The Fiery Wrath of God

                              Judges 20:48 KJB

All of the tribes of Israel went to war with the tribe of Benjamin because a group of evil men in that tribe had raped and murdered two women, and the rulers of the tribe of Benjamin refused to deliver up the men for judgment who had committed this terrible crime. Judges 20:12-13 (KJB). In addition, the husband of one of the women had cut her dead body into twelve pieces and had sent those pieces to the twelve tribes. All of this darkness and evil caused by the Devil brought a kind of madness to all the people of Israel who responded by going to a civil war with the people of Benjamin. Judges 20:1-17 (KJB). Sometimes in the history of humanity, the Devil becomes able to inflict a terrible, dark evil on the minds of large numbers of people, and he will cause them to afflict each other with cruel crimes. This often happens in revolutions and in such events as the Salem witch trials. Stories of dark crimes, such as cutting a woman into twelve pieces, often makes the madness much worse. Hitler's lies about awful crimes that the Jews did not commit made the madness of the Nazi revolution much worse. These types of insane events cannot seem to stop until some people come to their senses and ask the question, "What are we doing?" 

Just as people who are addicted to certain sins must hit rock bottom before they realize that they must either die or get right with God, so when insanity grips large numbers of people, then they must do their worst to each other before some of them begin to come to their senses. God knows this, and so He allowed these armies to defeat each other in several battles until only 600 men were left of the tribe of Benjamin. Judges 20:14-47 (KJB). God also allowed the armies of Israel to burn the cities of Benjamin because God knows that His fiery wrath purges evil, and when evil is purged, then humans caught in madness will begin to return to their senses. Judges 20:48 (KJB). 

The armies of Israel began to return to their senses when they realized that they were on the verge of the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin. To remedy that condition, they concocted various ways to supply the 600 men of Benjamin who were trapped in the rock of Rimmon with wives so that they could multiply and save the tribe of Benjamin from genocide. Judges 21:1-25 (KJB). 

All of sin and evil is a type of madness, but in the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to return to the sanity of faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all sin and evil from every one of them in order to save them from extermination by the Devil. Christ will then recreate their repentant, living souls and spirits 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; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29 (KJB).