Deuteronomy 12:3,31 KJB
In this chapter, Moses preached about that which is of the utmost importance in people's lives. All people either worship God and trust Him and obey Him, or they worship false gods which are just totally evil devils. At that time, the Israelites were God's family. When they sinned, God punished them for their correction, and when they repented by bringing a clean animal to the priests for a sin offering or a burnt offering, God forgave them. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). God knew that every one of them had a good and living nature that He had created them to be, but they also had a dead and evil nature that had been instilled into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God knew that if the entire human race were to allow their dead and evil natures to dominate their good and living natures, then over time, their good and living natures would become totally evil, and God would lose a part of His creation to the Devil. Such an event would diminish the Almighty Power of God and put His entire creation into danger of being lost to the Devil. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB).
Just as God had chosen Noah and his family to preserve faith in Him when He had to destroy the human race because it had become dominated by evil, so God chose the nation of Israel to preserve faith in Him in a world full of pagan people who worshipped devils. God knew that because of their evil natures, even His own people would inevitably sin and even do evil acts, but God provided animal sacrifices that they could make to demonstrate their faith in God's Love and mercy, and God would forgive them and that reconciliation would preserve God's family. To offer an animal sacrifice demonstrated that they had faith in God's power over evil.
Yet God sometimes used His fiery wrath against evil to kill some of His own people when it became evident to Him that they had abandoned their faith in Him and had become totally disobedient and had allowed evil to completely dominate their good and living natures. At times, God had to purify His people to prevent them all from becoming totally evil which would destroy faith in Him in the world, and that event would put the whole world in danger of being lost from God's Love forever. But whenever God saw that His purification had been completed, He provided a way for His people to return to faith in Him as their merciful God who would preserve their lives. Numbers 21:5-9 (KJB). The Devil and evil have tremendous power in the world to thoroughly corrupt the human race, but God has Almighty Power which will save His entire creation from utter destruction. Luke 4:5-8; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB).
God expects His people to fight against evil. God will sometimes allow His people to borrow His fiery wrath in their fight against evil. God sometimes commands His faithful armies to burn evil cities and their evil gods. Even today, God will command His good armies to burn those cities where evil dominates. Deuteronomy 12:1-3; Deuteronomy 12:31 (KJB). But just as God's war happens to be only against evil and the Devil and never against the good and living natures of all people whom He loves, so God expects His people to war against only the Devil and all evil even when they have to kill their good and living natures at the same time that they kill their evil natures. Ephesians 6:12 (KJB).
But mostly for two thousand years, God has used His Church to preach the gospel that Christ sacrificed Himself to take away their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that the Holy Spirit could recreate their souls and spirits so that the power of God would cause their good and living natures to dominate their lives. II Corinthians 5:14-21; I Corinthians 15:1-4; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). God has promised His Church, and all other humans saved by His grace, an eternal life with Him in Heaven. I Peter 1:3-5 (KJB). But God has also promised all of His faithful Jews that He will give them eternal life in their promised land on His recreated earth in the end of the world. Deuteronomy 12:28-29 (KJB). God has extended this same promise of eternal life on His new earth to the good and living natures of all humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth because Christ will visit them in the end of the world, and He will 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, good and living natures 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; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will prove that His Love can never fail because He will save His entire creation, and He will utterly destroy all of the evil works of the Devil. I Corinthians 13:8; I John 3:8; Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). The Devil has marred God's creation, but God knows exactly how to recreate it. Christ clearly taught that He judged only the Devil while He was on the cross, and He also taught that He judged no man while He was on the earth which can only mean that He gained complete victory over the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died and rose from the dead to gain the higher and lesser forms of salvation for the entire human race. John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5; II Timothy 1:10; II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).
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