Does God Get Angry?

Because God is merciful, He often gives sinners plenty of time and opportunity to repent.  But God hates sin, always, and is terribly angry about it.

- Adapted Excerpt from Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds by Starr Meade

WILL GOD PERMIT MY DISOBEDIENCE AND MY REBELLION TO GO UNPUNISHED?

• God is terribly angry
• with the sin I am born with
• as well as the sins I personally commit.

The Lord is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and rage.  

• He takes revenge on all who oppose Him 
• and continues to rage against His enemies!  

The Lord is slow to get angry, but His power is great, 

• and He never lets the guilty go unpunished.  
• He displays His power in the whirlwind and the storm.  
• The billowing clouds are the dust of His feet.  

At His command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear.  

• The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.  
• In His presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; 
• the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.  

Who can stand before His fierce anger?  

• Who can survive His burning fury?  
• His rage blazes forth like fire, 
• and the mountains crumble to dust in His presence.  

The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes.  

• He is close to those who trust in Him.  
• But He will sweep away His enemies in an overwhelming flood.  
• He will pursue His foes into the darkness of the night.  Nahum 1:1-8