that God had forgiven them because of their faith. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). 

God sometimes killed even some Israelites with His fiery wrath because they rebelled against Him. Numbers 16:35 (KJB). God creates every living human in His image which means He creates them to be good and to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). But the Devil injects spiritual death and evil into every human who chooses to sin except for small children who die before they sin or who cannot be aware that they have sinned. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The "seed" that the Devil plants is spiritual death and evil, but the "seed" that God gave to the woman is the Savior who will save all of humanity from spiritual death becoming eternal death. Matthew 15:13; Hebrews 2:9-18; Matthew 13:36-43; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). The power of evil inside every human will inevitably cause them to sin except for small children who die. Adam chose to use His free will to commit sin, but that fact caused the Devil to be able to give him the spiritual death that he can also give to all humans when they sin. Adam's weakness became the weakness of the whole human race. Romans 5:12 (KJB). But whenever God kills any human for their evil acts with His fiery wrath, or in other ways, He only temporarily kills their good and living natures that He loves, and He permanently kills their dead and evil natures that the Devil has instilled into them. Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Hebrews 2:9-18; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). 

Since it is inevitable that humans will sin, are they responsible for their sins and evil? The answer is yes and no. Adam actually committed a sin and an evil act. I Timothy 2:14 (KJB). Every willful and deliberate sin is also an evil act. Numbers 15:22-36 (KJB). Sin happens because of human weakness, but humans must deliberately decide to commit cruel and evil acts. For this reason, God happens to be more patient with sin than with evil acts. God will sometimes use His fiery wrath, and other means, to destroy evil. 

Since God knows that humans cannot be responsible for their sins, but they can be responsible for their evil acts, God assigned only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve, and by extension, to the whole human race. Genesis 3:14-19 (KJB). Like Adam, every human sin also has some evil attached to it, but since there can be no evil without sin, then humans are both responsible and not responsible for their sins and evil. God could assign temporary punishments to the human race because He knew that He would send a Savior to annul their spiritual deaths and save them from eternal death. Hebrews 2:9-18; I Corinthians 15:20-23; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). 

God also made Eve the mother of all living, and all humans live in His sight. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and so all living humans can only be forever alive in His sight. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). God must temporarily punish all humans not saved by His grace when He consigns their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death when they die because their good and living natures have become soiled and corrupted by exposure to their evil natures. Isaiah 64:6; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13 (KJB). Spiritual death can cause permanent death. Romans 6:23 (KJB). For this reason, God has found a way to cleanse His living humans from all sins, evil, and spiritual death by causing them to return to faith in Him as their Savior who shed His blood and water on a cross to cleanse their living souls and spirits so that He can save them by giving them the righteousness of His resurrected Son. I John 1:7; Genesis 3:20-21; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:21 (KJB). God will also save the rest of humanity with a lesser form of salvation when Christ visits them all in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to 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 cleansed souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can 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. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 8:20-21; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 3:6 (KJB). 

 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Deuteronomy 5:1-33 KJB 

When God gave Moses His words to speak to the children of Israel just before God sent them into the promised land to conquer it, Moses told them that God had chosen them to be a special people to God who would renew faith in Him among the peoples of the world whose faith in God had been almost annulled. Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (KJB). Romans 1:18-32 accurately describes the declension of the original human race from faith in God to evil and the worship of idols. But God intervened into human history to stop this declension by the use of His chosen people to write His Word, to maintain faith in Him, and to bring a Messiah into the world who would save the entire human race from evil and eternal death. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-23; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). God creates humans in His image to be good, but the Devil injects spiritual death and evil into the inner beings of all humans because all humans will sin. The Devil hopes that continued idol worship will cause that spiritual death to become eternal death which will utterly destroy a part of God's creation that He loves. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Idol worship can be anything that a person loves more than God such as love of money, love of having power over others, love of selfishness, or love of excessive and destructive pleasures. Only faith in the Almighty Love of God to defeat all evil and the Devil can save humanity from eternal death. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). 

