What, then, do we understand?...

God is both kind and severe.

God’s kindness is being overemphasized today while God’s severity is not being portrayed sufficiently.

The prophecy has come to pass: we are accumulating to ourselves teachers who will tickle our ears with the lie that God is ready to remove all problems from us and to bless us while we walk in our own ways (II Timothy 4:3,4).

This is a false vision of God. Those who are preaching it are false prophets.

God is at once kind and severe. His kindness is so great as to be incomprehensible to us and His severity is so great as to be incomprehensible to us.

We understand neither God’s love nor God’s wrath. The reason we cannot understand or appreciate the love of God is that we have become unwilling to admit that God is capable of dreadful wrath.

However, our unwillingness to recognize the severity of the wrath to come will not alter future history. The future will take place as described in the Book of Revelation.

We need to perceive both the kindness and the severity of almighty God. Multitudes of Christian believers are dangerously unprepared for the wrath that is to come. They are not living their daily life in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.