Revelation 16:4-7 (ESV Strong's)
The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say,
“Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was,
for you brought these judgments.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”
And I heard the altar saying,
“Yes, Lord God the Almighty,
true and just are your judgments!”
Let’s Talk About and Praise God’s Wrath
It is doubtful that we go to a church setting and sing songs and hear messages about the glory of God’s wrath. Churches and preachers would rather sing and speak about the love of God. Yet, in the above passage we see a song being song to worship and praise God’s wrath on mankind. Not very many of today’s Christian artist have been inspired to write a song like the one John as composed, above. In chapter sixteen of this Revelation we have John’s account of the Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath being poured out in rapid fire onto the earth ... onto those on the earth who continue to reject Christ’s rule and reign. In this song we see that God is being praised for judging those who reject Him. The song says that the judgment is “... what they deserve!” The problem with the “God is Love ... Only” group, is that they don’t realize you can’t have genuine love without having a standard of behavior. You can’t have love unless there is righteousness and you can’t have righteousness without judgment. We should rejoice over God’s wrath in the same way John is seeing heaven rejoicing over God’s wrath. God is both Love and Judgement. You can’t have one without the other and you should not worship the one without worshipping the other.
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