"Bad Ends Badly"

"But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off." (Psalms 37:38) You may have wondered why God would need to judge evil at all; why couldn't He just speak it out of existence, and be done with it? Why not just remove all that is evil, and then have nothing but good remain? It is because God is just and extremely patient; His love for us is too large to measure, and He has more mercy for us then we actually need; but, God will need to judge evil, and "the end of the wicked shall be cut off." If you read the way that evil is destroyed in the end, it pretty much happens just as David says that it would; "the transgressors shall be destroyed together." We can read this account in Revelation 19:11-15, which is the Great White Throne Judgment, where all the dead are gathered together and judged; after which all evil, including death and hell, were cast together into the lake of fire. As a matter of fact, verse 15 puts it into a little greater perspective, and says, "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." The power of God's love was demonstrated in the way that He saved us; because His judgment is on evil, not on those that have accepted His free gift of salvation. Jesus explained this simple process to Nicodemus in John 3:18, by saying, "He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Actually, in a way, God has spoken evil out of existence, in the manner that He sent His Son, who is the Word of God, and who came in power and might, to destroy the power of sin and death for ever and ever. Jesus came and died for all the sins of this world, even for the sins of those that choose not to believe in Him; so what that means for those that are found guilty, is that they are "cut off" from receiving what could have been theirs; like a branch is cut off a tree, or as part of a garment is cut off, they shall be excluded from the atonement that Jesus gave with His death on the cross, not by God's doing, but on their own... "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: and whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:14-17)