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).
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