As you read the following passages from the Bible, keep in mind that even though God is Good, Merciful and Compassionate, He is also Perfect, Righteous, and Just.
God hates sin and although He is patient and waits for people to repent, He determines the time when mercy ends and judgment begins. He is the Lord of lords and King of kings and has the entire Universe and all the Heavenly Powers in His Almighty hand! It would do well for us to fear Him! Amen.
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Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere Him! (Psalm 33:8)
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the Name of God’s one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done through God. (John 3:18-21)
You are right in saying I am a King. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me. (John 18:37)
“I am a great king,” says the Lord Almighty, “and My Name is to be feared among the nations”. (Malachi 1:14)
He who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father Who sent Him. (John 5:23)
I tell you the truth, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned. (John 5:24)
There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Who sent Me commanded Me to say all that I have spoken. I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say. (John 12-48-50)
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates Me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both Me and My Father. (John 15:23-25)
The prince of this world now stands condemned. (John 16:11)
“I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!” (Luke 12:4-5)
Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” (John 12:35-36)
The Lord Almighty is the One you are to regard as holy. He is the One you are to fear. He is the One you are to dread. (Isaiah 8:13)
The Lord brings death and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and raises up. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them He has set the world. He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. (1 Samuel 2:6-9)
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance on His foes and maintains His wrath against His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power. The Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. (Nahum 1:2-3)
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before Him. (Nahum 1:6)
The Lord is the true God. He is the living God, the Eternal King. When He is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure His wrath. (Jeremiah 10:10)
In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:10)
The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. (Obadiah 1:15)
Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! (Habakkuk 2:6)
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime! (Habakkuk 2:12)
The violence you have done will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. (Habakkuk 2:17)
They parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9)
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. (Psalm 34:16)
The Lord laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming. (Psalm 37:13)
Evil men will be cut off! (Psalm 37:9)
See how the evildoers lie fallen — thrown down, not able to rise! (Psalm 36:12)
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done. (Isaiah 3:10-11)
I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. (Jeremiah 17:10)
I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. (Joel 3:4)
Man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by His righteousness. (Isaiah 5:15-16)
In that day, declares the Lord, I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me. (Micah 5:10, 5:15)
Go into the rocks, hide in the ground from the dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty! The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and the pride of men brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. (Isaiah 2:10-11)
People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. (Isaiah 2:19)
O Lord, Thy hand will be lifted up in triumph over Thy enemies, and all Thy foes will be destroyed. (Micah 5:9)
They will be consumed like dry stubble. (Nahum 1:10)
Whatever they plot against the Lord, He will bring to an end! (Nahum 1:9)
Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be cut off and pass away! (Nahum 1:12)
He will pursue His foes into darkness. (Nahum 1:8)
“Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord. (Obadiah 4)
So man will be brought low and mankind humbled. (Isaiah 2:9)
I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away, none will escape.
Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down.
Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them.
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them.
I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.” (Amos 9:1-4)
There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord! (Proverbs 21:30)
The Lord, the Lord Almighty — He touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn. (Amos 9:5)
His eyes are on the ways of men; He sees their every step. There is no dark place, no deep shadow where evildoers can hide. (Job 34:21-22)
He punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them, because they turned from following Him and had no regard for any of His ways. (Job 34:26-27)
‘Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?’, declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:24)
The Lord stood, and shook the earth; He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed. (Habakkuk 3:6)
Those who oppose the Lord will be shattered! (1 Samuel 2:10)
In wrath You strode through the earth and in anger You threshed the nations. You came out to deliver Your people, to save Your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, You stripped him from head to foot. With his own spear You pierced his head. (Kabakkuk 3:12-14)
See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart. (Jeremiah 23:19-20)
See, the Name of the Lord comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; His lips are full of wrath, and His tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; He places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray. (Isaiah 30:27-28)
The Lord will cause people to hear His majestic voice and will make them see His arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. (Isaiah 30:30)
He will rise up against the house of the wicked, against those who help evildoers. (Isaiah 31:2)
I will return on your own heads what you have done. (Joel 3:7)
Those enemies of Mine who did not want Me to be king over them — bring them here and kill them in front of Me. (Luke 19:27)
The Lord has spoken. (Joel 3:8)
Amen!