When we think about the wrath of God we often think about the time when God judged Sodom and Gomorrah and poured out his wrath upon them. It really happened:
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. (Genesis 19:24-25)
I can remember watching a movie as a young lad, and I believe the title was simply “Sodom and Gomorrah.” The one thing that I never forgot was when Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt after she disobeyed the Lord and looked back.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
It really happened!
Did you know that the wrath of God is upon every person in this world who does not believe (have faith) in Jesus Christ, the Son of God? That is exactly what the Bible tells us:
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)
That was written by the Jewish apostle John, and that is just as true as anything else that is written in the scriptures. The majority of people in the world do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. That list would include the Jewish people, the Muslim people, the Hindu people and the people of Buddhism. That would also include tens of thousands of other religious cults and sects, including false “Christian” churches who preach a false and bogus Gospel. The apostle John was merely telling the truth and giving support to the words of Jesus Christ himself:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:16-18)
Jesus Christ, the creator of ALL things (John 1:1-3) told us that those who believe in him have everlasting life, BUT those who do not are already condemned. Jesus made it clear that his purpose was NOT to condemn the world, BUT that the world might be SAVED through him. Every person has a choice, and every person will answer to God as an individual. Do YOU believe those words that Jesus Christ spoke all those years ago, or do YOU reject them?
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (1 John 5:10-12)
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