As we continue through Revelation this morning, we have come to one of the critical doctrines of the Bible: the Doctrine of the wrath of God. The wrath of God is part of God’s absolute justice.
No sin can go unpunished with God’s absolute holiness and justice. So, even though there may be little or no evident response from God for most of the sins being poured out by fallen and sinful humans, God’s justice has kept track of every sin ever sinned against the Infinite, All-Knowing God Almighty.
But a moment is coming when the river of humanity’s sins, piling up behind the dam of God’s patience, will reach the limit, and the righteous, infinite, just wrath of Almighty God bursts forth.
Wrath is one of God’s eight moral attributes, described in the Bible. Here is a list that we have studied as the elders and deacons of Calvary from Grudem’s Systematic Theology:
Wrath: One of God’s Moral Attributes
The Moral Attributes of God may be described as: 1. Goodness; 2. Love; 3. Mercy (Grace, Patience); 4. Holiness; 5. Peace (or Order); 6. Righteousness (or Justice); 7. Jealousy; and 8. Wrath. The most vivid illustration of that final moral attribute is where we have arrived in Rev. 6.
God’s wrath is not only one of His attributes; this wrath He has is one of the major doctrines in the Bible.
In the Old Testament, more than twenty words refer to God’s wrath. (Other, very different words relate to human anger.) There are nearly six hundred essential passages on the subject. These passages are not isolated or unrelated, as if they had been added to the Old Testament at some later date by a particularly gloomy redactor. They are essential and are integrated with the most important themes and events of Scripture.
The first time God’s wrath appears in Revelation is in Revelation 6. God intensely hates sin, and in Revelation 6, we are introduced to the long-awaited “Day of the Lord” and the pouring out of the stored-up wrath.
God’s Future Wrath in Revelation
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