At The Hands Of A Peaceful Victorious God

"The anger of the Old Testament stays there and does not go forward in the New, which is a new and better covenant."

HE NO LONGER has to be angry. His wrath was satisfied in His victory over the devil, who is our adversary, not His. He is above all and more powerful than anything. Nothing can come close to Him, and certainly not a rebellious and fallen angel stupid enough to say he would go higher than God. Not to mention his ending is already written and prophesied in John’s Revelation. There will be no more enemy against mankind.

God the Father is not angry, nor leaning toward anger to expend excess energy. That’s what men have said about Him because that’s what we, humans, do. Except Jesus proved there’s no need to act that way, and that includes His anger against the moneychangers in the temple. He was without sin (Hebrews 4:15). He has never sinned. And is above the temptation to sin (James 1:13). That was one moment in which our Savior defended His Father’s work. He knew who His Father was and what was His house from an early age. When He was twelve, He stood there, quizzing the religious scholars, and they were amazed by His wisdom and knowledge. When His parents searched for Him, they found Him there, and He said, “I must be about my Father’s business (Luke 2:49).”

Now, fast forward and put Him on the cross, willingly laying down His life for our sins, and it was His Father who bore the weight of it. Not just Jesus in His humanity. His body, on its own, wasn’t able. But He was (is) God the Son, the Christ, filled without measure of the Holy Spirit, even in His physical nature (John 3:34). Christ the Spirit, carried the weight of the world on Him and abolished all of it. Christ the Spirit defeated the enemy of mankind, the devil, and condemned all those who’d fallen with him, some one-third of the angelic host now appearing as demonic powerlessness on this earth. (I refuse to give them any honor.)

God the Spirit raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead, remaking His human body into a glorified one filled completely with the presence of God. No blood needed. His blood sits on the altar of heaven, a living reminder of His victory. There is no more anger working against men. We must realize this and know it completely. Then place it where it belongs in time, in the Old Covenant, which was promised in order to bring Christ to earth so that there would be no anger. The anger of the Old Testament stays there and does not go forward in the New, which is a new and better covenant (Hebrews 8:6).

Read the Psalms in this light. Take the anger and wrath of God depicted by the psalmists and replace it with mercy and God’s extraordinary love for mankind. John 3:16 stands above it all. For God SO LOVE THE WORLD that He was willing to give His only-begotten Son in order to show mercy, give grace and favor to us, and bless us with the fullness of His eternal life. Not just life eternally, meaning all of time, but in its breadth. That it drives out demons, it heals the mind and the soul, it heals the emotions and forgives all sin and error, and it heals the physical body of anything that affects it. It even heals the creatures of creation when we speak to their healing (Deuteronomy 28:9). We don’t give God enough power to bless us. We don’t give Him the heart to bless us as much as He desires it.

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” (Ephesians 3:17-19)

He is exceeding, abundantly far over and above all that we can ever ask or think, according to His power that works within us. Ephesians 3:20. He gives us peace beyond our understanding. Philippians 4:7. It is that He is so great, so high, and so holy that makes what He did so incredible. Nothing is impossible for Him. Nothing. When we believe that, then we will see things far beyond what we could ever dream. But He desired not to be angry. His anger only came because of sin. Before sin, He wasn’t angry, and now, after sin’s defeat, there is no more anger. He sits assured on the throne, the enemy’s defeat accomplished, mankind’s redemption provided for. Nothing is beyond Him, nothing outside of His handiwork, and everything laid at Jesus’ feet.

“For he created everything: the entire universe, the heavens and all galaxies, angels and all intelligent life, things visible and invisible. All authority and power stem from him, and everything that exists was created by him. He existed before anything, and it is he who holds all things together.” (Colossians 1:16-17, Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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