II Samuel 14:30-31 KJB
One of king David's sons named Absalom had been in exile from Judah for three years because he had murdered his brother Amnon for raping his sister Tamar. The General of David's army, named Joab, had persuaded king David to recall Absalom from exile and forgive him. Joab went to Absalom and brought him back from exile, but king David would not see him. After two years, Absalom asked Joab to take him to see the king, but for some reason, Joab just ignored him.
Then Absalom apparently, just for meanness and spite, had his servants to burn one of Joab's barley fields just to force Joab to talk to him about taking him to see his father. Joab came to Absalom's house to ask him why he had had his barley field burnt, and Absalom admitted that he had done so to get Joab to relent to his request that Joab take him to see the king, and king David kissed Absalom and forgave him. II Samuel 14:32-33 (KJB)
One of the characteristics of a person who has come under the influence of the Devil is that they will sometimes take very cruel actions against their friends and even their families. Their friends and families will often forgive them because they love them, but that love does not soften the criminal heart. God has great patience and compassion for the ordinary sinners because they are just too weak to always resist temptation, but God's patience sometimes runs out for sinners who deliberately suppress their good and living natures in order to become cruel and evil. Even so, most people, who are not Christians or religious Jews, remain as good people because they allow their good and living natures that God created them to be to prevail over their dead and evil natures.
Whenever a person sincerely repents of his sins and evil and asks God for forgiveness because of Christ's sacrifice for him, and he feels the Holy Spirit come into his heart and cleanse him with the blood of Jesus, then that person's heart will be changed, and he will acquire a desire to be more like Jesus. John 3:16; John 5:24; Matthew 26:28; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17-18; I John 1:7 (KJB).
But the person with a criminal mind only sees love and forgiveness as a weakness that he can use to his advantage. Later in his life, Absalom rebelled against his father and led an army to take the kingdom for himself. But in his battle with Joab's army, Absalom got caught by his thick hair in an oak tree, and his former friend Joab killed him. II Samuel 18:14 (KJB). Joab realized that despite king David's continued love for Absalom, he had to die to cleanse David's kingdom of all rebellion. II Samuel 19:1-8 (KJB)
When God loses His patience with evil, He has no problem killing evil people to cleanse His world of their vile presence. But God still loves their good and living natures that He created them to be. 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). Just as God used His fiery wrath to dissolve the being of rebellious Lucifer in order to recover all of the goodness that He had put into him so that He could exile his totally evil and empty nature to earth as a negative consciousness called Satan, so God, in the end of the world, will visit all of His living humans whom He had to consign to one of the regions of death because they did not become saved by His grace, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Christ their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and 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. Ezekiel 28:13-19; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).
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