Moses renewed the Ten Commandments to this second generation of Israelites because the first generation had died in the wilderness because of their lack of faith in God's power to save. Deuteronomy 5:1-21 (KJB). God expected His people to obey His Ten Commandments, but at the same time, God knew that the evil within their hearts would inevitably cause them to sin. But God had a faith in Him to give them for their obedience or for their disobedience. God would bless them for their obedience, but God would also provide a faith in His Love and mercy when He commanded them to bring a sin offering or a burnt offering to the priests for the forgiveness of their sins. Leviticus 5:4-10 (KJB). The sin offering and the burnt offering symbolized tacit faith in the salvations which would be provided by the coming Messiah. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). 

God spoke to His people out of Mount Horeb with His fiery wrath against evil to make them afraid of Him so that they would always worship Him and refrain from idol worship. Deuteronomy 5:3-4 (KJB). Some of the Jews have kept this faith until this day. That second generation of Israelites noticed that God spoke to them in His fiery wrath, but He killed none of them. In fact, they heard the voice of the Lord out of His fiery wrath, and they lived. This second generation understood that as long as they had faith in God, avoided idol worship, and brought the sin offering and the burnt offering to God for the forgiveness of their sins, then they would live forever in the land which He had promised to give them. Deuteronomy 5:22-33 (KJB).

Whenever the human race falls into danger of their spiritual deaths becoming eternal death, then God intervenes in human history to save humanity from that terrible fate. Romans 5:20 (KJB). God will not allow His Love for the human race to fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). When the world became engulfed with spiritual darkness, then God sent His Son to sacrifice Himself on a cross and rise from the dead to gain an absolute victory over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). The sin offering symbolized that Christ would shed His blood and water on the cross to save by His grace all humans who would repent of their sins and come to faith in Him while still alive in the flesh. I John 1:7; John 5:24; Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But the burnt offering symbolized that Christ would dismiss His Spirit to descend into a burning Hell to leave all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross behind there so that He could rise immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who would rise from the dead having attained a complete and absolute victory over all evil and the Devil. Genesis 8:20-21; I Peter 3:18; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Christ will again intervene into human history to save all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world when He will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth to cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can resurrect and recreate their living natures to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

No verse in the entire Bible teaches that the physical deaths of humans will prevent God from ever saving them from eternal death. Luke 20:38 teaches that all humans are alive to God, and II Timothy 1:10 teaches that Christ has abolished death itself. Christ saves all of His living humans from eternal death. Repentance and faith will always evoke the compassion of Christ whether any human is physically alive or dead. Romans 10:13; Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). 

I Timothy 4:10 clearly teaches that Christ is; that is, He exists as the Savior of all humans. It does not relate that He desires to save all humans. The phrase "especially of those who believe" refers to those whom He saves by His grace. Since humans saved by grace have a special form of salvation, then the first part of that verse can only mean that the rest of humanity must have another form of salvation. All Christian churches believe in predestination. They believe that God knows all humans who will be saved by His grace, and all who will not be so saved, which can only be the same as predestination. Acts 15:18 (KJB). But why would Christ bear the sins and evil of the whole human race on the cross knowing that He could not save most of them? Does God do anything in vain? I John 2:2 teaches that Christ appeased God's wrath for all humans, not just those saved by His grace. Colossians 1:20 teaches that God will "reconcile all things unto Himself." All living humans happen to be a part of the "all things" that God has created. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). Since God creates "all things" for His pleasure, then how can He take any pleasure in the eternal deaths of living humans whom He loves? Revelation 21:5 promises that "Behold, I make all things new." Living humans have to be a part of the "all things" that God has and will create. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). One would think that the greatest honor that can be given to the Almighty Love and Mercy of God is that He will utterly crush the Devil and all evil, and He will thoroughly purge it all from His creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Genesis 3:15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Deuteronomy 4:1-40 KJB 

God gave Moses a speech to the children of their fathers whom God had brought out of slavery in Egypt. Deuteronomy 4:37 (KJB). The only persons who were left of the generation that God brought out of Egypt were Moses. Joshua, and Caleb. Because Moses was the leader of the disobedient Israelites who had no faith that God would give them the promised land, and because Moses himself had been disobedient, God called Moses to the top of Mount Nebo where he could see most of the promised land that God would give His people. Deuteronomy 34:1-8 (KJB). But the fact that God had Moses to die at the top of a mountain symbolized that Moses was saved by grace, and God took his soul and spirit directly to Heaven when he died. Matthew 17:1-3 (KJB). 

