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You Are Not Destined for God’s Wrath . . .

If you have been reading my emails/blog articles for any length of time, you know that I am saved by grace in Jesus Christ, and I long for everyone else to be saved too.  This offering of God’s grace is widely available to every human on the planet at this time (the Church Age).  I like how Dr. Charles Stanley said it, “Motivated by love, God provided a way for our sins to be forgiven: He sent Jesus to be our Savior. When we trust in the Lord’s substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf, we receive the gift of forgiveness.

Before placing our faith in Christ, we were dead in our sins and objects of divine wrath (Ephesians 2:1-3). However, our merciful heavenly Father sent His Son to redeem us. At the cross, Jesus took our sins upon Himself and experienced God’s fury for our sake. We are saved by grace—through faith in Christ and what He accomplished (Ephesians 2:8-9). Our salvation is a free gift from the Father.” (In Touch Ministries Daily Devotional for 8/24/24.)

God, in His mercy, has given us many warnings in His Word, The Holy Bible, that a “day” is coming where He will pour out His wrath on a Christ-rejecting world.  God will not put up with evil forever.  This should be extremely sobering for anyone who does not yet believe in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and sin-debt payor. 

There is incredibly good news for the believer in Jesus Christ – we are NOT destined for God’s wrath.  Not only will believers who are alive and remain on earth be removed before God’s wrath is poured out, but believers who have already died are not currently suffering the wrath of God and they will never suffer the wrath of God either. 

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 says, “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,  who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 says,  “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

Romans 5:9 says, “Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Conversely, John 3:36 tells us this about those who refuse to believe:  “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Regarding the people who refuse to accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, Revelation 6:15-17 says this, “Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?’”

The wrath of God is a sobering thing.  He is holy, loving, and just.  God is all good, all light, there is no darkness or evil in Him.  If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, take hold of the glorious truth that YOU ARE NOT destined for God’s wrath.  You will experience the wrath of Satan and the wrath of an unbelieving world just as the Church already has for the past 2,000 years, but you will NOT experience God’s wrath.  That is the most encouraging message I can think of at this evil and chaotic time. 

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

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