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[I woke up this morning with this and just had to write it all down. Powerfully convicting! Oh, how this message is needed out there, especially when you see all the wars escalations, and bitterness as the election nears, and all the other messes saturating society. Come Lord Jesus!]
"I am full of the fury of the LORD, I am weary with holding in..." - Jeremiah 6:11
Here the LORD Yahweh is full of fury - FULL, as in full up. He is full of His own fury, the fury of Yahweh. Therefore this fury must be a perfect fury: perfect in its purpose, and perfect in its administration.
Fury in the Hebrew means wrath, heat, rage, burning anger, indignation, and hot displeasure. We do well to NOT be on the receiving end of the administration of the LORDS fury..
But wait, God is a God of love, you say: "For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son..." (John 3:16) Yes, so true! But just 2 verses later the Scripture says "he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God," and you jump down to verse 36 and see, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."
Let's get things in context, and proclaim a full gospel, without deleting the hard parts many don't wanna hear. Truth is a massive portion of the Bible speaks of fury, and wrath, and judgment. Yea, Jesus said of the Holy Spirit that He shall reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (John 16:8)
Pure love demands the absence of sin, and since God is love, and sin cannot dwell in His presence, this makes necessity for God's righteous fury and wrath. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" Jesus said in John 14:15.
Sin must be judged by the righteous fury of God. This is throughout the Scriptures, not just in the Old Testament, because many like to say the Old Testament God is a God of wrath, and the New Testament God is a God of love - almost as if they are talking about 2 different gods, or that God changed somehow. But God does not change!
Look at Revelation 19:15, at Jesus return "he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." That's almost the end of the Bible and we see God's wrath.
First here, let us observe that God is Almighty., the Almighty God, the same who said to Abram in Genesis 17:1, "I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be thou perfect."
There is no other being anywhere that even comes close to God's power. Satan found that out when he desired to be like the Most High, and was cast out of heaven. God's power is supreme, superior to all else; it is the superlative power in all of creation, in all the universe.
God's power is beyond our full comprehension. We cannot fathom it, and we had best fear it! God keeps the entire universe running smoothly like clockwork, and if He so desires, as He sometimes does, He can blow up a star: supernova, and we get to see the beautiful outcomes of those decisions illustrated across the heavens.
"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." (Psalm 33:6) "He upholds all things by the word of his power." (Hebrews 1:3) But Jesus also said, "the powers of heaven shall be shaken" (Matt 24:29, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:26) and Hebrews 12:26 says, "He hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven."
Now Secondly, this Almighty God, El Shaddai, is full of fury, and fierceness, and wrath. Jonathan Edward's expounded on Revelation 19:15, saying, "These words are exceedingly terrible. If it had only been said, 'the wrath of God,' the words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful; but it is the 'FIERCENESS and wrath of God.' The fury of God! The fierceness of Jehovah! Oh, how dreadful that must be."
Indeed, these words ring as true today as when they were preached back in 1741. We are dealing with the fury and fierceness of God, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against ALL ungodliness and unrighteousness of men." (Romans 1:18)
It is the same LORD Yahweh (Who changes not - Malachi 3:6, Heb. 13:8) who said back in Leviticus 26:27-28, If you walk contrary to me, "then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you 7 times for your sins." Notice, God expressly reiterated that He shall perform His fury; I, even I, He says. As He says in our Scripture, I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am full of my own fury.
This is the same LORD, the Almighty God who brought the flood upon the earth in Genesis 6 - 9, for mankind's evil heart, and violence, and consorting with fallen angels: no different from today - our society is full of the same evils!
This is also the same LORD God Almighty who poured fire from heaven upon Sodom & Gomorrah, for the same sins as are mentioned in Roman's 1, which are the same sins we see today, and these sins are promoted to the children! Oh, the rainbow crowd tries to say Sodom wasn't destroyed for sexual sins, but only for pride, and they cite Ezekiel 16:49 that does say, "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
Ah yes, that is true, but the rainbow crowd is also the PRIDE crowd, and they utterly fail to go on to verse 50 which declares, "And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, (This is in addition to what's mentioned in the previous verse), therefore I took them away as I saw good." Note, as God saw GOOD. 2 Peter 2:6 tells us Sodom and Gomorrah were turned to ashes, condemned with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. And if there's any doubt of what Sodoms sins were, we need only look at Jude 7: "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to FORNICATION, and going after STRANGE FLESH, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Here we have another word introduced: Vengeance. We see fury, and fierceness, and wrath, and vengeance. Now, as Edward's would say, how dreadful is this to consider? Please consider it well, for this is one attribute of Almighty God that gets neglected in most churches, and I'll go so far as to say this topic is even shunned, and even condemned by some professing believers !
