The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Psalm 21:8-12 (KJB)

The enemies of God are those who hate Him. Psalm 21:8 (KJB). Some humans hate God because they have turned their lives over to practice evil. They have allied themselves with Satan, and like Satan, they desire to destroy God. They have chosen to become evil because they possess free will. But the evil that they choose to live by is already within them because the Devil has injected the curse of spiritual death into their inner beings. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But God creates humans in His image to be good and to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then no matter how evil a person may choose to become, that person will never be able to extinguish that little light of goodness that God created that person to be. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Every human has a good and living nature created by God, and also a dead and evil nature injected into their inner beings by the Devil. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Most humans choose to lead good lives even though they cannot avoid choosing to sin because of their evil natures, and some humans choose to lead evil lives because they turn against their good natures and God. Yet, they can never put out that little light of goodness within them.

The danger that humans face happens to be that no human is able to purge his evil nature that inevitably causes him to sin or to practice evil. Their dual nature means that God can never accept them because of their dead nature. God can only accept purity and holiness. Anything less is destructive. Habakkuk 1:12-13 (KJB). God can never accept humans in their sinful condition. That fact causes all humans to be in danger of being swallowed up by evil and spiritual death and lost from God's Love forever. But God's love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God Himself took care of that human problem when He sent His Son to take upon Himself all of their spiritual deaths, and all of the sin and evil that causes it in their place, and rise from the dead victorious over it all. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-18; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Jesus had to have suffered and died on the cross and rise from the dead to liberate all of His good and living humans from the danger of eternal death because God's Love can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).

All of this can only mean that God's only enemies are the Devil, sin, evil, and eternal death. This fact means that God will utterly destroy only the Devil, sin, evil, and spiritual death themselves, never any of His living humans. God will subject only evil itself to His eternal fiery wrath. Psalm 21:9; Matthew 25:41-46 (KJB). God will destroy only the evil fruit of humans, not their living natures. Psalm 21:10; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God will destroy only the evil "seed" that the Devil has planted into every living human. Psalm 21:10; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Jesus promised that "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." That promise can only mean that God will purge only sin, evil, eternal death, and the Devil from His creation, never any living human that He creates. Matthew 15:13 (KJB).

But in order to save all of His good and living humans from evil and eternal death, God must return them all to an active faith in His power to save them through the sacrifice and resurrection of His Son. Habukkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will save some humans by His grace the moment they come to faith in Christ while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). Christ will also appear to all of His living humans "on the earth and under the earth" in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their good natures to everlasting and righteous lives on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire that He created for the Devil and his angels. Matthew 25:41; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:1-3; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29 (KJB). Christ promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Numbers 21:5-9 (KJB)

One of the human sins that most angers God happens to be when people whom God has liberated from slavery complains about how God is treating them. The Israelites complained about the manna that God had given them to eat, but they had forgotten that God had promised them a land flowing with milk and honey. They may not have had as much water as they desired, but they must have had enough because no one of them died of thirst.

God punished them for their sins by sending fiery serpents among them and their bites killed some of the people. God's punishment for sin is always temporary, never eternal. The Bible relates that every time God killed humans with His fiery wrath He never said it was eternal. God provided only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve and so to all of their descendants. The fact that God made Eve "the mother of all living," and all humans are alive in God's sight proves that God never consigns eternal punishment to any living human. Genesis 3:14-20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). This fact does not mean that living humans were not in danger of eternal death injected into them by the Devil. But God sent His Son to take that eternal death, along with all the sins and evil that causes it, upon Himself on a cruel cross and rose from the dead victorious over it all. Genesis 3:15; John 6:33; John 12:31-32; John 12:47; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

II Timothy 1:10 clearly teaches that Jesus came to abolish death itself, not any living human. This verse further states that Jesus "brought life and immortality to light" through His death, burial, and resurrection. Christ has made a way to save all of His living humans from eternal death, some by His grace and all others when He appears to them within the regions of death in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

