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God’s Wrath
Part 1
Revelation Chapter 6
God’s Wrath is his intense hatred and
inability to allow to continue without dealing with
sin. He is wrathful against sin. You know the verse. You can be sure your sin will
find you out.
God says you can be sure that I’m going to find every sin.
I myself am dying because I’m a sinner. I am very great sinner but I say
you only need to sin once to incur the Wrath forever of God.
That’s part of his character.
Now we get to the Book of Revelation. Revelation talks
about the fact that God’s Wrath is a big part of theology.
There more than 20 words used to refer to God’s Wrath. There are other very different
words that relate to human anger and those 20 words are used in nearly 600 important
passages in the Bible on the wrath of God.
So the wrath of God is a huge Doctrine in the Bible.
There are 20 different Hebrew words to describe how God looks at Wrath and At sin.
That’s a big. What’s amazing is these are not obscure topics.
They’re basic. They’re integrated into the major events of the scripture.
The first time God’s Wrath shows up in Revelation is right here in Revelation 6.
Open to Revelation chapter 6:12-17
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12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs,
when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island
were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and
the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth
on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
As you read. We’re going to notice something. What I want to do is I want to alert you to what
we’re going to see first. First, when we see the word wrath in the English Bible.
It’s translating one of two different Greek words there are two different words God has chosen in his
engineering plan for communicating his word to us.
He has chosen two different words because it takes two different Greek terms to
describe God’s Wrath. The first Greek word-Thumos. Definition is
passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again
is God having a fierce rage. This is the Greek word that I will point out to you throughout the text.
That is described in Greek dictionaries: is to rush along fiercely.
All of us have seen this. You’ve seen someone they are fiercely in great volatile explosive
wrath. They are in the heat of violence. They even breathe violently. You ever met someone
that’s just panting with anger? What’s amazing is to imagine this word and thinking of
someone panting with Incredible rage, except only in Revelation it’s not some sinful human.
It’s the very God of the Universe. In Revelation the Infinite and Holy God steps onto the stage of human events. Panting with Fierce visible rage.
We don’t like that unless it was about someone else but that’s about our sin.
That’s how he feels.
The second word and this is the even deeper stronger word.
The second word is. We see God as having a smoldering wrath.
This is the word Orge in Greek.
The Greek word orgē is translated as “wrath” in the New Testament, but it actually
means a settled anger. It’s not explosive rage or vengeance, but rather an
internal disposition that opposes someone or something over a long period of time.
It’s used outside of referring to wrath as something growing ripe. It’s
like watching that prized tomato. As it first is a blossom. Then it’s a little tiny round Little
Green Dot. Then it gets bigger. It starts to turn color. Then it it fills out and gets deep red
and it ripens. It gets full and ready. It’s that long-term aspect that we see
here.
This is how Revelation portrays God. God who stores up his holy, his just
and his perfect wrath against sin. It finally unleashes. It what we’re going to
see in verses 12-12-17 is the God of the Universe. He is not just suddenly flaring
up but holding a longstanding and ever increasing hatred for sin.
That’s a part of his very nature. That’s what an attribute is. It’s part of God’s nature.
That God is forever wrathful against sin. We see in Revelation what he’s going to do about Sin.
So The Lord Almighty God in Revelation is viewed as stepping into Earth’s events.
He is panting with Rage that’s Thumos, also spelled Thymos (Greek: θυμός), is
the Ancient Greek concept of ‘spiritedness’ (as in “a spirited stallion” or “spirited debate”).
Passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again.
Having this deeply settled and long built up wrath against sin and
sinners who refuse to repent. You want to know how to draw the wrath of God refuse
to repent. Refuse and put it off. Neglect, ignore, deny and refuse it.
It draws and invites the wrath of God,
In the New Testament the wrath of God is most displayed here in the Book of Revelation.
To set the stage for this Doctrine these two elements have to be in our mind.
As we’re reading through these verses of Revelation Chapter Six.
Part 2 is next.
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
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God’s Wrath Part 1 Revelation Chapter 6
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