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Clear searchDivine 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 →Abraham, 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 earth do…
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 →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…resurrection stages, expect translation before judgement, or place saints in safety while wrath falls. Few should be labelled straightforward pretribulationists. They show a field of developing exegetical possibilities rather than one settled system. The cautious conclusion is en…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…th was full of his praise.” — Habakkuk 3:3 Habakkuk has prayed, “revive thy work” and “in wrath remember mercy” (3:2). He sees Yahweh going forth “for the salvation of thy people” (3:13) and walking through the sea (3:15). Sinai, Exodus, conquest and future deliverance are woven…
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 man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…els sound a series of earthly judgements. Revelation's seventh trumpet announces kingdom, wrath, judgement, and reward; it does not narrate the dead in Christ rising or living saints being caught up. Paul also wrote before Revelation. Later revelation can illuminate earlier revel…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.” —Isaiah 54:7–8 Isaiah 62 develops the same promise. Zion wi…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…ians 15:50–54; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18). The Church is not appointed to the coming divine wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9). Daniel’s final week is determined upon Israel and Jerusalem (Daniel 9:24–27). The churches are promised deliverance from the worldwide hour which tests the…
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.
…n understands Isaiah’s cosmic judgment imagery as appropriate to the revelation of divine wrath. But it would be insufficient simply to say that earthly events occur in subsequent chapters, therefore the sixth seal cannot depict the final judgment. That argument assumes what many…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…Baptist declares that the person who refuses the Son does not possess life, but that "the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36). Jesus also speaks of a particular love connected with obedience and fellowship: "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that lovet…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…t suffer. It distinguishes the persecution inflicted by a hostile world from the judicial wrath God pours upon that world. The Church is appointed to the former. It is not appointed to the latter: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus…
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