Publisher's Synopsis
The shortest definition of God is "I Am." Ex. 3:14 The second shortest is "God is Love." 1 Jn. 4:8 The shortest commandment is love God with all your heart. The second shortest is love your neighbor as yourself.
Because "God is love" and loves all people, he wants us to love each other. He created the world and intended that people would treat each other with love and respect. There are consequences when we do not "love God with all our heart" and do not "love our neighbor as ourselves," but instead hate others, are selfish and greedy and hurt others?
God is a loving righteous judge. He feels it when people ignore or hate him. He feel with people who have been sinned against. His answer to those people who think he should do something is, I will pay them back exactly what they deserve: No more! No less! He will judge people righteously. People cannot slip out the back door of life and not have to pay the consequences for their sins. God has ways to pay back evil to those who commit evil even if they seem to escape out the back door through death.
Those of us who are not notorious sinners and never had the power to start a war, but in our own little circle pushed God aside and did not always love our neighbor as ourselves will also be payed back for where we sinned: No more! No less!
This book shows from Scriptures that God is a holy, loving, righteous judge who is not limited by time and power to pay back people who sin. I got that phrase "Pay back" from 2 Thess. 1:6 where it says, It is a righteous thing with God to pay back sinners with trouble.
The most evil powerful hate filled being is Satan. Over the 6000 years of human history he has handed out a lot of trouble. He will be paid back for all the trouble he has caused in "the lake of fire." Rev. 20:10 says, "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever." He will be "tormented" to pay him back for all the evil he has done. God will give him what he deserves. "Forever" means a long indefinite period of time." I got that definition of forever from Jonah 2:6 where it says that Jonah was in the belly of the fish "forever." It was three days and three nights. I think a second "ever" was added to "forever" in Satan's case because it will take God a very long time to pay Satan back for all the evil he did.
This book is a chronological walk through the Bible studying God's loving, righteous and just judgments. The wonderful news in all this talk of judgment is that God let someone who did everything perfect step in for us and take the punishment we deserve: Jesus Christ. His payment will be accepted by God the Father on behalf of those who really believe in Jesus.
