The Fiery Wrath of God

                             II Kings 19:17-18 KJB

The king of Assyria had besieged Jerusalem, and king Hezekiah of Judah, who was a servant of the Lord, prayed fervently that God would deliver Jerusalem. King Sennacherib of Assyria had sent a letter to king Hezekiah in which he bragged that none of the gods of all the nations that he had conquered had been able to save them from his army, and therefore, the God of Hezekiah would not be able to deliver Jerusalem from his army. This letter was a great insult to the power of God. II Kings 19:8-16 (KJB). 

As king Hezekiah prayed, he mentioned that as king Sennacherib had conquered many nations, he had thrown their idol gods into fires and burned them. Evil armies happen to be so greedy and rapacious that they will often fight against each other for wealth and power. God knows that that is a great weakness in the power of evil, and God uses that weakness against the evil powers. Jesus taught that Satan had that weakness in his kingdom. Luke 11:14-23 (KJB). The 9th chapter of Revelation prophesies that an evil army will be released from the bottomless pit under the earth to wage war against an evil army on the earth, and six fallen angels will be released from being bound in the river Euphrates to kill a third part of another evil army by using fire and brimstone. Revelation 9:1-20 (KJB). The fact that the beast who came out of the earth caused the beast out of the sea to live and be able to speak so that the beast out of the earth could control him, could very well indicate that the beast out of the sea had been wounded to death by the beast out of the earth. Revelation 13:1-13 (KJB). 

In our age, the evil Nazi army and the evil communist army conquered Poland and divided it. Then they engaged in a horrific war with each other that saved the lives of millions in the good armies which enabled the good armies to win the war. 

God sent one angel to destroy 185 thousand in the Assyrian army to save Jerusalem, but God had already used king Sennacherib to burn many idols and destroy many pagan peoples. II Kings 20:35; II Kings 19:17-18 (KJB). God knows exactly how to fight fire with fire. He uses His fiery wrath against evil in different ways. God can use the weaknesses in evil forces to accomplish His Will.