The Wrath of God
Wrath is a deep, intense anger and indignation.
Anger is stirring of resentful displeasure and strong antagonism, by a sense of injury or insult. Indignation is righteous anger aroused by injustice and baseness.
Wrath is not something you hear too much about from the pulpits of the modern day churches. No one wants to hear about the wrath of God, but it is an attribute of God and needs to be understood.
We live in an age when the church preaches prosperity and comfort, and the world talks of a God of love and mercy without any judgment. An age of idol worship exalting movie and music stars to godlike status, while they portray one thing on the screen while partaking of occult secret societies off screen. When they die an untimely death for speaking out about those controlling them behind the scenes, their worshipers just move on to the next pawn of the devil, never investigating what their private lives are all about.
Hollywood encourages the idols of greed, pride, sex, unnatural relationships, and self-will; all of which are against the character of God and Jesus Christ. The average American watches five hours of TV each day, while children aged 2-11 watch over 24 hours, and adults aged 35-49 watch more than 33 hours, according to data from Nielsen on March 5, 2014.
80% of Christians do not read their Bibles daily! Yet the Bible is the light to guide our feet into that which pleases the Lord of our lives. Maybe it is because we are brainwashed by the TV stars into seeking that which pleases the flesh and comforts the mind, instead of the Word of Christ which convicts our soul that we need to practice more Godly characteristics in our daily lives.
A.W. Pink, in the Attributes of God said, “A study of the concordance will show that there are more references in Scripture to the anger, fury, and wrath of God, than there is to His love and tenderness.”
The wrath of God is not like the wrath of man-
Man is unpredictable in his anger and wrath, in that you don’t know what and where and when he is going to go over the deep end and lose control of himself. Man gets his feelings hurt and his pride wounded, and he becomes angry and can develop a bad temper. The chip is on the shoulder just daring someone to say or do something that disturbs it, so he can explode toward whoever is in his path.
I grew up with anger and wrath. My parents argued on a regular basis, both with hot tempers. Suicide attempts were the norm, and I cried like a baby each time that dad walked out the door with a shotgun threatening to never return. Thankfully we all found the Lord and those days are long past, under the forgiving Blood of Christ. But there were many days and nights in my childhood when you were very careful about what you said and how you behaved yourself in the presence of authority.
God is not like this. He has no chip on His shoulder. He is never in a foul mood. He never gets His feelings hurt and loses control. He is without pride in the sense of it being evil and self-seeking. He is not looking for someone to take it out on. His anger and wrath is just, as Jesus demonstrated in the temple as He drove out the money changers from what was to be a House of Prayer and Praise to His Father!
If God took as much pleasure in evil as He did in good, would He be a good God? If God did not react adversely to evil in a just way, would His world be worth living in? God’s adverse reaction to evil is a necessary part of moral perfection.
God’s wrath is that of the Judge of all the earth, administrating justice to His creation. Cruelty is immoral and never a part of God’s character. God created each with a free choice. We have the choice to choose between what is right and what is wrong. God allows us this freedom and tries to convict us in our conscience that this is or is not pleasing to Him as our creator and eternal judge. When we choose to ignore those convictions and harden our conscience, then He allows us to choose to do so and reap the consequences. The wages of sin is death: eternal death without living in God’s Holy Presence, and physical death as every sin takes a toll on the human body and ages it faster than normal. You have seen those who have lived for the bottle, and for the nicotine, and for the life of deceit and lies, and for the stardom of fame and power and money. What do you see in their eyes? What do you see on their faces? That which affects the body, affects the soul; and the soul shows in our eyes and on our countenances! I Corinthians 6:18 speaks of sexual sins taking a toll on the body. Can anyone argue that AIDs and STDs are not a direct result of unlawful and unnatural sexual relations?
If your wife, daughter, sister, or good female friend was kidnapped by ISIS fighters and made a sex slave, would you as her husband, as her father, as her brother, as her friend, be angry, be wrathful? Or would you just go about your normal daily routine as if nothing happened, saying; “I must love them and accept them, for this is what their worldview is all about.”
ISIS is forcing women to restore their virginity after they are raped, repairing the hymen membrane so it can be broken again by the next man they are given in marriage to. One woman was forced to restore her virginity 20 times! Would you be angry? Would your heart and soul be filled with wrath? Or would you just ‘love’ them?!
This is the line of bull crap that Hollywood, Atheists, New Age followers, Godless politicians, and many others, wish you and I to believe. We are so into having everyone like us and love us that we cannot say a reprimand to anyone, no matter what they do to violate our personal space and offend our moral character and conscience. Just love and accept, and forget and go on, as if nothing ever happened, or is going to happen, has become our new philosophy to live by.
While we are doing this, ISIS and Boko Haram are forcing girls as young as five years old to be sex slaves to their terrorist fighters! Girls as young as ten are being impregnated and forced to have the baby when they are not physically nor emotionally nor mentally qualified to do so!
Franklin Graham and Anne Graham Lotz are calling for all Christians to fast and pray for God’s mercy on our country, realizing that if Christians and Americans don’t repent and put God back into their daily lives, that ISIS and radical Islam is going to come to the streets and towns of USA as part of God’s Wrath and Judgment on America for forgetting her Godly foundations and for turning her back, little by little, on Israel!
Please join them on May 15-23, 2015 for prayer and fasting for America asking God to soften His judgment that is coming on our nation and for Christians to repent of their sins and draw close to God in ways that please Him!