God Spoke These Divine Words-5 quotes

The Hebrew word for “clear” used here is “naqah”, which translates and means “to be clean, acquit, be blameless, be free, leave unpunished” (Strong’s, word #5352). Even though we earlier discovered that the Lord God is merciful and willing to forgive all types of sin, because He is “slow to anger, and great in power...[yet He] will not at all acquit the wicked” (Nahum 1:3), or make blameless or cleanse any who refuses to admit or confess that they have sinned. Although the Lord God indeed loves all of His creation, yet He will not allow any unrepentant sinner to go free and leave them unpunished for each and every one of their unconfessed sins.

“O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;...if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity...[and] When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” Ezekiel 33:13.

“Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee...against all the nations...It may be that...[they] will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.” Jeremiah 36:2-3).

“And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God has punished us less than our iniquities deserve...Should we again break thy commandments...? Wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?” Ezra 9:12-14.

So even though the Lord God Michael is full of goodness and forbearance and is longsuffering towards all sinners, including you dear one, yet you must also understand “that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance” (Romans 2:4). Should you still refuse to repent through “thy hardness and impenitent heart”, then you must also know that God “will render to every man according to his deeds” (Romans 2:6). This plainly reveals that the punishment for every sin you have committed is not being forgotten, but is actually accumulating and treasuring “up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God” (Romans 2:5).

4) As love “thinketh no evil” (1 Corinthians 13:5), then the Lord God Michael does not and will not believe that we are guilty of committing all kinds of sin and wickedness just because we may be accused of doing so, but He will only attribute guilt for those actual sins we did in fact commit! The Lord God Michael promises that “every man shall be put to death for his own sin” (Deuteronomy 24:16), and not for the sins which he may alone be accused of, but is not guilty of committing.

As soon as the egg becomes fertilized and conception occurs, the Lord God begins documenting this new living human being in a book – even though their body form has not yet taken shape. In this heavenly book is found recorded everything about this particular individual – from the very beginning of life and whether they were born handicapped or perfectly normal, and continues recording all the way unto the end of their life. Thus in this book is found recorded all of “their works” or actions or deeds throughout life (Revelation 20:12), including “every secret thing” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) such as the thoughts and motives that led them to act the way they did. This book further indicates whether their thoughts, motives and actions were “good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) according to the standard of God’s “commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

This personal book records all of their travels and “wanderings” throughout life (Psalms 56:8). It records every one of the “tears” they shed or sorrows they suffered (Psalms 56:8). And “when He writeth up the people” God even records in their book “that this man was born there” (Psalms 87:6) in the city of “Babylon” (Psalms 87:4) – the most wickedest of places, or that this person was born in the most godly of places, such as “Zion” (Psalms 87:5). This means that even the influences we grew up around and conditions we lived in, which helped to form our character in either a bad and crooked way, or in a good and solid way, are noted in this book.

Every human being on this earth has a record book that documents their actions and life experiences, and it is kept secure in heaven beyond the reach of mankind. So then just like Job in all which he endured though innocent of any wrong doing, you can also know that “my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high” (Job 16:19).

The plan of salvation involved the Lord God Michael becoming a human being and then living His human life in such a way that would always please God by keeping all of His commandments. If Michael proved successful in carrying out this plan, then Adam and Eve’s failure to keep God’s commandments would be redeemed, and all of sinful humanity could be legally saved from sin and death.

“...when the fulness of the time was come” (Galatians 4:4), the Lord God Michael left heaven, was miraculously born or “brought forth” (Matthew 1:25) into the human family as the eldest or “firstborn son” (Matthew 1:25) of His human virgin mother Mary (Luke 1:27; Matthew 1:18) – thus becoming “the son of man” (Matthew 16:13). And at the very same time Michael also became “the only begotten Son” (John 3:18) of the Almighty of heaven – who was now His Father. So the Lord God Michael was not only just a God, but He was also now a human in one Being! The Lord God Michael “was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14): He actually became one of His own human creation – just like Adam and you and me and all mankind, and thus He was both the Son of man and the Son of God at the same time.

