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).
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