Many misunderstand God’s wrath. In this lesson you’ll learn that God’s wrath is an response to our sinfulness and an expression of his love so that we can be saved. This is revealed most clearly in the coming of Jesus. This lesson was inspired by Jim McGuiggan’s “The Dragon Slayer”, chapter 4: Averting the Wrath of God.

1. Jesus Who
Delivers Us
Fromthe
Wrath to Come
“
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1 Thessalonians 1:10;
帖 撒 羅 尼 前 書 1:10, NT p. 356

2. Is God an ANGRY God?
Are you afraid of God?

3. Is God an
ANGRY GOD?

4. Is God an
ANGRY GOD?
Jehovah, Jehovah,
a God . . . slow to anger . . .
who will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children and the
children's children, to the third
and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34.6-7,
出埃及 34.6-7, OT p. 138-139
“

5. Is God an
ANGRY GOD?
Jehovah, Jehovah,
a God . . . slow to anger . . .
who will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children and the
children's children, to the third
and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34.6-7,
出埃及 34.6-7, OT p. 138-139
“

6. Is God a
LOVING GOD?

7. Is God a
LOVING GOD?

8. Is God a
LOVING GOD?

9. Is God a
LOVING GOD?
God is love.
1 John 4:8,
约 一书 4.8, NT p. 423

10. Is God a
LOVING GOD?
God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest
among us, that God sent his only Son into the
world, so that we might live through him. In this
is love, not that we have loved God but that he
loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation
for our sins.
1 John 4:8-10,
约 一书 4.8-10, NT p. 423

11. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD

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Ur
Susa
Dumah
Ezion-geber
Jerusalem
Damascus
Ugarit
Tanis
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River
Habor
River
Diala
River
Tigris
River
Euphrates
River
Jordan
River
Judah
Ashur Ecbatana
Jonah
Jonah 1; 约拿书 1 OT p. 1478

13. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great
city, and call out against it, for
their evil has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:2; 约拿书 1:2 OT p. 1478

14. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480

15. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
Why would God want to save
these evil people from His wrath?

16. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
“who would have all men to be saved,
and come to the knowledge of the truth”
1 Timothy 2:4; 提摩太前书 2:4 NT p. 365

17. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall
be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
“not wishing that any should perish, but
that all should reach repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9; 彼得后书 3:9 NT p. 417

18. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“When God saw what they did,
how they turned from their evil
way, God relented of the disaster
that he had said he would do to
them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah 3:10; 约拿书 3:10 OT p. 1480

19. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“When God saw what they did,
how they turned from their evil
way, God relented of the disaster
that he had said he would do to
them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah 3:10; 约拿书 3:10 OT p. 1480

20. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“And should not I pity Nineveh,
that great city, in which there are
more than 120,000 persons who
do not know their right hand from
their left, and also much cattle?”
Jonah 4:11; 约拿书 4:11 OT p. 1481

21. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
About 100 years later . . .

22. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
Jehovah is a jealous and avenging God; Jehovah is
avenging and wrathful; Jehovah takes vengeance on
his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
Nahum 1:2-3; 那鸿书 1:2-3 OT p. 1494

23. Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
Jehovah is a jealous and avenging God; Jehovah is
avenging and wrathful; Jehovah takes vengeance on
his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
Jehovah is slow to anger and great in power,
and Jehovah will by no means clear the guilty.
Nahum 1:2-3; 那鸿书 1:2-3 OT p. 1494

24. Mount Carmel
Israel

25. Mount Carmel
Israel
“When Israel was a child, I loved
him, and out of Egypt I called my
son.”
Hosea 11:1; 何西阿书 11:1 OT p. 1446

26. Mount Carmel
Israel
“The more they were called, the
more they went away; they kept
sacrificing to the Baals and
burning offerings to idols.”
Hosea 11:2; 何西阿书 11:2 OT p. 1446

27. Mount Carmel
Israel
“Yet it was I who taught Ephraim
to walk; I took them up by their
arms, but they did not know that I
healed them.”
Hosea 11:3; 何西阿书 11:3 OT p. 1447

28. Mount Carmel
Israel
“I led them with cords of kindness,
with the bands of love, and I
became to them as one who eases
the yoke on their jaws, and I bent
down to them and fed them.”
Hosea 11:4; 何西阿书 11:4 OT p. 1447

