In a coming day God will pour out His judgment upon all those that despise His name. He has no delight in this. His heart goes out to all men everywhere. He desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11), but rather that all should turn unto Him and live. But if men refuse His mercy and spurn His loving-kindness, then in righteousness He must deal with them in judgment which is His strange work, His strange act (Isaiah 28:21). He would far rather show mercy and save than condemn and punish (2 Peter 3:9). He respects the sanctity of the human will and if men will not turn to Him to find life, then they themselves deliberately choose death whether they realize it or not.

—H.A.I.