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11 results for “Divine wrath”
Clear searchAbraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
Does God Remove the Righteous before He Judges? Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully When Abraham learns that judgement is approaching Sodom, he asks one of Scripture's great questions: "Shall not the Judge of all the e…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
Is the Church Appointed to the Tribulation's Wrath? Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape The claim that the Church is not appointed to wrath is sometimes answered too quickly. Christians plainly suffer. Jes…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
Two Revelations of Divine Love What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God Love is easily claimed. Its character is revealed by what it does when the beloved is undeserving and the cost is real. Islam…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…ul then writes that believers wait for God's Son from heaven, who delivers them “from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:10), and that “God hath not appointed us to wrath” (1 Thessalonians 5:9). Christians are not promised freedom from persecution; the Church has suffered thro…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…hour Paul says that believers wait for God's Son from heaven, who "delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10). He later writes, "God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:9). This does not promise ex…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…Whatever source my opponent was using, the essential argument was familiar: the different divine names in the Pentateuch betrayed different sources and an earlier history lying behind the Bible’s finished account. What was new was hearing the subject return through my son, not as…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…re after the Tribulation. A midtribulationist places it within Daniel's final week. A pre-wrath interpreter places it after Antichrist's persecution but before the concentrated outpouring of divine wrath. A pretribulationist places it before the final seven-year period begins. Th…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…ccidental residence or ordinary property ownership. It is an enduring bond established by divine promise—a bond involving belonging, possession, habitation, fruitfulness, vocation, and permanence. Isaiah’s imagery must therefore neither be overstated nor weakened. The land is not…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…hristians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God completes His declared purposes for Daniel’s people and holy c…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…ink the wine of her fornication; she is made to drink the wine of the fierceness of God's wrath (Revelation 14:8-10; 16:19; 18:3, 6). She glorifies herself and lives deliciously; God gives her torment and sorrow in corresponding measure (Revelation 18:7). She boasts that she sits…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…source of renewal in heaven. The verb rendered “be poured” presents the gift as abundant divine provision. Nothing in the vocabulary itself establishes a millennial chronology; its significance lies in the relationship Isaiah establishes between divine outpouring and comprehensi…
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