The Wrath to Come pt 2

2026-02-26T06:06:53Z

The Beginning #

The Wrath to Come is only the beginning, because for the true son or daughter of the King, the wrath directed at the enemy, at the threat, is a divine grace. The general understanding I see people have is to take the position that we’re all God’s kids, so any anger/wrath he exhibits against anyone is somehow a contradiction to his loving nature.

His demonstration of wrath towards his enemies is a great proof of the love he has for his children though. If everyone erroneously takes a view that we’re all God’s children then there’s not any room to talk about the enemies of God. YOU are the enemy! As was I… and it’s by God’s divine love and sovereignty that I have been adopted into his family. It’s by nothing more than love and sovereignty that anyone is adopted.

If you are a child of the King, then wrath is only the beginning, because the rest of that story is of protection and love. Humanity gets hung up on wrath thinking we’re the good guys and God owes us one, but this isn’t a Biblical worldview.

When people talk about god, god’s wrath, god’s love, etc… I like to ask “which god?” because a lot of people aren’t talking about my God, the True God-King, when they make claims about love and wrath… Most people want a grandpa in the sky too senile to recognize when they’ve done something wrong - but my King is the farthest thing from that caricature and his grand love for his people will be shown in many ways. Watching his wrath from behind the angelic armies will look much more like grace and love than hatred and anger, but for the enemies of God facing him at the front I’m sure ‘wrath’ will be all they see.

Choices #

Life is made up of choices, and I don’t think making a choice based on fear is ideal. I do not think that anyone can will themselves, by fear or not, to “accept Jesus” - ie. saving faith in the Lord isn’t something anyone can arrive at on their own, it is a gift.

So the question is, when the gift is sat in front of you, the gift of adoption and eternal life, divine and eternal grace, do you accept it? Or let it pass by… Because that choice dictates a lot about how God looks at you. He’s either protecting you from his enemies, or you are his enemy. And to be honest, when the enemies of God try to slander his name by calling him hateful and referring to wrath as though it should change the reality of who he is - all I see are enemies and propaganda. I know my God loves me, it’s been proven over and over.

Yahweh is not a senile old man in the sky, he is the conquering King and he will protect his own. So thank God for love and wrath.

The Wrath to Come

2026-02-25T06:09:15Z

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

The coming wrath… This is a tough one to think about, and I’m not sure I have a ton of hard opinions about that coming wrath anymore. I used to cling to a few Bible verses that I thought painted a “complete” picture, or complete enough, of what this coming wrath will be like. But anymore, after walking with the Lord, becoming a dad, learning that ancient literature is quite a bit harder to read than your average 21st century novel… well I’m just not sure what I know anymore beyond a few things:

Yahweh created all things (Genesis 1)
In Jesus all things are held together (Colossians 1:17)
*No one comes to Father except through Jesus, and only those whom the Father gives to him (John 6)
By God’s grace alone is anyone chosen (Ephesians 2:8-9)

*See Helkyo - What is it for God to draw man to him?

So what can I say about anything outside those 4 points? Not a lot that’s concrete, but definitely some anecdotes, and those might be helpful.

It’s uncomfortable to think about God’s wrath I think because a lot of people, Christian or not, have this idea that “we are all God’s children” and so we analyze that statement from the position of a son or daughter. But biblically, this is just not even close to accurate… Yahweh disinherited the nations at Babel (Genesis 10-11, Deuteronomy 32) and created a new inheritance for himself. NOT all people are God’s children… I don’t know where this preschool theology came from but it’s been a disaster to the general public’s view of legitimate Christianity. John says in this Matthew passage that God can make children from stones - so just being born a human doesn’t grant you the status of child of God.

Matthew 3:9

And do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

I think people would generally do well to imagine themselves, not as God’s children, but as an offender of God’s children… Now let’s think about wrath for a second. If anyone hurt my daughters, especially someone not already in my good graces, you had best believe that “wrath” will be an accurate word to use to describe my response. If you come for my family, for my children, that’ll simply be the end of you. With that minimal perspective in mind… God’s wrath kind of is a bit more palletable I think.

Danger

What makes it hard is the wrong view of ourselves from the beginning…

How would it be, if someone I didn’t know walked into my house and declared themselves my son, my friend, etc. No one gets to declare themselves apart of my family, there’s a process to joining a family… Yahweh, as the creator of all things, is the one with the authority to declare these things. He has simply NOT said that all people are his children - what he has done is sent an invitation out that anyone can hear, and those whom he does choose are given the ability to respond to it. The hearts of the men and women who hear the call and are changed are the ones who can refer themselves as a son or daughter of the King.

So, if someone who is not God’s child thinks that God has no right to exhibit wrath against the ones harming his kids… well… I’m not sure what argument anyone can have there… if you break into my house and harm my family you’re in for a rough time - if you harm the kids of the creator of EVERYTHING, I can only imagine “wrath” would be just the beginning.

Follow-up post coming: The Wrath to Come pt 2

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The Wrath to Come pt 2

The Beginning #

Choices #

The Wrath to Come