Moses reminded this second generation that God had spoken to His people from Mount Sinai with His fiery wrath against evil. God spoke to them in His fiery wrath in order to make them deathly afraid of Him. That fear of God would become a part of their history which they would teach every generation to keep them from ever worshipping false gods. Deuteronomy 4:9 (KJB). God had given the Israelites His commandments and judgments. Deuteronomy 4:5-8 (KJB). God expected them to try to keep His Ten Commandments, but He also knew that inevitably they would sin against Him, and His judgment was that if they offered a clean animal for a sin offering or a burnt offering, He would forgive them. But whether they obeyed or disobeyed, they would keep their faith in Him as their deliverer from evil. God expects Christians to live clean and moral lives, but when they inevitably sin, God will forgive them when they confess and repent. Romans 12:1-2; I John 1:9 (KJB). But whether in obedience or repentance, the Christian demonstrates that he has faith in God alone as His Savior from all sins, evil, eternal death, and the Devil. Hebrews 2:9-13 (KJB). 

God spoke to the Israelites with His fiery wrath against evil to make them afraid of Him so that when they taught their history to every generation, they would worship only God and not turn to the worship of false gods. The pagan nations, whom God expected His people to fight against, worshipped idols which demonstrated that they had no faith in God whatsoever. Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). No faith in God whatsoever symbolizes total evil and rebellion against God. Total evil never repents because it does not believe in a merciful God who will forgive. So, God needed a chosen people who would believe in Him, and who would fight against that evil until they could bring a Messiah into the world who would be able to save the entire, living human race from eternal death because they still retained their faith in Him that He gives to them when He creates them. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God has instructed His Church to fight against total evil itself and not against His living humans whom He creates and loves. Ephesians 6:12 (KJB). Every conversion to faith in God happens to be a reawakening of the faith that God puts into every human when He creates them. Romans 1:19 (KJB). 

Every human possesses a living nature that God creates to be good, and therefore, still retains faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). But every human also possesses a dead and evil nature injected into their inner beings by the Devil which causes them to sin and even to turn their lives over to total evil which is idol worship. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The seed of the Devil has been planted, and it opposes the seed of the woman. But God will root up every plant that He has not planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). God's Love can never fail, and so He has determined to return every one of His living humans to faith in Him by causing them all to repent and believe in Him as their Savior. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Christ took the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of every living human on Himself on the cross so that He could turn eternal death into a temporary death in order to forever save every one of His living humans. Christ conquered eternal death when He rose from the dead. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:20-23; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Christ saves some of His living humans by His grace when they repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior while still alive in the flesh. John 3:3; John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB). Christ will save the rest of humanity "on the earth, and under the earth" when He appears to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. He will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and totally evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures with new bodies to dwell forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). 

God promised the Israelites that He will preserve their good and faithful natures with eternal lives on His new earth. Deuteronomy 4:40 (KJB). God extends this same promise to all repentant, pagan Gentiles. Isaiah 45:20-25; John 5:28-29 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                   Psalm 50:23 KJB

God clearly teaches in this verse that He has a salvation for every person who praises Him and who leads a good life. This salvation cannot be salvation by God's grace because grace happens to be wholly a gift from God apart from any good works or a good life. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). Salvation by grace was the same in the Old Testament as it is in the New Testament. God gave grace to Noah and his family before he ever even started to build the Ark. Genesis 6:8 (KJB). Noah and his sons built the Ark because they were already saved by grace, not as a requirement to obtain grace. Since God always knows what salvation by grace means, then Psalm 50:23 must indicate that God has a lesser form of salvation for all humans who praise Him and who lead a good life. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB).

