Wrath
“God’s justice is to make things right by stopping the violence,
not by executing violence on others.” – Brad Cole
Studies In Divine Wrath
The nature of God’s wrath has baffled and confused men for millennia. On the following pages I attempt to bring better understanding to this long misunderstood subject.
The Importance of Divine Protection
Goodness Needs No Violent Support
The Active Nonviolence of Jesus
Christmas Tells the Truth About God
Is God like Sauron, wielding the Ring of Power? Is he a violent Lord, punishing us like a vengeful hierarch? Does He put down all opposition by the might of His power?
Or is God like Gandalf, refusing to even touch the Ring? Is He, instead, a gentle Lord, offering us grace and favor within the Fellowship of the Trinity? Does he, instead, put down all opposition through the weakness of Hobbits?
Up They March by Sigve Tonstad
Up they march, guided to their chosen destination by the newly liberated leader.
Up they march, striding majestically “over the breath of the earth” until their forces surround “the camp of the saints in the beloved city.” (Revelation 20:9)
Up they march, “as numerous as the sands of the sea.”
Up they march, the body language of the marchers exuding confidence that the city and its inhabitants have no way of escape. (Revelation 20:8–9)
Up they march, heading brazenly in the direction of the unnameable hasmal of Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 1:4), the fiery center of the divine presence.
Up they march, heading witlessly toward “the holy mountain of God” and “the stones of fire.” (Ezekiel 28:14, 16)
Up they march, toward an emanation of glory so intense that God in the beginning appointed an “anointing cherub who covers” in order to cushion the dazzling impact of the unveiled glory. (Ezekiel 28:14)
Up they march, advancing under the spell of the fallen cherub toward the one who’s unveiled face no mortal can see and live. (Exodus 33:20; compare Revelation 22:4)
