1 Thessalonians 5:9 - 10 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, (10) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
Every lost person trusts in something or someone, organized
religion, works and good deeds or some other false hope. Every lost soul is
trusting in some sort of god, even if they are agnostic. The world is full of
gods, saviours, with all sorts of ways to get to their believed heaven. And
these lost people have one thing in common, their god is imaginary, their
salvation is impossible, and their salvation is dead just as their god is, and
they are all going to suffer the wrath of Jehovah The True God. Jehovah is the God of the bible, the God who
saves the sinner from His wrath through His Son Jesus, the seed of the woman,
the Saviour of mankind. Jesus is not just man He is also Jehovah’s Son incarnate
with Jehovah the Son, the second part of the Trinity. God said in Isaiah 26:4,
5 “Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting
strength: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he
layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the
dust.” Our total faith must be in God, and if it is we can indeed be
content in this world, but one single wrinkle, one small kink in our armor of
faith, and we will never be content. Moses told the Jews in Exo. 14:13 “And Moses said unto the
people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he
will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall
see them again no more for ever.” The promise was “Fear ye not, stand
still, and see the salvation of the LORD…he layeth it low; he
layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.” The wrath
that is too feared is not the people of this world, it is not even Satan and his
angels or demons, it is God because He is Omni everything. God’s wrath is a Just
and Righteous wrath, and it is painful and dreadful, and it will come to every
single lost soul in this world. God promised is in 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is
not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.” God is not willing that any of His elect souls
should perish, and this is His promise to us who are saved or will one day be
saved. Again, this is the base of our contentment, trusting in the word of
Jehovah God. God is Omni or all-power and there is no power greater than that
of God. God is all-knowing; therefore, He knows everything at one time, He
never does not see everything because He already knows everything. He already
knew that Satan wanted to take Jobs life, therefore God forbid him from doing
so. As God’s children we need to understand and believe in God’s promises to
us, and one of God’s gracious promises is “God hath not appointed us to
wrath”. There is nothing more hurtful to a human soul than that of God’s
wrath. The Tribulation period is full of God’s wrath on this lost and dying
world. More than ever before, more than the flood because people will suffer
much before God kills them and send them to eternal hell. People will see God;
Jesus will open the heavens and they will know that Jehovah is God and that He
is sending His promised wrath to them. “For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the
truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in
them; for God hath shewed it unto them.” Romans 1:18 And when God is
finished all of them will be caught-up to the White-Throne of Jesus and learn
of their eternal placement in eternal hell. But to us, to us who God has saved
and Jesus has redeemed, to us whom God has promised many things, “God hath
not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”. We
are the blessed of all God’s created beings because God hath chosen us not to
suffer eternal damnation with the lost and wicked of this world, but to live
eternal blessedness with Him and our Saviour sin-free and cleansed as He is. “Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. “Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he
is pure.” 1 John 3:1
“I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of
God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every thing ye are enriched by
him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; Even as the testimony of Christ
was confirmed in you: So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may
be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”1 Corinthians 1:4-8