When the people confessed to God that they had sinned, God instructed Moses to make a fiery serpent and put it on a pole so that everyone who looked at it would be saved from the death that the serpents bite caused. The crawling serpents were fiery and the brass serpent on the pole looked fiery because they symbolized the fact that the Devil had injected sin, evil, and eternal death in a burning Hell into the inner beings of every human whom God creates. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But the fiery brass serpent also represented Christ nailed to a cross to save all humans who look to Him in faith that only His power over evil and the Devil can save them. John 12:47; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit who descended into Hell and left behind there all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths that Jesus had borne on the cross. The Father and the Spirit also suffered to save humanity. Psalm 16:10-11; Acts 2:25-31; Luke 23:46; Matthew 27:46 (KJB). This can only mean that any living human who looks to Christ in faith while still alive in the flesh will be saved by God's grace, and every living human "on the earth and under the earth" who looks to Jesus in faith when He visits them in the end of the world will be saved by God's mercy, and God will give them an eternal life with new bodies on His recreated earth. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 8:20-21; John 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Deuteronomy 32:22

Mathew 25:41 clearly relates that God created the everlasting lake of fire for the Devil and his angels and for all who have been cursed. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God made Eve "the mother of all living." Genesis 3:14-20 (KJB). God creates all living humans in His image which means He creates all living humans to be good and to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God loves all of His living humans, and He could never curse them. All of God's living humans are forever alive to Him. Luke 20:38 (KJB). The curse from which all humans suffer comes to them from the Devil the moment they sin, and all humans sin except for those who die before they can sin. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The curse that plagues all living humans is eternal death that causes humans to sin and in some cases to become evil. That curse happens to be the "seed" of the Devil that he plants into the inner beings of all humans who sin. The "seed" of the woman is the Messiah who will forever save all of God's living humans whom He loves. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God cursed only the Devil and the ground which holds the regions of death. Genesis 3:14 and 17 (KJB).

In Deuteronomy 32, Moses was preaching against idolatry when he suddenly obtained a prophetic revelation about how God will destroy the earth with fire in the end of the world. Deuteronomy 32:22; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Moses prophesied that God's fire will "burn unto the lowest Hell," and it will be engendered by God's fiery wrath against evil. All idolatry is evil. Since evil can only be a part of the curse that the Devil injects into every living human who sins, then God will burn only the dead and evil natures of all humans in the lake of fire that He will create. Thus in the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus had to have meant that the sheep represent the living and righteous natures of all humans whom God loves and will save from eternal death, and the goats represent the dead and evil natures of all humans whom God will forever burn in the lake of fire that He created for the Devil and his angels.

Moses prophesied that God's lake of fire will "burn unto the lowest Hell" which can only mean that Hell will already exist when God creates His lake of fire. Scientists have discovered that a huge ocean exists underneath the earth. They have also discovered that huge caverns of emptiness exist under the earth. The earth also spews out huge amounts of fiery magma from volcanoes. These areas happen to be material representations of the three regions of death called the Sea, the Bottomless Pit, and the burning Hell, all of which exist in another dimension. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). In the end of the world when God burns the earth with His fiery wrath He will do so to purge all evil from it. He will also use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy the Bottomless Pit and the burning Hell, and He will probably boil the Sea away so that He can recreate the earth and all of His repentant, living humans whom He will raise from the dead to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:10-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Exodus 19:1-25

In the third month of their liberation from slavery in Egypt, the Israelites arrived at Mount Sinai. God called Moses to climb the mountain so that God could tell him that which God wanted the Israelites to know. God informed Moses that the Israelites did not have to do anything to earn God's approval or His acceptance. God had already liberated them from slavery in Egypt, and they could simply rest in their faith in the shed blood of the lamb that God had commanded them to apply to their doorposts so that the death angel would pass over them. The death angel killed all of the first born in every family in Egypt. This was the covenant that the Israelites already had with God. Exodus 12:1-13 (KJB). God told Moses to tell the Israelites that if they would just keep that covenant, then they would be God's "peculiar treasure," and God would make every individual Israelite a priest which meant every individual would have a personal and spiritual relationship with God. In other words, every individual Israelite would be saved by God's grace.

