Israel will hold it's head high» «Do not fear
the destruction of the wicked when it comes».
«For the protection of the virtuous, For
the destruction of the wicked For the establishment of Right (dharma).»
It seems obvious from this text that God does not desire
the destruction of the wicked, and He takes no delight in their destruction.
At this point the characteristic concerns of apocalyptic come to the fore and Enoch / Son of man reveals «the treasures that are hidden», namely, the way in which through him the wicked shall be destroyed, and the passage moves on to concentrate upon the coming
destruction of the wicked.
Not exact matches
It is Abraham, not God, who introduces the punishment
of destruction; God was still investigating, but Abraham, far from shrinking from punishing the
wicked, is the one who suggests it.
Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But of the ungodly / the wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the contex
Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But
of the ungodly / the wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the contex
of the ungodly / the
wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers
of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the contex
of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift
destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the context!
If, as seems implied by his conclusion, Rabbi Novak prays for the wholehearted repentance
of murderers like Osama bin Laden, or
of Yasir Arafat, I wonder how he could ask God daily for the immediate
destruction of the terribly
wicked.
When the
wicked rise up in arrogance and pride, the mindless mob rules a kingdom
of destruction.
It describes
destruction of the «
wicked» that took place following the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one
of eight people, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world
of the ungodly; and turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to
destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct
of the
wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out
of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day
of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust
of uncleanness and despise authority.
Part
of his solution lay in the ultimate ruin
of the
wicked, whose prosperity he had envied and whose arrogance he had resented; when he considered their «latter end,» he foresaw them falling on their «slippery places,» cast down to
destruction, and «become a desolation in a moment.»
Placed with your kingdom on the verge
of destruction, you seek to save them from this
wicked curse that has been placed on them, setting off into the world.