The Fiery Wrath of God

                               II Kings 16:13 KJB

All Christian cults center on the attempt to combine the worship of a false god with the worship of the true and living God. A king of Judah named Ahaz made an alliance with a pagan king of Assyria to help him in his war with Syria and Israel. Ahaz failed to pray to God for help. The king of Assyria won the war for the king of Judah. The king of Judah then went to Damascus to visit the king of Assyria, and he saw there a pagan altar, and he was quite impressed with it. He then sent a message to Urijah the chief priest in Jerusalem and instructed him to make an altar exactly like the one he had seen in Damascus. He also instructed Urijah to move the brazen altar from before the Temple and replace it with this pagan altar. When king Ahaz returned from Damascus, he offered on this pagan altar all of the sin offerings and all of the burnt offerings that God had commanded to be offered on the simple, brazen altar before the Temple. II Kings 16:5-18 (KJB). 

All Christian cults begin with someone who attempts to replace some part of the Word of God with some sort of pagan beliefs. Quite often, they try to reduce Jesus to being someone who is less than God which makes Him no more than any pagan god. The Devil does not care if these cults practice the Lord's supper or baptism if they just keep people from believing that Jesus is God their Savior. The brazen altar before the Temple on which the sin offerings and the burnt offerings were to be made symbolized the cross of Christ where God poured out His blood and water to save some humans by His grace, and He sent His Spirit to Hell when He died to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could save them by His mercy. Acts 20:28; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Luke 23:46; Luke 3:6; John 5:28-29 (KJB). When the Holy Spirit rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus, He rose from the dead with an absolute and complete victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). Christ, who is Almighty God, cannot fail to save from eternal death all of His living humans whom He creates and loves. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Christ "hath put all enemies under His feet." I Corinthians 15:25 (KJB). God's enemies are the Devil and all evil, never any of His living humans whom He loves. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).