God has extended His covenant of grace to His Church composed of both Jews and Gentiles. Christ purchased His Church with His own blood as the Lamb of God, and every Christian simply believes that Christ alone liberated them from slavery to sin, evil, and the Devil. Acts 20:28; Hebrews 1:1-3 (KJB). To these believers who have accepted God's covenant of grace by their faith, God has made them a "peculiar people" and a "royal priesthood" with a personal and spiritual relationship with God through the presence of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. I Peter 2:9-10; I Corinthians 6:9-11 (KJB).

Humans happen to be totally helpless to save themselves from the power of sin, evil, and the Devil. Romans 5:5-8 (KJB). But humans also suffer from the sin of pride, and that pride tells them that surely they must be able to do something that will at least partially save them from sin, evil, the Devil, and eternal death. They feel that they must do something to make God accept them and the Devil to reject them. They cannot believe that God has completely saved them through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. I Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJB).

So the Israelites could not believe that God had already saved them, and in their pride, they demanded that Moses ask God to give them His Commandments which they thought they could obey and thereby make themselves acceptable with God. In other words, they demanded that God allow them to participate in their own salvation. But when they adopted this attitude, they immediately encountered God's wrath against evil. God began to speak to the people from the mountain in thunder and fire. God gave them His Commandments which He knew they could not keep because of their sin which made them to weak to be able to obey them. God also wanted them to know that He must judge sinful people with His fiery wrath against evil.

So if God ever desired to save all of His living humans whom He creates and loves from eternal death, then He must bring them to the realization that only Christ can save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God saves some of His living humans by His grace when they come to Christ their Savior while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). But God never meant that His fiery wrath against evil would ever utterly destroy forever any of His living humans that He creates and loves. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God gave them only temporary punishments for their sins and evil, but He did curse the Devil and the ground that holds the regions of death. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). Whenever God kills any human with His fiery wrath, He makes that only a temporary punishment. God consigns all living humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of death when they die, but God made Eve the mother of all living, and when Christ appears to their living natures in the end of the world, and they all see His Majesty and His great Love for them, then they will realize without a doubt that only Christ the Lamb of God can save them, and He will. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their 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. Psalm 75:1-3; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Every personality of every human happens to be determined by a combination of their good and living natures with their dead and evil natures. So when the Bible states that unbelieving sinners will perish, it simply means that God will dissolve their personalities to purge their evil natures and recreate their good and living natures. Exodus 19:21; John 3:16; John 12:25 (KJB). In the case of believers saved by grace, God can recreate most of their personalities in such a way that they remain the same persons, and they do not perish. But when God uses His fiery wrath to dissolve the personalities of sinners confined to the regions of death, then their personalities do perish, but God recreates their living natures to be completely righteous, and therefore, different persons. John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:24-25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                  Genesis 8:20-21

In Noah's day, the entire human race had become wicked and violent. The only righteous persons left in the earth were Noah and his family who walked with God and had found grace in God's sight. Genesis 6:8-10 (KJB). God, who is pure and holy, cannot abide evil. God knows that evil must be utterly destroyed. God decided to destroy the entire human race in a world-wide flood except for Noah and his family, but it greatly grieved Him to do so because every evil human also had a good and living nature that God had created and loved. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). But they all had allowed their evil natures to dominate their good natures to the extent that their good natures no longer had any effect on their lives. Genesis 6:5-7; Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). God delights in destroying evil itself, but God became grieved because He had to destroy the good natures of those evil humans along with their evil natures. God could not separate their good natures from their evil natures because their good natures had become stained with evil, and they all had refused to repent of that fact.

God had given the sin offering to Adam and Eve and all of humanity to symbolize God's salvation from sin and evil through the shed blood of the coming Messiah, and Noah and his family still practiced that sacrifice. Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). But the rest of humanity had lost all outward faith in God because of their evil, but their suppressed good and living natures still retained that faith in a latent form. When God destroyed this evil, human race, they all descended into the cursed regions of death within the ground, and that fact greatly grieved God because all of their suppressed good and living natures were in danger of being lost from God's Love forever. Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:20 (KJB).

