The Fiery Wrath of God

                            II Chronicles 36:19 KJB

Every human has a good nature inside of them that God creates, but every human also has an evil nature that the Devil plants into them the moment they sin. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Young children who die before they can ever sin nevertheless inevitably would sin as soon as they become old enough to realize that they have intelligence and free will. Romans 5:12 (KJB). All humans are predestined to sin which makes all humans sinners even if they die before they can sin. Yet, Jesus takes all young children who die before they can sin to Heaven because they are innocent. Humans are responsible for their sins because their good natures allow those sins and will even excuse those sins, but humans are also not responsible for their sins because they inevitably sin. But in either case, God cannot endure sin in His universe because it is destructive and God is wholly pure and creative. But humans are fully responsible for the evil that they do because they must willfully and deliberately decide to practice cruelty and evil. Yet, every sin contains some evil because every sin and evil displays an alliance with the Devil to murder God and become independent of His control. The Devil lies to humans about how they can become little gods who do not need God, but the Devil actually only desires to use humans to attain his own goal to kill God and invent his own evil world. Once the Devil has used humans to achieve his goal, he will torture all humans forever until he turns them all into demons because he hates anything God has created. Job 2:5 (KJB). When the mob cried "crucify Him" to Pilate, and Pilate gave in to them, the voices of the entire human race joined in that shout and in Pilate's weakness. John 19:14-16; Acts 4:23-28 (KJB). 

God still loves all of His good and living humans that He creates in His image. His Love cannot fail, and so He intervenes in human history as many times as it takes to save them all from the Devil's attempts to utterly destroy them, including when He sacrificed Himself on a cross. I Corinthians 13:8; John 12:31-32 (KJB). God will use that same free will that causes all humans to sin to cause all living humans to choose to return to faith in Him as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Because God's Love and compassion never change, God will save every living human who repents whether they are alive in the flesh or physically dead. Hebrews 13:8; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God has proven and will prove that His Love is Almighty, and He can never lose anything He has ever created to the Devil. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:28-29; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 3:6; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). 

The evil nature of humans is very strong, and from time to time in human history it takes control in the lives of most humans. Most of the people and the rulers of Judah had become so evil that God allowed the evil Babylonians to conquer them and deport many of them to captivity in Babylon. The Babylonians stole all of the treasures in the house of God and burned it with fire. They broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned the city with fire. II Chronicles 36:15-21 (KJB). The Devil must have rejoiced because he thought he was well on his way to utterly destroy the people of God and leave God with only the poor in the land of Judah. The Devil used his own fiery wrath to mock the fiery wrath of God. But the Devil did not realize that God had used him to destroy the evil that had infected the land by His use of His own fiery wrath. 

God intervened in this dark history. God caused the Persians to conquer Babylon. Although the Persians did not know God, they were a people who could listen to their good natures and try to do the right thing. The entire book of Esther. (KJB). After 70 years in Babylon, God inspired the Persian king Cyrus to issue a decree that all of the Jews who so desired could return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple of God. II Chronicles 36:22-23 (KJB). God knew that only those Jews who had been faithful to Him would be those who would return to Jerusalem. All the others would remain in Babylon. God turned the table on the Devil. God used the captivity of Judah to cleanse and purify His people to keep faith in Him alive until Jesus would come to save the human race in another dark time in history. Matthew 1:18-25 (KJB). The good natures of all living humans are God's people. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 82:6; John 10:33-38; Matthew 15:13; Luke 17:20-21; Luke 20:38; Luke 3:6; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).