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"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did" ~George W. Bush

God gets mad, burns California

Posted by Jesus on October 24, 2007

So what do you think happens when God gets mad at you? Does He yell and scream really loud? Could He put you in a corner and ground you? Do you get spanked, or your car taken away, or lose your allowance? Heck no. When God gets mad you feel it. Big time.

I think perhaps it’s time to go over some basic God. Christians, pay attention, because this is really important. God did not stop visiting His wrath upon Earth just because the Bible stopped getting actively written. Just because He’s doesn’t come on Oprah to tell you about His latest punishment doesn’t mean that you’re not living in the middle of it. To illustrate, let’s take a look at some of the punishments from the Bible and compare them to punishments today.

Old wrath:

  • He killed Everyone in Sodom and Gamorrah (except Lot and his wife) with fire! (Genesis 19:24)
  • Then He turned Lot’s wife into salt in front of him. (Genesis 19:26).
  • Onan was killed on the spot for pulling out, but only after God killed his brother Er for no reason. (Genesis 38:7-10)
  • Every man, woman, child, animal, plant, and bug is killed in a flood. (Genesis 6:17)
  • He killed the firstborn child of every family in Egypt. (Exodus 12:29)
  • He killed a whole army in a river. (Exodus 14:27)
  • Plague. (Exodus 32:35)
  • And another plague. (Leviticus 14:34)
  • He didn’t like Nadab and Abihu’s mojo. (Numbers 3:4)
  • He burned a bunch of folks who were whining at Him. (Numbers 11:1)
  • Pestilence. (Numbers 14:12)
  • And then another plague. (Numbers 14:36-37)
  • God makes Earth eat some families, then burns 250 hippies standing nearby. (Numbers 16:20-35)
  • A bunch of people complain about the hippies, so God kills them too. All 14,700 of them. (Numbers 16:41-50)
  • Even Israel got out of hand now and again, but flaming, biting snakes took care of that. (Numbers 21:6)

I think I’ll stop there. That covers the first 16.5% of the Bible, and from there His wrath gets really creative. What’s not mentioned are the occasions on which God asked Moses or someone else to kill somebody. There are hundreds of such examples, including a few in which God’s faithful are asked to kill their own kids. Most of them did it, too. If not, they probably made the list above.

Now, let’s have a look at some modern wrath:

And I could go on and on and on. I think you see my point though. Fire, water, plagues, smiting infidels and muslims – all of these things are what we call Standard God. He gets mean sometimes though. It’s the little things you have to watch out for. Anytime He’s not opening the ground to swallow houses you can bet it’s because He’s giving some depraved sinner a little extra attention. You do not want to be that person getting personally visited by God.

How hard is it to believe that the fires burning in California are the Work of God? There are few among you who would dare claim that the wrath God laid down in the Bible was only a collection of random natural disasters turned into overblown fantasies explained by future generations. That stuff is real! Why should this be any less so?

“For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.” ~God, Exodus 9:14

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