Blood glory and pain3/15/2023 It is what they deserve!” 7 And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!” 8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. 5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. 4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea. Hopefully, by the end of verse 11, we can say with heaven, “True and just are your judgments, O Lord God Almighty.” Hear the word of the Lord from verse 1…ġ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” 2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. What should we make of it? Is God’s anger a good thing? Is it right? How should we respond? Coming to chapter 16, we encounter God’s wrath against the Beast and his kingdom. But without hesitation, they announce God’s wrath and acknowledge it as right. It raises some of the gloomiest laments and woes. But when we come to the Scriptures, the apostles and prophets speak of God’s wrath without embarrassment. Packer made a similar observation in his book Knowing God: “The modern habit throughout the Christian church is to play …To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God’s kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment.” I have another book by Paul Copan, in which he answers those who object that God’s wrath against the Canaanites makes him a moral monster. They believe “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” J. Richard Niebuhr once observed how liberal Christianity diminishes God’s wrath to the point of preaching a different gospel. I mean professing Christians struggle with it. I don’t just mean atheists like Richard Dawkins who describes Christian teaching on God’s wrath as a form of child abuse. If you surveyed opinions on the wrath of God, you’d soon discover that people have problems with it.
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