The God of Wrath
Taken from Job for Everyone
Description
The God of Wrath
Job 9: 1-35
We were preparing dinner for people in a homeless shelter on Friday when out of the blue my pastor asked me, “What do you say when people ask you why the God of the Old Testament is so different from the God of the New Testament?” Quick as a flash I replied, “I ask them if they have read either the Old Testament or the New,” and he laughed. He was referring, of course, to the idea that the God of the Old Testament is a God of wrath and the God of the New Testament is a God of love. The God of the New Testament, I noted, is one who sends trillions of people to hell, which the God of the Old Testament doesn’t do; there is no mention of hell in the Old Testament. Conversely, the Old Testament is the story of the God of love working at his purpose with Israel and with the world, while also showing that you can’t mess with him...