God creates every living human in His image which means He creates every human to be good. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then this goodness must last forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). But the Devil injects spiritual death into every human who sins. Sin and evil cause spiritual death, which in turn, causes all humans to sin and some to commit evil acts. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). God creates every human for a good purpose, and so He gives every good human a set of good works for them to do in their lives. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). All humans fail to do all of the good works that God has given them to do, and that is sinful. James 4:17 (KJB). But most humans saved by grace and many others who try to lead good lives will obey God and do some of their good works. Every human has a good nature and an evil nature inside of them. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). This means every human who turns their lives over to practice the worst cruelties and evils that humans can do will nevertheless do some good in their lives. Jesus taught that God has a reward for even the smallest, good work. Matthew 10:41-42 (KJB). 

God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 11:36 (KJB). It is quite impossible for humans to overcome and gain victory over the spiritual death within them. That spiritual death will eventually cause an eternal death. Matthew 19:25-26 (KJB). But God came to earth with the Almighty Power needed to gain victory over eternal death and the Devil and save all of His living humans. John 12:30-32; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; I John 2:2; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). 

Christ will visit all of His living humans who were not saved by grace, but who are "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world. Christ will cause them all to praise Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Christ will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him 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 evil natures. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 50:23 (KJB). Christ will recreate their good natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). Christ will give few rewards for their few good works to humans who led cruel and evil lives. Christ will give many rewards for their good works to good humans who led good lives. Proverbs 10:12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God will make sure that every living human whom He does not save by His grace will receive His lesser form of salvation. Psalm 50:23; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 3:6 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                             Deuteronomy 1:30-38 KJB

Moses preached to the Israelites, and he related to them how God had used His mighty power to free them from slavery in Egypt and had led them through the wilderness in a cloud by day and by His fiery wrath through the night. Even though God had fed them, and He had used His fiery wrath to protect them from the Egyptian army, and He had drowned the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, the Israelites, except for Caleb and Joshua, did not believe that God would give them victory over the armies of the Canaanites so that they could conquer their promised land.  

Moses related to all who read the Bible that God uses His fiery wrath to utterly destroy His enemies, but He also uses His fiery wrath to guide and protect His people. Exodus 14:17-24 (KJB). The Egyptian army symbolized the demonic host of the Devil, and the Israelites symbolized the entire human race. God creates every human in His image to be good which means that only the Devil and all evil are God's enemies, not any of His living humans. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Luke 20:38; John 12:30-32 (KJB). Some of the Israelites died in the wilderness because they did not believe that God could give them the promised land. But that does not mean that God gave up on them. Most of the human race dies in their sins, and God consigns their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death according to how they lived their lives. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Some humans, like those Israelites who did enter and conquer the promised land, repent of their sins and evil and accept Christ as their Savior, and they inherit the blessings of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit and the promise of going to Heaven when they die. But God expects them all, like the believing Israelites, to fight against sin and evil. But just as God saved all of the Israelites from the evil Egyptian army, He will save the entire human race from the demonic power of the Devil. Revelation 21:5 (KJB). 

Many scriptures in the Bible teach that both evil and goodness reside within the inner beings of every human. God creates every human in His image to be good and alive. God means to save every living human that He ever creates from eternal death. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Luke 20:38 (KJB). But when humans sin, as they all do, then the Devil acquires the right to inject spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans which causes them all to commit sins and some to commit evil acts. The Devil wagers that spiritual death will eventually become eternal death, and God will thus lose a part of His creation which will also prove that God's Love for His good and living humans can fail. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Spiritual death would have certainly become eternal death, but God Himself came to earth to sacrifice Himself on a cross to take all eternal deaths, and all the sins and evil that causes it on Himself, to purge it all from all humanity, and He rose from the dead having abolished eternal death by turning it into three days of temporary death. Thus, Christ gained complete victory over the Devil and all sins and evil. John 12:30-32; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:9-18; Colossians 1:20 (KJB). John 12:30-32 clearly teaches that Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil while He suffered on the cross, and He judged none of His living humans whom He loves. The quick and the dead are inside every human, and Christ does not judge those humans until the end of the world. John 12:46-48; II Timothy 4:1; Luke 20:38; Psalm 82:6-8; Psalm 36:6 (KJB).

