Will God Pour Out His Wrath on His Bride?

According to Matt 24:29-30, Jesus taught, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." Jesus' great wrath of the Tribulation would be against all people still in their sin who had rejected Him as their Savior.

God's Offers His Wonderful Grace During All of Time: In the beginning God extended grace when He gave Adam and Eve extended life after their fall into sin and rebellion against a holy God. Amidst the wickedness of mankind, "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" (Gen 6:8). He found safety in the Ark and a promise from God. God said, "And the bow shall be in the cloud. I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth" (Gen 9:16).

God offered grace to Abram [Abraham] if he would leave family and country to follow Him into a land He

would show Him. God said, '"And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great and you shall be a blessing: I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: In you shall all families of the earth be blessed' And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness" (Gen 12:1-3;15:6).

God showed grace toward Lot [Abraham's nephew] as he was to leave Sodom before the destruction of that wicked city, "Haste thee, escape there; for I cannot do anything till you be come..[out]" (Gen 19:22)

God offered conditional grace to Israel through Moses in deliverance from slavery in Egypt to become a people of God, with covenants and the law so they could know what sin was, the penalty of sin, their need for redemption through faith in the Savior with a desire to follow in obedience in God's service of worship. "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deut 10:12).

God extended grace to Israel, when in the sin of idolatry, to return to God through a plea of the prophets, 'Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments' (2Ki 17:13)

In a time of judgment upon Israel, God extended the promise of grace: "For, lo, the days come, says the

LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to

return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. For thus says the LORD; we have heard a

voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.. Alas for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.. But they shall serve the LORD, and David their king, whom I will

raise up unto them. For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you though I make a full end of all nations where

I have scattered you. I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished" (Jer 30:3,5-11).

God had promised His grace to David when He said, "Your house and your kingdom shall be established for

ever before you; your throne shall be established forever" (2Sam 7:16). Speaking of David, Peter preached at Pentecost, "Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him [Psa 132:11], 'that of

the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne'" (Acts 2:30). All was fulfilled by the grace of Jesus Christ, "For by grace are you saved through faith and not of

yourselves. It is the gift of God" (Eph 2:8-9). "For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" ( 2Cor 5:21).

Jesus taught, 'And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought they sold, they planted' they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed" (Lk 17:26-30). "That the righteousness of the law [love] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Rom 8:4). "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shall love your neighbor as yourself.." (Gal 5:14).

The Thessalonian converts "turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come [Because Christ endured God's wrath at Calvary, all who are in Christ will escape wrath. They have nothing to fear."

(1Thes 1:8-10). "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?" (1Thes 2:19-20).

"And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do

toward you: To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the

coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints [Zech 14:5]" (1Thes 3:12-13).

Paul taught about the one true God at Athens, "Because He has appointed a day in the which He will judge the

world in righteousness by that Man whom He has ordained; whereby He has given assurance unto all men,

in that He raised Him from the dead" (Acts 17:31).

Paul gives Hope from God to Escape the Wrath to Come (1Thes 4:13-17): "But I would not have you to be

ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which nave no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him..

For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the

trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in

the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

"You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of the darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others; but let us watch and be sober. But let us, who are of the day, be sober,

putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not

appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we

wake or sleep we should live together with Him" (1Thes 5:5-10).

"Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (1Cor 15:51-52). "For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from where also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself" (Phil 3:20-21). "In My Father's house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, you may be also"

(Jn 14:2-3).

Who we are! The Church "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it; That He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish" (Eph 5:25-26).

The Bride of Christ: "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him for the marriage of the Lamb is

come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,

clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints" (Rev 19:7-8).

Promise to believers: "Because you have kept the word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of

temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (Rev 3:10).

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then

shall the end come" (Matt 24:13-14)

The King Comes with His army [Saints]: "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He does judge and make war. And His eyes were as a

flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself.

And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called the Word of God. And the armies

[saints] which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out

of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of

iron: and He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God" (Rev 19:11-15).

"He that overcomes shall inherit all things: and I will be his God, and he shall be My Son" (Rev 21:7).