Having the Almighty as His real Father, Michael’s human nature was without the slightest taint of sin. But having Mary as His real human mother was a very different matter. Mary had inherited a fallen human nature from her ancestors that could be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve (compare Joseph’s ancestral line in Matthew 1:1-16 with the ancestral life recorded in Luke 3:23-38 and notice the differences, then realize that “Heli” in Luke 3:23 had to be Mary’s father, which then made Joseph, Heli’s son, or more correctly his son in law), and therefore she needed “God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46) in order to save her from her sins and death. Even though Mary was a virgin, yet she had a fallen sinful human nature which was then unavoidably passed on to Michael’s human nature, thus subjecting Him to the same inward desires and urges towards sin that is common to all of fallen humanity. While Michael’s human nature was pure and spotless without any personal sin, yet He humbly took on Him our sinful nature and thereby was subject and “touched with the feeling of our infirmities...[and] was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).

Should Michael fail in His humanity and commit the slightest sin, then all of humanity was doomed. But it would not just be humanity that was doomed for destruction, because Michael Himself would also be a sinner and thus would have to be destroyed right along with them. And the One who would be forced to destroy Michael, along with all the rest of sinners, would be His own Father – the Almighty – which would have devastated God and all of heaven for ever.

After Michael was born the son of man and the Son of God, His human “name was called [Joshua, (which in Greek is written and pronounced)] Jesus” (Luke 2:21), and this God/man Michael or Jesus then chose to live strictly in His human nature and not in His Godhood. In living and identifying Himself only in His human nature, Michael/Jesus successfully lived His human life in a perfect and complete way, always denying self and never giving in to the slightest temptation to commit sin and corrupt His purity. Thus Michael/Jesus was without sin at birth, and lived His entire life without sinning by keeping all of His Father’s commandments and doing His will and “not my will” (Luke 22:42), thereby becoming victorious over sin and the devil.

1) - As every aspect of each of God’s 10 commandment law had been kept perfectly by Jesus in human nature, it then proved that Adam and Eve could have also done so, that God had giving a law that was faultless because it could be kept, and thus there was no reason for sin to exist in Lucifer in the first place.

3) - The righteous actions which Jesus performed on earth also fulfilled every one of some 300 or so prophecies given about the life of the promised Anointed One thereby proving that Jesus was indeed the long looked for Messiah and “the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world” (John 11:27; Matthew 16:16).

As this was true, “being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8). This God/man Michael/Jesus Christ the Messiah willingly offered His righteous and innocent life on the cross as a substitute for the guilty life of us sinners – just like an innocent lamb. He then shed His precious blood to freely cover up and atone for all our sins, and then died to fulfill the covenant and legally make His eternal life available for all. As the Almighty accepted His Son’s offering as a full and complete sacrifice, then this God/man Michael/Jesus Christ made this great sacrifice and salvation available as a “free gift” (Romans 5:16-18) to all sinners if they will just accept Him as their God and Saviour, confess and repent and forsake all of their sins, and then follow Him in living His life of obedience to God’s commandments!

2) - Since Michael/Jesus was also a human like we are and therefore personally knows everything by His own inward and outward experiences what we humans go through in this sinful world, because “he hath himself suffered being tempted” (Hebrews 2:18), then there is no One better suited and qualified to judge and pass sentence upon other humans than He is. Therefore in recognition of this fact of truth, the Almighty “hath committed all judgment unto the Son...and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man” (John 5:22, 27).

This means that all human beings will have to “stand before the judgment seat of Christ” (Romans 14:10), and even though Michael/Jesus dearly loves and died for each and every human being so that they all can have everlasting life, yet only those who accept Him as their God and Saviour will have their individual names placed in this book of life that clearly documents only those who will gain eternal life. Any who refuse to accept and acknowledge that the Lord God Michael/Jesus Christ is their God and Saviour will not have their names in that book, and will not receive eternal life.