God knew that He had used His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve Lucifer's being after he had rebelled in order to separate from him and recover all of the good elements that God had put into his system so that God could exile his totally evil and empty nature to earth. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created because of His Almighty Love. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). But God cannot save from eternal death any of His living humans until they all return to faith in His power and self-sacrifice that is needed to save them. God also knew that only some of the descendants of Noah would ever come to faith in the shed blood of the Messiah that would forever save them from sin, evil, and eternal death. This meant that God had to devise a plan whereby He could use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of every human who would not become saved by His grace, but He would also need to return them all to faith in His power to save them.

So God gave to Noah the burnt offering sacrifice to symbolize the fact that God intends to save all of His living humans not already saved by grace from sin, evil, and eternal death by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. God would send His Son to  preach to all of His living humans whom He destroyed in the flood about His sacrifice for them and His fiery salvation that will return them all to faith in His power to save them. I Peter 3:18-22 (KJB). John the Baptist taught that Jesus would save not only by a baptism with His Spirit, but He would also save by a baptism with His fire. Luke 3:16-17; I Peter 3:21 (KJB).

God had Noah to sacrifice clean animals in the burnt sacrifice to symbolize the fact that God will save all of His living humans that He will cleanse by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. That caused God to smell a sweet odor. God removed the curse of the ground from humanity which meant that God will save all of His living humans from the regions of death. God will save all of His living humans confined to the regions of death despite the evil that they have practiced because God will burn all of their dead and evil natures with His fiery wrath when they all return to faith in Him as their Savior. The burnt offering symbolized that God will never again "smite" any of His living humans whom He loves. The Hebrew word for "smite" means to kill. Christ will effect His burnt offering salvation for all of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He appears to them near the end of the world and causes them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                Genesis 3:1-24 (KJB)

God created Adam and Eve in His image; that is, He created them to have a good and creative nature. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God loves the good natures of every human He ever creates, and God can never lose anything He ever creates and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).

God relates in His Word that He intends to save every living human He ever creates from the sin, evil, and spiritual death into which they all would fall. God warned Adam who warned Eve that if they disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit, they would die on that same day. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:2-3 (KJB). God knew that the Devil was in the world and that he held the power of evil and spiritual death, and if Adam and Eve disobeyed God, then the Devil would have the right to inject spiritual death that causes sin and evil into the inner beings of Adam and Eve and all of their descendants. The Devil believed that the power of spiritual death would eventually overcome the power of God's Love, and the living natures of humans would become totally evil and subject to the tortures of Hell forever. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9-10 (KJB). Job, being the first written book of the Bible, reveals the intention of Satan toward the human race. Satan seeks to utterly destroy a part of God's creation; that is, living humans, to prove that God's Love can fail. But God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). If the Devil could prove that God's Love is not Almighty, then he would be able to take complete control of at least the world that God created, and he would be able to torture all humans within it forever. Satan's temptation of Jesus also shows that he intends to take complete control of God's world. Luke 4:5-8 (KJB).

Just as God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job, but He did not allow the Devil to take his life, so God allows the Devil to do his worst to the entire human race, but God will save the good lives of every human He ever creates. The Devil plants the "seed" of spiritual death within the inner beings of every human, but God sent the "seed" of the woman, a perfect human named Jesus, who was not subject to spiritual death, and He suffered the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all living humans to crush the power of the Devil over all of the "seed" of the woman which are their living souls and spirits that God creates and loves. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). God gave Eve the right to be the "mother of all living," and since all humans are alive in God's sight, then no living human will ever suffer eternal, spiritual death because Jesus has saved them all from it. Had Jesus not saved them from it, then they all would suffer spiritual death forever. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Jesus taught that His Father will root up every plant that He did not plant. That can only mean that God will utterly destroy the spiritual death and evil that the Devil has planted into every living human, but God will forever save the spiritual life that He plants into every human. Matthew 15:13 (KJB).

