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Wrath of God
We see sometimes in the OT, that God caused some people to perish.
Exo 14:23 Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:24 At the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the
Egyptians into confusion.
Exo 14:25 He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD
is fighting for them against the Egyptians."
Exo 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and
their horsemen."
Exo 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into
it; then the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh's entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of
them remained.
Exo 14:29 But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their
left.
Exo 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Num 25:1 While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.
Num 25:2 For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Num 25:3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.
Num 25:4 The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of
the LORD may turn away from Israel."
Num 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor."
Num 25:6 Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Num 25:7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
Num 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the
plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Num 25:9 Those who died by the plague were 24,000.
Num 25:10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Num 25:11 "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My
jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
It may be, that if Phinehas wouldn't have killed the couple above (verse 8) God might have kept on wiping out the Israelite s.
Gen 6:13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to
destroy them with the earth.
Gen 6:17 "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven;
everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Gen 7:21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
Gen 7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Gen 7:23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they
were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
Now God said he would never destroy humankind by way of a flood again, but what about other ways?
Gen 19:24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
Gen 19:25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26 But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gen 19:27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
Gen 19:28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended
like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 19:29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Once again God destroys a large number of evil people. So, OK, those stories are all in the Old Testament, what about the New testament?
Act 5:1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
Act 5:2 and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife's full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles' feet.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Act 5:4 "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived
this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
Act 5:5 And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.
Act 5:6 The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.
Act 5:7 Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
Act 5:8 And Peter responded to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?" And she said, "Yes, that was the price."
Act 5:9 Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have
buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."
Act 5:10 And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her
beside her husband.
Act 5:11 And great fear came over the whole church, and over all who heard of these things.
I bring this up because from time to time there seems to be a movement that says "God is love", "God loves us all", "There is no hell", "There is no eternal punishment".
This is a half truth. God is love. But that isn't all he is. He is a jealous, Holy and Just God. He punishes those who deserve it.
Luk 13:23 And someone said to Him, "Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?" And He said to them,
Luk 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Luk 13:25 "Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open up to us!'
then He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know where you are from.'
Luk 13:26 "Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets';
Luk 13:27 and He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.'
Luk 13:28 "In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God,
but yourselves being thrown out.
Even Jesus displayed righteous anger and wrath on a few occasions.
Mat 23:33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Mat 12:34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Joh 2:15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money
changers and overturned their tables;
Joh 2:16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."
Joh 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."
Many say that God forgives everyone and everything. Again, a half truth. Many take John 3:16 an say that "God so loved the World" and they stop there, saying
the whole world is covered, but the second part of that verse says "Whosoever believes on him (Jesus)" and many people leave that part out. Or else they say, "I believe in God", well that's great, the demons believe also and shudder. But do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Mat 25:32 "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
Mat 25:33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
Mat 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world.
Mat 25:41 "Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and
his angels;
Mat 25:46 "These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Some say "Well just I can't believe a loving God would do something like that".
Exo 32:33 The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
Exo 32:34 "But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them
for their sin."
Exo 32:35 Then the LORD smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Yes God is love, his mercies are new every morning, he forgives us, he loves us, all of that is true.
But the Lord will judge those who don't believe in his son, and the destiny for them is not pleasant.
Rev 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
There's only one way to get your name in the book, if your not sure your name is in it, it might be a good time to do something about it.
Heb 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Mat 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
We see sometimes in the OT, that God caused some people to perish.
Exo 14:23 Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:24 At the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the
Egyptians into confusion.
Exo 14:25 He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD
is fighting for them against the Egyptians."
Exo 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and
their horsemen."
Exo 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into
it; then the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh's entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of
them remained.
Exo 14:29 But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their
left.
Exo 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Num 25:1 While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.
Num 25:2 For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Num 25:3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.
Num 25:4 The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of
the LORD may turn away from Israel."
Num 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor."
Num 25:6 Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Num 25:7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
Num 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the
plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Num 25:9 Those who died by the plague were 24,000.
Num 25:10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Num 25:11 "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My
jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
It may be, that if Phinehas wouldn't have killed the couple above (verse 8) God might have kept on wiping out the Israelite s.
Gen 6:13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to
destroy them with the earth.
Gen 6:17 "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven;
everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Gen 7:21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
Gen 7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Gen 7:23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they
were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
Now God said he would never destroy humankind by way of a flood again, but what about other ways?
Gen 19:24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
Gen 19:25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26 But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gen 19:27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
Gen 19:28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended
like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 19:29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Once again God destroys a large number of evil people. So, OK, those stories are all in the Old Testament, what about the New testament?
Act 5:1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
Act 5:2 and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife's full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles' feet.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Act 5:4 "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived
this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
Act 5:5 And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.
Act 5:6 The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.
Act 5:7 Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
Act 5:8 And Peter responded to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?" And she said, "Yes, that was the price."
Act 5:9 Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have
buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."
Act 5:10 And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her
beside her husband.
Act 5:11 And great fear came over the whole church, and over all who heard of these things.
I bring this up because from time to time there seems to be a movement that says "God is love", "God loves us all", "There is no hell", "There is no eternal punishment".
This is a half truth. God is love. But that isn't all he is. He is a jealous, Holy and Just God. He punishes those who deserve it.
Luk 13:23 And someone said to Him, "Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?" And He said to them,
Luk 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Luk 13:25 "Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open up to us!'
then He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know where you are from.'
Luk 13:26 "Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets';
Luk 13:27 and He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.'
Luk 13:28 "In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God,
but yourselves being thrown out.
Even Jesus displayed righteous anger and wrath on a few occasions.
Mat 23:33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Mat 12:34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Joh 2:15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money
changers and overturned their tables;
Joh 2:16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."
Joh 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."
Many say that God forgives everyone and everything. Again, a half truth. Many take John 3:16 an say that "God so loved the World" and they stop there, saying
the whole world is covered, but the second part of that verse says "Whosoever believes on him (Jesus)" and many people leave that part out. Or else they say, "I believe in God", well that's great, the demons believe also and shudder. But do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Mat 25:32 "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
Mat 25:33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
Mat 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world.
Mat 25:41 "Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and
his angels;
Mat 25:46 "These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Some say "Well just I can't believe a loving God would do something like that".
Exo 32:33 The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
Exo 32:34 "But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them
for their sin."
Exo 32:35 Then the LORD smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
Yes God is love, his mercies are new every morning, he forgives us, he loves us, all of that is true.
But the Lord will judge those who don't believe in his son, and the destiny for them is not pleasant.
Rev 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
There's only one way to get your name in the book, if your not sure your name is in it, it might be a good time to do something about it.
Heb 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Mat 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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