Answer: God is perfectly JUST and renders JUDGMENTS against the wicked who reject Him.
John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has eternal (spiritual) life;
(BELIEVERS)
but
he who does not obey the Son (to believe) will not see life, but the
wrath of
God abides on him.”
(UN-BELIEVERS)
From Genesis to Revelation, The TRI-UNE GOD is unchanging and unchangeable. BUT His plan and economy and method of how to deal with Man does change.
A perfectly SOVREIGN and JUST KING must render JUDGMENTS against Man and NATIONS (from infants to aged to animals) who have TOTALLY rejected Him and His perfect GOOD, His perfect WISDOM, His perfect provisions.
The TRI-UNE GOD is ALSO perfectly LOVING and MERCIFUL. His omniscience ensures that no one who spiritually believes in Him and accepts His calling and
accepts His loving gifts of undeserved Grace through spirit-led Faith receive salvation from what appears to Man as "atrocities" or "disasters".
JUST / justice = perfect respect and treatment of Man in accordance with perfect standards
Deuteronomy 32 (NASB)....
The Song of Moses....God: ...all His ways are JUST
4 “The Rock!
His work is perfect,
For all His ways are JUST;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
Genesis 18:25...
God judges with perfect JUSTICE
Far be it from You to do such a thing,
to slay the righteous with the wicked,
so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike.
Far be it from You!
Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal JUSTLY?”
It is perfectly JUST for those who reject GOD's provisions to suffer His righteous and perfect WRATH....BUT:
God is also perfectly Loving and Merciful.
Matthew 5...Jesus: Sermon on the Mount to the crowds
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven;
for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 Therefore you are to be (TRY to be) perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
The "wrath of God" poured out on those who rejected Him ended at the Cross.
John 3:36...J
OHN THE BAPTIZER
....He who believes in the Son has eternal life;
but he who does not obey the Son will not see life,
but the WRATH of God abides on him.”
Romans 5:9...
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be SAVED from the WRATH of God THROUGH Him.
Propititation: "satisfaction with action" ~= atonement
Romans 3....
Justification / Redemption / PROPITIATION by Faith
21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested,
being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe;
for there is no distinction;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
whom God displayed publicly as a PROPITIATION in His blood through faith.
This was to demonstrate His righteousness,
because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;
26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time,
so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Revelation 14: 9-12 (NASB)
“If anyone worships the beast (Satan) and his image (idol), and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,he also will drink of the wine of the
WRATH of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he (unbeliever) will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever;
they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image,
and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
