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).
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