9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
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Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Revelation 3:10)
God does not always protect Christians from the consequences of sin but He does promise to keep Christians from His own wrath.
The Tribulation is the wrath and punishment of God on an unbelieving, God-rejecting, unrepentant world. Christians are none of those things.
Thanks for the post. It is a good one.
But I am still going to go buy some more ammo.
A close examination of instances of the wrath of God during the tribulation (in the book of Revelation), reveals that, in every instance, God’s wrath is poured out, not on the true believers of Christ, but on the followers of the antichrist or beast.
So, yes, I agree with you, God’s wrath is not appointed to his own. If you want, I can produce plenty of evidence of the wrath of God taking place while God’s people are still around to witness it. The plagues of Egypt, for instance. Which, by the way, is the figure that is used in Revelation for Christians who will go through the endtime tribulation.