Title
"Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God"
Scripture
I heard another from the altar saying, "Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."
(Revelation 16:7)
Devotional
The wrath of God is always merited. The punishments that are coming on this world are harsh and devastating, but from a just, equitable Creator. The horridness of these seven bowls of wrath listed in this sixteenth chapter of Revelations are without equal: loathsome sores, the sea turning to blood, the rivers and streams likewise becoming as blood, men scorched with fire, darkness and pain, Armageddon and the final shaking and hailstones. After these judgments heaven will declare, "It is done." This earth will be purged, cleansed and made ready for God's eternal kingdom. Our purging and cleansing is to be now, through the blood of Christ. This world has a choice: the grace of God or the wrath of God. When we have opportunity to share the gospel, we ought to do so knowing that we are offering this choice to a lost and dying world. Jonathan Edwards, father of the eighteenth century great revival in America called it, "Sinners in the hands of an angry God."