I

Toward people who blaspheme and resist Him, or even those who malign Him, or those who intentionally attack, malign, and curse Him, God does not turn a blind eye or a deaf ear, but rather He has a clear attitude toward them. He hates these people, and He condemns them in His heart. He even openly declares what their outcome will be, so that people know that He has a clear attitude toward those who blaspheme Him, and so that they know how He will determine their outcome.

II

God uses the occurrence of facts to deal with the evil behavior of some people. When these facts happen, it's people's flesh that suffers punishment, meaning that the punishment is something that can be seen with human eyes. When dealing with some people's evil behavior, God just curses them with words and His anger also comes upon them, but the punishment they receive may be something people cannot see. Nonetheless, this type of outcome may be even more serious than the outcomes that people can see, such as being punished or killed.

III

So when people resist God and malign and blaspheme Him, if they provoke His disposition, or if they push God past the limit of His tolerance, then the consequences do not bear thinking about. The most severe consequence is that God hands their lives and everything about them over to Satan once and for all. They will not be forgiven for all of eternity. This means that this person has become food in Satan's mouth, a toy in its hand, and from then on God has nothing more to do with them.

IV

If a person angers God to the point that God does not even want to see them again and is prepared to completely give up on them, to the point where He does not even want to deal with them Himself—if it gets to the point where He will hand them over to Satan for it to do as it will, to allow Satan to control, consume, and treat them in whatever way it pleases—then this person is utterly finished. Their right to be a human has been permanently revoked, and their right to be a created being has come to an end. Is this not the most severe kind of punishment?

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God's Work, God's Disposition, and God Himself III