There is a principle involved here that we need to understand. That principle is that perception becomes reality to the one perceiving. Jesus put it this way, "The judgment with which you judge, therewith you shall be judged."
If you believe that God runs out of patience and then gets angry and punishes and tortures His enemies, then everything that happens at the end of time will seem to perfectly fulfill this belief system. The frightening aspect about that is this:
Is it possible that clinging to this very belief in itself may actually place one on the receiving end of God's perceived “wrath”? The wicked declare at the Second Coming that what they are perceiving as currently happening is a Lamb coming to this earth that is full of wrath. (Rev. 6:16, 17)
The definition of “wicked” is – to not only sin (believing lies about God) but also to lead others to sin (spread lies about God). A very frightening truth then emerges – in believing and encouraging others to believe that God's patience will run out someday and He will get exasperated and lose His cool and maybe even temporarily lose His sanity and compassion for awhile until the wicked are finished burning, thus appeasing His "vengeance" – in believing and teaching this doctrine, is it possible that we may be committing wickedness ourselves and may be conditioning ourselves to be at the apparent receiving end of the very wrath we are guilty of teaching will be unleashed on our enemies?
This truth, when it is unveiled, will undoubtedly unleash an intense storm of attack from theologians and and other religious zealots venting their own version of wrath on anyone who dares challenge this foundational doctrine of church tradition.
( I just read the following for December 15 in My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers) “If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else.” So this is my struggle to express myself.
(Acts 26:9) “So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.” Because Saul had such a misconception of the character of God shaped by the traditions of his church and his culture, he ended up believing:
that he had to...
that he had to do...
that he had to do many things...
that he had to do many things hostile...
hostile to those who believed differently about the name, the character, of Jesus.
Think about it.
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