God has not changed, and be thankful, but also fear, that He is also a patient God, and merciful, " not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) Oh, but go right to the next verse, "But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief on the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up."
God's fury, and fierceness, and wrath shall fall suddenly, and vengeance shall be mine, saith the LORD, I will repay, for, to me belongeth vengeance and recompense. (Heb. 10:30, Deut. 32:35) It shall come swiftly, and suddenly, as it is written of the wicked, "When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating." (Job 20:23)
Oh, you won't hear that preached in very many churches. They want feel good messages, and excuses to sin, or rather ignore sin and any mention of our depravity and fallen condition. To them sin is not an issue, or its something in the back of their mind. They want Joel Osteen motivational speeches, and positive thinking, and prosperity, but Jesus Christ, Yeshua says to the Laodicean who is increased in goods and thinks they have need of nothing, "ye are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked!" (Rev. 3:17)
Well, Jesus Christ gave His life in a painful, brutal, sacrificial death on a cross for YOUR SIN, and MY SIN, because that sin keeps you OUT of fellowship with God. Sin IS the issue, and Jesus came to save his people from their sins, and to seek and save that which is lost. (Matt 1:21, Luke 19:10)
Oh beware, lest "thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God." (Isaiah 51:20) This will be the portion of those who reject God, and not just those who reject God outright, but also those who want to be a Christian on THEIR own terms, and not the narrow way that leadeth unto life, and not surrender unto the LORD, without submission, without obedience. They want a fast food salvation: take it and be on your way. Well, nowhere does anything in the Bible teach that! Rather, it teaches many shall say Lord, Lord, haven't we prophesied in your name, cast out devils, and done many wonderful works? But Jesus says "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity!" (Matt 7:22-23)
How dire and dreadful is that? If you think your "trying" or anything you do is making points with God, beware. This passage still frightens me, and it is good that it does. He who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor 10:12)
And again, as it is written, "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." (Isaiah 63:3) Indeed, when Jesus returns and comes as the conquering king, He is "clothed with a venture dipped in blood." (Rev 19:13) This is not His blood, but the blood of His enemies, as so vividly described in Isaiah. He will stain His raiment with the blood of those He tramples... He treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And, when the winepress is trodden, blood comes out, even to the horses bridles, a thousand six hundred furlong, which is like 200 miles (Rev 14:10)
How great is His fury, and how perfect His fierceness and wrath! We should bow down humbly before this Almighty God, and as Jesus said, not to fear those who can kill the body, "But I will forewarn you whome ye shall fear: fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say, fear him."
It has been said in the past, and it will be said again, and perhaps quite soon: "The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof." (Lamentations 4:11) That has been said when Judah was taken to Babylon and Jerusalem destroyed, it has been said when Babylon was conquered, and all nations, "For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter." (Isaiah 34:2)
Furthermore, our Almighty God, the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, says in Ezekiel 5:15, "I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it." Also in Ezekiel 13:13, "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it."
There are so many wonderful Scriptures showing God's fury and fierceness in His wrath, and as we saw earlier when explaining the destruction of Sodom, God said it was good. The administration and application of God's fury and wrath is good, and is perfect, for God is perfect, as Jesus also called you to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matt 5:48) His fury and wrath is just, and naturally exudes from His perfect holiness.
"And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8)
You see, we have a RISEN Saviour, RESURRECTED, and His return shall prove once for all He lives, that He rose from the dead by the power of God, because many deny the resurrection, and even some so called Christians question it!
But, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 14-15)
Oh, be careful what type of fruit ye bear, "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation..." (Heb 6:7-9)
Now finally, we must address a part of our Scripture I haven't touched on yet - "I am weary with holding in." That right there should cause us to immediately confess and forsake our sins, and to draw close to God, closer than ever, because we simply do not know when the LORD shall let loose and fly, and come swiftly with vengeance and fury that has finally reached the limit God alone has set!
"For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many." (Isaiah 66:15-16)
Isaiah the Messianic prophet wrote more about Jesus than anyone else, and we see he also writes much about the fury of the LORD, especially what will be unleashed in these latter days and end times right before, and at Christ's return at His second coming.
Isaiah also cried, " Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of the battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart." (Isa 42:24-25)
Oh but there will come a time, and maybe sooner than we think, that such excuses won't fly, for, "Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him, and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of him," and they will try to hide, but they will know, though the godless still don't take it to heart as they are burned, for they " said to the mountains, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Rev 1:7 & 6:16-17)
Let that sink in, meditate upon that a moment. I'll conclude now with Nahum 1:5-8, as this is a parallel passage from the Prophets to what we just read from Revelation.
"The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies."
Now ask yourself this: Are you one that trusts in the LORD and He knows you, or are you His enemy, an enemy of Almighty God and an enemy of the cross of Christ?
