Whoever believes in the Son
has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's
wrath remains on him." John 3:36
The earnest
and instructed Christian knows that the wrath of God is a reality, that His
anger is as holy as His love, and that between His love and His wrath there is
no incompatibility. He further knows (as far as fallen man can know such
matters) what the wrath of God is and what it is not.
To understand God’s wrath we must view it in the
light of His holiness. God is holy and has made holiness to be the moral
condition necessary to the health of His universe. Sin’s temporary presence in
the world only accents this. Whatever is holy is healthy; evil is a moral
sickness that must end ultimately in death.…
Since God’s first concern for His universe is its
moral health, that is, its holiness, whatever is contrary to this is
necessarily under His eternal displeasure. Wherever the holiness of God
confronts unholiness there is conflict.
To preserve His creation God must destroy whatever
would destroy it. When He arises to put down destruction and save the world
from irreparable moral collapse He is said to be very angry. Every wrathful
judgment of God in the history of the world has been a holy act of
preservation.
God’s wrath is His utter intolerance of whatever
degrades and destroys!
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