Justice

"He intended to be the death needed, so it would be spotless and without sin."

GOD’S WRATH is not anger. His victory does not come through battle, nor does He ever plan to fight war. There will be no end-times, good versus evil, war scene. To say so goes against His nature and the desire of His heart. He showed His heart by sending Himself to die on a cruel cross. He showed His victory by raising Jesus from the dead. His strategic planning makes Jesus genetic King of Israel, as well as King of Kings.

God doesn’t need wrath to satisfy his anger. Moses appeased God’s wrath by pleading for Israel. This is what God wanted him to do. He wanted him to see his own anger. But he didn’t and so never entered the Promised Land. Though that was not the physical reward for him that God desired, there were no mistakes in God’s plan nor was the end result of it unfulfilled.

There is no wrath in God in the likeness of sin. He is holy and cannot sin. He has no desire to sin and is not tempted by sin (James 1:13). His vengeance is not revenge. He never seeks revenge but is, as has been said of Him repeatedly in His Word, longsuffering and of great mercy. Nothing that ends wrong on the earth will remain wrong in the end, for God is good and has a plan to settle all debts. This is not “settling debts” as we think of it, but is justice, His nature provides. It is peace and recompense. It is as the sacrifices of Leviticus.

“The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.” (Psalms 103:8)

Animal deaths could not do what a human death was needed to do as animals have no spirit but are soul and body only. The human death needed had to be, as the animal deaths, of complete innocence and without any blemish. Not that God does not look upon what is blemished. Of course not. He forgives any who call upon Him and erases all their sins forever. We are cleansed by Him. He is not tainted by us. He sets the standard. He intended to be the death needed, so it would be spotless and without sin. He intended to accomplish peacefully, by the laying down of the human will, what the human will wanted to fight for. There would be no battle, no fight, no releasing of anger. Should God indulge in such, this for the sake of argument, there’d be nothing left. Anywhere.

“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.” (Isaiah 53:10)

God has no wrath anymore. He settled things with the life of Jesus. Jesus set our example of how to live. He was gentle (meek) and lowly at heart (Matthew 11:29), even in His Resurrection, humbled that He was returned to life. There was no huge event, no grand procession on the earth, in that moment, but He rose seen by no one. He did not announce Himself. That there was great power is clear in the guards falling prostrate and some rising from their graves (Matthew 27:52;Matthew 28:4). Yet He was found, unrecognized at first, by those visiting the tpmb. He only appeared among them when they knew He was alive.

God’s plans for the end of all sorrow death involve no display of wrath. He is God, all powerful. He is Jehovah Shalom (Well-being) and Jehovah Nissi (Captain). He needs only lift a finger, release a breath, and all will be fulfilled and recreated. When we know Him, when we see Him, and talk to Him, this will become definite in us. Whatever doubts we have are because we doubt Him, we don’t truly know the size of His love. He would settle our doubts and fill us with His life. He would have us free of wrath and rested. Like Him.

“For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.” (Hebrews 4:4-5)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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