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The Rights of God

It is the Divine Right of the Divine Potter to do whatever He deems best and good with the clay. "O LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our Potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand" (Isaiah 64:8). It is the right of the Creator to create. "20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast Thou made me thus?... 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His Power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 and that He might make known the riches of His Glory on the vessels of Mercy, which He had afore prepared unto Glory" (Romans 9:20,22-23). The Bible justifies the Rights and Privileges of God. "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel" (Jeremiah 18:6). If only men would turn to the Scripture, "that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it" (Isaiah 41:20).

The true child of God recognizes God as God, and bows to the Power of the Potter. "And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; deliver us only, we pray Thee, this day" (Judges 10:15). To the Israelites, it was written, that it was God "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that He might humble thee, and that He might prove thee, todo thee good at thy latter end" (Deuteronomy 8:16). His Will fulfils His Purpose. His Motives are the Highest. "4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; Charity envieth not; Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up... 8 Charity never faileth... 13 And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity" (1Corinthians 13:4,8,13)."Charity" is a KJV way of saying "Love". The most inner essence of God, His heart core, is "Love". "God is Love" (1John 4:8).

The righteous know that "the Ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein" (Hosea 14:9). And though the wicked refuse to acknowledge God's Attributes and Divine Rights, it IS by the Omniscience of the Almighty God that He DOES foreknow the wicked who will be wicked, by their own choice, and He DOES allow them that choice, as He justly does, equally, to all men. "The LORD is known by the Judgment which He executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands" (Psalm 9:16).

Foreknowing the men who would choose to be evil, even over these men the Unarbitrary But Sovereign Potter has "power over the clay" (Romans 9:21). "17 For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show My Power in thee, and that My Name might be declared throughout all the Earth. 18 Therefore hath He Mercy on whom He will have Mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth" (Romans 9:17-18). After all of life is said and done, if wicked men are self-determined to be wicked, is it not a Supremely Wise God Who would make use of even these men? "Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee" (Psalm 76:10). "The LORD hath made all things for Himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil" (Proverbs 16:4). God did His Very Best for even these eternally damned ones, "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" (John 3:16).

The wicked in Hell will not change. "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1Timothy 4:2). "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD" (Jeremiah 6:15). Their course was self-determined. "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness" (Psalm 82:5). They began life with a freewill and they were created in the Image of God. They were given the Son of God. Yet, "they know not the Thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they His Counsel" (Micah 4:12). They began with The Best beginning. "They are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).

God Always Wins
It is God's Divine Right to win. "I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD GOD Omnipotent reigneth" (Revelation 19:6). It may seem as if the LORD is letting the wicked win, for the moment, and that God "dealeth with a slack hand"(Proverbs 10:4). But, no. Wisdom waits for "due season" (Psalm 104:27). The Omnipotent One "repayeth them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them: He will not be slack to him that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face" (Deuteronomy 7:10). "Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them also that hate Him flee before Him" (Psalm 68:1). But, there is no escape for the enemy of God. "Thine hand shall find out all Thine enemies: Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee" (Psalm 21:8). Our God ALWAYS WINS! "The LORD shall go forth as a Mighty Man, He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies" (Isaiah 42:13).</p>

• (Nahum 1:2) "God is Jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is Furious; the LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies."
• (Ezekiel 12:15) "And they shall KNOW that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries."
• (John 12:48) "He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My Words, hath One that judgeth him: the Word that I have spoken, the Same shall judge him in the Last Day."

It is the Divine Right of God's people to win. "3 Mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at Thy presence. 4 For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou satest in the Throne judging Right" (Psalm 9:3-4). And our victories are the LORD's victories, for "Thou hast rebuked the heathen, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Thou hast put out their name forever and ever" (9:5). "For the LORD is Good; His Mercy is Everlasting; and His Truth endureth to all generations" (Psalm 100:5). He teaches us His Truth and it works His Goodness in us. "Do Good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts" (Psalm 125:4). "Blessed art Thou, O LORD: teach me Thy Statutes" (Psalm 119:12). And, in turn, our victories are His, for "Thou hast caused me to hope" (Psalm 119:49). "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ" (1Corinthians 15:57).

Conclusion
God has done nothing wrong! Absolutely ALL that the LORD advances and allows is for the best purposes and highest motives for everyone on Earth and in the Kingdom of Heaven. "Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven" (Matthew 6:10). And, because the wicked choose wickedness, Hell is the Very Best thing that God can do for them, for, even from their eternal, fiery grave, God reminds all beings-- righteous and wicked-- of the Eternal Value of His Eternal Living Law. "Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35). "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the Earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the Earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My Salvation shall be for ever, and My Righteousness shall not be abolished" (Isaiah 51:6)