Sense and Nonsense about Heaven and Hell by Kenneth D. Boa & Robert M. Bowman Jr

Author:Kenneth D. Boa & Robert M. Bowman Jr. [Boa, Kenneth D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2009-05-26T07:00:00+00:00

The Wrath of God

As we have already seen, the New Testament clearly speaks of God’s wrath or anger in the context of the final judgment:

John the Baptist spoke of “the wrath to come” (Matt. 3:7; Luke 3:7).

Jesus describes the master who throws his unforgiving servant into prison as doing so “in anger” (Matt. 18:34).

John warns that “he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36 NKJV).

The unrepentant are storing up for themselves “wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,” who will mete out “indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish” (Rom. 2:5, 8 – 9 NKJV).

Paul describes the wicked as “vessels of wrath” (Rom. 9:22 NASB).

Before we repented and believed in Christ, we “were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else” (Eph. 2:3).

It is because of their sins that “the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient” (Col. 3:6; Eph. 5:6).

Paul speaks of Jesus as the one “who rescues us from the wrath that is coming” (1 Thess. 1:10; see also Rom. 5:9; 1 Thess. 5:9).

In Revelation, the wicked seek in vain to hide “from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:16 – 17).

Revelation warns that the wicked “will drink of the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger” (Rev. 14:10).

Jesus Christ is the agent of God’s wrath: “From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty” (Rev. 19:15).

If all this talk about God’s wrath seems intended to scare people, it is. The book of Hebrews says about those who willfully reject the truth about Christ after they learn about it, “there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries” (Heb. 10:26 – 27). Those who violated the Mosaic covenant died without mercy (v. 28); those who turn their back on the new covenant in Christ will deserve “much worse punishment” (v. 29). “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (v. 31).

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