Many think of the day of the Lord as a time where salvation will be full. To this, they mean a sort of time of personal growth wherein they become their ultimate selves. Some people even include a discipline of worship being open freely to them. They often view the promise of the new heaven and the new earth through these lenses as well, tending to see it as a sort of “shedding of skin,” for the human experience. However, these passages elucidate a deeper truth. The world that is destroyed is deserving of destruction. The people that are damned are worthy of damnation. The ones who are redeemed have no merit to be so. Their transformation to come is completely and entirely built upon their allegiance to their creator and his grace toward them. Our eschatology should not be a “self help revelation.” Furthermore, here, we finally have a right to rejoice at the destruction of all the wickedness and wicked people who have been storing up this destruction. Though we cannot take the vengeance ourselves, as we would surely misuse such authority, we should delight in it, in the hands of the righteous one. This truth has been kept away from the eschatology of many Christians, keeping from them an important cathartic element of their salvation.