Christ will save all of His living humans from eternal death, some by His grace and all others when He visits them "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                  Numbers 31:1-10 KJB

God is longsuffering and merciful. God will usually endure the sins and evil of groups of people for a long time, but His justice will eventually fall. Romans 9:22 (KJB). For a long time in the beginning of the human race, humans worshipped God. Genesis 4:26 (KJB). But over time, the spiritual death which the Devil injects into the inner beings of all humans began to seduce more and more humans to become subdued by the Devil's systems of destructive pleasures, greed, and a lust for power that caused them to begin to worship false gods that they thought would give them all of the pleasures and prosperity that they wanted free from any punishment that they might have to endure for all of the violence and cruelty they might have to do to others to obtain their evil desires. Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). In time, the whole human race, except for Noah and his family, became evil and violent. Genesis 6:5-7 (KJB). But God endured their evil for hundreds of years before He finally decided to destroy them in the great flood. God allowed the Egyptians to persecute His people for over 400 years until He finally sent judgment on them to force them to free His people from slavery. Genesis 15:13 (KJB). God endured evil nations in Caanan for hundreds of years before He sent the Israelites to conquer their promised land. 

Actually, in this Age of Grace, God has been less patience with evil nations than He did before Jesus came. Especially since about the time of the industrial revolution, God has often sent Christian and Israeli armies to destroy evil nations and burn their cities. Numbers 31:10 (KJB). God will directly use His fiery wrath against evil to destroy evil nations, but He will also use His own righteous armies to destroy and burn evil nations. Genesis 19:24-25; Numbers 31:10 (KJB). God intends to do a short work on the earth. So, from time to time He uses His fiery wrath against evil to destroy large groups of evil people so that evil will not last over a very long time and cause even greater suffering to the human race. Romans 9:28 (KJB). 

Because of the spiritual deaths inside of every human that causes them to sin and commit evil acts, the Devil has gained some power over humans to cause them great suffering and pain. Romans 5:12 (KJB). The Devil even bragged to God about His power over humans. Job 1:7 (KJB). The Devil also knows that because of God's great love for the human race, he will be able to cause great pain and suffering to God Himself. Matthew 20:17-19; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The book of Job supplies the answer as to why the Devil does this. From the time of Lucifer's rebellion, Satan has desired to murder God and take control of His universe. John 8:44-45 (KJB). The Devil hopes and believes that if he can cause enough suffering to the human race, he can cause at least one human to succumb to eternal death and be lost from God's Love forever. Job 1:8-12 (KJB). The Devil will thus prove that God's Love can fail and that condition would weaken God. The Devil also knows that because of God's Love, the Devil gained great power to cause untold suffering and pain to God when the Devil has Him nailed to a cross. John 19:6 (KJB). The Devil wagered that if God has been weakened, maybe because of Judas Iscariot, and has been nailed to a cross, then the terrible weight of sins and evil that He would have to endure would cause Him to succumb to evil and the Devil would have succeeded in his desire to murder God. Luke 4:1-15 (KJB). Just as God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job, so must He allow the Devil to do his worst to the human race to prove to His creation that His Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Doubt crept into God's creation when Lucifer rebelled that God's Love might fail. Thomas' doubt was symptomatic of that general doubt. John 20:24-29 (KJB). 

