Goodness & Severity
Of God’s Nature
I want to start off this section of the study, but because
there is sooo much that can be said about how GOOD GOD is, I
pray that we can add to it by Emailing Scripture specifically to:
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Romans 11:21-23 “For if God spared not the
natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold
therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou
also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide
not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to
graff them in again.
This is just a few scriptures displaying God’s character and
great love for us!!! Please help me add more to the list!
Now in relation to the “snatching away of the righteous”
before the Tribulation, God’s character and nature do
not change!!! Whether it is the “Rapture of the
saints IN CHRIST” or the sealing of the 144,000 righteous
Jews, either way the righteous are sealed from the wrath to
come! The indignation that will come, is to come
upon the world of the ungodly, unholy, unrighteous! Not the
godly, God-fearing, those that are trusting in the Lord!!!
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Isaiah
26:20-21
20
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast.
21
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Acts
17:31
Because he hath
appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world
in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him
from the dead.
Jeremiah
29:11
For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Genesis
18:25
That be far from
thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the
wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be
far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right?
Ezekiel
9:4-11
4
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that
be done in the midst thereof.
5
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have
ye pity:
6
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark;
and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men
which were before the house.
7
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with
the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the
city.
8
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was
left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD!
wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of
thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken
the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
10
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
11
And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by
his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast
commanded me.
2
Peter 2:4-9
4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to
be reserved unto judgment;
5
And spared not the old world, but saved
Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
8
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful deeds;)
9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished:
Jude
1:5-7
5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew
this, how that the Lord, having saved the people
out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them
that believed not.
6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left
their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in
like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude
1:14-15
14
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
thousands of his saints,
15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him.
It is a certain fact that the blessed hope of the believer, those that have put their life & trust “IN CHRIST”, who are dead to the world but alive unto Jesus, seeking to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven!!! Shall not come into the condemnation of the ungodly!!!
John
3:36
He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that
believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of
God abideth on him.
Colossians
3:3-4
3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
I John 2:28
And now, little
children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may
have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
I John 3:2-3
2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure.
SHALOM
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