God Will Exact Justice on Mankind - Psalms 21-23

 Psalms 21:8-12 (ESV)

Your hand will find out all your enemies;

your right hand will find out those who hate you.

You will make them as a blazing oven

when you appear.

The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath,

and fire will consume them.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth,

and their offspring from among the children of man.

Though they plan evil against you,

though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

For you will put them to flight;

you will aim at their faces with your bows.

God will have His justice on those who continually reject Him.   The world goes on and on with their oblivious nature toward God.  He sends rain on the just and on the unjust and the unjust just assume it will be there:

Matthew 5:45 (ESV)

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

He gives gifts from heaven over and over and the natural man thinks they arrive based upon his own merit or dumb luck:

James 1:17 (ESV)

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

However, in the above text we read that it is God who will have the last laugh.   God will turn His grace to wrath and judge mankind for their failure to acknowledge His good grace in their lives.  Note what John tells us in Revelation.   When He begins to pour out His wrath on mankind, what will men do?  What will the most powerful do, then?

Revelation 6:15-17 (ESV)

Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

God will, in the end, place man in a “blazing oven.”   “Thought they plan evil” against God, they will not endure or survive.   In the end, God will have victory and glory.   These passages in this psalm and in Revelations are thousands of years apart.   God is patient.   But, in the end, God will have glory through His grace AND His wrath.