Joshua 8:8,19 KJB
When the Israelite army had conquered AI, God had them to burn the city and kill every man, woman, and child in it. God allowed them to keep the cattle as a spoil because they were wholly innocent. But the people of AI were totally given to the practice of evil. For over 400 years, while the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Canaanites had practiced idolatry and child sacrifice. God is longsuffering and merciful, but when His patience becomes exhausted, He moves to utterly destroy evil in the earth. Romans 9:22 (KJB). God knows that that which is of utmost importance to the eternal survival of the human race must be the total eradication of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
The Israelites were a righteous army because they were used by God in righteous ways even though every man in it was a sinner. In this modern age, God has often become fed up with evil and atheistic ideologies, such as fascism and communism, and He has used His righteous armies to kill them and burn their cities. Every man, woman, and child has been burned in some cities in Japan and Germany. Nevertheless, in this Church Age, God has demonstrated His great longsuffering and mercy because He has commanded His Church to preach the gospel of salvation by His grace that He has provided for every human through His death, burial, and resurrection. Matthew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJB).
But just because God sometimes uses His righteous armies to utterly destroy some evil people, that does not mean that He has given up on His salvation of the good and righteous natures of those evil people that He creates and loves. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). People become evil and atheistic because they allow the Devil to influence them to suppress their good and living natures that God created them to be. The Devil desires that sin and evil eventually annul the good and living natures of at least some humans so that they will forever be lost from God's Love in a burning Hell. In this way, the Devil hopes to weaken God which would give the Devil a chance to murder Him. John 8:44 (KJB). The Devil took his chance to murder God when the Father allowed all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of all humans to be placed on Jesus on the cross so that He could suffer it all in the place of every human, and He could rise from the dead having purged all sins and evil from every living human and having turned their eternal deaths into temporary deaths. Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 2:2; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will return every living human to faith in Him as their Savior, some by His grace and all others when Christ visits them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).
Hebrews 2:10-13 relates that God will save some humans by His grace, but Hebrews 2:14-18 relates that God will also save the rest of humanity with a lesser form of salvation. Taste is a temporary experience. That means that Hebrews 2:9 can only mean that Christ turned the eternal deaths of all humans into only temporary deaths. I John 2:2 relates that Christ satisfied His Father that He paid the sin debt of all living humans, not just those He saved by His grace. II Timothy 1:10 relates that Christ has "abolished death" itself, and since all humans are alive in God's sight, then Christ must have saved all living humans from eternal death. Luke 20:38 (KJB). I Timothy 4:10 relates that Christ exists "as the Savior of all men" which can only mean that He has saved all of His living humans and not that He just desires to save them. How can anyone get around Revelation 21:5 in which God promises "Behold, I make all things new.?" Living humans are a part of the "all things" that God has created. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). God knows exactly how to return every human He has ever created to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17 (KJB).
