1 Thess 5:9-10
. 9 For
God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
I believe this means that the ones appointed to wrath, Christ didnt die for them. Who are they appointed to wrath ? Romans 9 tells us,
Rom 9:21-22
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump
to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22
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:
The word
to make poieō is a verb that has to do with to create.
Its the same word Jesus speaks Matt 19:4
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And we know this refers back to creation Gen 5:1-2
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
So God made some men as vessels of dishonor. The word dishonor atimia means:
dishonour, ignominy, disgrace dishonour (4x), vile (1x), shame (1x), reproach (1x).
In the last day the vessels of wrath will be raised unto shame/contempt and wrath Dan 12:2
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Job speaks of the wicked reserved unto the day of wrath
Job 21:30
that the wicked
is reserved to the
day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the
day of
wrath.
Now these men Christ did not die for, for what reason would He since He made them for the day of wrath for their sins, they are appointed to it.
BUT those who were made vessels of Mercy, God did not appoint them to wrath, but conversly for them to obtain Salvation. How ? Through the Lord Jesus Christ who died for them.