Sabaoth Spring 2023
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Part 1C, The Need & The Prophecy: The wrath of God
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The wrath of God
The mercy and justice of God have never contradicted each other; just as the mercy of God encompasses pity, clemency, forgiveness, kindness, sympathy, understanding, leniency, benevolence; same also goes for His justice – for those who walk on its (Justice of God) path:
“I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice. Bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.” (Prov. 8:20-21)
In fact, our perfect Creator balances the two qualities with precision. Here again His transcendence and accompanying attributes make it possible for Him to do this easily: Justice is God’s fair and impartial treatment of all people. The justice of God is a necessary connect of His holiness or moral excellence. Since God is infinitely and eternally perfect, He must be impartial in His judgments and always treat His creatures with equity:
“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” (Psalm 7:9-11)
The rule of judgment is the standard of God’s law as revealed to men. Just as it has been revealed to one who to some extent says “I believe in God” or “I believe in someone up there”; so does the heathen by the law have it written on their hearts .
“And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” (Luke 12:47 -48)
“For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. “ (Romans 2:12-16)
God have to do this because as the Psalmist says:
“Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.” (Psalm 89:14)
“For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.” (Jeremiah 25:15-38)
So Apostle Paul buttresses this when He says in this verses of Romans 1:
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:18-20)
Why Would The wrath of God Be Revealed From Heaven?
The first is wrath itself. It is being revealed from heaven against the ungodly.
The second is suppression of the truth about God by human beings.
The third is God’s prior revelation of Himself to those very people who suppress the truth about Him.
These three concepts really need to be seen in reverse order – revelation, suppression, and then wrath. They teach God has given a revelation of Himself in nature sufficient to lead any right thinking man or woman to seek Him out and worship Him, but that, instead of doing this, people suppress this revelation. They deny it so that they can justify their immorality and wickedness, if they are able to make themselves believe that there is no God who sees all things; then they do not have to follow where the acceptance of His existence will lead them. It is because of this intentional and immoral suppression of the truth about God by human beings that the wrath of God comes upon them.
We pray O Lord, that You will give us the grace to confess our sins, forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness for you are faithful and just.