The idea that Jesus and Jerusalem are examples of how God will execute justice (punish resurrected sinners) implies He will crucify them and/or allow soldiers to kill them. What do you believe it means?

Yes, Jesus dies for our sins. Yes, Jesus died so we can meet the demands of the law. The demands of the law have not changed, and can not be changed. Thus, there is nothing legal that can satisfy the law. "The law requires righteousness,--a righteous life, a perfect character; and this man has not to give. He cannot meet the claims of God's holy law. {DA 762.2}" There is nothing legal that solves this issue. Man must be restored, healed, or man will not meet the demands of the law. "But Christ, coming to the earth as man, lived a holy life, and developed a perfect character. These He offers as a free gift to all who will receive them. His life stands for the life of men. Thus they have remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. More than this, Christ imbues men with the attributes of God. He builds up the human character after the similitude of the divine character, a goodly fabric of spiritual strength and beauty. Thus the very righteousness of the law is fulfilled in the believer in Christ. God can "be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Romans 3:26. {DA 762.2}". Salvation requires a total transformation, not a legal solution (which does not exist).

Did Jesus die of crucifixion? No. So that one is out. So what killed Him? Sin. The example of Jerusalem is as quoted, God's "retributive justice", and how was God involved? He removed His hand of protection. "God destroys no man {COL 84.4}". Is that not clear? it is sin that destroys, "sin, when full grown, brings forth death", James 1:15. It is sin that destroys the sinner.

Please explain the following insights:

1. While He does not delight in vengeance, He will execute judgment upon the transgressors of His law.
2. And the very fact of His reluctance to execute justice testifies to the enormity of the sins that call forth His judgments and to the severity of the retribution awaiting the transgressor.
3. The plea may be made that a loving Father would not see His children suffering the punishment of God by fire while He had the power to relieve them.
4. Those who flatter themselves that He is too merciful to execute justice upon the sinner, have only to look to the cross of Calvary.

Also, please explain each sentence in the following paragraph. And, in particular, point out which ones support the idea hellfire and brimstone is intrinsic, cause and effect. Thank you.

PS - Please explain each insight and each sentence. Please do not skip over any. Thank you.

Yes, Jesus dies for our sins. Yes, Jesus died so we can meet the demands of the law.

Please address the following post:

Could you please address this: is God's law 1) precriptive, 2) proscriptive, or 3) descriptive?

A: Let me ask this question: is God's Law proscriptive, prescriptive, or descriptive?

M: The law is a transcript of God's character. It defines righteousness. It prohibits sinning. It condemns sinning and sinners. It demands death. It points sinners to Jesus as their only hope of pardon and salvation.

The physical ailments are a consequence of sin. Are you saying they are not? A dog getting cancer is a consequence of sin. Are you saying it is not?

There is however a much deeper issue in how I understand sin, and that is how deeply it is embedded in the human organism. How to remove sin, and keep you, you, is not a trivial problem. And it tested the Godhead.

By inheritance and example the sons become partakers of the father's sin. Wrong tendencies, perverted appetites, and debased morals, as well as physical disease and degeneracy, are transmitted as a legacy from father to son, to the third and fourth generation. This fearful truth should have a solemn power to restrain men from following a course of sin. {PP 306.3}

Parents leave maladies as a legacy to their children. As a rule, every intemperate man who rears children transmits his inclinations and evil tendencies to his offspring; he gives them disease from his own inflamed and corrupted blood. Licentiousness, disease, and imbecility are transmitted as an inheritance of woe from father to son and from generation to generation, and this brings anguish and suffering into the world, and is no less than a repetition of the fall of man. {4T 30.1}

Whatever may be our inherited or cultivated tendencies to wrong, we can overcome through the power that He is ready to impart. . . . {CH 440.1}

But it is not an easy matter to overcome hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong. {4MR 383.3}

They have that faith which works by love and purifies the soul from all its hereditary and cultivated imperfections.--6T 238 (1900). {1MCP 146.3}

Conflict after conflict must be waged against hereditary tendencies. We shall have to criticize ourselves closely and allow not one unfavorable trait to remain uncorrected. --COL 331 (1900). {2MCP 546.1}

The whole heart must be yielded to God, or the change can never be wrought in us by which we are to be restored to His likeness. By nature we are alienated from God. The Holy Spirit describes our condition in such words as these: "Dead in trespasses and sins;" "the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;" "no soundness in it." We are held fast in the snare of Satan, "taken captive by him at his will." Ephesians 2:1; Isaiah 1:5, 6; 2 Timothy 2:26. God desires to heal us, to set us free. But since this requires an entire transformation, a renewing of our whole nature, we must yield ourselves wholly to Him. {SC 43.2}
The warfare against self is the greatest battle that was ever fought. The yielding of self, surrendering all to the will of God, requires a struggle; but the soul must submit to God before it can be renewed in holiness. {SC 43.3}

In taking upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition, Christ did not in the least participate in its sin. {1SM 256.1}

Christ bore the sins and infirmities of the race as they existed when He came to the earth to help man. In behalf of the race, with the weaknesses of fallen man upon Him, He was to stand the temptations of Satan upon all points wherewith man would be assailed.--The Review and Herald, July 28, 1874.

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. {GC 569.1}

Selfishness is inwrought in our very being. It has come to us as an inheritance, and has been cherished by many as a precious treasure. {HS 138.7}