God creates every human to be good, and therefore, to have faith in Him. 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). This fact can only mean that Christ suffered the eternal deaths of every human on the cross and all of the sins and evil that causes it. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 2:2. (KJB). But He rose from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, eternal death, and the Devil. I Corinthians 15:20-23; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). Hebrews 2:10-12 teaches that Christ saves by His grace, but Hebrews 2:13-18 teaches that Christ will save the rest of humanity. God only has to return the entire human race to faith that He has the power to save and that He has done all that is necessary to save them all from eternal death and the power of the Devil. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). Christ saves some humans by His grace the moment they repent and believe, but He will cause the rest of humanity to return to faith in Him as their Savior when He visits them in the end of the world. John 3:3; John 3:16; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In Christ's final judgment, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of every living human to separate their repentant, good and living nature from their dead and evil nature 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 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                    Numbers 29:6,13,36 KJB

These verses clearly indicate that the burnt offering had to be made in addition to the sin offering, but with a different meaning. The sin offering had to be a blood sacrifice which symbolized the shed blood of Christ on the cross for all humans who would become saved by grace. This fact can only mean that the burnt offering had to have had a different meaning than did the sin offering.  

Both the sin offering and the burnt offering had to be of clean animals "without blemish." Numbers 29:13 (KJB). This meant both sacrifices represented the sinless and perfect life of Christ. Hebrews 4:15 (KJB). Christ had to offer His perfect and innocent life for man's salvation because any sin would disqualify Him from being able to make a successful sacrifice. Jesus had to suffer and die as a perfect man on the cross. He had to dismiss His perfect Spirit to descend into Hell to bear the load of all of the sins and evil that Jesus suffered on the cross which were not washed away by the blood and water that He shed. I John 2:2; Luke 23:46 (KJB). Having left behind Him in Hell all of the sins and evil of all humans who were not saved by grace, Jesus' Father raised His Spirit immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead completely victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Luke 23:46; I Peter 3:10-20; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). The sin offering represented Christ's salvation by His grace, and the burnt offering represented Christ's salvation of the rest of humanity by His Spirit's descent into a burning Hell, and His resurrection from Hell and from the grave. Christ never wins a partial victory over evil and the Devil. Christ will absolutely crush the Devil and all evil out of existence just as prophesied. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). All of this means that Christ has the right to visit all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world so that He can 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 all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them, and He can save and recreate their repentant souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 3:10-12; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

All living humans must repent and return to the faith that Christ put into them when He created them so that they can evoke the compassion of Christ that will save them. Habakkuk 2:4; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Christ knows exactly how to return every human He ever created to faith in Him of their own free will. Since Christ has abolished death itself, and since all humans are alive to God, then God must forever save all of His living humans, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-23; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB). If Christ does not save all of His living humans whom He destroyed in the great flood, then why will He go and preach to them in prison? I Peter 3:18-20 (KJB). King David, being one of the prophets who wrote God's Word but who did not fully understand that he was saved by grace, prophesied that he believed that God would raise him uncorrupted from the dead along with his uncorrupted Holy One. Psalm 16:9-11 (KJB). Jesus prophesied that the meek shall inherit the earth. These meek will be those whom Christ will visit in the end of the world who will humble themselves to Christ and receive His lesser form of salvation. Matthew 5:5; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). 

In addition to all of this, God instructed that a meat offering be made along with the burnt offering. The meat offering was just flour baked with oil. Once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month, God required every Israelite to demonstrate their repentance by bringing a sin offering or a burnt offering to be sacrificed by the priests. God also required a meat offering to be made with a burnt offering. Apparently, God allowed every repentant Israelite to eat the meat offering. Otherwise, why would He require it? This fact reminds one of that which Jesus taught in John 6:33 and in John 6:51 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                    Numbers 28:1-31 KJB

In this chapter, God gives specific and detailed instructions as to when and how often the priests should make a burnt offering to the Lord. God informed the Israelites that the burnt offering made a "sweet savour" to Him which meant He was greatly pleased with these offerings. Apparently, the burnt offerings were very important to God. In fact, God informed the Israelites that the burnt offering was just as holy to Him as was the sin offering. Leviticus 6:17 (KJB). God informed the Israelites that if a person brought two clean animals to the priests, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, the sins of that person would be forgiven for either offering. Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). Since the sin offering symbolized the blood sacrifice of the coming Messiah on the cross for the forgiveness of sins and salvation by grace, then what did the burnt offering symbolize since a person could be forgiven of their sins because of it? 

