THE CONSUMING FIRE!

The plain truth is that people do not know this God of creationism.

It really amazes me when I hear people say, “We’re all going to be with the Lord when we die”. Everybody believes his deceased loved one “has gone to be with God”. Which God? That is always the bone of contention. Jehovah, the God of creationism, has had it all spelled out in His holy writ who will and how to ascend to Him after the earthly sojourn. Non-compliance with John 3:3 will not get one introduced to Romans 10:9-10, the only ritual that paves the righteous way to eternal bliss. It would not even surprise me if some should be made to believe that, “when we get to heaven God, the merciful, will listen to our pleas.” Some believe that God is too merciful to throw anyone inside hell. The Bible says, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” [Hebrews 10:31]. How can people forget the hellish shower of conflagration that Jehovah used to annihilate the population of Sodom and Gomorrah?

They, obviously, do not have the flimsiest idea who He is. Hebrews 12:29 says, “For our God is a consuming fire.” The word ‘consuming’ is katanalisko (kat-an-al-is’-ko): ‘to consume utterly.’ He destroys disobedient people! The God I know will not allow obeisant competitiveness. “We’re all serving the same God”, I have always heard people intone. They are most certainly, not talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. His covenant name is Jehovah. You cannot have any spiritual rapport with Him until Jesus is introduced to you. You cannot be bowing down to some traditional deity, a certain First Cause, Great Spirit or whatever name you choose, and think that you are in an ethereal relationship with the Most High. As long as it is not the God of the Bible (I hope I do not sound like a stupid bigot?), forget it; you are not in any spiritual business with the true God.

When God gives the donation of sanctification, justification and righteousness it is always an event of forensic invention. God does not need any witness to endow you with justification. He, the LORD God, is the Witness; and He is the Judge! He looks into your heart of faith in Jesus, and knowing fully well that you mean it from your heart, God imputes your faith as righteousness. “He does not do an infusion” (as FAUSSETT puts it) “which carries an implication of character change.”

The Lord did the needful: He took charge of your life personally; garbing you in the righteousness of justification. He now owns the justified new you absolutely! He cannot go back in His gabble backed pronouncement. And when I dwell on this well thought out covenant of Him I just cannot help wondering what a good God is Jehovah! All I hear myself exclaim is: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out [Romans 11:33]!” He is so good so much that He binds Himself by His word! Not that He is in bondage, not at all! He is so good that He wants His saints to be absolutely safe! And I declare, “What a God of mercy He is!”

Isaiah 45:7, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” This verse tends to see God as an accomplice to evil perpetration. The word ‘create’ is bârâ’ (baw-raw’): ‘(absolutely) to create i.e. without any existing material.’ Yâtsar (yaw-tsar’) is the Hebrew for ‘form’ and it means: ‘to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively to determine (that is, form a resolution).’ ‘Make’ is ‛âśâh (aw-saw’): ‘to do, fashion, accomplish, work, make, produce (using an existing material).’

From extant elements God formed light, and made peace looking at the pleasant cohabitation between couples. Darkness and evil are synonymous. He is neither of them: for it is written in Genesis 1:31 “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” He plucked darkness and evil (out of nothing) to deal decisively with devilish inclinations.

It was on the day man that could not be found where God expected him to be for the simple reason that he had entered into the putrefaction of the sinful nature, and dead spiritually, that the inevitable judgment of, “cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” and “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” of Genesis chapter 3 verses 17 & 19 respectively. God is truly not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). (…to be continued…)

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