Sunday, April 6, 2008

Cup of the Wrath of God


Psalms 75:8

"For in the hand of the Lord there
is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed
and pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain down to the dregs."
Psalm 11:6

“Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.”

Isaiah 51:17

“Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering.”

Jeremiah 25:16-17

“Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me; ‘Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. They shall drink and stager and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them.’”

The cup of the wrath of God is fearful.
Imagine this cup was for you to drink,
imagine there was no escape...
because
the
cup
is
yours...

Unless you to repent, you will all likewise parish. (Luke 13:1-5)

Doesn't sound very loving...or does it.

It's a warning, unless one turns from there sins, they will drink from the cup of the Wrath of God. So all of a sudden the warning doesn't seem hateful but loving. Truth is being proclaimed. Repent or parish.

One may ask, "If i turn to God, repent, ask for forgiveness, what about the cup He has for me?".
And he (Jesus) said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” (Mark 14:36)

Jesus
Drank
your
Cup.

"And you, who were dead in your trespasses...God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of dept that stood against us with its legal demands.
This he set aside,

Nailing
it
to
the
Cross.


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