Q39: CAN YOU EXPLAIN "GOD'S LOVE" VIS-A-VIS "GOD'S WRATH"? Can God's Wrath Be Proved To Be For Love When The Bible Says Love Does Not Keep Offense or Love Is Unconditional? I Want To Understand.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN "GOD'S LOVE" VIS-A-VIS "GOD'S WRATH"? Can God's Wrath be Proved to be for Love when the Bible Says Love Does Not Keep Offense, or Love is Unconditional (Agape)? I Want to Understand.

Timothy Adebiyi
NIGERIA


Thank you, Timothy. You asked a very important question. But before I proceed, can you please cite to me the Bible verse that says, "Love is unconditional," and "Love does not keep offense."?

Almost all Christians, and even those with Jewish inclinations, are all deceived by the phrase, "GOD IS LOVE." Their definition of GOD'S LOVE is not to offend someone, or other people. This is where, really, the deception lies.

Many religious people describe God as "GOD IS LOVE," GOD IS COMPASSION," then closed their eyes to the horrible WRATH OF GOD that is happening now, almost everyday, all over the world! They should be warned! Their belief is FAR, FAR AWAY FROM THE TRUTH! And they are in the grave danger of losing their Salvation!

GOD'S LOVE AND WRATH (HATRED) ALWAYS GO TOGETHER. AND THEIR APPLICATION IS A CHOICE

To immediately give you a brief answer to your question, please realize that God's Love and Wrath or Hatred always go together. Here is the first verse:

• As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  (Rev 3:19 KJV)

Revelation 3:19 immediately gives you the important divine concept that God's Wrath (rebuke, chastening, discipline, punishment, etc.) is very much a major part of the totality of God's character. 

To fully understand this super-important subject of GOD'S LOVE, we need to study and learn the LENGTH. WIDTH, HEIGHT, AND DEPTH OF GOD'S LOVE (Ephesians 3:17-18).

As the Messianic Kabbalah teaches, Love and Hatred are just two (2) of God's attributes or emanations. And as God created us (man) in His own Image and Likeness (Gen 1:26), each one of us also has these 2 attributes of Love and Hate. Both God and us have the choice which one to apply, Love or Wrath (Hatred).

Here are other Scriptures showing us that Love and Hatred are the "two (2) sides of the same coin."

• What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?  (1Co 4:21)

• I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau... (Mal 1:2-3 KJV)

• A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.  (Ecc 3:8 KJV)

This really takes a long study and an in-depth explanation to fully grasp these divine energies. I prayed to God and endeavored to research and write the following explanations which are composed of several parts of this article, triggered by your question. Study and digest each section of the article, which includes the Kabbalistic explanation, without which, this LOVE OF GOD cannot be fully understood.

The CHURCHES' DOCTRINE OF "GOD IS LOVE" IS FROM THIS WORLD!


The concept of GOD'S LOVE that permeates Christendom today is worldly; its origin is of the world -- the world that does not know God the Father and Christ! Thus, the many Christian Churches are deceived and preaches a different kind of "GOD'S LOVE," because the source of their teaching is this world.

• They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world...  (1John 4:5)

This means that they don't know God the Father and Christ, which is a very dangerous situation when it comes to their SALVATION! This is because Salvation is assured ONLY by personally KNOWING GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST (John 17:3)! Therefore, whoever believe in the worldly concept of God's love, is destined to lose his/her Salvation!

• This is ETERNAL LIFE: that they may KNOW YOU, the only true God, and the One You have sent -- JESUS CHRIST.  (John 17:3)

SALVATION, or ETERNAL LIFE, depends on the TRUE and FULL KNOWLEDGE of GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST (John 17:3). Since the World does not know the Father and Christ, then it follows that there is no Salvation in the world, or in the worldly church doctrines and beliefs! This is because the whole world, with all its systems and beliefs, does not know God the Father, and therefore, it does not have the Love of God (1 John 3:1).

• ...THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US, BECAUSE IT DID NOT KNOW HIM (GOD the FATHER).  (1John 3:1 MKJV)

IF YOU LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN YOU!

• Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  (1Jn 2:15 KJV)

• For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  (1Jn 2:16 KJV)

So, the main problem of many religious people today, is that they listened more to the worldly doctrines and traditions of men, instead of listening to God. The following Contemporary English Version (CEV) of the Bible has to say (Mark 7:6-9):

• Jesus replied: You are nothing but show-offs!... "All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me.  (Mar 7:6)

• It is useless for you to worship me, when you teach rules made up by humans." You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught.  (Mar 7:7-8)

• You are good at rejecting God's commands so that you can follow your own teachings!  (Mar 7:9 CEV)

Once a church or person succumbs to this human trap, they fall into the errors and ignorance of men about the true God the Father and the genuine Jesus Christ. Please be informed that there is a FAKE Jesus, the "ANOTHER JESUS" (2Cor. 11:4).

The TRUE 'GOD IS LOVE' DOCTRINE IS FROM ABOVE, FROM GOD THE FATHER HIMSELF!

• We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.  (1John 4:6)

• ...Let us love one another, because LOVE IS FROM GOD...  (1John 4:7)

The genuine Love of God comes from God the Father, from Heaven, not from this world. The "Love of God," or "God's Love" that the common Churches are preaching is from this world, not from the Father. 

WHAT DOES 'GOD'S LOVE' REALLY MEANS? 

DOES 'GOD'S LOVE' CONNECTS TO THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER? 

Many religious people may respond: we know God the Father and Christ, as we serve and worship them in our Church. We study the Bible, and we do many other Christian works. 

OK. Let's look into the Bible. How can someone really be sure that he/she already know the Father and Christ? 

But first, let's define what God's Love (Agape) really means, according to the Bible's definition.

• For this is the LOVE OF GOD, that we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: and his commandments are not grievous.  (1John 5:3 KJV) 

• And this is LOVE (Agape), that we walk after his commandments...   (2John 1:6 KJV) 

• And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.  (1John 2:3 MKJV)

God's commandments include the command NOT to eat certain food and meat, like pork, blood, etc. The weekly Sabbath observance that falls on Saturdays is also God's command (Exo 20:8-11). And there are those several Annual Sabbaths that God also commanded, like the Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, Pentecost, etc. Anyone who does not observe all these commands and others does not know God the Father and Christ.

• He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is not in him.  (1John 2:4 MKJV)

THE TRUE LOVE OF GOD IS EMBODIED IN CHRIST; YET CHRIST IS A ROCK-OF- OFFENSE TO THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD'S WRATH!

• ..."Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense..."  (Rom 9:33 MKJV)

• For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone (CHRIST) which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"  (1Pe 2:7 HNV)

• and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense"...  (1Pe 2:8 HNV) 

Religious people continue to disregard GOD'S WRATH in their beliefs, always preaching "GOD IS LOVE." Yet, GOD is now showing His WRATH in so many forms, all over the world! These people do not really know God and Christ. So, Christ, turns out to be their Destroyer, instead of their Savior (Luke 19:27)!

• But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter them in my presence. (Luke 19:27)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, "LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL"?

The whole world is truly deceived about the concept of LOVE. LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL when it is applied to us humans loving God. But when it is applied to God loving us, it is conditional. This is why we can read in the Bible, God saying many "IF's." "If you will obey me..., "If you will repent," etc.

Thanks again for your questions, Timothy. My answer is continued in the other parts of this article. If you have other questions, let them all come to me. I love questions.

For more explanations, go to: ARE YOU MISSING THE MANY GREAT BENEFITS OF GOD'S WRATH AND DISCIPLINE?


Note: The Bible verses used in this article is based on the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). If not, the quoted translation is indicated.

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