9) During the time when “the judgment was set, and the books were opened” (Daniel 7:10), each and every human being must “appear before the judgement seat of Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:10). It is at this time that their record book is reviewed so “that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).

Those individuals who are judged worthy of the reward of everlasting life are those “that overcometh” their sins (Revelation 3:5), “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11), and thereby have their names written and retained in the book of life. This is only made possible because they accepted Michael or Christ as their God and Saviour, confessed His name before the world, and He has forgiven and even “blotted out” (Acts 3:19) all of their sins from every page of their record book so that only their good deeds remain recorded on its pages. While those individuals who are judged worthy of the reward of everlasting death are those who have not overcome all of their sins, and therefore their names are not found written in the book of life, or their names once written there have been “blotted out of the book of the living” (Psalms 69:28, see also Exodus 32:33). This is because either they did not accept Michael or Christ as their God and Saviour, but accepted other gods instead. Or that they had once accepted Him, but then gave Him up to continue in their sins. Thus both groups of lost souls ended up not confessing His name before the world, but confessing another master’s name instead, and thus Michael or Christ could not forgive or blot out any of their sins, but all of their sins are found still remaining on the pages of their record book. Thus these record books are the key to determining whether any human being is saved or lost.

The only person that can be blamed for being lost is the person themselves, because no one forced them to make the decisions they did, and no one forced them to perform the actions they did, but they freely chose to live their life in their own selfish way separate from Jesus Christ, and their record book proves it! They cannot blame anyone else but themselves, and in reality they themselves actually chose eternal death by refusing to accept and confess that Michael/Jesus Christ was their God and Saviour, because “he that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12).

10) Even though the wicked received the sentence of eternal death and will obviously be angry that they lost eternal life, yet even they themselves will understand that they deserved death, and together with the righteous “every knee shall bow, every tongue shall sware” or confess (Isaiah 45:23), that “true and righteous are his judgements” (Revelation 19:2). So even though the wicked are furious when the Lord causes “judgment to be heard from heaven” (Psalms 76:8), and they see and fully realize that they are forever lost, yet even “the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain” (Psalms 76:10), as “all nations [or people] whom thou has made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name” (Psalms 86:9).

There will indeed come a time in which the sinner will finally cross over the line of God’s forbearance. Then their probation will close, the judgment will commence for them, the books will be opened and investigated into and discovery made that their sins have not been forgiven and blotted out of their book, and their name is “not found written in the book of life” (Revelation 20:15). Then judgement will be pronounced against them, and they are destined for everlasting destruction by being “cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15), that is “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41).

Even though these unrepentant sinners are destroyed by an angry God in His full wrath, yet their destruction is amazingly still carried out in love. This is because God realizes that as these sinners could not live without enjoying to break His law on earth, then they could not live without sinning in heaven either. And since sin will not be allowed to “rise up the second time” (Nahum 1:9), and thus there will be no sin committed in heaven or in any where else in God’s creations, then these sinners would be most miserable being forced to live forever in a sinless environment. So God mercifully and lovingly allows the life of all determined sinners to forever end in the lake of fire so that they would not have to suffer in misery for eternity.