29. Mount Carmel
Israel
“They shall not return to the land
of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their
king, because they have refused to
return to me.”
Hosea 11:5; 何西阿书 11:5 OT p. 1447

30. Mount Carmel
Israel
“The sword shall rage against their
cities, consume the bars of their
gates, and devour them because of
their own counsels.”
Hosea 11:6; 何西阿书 11:6 OT p. 1447

31. Mount Carmel
Israel
“My people are bent on turning
away from me, and though they call
out to the Most High, he shall not
raise them up at all.”
Hosea 11:7; 何西阿书 11:7 OT p. 1447

32. Mount Carmel
Israel
“How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How
can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I
make you like Admah? How can I treat
you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils
within me; my compassion grows warm
and tender.”
Hosea 11:8; 何西阿书 11:8 OT p. 1447

33. Mount Carmel
Israel
“I will not execute my burning
anger; I will not again destroy
Ephraim; for I am God and not a
man, the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.”
Hosea 11:9; 何西阿书 11:9 OT p. 1447

34. Judah
Jeremiah 18:1-12; 耶利米书 18:1-12 OT p. 1232

35. Judah
“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or
a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down
and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning
which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will
relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.”
Jeremiah 18:7-8; 耶利米书 18:7-8 OT p. 1232

36. Judah
“And if at any time I declare concerning a
nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant
it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to
my voice, then I will relent of the good that I
had intended to do to it.”
Jeremiah 18:9-10; 耶利米书 18:9-10 OT p. 1232

37. Judah
“Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem:‘Thus says the
Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you
and devising a plan against you. Return, every
one from his evil way, and amend your ways
and your deeds. ’”
Jeremiah 18:11; 耶利米书 18:11 OT p. 1232

38. Judah
“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow
our own plans, and will every one act
according to the stubbornness of his evil
heart.’”
Jeremiah 18:12; 耶利米书 18:12 OT p. 1232

39. Judah
“Yet you, O Jehovah, know all their plotting to
kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out
their sin from your sight. Let them be
overthrown before you; deal with them in the
time of your anger.
Jeremiah 18:23; 耶利米书 18:23 OT p. 1233

40. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
What have we seen?

41. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is real.

42. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is real.
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men”
Romans 1:18; 罗⻢马书 1:18 NT p. 265

43. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is personal.

44. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is personal.
“Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath
may burn hot against them and I may consume
them”
Exodus 32:10; 出埃及 32:10 OT p. 135

45. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is discipline.

46. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is discipline.
“O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor
discipline me in your wrath!”
Psalm 38:1; 诗 38:1 OT p. 874

47. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God restrains His wrath.

48. Exploring the
WRATH OF GOD
God restrains His wrath.
“For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the
sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I
may not cut you off.”
Isaiah 48:9; 以赛亚书 48:9 OT p. 1158

49. Why did Jesus Come?

50. Why did Jesus Come?
“but God shows his love for us in that while we
were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since,
therefore, we have now been justified by his
blood, much more shall we be saved by him
from the wrath of God.”
Romans 5.8-9, 罗⻢马书 5.8-9, NT p. 270

51. Why did Jesus Come?
“For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but in order that the
world might be saved through him.”
John 3:17, 约 福音 3:17, NT p. 165

52. Why did Jesus Come?
“and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he
raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us
from the wrath to come.”
1 Thessalonians 1:10, 帖撒罗尼 前书 1:10, NT p. 356

53. Why did Jesus Come?
“For God has not destined us for
wrath, but to obtain salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ”
1 Thessalonians 5:9, 帖撒罗尼 前书 5:9, NT p. 360

54. Why did Jesus Come?
“knowing that you were ransomed from the
futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not
with perishable things such as silver or gold,
but with the precious blood of Christ, like that
of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
1 Peter 1:18-19, 彼得前书 1:18-19, NT p. 408

55. Will you turn back
to God today?

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57. Understanding our Salvation
#03
Jesus who Delivers Us from the Wrath to Come
1 Thessalonians 1:10
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
2014 April 6
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: Many misunderstand God’s wrath. In this lesson you’ll learn that God’s wrath is an response
to our sinfulness and an expression of his love so that we can be saved. This is revealed most clearly in
the coming of Jesus.
This lesson was inspired by Jim McGuiggan’s “The Dragon Slayer”, chapter 4: Averting the Wrath of
God.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
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