Spared Not (1-9-12)

Psalm 78:50 - "He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,"

In Psalm 78 the psalmist recounts the history of Israel, they're constant unfaithfulness toward God and His faithful guidance and provision for them in spite of their unfaithfulness. In verse 50 it says this - "He did not spare their soul from death." These particular words, "did not spare", are only used a handful of times in the entire Bible. In this verse the psalmist is talking about the plagues that God sent against the land of Egypt, and specifically the death of the first born. Exodus 12:29-30 we read -"Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead." God used this plague to deliver His people from bondage. He didn't spare His enemies.
Another time in Scripture that we're told that God didn't spare someone is in 2 Peter chapter 2. In this chapter this phrase is both in verses 4 and 5 where it says - "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly..."
God didn't spare the angels that joined Satan in the rebellion against Him. He didn't spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment. And He didn't spare the ancient world but destroyed it in the world wide flood. He completely condemned the angels when they sinned, and He poured out His wrath on sinful mankind by destroying the world in a flood.

He didn't spare the firstborn in Egypt, He didn't spare the angels who sinned and He didn't spare the ancient world. Now if we go to Romans 8:32 we read these words - "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Can you imagine, the great justice that condemned the angels when they sinned, the great wrath that destroyed the world in the days of Noah and the awesome power that destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, all this was poured out on Christ on the cross. We were fully deserving of Gods judgment, but He loved us so much that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, and God didn't hold back any of the punishment that we deserved but poured it out, full strength, on Christ. We deserve the death that spread through Egypt. We deserve the condemnation that the angels received. And we are fully deserving of the wrath that was poured out on the ancient world. But everything we deserve Christ took upon Himself. God did not spare His own Son in order that He might be able to spare us.

Romans 8:32 - "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?"