Currently, God’s judgment on the wicked on this earth cannot be seen since we are living in the grace period. That does not, however, imply that they will get away with nothing. Everyone, according to God, will appear in front of the judge once they pass away (Hebrews 9:27).
We should walk in God’s righteousness in order to avoid his wrath that will come upon the wicked. We cannot hide our sins from his sight. Judgment is real and we should be careful concerning our works so that we can be free from sins.
Though the wicked may flourish on this earth yet we should know that their destruction is sure and they will suffer for their wickedness in hell forever.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 teaches us that God will bring all our works before judgment. So it is true that no one can escape from God’s hand. The Lord has given us the instructions to follow so that we can keep ourselves away from sinful activities.
Here are a few verses from the Bible that will help us understand how and when the Lord will destroy the wicked.
Romans 9:22(KJV) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Philippians 3:19(KJV) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Job 31:3(KJV) Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
1 John 1:9(KJV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Job 21:30(KJV) That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
1 John 1:6(KJV) If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1 Timothy 6:9(KJV) But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Proverbs 31:8(KJV) Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Revelation 1:1(KJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
Jeremiah 50:22(KJV) A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Isaiah 59:7(KJV) Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Luke 1:37(KJV) For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Proverbs 10:15(KJV) The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 13:3(KJV) He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Micah 2:10(KJV) Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Ephesians 6:12(KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Revelation 21:8(KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Matthew 12:34(KJV) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Proverbs 18:12(KJV) Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
1 Thessalonians 5:22(KJV) Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Micah 2:1(KJV) Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
James 4:7(KJV) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Proverbs 27:20(KJV) Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 16:18(KJV) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Isaiah 51:19(KJV) These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
Romans 6:23(KJV) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Joel 1:15(KJV) Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Psalm 5:4(KJV) For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Proverbs 17:19(KJV) He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 8:13(KJV) The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Job 26:6(KJV) Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
1 Corinthians 5:5(KJV) To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
James 1:13(KJV) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
1 Thessalonians 5:3(KJV) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Jeremiah 48:3(KJV) A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Romans 3:16(KJV) Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Ecclesiastes 12:14(KJV) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Proverbs 10:29(KJV) The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
John 3:16(KJV) 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.
Lamentations 3:47(KJV) Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Proverbs 15:11(KJV) Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
James 1:5(KJV) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
1 John 5:19(KJV) And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Matthew 7:13(KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.
Romans 3:23(KJV) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Isaiah 1:28(KJV) And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