	"LET THERE BE LIGHT" Ministries home \| Sermon Quotes GOD SPOKE THESE DIVINE WORDS, part 5 quotes 1) #8 – The Lord God Michael “will by no means clear the guilty” The Hebrew word for “clear” used here is “naqah”, which translates and means “to be clean, acquit, be blameless, be free, leave unpunished” (Strong’s, word #5352). Even though we earlier discovered that the Lord God is merciful and willing to forgive all types of sin, because He is “slow to anger, and great in power...[yet He] will not at all acquit the wicked” (Nahum 1:3), or make blameless or cleanse any who refuses to admit or confess that they have sinned. Although the Lord God indeed loves all of His creation, yet He will not allow any unrepentant sinner to go free and leave them unpunished for each and every one of their unconfessed sins. “The wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23. All who continue to commit sin, irregardless of whether they are pagan or one of His closest followers, will be punished for their continued sinning. “O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;...if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity...[and] When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” Ezekiel 33:13. But the Lord God Michael does not want to see a single one of His precious creation perish in their sins, because “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (Ezekiel 33:11). 2) There are several ways in which the Lord God Michael helps sinners to recognize and repent of all our sins. One way is by sending us warnings of what punishments and judgments are coming upon all disobedient and wicked souls. “Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee...against all the nations...It may be that...[they] will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.” Jeremiah 36:2-3). 3) Another way in which the Lord God Michael helps sinners to recognize and repent of all our sins is by leaving us to suffer some of the punishment and afflictions now, while He patiently and eagerly waits for us to wake up and come to Him. “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” Hosea 5:15. But these punishments and afflictions the Lord God Michael allows to come to us, are less intense than what we really deserve! “And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God has punished us less than our iniquities deserve...Should we again break thy commandments...? Wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?” Ezra 9:12-14. So even though the Lord God Michael is full of goodness and forbearance and is longsuffering towards all sinners, including you dear one, yet you must also understand “that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance” (Romans 2:4). Should you still refuse to repent through “thy hardness and impenitent heart”, then you must also know that God “will render to every man according to his deeds” (Romans 2:6). This plainly reveals that the punishment for every sin you have committed is not being forgotten, but is actually accumulating and treasuring “up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God” (Romans 2:5). 4) As love “thinketh no evil” (1 Corinthians 13:5), then the Lord God Michael does not and will not believe that we are guilty of committing all kinds of sin and wickedness just because we may be accused of doing so, but He will only attribute guilt for those actual sins we did in fact commit! The Lord God Michael promises that “every man shall be put to death for his own sin” (Deuteronomy 24:16), and not for the sins which he may alone be accused of, but is not guilty of committing. 5) How are the actual sins of each and every human being ever born on this earth kept track of? “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalms 139:16. As soon as the egg becomes fertilized and conception occurs, the Lord God begins documenting this new living human being in a book – even though their body form has not yet taken shape. In this heavenly book is found recorded everything about this particular individual – from the very beginning of life and whether they were born handicapped or perfectly normal, and continues recording all the way unto the end of their life. Thus in this book is found recorded all of “their works” or actions or deeds throughout life (Revelation 20:12), including “every secret thing” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) such as the thoughts and motives that led them to act the way they did. This book further indicates whether their thoughts, motives and actions were “good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) according to the standard of God’s “commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). This personal book records all of their travels and “wanderings” throughout life (Psalms 56:8). It records every one of the “tears” they shed or sorrows they suffered (Psalms 56:8). And “when He writeth up the people” God even records in their book “that this man was born there” (Psalms 87:6) in the city of “Babylon” (Psalms 87:4) – the most wickedest of places, or that this person was born in the most godly of places, such as “Zion” (Psalms 87:5). This means that even the influences we grew up around and conditions we lived in, which helped to form our character in either a bad and crooked way, or in a good and solid way, are noted in this book. Every human being on this earth has a record book that documents their actions and life experiences, and it is kept secure in heaven beyond the reach of mankind. So then just like Job in all which he endured though innocent of any wrong doing, you can also know that “my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high” (Job 16:19). 