What Is the Wrath of God?

The Bible talks about the wrath of God, but that concept make many people feel uncomfortable. Is the wrath of God something that is just left over from ancient times? Or, does the wrath of God describe something important about the character of God? In this video, we look at what the Bible has to say about God's wrath and what it means for us today.

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[debshegog]

Thank you for this exceptional teaching. It is a one! Peace and Blessing!

[geef]

Thank you for this clear and biblical explanation of Gods wrath.

[realtheology]

Bro! Your videos are really helpful! Thanks for putting out good content.

[KristinaM]

I share these kind of videos to my Facebook, so others can understand the Bible. I can't explain it so well!

[Ulf]

Geez
This video helps me a lot
Nice video

[paperairforce]

this will give me something to study a bit more on. You are correct, but God's wrath is often used in the context of the future Tribulation; as in 1 Thess. 1:10- 5:9.

[gerardsolers]

"...Whoever does not OBEY the SON shall not see LIFE, but the WRATH og GOD remains on him..:"

[neliasimon]

L thank you for your help..stay blessed.

[HAZNAUT]

*not gunna lie, i WANT a god that brings impressive lightning storms*

[ryaned]

Gods love is unconditional. He loves you even if you're good or bad. He accept you for who you are.

[graceoverreligion]

I played a game and there were bugs in the code. I was wrathful against them, my wrath was on the bugs.

But how can you have wrath when you know these bugs are bound to appear, in a game you yourself made?

Maybe this wrath is only a perception of man on a certain action of God that leads to certain situations.

Job and his friends had this problem.

[Lonewolf-ohqy]

Sin was forgiven at the cross, what God is against is evil and weakness, God see what is good and what is evil

[FreedomInTruth]

Hell... Hell is the wrath of God. What ever God is mad at becomes a living Hell.

[lonewolf]

There is something that people have to understand, sin all sins of the world were forgiving at the cross ✝️, God doesn't see sin anymore, but evil will not be forgiving at this time or ever. Know the difference between sin and evil.

[andymacedo]

That's all you people do - sin everyday knowingly everyday - don't even try to stop - that's why there's the plague - death suffering - stop sinning stop breaking the law -

[patricialopez]

I understand what you said as a result of the wrath of God, but what is the wrath of God? You will find the answer in the Bible.

[jesusisthelivinggod]

God does not hate anything. The word you are looking for is tough Love. My wrath is mocking sinners to hint to them to the truth. Free will means there is Free will to sin. Why would I don't love all of my creation thats silly. JEHOVA

[vanikkhachaturian]

So if you are saved then you go back to your old sin life, is that ok?

[jpaul]

The wrath of God properly understood is when HE casts you out into outer darkness for your lack of faith in HIM. That's the final judgement and there is no hope thereafter.
So Believe in HIM and in HIS Word because it's Truth.

Shalom .

the judgement of God against the nations that come up against Israel and the wicked is not about rapturing believers and being spared the great tribulation.

[ricklannoye]

JESUS TAUGHT GOD IS NEVER WRATHFUL

If one is content to arbitrarily cherry pick verses from the Bible as a monolithic revelation, then it's fairly easy to find some language to say God actually hurts people and makes them suffer.

That said, as far as the rationale for inflicting suffering (by God or Man) goes, there is quite a progression, beginning with no limits on revenge, as was evident by the behavior of at least a couple of Jacob's sons, to the initial limits found in Mosaic Law, which called for revenge not to exceed the degree of the original offence (one eye only for one eye) and carried no more than upon the children of a 4th generation of the original offender (instead of so many generations of blood feuds, no one can even remember how it started), to what the Jewish prophets decreed later on--equal revenge can only be carried out against the person who actually committed the original defense, not his children or family and, then, the concept that only God should be the One to carry out revenge.

Given the direction of these gradual changes to how retaliation moved in the Jewish Bible, then Jesus' stance, as is evidenced in Matthew 5:38-48, simply represents one more step in the progression of God's revelation to humanity about what He really was after all along, especially given Jesus' claim that God is NOT vindictive, not at all, and returns only love for evil!

Why then was it that people in ancient, biblical times, assuming Jesus was correct about God's non-vindictive nature, led them to incorrectly think God was actually doing bad things?

The answer is really not that surprising!

Before Science finally came along and revealed that many of the bad things that happen to people--earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, pandemics, lightening strikes, storms, tornados, hurricanes, and so on--are caused by unguided nature...humans in their ignorance thought supernatural forces were intentionally operating their world!

The ancient Israelites, and later Jews, were no different! It took a very long time before they could even begin to think in terms of allowing for no one to be at fault for any given tragedy, outside of what humans did one to another.

Further, it's still a huge challenge, even today, to point out to people how retaliating against those convicted of crimes has not resulted in any reduction of crime! If anything, when a State is empowered to make people suffer, it only reinforces the criminal mind set--"Hurting people and threatening to hurt people is an acceptable way to get what you want"!

Regardless of how nothing is to be gained from punishment, many people still think it's a good thing to give in to the carnal urge to strike back when struck! And they often fall back on the sort of theology that claims God is vindictive in order to justify their retaliatory behavior!

But for any who wish to follow the teachings and example of Jesus, there is no room to justify revenge or to think causing suffering ever SUBTRACTS from some mystical balance sheet (as the pagan goddess Justitia was said to do), but only MULTIPLIES evil committed!

Rick Lannoye, author