Vengeance
In Sunday school we discussed the Second Coming of Jesus. The events are likened to the days of Noah and the days of Lot.
Noah’s flood resulted in the destruction of everything that breathed with the exception of Noah’s family and the animals that were in the ark with them.
Imagine the Creator of the universe with so much wrath against the violence in the earth that he wiped out every living breathing being on earth except those in the ark. What vengeance!!
The destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Deut 29:23, again demonstrated the anger and wrath of Almighty God. Instantly, these cities and their inhabitants were destroyed with fire and brimstone so thoroughly that nothing remained.
In Rev 19:11-17, Jesus will return and many will die by the sword, the rod, and the trampling of horse hooves. The vengeance of the Lord will be so powerful the earth will reel to and fro, Is 24:17-21. Hailstones and coals of fire will consume the wicked, Ps 18:7-14. Jesus will return in flaming fire, 2 Thes 1:7-9.
It’s impossible to fathom the intensity of God’s vengeance. We know God is love, but God is also a consuming fire, Heb 12:29. You do not want to trifle with God’s vengeance.
In Jn 3:18, 36, we see that all who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ are not condemned, but rather, we have everlasting life. But for those who have not believed, the wrath of God abides on them.
What God has done is that, in his great love, he has provided his only begotten Son as our propitiation, Rom 3:23-26. That is, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has appeased the wrath of God against any soul who believes on Jesus. 1 Jn 2:2 says, “he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world”. Anyone can be saved.
If you haven’t yet believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, do so today.
And if you have believed, don’t be so unmerciful that you won’t tell others who are lost how to be saved. The wrath of God abides on them. We don’t want them to be destroyed by God’s terrible vengeance against their sin.