(Phil. 3:18)
"I am full of the fury of the LORD, I am weary with holding in..." - Jeremiah 6:11
Here the LORD Yahweh is full of fury - FULL, as in full up. He is full of His own fury, the fury of Yahweh. Therefore this fury must be a perfect fury: perfect in its purpose, and perfect in its administration.
Fury in the Hebrew means wrath, heat, rage, burning anger, indignation, and hot displeasure. We do well to NOT be on the receiving end of the administration of the LORDS fury..
But wait, God is a God of love, you say: "For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son..." (John 3:16) Yes, so true! But just 2 verses later the Scripture says "he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God," and you jump down to verse 36 and see, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."
Let's get things in context, and proclaim a full gospel, without deleting the hard parts many don't wanna hear. Truth is a massive portion of the Bible speaks of fury, and wrath, and judgment. Yea, Jesus said of the Holy Spirit that He shall reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (John 16:8)
Pure love demands the absence of sin, and since God is love, and sin cannot dwell in His presence, this makes necessity for God's righteous fury and wrath. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" Jesus said in John 14:15.
Sin must be judged by the righteous fury of God. This is throughout the Scriptures, not just in the Old Testament, because many like to say the Old Testament God is a God of wrath, and the New Testament God is a God of love - almost as if they are talking about 2 different gods, or that God changed somehow. But God does not change!
Look at Revelation 19:15, at Jesus return "he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." That's almost the end of the Bible and we see God's wrath.
First here, let us observe that God is Almighty., the Almighty God, the same who said to Abram in Genesis 17:1, "I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be thou perfect."
There is no other being anywhere that even comes close to God's power. Satan found that out when he desired to be like the Most High, and was cast out of heaven. God's power is supreme, superior to all else; it is the superlative power in all of creation, in all the universe.
God's power is beyond our full comprehension. We cannot fathom it, and we had best fear it! God keeps the entire universe running smoothly like clockwork, and if He so desires, as He sometimes does, He can blow up a star: supernova, and we get to see the beautiful outcomes of those decisions illustrated across the heavens.
"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." (Psalm 33:6) "He upholds all things by the word of his power." (Hebrews 1:3) But Jesus also said, "the powers of heaven shall be shaken" (Matt 24:29, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:26) and Hebrews 12:26 says, "He hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven."
Now Secondly, this Almighty God, El Shaddai, is full of fury, and fierceness, and wrath. Jonathan Edward's expounded on Revelation 19:15, saying, "These words are exceedingly terrible. If it had only been said, 'the wrath of God,' the words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful; but it is the 'FIERCENESS and wrath of God.' The fury of God! The fierceness of Jehovah! Oh, how dreadful that must be."
Indeed, these words ring as true today as when they were preached back in 1741. We are dealing with the fury and fierceness of God, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against ALL ungodliness and unrighteousness of men." (Romans 1:18)
It is the same LORD Yahweh (Who changes not - Malachi 3:6, Heb. 13:8) who said back in Leviticus 26:27-28, If you walk contrary to me, "then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you 7 times for your sins." Notice, God expressly reiterated that He shall perform His fury; I, even I, He says. As He says in our Scripture, I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am full of my own fury.
This is the same LORD, the Almighty God who brought the flood upon the earth in Genesis 6 - 9, for mankind's evil heart, and violence, and consorting with fallen angels: no different from today - our society is full of the same evils!
This is also the same LORD God Almighty who poured fire from heaven upon Sodom & Gomorrah, for the same sins as are mentioned in Roman's 1, which are the same sins we see today, and these sins are promoted to the children! Oh, the rainbow crowd tries to say Sodom wasn't destroyed for sexual sins, but only for pride, and they cite Ezekiel 16:49 that does say, "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
Ah yes, that is true, but the rainbow crowd is also the PRIDE crowd, and they utterly fail to go on to verse 50 which declares, "And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, (This is in addition to what's mentioned in the previous verse), therefore I took them away as I saw good." Note, as God saw GOOD. 2 Peter 2:6 tells us Sodom and Gomorrah were turned to ashes, condemned with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. And if there's any doubt of what Sodoms sins were, we need only look at Jude 7: "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to FORNICATION, and going after STRANGE FLESH, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Here we have another word introduced: Vengeance. We see fury, and fierceness, and wrath, and vengeance. Now, as Edward's would say, how dreadful is this to consider? Please consider it well, for this is one attribute of Almighty God that gets neglected in most churches, and I'll go so far as to say this topic is even shunned, and even condemned by some professing believers !
God has not changed, and be thankful, but also fear, that He is also a patient God, and merciful, " not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) Oh, but go right to the next verse, "But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief on the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up."
