Saturday, December 13, 2014

Describing the justice of God with Scripture 514 - 2 - 5

2 Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”

Twice in the last week I’ve been in Bible studies where we discussed the fact that many are treating God in a casual way; almost as a genie in a bottle. The name it and claim it prosperity tele-evangelists pervert Bible passages to generate income; Malachi 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” 

What many seem to ignore is that while we may have a loving God we also have a righteous God.

The justice of our righteous God often results in judgment. Ultimately, all will be judged; some at the Bema Seat judgment and some of the White throne judgment. Philippians 2:10, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"

The book of Isaiah contains many warnings of coming judgments including:

Isaiah 2:6, “Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.”

Isaiah 3:1, “For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,”

There is the terror of the Lord's judgment:

Exodus 15:16, “Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.”

Exodus 23:27, “’I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.”

Job 9:34, “Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:”

Job 9:35, “Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.”in

There is the Day of the Lord:


Joel 1:15, “Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”

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