Wrath of God
This destruction from the Almighty or Wrath of God is what is necessary to finally defeat Satan on this Earth. By casting out Satan from heaven Michael and his angels won the first battle. The next battle in this war against Satan and his demons is to restrict the negative influence that they have on Earth. This begins first by taking out from the Earth what is good, and second by wiping out the garbage that remains. The first step is accomplished with The Rapture, the second step is accomplished during The Day of God's Wrath.
We read in the old testament, in the book of Isaiah that the wrath of God is in order to destroy all the land and to destroy evil men.
Isaiah 13: 5-11 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his wrath to destroy all the land. Howl for the day of YHWH is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the almighty...Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it...And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible
Isaiah 13: 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold; and a man (Adamite) than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 66: 15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah 66: 16 For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD'S wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
It is preceded and/or accompanied by signs:
Joel 2: 30 I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire and columns of smoke.
Joel 2: 31 The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood
Before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.
Isaiah 13: 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine
Isaiah 13: 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
In the new testament it is also referred as the day of the wrath or anger of God.
Re 6: 17 the great day of their wrath has come and who is able to stand.
Revelation 11: 18 and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.
The Wrath of God starts with the Seven Trumpets and ends with the seven bowls of wrath.
Re 15: 7 seven golden bowls that were full of the anger of God
Re 16: 1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Re 19: 15 he treads too the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the almighty.
The same signs that precede the wrath of God, as stated in the old testament, are given in the new testament. The signs that occur before the day of God's wrath are THE SAME as the signs for the return of Christ to rapture his people. God's wrath comes upon those who are LEFT BEHIND on Earth.
Re 6: 12 when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell.
Mark 13: 24-25 the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling out of heaven and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
Jer 30:23 - 24 See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this..
Luke 21: 25-26 there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations… for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Acts 2: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Before the Messiah returns and the rapture takes place, these aforementioned signs have to occur. We are looking forward to the fulfillment of these prophecies and the signs of His coming. If you want to know where we stand in the timeline of these prophecies, read Timeline.
