Now that I have established the Biblical meaning of God’s wrath - especially in how it was foreshadowed in the fiery destruction Sodom - I need to clarify what the Bible means when it says that the righteous will not suffer the wrath of God. The Righteous are Not Appointed to Wrathįor God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a day when God’s mercy and patience will cease, and His wrath will be poured out on the earth in flaming fire, just as it was upon Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus Christ is warning us with the very same message today. The LORD gave Sodom and Gomorrah more than enough time to repent and turn from their wicked ways, but in the end, His eyes could no longer look upon their sin. The point is that God’s wrath - His orgé - is not some capricious, erratic impulse - likened to a quick-tempered outburst of anger - but rather it is the gradual culmination of God’s long-suffering with sin that finally builds and boils over into the complete outpouring of His anger. It is His final wrath and outpouring of anger that is almost always expressed by an all-consuming fire. It is a settled wrath that God has allowed to build over time as He withholds judgment. Notice Paul refers to “the day of wrath.” God’s wrath ( orgé) is always associated with the Day of the LORD and the coming of Jesus Christ to judge the ungodly. Paul uses this word in his epistle to the Romans.īut because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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It is the word ὀργή ( orgé), which again refers to the settled and righteous indignation of God toward the wicked. In the Greek New Testament, there is one distinct word translated “wrath” that is unique from all the others. In the Hebrew, the words most commonly translated for wrath are חֵמָה ( chemah) or עֶבְרָה ( ebrah), which suggest an overflowing fury that has been building over time. God’s wrath is described in the Scriptures in several different ways. Instead, they only persisted in sin and continued to store up for themselves more and more wrath for their coming judgment. God had waited patiently, giving the people of Sodom and Gomorrah a chance to repent. We discover some time later (Genesis 18-19) that the LORD could bear the sin of Sodom no more. The depravity of these people was manifest most prominently in their extreme sexual degradation - namely the defiling of their bodies with the perverse practice of homosexuality. The people in these cities were extraordinarily godless, for “ the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD”. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) Genesis 13:10 In that day, the cities of the plain were lush with fresh water and rich vegetation, which obviously appealed to Lot.Īnd Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar.
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While Abram chose the land of Canaan, Lot chose the fertile plain on the eastern side of the Salt Sea and settled in Sodom. To avoid conflict, Abram and his nephew, Lot, had separated their wealth and settled in opposite directions.
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And if not, I will know.” Genesis 18:20-21 Then the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. If the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah give us any indication about the Day of the LORD when Christ is revealed from heaven, then it is certainly worthy of deeper study.