It's NEVER Okay to Pray That Wicked People Would Go to Hell!
Several years ago during the Obama Administration, one may remember how Steven Anderson fails to show any quality of true Christianity. While it's good that he's intolerant about sin but he hardly shows any genuine love for the sinners. True that sinners must be rebuked but one can't deny this fact that it's NEVER okay to pray that wicked people would go to Hell. 2 Peter 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
Ezekiel 33:11 says, "Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" As much as God will punish the wicked but He has no pleasure in doing it. He's not a sadistic monster who laughs when the wicked are punished. I can only imagine fury and sadness when He condemns the unsaved on Judgment Day but He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The Bible says that while God will definitely send unsaved sinners to Hell but He's definitely not a monster who enjoys doing so. That's where "Christian" hate groups like the Westboro Baptist Church are dead wrong.
While the Bible has imprecations against the wicked but it's one thing to pray for justice and deliverance, but it's another to pray certain people would go to Hell. The imprecatory prayers were meant to warn people of God's judgment towards the wicked but to never pray people to go to Hell. The Lord Jesus has a very different remedy for our enemies that He says in Matthew 5:44-48 and Luke 6:27-38 to love one's enemies, to pray for one's persecutors and to do good to those who do evil to you. While it doesn't mean condoning to their errors but this is loving them enough to tell them the truth in love, to pray for their salvation and to return evil with kindness. That's how the war against wickedness should go - rebuke in love and return evil with kindness.
Ezekiel 33:11 says, "Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" As much as God will punish the wicked but He has no pleasure in doing it. He's not a sadistic monster who laughs when the wicked are punished. I can only imagine fury and sadness when He condemns the unsaved on Judgment Day but He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. The Bible says that while God will definitely send unsaved sinners to Hell but He's definitely not a monster who enjoys doing so. That's where "Christian" hate groups like the Westboro Baptist Church are dead wrong.
While the Bible has imprecations against the wicked but it's one thing to pray for justice and deliverance, but it's another to pray certain people would go to Hell. The imprecatory prayers were meant to warn people of God's judgment towards the wicked but to never pray people to go to Hell. The Lord Jesus has a very different remedy for our enemies that He says in Matthew 5:44-48 and Luke 6:27-38 to love one's enemies, to pray for one's persecutors and to do good to those who do evil to you. While it doesn't mean condoning to their errors but this is loving them enough to tell them the truth in love, to pray for their salvation and to return evil with kindness. That's how the war against wickedness should go - rebuke in love and return evil with kindness.