Further evidence that God intends to save the living souls and spirits of the entire human race lies in the fact that God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the three regions of death. Hell is actually divided into three regions of death called the Sea, Death or the Bottomless Pit, and the burning Hell. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). God gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve and their descendants. Humans who fail to accept Jesus as their Savior while still alive in the flesh, God will consign them to a temporary punishment in the regions of death when they physically die. Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Whatever God curses He intends to utterly destroy, and God will utterly destroy the Devil and all three regions of death in the end of the world. Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 21:1 (KJB). The curse that Adam and Eve and all of their descendants acquired and suffered was the curse of spiritual death given to them by the Devil, not by God. But God sent His Son to save the entire, living human race from the curse of spiritual death through His death, burial, and resurrection. John 12:31-32; John 12:47 (KJB). If God ever intended to utterly destroy any of His living souls and spirits by casting them into an eternal lake of fire, He would have certainly told Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity.

But all living humans must return to the faith that God puts into them when when He creates them in order to be saved. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will make sure that all living humans return to that faith in the power of God's Love that caused Him to make the sacrifice necessary to save them all from eternal death. God killed an animal and shed its blood to make coats for Adam and Eve. That symbolized that God will save some humans by washing them in the blood that Jesus shed on the cross when they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Genesis 3:21; I John 1:7 (KJB). Christ will save the rest of His living humans that He had to consign to the regions of death when He appears to them near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can resurrect their living natures for Him to recreate with new bodies to inherit eternal life on His new earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB).

After God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, He assigned an angel with a flaming sword to guard the Tree of Life, This symbolizes the fact that God uses His fiery wrath against evil to forever protect the Tree of Life from all evil so that it can supply all the nations of the world with health and eternal life. Genesis 3:22-24; Revelation 22:1-3; Psalm 82:8 (KJB).

The Fiery Wrath of God

 "For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB).

"For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29 (KJB).

The Bible reveals that "God is Love" itself. I John 4:8 (KJB). God's Almighty Love can never fail.  I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God creates every human in His image which means He creates every human to be good. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose to evil anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). God has promised that in the end of the world He will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly purge His entire creation of all evil, and He will recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God has promised that in the end of the world He will "make all things new." Revelation 21:5 (KJB). In order to keep His promise, God will have already saved from evil all of His saints saved by His grace, but He must also visit all of His living humans left on the earth and confined to the regions of death to cause them all to return to the faith that He put into them when He created them so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures that He created and loves from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their living natures to a righteous life on His recreated earth, and He will consign their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God is "a jealous God." That means God uses His fiery wrath to thoroughly cleanse and purge all of His living humans of all sin and evil that seeks to utterly destroy and annul the living natures of humans that God creates and loves. Deuteronomy 4:24 (KJB). God uses His fiery wrath to protect and guard His people from the ravages of sin and evil. All living humans that God creates and loves are His people. Psalm 100:1-5 (KJB). God will cleanse and purge all of His living humans not saved by grace from all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the influence of the Devil, and He will inspire His people saved by His grace to a greater devotion to Him. Exodus 13:21-23; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Acts 2:1-4 (KJB). Whatever God creates, including all of His living humans, can never become the enemies of God. God's only enemies are sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Jesus judged no humans while He was on the earth. John 12:47 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all evil when He was nailed to the cross. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Jesus suffered and died on the cross to liberate all of His living humans from all sin, evil, and the power of the Devil, not to judge them. John 12:31-32 (KJB). Jesus abolished death itself when He was nailed to the cross and rose from the dead, not any living humans. II Timothy 1:10 (KJB). The exception to the fact that God saves by His use of His fiery wrath against evil happens to be that when God saves His living humans by His grace, He cleanses their inner beings of all sin and evil and annuls their spiritual deaths with His blood that He shed on the cross. I John 1:7 (KJB).

The Hebrew word for "consuming" in Deuteronomy 4:24 literally means "to eat food." That is quite appropriate because when one eats food, part of it is used to sustain life and that which is not so used is expelled from the body. God uses His consuming fire to save the lives of all of His living humans not already saved by His grace, and He purges all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them after He has caused them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-15 (KJB).