The Fiery Wrath of God

                                II Kings 25:9 KJB

After Judah's final defeat by the Babylonians, a servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt God's house and all of the houses in Jerusalem. This was the Devil's fiery wrath against God. To this day, those who hate God think that they can destroy God's work on the earth by burning houses of worship. Actually, God wanted His house to be burned because evil kings of Judah had allowed it to become polluted with idols and with false priests. II Kings 25:9 (KJB). After Jesus threw the moneychangers out of His Temple, one can be sure that they came back after Jesus had ascended. The scribes and priests became very angry with Jesus because no doubt they had some stake in the moneychangers' profits. Mark 11:15-18 (KJB). The Temple of God had become polluted, and so God allowed the Romans to burn it in 70 A.D.

Houses of worship, built by humans, always fail to some extent because they allow sinful and evil people to come into them who refuse to repent. But God can build a Temple where only the pure and holy can worship. Jesus' prophecy in John 2:17-22 (KJB) had a double meaning as many scriptures do. Jesus meant that just as the Jews had caused the destruction of the first Temple, and they would cause the destruction of the second Temple, He would raise up a third Temple that cannot be destroyed. Jesus meant both His own body which is God's Temple, and a future Temple that He will build.  

The first and second Temples symbolized Jesus on the cross who took the sins and evil of the whole human race on Himself. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 2:2 (KJB). The sinful and evil natures of humans and the Devil tried to destroy Jesus on the cross, but through His sacrifice, Jesus destroyed them. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save from eternal death all living humans whom He would save by His grace. Matthew 26:28; John 5:24 (KJB). But when Jesus died on the cross, He sent His Spirit to Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that He could rise from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who would rise from the dead with a complete and absolute victory over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). The Holy Spirit has done the work of their salvation, but their salvation cannot be activated until Jesus visits them in the end of the world and returns them to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When Jesus visits them, He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings so that He can save their good and living natures to be recreated to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Habakkuk 2:4; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 3:16-17; Luke 3:6; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Thus, the fiery wrath of the Devil always fails, but the fiery wrath of God always succeeds. Hell is the fiery wrath of the Devil, but Christ is the fiery wrath of God. Hebrews 12:29 (KJB).

When God recreates His earth and saves all of His living humans from eternal death, the Jews will not build the third Temple in New Jerusalem. Jesus Himself will build the third Temple in New Jerusalem because it will symbolize His own Being which is the Holy Temple of God. Only pure and holy people will be able to enter this third Temple to worship God. Zechariah 6:12-13; Zechariah 8:1-23; Amos 9:11-15; Acts 15:13-18 (KJB).