Revelation 15:1
Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
The God of the universe is a Father, having eternally begotten a Son, the same Word of God who became flesh. He is a kind and loving Father who is not willing that any should perish.
And yet we read here, as in many places in Scripture, of the wrath of God, at least once referred to as “the wrath of the Lamb”.
How is it that a loving Father who sent His own Son into the world to save it—the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world—should here be described as One about to pour out His wrath on the very ones for whose sins His Son, the Lamb, was sacrificed?
God’s love is a jealous love. The wrath of God is Love’s response to recalcitrant sinners who, refusing to repent, bring this wrath upon themselves.