God's fury, and fierceness, and wrath shall fall suddenly, and vengeance shall be mine, saith the LORD, I will repay, for, to me belongeth vengeance and recompense. (Heb. 10:30, Deut. 32:35) It shall come swiftly, and suddenly, as it is written of the wicked, "When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating." (Job 20:23)
Oh, you won't hear that preached in very many churches. They want feel good messages, and excuses to sin, or rather ignore sin and any mention of our depravity and fallen condition. To them sin is not an issue, or its something in the back of their mind. They want Joel Osteen motivational speeches, and positive thinking, and prosperity, but Jesus Christ, Yeshua says to the Laodicean who is increased in goods and thinks they have need of nothing, "ye are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked!" (Rev. 3:17)
Well, Jesus Christ gave His life in a painful, brutal, sacrificial death on a cross for YOUR SIN, and MY SIN, because that sin keeps you OUT of fellowship with God. Sin IS the issue, and Jesus came to save his people from their sins, and to seek and save that which is lost. (Matt 1:21, Luke 19:10)
Oh beware, lest "thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God." (Isaiah 51:20) This will be the portion of those who reject God, and not just those who reject God outright, but also those who want to be a Christian on THEIR own terms, and not the narrow way that leadeth unto life, and not surrender unto the LORD, without submission, without obedience. They want a fast food salvation: take it and be on your way. Well, nowhere does anything in the Bible teach that! Rather, it teaches many shall say Lord, Lord, haven't we prophesied in your name, cast out devils, and done many wonderful works? But Jesus says "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity!" (Matt 7:22-23)
How dire and dreadful is that? If you think your "trying" or anything you do is making points with God, beware. This passage still frightens me, and it is good that it does. He who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor 10:12)
And again, as it is written, "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment." (Isaiah 63:3) Indeed, when Jesus returns and comes as the conquering king, He is "clothed with a venture dipped in blood." (Rev 19:13) This is not His blood, but the blood of His enemies, as so vividly described in Isaiah. He will stain His raiment with the blood of those He tramples... He treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And, when the winepress is trodden, blood comes out, even to the horses bridles, a thousand six hundred furlong, which is like 200 miles (Rev 14:10)
How great is His fury, and how perfect His fierceness and wrath! We should bow down humbly before this Almighty God, and as Jesus said, not to fear those who can kill the body, "But I will forewarn you whome ye shall fear: fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say, fear him."
It has been said in the past, and it will be said again, and perhaps quite soon: "The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof." (Lamentations 4:11) That has been said when Judah was taken to Babylon and Jerusalem destroyed, it has been said when Babylon was conquered, and all nations, "For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter." (Isaiah 34:2)
Furthermore, our Almighty God, the Lord GOD, Adonai Yahweh, says in Ezekiel 5:15, "I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it." Also in Ezekiel 13:13, "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it."
There are so many wonderful Scriptures showing God's fury and fierceness in His wrath, and as we saw earlier when explaining the destruction of Sodom, God said it was good. The administration and application of God's fury and wrath is good, and is perfect, for God is perfect, as Jesus also called you to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matt 5:48) His fury and wrath is just, and naturally exudes from His perfect holiness.
"And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8)
You see, we have a RISEN Saviour, RESURRECTED, and His return shall prove once for all He lives, that He rose from the dead by the power of God, because many deny the resurrection, and even some so called Christians question it!
But, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 14-15)
Oh, be careful what type of fruit ye bear, "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation..." (Heb 6:7-9)
Now finally, we must address a part of our Scripture I haven't touched on yet - "I am weary with holding in." That right there should cause us to immediately confess and forsake our sins, and to draw close to God, closer than ever, because we simply do not know when the LORD shall let loose and fly, and come swiftly with vengeance and fury that has finally reached the limit God alone has set!
"For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many." (Isaiah 66:15-16)
Isaiah the Messianic prophet wrote more about Jesus than anyone else, and we see he also writes much about the fury of the LORD, especially what will be unleashed in these latter days and end times right before, and at Christ's return at His second coming.
Isaiah also cried, " Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of the battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart." (Isa 42:24-25)
Oh but there will come a time, and maybe sooner than we think, that such excuses won't fly, for, "Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him, and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of him," and they will try to hide, but they will know, though the godless still don't take it to heart as they are burned, for they " said to the mountains, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Rev 1:7 & 6:16-17)
Let that sink in, meditate upon that a moment. I'll conclude now with Nahum 1:5-8, as this is a parallel passage from the Prophets to what we just read from Revelation.
"The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies."
Now ask yourself this: Are you one that trusts in the LORD and He knows you, or are you His enemy, an enemy of Almighty God and an enemy of the cross of Christ?
(Phil. 3:18)
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