Genesis 19:15 - As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Ezra 9:13 - And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
Isaiah 10:3 - What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 26:21 - For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Jeremiah 5:9 - Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jeremiah 9:25 - “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—
Ezekiel 21:25 - And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
Matthew 25:46 - And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
2 Thessalonians 1:9 - They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Jude 1:7 - just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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All of these examples show he can and does sometimes punishes.
But it still does not demonstrate his “currency”
He doesn’t normally deal in it, but he has to use it when there is nothing else.
Peace, Love, forgiveness and life is his currency.
Mostly LIFE! “I have come that You may have life. and have it more abundantly” -Jesus
When there is patience, forgiveness and true repentance, he can deal in his own currency.
Otherwise, he is forced to leave the wicked to their own sin and wages it brings - death.
Do you think He wants to punish?
Do you think it breaks His heart to go through that because of things we do?
Do you think He is waiting for the final judgment and return in order to save the last possible person before He returns?
Not in our time, His.
When he deals in our “currency” because it is what we understand, it is not usually a good thing.
David was punished and was still a “man of God’s own heart.”