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God’s wrath is to be feared because God promises eternal punishment apart from Christ (Matthew 25:46). God’s wrath is to be feared because he is powerful enough to do what he promises (Jeremiah 32:17).

God’s wrath is to be feared because we are justly condemned sinners apart from Christ (Romans 5:1). God’s wrath is to be feared because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). It is, instead, a right and necessary reaction to objective moral evil” ( Knowing God, 151). Packer summarizes: “God’s wrath in the Bible is never the capricious, self-indulgent, irritable, morally ignoble thing that human anger so often is. Similarly, Proverbs 24:12 says, “If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?” “God’s wrath is his love in action against sin.” God’s wrath, then, is in proportion to human sinfulness. Paul writes, “But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed” (Romans 2:5). In fact, God’s wrath is said to be in perfect accord with God’s justice. However, biblical authors have no such problem. It has become common for many to argue that the God of the Old Testament is a moral monster that is by no means worthy of worship. Here are five biblical truths about the wrath of God: 1. It is needed for motivation for Christian living, fuel for proper worship, and as a toolbox to confront objections to Christianity. The fact that so many people struggle with these questions, and many more like them, means that more than ever right thinking is needed about the doctrine of God’s wrath. “How can hell be just?” “Why would God command the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites?” “Why does God always seem so angry?” We live in a day where we have set ourselves as the judge and God’s character is on trial. In today’s world, any concept of God’s wrath upsets our modern sentiments. The doctrine of the wrath of God has fallen on hard times.