6) Why it is the Lord God Michael who passes judgment upon the guilty, and not the Almighty of heaven? The plan of salvation involved the Lord God Michael becoming a human being and then living His human life in such a way that would always please God by keeping all of His commandments. If Michael proved successful in carrying out this plan, then Adam and Eve’s failure to keep God’s commandments would be redeemed, and all of sinful humanity could be legally saved from sin and death. “...when the fulness of the time was come” (Galatians 4:4), the Lord God Michael left heaven, was miraculously born or “brought forth” (Matthew 1:25) into the human family as the eldest or “firstborn son” (Matthew 1:25) of His human virgin mother Mary (Luke 1:27; Matthew 1:18) – thus becoming “the son of man” (Matthew 16:13). And at the very same time Michael also became “the only begotten Son” (John 3:18) of the Almighty of heaven – who was now His Father. So the Lord God Michael was not only just a God, but He was also now a human in one Being! The Lord God Michael “was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14): He actually became one of His own human creation – just like Adam and you and me and all mankind, and thus He was both the Son of man and the Son of God at the same time. Having the Almighty as His real Father, Michael’s human nature was without the slightest taint of sin. But having Mary as His real human mother was a very different matter. Mary had inherited a fallen human nature from her ancestors that could be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve (compare Joseph’s ancestral line in Matthew 1:1-16 with the ancestral life recorded in Luke 3:23-38 and notice the differences, then realize that “Heli” in Luke 3:23 had to be Mary’s father, which then made Joseph, Heli’s son, or more correctly his son in law), and therefore she needed “God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46) in order to save her from her sins and death. Even though Mary was a virgin, yet she had a fallen sinful human nature which was then unavoidably passed on to Michael’s human nature, thus subjecting Him to the same inward desires and urges towards sin that is common to all of fallen humanity. While Michael’s human nature was pure and spotless without any personal sin, yet He humbly took on Him our sinful nature and thereby was subject and “touched with the feeling of our infirmities...[and] was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Should Michael fail in His humanity and commit the slightest sin, then all of humanity was doomed. But it would not just be humanity that was doomed for destruction, because Michael Himself would also be a sinner and thus would have to be destroyed right along with them. And the One who would be forced to destroy Michael, along with all the rest of sinners, would be His own Father – the Almighty – which would have devastated God and all of heaven for ever. After Michael was born the son of man and the Son of God, His human “name was called [Joshua, (which in Greek is written and pronounced)] Jesus” (Luke 2:21), and this God/man Michael or Jesus then chose to live strictly in His human nature and not in His Godhood. In living and identifying Himself only in His human nature, Michael/Jesus successfully lived His human life in a perfect and complete way, always denying self and never giving in to the slightest temptation to commit sin and corrupt His purity. Thus Michael/Jesus was without sin at birth, and lived His entire life without sinning by keeping all of His Father’s commandments and doing His will and “not my will” (Luke 22:42), thereby becoming victorious over sin and the devil. 7) Michael/Jesus remained sinless His entire earthly life and thereby accomplished three stupendous things: 1) - As every aspect of each of God’s 10 commandment law had been kept perfectly by Jesus in human nature, it then proved that Adam and Eve could have also done so, that God had giving a law that was faultless because it could be kept, and thus there was no reason for sin to exist in Lucifer in the first place. 2) - The pure innocent life which Jesus lived also fulfilled every aspect of the plan of salvation, thereby legally making it possible to save all mankind from sin and death. 3) - The righteous actions which Jesus performed on earth also fulfilled every one of some 300 or so prophecies given about the life of the promised Anointed One thereby proving that Jesus was indeed the long looked for Messiah and “the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world” (John 11:27; Matthew 16:16). As this was true, “being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8). This God/man Michael/Jesus Christ the Messiah willingly offered His righteous and innocent life on the cross as a substitute for the guilty life of us sinners – just like an innocent lamb. He then shed His precious blood to freely cover up and atone for all our sins, and then died to fulfill the covenant and legally make His eternal life available for all. As the Almighty accepted His Son’s offering as a full and complete sacrifice, then this God/man Michael/Jesus Christ made this great sacrifice and salvation available as a “free gift” (Romans 5:16-18) to all sinners if they will just accept Him as their God and Saviour, confess and repent and forsake all of their sins, and then follow Him in living His life of obedience to God’s commandments! 