SOAP Devotion 2026: Revelation 16 - Day 1

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]So, in [music] this chapter 16, there's a lot said about God's wrath and in some ways I'm going to focus a little bit more [music] on God's wrath in this week than actually what we read in the text.

[00:00:12]Um, wrath is kind of a strange idea in our modern world. It sounds really, really old-fashioned.

[00:00:18]And what we need to understand is the idea behind this idea [music] of God's wrath is this idea of justice.

[00:00:25]And [music] we need to recognize that God is bringing justice into a world there where there is no justice.

[00:00:32]And the people that the texts are written to in the first instance are people who are being really oppressed.

[00:00:38]In our modern world, we don't think about [music] wrath and justice that much.

[00:00:43]Um, I've often heard [music] it said and I've said it myself that modern people want mercy for ourselves [music] and justice for our enemies.

[00:00:52]And God is not like that. God does not [music] overlook some things. There are some things that are wrong and we need to understand and that. Um, >> [music] >> Richard Niebuhr once said about the modern perspective on the church is that what the what modern world wants is a God without [music] wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations [music] of a Christ without a cross.

[00:01:20]And it's really important that we understand that as a modern people, we [music] get away from this idea of God's anger or God's wrath and we shouldn't.

[00:01:28]Our modern our modernity, [music] oh, I said that wrong, but you know what I mean. Our modern status doesn't do away with justice.

[00:01:37]And without judgment, without punishment, there is no [music] justice.

[00:01:44]You and I see it in the world, but we usually want justice [music] against the people we don't like.

[00:01:50]And we don't like justice against ourselves.

[00:01:53]Let's understand God is just.

[00:01:56]And we need to accept [music] that.