God gave the sin offering to Adam and Eve when He killed an animal and made coats for them to cover their nakedness which symbolized their sinful nature. Genesis 3:21 (KJB). That was symbolic of the coming Messiah who would shed His blood to save anyone who would believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB).

God became grieved when He had to kill the entire, evil human race except for Noah and his family who had found grace from God. Genesis 6:5-9 (KJB). God could not have been grieved because of His destruction of evil because He hates evil, and He intends to purge all evil and the Devil from His entire creation. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God creates every living human in His image, and He loves them all. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But because of human sin, the Devil has injected spiritual death and evil into the inner beings of every human. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God has a "seed" which he has planted, and the Devil has a "seed" which he has planted. In the great flood, God killed the good and living natures of every living human for allowing evil to dominate their good and living natures and for refusing to repent. God grieved because He had killed their good and living natures that He loved, and He had sent their souls and spirits into the regions of death that He had cursed in the ground with no way provided by Him to save them from spiritual death which could become eternal death. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). 

But after the flood, God gave Noah a symbolic sacrifice of clean animals to indicate that He will never again destroy the human race with a great flood, but in the future, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse and purge all sins, evil, and spiritual death from all of His good and living humans who do not become saved by His grace. John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God told Noah that He had removed the curse from the ground which meant He will open up the regions of death to liberate all of His repentant, good and living humans from it. Genesis 3:17 (KJB). God told Noah that he realizes that the evil nature in every human inevitably causes them to sin, but God will nevertheless save their good and living natures because of His mercy. Psalm 62:11-12 (KJB). Then God told Noah that in the future, He will never permanently "smite," that is, kill any of His living humans that He loves. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). In the Old Testament and even sometimes today, God uses His fiery wrath, and other means, to kill evil people, but He only permanently kills their dead and evil natures. God is Almighty and merciful, and He intends to use His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world to dissolve the beings of every human "on the earth, and under the earth" to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their living natures from eternal death, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Psalm 75:2-3; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). 

But God will need to get their good and living natures to repent and return to faith in Him to activate His compassion so that He can save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will send Christ to preach to them in the regions of death and to all of His living humans whom He killed in the great flood, and when they all see His tremendous majesty and His Almighty Love for them, they will all repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can heal them and return them all to the complete goodness and love that He put into them when He created them, and He will cast their separated, evil and spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Peter 3:18-20; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB).

Jesus' dead body was buried and not burned. So how did Jesus accomplish His salvation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil which the burnt offering symbolized? When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to accomplish His salvation of all living humans who do not become saved by His grace. Luke 23:46 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit carried all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace that Jesus bore on the cross, and He left it all in Hell. I John 2:2 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will cast Hell with all of its separated sins and evil into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit then rose immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with a complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; I John 3:8; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Jesus came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not any of His own works that He loves. King David was saved by grace, but he did not fully understand what that meant. He nevertheless believed that in the final resurrection, he would be raised back to life from Hell when the Holy One was resurrected. 

Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to wash away the sins and evil of all living humans whom He would save by His grace. I John 2:7 (KJB). But the Holy Spirit does not activate that faith and salvation until the moment the believer repents. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB). In the same way, Christ does not activate His salvation of the rest of humanity until He visits them in the end of the world and causes them all to repent and return to faith in Him 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 evil natures which the Holy Spirit left behind Him in Hell. Revelation 5:11-14; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). 

"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8 (KJB). The Almighty Love and compassion of God cannot change. Christ will save any sinner by His grace who repents and believes no matter how evil that person may be. I Timothy 1:15 (KJB). The physical deaths of humans cannot change the compassion of Christ and no verse in the Bible relates that it does. When God sees the repentance of any living human, dead or alive, that cannot fail to activate His tremendous Love and Mercy so that His constant compassion will cause Him to save that person by His grace or by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. John 3:16; Revelation 5:11-14; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 21:5; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).