8) Because the Lord God Michael or Jesus Christ the Son of the Almighty risked so much, and successfully accomplishing so much for the saving of guilty sinners, there were two special things done. 1) - There was a special book of record created in heaven called “the book of life” (Revelation 13:8, 17:8, 21:27, 22:19). This special book documented the names of all who have made the choice to accept Michael/Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour on earth in order to receive eternal life. 2) - Since Michael/Jesus was also a human like we are and therefore personally knows everything by His own inward and outward experiences what we humans go through in this sinful world, because “he hath himself suffered being tempted” (Hebrews 2:18), then there is no One better suited and qualified to judge and pass sentence upon other humans than He is. Therefore in recognition of this fact of truth, the Almighty “hath committed all judgment unto the Son...and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man” (John 5:22, 27). This means that all human beings will have to “stand before the judgment seat of Christ” (Romans 14:10), and even though Michael/Jesus dearly loves and died for each and every human being so that they all can have everlasting life, yet only those who accept Him as their God and Saviour will have their individual names placed in this book of life that clearly documents only those who will gain eternal life. Any who refuse to accept and acknowledge that the Lord God Michael/Jesus Christ is their God and Saviour will not have their names in that book, and will not receive eternal life. 9) During the time when “the judgment was set, and the books were opened” (Daniel 7:10), each and every human being must “appear before the judgement seat of Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:10). It is at this time that their record book is reviewed so “that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10). Those individuals who are judged worthy of the reward of everlasting life are those “that overcometh” their sins (Revelation 3:5), “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11), and thereby have their names written and retained in the book of life. This is only made possible because they accepted Michael or Christ as their God and Saviour, confessed His name before the world, and He has forgiven and even “blotted out” (Acts 3:19) all of their sins from every page of their record book so that only their good deeds remain recorded on its pages. While those individuals who are judged worthy of the reward of everlasting death are those who have not overcome all of their sins, and therefore their names are not found written in the book of life, or their names once written there have been “blotted out of the book of the living” (Psalms 69:28, see also Exodus 32:33). This is because either they did not accept Michael or Christ as their God and Saviour, but accepted other gods instead. Or that they had once accepted Him, but then gave Him up to continue in their sins. Thus both groups of lost souls ended up not confessing His name before the world, but confessing another master’s name instead, and thus Michael or Christ could not forgive or blot out any of their sins, but all of their sins are found still remaining on the pages of their record book. Thus these record books are the key to determining whether any human being is saved or lost. The only person that can be blamed for being lost is the person themselves, because no one forced them to make the decisions they did, and no one forced them to perform the actions they did, but they freely chose to live their life in their own selfish way separate from Jesus Christ, and their record book proves it! They cannot blame anyone else but themselves, and in reality they themselves actually chose eternal death by refusing to accept and confess that Michael/Jesus Christ was their God and Saviour, because “he that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). 10) Even though the wicked received the sentence of eternal death and will obviously be angry that they lost eternal life, yet even they themselves will understand that they deserved death, and together with the righteous “every knee shall bow, every tongue shall sware” or confess (Isaiah 45:23), that “true and righteous are his judgements” (Revelation 19:2). So even though the wicked are furious when the Lord causes “judgment to be heard from heaven” (Psalms 76:8), and they see and fully realize that they are forever lost, yet even “the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain” (Psalms 76:10), as “all nations [or people] whom thou has made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name” (Psalms 86:9). There will indeed come a time in which the sinner will finally cross over the line of God’s forbearance. Then their probation will close, the judgment will commence for them, the books will be opened and investigated into and discovery made that their sins have not been forgiven and blotted out of their book, and their name is “not found written in the book of life” (Revelation 20:15). Then judgement will be pronounced against them, and they are destined for everlasting destruction by being “cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15), that is “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41). Even though these unrepentant sinners are destroyed by an angry God in His full wrath, yet their destruction is amazingly still carried out in love. This is because God realizes that as these sinners could not live without enjoying to break His law on earth, then they could not live without sinning in heaven either. And since sin will not be allowed to “rise up the second time” (Nahum 1:9), and thus there will be no sin committed in heaven or in any where else in God’s creations, then these sinners would be most miserable being forced to live forever in a sinless environment. So God mercifully and lovingly allows the life of all determined sinners to forever end in the lake of fire so that they would not have to suffer in misery for eternity. 11) “And the times of this (or our) ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness...” Acts 17:30-31.